#52 Ancestors – No. 17 – Gracie Pittman

This post is number 17 in the series of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge where a group of us blog about a different ancestor for each week of the year.  To learn more about the 52 Ancestor Challenge visit Amy’s website.

I just spent a fun weekend catching up with half-cousins once removed. So this week’s entry is going to be quick. No, really.

Gracie Pittman was born in 1887.  She is the first daughter of then 15 year-old, Josepine Woodburn and John T. Pittman. She is the sister to my great-grandmother, Mable Pittman Roll Baumgartel.

Gracie marries at age 17 in 1904 to one, Chester Oliver Board.  The marriage wasn’t agreeable to either of them.  They are together on the 1910 Census and have gone their separate ways by the 1920 Census. The 1910 Census alleges that the mother has given birth to two children that are living.    However, no children are enumerated with this couple.  I have not discovered a birth or death certificate for any child born of this union.

Chester is living in San Francisco as a laborer on the 1920 Census.  Gracie has remarried.  Her new husband is James H. Holmes.  James and Gracie have four children.  Mary B Holmes, 1918; James in 1921, Margaret in 1923, and the last Bettie Jo Holmes in 1927.

Regrettably, Gracie Pittman Holmes dies in 1932 at the age of 45.  The cause of death in Pulmonary Tuberculois.  She passes away at the Western State Hospital in Hopkinsville, KY.  Her oldest child is 14 and the youngest, is just 5.  I have not been able to locate the family in the 1940 Census at this time.

Within my grandmother Olive Roll Howes batch of photos, there was a mystery photograph of an Edwards family.  My genealogy research led me to identify the family as children of Margaret Holmes Edwards.

“Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979,” index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F4QR-6DJ : accessed 29 Apr 2014), Chester O Board and Gracie Pittman, 12 Nov 1904; citing Muhlenberg, Kentucky, reference ; FHL microfilm 557331.

“United States Census, 1910,” index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M28N-DL4 : accessed 29 Apr 2014), Grace Board in household of Chester Board, Magisterial District 1, Caldwell, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 11, sheet 12A, family 235, NARA microfilm publication T624, FHL microfilm 1374481.

“Kentucky Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-19550. Microfilm rolls” #7016130-7041803. Kentucky Dept for Libraries, and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky.

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