Ada Emma Shipp

September 16, 1879 – July 10, 1966

 

       

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          About 1961

 

 

Ada was born the fourth of ten children in Gillespie County Texas to Martin Shipp and Martha Ellen Casner.  She was first married to Augustus Nabors (1876 – 1928) in 1895 when she was 19 and had one child, Raymond Hubert Nabors. 

 

Presumably, at some point she divorced Nabors and  she married (or had to marry) Lawrence (Lorenzo) A. Munsell on February 12, 1903.  He was 21; she was 24.  7 months later, that little minx gave birth to our Pam-Paw Leland Munsell on Sept. 14, 1903.

 

He husband Lawrence died in 1910, a few months after their 3rd child was born.  Lawrence died of typhoid fever and meningitis, age 27, the day after Christmas.  She lived 56 more years and I did not see that she remarried.

 

She died at the home of her son Mark Munsell in Dublin Texas.  She is buried in Banks Cemetery in Brown County.

 

When Teresa was very young, she recalled meeting Ada.  She remembers that Ada had long white hair down to her legs (she kept in a bun most of the time), smoked a pipe, and was blind.