30. Lula Grace4 HELMS SELF (Matthew H.3, Milus2, Allen1) was born in Upson County, Ga. 16 AUG 1883. Birthdate also given as 1882. She could read and write. Lula died 5 MAR 1943 in Upson County, Ga., at 59 years of age. Her body was interred 8 MAR 1943 in Upson County, Ga., Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery.
		Lula Grace Helms Self and Arthur Nathaniel "Whit" Self.

She married Arthur Nathaniel SELF in Thomaston, Upson County, Ga., 10 AUG 1904 in old McCoy House, a two-story former plantation home in which his parents and grandparents had lived after the war. The house, also where Milford and Evelyn were born, was rumored to be haunted. Evelyn and Dot told me of one incident concerning a "drummer" or traveling salesman, and lights flickering in the second-floor hallway all night which led him to believe a family member was sick. In reality, no one had been up at all.

Whit was born in Upson County, Ga. 21 JAN 1884. to 1838 He was the son of Samuel Jefferson SELF and Alice JENKINS Self.

Whit died 1 FEB 1945 in Upson County, Ga., at 61 years of age. His body was interred after 1 FEB 1945 in Upson County, Ga., Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery.

Whit was farmer in Upson County, Ga., before 1910. He was a sharecropper at one point, working "on halves" at the Hancock Plantation in the 1910s. He gave half his produce, from one section of the farm, to the "Big Man." He ran a large commercial cane syrup mill at another time, and finally moved his family to East Thomaston where he and his daughters eventually went to work at Thomaston Mills. Evelyn Self Nelson said he quit farming to work in the mill because of a disability. Finding it not to his liking, he moved the family back to the country for two years. Eventually, they returned to town to take jobs in the mill. Whit stayed in the country and did as much farming as he could, for a while living with his brother Len, who owned a general store.

Arthur Self was the head of a family on the 1910 Census in Upson County, Ga.. Flint Dist., dwelling 51, family 52: Arthur Self, 26, male, 26, married 5 years, famer, general farming, b. GA. could read and write, owned farm F45. Lula, 26, two children, both living, no occupation, b. GA. could read and write; Milford, 4; and Evalan, 1 year, 3 mos.; Lynn Self, brother, 23, married less than a year, farmer, general farming, b. GA. could read and write; Grace Self, sister-in-law, 18, no children, no occupation, b. ALA, parents b. GA, could read and write; had not attended school in the past year.

Arthur N. Self was the head of a family on the 1920 Census in Upson County, Ga. Arthur N. Self, renter, lived in Reeves District; wife Lula G. Self, 36. The children included Milford E., 14, in school and educated. Evelyn C., 11, in school and educated. Sallie Lou, 7, in school and educated. Alice M., 4, not in school. Ruth E., 1 1/12, not in school.

Lula Grace HELMS Self and Arthur Nathaniel SELF had the following children:

+ 52 i. Milford E.⁵ SELF DANIEL was born 6 JUL 1905.

+ 53 ii. Evelyn Cordelia SELF Nelson (still alive).

		Sallie Lou Self (left) grew up to marry first Ernest Duke (right)

54 iii. Sallie Lou SELF Duke Rogers was born in Thomaston, Upson County, Ga. 1 APR 1912. Sallie died 15 APR 1997 in Thomaston, Upson County, Ga., at 85 years of age. Her body was interred 16 APR 1997 in Thomaston, Upson County, Ga., Southview Cemetery. She married Earnest DUKE in Alabama, 4 JUN 1930.

Earnest was divorced from Sallie Lou SELF Duke Rogers before OCT. 1946, when Miss Sallie Selfe received a post card still in possession of the family. Ernest married again.

She married Augustin Claudious ROGERS in Russell County, Ala., 5 JUN 1964. Gus was born in Thomaston, Upson County, Ga. 26 JUL 1902. to 1820

Gus died 12 JAN 1975 in Thomaston, Upson County, Ga., at 72 years of age. His body was interred after 12 JAN 1975 in Thomaston, Upson County, Ga., Southview Cemetery.

She resided in Thomaston, Upson County, Ga. after JUN 1964, 216 N. Bethel St. She resided in Thomaston, Upson County, Ga. before APR 1997, 240 N. Green St., Apt. 215.

+ 55 iv. Alice Maywood SELF Huckaby was born 15 APR 1915.

				56 v. Ruth Helen SELF Wasson Blake Wade was born in Thomaston, Upson County, Ga. 3 FEB 1918. Helen died 7 SEP 2000 in Thomaston, Upson County, Ga., at 82 years of age after a massive stroke in Providence Nursing Care Center. Her body was interred 9 SEP 2000 in Thomaston, Upson County, Ga., Upson Memorial Gardens. Pasley-Fletcher Funeral Home; Rev. Jerry Corley. She married Roy WASSON in Avondale Estates, Ga., 12 OCT 1938. Roy died about SEP 1946 in Avondale Estates, Ga., when he was struck by a train. She married Roy's friend Thomas BLAKE in Atlanta, Ga., before 19 OCT 1946. She and Thomas honeymooned in Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tenn., 19 OCT 1946.(5)
	Roy and Helen Self Wasson, before 1946
		Thomas died after 1946, after the couple had separated. Helen was unaware of Thomas' death until, while on break at work, she read his obituary in an Atlanta newspaper.His body was interred after 1946 in Atlanta, Ga. Thomas was a musician. Helen traveled with him for a while, leaving him during a gig in Nashville, Tenn. She briefly received royalty payments. She married James WADE 8 DEC 1956. James was born 4 JAN 1924. James died 5 SEP 1986 at 62 years of age. She resided in Thomaston, Upson County, Ga. after 1990, 109 W. County Rd., Apt. 6Q.
						Roy Wasson, ca. 1945

+ 57 vi. Dorothy Lee SELF Short (still alive).

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