Beulah Mae (Brackin) Gregg (1891 - 1973)

Born 10 May 1891 in MS, USA

Ancestors

Wife of Robert Daniel Gregg — married 27 Nov 1918 in West Point, MS, USA

Descendants

Died 12 Mar 1973 at age 81 in Little Rock, AR, USA

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Biography

Beulah Mae was born in 1891. Beulah Mae Brackin ... She passed away in 1973. ^[1]

Birth Certificates were not issued in Mississippi in 1891. The first mention in official records of Beulah Mae was the 1900 U.S. Federal Census. There is an entry on page 18B of the Oktibbeha County, Mississippi census (part of Beat 1 - Enumeration district 85) which lists Brackin, James on line 100. This is the start of Dwelling 337, Family 341, which is continued on page 19A. This listing has James' wife, California, on line 1 and six children on the next six lines. There are two daughters and four sons listed. Comparison with the 1880 and 1910 censuses indicate that there should have been three daughters and three sons in the family at this time. The fifth child listed is recorded as "Andy," a son aged 9 having been born in May 1891. This is the only time this person appears in this family, even in non-census records. As the 1910 census for Longview, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, (a part of Beat 1, Enumeration district 94) shows, there is a daughter, Beulah M. Brackin, listed as being 17 years old. This would have placed her birth year in 1892 or 1893. So it appears that "Andy" from the 1900 census is not present, but a child about the same age is still with the family. The family nickname of Beulah Mae, the name used primarily by her mother, was "Mandy." It is not hard to imagine that the census taker misheard the listing of six children, and recorded "Andy" instead of "Mandy" when stated by Callie, the mother of Beulah. I am firmly convinced that this 1900 listing of "Andy" is the first notice of Beulah Mae Brackin in print.^[2]

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1. ↑ First-hand information as remembered by Emily Nelson, Wednesday, August 6, 2014. Replace this citation if there is another source.
2. ↑ U.S. 1900 Census, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, population schedule, beat 1 (part of), page 19 A (stamped and penned),dwelling 337, family 341, James and California Brackin, imaged in "U.S. Federal Census Collection," Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7602/images/4120344_00041 : accessed 05 May 2024).

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