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==Death and family==
==Death and family==
Fuller died at his Minden home at the age of fifty-three as a result of complications from an appendectomy.<ref name=polk>Statement of Ted Polk of Magnolia, [[Arkansas]], the caretaker of the Fuller-White House, Minden, Louisiana, August 15, 2011.</ref> Fuller was married in 1891 to the former Mary Alma Bright (November 16, 1871 – June 3, 1949), a daughter of Edward Clarence Bright (1840–1893) of [[Tennessee]] and the former Texana Phillips (1845–1893), who was born in [[Alabama]] but reared in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana.
Fuller died suddenly at the age of fifty-three after consuming a family meal at his Minden home of a stroke of apoplexy.<ref name=obit/> Several months earlier he had an appendectomy, which presumably had healed.<ref name=polk>Statement of Ted Polk of Magnolia, [[Arkansas]], the caretaker of the Fuller-White House, Minden, Louisiana, August 15, 2011.</ref> Fuller was married in 1891 to the former Mary Alma Bright (November 16, 1871 – June 3, 1949), a daughter of Edward Clarence Bright (1840–1893) of [[Tennessee]] and the former Texana Phillips (1845–1893), who was born in [[Alabama]] but reared in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana.
Thomas and Alma Fuller had three daughters, Lee Aura Fuller Griffin (born 1895), Xenia Doyle Fuller Ruffin (c. 1898-1977),<ref>Xenia Fuller Ruffin obituary, ''[[Minden Press-Herald]],'' September 6, 1977, p. 1.</ref> and Miriam Rupert Fuller White (1900–1983), and sons-in-law, Robert M. Griffin (born 1896), a native of Henderson, [[Texas]], Trueheart H. Ruffin (born 1895), a native of DeSoto Parish, and Russell Lanier White (1898–1967) of Minden. A subsequent granddaughter, Miriam White King, was born in 1929. Thomas and Alma Fuller are interred at the Fuller-White plot in the old Section A at the historic Minden Cemetery.<ref>Minden Cemetery records.</ref>
Thomas and Alma Fuller had three daughters, Lee Aura Fuller Griffin (born 1895), Xenia Doyle Fuller Ruffin (c. 1898-1977),<ref>Xenia Fuller Ruffin obituary, ''[[Minden Press-Herald]],'' September 6, 1977, p. 1.</ref> and Miriam Rupert Fuller White (1900–1983), and sons-in-law, Robert M. Griffin (born 1896), a native of Henderson, [[Texas]], Trueheart H. Ruffin (born 1895), a native of DeSoto Parish, and Russell Lanier White (1898–1967) of Minden. A subsequent granddaughter, Miriam White King, was born in 1929. Thomas and Alma Fuller are interred at the Fuller-White plot in the old Section A at the historic Minden Cemetery.<ref>Minden Cemetery records.</ref>