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LULU BELL SINTON (Mrs. W. K.) COLORADO SPRINGS President of the El Paso County Equal Sufferage League during the campaign. Early member, County Board of Visitors. Charter member, Woman's Club and of Civic League. The photograph comes courtesy of Joy H. Jones Colorado Springs. [RFSS Nov 2009] United States Census, 1 June 1900 Name: Lulu B. Sinton Event Place: Canyon, Brookside, Chandler Precincts South Canyon city Ward 1-2, El Paso, Colorado, United States Gender: Female Age: 34 Marital Status: Married Race: White Race (Original: W Relationship to Head of Household: Wife Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Wife Number of Living Children: 2 Years Married: 15 Birth Date: May 1866 Birthplace: Iowa Marriage Year (Estimated): 1885 Father's Birthplace: Indiana Mother's Birthplace: Indiana Mother of how many children: 2 District: 27 Sheet Number and Letter: 1B Household ID: 9 Line Number: 55 Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Affiliate Publication Number: T623 GS Film Number: 1240124 Digital Folder Number: 004118997 Image Number: 00012
She was the collector of all the Sinton descendants of the Colorado Springs to the early 1950's, and of Richmond, VA, Pottsville, PA, Louisville, KY, and other lines shown here between 1905 and 1950. Some lines have been updated, corrected, and augmented by people descended in these lines. She started when Walter Lyon Sinton arrived in (1905) town and looked up the name Sinton in the city directory, as he did in every town he visited during his many varied travels. He shared his information and gave Lulu the address of the contacts he had made. They worked together until WLS's death, then until the early 1950's she carried on. She and Ronald Greeves corresponded from 1934 concentrating mainly on the letters and combining the American lines and the Irish lines. Without "Granny" neither the letters nor the genealogy would have survived at all. Lulu (Bell) Sinton, is the only Bell mentioned in this file who is not one of the Quaker Bells of Ireland. Her family is in a different file. Lulu Bell Sinton wrote a letter, 1931, addressed to: "Joseph Greeves, Flaxspinner, Belfast, Ireland" the answer to which made possible the combination of Irish Greeves family research with this branch of the O'Brien/Greeves/Sinton family information. This expanded the Sinton information already resulting from Walter Lyon Sintons visit in Colorado Springs in 1905 with a basic pedigree and much information of the existence of the Pottsville, Richmond and Louisville Sintons whom he had found on his travels in this country. Ronald Greeves of Altona, Belfast, writes (1984); "Lulu Elizabeth Sinton (nee Bell) supplied most of the information regarding American Sintons and all that which refers to Sinton, formerly O'Brien. She died many years ago. It was she who collected, from various members of the family, the letters which went from John and Margaret (nee Sinton) Greeves to Anne (nee Greeves) O'Brien and family from 1818 to 1869." Without her efforts, neither the letters nor the genealogy would have survived in this country. Lulu was active in the Women's Sufferage campaign, WCTU, DAR, Unitarian Church, visitation of the prisons, and the League of Women Voters. She was the collector of all the Sinton descendants of the Colorado Springs to the early 1950's, and of Richmond, VA, Pottsville, PA, Louisville, KY, and other lines shown here between 1905 and 1950. Some lines have been updated, corrected, and augmented by people descended in these lines. She started when Walter Lyon Sinton arrived in (1905) town and looked up the name Sinton in the city directory, as he did in every town he visited during his many varied travels. He shared his information and gave Lulu the address of the contacts he had made. They worked together until WLS's death, then until the early 1950's she carried on. She and Ronald Greeves corresponded from 1934 concentrating mainly on the letters and combining the American lines and the Irish lines. Without "Granny" neither the letters nor the genealogy would have survived at all. The following transcription is courtesy of the Pikes Peaks Library District and is from the Saturday edition of the Colorado Springs Free Press on June 28, 1958, page 26. Mrs. L. E. Sinton Mrs. Lulu Elizabeth Bell Sinton, 92, died Friday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bell Willett. She was the daughter of James Warren Bell and Martha Lynn Bell and was born May 4, 1866, at Martinsburgh, Iowa. She was married Sept. 5, 1885, to Dr. William Kelly Sinton, who died Aug. 4, 1924. Mrs. Sinton was the last living of 14 people who organized as Unitarians in Colorado Springs, a group which resulted in the present All Souls Unitarian Church. She was president of the El Paso County Womans Suffrage League in 1893 during the campaign which resulted in granting the vote to the women of Colorado. In both maternal and paternal lines Mrs. Sinton was descended from early American settlers from Scotland, England and Ireland. For four and five generations these people continued as pioneers across Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Iowa and Kansas. She was a member of Kinnikinnik Chapter of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution. She is survived by three children, Mrs. A. M. Handke of Houston, Tex., and Mrs. Bell Willett and Dr. J. J. Sinton of Colorado Springs; nine grand-children and 26 great-grand-children. The funeral will be private, followed by cremation, by Blunt Mortuary. Headstone of Lulu Elizabeth Bell Sinton 1866 - 1958 Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado The headstone photograph comes courtesy of Joy H. Jones Colorado Springs. [RFSS Nov 2009] The location is Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, USA To view a map of the Evergreen Cemetery and the location of the grave, click on MAP |
MARRIAGE NOTES |
Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006
Name: William K. Sinton Event Date: 5 Sep 1885 Event Place: Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States Age: 31 Birth Year (Estimated): 1854 Spouse's Name: Lulu Bell Spouse's Age: 19 Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1866 GS Film number: 001690134 Digital Folder Number: 005204202 Image Number: 03237 [RFSS Mar 2014] Marriage Record Report of William Azel Kelley Sinton and Lulu Elizabeth Bell [RFSS Mar 2014]
Witnesses: Melvin McGregor Sinton and George Franklyn Otis. |
SOURCES |
[ s1112 ] | Cemetery Marker - Headstone - Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, United States of America - H1958-27-06-LBS |
[ s3348 ] | Marriage Registration - Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006 - Marriage of William Azel Kelley Sinton and Lulu Elizabeth Bell on 5 September 1885 in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, United States of America - Page: ?, GS Film number: 001690134, Digital Folder Number: 005204202, Image Number: 03237 - MR1885-05-09-WAKS-LEB |
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