Lotte Lucille BURT

     Lotte Lucille BURT, daughter of Henry McKenzie BURT and Margaret Mims CURRY, was born on 31 October 1885 in Talladega County, Alabama.¹

Lotte married William Pressley WELCH Jr., son of William Pressley WELCH and Caroline Gaillard Portis, on 3 November 1907 in Talladega County, Alabama. His parents home was in the same residential block in Selma.¹

William and Lucille were both descendants of the Rev. Oliver Welch of Talladega. William directly descended from his son, Nathanial Welch. Nathanial's brother, John Mallory Welch, was the first husband of Frances Ann Gibson, who after his death married James Creth Burt. Lucille was Burt's granddaughter, by his first wife, Elizabeth Baird Killough. So while not a direct descendant, Lucille still had a strong famiy connection to the Welch family.

Lotte Lucille BURT died on 26 October 1961 in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, at age 75.² She was buried in Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Dallas County, Alabama.^2,3

Lotte's obituary was printed on 1 November 1961 in the Birmingham News newspaper, published in Birmingham, Alabama. "Graveside services were held Monday at Live Oak Cemetery in Selma for Mrs. W. Pressley Welch, 76, of Selma, mother of Atty. Henry B. Welch of Birmingham, who died Saturday at home. The former Lucille Burt of Talladega, Mrs. Welch was a graduate of Judson College, where she had been a member of Kappa Delta sorority. Mrs. Welch was superintendent of beginners' department of First Baptist Church of Selma for 15 years. Survivors include her husband, W. Pressley Welch; a daughter, Mrs. Henry A. Donahoo of Birmingham; three other sons, William P. Welch of Philadelphia, Nathaniel Welch of Auburn and J. Edmund Welch of Atlanta, and 15 grandchildren."⁴