Birth: 16 July 1872 Talladega, Alabama, Alabama, USA
Father: Joseph Frances Lapier 1835-1917
Mother: Matilda Jane Lett [Smith] 1853-1924
Marriage: 13 January 1895 Calhoun, Alabama, USA
Husband: Laura Wilkinson 1874-1944
Marriage: 29 October 1907 Calhoun, Alabama, USA
Wife: Millie Ilene Christopher c1881-1946
Death: 10 Jun 1952 Anniston, Calhoun, Alabama, USA
Buried: Coldwater, Calhoun, Calhoun, Alabama, USA
By Laura
Oliver F Lapier 1897-1955
Cindy Lou Lapier [Bonds] 1901-1982
Goldie Artmiss Lapier [Gentry] 1902-1974
By Mille
Ida Lee Lapier [Bragg] 1902-1983
Ed C Lapier 1906-1987
William Lee Lapier 1911-1981
Bertha Mae Lapier [Armstrong, Duca, Duvic] 1926-2001
Mamie Beatrice Lapier [Robertson] 1909-1994
Lillie E Lapier Lapier 1913-1984
Williis Martin Lapier 1913-1937
I cannot locate any earlier information prior to his marriage
Entry in Ancestry Alabama, U.S., Select Marriage Indexes, 1816-1942 for the marriage of John L Lapier and Laura Wilkinson on 13 January 1895 in Calhoun.
Entry in Ancestry Alabama, Alabama, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1805-1967 for the marriage of John L Lapier and Laura Wilkinson on 13 January 1895 in Calhoun. "[Page] 459 [...] State of Alabama Calhoun County} To Any of the State Judges, To Any Licensed Minister of the Gospel or To Any Justice of the Peace of said County: Know ye, That you are hereby authorised and licensed to join together in the Holy Bonds of Matrimony John L. Lapier and Laura Wilkinson Given under my hand, this the 12th day of Jany A.D. 1895 [...] State of Alabama Calhoun County} I Hereby Certify , That on the 13 day of January A.D. 1895 I solemnized the Rites of Matrimony between John L. Laper and Laura Wilkinson in said County."
In the 1900 census as John L Lapier aged 27, born in Alabama in July 1872, parents born in Alabama, married for 5 years, a farmer and living with his wife (Laura O), daughter (Cinda), sister-in-law (Eliza Ashley), nephew (Robert R Ashley) ) and niece (Duffie Ashley) in a rented house in Jacksonville, Calhoun, Alabama.
He appears to have had a daughter by Millie in Jacksonville, Alabama in 1902.
Entry in Ancestry Alabama, U.S., Select Marriage Indexes, 1816-1942 for J.L. Lapier and Millie Christopher on 29 October 1907 in Calhoun.
Entry in Alabama U.S., County Marriage Records, 1805-1967 for J.L. LaPier and Millie Christopher on 29 October 1907 in Calhoun. "[Page] 371 [...] State of Alabama Calhoun County} To Any of the State Judges, To Any Licensed Minister of the Gospel or To Any Justice of the Peace of said County: Know ye, That you are hereby authorised and licensed to join together in the Holy Bonds of Matrimony J. L. Lapier and Miss Millie Christopher Given under my hand, this the 26 day of October 1907 [...] State of Alabama Calhoun County} I Hereby Certify , That on the [blank] day of [blank] A.D. 190 [blank] I solemnized the Rites of Matrimony between J. L. Laper and Miss Millie Christopher Witness, this 29 day of Oct., 1907".
In the 1910 census as John Lapier aged 37, born in Alabama, both parents born in Alabama, a warper in a cotton mill, and living with his wife (Mellie), son (Ed), daughter (Goldie), Lizzie Trussell (mother-in-law and head of household) and her two daughters (Clemmie Trussell) and Lennie Frazier) and grandson (Tommie M Frazrier) in Jacksonville, Calhoun, Alabama.
Entry in Ancestry Alabama, U.S., Convict Records, 1886-1952 for John Lapier aged 48 sentenced 19 April 1919 to 17 years for Manslaughter 1st, paroled 17 May 1920, pardoned civil and polital rights restored 17 December 1925.
In the 1920 census as John Lapier aged 47, born in Alabama, both parents born in Alabama, working a sentence out, and living with his wife (Millie), three sons (Edd, Willie and Willis), three daughters (Golden, Lilie and Mamie), sister (Lenna Haynie), son-in-law (George Haynie) and grandchild (Tommie Kady) in a rented house in Mountain Ave Street, Jacksonville, Calhoun, Alabama.
His daughter was born on 31 March 1923 in Anniston, Calhoun, Alabama
Entry in Ancestry U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 for John and Willie Lapier Mill hands Adelaide Mills Anniston, Alabama, City Directory in 1929.
In the 1930 census as John Lapier aged 57, born in Alabama, both parents born in Alabama, a roper at cotton mill, and living with his wife (Millie), three sons (Ed, Willie and Willis) and two daughters (Bertha and Lily) in a rented house $12 at 4148 (sic - in the index, 414 on the original) Pine Street, Anniston, Calhoun, Alabama.
Two entries in Ancestry U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 for John L Lapier a millworker living at 418 Pine Avenue, Anniston, Alabama with Millie Lapier (wife?) and Ewd C Lapier (son?) in 1931, also Lillie E and Wm in Polk's Anniston (Alabama) city directory in 1931.
In the 1940 census as John Lapier aged 67, born in Alabama, a drainage ? 8 weeks out of work, worked 42 weeks income $240, and living with Millie Lapier (wife?), Bertha Lapier (daughter?) and Willie Smith (brother-in-law?) in a rented house value $4 in Mulberry Street, Anniston, Calhoun, Alabama.
Entry on Ancestry WWII Draft Card for Ed Lapier born 14 March 1906 in Jacksonville, Alabama, his father John was living at 710 Mulberry, Anniston, Calhoun, Alabama.
Two entries in Ancestry U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 for John L Lapier a mill worker address 710 Mulberry Avenue, Anniston, Alabama in 1940 and 1942, other occupants Millie and Wm Lapier (son?), and 1014 W 17th, Anniston, Alabama in 1945, other occupant Lillie Lapier (daughter?).
His wife died at 1014 West 17th Street in 1946, in an obituary dated 18 June 1946.
Two entries in Ancestry U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 for John L Lapier address 1014 W 17th Anniston, Alabama in 1945 and 1948, other occupant Lillie Lapier (daughter?) in 1945.
In the 1950 census as Jno L LaPier aged 77, born in Alabama, widowed, unable to work, and living with his widowed daughter (Lillie E Jones), grandson (Leonard L), and three granddaughters (Dorothy L, Margaret P and Willmea J) in 1014 West 17th Street, Anniston, Calhoun, Alabama.
Entry in Ancestry U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 for John L LaPier address 1014 W 17th Anniston, Alabama.
Entry in Ancestry Alabama, U.S., Death Index, 1908-1959 for John L Lapier on 10 June 1952 in Calhoun (23 11311 6).
Entry in FindaGrave for John Lewis Lapier born 16 July 1872 in Talladega, Alabama, USA, parents Joseph Francis LaPier and Matilda Jane Smith, his two spouses Laura Lapier and Millie Ilene Lapier, and children Edd C Lapier, Lillie E Mulican, Goldie Artmiss Gentry, Willie Lee LaPier, Mamie Beatrice Robertson, Oliver F. Lapier, Cindy Lou Bonds, Ida Lee Bragg, and Willis Martin Lapier, his death on 10 June 1952 in Alabama, and burial in Coldwater Baptist Church Cemetery, Coldwater, Calhoun County, Alabama.
There are sixty one entries in Ancestry Family Trees for John Lewis Lapier/Lapierre including the following:
Entry in Newspapers Anniston Star (Anniston, Alabama) 10 June 1952 "J.L.La Pier, 80, Dies at Residence
Jahn Lewis LaPier, 80, of 25 Furnace Hill, died this morning at 5:45 o'clock at his residence. Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock at the Freewill Baptist Chuch with burial in the Coldwater Cemetery, Usrey in charge. Mr La Pier is survived by three sons, Ed La Pier of Anniston, Willie La Pier of Piedmont and Oliver La Pier of Jacksonville; six daughters, Mrs. Grady Gentry, Mrs. Grady Robinson, Mrs. T.J. Mullican, Anniston, Mrs. Eugene Duvic of New Orleans, Mrs. Joe Braggs of Jacksonville, and, Mrs. D.C. Bonds of Jacksonville; two half brothers, Oscar Smith and Sim Smith both of Anniston, and one sister, Mrs. Clark Mobley of Austell, Ga.
Entry in Geneanet Community Trees Index for John Lewis Lapier born 16 July 1872, died 10 June 1952.
John Lewis Lapier was the father of Bertha Mae Lapier, wife of Mauro Paul Duca, husband of Sylvia Mclaughlin Matthews, my half third cousin.
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