It’s Family Time ~ Joe V. Streeter and Family

In the 1940 Census for Morven, Anson County, North Carolina we find on page 214 the family of Joe and Lizzie Streeter.¹
 






Joe V. Streater is Joseph Vernon Streater, b. 4 October 1892, a son of William Boswell Streater and Mary Elizabeth Lampley.²

Lizzie is Winnie Elizabeth Deese, b. 10 September 1893, a daughter of John Calvin Deese and Sarah Frances Gathings.³
 
Winnie Elizabeth “Lizzie” Deese Streater was my great Aunt, half-sister to my Grandmother Lucy Pearl “Pearly” Deese Purvis.

Joe and Lizzie lived on a small farm east and north of Morven, North Carolina just off what today is known as Diggs Road. The house sat amidst a grove of pecan trees with water supplied from a well in the back yard. 

Between 1932 and 1934 Joe and Lizzie lost three infant sons. Then on 30 December 1945, Joe passed away from bronchial pneumonia. It was about this time that Aunt Lizzie’s unmarried sister, Cora Lee, moved into the home to help care for the children and other necessary duties on the farm. Aunt Cora never married and Aunt Lizzie never remarried.
As a young teenager, my family also lived on this road, about two miles from Aunt Lizzie home. Also living on the same road was my daddy’s brother and their children. We children spent many enjoyable hours visiting with Aunt Lizzie and Aunt Cora. Never did we ever visit when our great Aunts didn’t admonish us, as children, to stay away from the Well.  

Aunt Cora passed away in April 1968. Aunt Lizzie, left all alone, moved to Alabama to live with her daughter, Sarah and son-in-law Harold White.

Aunt Lizzie died in June 1980 while living in Alabama. Both Lizzie and Cora Lee  are buried along with my grandmother, their half-sister, Pearly in the Morven Cemetery, Morven, North Carolina.^{4 5}

With the death of Sarah Streater White in 2013, all that left of this family is the grandchildren and great grandchildren of Joe and Lizzie and the memories of good times in the past. 

 White, Sarah Ann Streater

Sarah Ann Streater White, 82, died Tuesday, May 21 at her home after twelve courageous years of battling breast cancer.

White was born June 18, 1930, in Morven, North Carolina to the late Joseph Vinson Streater and Winnie Elizabeth Deese Streater. She and her late husband, Harold Brant White, lived in various places while he served in the United States Army. White worked as a Retail Manager with the Army and Air Force Exchange Service for over 23 years until her retirement.





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[1] 1940 U. S. Census, Anson County, North Carolina, population schedule, Morven, Anson County, North Carolina, enumeration district (ED) 4-18, Page: 7A/214(stamped), Line 35, Household #105, Household of Joe V. STREETER; digital images, 1940 CENSUS (http://1940census.archives.gov : viewed 5 June 2015); citing NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 2871.
[2] State of North Carolina, death no. 27215 (30 December 1945), Joe Vernon Streeter; https://www.ancestry.com, Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina.
[3] 1920 U. S. Census, Anson County, North Carolina, population schedule, Morven, Anson County, North Carolina, enumeration district (ED) #13, Page 194A; Line 26, Dwelling 148, Family 148, Household of John C. DEES; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 14 October 2011); citing National Archives Microfilm Series: T625, Roll: 1283.
[4] Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 5 June 2015); Memorial page for Joe Vernon Streater; (4 October 1892–30 December 1945); Find a Grave memorial # 65483688, Citing Morven Cemetery; Morven, Anson County, North Carolina, USA.
[5] Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 4 June 2010); Memorial page for Elizabeth Deese Streater; (10 September 1893–18 June 1980); Find a Grave memorial # 38280167, Citing Morven Cemetery; Morven, Anson County, North Carolina, USA.
[6] Personal Knowledge.