Individual Details

Her Social Security application lists her parents as James H Sargent and Martha L Smith.

1940 Census. Tippah Co, MS (Sibllings living together)
Vasper Sargent, 27, Hired Hand
Lessie, sister, 21
Atna, Lodger, 24
Oretha - lodger's son, 7
Naomi - lodger's daughter, 5
Vibbie - lodger's daughter, 2

Married J. R. Waldrop
1950 Census. Bemis, Madison Co, TN, Hh 88
Colorado St
Lessie M. Waldrop, 32, divorced, b. TN, spooler, cotton mill
Gloria A., dau, 9, b. TN

1952 Jackson, TN City Directory
Waldrop, Lessie M, Mrs. Production - Jackson Battery Co, h: 13 Colorado (Eastport)

The Jackson Sun, Jackson, TN, Thur, 26 Jun 1952, p.6
Eastport
...Mrs. Lessie Waldrop is in Nashville as an employee in a hospital.

The Jackson Sun, Jackson, TN 29 Sep 1972, p.13
Funeral services for John Robert Waldrop, 73, were to be at 2 pm today.... Burial was to be in Reeves Cemetery.
Mr. Waldrop died Thursday at the Tippah County Hospital in Ripley, Miss.
...Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Lessie Waldrop fo Middleton; a son, Clarence Waldrop of Walnut, Miss.; a brother, Walter Waldrop of Middleton; three grandsons.

Newspaper obit from Jackson, TN, dated 23 Feb 1999, posted in Ancestry Tree:
Graveside services for Lessie M. Waldrop, 81, will be a 11 am Wednesday at Highland Memorial Gardens.
Mrs. Waldrop, a retired Bemis Co. employee, died Monday at West Tennessee Skilled Nursing Center of heart failure.
She is survived by a daughter, Gloria Mitchell of Clifon; and a sister, Lula Burkhead of Montezuma...

Gloria Waldrop Mitchell
Sep 15, 1941 - Oct 20, 2001
Mt. Juliet, TN
MITCHELL, Gloria Waldrop - October 29, 2001.
She is survived by husband, William I. Mitchell; daughter, Suzanne Mitchell; stepson, Dan Mitchell, all of Nasvhille; stepdaughter, Joanne Freeman, Wichita, KS...

Birth	10 Jul 1918	Alcorn, Mississippi
Death	28 Dec 2000	Mississippi

Father	James Hastings Sargent (1876 - 1962)
Mother	Martha Ludie Smith (1878 - 1940)