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1860 - 1908 (48 years)
It is no surprise that most of their ten children also went to Burritt College. Around this time, which was just before the turn of the 19th century, it was quite unusual for children to go to college, especially female children. LT was a careful father of the first five children, all females in Sequatchie Valley, where one room schools were poor and far removed from them so he and his sister Aunt Eva took over the teaching duties. Eventually, he moved his family to Spencer, Tennessee so that his family could be educated at the Burritt College which was located there. His faithful wife and daughters kept college boy boarders to help with the tuition of $2 to $5 per month.
When he bought the house in Spencer around 1903 he also bought the general merchandise store which was located just across the street from the house. He was a community leader and church elder, furnishing a gathering place around the potbellied stove in his store, where there was often entertainment at other times; including storytelling and refreshments were usually a hand in the brown sugar barrel. He often wrote property deeds at his store desk, well into the night.
Tragedy struck in 1908 where on September 13th typhoid fever claimed the life of his beloved wife, “Ollie”.
In early 1910 LT bought two adjoining farms in Warren County since all but three children had finished Burritt College and moved to the house in “Lakeside Farms” that summer. He was married to Alma Freiley of Dunlap that same year. LT was instrumental in setting up the church in that community and baptized almost 100% of the people into the Church of Christ. In 1936 LT bought a White County, Tennessee farm dying there in 1936 and was buried in a cemetery in Doyle, Tennessee.
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