Viola was the daughter of George Rice and Lucinda Langford. She lived with her mother in Huntsville, Madison, Alabama. [1] They moved to Tunica, Mississippi before 1910. [2] She married George Grant.
In 1955, she lived in Jacksonville, Duval, Florida. She provided the information on her brother Joe's death Certificate.
Was Viola Rice related to Joe and Deloris Rice who lived near/nest door to George and Julia Grant in Tallahatchie, MS in the 1920 census?
If so, is Viola Willie's mother or is Julia Willie's mother; did Viola just raise Willie (and Exell)?
1930 Census shows her married at age 18; divorced by the time of the 1930 census. She was living in Memphis in 1930.
Both she and her parents were born in Mississippi
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