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Lillie Jane Woolsey
1880 - 1937

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• Birth	18 Aug 1880	Pulaski County, Kentucky   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Died	22 Jan 1937	Pulaski County, Kentucky   [1]
  Buried	City Cemetery, Somerset, Pulaski County, Kentucky   [3]
  Person ID	I00787	John Colyer family of Somerset Ky
  Last Modified	29 Apr 2011

  
  

  Family	John Wesley (some say Perry) Colyer,   b. 26 Jan 1875, Pulaski County, Kentucky ,   d. 1 Jun 1937, Pulaski County, Kentucky
  Married	28 Dec 1898	Pulaski County, Kentucky   [1, 4]
  Notes	[Archfam[2].FTW] Groom 24 1st b. Pulaski Co, father b. PUL, mother b. PUL Bride 18 1st B. Pulaski Co, father b. PUL, mother b. PUL Robert James Surety: Robert James Witnesses: C.M. Simpson, John James Presiding: F.M. Hill
  Children	1. Lyda Colyer,   b. 1 Jun 1901, Pulaski County, Kentucky ,   d. 9 Nov 1975, Somerset, Pulaski County, Kentucky > 2. Ola Marie Colyer,   b. 23 Aug 1904, Pulaski County, Kentucky ,   d. 25 Feb 1997, Tullahoma, Coffee County, Tennessee   3. Lera Colyer,   b. 24 Jan 1906, Pulaski County, Kentucky ,   d. 17 Jan 1987, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois   4. Marie Colyer,   b. 6 Jan 1908, Pulaski County, Kentucky   5. Ruth Evelyn Colyer,   b. 1910,   d. 31 Aug 1999, texas   6. Harold Woodrow Colyer,   b. 20 Feb 1913, Pulaski County, Kentucky ,   d. 2 Nov 1979, Portland, Oregon   7. William Kenneth Colyer,   b. 31 May 1917, Pulaski County, Kentucky ,   d. 16 Sep 1977, Salem Park Nursing Home, Cincinnati, Ohio
  Family ID	F07673	Group Sheet

  
  

• Documents

  Lily (Mrs. John p Colyer) Colyer Obit Mother of Lera Colyer, Somerset Ky The Commonwealth 01/27/1937

  
  

• Notes

  [Archfam[2].FTW] 1880 Pulaski County Kentucky Census shows Lillie J. Wolsey, age 2 months, granddaughter, living in the household of Enoch Wolsey. Lillie born in Kentucky and both parents born in Kentucky. SOMERSET JOURNAL, SOMERSET, KY., JANUARY 21, 1937 COLYER---Mrs. John Colyer, 56, succumbed at her home on the Ruth Road near Somerset last night at 7 o'clock after an illness of about seven months. A native of Pulaski County, she was Miss Lily Jane Woolsey before her marriage to Mr. John Colyer in 1899. She was a member of the Southern Methodist Church at Soul's Chapel and was a good citizen and a devoted mother, and had many friends in this county who are grieved by her death. She is survived by her husband John Colyer; five daughters, Mrs. Henry Parsons, Mrs. Vola Padgett, and Mrs. Wilson Gregory of Somerset, Miss Lera Colyer of Louisville, and Mrs. Marie Parks of Johnson City, Tennessee; two sons, Harold Colyer and Kenneth Colyer, Somerset, and six grandchildren. Miss Lera Colyer is unable to come here for the funeral because of illness. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Padgett on East Mt. Vernon Street and interment will follow in the Somerset City Cemetery. The services will be conducted by her pastor, Rev. A. L. Osborne and Rev. A. R. Perkins.




• Sources

  [S018185] Holy Bible, presented to Ola C. Parsons Christmas 1948 by Henry andJohn Allan, Ola Parsons, (World Publishing Company, Cleveland Ohio, New York City). QUAY 3 [S017171] Notes from Thelma Herrin, Somerset, Ky, Thelma Herrin, 2 months old in 1880 census. QUAY 3 QUAY 2 [S018159] Grave Marker Photo, John Parsons. QUAY 3 [S017200] Pulaski County Kentucky Marriage Books, County Government Records, transcribed from microfilm, (Pulaski County Historical Society Somerset, Kentucky). QUAY 3