Ola Lane

Female, #34676, (14 Aug 1896 - 29 Aug 1989)

Birth*14 Aug 1896 Ola was born at Texas on 14 Aug 1896.1 
Marriage*14 Sep 1919 She married Rev. Charles Lee Culpepper at Texas on 14 Sep 1919. 
Married Name14 Sep 1919  As of 14 Sep 1919, her married name was Culpepper. 
1920 Census1 Jan 1920 Ola was listed as a daughter-in-law in Mary Caroline Currington's household on the 1920 Census at Arlington, Tarrant Co., Texas.2 
1930 Census1 Apr 1930 Ola was listed as Rev. Charles Lee Culpepper's wife on the 1930 Census at San Antonio, Bexar Co., Texas.3 
SSN*1973 Her Social Security Number was issued in 1973 at Texas.1 
Death*29 Aug 1989 She died at Tyler, Smith Co., Texas, on 29 Aug 1989.1,4 
Biography* Dr. Charles L. Culpepper, Sr. wrote 6 Jul 1979: My wife was at a W. M. U. meeting in Arkansas last Oct. 27th and fell and broke her hip. She was brought to Memphis to the Baptist Hospittal and there the doctor operated and put pins in her hip. She was in the hospital for two weeks, and then in the home of a friend for a week, then we took her to our apartment near the Seminary. She has gotten along fine and was using a walker in about a month. The doctor kept her on it for six months, now she gets along all right with a cane.
      Mrs. C. L. (Ola Lane) Culpepper wrote 17 Mar 1980: I have (when I'm not in the hospital) a Bible class once a week here in one apt. for a few of the people who live in this high rise. I've had another class in a home, but since I've been out so much I urged her to get someone else & she has.
      In Culpepper Heritage Association records, Tom S. Culpepper noted that "MauMau died 8/29/1989 in Tyler, Texas while in the Clairmont Rest Home near the Tyler Jr. College" and he included two obituaries, one from the Baptist Standard 20 Sep 1989: Ola Culpepper, 93, Aug. 29 in Tyler. She and her late husband, Charles, were missionaries to China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan for more than 41 years. She was a native of Center Point and a graduate of the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and Southwestern Seminary. Her two children and one of her seven grandchildren served as missionaries.
      The second obituary appeared in the San Antonio Express-News Area Obituaries for 2 Sep 1989: CULPEPPER SERVED FAR EAST MISSIONS - Ola Lane Culpepper was a Southern Baptist missionary with her husband, Charles L. Culpepper, for 42 years. They were appointed together to China in 1923 and were stationed in such places as Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taiwan before retiring in 1965. She died Tuesday at age 93 in Tyler, where she moved last fall from San Antonio to be near her daughter. Born in Center Point, Culpepper was the youngest of seven children. After graduating from high school there, she attended Mary Hardin-Baylor College. On Sept. 17, 1919, she and her husband exchanged wedding vows in Center Point. They attended Southwest -ern Seminary together in Fort Worth. There son, Charles L. Culpepper, Jr. of Blanco, was born while she was at the seminary. Although he was only three, her son said he remembers their first trip to China in 1923. "The trip was stormy," he said. "This was the time of the Yokohama earthquake and our ship hit the tital wave. "My parents studied the laguage in Old Peking (Beijing). My two sisters were born over there, but one died. We moved to another station in Shanghai. In the late 1930s, the Japanese war was brewing and my mother and the children were sent back to the United States. "Dad was taken by the Japanese and was under house arrest for eight or nine months before being swapped for Japanese civilians taken by the Americans in 1943." The family then stayed in San Antonio. The returned to Shanghai after the war ended. When the Communists took over in China, the Culpeppers became missionaries in Hong Kong in 1950. In 1952 they were sent to Taiwan, and their son was later a missionary there with them. The Culpeppers retired in Taiwan in 1965 and returned to their San Antonio home. He worked with the evangelism department of his church and taught two years at Mid-America Seminary in Memphis, Tenn. His wife accompanied him in these endeavors, working with women and speaking about foreign missions in many churches, their son said. "My mother was very vivacious and out going and was a good balance for dad, who was quieter with a more serious demeanor," he said. "My wife and I were missionaries on the Chinese mainland and my sister and her husband were missionaries in Japan." When Culpepper Sr. died in 1986, the son looked after his mother in San Antonio. When his sister retired, she lived in a duplex with their mother until they moved to Tyler last fall. Other survivors are her daughter, Mary C. Walker of Tyler; seven grandchildren; and 10 great- grandchildren. Services will be in San Antonio at 11 a. m. Saturday in Sunset Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Park. 

Family

Rev. Charles Lee Culpepper (10 Mar 1895 - 21 Aug 1986)
Children

Last Edited 20 Nov 2006

Citations

  1. U.S. Social Security Administration, compiler, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Online database at Ancestry.com.
    http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/vital/ssdi/main.htm
    Ola L. Culpepper, 14 Aug 1896 - 29 Aug 1989, Tyler, Smith Co., Texas 75707, SSN 450-17-2044 issued in Texas in 1973
    (Why it is safe to publish Social Security numbers for deceased people: http://gen.culpepper.com/about/socialsecurity.htm).
  2. 1920 Federal Census, United States.
    ED 87, Sheet 52B, Pg 155, Pct. 1, Seminary Hill Addition, Arlington Heights, Tarrant Co., TX
    Rent=Y, Farm=N, (Enumerated 20 Jan 1920)
    Mary C. Culpepper, Head, F, 61, WD, AL GA AL
    Charles Lee Culpepper, Son, M, 24, M, TX GA AL, Student-Seminary
    Ola Culpepper, Daughter-in-Law, F, 23, M, TX TN TN.
  3. 1930 Federal Census, United States.
    ED 133, page 49A, 1202 Drexel Ave, San Antonio, Bexar Co.,TX
    Rent=60.00, Radio=N, Farm=N
    Charles L. Culpepper, Head, M, 35, M, md @25, TX/GA/AL, Baptist Clergyman, WW1 Veteran
    Ola Culpepper, Wife, F, 33, M, md @23, TX/TN/TN, Missionary
    Charles Culpepper Jr., Son, M, 9, S, TX/TX/TX
    Mary F. Culpepper, Dau, F, 3 2/12, S, China/TX/TX
    Mary C. Culpepper, Mother, F, 71, Wd, AL/GA/GA.
  4. Texas Department of Health, compiler, Texas Death Index, 1903-2000, Online database at Ancestry.com, 2006.
    http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=4876
    Ola Lane Culpepper, Female, died 29 Aug 1989 in Smith Co., TX.