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Unit:
U.S. Naval Reserve
Date of Birth:
June 22, 1876
Hometown:
Morgantown, West Virginia
Date of Death:
March 10, 1967
Awards:
Victory Medal
On June 22, 1876, Lulu Mae Hogue was born in Morgantown, West Virginia. She was one of the youngest of eight siblings. Not much is known about Hogue’s early years. She did not attend school, but knew how to read and write. When Hogue was five years old, her father, William, passed away. In September 1898, Hogue married Jesse Turner in Wood, Ohio. By the 1910 census, Hogue was single, working in a department store as a stenographer, and living with her sister, Nora Bell Wood, and Nora’s husband in Washington, D.C.
From 1917 to 1920, Hogue worked as a stenographer for the Naval Reserve Force. Stenographers worked in offices, taking meeting notes in shorthand and then transcribing them into full reports for high-ranking officers and the archives. Hogue worked only in the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. for the duration of World War I; she never traveled overseas during that time. Hogue was honorably discharged in May 1918. In 1921, Hogue received the Victory Medal for her service in the Naval Reserve Force.
After working as a stenographer for the Naval Reserve Force during World War I, Hogue worked in the Department of the Treasury. Hogue remained in Washington, D.C. and worked for the federal government as a stenographer and later as a secretary. Hogue never remarried and never had children.
By the mid-1960s, Hogue lived in a Fairfax, Virginia nursing home. In March 1967, Lulu Mae Hogue passed away of a heart attack at the age of 90.
Lulu Mae Hogue was interred at the Alexandria National Cemetery after her death in March 1967.
District of Columbia. 1910 U.S. Census. Digital Images. https://ancestry.com.
District of Columbia. 1930 U.S. Census. Digital Images. https://ancestry.com.
Harris & Ewing. Girl Takes Finger Prints in Navy…Navy Intelligence Bureau, Washington, D.C. Photograph. November 19, 1918. National Archives and Records Administration (165-WW-598N-004-ac). Image.
“Lulu Mae Hogue.” Find a Grave. Last modified July 27, 2013. Accessed February 7, 2019. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3255665/lulu-mae-hogue.
Naval Reserves Inspection at Washington. D.C. Photograph. c. 1918. National Archives and Records Administration (19-N-113869). Image.
W.B. Sandhurst Publishing Company. Stenographic Dept. Six stenographers….and two multigraphs. Photograph. 1918. National Archives and Records Administration (165-WW-222E-13). Image.
Lulu Mae Hogue, Official Military Personnel File, Department of the Navy, Records Collection of the Office of Naval Records and Library, RG 45, National Archives and Records Administration – St. Louis.
Records of the Bureau of Ships: Prints: Naval History Photographs, 1883–1941; Department of Defense, Department of the Navy, Group Portraits “S” thru Riveting (Box 41); National Archives of Records Administration, College Park, MD.
Records Collection of the Office of Naval Records and Library: Records Created and Organized by the Office of Naval Records and Library, Logistics File, 1916–20; Department of Defense, Department of the Navy, Record Group 45 (Box 96); National Archives and Records Administration — College Park, MD.
Records Collection of the Office of Naval Records and Library: Records Created and Organized by the Office of Naval Records and Library, Logistics File, 1916–20; Department of Defense, Department of the Navy, Record Group 45 (Box 355); National Archives and Records Administration — College Park, MD.
Washington Navy Yard; Commandant’s Office, Naval Districts and Shore Establishments, Record Group 181 (Box 1); National Archives and Records Administration — College Park, MD.
Washington Navy Yard; Commandant’s Office, Naval Districts and Shore Establishments, Record Group 181 (Box 112); National Archives and Records Administration — College Park, MD.
Washington Navy Yard; Commandant’s Office, Naval Districts and Shore Establishments, Record Group 181 (Box 118); National Archives and Records Administration — College Park, MD.
Washington Navy Yard; Commandant’s Office, Naval Districts and Shore Establishments, Record Group 181 (Box 119); National Archives and Records Administration — College Park, MD.
West Virginia. Monongalia County. 1880 U.S. Census. Digital Images. https://ancestry.com.
West Virginia. Monongalia County. 1900 U.S. Census. Digital Images. https://ancestry.com.
Virginia Death Records, 1912–2014. Digital Images. https://ancestry.com.
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