Lucy A. Ledbetter

Lucy A. Ledbetter was the wife of John Jackson Ledbetter Sr. and mother of three children: Col. John Jackson Ledbetter Jr., Alvin Ledbetter, and Margaret Ledbetter Dewey.¹

Illness and Death

In December 1947, word reached Austin that Lucy had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage.² Her condition worsened through the spring. On June 6, 1948, Virginia Davis called from Blytheville, Arkansas, to say that Dr. Johnson believed Lucy could live only two or three weeks.³

JJL and Leonora drove to Blytheville. Lucy died on June 28, 1948, at 1:50 p.m. She was sixty-eight years old. JJL called his brother Alvin by long distance in Butte, Montana, with the news.³

Burial

Lucy was buried at Maple Grove Cemetery in Blytheville, Arkansas. The funeral cost $585.00 — a figure JJL recorded with his characteristic precision.³