Lula Browning

On the 15th day of July, 1901, Church W. Rule and his wife, Lula A. Rule, who were then living and having their ddomicile in Sunflower county, Miss., and then being without children, and being in the state of Kentucky, presumably on a visit there, on said date signed what is called in the record "articles of adoption." This adoption was signed jointly by Church W. Rule and his wife on the one part and the Louisvile Baptist Orphans' Home, by its president, on the other part, by which Church W. Rule and his wife, Lula A. Rule, are said to have adopted a child, then about three years of age, and an inmate of said institution, named Lula May Browning. By said adoption the said Rule and wife obligated themselves to adopt the said infant, Lula May Browning, and covenant with said Louisville Baptist Orphans' Home that said Lula May Browning shall bear from this time forward the same legal relation to them as if she had been born unto them, and were their child, especially as to such property as would descend to her were she their child.

It appears that the Louisvlle Baptist Orphans' Home was chartered and incorporated by an act of the General Assembly of Kentucky, approved January 28, 1870 (Laws 1869-70, c. 197).

-From The Southern Reporter, volume 76, pg 268-9