Rosa Lee (Hart) Wallace (1914 - 2004)

Born 26 Oct 1914 in Lincoln, Mississippi

Ancestors

Died 21 May 2004 at age 89 in Brookhaven, Lincoln, Mississippi

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Sources

Census

Name: Rosa Lee Hart Titles and Terms: Event Type: Census Event Year: 1920 Event Place: Bogue Chitte, Lincoln, Mississippi, United States District: 93 Gender: Female Age: 5 Marital Status: Single Race: White Race (Original): White Can Read: No Can Write: No Relationship to Head of Household: Daughter Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Daughter Own or Rent: Birth Year (Estimated): 1915 Birthplace: Mississippi Immigration Year: Father's Birthplace: Mississippi Mother's Birthplace: Mississippi Sheet Number and Letter: 26A Household ID: 315 Line Number: 17 Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Affiliate Publication Number: T625 GS Film number: 1820885 Digital Folder Number: 004312372 Image Number: 00341 Household Gender Age Birthplace Head Harrison Hart M 27 Mississippi Wife Clara Hart F 25 Mississippi Daughter Rosa Lee Hart F 5 Mississippi Son Harley Hart M 3 Mississippi Son Herman Hart M 1 Mississippi 1920 United States Census

Name: Rosa Lee Hart Titles and Terms: Event Type: Census Event Year: 1930 Event Place: Beat 4, Lincoln, Mississippi, United States District: 0015 Gender: Female Age: 15 Marital Status: Single Race: White Race (Original): White Relationship to Head of Household: Daughter Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Daughter Birth Year (Estimated): 1915 Birthplace: Mississippi Immigration Year: Father's Birthplace: Mississippi Mother's Birthplace: Mississippi Sheet Number and Letter: 12B Household ID: 240 Line Number: 97 Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Affiliate Publication Number: T626 Affiliate Film Number: 1156 GS Film number: 2340891 Digital Folder Number: 004610110 Image Number: 00992 Household Gender Age Birthplace Head Harrison Hart M 39 Mississippi Wife Clara Hart F 35 Mississippi Daughter Rosa Lee Hart F 15 Mississippi Son Harley Hart M 14 Mississippi Son Herman Hart M 11 Mississippi Daughter Lottie B Hart F 9 Mississippi Son Hoyte Hart M 6 Mississippi Daughter Elsseree Hart F 3 Mississippi Daughter Genevie Hart F 1 Mississippi 1930 United States Census

Name: Rosalee Wallace Titles and Terms: Event Type: Census Event Date: 1940 Event Place: Beat 4, Lincoln, Mississippi, United States Gender: Female Age: 25 Marital Status: Married Race (Original): White Race: White Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Wife Relationship to Head of Household: Wife Birthplace: Mississippi Birth Year (Estimated): 1915 Last Place of Residence: Rural, Lincoln, Mississippi District: 43-19 Family Number: 206 Sheet Number and Letter: 11A Line Number: 30 Affiliate Publication Number: T627 Affiliate Film Number: 2045 Digital Folder Number: 005449667 Image Number: 00618 Household Gender Age Birthplace Head Ernest Wallace M 29 Mississippi Wife Rosalee Wallace F 25 Mississippi 1940 United States Census

Death

Burial: Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery 35244398 [1]

Given Name: Rosa Middle Name: L Surname: Wallace Name Suffix: Birth Date: 26 October 1914 Social Security Number: 426-72-1868 State: Mississippi Last Place of Residence: Lincoln, Mississippi Previous Residence Postal Code: 39601 Event Date: 21 May 2004 Age: 90

Services for Rosa Lee Hart Wallace of Brookhaven, formerly of Bogue Chitto, were 11 a.m., Monday, May 24, at Bethel Baptist Church of Bogue Chitto with burial in the church cemetery. Brookhaven Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Wallace, 89, died May 21, 2004, at Silver Cross Nursing Home. She was born in Lincoln County on Oct. 26, 1914, to Harrison Hart and Clara Wallace Hart.

She was retired from Stahl Urban Manufacturing Company. She was a longtime member of Bethel Baptist Church of Bogue Chitto, where she served in various capacities of the church including song leader for many years. In years past, she was instrumental in organizing the annual Wallace Family Reunion honoring her grandparents, the late Elisha and Malissia Wallace. She was the first of their 101 grandchildren. She was a 1933 graduate of Bogue Chitto High School.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, William Ernest Wallace; a sister, Elsie Nettles; and her brothers, Harley Hart, Hoyte Hart, Herman Hart, Wallace Hart and Hugh Hart.

Survivors are her daughter and son-in-law, Marilyn and Ronald Durr of Brookhaven; her son and daughter-in-law, Milton and Patsy Wallace of Brookhaven; her sisters, Lottie B. Smith of Bogue Chitto, Jenny Ford of McComb, and Peggy Gardner of Oklahoma City, Okla.; her granddaughters, Nannette W. Clark of Brookhaven, Renee W. Bilbo of Columbia, and Rhonda D. Johnson of Bogue Chitto; her great-grandchildren, Nathan Wallace Bilbo, Lydia Kate Bilbo, Olivia Claire Clark and Anna Brooke Johnson; and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives.