Tullie McAdoo (not Tully)

Nickname: Dudley

Birth date: November 24 in:

• 1883 (according to the 1900 U.S. Census)
• 1884 (according to his WWI registration card)
• 1885 (according to his WWII registration card)

Birth place: Topeka, Kansas according to his death notice

• 1880 Census – family living in Dunlap
• 1900 Census – family living in Topeka

Father: Russell McAdoo, born in Tennessee, August 1851 (day laborer)

Mother: Lucretia “Creasy” McAdoo, nee Turner, born in Tennessee circa 1858 (died between 1895 and 1900)

The couple was married on November 21, 1872 in Rutherford, Tennessee. The family moved to Kansas in 1879 or early 1880.

Siblings: Eva, Thomas, George, Nellie, Lizzie, Tullie, Era, R.E. (brother), Clyde

Tullie married a Kansas woman named Maggie, born circa 1883. It doesn’t appear that they had any children. She died in Chicago November 28, 1960. Tullie died in Chicago six months later on June 16, 1961.

Topeka Daily Capital, 17 June 1961
Tully McAdoo

A former baseball player and Topekan, Tully McADOO of Chicago, died there Friday in a hospital after an extended illness. He and his wife, Mrs. Maggie McAdoo, who died Nov. 28, 1960, lived in Topeka until 30 years ago when they moved to Chicago. He was born in Topeka and was a member of the Shiloh Baptist Church.

Mr. McAdoo was a first baseman with the Topeka Giants baseball team and played for the Kansas City, Kan., Giants, the Kansas City Monarchs and a team for St. Louis. Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Lizzie M. JOHNSON, 1212 Lincoln; a niece Mrs. Antionette DUNN of Denver; and a number of cousins, including Mrs. Alyce Monroe REID of Kansas City. Services and burial will be in Chicago. Mrs. JOHNSON plans to attend services. The Gaines and Son Funeral Home made the announcement.

1908 Kansas City Monarchs

William Houston, Bert Wakefield, McAdoo, West Wilkins, Bill Lindsay, Tom McCampbell, Chick Pullam, Frank Evans, Tom Stearman, Ernest McCampbell, Fred Lee, and Frog Lindsay

7/30/1910 Indianapolis Freeman with Kansas City Royal Giants

SOURCE LIST

Ancestry.com

Familysearch.com

Topeka Daily Capital, 17 June 1961