Valley of the Terrapins, Slow and Steady Wins the Race
adapted from a manuscript by Nancy Mildred Beals DeWitt
(Part 3)
Polly and Caswell Tate's daughter "Toad" married Pat Luster in 1879. They moved to Colorado and had a young family. They had six children born in Tennessee and five more born in Colorado. She had eleven children in fifteen years and four of them died as infants. Her husband Pat came to Pima, Arizona later and married again. The children grew up there in the valley. They were : Laura Maud Luster who married Robert Edge Reed, Ira Carpenter Luster who married Bertha Emmaline Kirby, Mary Emaline Luster who married Benjamin Russell, Malissa Jane Luster who married John Reynolds, Samuel LeRoy Houston Luster who did not marry, Bathsheba Luster who married Charles Boyle, Charles Walter Luster who married Chloe Curtis. These children grew up to be fine outstanding citizens and raised good families. A lot of their descendants are leaders in our communities and still live in Pima, Arizona and around the state.
I used to ask my father "How is it we are related to the Lusters?" and I never really understood. In writing this history I found that my grandmother Elizabeth Beals' sister, Mary or Aunt Polly married William Luster. My Grandmother Beals' brother John James married Mary Jane Luster then aunt Mary Barsheba Tate and her sister, Jewell Luster, married her husband's nephew, Uncle Robert, Bob Beals. The Luster and Dyer descendants are "truly related" wouldn't you say? Would someone please tell me what relation uncle William Luster is to these later Lusters?
In 1839, Barsheba and John Robert had another little boy. He was given the name of Richard Fain. They called him Rich. He married Hila Couch and they had three children, John R in 1860, William in 1868 and Isabell in 1872. Great uncle Rich served in the Civil war with the North. He brought his family to Arizona in the early 1900's but went back to Tennesse because they didn't like it out here. Isabel married Bud Jeffers but were never blessed with any children. Billy never married. In 1946 we visited them and they lived not far from Tarpine Valley but we had to swim or take a ferry boat to get across the river and walk a few miles. They lived in a little log cabin down by the river. That is where they passed away.
8 comments:
Mom, who were the Lusters who lived to the north of Harold and Betty Luster in LaJara?
You asked me about the Lusters that lived by Betty, His parents lived there, Is that who you meant?
Yes, that is exactly what I meant. What was the name of Uncle Harold's father? Was he one of the Lusters mentioned in the Dyer history?
What were the names of Harold Luster's parents?
Do you by any chance have for info on Robert Edge Reed. Know any descendants? I am looking for more info on the Reed family, of Tennessee, Colorado, to Arizona
I don't have any information on the Reed family, but you might try Clefaine King. Her father was Franklin Reed from Sanford, Colorado.
which Harold Luster as I know of 2 Harold Eugene Luster who married Betty Lorraine Vance his parents were Robert Luster and Nema Annis Laster and yes its not a miss spelling it was Laster hehe Luster and Laster wow this is a pretty puzzle to put together..
Harold Eugene Luster was my uncle. We knew him well. We spent a lot of my childhood at their home getting into boyhood mischief and watching their TV.
I worked once in Robert Luster's cornfield. I saw him as a stern taskmaster, but that could have been because I was a rather slothful laborer.
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