Alice Evelyn (Coombs) Langley (1894)

Born Jan 1894 in Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Alice Evelyn Coombs was born Jan 1894, in Massachusetts, to Eseck Washington Coombs and Jennie Weaver, their last child and third daughter. She was baptized on 5 April 1896 at the Trinity Methodist Episcopalian Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ^[1]

In the 1900 Census, it shows Alice living with her older sister Hattie and her husband James along with his brother Henry. Alice and Hattie's mother Jennie was living there as well. Alice was 6 at the time. ^[2]

By the time Alice was 16, in 1920, she and her mother were living with Charles Pickles, a cousin of Jennie's, in Boston Massachusetts. ^[3]

May have lived in Waltham, Mass, with her husband Frank Langley.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ New England, Select United Methodist Church Records, 1787-1922; (http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=9134&h=181193&ssrc=pt&tid=3601854&pid=400105152296&usePUB=true); Accessed 28 June 2017
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M95D-DJF : accessed 28 June 2017), Alyce Eveline Coombs in household of James P Smith, Provincetown town (east part), Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 14, sheet 18B, family 498, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,631.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2KN-S37 : accessed 28 June 2017), Alice E Coombs in household of Charles W Pickles, Boston Ward 2, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 1281, sheet 11B, family 213, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 614; FHL microfilm 1,374,627.
4. ↑ This, her preferred first name, and her married last name are all based on a single address in the journal of Grace Howes that says "Sister Eva, Mrs. Frank Langley, 254 Crescent St., Waltham, Mass.