Ida Louella (Casteel) Graham (1884 - 1954)

Born 29 Oct 1884 in Alabama, USA

Ancestors

Died 5 May 1954 at age 69 in Athens, Limestone, Alabama, United States

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Biography

Ida Louella (Casteel) Graham (1884-1954)

Ida is the second child of Bud and Jane (Goode) Casteel of Limestone County, Alabama. She was born in 1884 either in the westernmost part of Limestone County or else just across the county line in the easternmost part of Lauderdale County.

Sometime between 1918 and 1920, Ida married the recent widower William Lerman Graham. (Ida and William's marriage record has yet to be found, so it is unclear exactly when or where they married.)

Lerman Graham had four children by his first wife, Mary Ellen (Aday) Graham:

• Charles Dee Graham (b. 1905)
  
• Arthur L. Graham (b. c.1907)
  
• Elner or Elmer M. Graham (b. c.1910)
  
• William Leona Graham (b. 1915)
  

[Please note that the 1910 census record has Elner Graham (b. c.1910) listed as Lerman Graham's daughter, but the 1920 census record has Elmer M. Graham (b. c.1910) listed as Lerman Graham's son. No other documentary sources have yet been found that would clear up this discrepancy.]

[Also note that one secondary source suggests that Lerman Graham may also have had a son named Mahlon Graham. However, no documentary evidence has yet been found to confirm this.]

Ida and William also had one child of their own:

• Arlie Hubert Graham (b. 1920)
  

On 4 June 1922, Ida's stepson, Dee Graham, married her younger sister, Viola Casteel, in Giles County, Tennessee, making Ida her stepson's sister-in-law. Dee would die in Marlin, Falls County, Texas, in 1964. (Viola would live nearly another decade after her husband's death, dying in Athens, Limestone County, Alabama, in 1973.)

In 1929, Ida's stepson, William Leona Graham, died in Lauderdale County, Alabama.

On 12 February 1942, during the Second World War, Ida's son, Hubert Graham, enlisted in the United States Army at Ft. Oglethorpe, Georgia. Details of his military service are unknown at this time.

On 10 January 1948, Hubert married Mary Lois Ezell in Morgan County, Alabama. Hubert and Mary Lois both died in Rogersville, Lauderdale County, Alabama, in March of 2012, less than two weeks apart.

At the present time, nothing is known about Ida's other stepchildren.

William Lerman Graham died in Limestone County, Alabama, in 1953. He was buried next to his first wife, Ellen, in the Romine Cemetery in Rogersville, Lauderdale County, Alabama.

Ida Louella (Casteel) Graham died the following year on 5 May 1954 in Athens, Limestone County, Alabama. She is also buried in the Romine Cemetery in Rogersville.

Sources

James Lynn Parham, An Alabama Rose Garden (1998)

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-1900 census record: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9D7-58R

-1910 census record (Ida Casteel): https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MK7Z-M86

-1910 census record (Lerman Graham): https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MK7T-GP5

-1920 census record: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX8J-7RQ

-1930 census record: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:3N16-DN2

-1940 census record: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V1PQ-MND

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Her death record: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J6J4-3Y3

Her Find-a-Grave entry: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=92795384

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Her husband's Find-a-Grave entry: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=92795418

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Her son Hubert's World War II Army enlistment record: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8LY-1C3

His marriage record: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRV8-11J

His Find-a-Grave entry: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=86337316

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Her stepson William's Find-a-Grave entry: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=92795485

Her stepson Dee's marriage record: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VNZL-8NT

His death record: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3XN-3PB