As opposed to the birth year of 1878 on the attached death certificate, Samual Walker Lytal's obituary and his gravestone give his birth year as 1879, and in the 1880 census he's shown as one year old. Born to John Wesley Lytal and Mary J. Duncan, the family reportedly moved from Mississippi to Texas in November 1900, while young Sam was in Fayette County, Alabama, probably in medical school. In December 1900 Sam married Celia Bell Deavours.
The informant is Sam's oldest brother, James J. Lytal.