Connie Emily (Penland) Childers (1899 - 1966)

Born 26 Apr 1899 in Haywood County, NC

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Ezekiel Childers — married 12 Oct 1919 in Beaverdam, Haywood County, NC

Descendants

Died 30 Aug 1966 at age 67 in Buncombe County, NC

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Biography

Connie was born in 1899 in Clyde, NC. She was a high school teacher for a brief time. She married Joe Childers in October 1919, after he returned from World War I service in June 1919, and they had their first child (Raymond) in 1920.

The 1920 Haywood County, NC Census lists Joseph and Connie as boarders in the home of Tailor Duckett on Beaverdam Road. Joe's occupation is switchman in a wood yard. Duckett is the foreman in the wood yard. Connie is a high school teacher.

The 1930 Haywood County, NC Census lists Joe and Connie living in Clyde with her father Mack Penland and sister Thelma. They have five living children and one deceased (Wilburn). Connie's mother Annie is listed as an inmate in the census of the NC State Hospital for the Insane in Morganton, NC.

The 1940 Census of Haywood County, NC list Connie and Joe living on Star Ridge Road just east of Canton. Living in the home are their children Raymond (19), Frank (18), Mary Jo (17), Ralph (15), Harold (13), Martha (8) and Rubena (7).

For a very moving personal memoir of Joe, Connie and their family, see the biographical article “The Childers Family of Western North Carolina: Their Roots and Memories,” 1986, by their son Frank McDowell Childers, at his profile (Childers-946).

Sources

• Stephen R. Childers, "Descendants of Stephen R. Childers, "Descendants of Humphrey Posey Childers";
• "North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VHGZ-W3J : 8 December 2014), Connie E Penland, 26 Apr 1899; from "North Carolina, Birth and Death Indexes, 1800-2000," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2005); citing vol. 14, p. 295, Haywood, North Carolina, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.
• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSYG-X6L : accessed 9 June 2017), Connie V Penland in household of Mack Penland, Clyde Township Clyde town, Haywood, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 23, sheet 5A, family 79, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,200.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KW74-9NF : accessed 2 July 2017), Joe Childers, North Ward, Canton, Beaverdam Township, Haywood, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 44-1, sheet 10A, line 2, family 172, 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 2927.
• "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F83P-Q3J : 22 December 2016), Joseph E. Childers and Connie Penland, 12 Oct 1919; citing Beaver Dam, Haywood, North Carolina, United States, p. , Office of Archives and History, Division of Archives and Records. State Archive of North Carolina and various county Register of Deeds; FHL microfilm 463,152.
• NC Death Certificate, Joseph E Childers, 1966;
• NC Death Certificate, Connie Penland Childers, 1966.
• https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=67746461