Elsie Maxine (Henson) Stockard (1897 - 1917)

Born 3 Jun 1897 in Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Harris Bell Stockard — married 17 Aug 1912 in Maury, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Died 2 Apr 1917 at age 19 in Maury, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Elsie was born on 03 Jun 1897. She married Harris Bell Stockard on 17 Aug 1912, gave birth to two daugheters, and passed just shy of her 20th birthday on 02 Apr 1917.

Her daughter (my grandmother), Rubie, had letters from Elsie to her mother, Ethel Baker, The letters passed to my mother at my grandmother's death. The letters revealed that Elsie was very ill, but tried so very hard to maintain her home and care for her baby. It was obvious that she was frightened and worried about her daughter and the baby she was expecting, Margaret Louise.

Rubie, was told that her mother requested that she be placed with her mother, Ethel Baker Henson, just prior to her death. When asked about who should receive the baby, Margaret Louise, she told the family that she was not worried about her because she would be with her shortly. Margaret Louise is buried next to her mother, she died 02 Feb 1922.

My grandmother had told me that her mother died because from childbirth complications, and that her grandmother had stomach cancer. Her little sister was supposed to have died from complications of injuries she sustained from falling off the porch while sitting in a high chair. They all died with tuberculosis. I don't believe that my grandmother lied to us; I think that as a little girl she was told "fairy tales" rather than subject her to the stigma, segregation, and exclusion of those with tuberculosis.

Sources

• Source Citation

Tennessee State Library and Archives; Nashville, Tennessee; Tennessee Death Records, 1908-1958; Roll Number: 68

Source Information

Ancestry.com. Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1780-2002 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Original data: Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002. Nashville, TN, USA: Tennessee State Library and Archives. Microfilm.

Ancestry.com. Tennessee, Death Records, 1908-1958 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Tennessee Death Records, 1908-1958. Nashville, Tennessee: Tennessee State Library and Archives.

Tennessee City Death Records Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Memphis 1848-1907. Nashville, Tennessee: Tennessee State Library and Archives.