Lottie E. Payne Stratton

ID Number: T06143

Biographical Data

Basic Identification

Gender: female Ethnicity: African American Immigration: Attributed Race: black Free or Enslaved: free

Birth & Family

Birth Date: 1902/11/25 Birthplace: Lynchburg, Virginia Mother: Myrtle Higginbotham Payne Father: Nelson Payne 1st Spouse: Lawrence L. Stratton 2nd Spouse: none

Age Details

Age: 63 Age Group: elder adult (60+)

Life Details

Occupation(s): ticket taker for segregated gallery of Academy of Music; dietician for Lynchburg City Schools Last Church: Military Service: Last Residence: Lynchburg, Virginia Last Address: 401 Taylor Street

Death

Death Date: 1965/12/18 Death Note: none Place of Death: home Cause of Death: house fire; asphyxiation; smoke inhalation

Burial & Undertaking

Burial Date: 1965/12/00 Funeral Home: Community Funeral Home Indigent?: private interment

Gravesite and Grave Marker Data

Grave Marker or Marker Fragment: yes Section: 302.M Confirmation Source for Location: gravemarker Grave Marker Erector(s): Confirmation Source for Interment: gravemarker

Others In Same Plot (T0155)

Full Name

Birth Date

Death Date

Lawrence L. Stratton

1903/12/22 (or 15?)

1969/02/18 (or 19?)

Obituary and Biographical Detials

Married c.1926

Death certificate gives time of death as 6:00 p.m. on December 18, 1965

Both of her parents were buried in the Baptist Cemetery on Wiggington Road. Not sure why she was buried in OCC. Maybe because she lived next door on Taylor Street???

1953 LCD: “cashier Academy Theatre”

Later she was dietician for Lynchburg City Schools