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Lewis, Grace
LAST NAME: Lewis FIRST NAME: Grace MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Joslin AKA 1: Grove AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: F TITLE: 
BORN: 14 Nov 1894 DIED: 1 Dec 1966 BURIED: 7 Dec 1966 ~ Smith Cemetery
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Missouri
DEATH PLACE: Pomona, California
NOTES: 
1900 MO CENSUS - racie Joslin (b Nov 1894, MO) enumerated with parents Alonzo (b Sept 1867, Ind; married 12y) and Margaret (b Sept 1870, CA, mother of 6 children all living) and 5 siblings, Elvina O. (b May 1888, MO), Minnie (b Mar 1890, CA), Jennie (b Jan 1893, MO), Miltie A. (b Apr 1897, MO) & Henry A. (b Jan 1899, MO)
1910 OK CENSUS - Grace Joslyn (15y, b OK) enumerated with parents Alonzo (42y, b IL, married 22y) and Margaret (39y, b CA, mother of 12 children, 10 living at time of census) and 7 siblings, Jennie 17y, b MO), Milton (13y, b MO), Mamie (9y, b OK), Martin (7y, b OK), Alta (5y, b OK), Fred (3y, b OK) & Bertha (2y, b OK)
1st MARRIAGE - to --- Grove
NOTE - First husband was probably William F. Grove who registered for the draft at Oklahoma City in World War I (b 22 Sept 1890, Dallas, Texas; dependents were wife & 3 children), and registered for draft at Salem, Oreogn, in World War II (b 22 Sept 1892, Dallas, Texas, contact person was Hazel G. Grove of Salem); William & Hazel appear in 1940 census of Hayesville, Marion Co, Oregon, which gives his age as 47y, birthplace Texas and 1935 residence as Long Beack, Calif
2nd MARRIAGE - Percy Logan Lewis & Grace Grove m 14 Sept 1940, Polk Co, Oregon
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OBITUARY: 
Graveside services for Mrs Grace Lewis, Pomona, Calif, 72, were conducted Wednesday at 2 pm at Smith cemetery with Rev Edward Healey officiating. Services were held Monday at Todd Memorial chapel in Pomona. Mrs Lewis died December 1 at Pomona. She was born November 14, 1894 in Oklahoma. Her parents were Alonzo Joslen and Margaret Stiva. She married Percy Lewis and he preceded her in death Dec 19, 1948. She lived in Hillsboro and Beaverton and resided in Willamina and Monmouth from 1930 until 1943. For the past three years she had made her home in Pomona. Survivirs include two sons, W.H. Grove, Phoenix, and L.L. Grove, Milwaukie, Ore; daughters, Mrs G.A. McGill, Stockton, Calif, and Mrs P.D. Armstrong, Pomona, Calif; 15 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. Interment was under the direction of the Bollman Funeral Home. 
Itemizer Observer, Thursday, December 8, 1966, 8:5-6
INSCRIPTION: 
Lewis
Grace
1894-1966

[shares marker with Percy Lewis]
SOURCES: 
1900 MO CENSUS (Texas Co, Jackson, ED 140, sheet 7B)
1910 OK CENSUS (Oklahoma Co, Oklahoma City, ED 210, sheet 9A)
Oregon Marriage Index
Itemizer Observer, 8 Dec 1966, 8:5-6
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ROW: 26-1  

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