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Julia was born on 16 June 1907 in Trigg County, KY. She was the daughter of James Sidney Ledford Jr and Julia Grace (Dawson) Ledford.
Julia died at the age of 91 on 23 August 1998 in Memphis, Shelby County, TN.
Julia was buried in Menorial Park Cemetery, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee
From Find A Grave: Memorial #16417975
- Birth: Jun. 16, 1907
- Roaring Spring
- Trigg County
- Kentucky, USA
- Death: Aug. 23, 1998
- Memphis
- Shelby County
- Tennessee, USA
- Grace was the daughter of James Sidney and Julia Dawson Ledford. She attended Roaring Springs school until she was 14 at which time she boarded in Cadiz to attend High School there. When she was 16 she moved to Memphis, Tn, to live with her Aunt, Susan Dawson Moore. There she attended Central High School and business college. She worked for a number of years for the Columbian Mutual Insurance Company until she married Ernest Warren Maddox in 1939. They left immediately after the wedding at 7:30 in the morning and the breakfast at Linden Avenue Christian Church, for Johnson City TN where Warrenwas to open the first Social Security office there on Jan. 2, 1940. He was drafted at age 32 so Grace followed him to Goldsboro, NC, Washington PA and finally to Montgomery AL during WWII. After the War they moved back to Memphis where their only child was born when she was in her 40th year. In 1949 they moved to Knoxville, TN, where Warren was the Dist. Mgr. of the Social Security office until 1961. They moved back to Memphis where he was the Dist. Mgr. of the Social Security office until 1978. They lived there together until she died in St. Francis Hospital of heart failure at age 91.
- Family links:
- Parents:
- James Sidney Ledford (1864 - 1952)
- Julia Dawson Ledford (1875 - 1940)
- Spouse:
- Ernest Warren Maddox (1912 - 2004)*
- Burial:
- Memorial Park Cemetery
- Memphis
- Shelby County
- Tennessee, USA
- Plot: Mausoleum
- Created by: Julia Maddox Mortenson
- Record added: Nov 01, 2006
- Find A Grave Memorial# 16417975
- Grace was my mother. I still miss her.
- - Julia Maddox Mortenson
- Added: Sep. 16, 2010
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