Family Card 9/13/21 - Person Sheet
Family Card 9/13/21 - Person Sheet
NameOtis Nelson Thompson Lynch
Birth11 Feb 1865, North Carolina
Death4 May 1932, Whitmire, Newberry Co., South Carolina
BurialBuck Creek Baptist Church Cem., Chesnee, Spartanburg Co., South Carolina
FatherFranklin Alexander Lynch (1837-1878)
MotherSelena Thompson (1846-1904)
Misc. Notes
In 1904 when Otis’ mother died, Otis changed his last name from Thompson to Lynch

Want to thank Gail Lynch Walton for a lots of the info and pictures of Otis Nelson Lynch and his descendants.
Spouses
Birth1864, North Carolina
Death15 Apr 1931, Spartanburg Co., South Carolina
BurialBuck Creek Baptist Church Cem., Chesnee, Spartanburg Co., South Carolina
Misc. Notes
Daughter of Mary Thompson. She had a brother Elias who listed on his Death Certificate he was son of her Grandparents.

While DNA proves Louisa's father to have been Rufus Garrett he was married to another woman and never married Mary Thompson, Louisa's mother. Family stories accurately show Mary Thompson never to have married anyone and no evidence has been found to prove otherwise.

Louisa never used any other last name other than Thompson before she married. Marriage records show mother Mary Thompson, father unknown. Death records show mother Mary Thompson, father R Garrett.

Her husband also was illegitimate and used his mothers maiden name Thompson until her death. At that time he took his fathers name Lynch and migrated south to SC from White Oak, Polk County, NC.

The 1900 census shows Louisa living with her mother-in-law Selena Thompson and seven of Louisa's children in White Oak, Polk County, North Carolina Her husband is not listed.

The 1910 census finds the family living in Cherokee, Spartanburg, County, SC. Living with her are the six children who have not yet married; George, Oliver, James "Jim", Joe, Arthur, Roland. Louisa is said to have nine children with nine children still living. The other three had married. Wesley never took the name Lynch, Sue and Lena both married using the name Thompson in NC. The census was taken in May.

1930 census shows them living with their youngest son in Reidville, Spartanburg, South Carolina on Anderson Mill Road. by Gail Lynch-Walton
Marriage31 Jan 1883, Polk Co., North Carolna
ChildrenWilliam Wesley (1884-1920)
 Mildred Sue Thompson (1886-1946)
 Oliver B. (1893-1910)
 Mary Hattie Selina (1893-1972)
 James Pinckney (1896-1978)
 Joseph Daniel (1900-1972)
 Arthur Thompson (1904-1921)
 Otis Roland (1908-1980)
Last Modified 29 Feb 2020Created 13 Sep 2021 using Reunion for Macintosh
Revised September 13, 2021