Stella Polson Sumrall is the fifth-oldest child.
The next child to arrive was Stella Polson Sumrall (February 26th, 1910 – April 6th, 1997). She grew up in a similar fashion to her older siblings, living with them on their family farm outside Laurel up until their move into city. She completed schooling to the eighth grade level. However, unlike the older sisters, it is more unclear as to when she married, in addition to whenever she left the family home. She is not enumerated as a resident of her parents’ home in 1930, but neither does she live with her future husband in that same time period, Floyd Edgar Sumrall, Sr. (November 10th, 1912 – April 7th, 1976). She does, however, live somewhere in Laurel in 1935.
The next time she reappears in records occurs in 1938, when by that time she is married and lives with Floyd on 128 South 10th Avenue, Laurel. Floyd provides for the family as a mechanic for the Pou & Dyess Garage. Before then, Floyd born in Bay Springs, Mississippi, and grew up on a family farm in Smith County around 1920. By 1930, he and his family had moved to Ellisville, living on Ellisville Ovett Road. While in his parents’ home there, he worked as a truck driver on a gravel highway.
By 1940, Stella and Floyd lived at 815 Hardy Street in Hattiesburg. Stella preoccupied herself as a homemaker, taking care of their young children Shelia Ann (born in roughly 1938) and Flora Marie (born in roughly 1940). Meanwhile, Floyd worked as an automobile mechanic at an automobile dealership. He registered for the Draft on October 16th of the same year, and lists himself as being employed by a Cecil B. Farrior. Floyd sports a scar on his face that reaches from his right ear to his chin. In 1943, Floyd and Stella had a son, Floyd Edgar, Jr.
During World War II, Floyd actually served in the United States Navy, having been enlisted on October 29th, 1944, and discharged on October 31st, 1945.
At the time of Irma’s death in 1953, the Sumralls still lived in the Laurel-Hattiesburg area. Later, between then and 1976, they at some point moved to Mobile, Alabama, and became members of the Unity Christ Church. When Floyd unfortunately passed away in 1976, they had lived at 3063 West Gate Street in Mobile, though Floyd died at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Biloxi, Mississippi, after a long illness. Floyd was buried in the Mack Brown Cemetery in Jones County, near Ovett.
Sometime after the death of Floyd, Stella moved across the country to Texas, settling in the Houston area. She undertook this move sometime before or around the death of Maude in 1988. In 1990, she is described as living in Houston within Luna’s obituary. At one point during her time in Texas, up until at least 1993, she lived at 4327 Annawood Circle, in the Houston suburb of Spring.
After living at her home there, Stella eventually moved into the Retirement Care Center, one county west in Hempstead, Waller County, Texas. She passed away there at the age of eighty-seven in April 1997, having been a retired seamstress. Her remains were finally interred next to Floyd in the Mack Brown Cemetery.
The next time she reappears in records occurs in 1938, when by that time she is married and lives with Floyd on 128 South 10th Avenue, Laurel. Floyd provides for the family as a mechanic for the Pou & Dyess Garage. Before then, Floyd born in Bay Springs, Mississippi, and grew up on a family farm in Smith County around 1920. By 1930, he and his family had moved to Ellisville, living on Ellisville Ovett Road. While in his parents’ home there, he worked as a truck driver on a gravel highway.
By 1940, Stella and Floyd lived at 815 Hardy Street in Hattiesburg. Stella preoccupied herself as a homemaker, taking care of their young children Shelia Ann (born in roughly 1938) and Flora Marie (born in roughly 1940). Meanwhile, Floyd worked as an automobile mechanic at an automobile dealership. He registered for the Draft on October 16th of the same year, and lists himself as being employed by a Cecil B. Farrior. Floyd sports a scar on his face that reaches from his right ear to his chin. In 1943, Floyd and Stella had a son, Floyd Edgar, Jr.
During World War II, Floyd actually served in the United States Navy, having been enlisted on October 29th, 1944, and discharged on October 31st, 1945.
At the time of Irma’s death in 1953, the Sumralls still lived in the Laurel-Hattiesburg area. Later, between then and 1976, they at some point moved to Mobile, Alabama, and became members of the Unity Christ Church. When Floyd unfortunately passed away in 1976, they had lived at 3063 West Gate Street in Mobile, though Floyd died at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Biloxi, Mississippi, after a long illness. Floyd was buried in the Mack Brown Cemetery in Jones County, near Ovett.
Sometime after the death of Floyd, Stella moved across the country to Texas, settling in the Houston area. She undertook this move sometime before or around the death of Maude in 1988. In 1990, she is described as living in Houston within Luna’s obituary. At one point during her time in Texas, up until at least 1993, she lived at 4327 Annawood Circle, in the Houston suburb of Spring.
After living at her home there, Stella eventually moved into the Retirement Care Center, one county west in Hempstead, Waller County, Texas. She passed away there at the age of eighty-seven in April 1997, having been a retired seamstress. Her remains were finally interred next to Floyd in the Mack Brown Cemetery.