Willie Mae was born in 1907. She was the daughter of Willie Crawford and Mattie Lowery. In 1910, the family was living in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana.[1] On the US Census, she was transcribed as Millie M instead of Willie Mae. By 1920, the family was living in Richland Parish, Louisiana. She was still incorrectly referred to as Millie Mae on the census.[2]
She married Francis Eugene Nivans.
She passed away in 1995. Burial was in the Lynn Cemetery in Archibald, Richland Parish, Louisiana.[3]
Sources
↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPTG-JNY : accessed 14 April 2017), Millie M Crawford in household of Willie T Crawford, Police Jury Ward 10, Caldwell, Louisiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 6, sheet 2B, family 33, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 511; FHL microfilm 1,374,524.
↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MV7B-4GT : accessed 6 June 2017), Mille Mae Crawford in household of W T Crawford, Police Jury Ward 5, Richland, Louisiana, United States; citing ED 108, sheet 31A, line 29, family 640, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 628; FHL microfilm 1,820,628.
Is Willie your ancestor? Please don't go away! Login to collaborate or comment, or contact
the profile manager, or ask our community of genealogists a question.
Sponsored Search by Ancestry.com
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Willie by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Willie: