Lou Ivory Barnes
b. 4 June 1893, d. 9 March 1991
- Father: Perry Barnes b. circa 10 March 1869, d. 31 March 1948
- Mother: Ida Duncan b. circa 10 March 1874, d. 25 March 1955
- Lou Ivory Barnes was born on 4 June 1893 in Texas.
- Perry Barnes and Ida Duncan appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Polk County, Texas. Other members of the household included Lou Ivory Barnes, Jessie L. Barnes, Carl Barnes and Cleophus L. Barnes.
- Perry Barnes and Ida Duncan appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Polk County, Texas. Other members of the household included Lou Ivory Barnes, Jessie L. Barnes, Carl Barnes and Cleophus L. Barnes.
- She married Bethel Ezell Littlejohn circa 1917.
- Bethel Ezell Littlejohn registered for the draft on 12 September 1918 in Lamar County, Texas, while living with his wife Lou in Paris at 168 Crockett Street, and employed there as a minister of the gospel and janitor at the city rest station.
- Bethel Ezell Littlejohn and Lou Ivory Barnes appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Paris, Lamar County, Texas, at 233 North 26th.
- She was employed as a housekeeper by the city rest station, according to the 1920 census.
- She married Mitchell Mason.
- Joseph Ganaway and Jessie L. Barnes appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Houston, Harris County, Louisiana, at 732 West 22nd Street. Other members of the household included Lou Ivory Barnes, Lafayette L. Ganaway, Mitchell Mason and Ida Duncan. Ida also in enumerated nearby in the household of her grandson Timothy Barnes.
- She was a protestant church evangelist, according to the 1940 census. In 1935 she was living in Chicago.
- Lou Ivory Barnes died on 9 March 1991 at age 97 in Harris County, Texas.
- Last Edited: 12 May 2013