Olive Grace (Griffin) Linsley (1883 - 1957)

Born 4 Apr 1883 in Alexandria, Jefferson, New York, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Leroy Chaple Linsley — married 2 Jul 1900 in Grand Rapids, Ministee County, Michigan

Descendants

Died 4 Jan 1957 at age 73 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States

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Biography

Olive was born in New York in 1883, daughter of Sydney F. Griffin (1863-1923) and Agnes Clark (1860-1901). She married Leroy Linsley in Grand Rapids on July 2, 1900.^[1] The couple had two daughters, Marguerite Evelyn (1901-1995) and Agnes M. (1902-1976). Olive and Leroy evidently moved west to California and likely divorced, although no record is found of it. Grace remarried, marrying August C. Fischer (1885-1934), a German immigrant, in Pasadena on November 3, 1922, when she was 47.^[2] They had one son, Carl August Friedrich Fischer (1925-1934). They made their home in Pasadena, where August was a pastry chef at a hotel.^[3] August passed away of heart disease in 1934^[4][5], and her son, a Fireman First Class in the United States Navy, passed away during World War II, a naval combat casualty.^[6] Olive passed away in 1957.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N38H-CZV : 2 April 2020), Leroy C. Linsley and Grace Olive Griffin, 2 Jul 1900; citing Marriage, Grand Rapids, Manistee, Michigan, Citing Secretary of State, Department of Vital Records, Lansing; FHL microfilm 4208652.
2. ↑ "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8N9-HRB : 8 December 2017), August Carl Fischer and Grace Olive Linsley, 02 Nov 1922; citing Los Angeles, California, United States, county courthouses, California; FHL microfilm 2,074,281.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XC85-M8W : accessed 1 July 2020), Olive G Fischer in household of August C Fischer, Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 1279, sheet 6A, line 26, family 158, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 170; FHL microfilm 2,339,905.
4. ↑ "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGZ2-VBMT : 22 October 2019), Olive Fischer in entry for Augut C Fischer, 1934.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9WW-CR1 : 21 January 2020), Olive G Fischer, Pasadena Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 19-522, sheet 61A, line 11, family , Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 243.
6. ↑ Volume Title: Combat Naval Casualties, World War II, (AL-MO), California, page 29. Ancestry.com. U.S., Navy Casualties Books, 1776-1941 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data:Various volumes. Washington, D.C.: Navy Department Library. Ancestry Record 2324 #1200109184 with attached Image
7. ↑ "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGJ5-LKJR : 22 October 2019), Grace Olive Fischer, 1957.