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Virginia (Garrett) Blackwell (1899 - 1985)

Virginia (Virgie) Blackwell formerly Garrett aka James
Born in Johnson County, Arkansas, USAmap
Ancestors ancestors
Daughter of and
Sister of
Wife of — married about 1920 in Oklahoma, USAmap [uncertain]
Wife of — married after 1936 in Maricopa, Arizona, USAmap [uncertain]
[children unknown]
Died at age 85 in Henryetta, Okmulgee, Oklahoma, USAmap
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Biography

Virginia was born in 1899, the daughter of James Garrett and Lura Kirby. She is a great x3 granddaughter of Leonard M Garrett, Revolutionary War veteran and progenitor of this Garrett line.

She married at least twice, the first time at age 21 to Benjamin Franklin James. They divorced before 1930 and she remarried after 1936 to Thomas Jefferson Blackwell. Over her lifetime, she lived in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Arizona. Virgie passed away in 1985 at 85 years old, 25 years after Thomas.

Timeline

  • 1899 Sep 04 - Birth - Johnson County, Arkansas
  • 1900 United States Federal Census[1] - Horsehead, Johnson, Arkansas, USA
HouseholdRoleSexAgeBirthplaceMar
Stat		Occupation
Ed J GarrettHeadM29ArkansasMFarmer
Lou E GarrettWifeF23ArkansasM
Ethel E GarrettSonF3ArkansasS
Virgie GarrettDaughterF1ArkansasS


  • Move to Oklahoma
  • 1910 United States Federal Census[2] - Simpson, McIntosh, Oklahoma
HouseholdRoleSexAgeBirthplaceMar
Stat		Occupation
James E GarrettHeadM38ArkansasMFarmer
Lura GarrettWifeF33ArkansasM
Ethell GarrettSonM12ArkansasSAt School
Virgie GarrettDaughterF10ArkansasSAt School
Loy AllenNephewM6ArkansasSAt School


  • 1920 United States Federal Census[3] - Simpson, McIntosh, Oklahoma
HouseholdRoleSexAgeBirthplaceMar
Stat		Occupation
James E GarrettHeadM47ArkansasMFarmer
June E GarrettWifeF42ArkansasM
Virgie GarrettDaughterF19ArkansasSFarm laborer
At school
Loy GarrettSonM15ArkansasSFarm laborer
At school
Riley AllenHired manM22ArkansasSFarm laborer


Marriage #1: Benjamin Franklin James

  • 1921 Aug 23 - Birth of Son Esker Ellis James - Stidham, McIntosh, Oklahoma
  • 1924 Nov 14 - Birth of Son Carnie Elvis James - Stidham, McIntosh, Oklahoma
  • aft 1924 - Divorce from Benjamin Franklin James
  • 1930 United States Federal Census[4] - Simpson, McIntosh, Oklahoma
HouseholdRoleSexAgeBirthplaceMar
Stat		Occupation
J E GarrettHeadM58ArkansasMFarmer
Lura GarrettWifeF57ArkansasM
Virgie JamesDaughterF33ArkansasD
Oscar JamesGrandsonM8OklahomaSAt School
Carney JamesGrandsonM5OklahomaS
D C KirbyFather-in-lawM80United
States		Wd


Marriage #2: Thomas Jefferson Blackwell

  • 1942 Apr 27 - Mesa, Arizona - Virgie is listed as her husband's contact person on his WWII Draft Registration Card
  • 1959 Sep 27 - Death of Husband Thomas Jefferson Blackwell - McIntosh, Oklahoma
  • 1985 Mar - Death - Henryetta, Okmulgee, Oklahoma[5]
    • Name: Virginia Blackwell
    • Last Residence: 74437 Henryetta, Okmulgee, Oklahoma, USA
    • BORN: 4 Sep 1899
    • Died: Mar 1985
    • State (Year) SSN issued: Oklahoma (1951-1952)
  • 1985 Mar - Burial: Lenna Cemetery, Lenna, McIntosh County, Oklahoma[6]

Research Notes

On Virginia's mother's obituary,[7] it lists Virginia's last name as Chandler from Checotah, Oklahoma. No marriage record or other information has been found to expound on this.

Sources

  1. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3FZ-8BF : accessed 19 December 2019), Ed J Gassett, Horsehead Township, Johnson, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 37, sheet 3A, family 38, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,064.
  2. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLQ3-Z11 : accessed 19 December 2019), James E Garrett, Simpson, McIntosh, Oklahoma, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 77, sheet 9B, family 146, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1260; FHL microfilm 1,375,273.
  3. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJMG-LCR : accessed 19 December 2019), James E Garrett, Simpson, McIntosh, Oklahoma, United States; citing ED 52, sheet 4A, line 4, family 57, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1471; FHL microfilm 1,821,471.
  4. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCWC-CSY : accessed 19 December 2019), J E Garrett, Simpson, McIntosh, Oklahoma, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 23, sheet 9A, line 42, family 150, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1914; FHL microfilm 2,341,648.
  5. ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JLX9-C4H : 20 May 2014), Virginia Blackwell, Mar 1985; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
  6. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #29481494
  7. ↑ Newspapers.com[1]




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