Robert Chester "Bob" TRULL and Annie Mae Shuman TRULL

Robert Chester "Bob" Trull (1893 - 1933). Date unknown. From my family's personal photo collection.

Annie Mae Shuman Trull (left) and Mary Broom in August 1959.

Robert Chester "Bob" Trull was born on March 11th, 1893 to Robert "Bob" Trull and Lizzie Medlin in North Carolina.

Annie Mae Shuman was born on April 20th, 1896 to Charles Augustus Shuman and Margaret Elizabeth "Lizzie" Beatty in Monroe, Union Co., NC.

There are multiple Robert Trulls in this line. For sake of clarity, I will be referring to this Robert Trull (husband of Annie Mae Shuman) as R. C. and his father as Bob.

I cannot locate a birth record for R. C., but a marriage record to wife Annie Mae in 1915 gives his parents as Bob Trull and Lizzie Trull (both deceased), and his death certificate states their names as Bob Trull and Lizzie Medlin.

R. C. was not raised by either of his parents; I believe that they were unwed (see Bob and Lizzie's page for more details). R. C.'s living granddaughter (my grandfather's sister who raised me) has always told me that he was raised by Mary Broom because his parents were absent, but she doesn't know exactly why.

R. C. is on the 1900 census at the age of six living with Mary, her elder sister Sarah Ellen Broom who owned a boarding house, and three unrelated boarders; his name was simply given as "Bob". Interestingly, he was noted as the Broom sisters' "brother." He was still living with Mary (and another sister of hers, Drucilla, who took over the boarding house) on the 1910 census at the age of 18 and was noted as their "adoptive brother." In 1920, he was living with his wife in a separate household.

A young Annie Mae Shuman (middle) with her sisters. Date unknown. Photo from Ancestry.com (membership required to view)

Robert C. Trull's death certificate.