Velma Melissa (Batchelder) McGraves (1915 - 2006)

Born 17 Jan 1915 in Edinburg, Penobscot, Maine, USA

Ancestors

Died 14 Mar 2006 at age 91 in Brunswick, Cumberland, Maine, USA

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Biography

Velma was born in 1915. She was the daughter of Herbert Batchelder and Laura Sibley.^[1][2]

Velma married Donald McGraves on Jan 15, 1942 in Maine.^[3]

She passed away in 2006^[4] and is buried at Evergreen Cemetery Rangeley, Maine.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24X-YSHV : 27 November 2017), Velma Melissa Batchelder, Birth 17 Jan 1915; citing Division of Vital Statistics, State Board of Health, Augusta; FHL microfilm 10,075.
2. ↑ "Maine Social Security Records," database, Maine Genealogy (https://www.mainegenealogy.net/individual_social_security_record.asp?id=fpr-3mo88 : accessed 25 July 2020), entry for Velma Melissa Batchelder, citing Social Security Administration Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), provided by the National Archives.
3. ↑ "Maine, Marriage Index, 1892-1966, 1977-1996," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KCJ8-Z2Q : 27 November 2014), Donald Mcgraves and Velma M Batchelder, 15 Jan 1942; citing Marriage, Maine, United States, State Archives, Augusta.
4. ↑ "Maine Deaths, 1956-1997," database, Maine Genealogy (http://www.mainegenealogy.net/individual_death_record.asp?id=492006 : accessed 10 February 2018), entry for Velma MCGRAVES, 14 March 2006, citing Maine Vital Records.
5. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial# 153608005

See also

• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFZT-HM5 : accessed 10 February 2018), Velma M in household of Hubert J, Edinburg, Penobscot, Maine, United States; citing ED 96, sheet 15B, line 65, family 197, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 646; FHL microfilm 1,820,646.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMDW-MT9 : accessed 10 February 2018), Velmer M Batchelder in household of Herbert J Batchelder, Edinburg, Penobscot, Maine, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 43, sheet 1A, line 23, family 7, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 837; FHL microfilm 2,340,572.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KM93-36Y : accessed 10 February 2018), Velma Batchelder in household of Fanny Burnham, Sanford Town, York, Maine, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 16-77, sheet 4A, line 11, family 61, 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 1497.

• "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V3TX-LP6 : 20 May 2014), Velma B Mcgraves, 14 Mar 2006; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).

• "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKTX-XFTW : accessed 10 February 2018), Velma B Mcgraves, Maine, United States, 17 Mar 2006; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Portland Press Herald, born-digital text.

• "Maine, Faylene Hutton Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1990," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKMB-B7MR : 16 April 2015), Velma B Mcgraves, ; citing Burial, Rangeley, Franklin, Maine, United States, Maine State Library, Augusta; FHL microfilm 1,769,863.

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29Y-ZS9R : 15 March 2016), Velma B McGraves, 2006; Burial, Rangeley, Franklin, Maine, United States of America, Evergreen Cemetery; citing record ID 153608005, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.