Louise Morgan (Nay) Tavenner (1906 - 1987)

Born 17 Jan 1906 in Enterprise, Harrison, West Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Edward Thomas Tavenner — married 30 Sep 1929 (to before 1950) in Wellsburg, Brooke, West Virginia, United States

Died 7 Jan 1987 at age 80 in Brewster, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States

Biography

The daughter of Dorsey Nay and Gertrude (Walker) Nay, Louise was born in Enterprise in 1906.^[1][2][3] She married Edward Thomas Tavenner (1902-1985), the son of Ralph Douglas Tavenner and Elizabeth McCormick Lindsay, marrying in Wellsburg, West Virginia on September 30, 1929.^[4]

In April of 1930, Louise and her four-year-old daughter, Phyllis (1926-), were enumerated in her parents' household in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania.^[5] Their son, Edward, Jr.(, was born in 1936. In 1940, Louise and Edward Tavenner, and their children, lived in Aliquippa, where her husband worked as a "pipe wielder" in the steel industry.^[6] The couple divorced before 1950; that year, Louise and her son, Edward, lived in Winchester, Virginia, where Louise worked as a sales clerk at a retail clothing store.^[7]

Louise Tavenner passed away in Brewster, Massachusetts at the age of 81^[8][9] and is buried at Island Pond Cemetery in Harwich, Massachusetts.^[10]

Sources

1. ↑ "West Virginia Births and Christenings, 1853-1928", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X5RH-X9B : 30 January 2020), Louise Morgan Nay.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPNZ-LG4 : accessed 3 March 2021), Louise M Nay in household of Dorsey Nay, Clay, Harrison, West Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 23, sheet 11B, family 235, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1683; FHL microfilm 1,375,696.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN2N-W86 : 4 February 2021), Louise Nay in entry for Dorsey E Nay, 1920.
4. ↑ "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FYQG-8Y7 : 11 February 2018), Edward T. Tavenner and Louise Nay, 30 Sep 1929; citing Wellsburg, Brooke, West Virginia, p 185, county clerks, West Virginia; FHL microfilm 869,990.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCZH-HJL : accessed 3 March 2021), Louise Tavenner in household of Gertrude Nay, Aliquippa, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 8, sheet 15B, line 54, family 327, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1995; FHL microfilm 2,341,729.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQQZ-CGK : 7 January 2021), Louise Tavenner in household of Edward Tavenner, Aliquippa, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 4-11, sheet 3B, line 73, family 51, 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 3425.
7. ↑ :Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. 1913-1/1/1972. Population Schedules for the 1950 Census, 1950 - 1950. Washington, DC: National Archives at Washington, DC. United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: Winchester, Winchester, Virginia; Roll: 5332; Sheet Number: 4; Enumeration District: 126-7: Winchester city - That part of Ward 1 Bounded by Leicester; Cameron; Bond; Valley Turnpike, Braddock. Ancestry.com. 1950 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2022. Ancestry Record 62308 #111303537 with attached Image
8. ↑ "Massachusetts Death Index, 1970-2003", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZRY-LPX : 13 June 2019), Louise M Tavenner, 1987.
9. ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JPDY-JNG : 8 January 2021), Louise Tavenner, Jan 1987; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
10. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLH-RBRJ : 12 June 2020), Louise N Tavenner, 1987; Burial. Find A Grave: Memorial #93107517