Ida M Upshaw (1896 - 1961)

Born Feb 1896 in Alabama, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Eugene Davis — married 29 Mar 1933 in Lee, Alabama, United States

Wife of Willie Gunn — married 19 Jan 1946 in Etowah, Alabama, United States

Died 11 Apr 1961 at age 65 in Opelika, Lee, Alabama, United States

Biography

Ida Upshaw is a part of US Black heritage.

Ida M Upshaw was born in 1896. She was the daughter of Amos Upshaw and Sina Maddox.

She was married to Eugene Davis, then to Willie Gunn in 1946.^[1]

She died in 1961.^[2] Her obituary states that she is survived by a daughter, Mary Joe Graham of Saginaw, MI, and a son, Roy Lee Jones of Tuskegee.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q21D-13WJ : 19 February 2021), Willie Gunn and Ida Mae Upshaw, 19 Jan 1946; citing Election Precinct 29 Alabama City, Etowah, Alabama, United States, County Probate Courts, Alabama; FHL microfilm 1,892,321.
2. ↑ "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JK3L-7R9 : 20 May 2020), Ida Mae Gunn, 1961.
3. ↑ https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75301068/ida-mae-upshaw-obit/

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9D7-FVG : accessed 18 July 2020), Ida M Upshaw in household of Amons Upshaw, Precinct 8 Salem, Lee, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 41, sheet 8A, family 130, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,025.
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MK7C-2F9 : accessed 21 March 2021), Ida Upshaw in household of Amas Upshaw, Salem, Lee, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 172, sheet 6A, family 97, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 22; FHL microfilm 1,374,035.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V1P9-6JT : 5 January 2021), Ida Mae Davis in household of Sinie Upshaw, Opelika, Lee, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 41-3, sheet 17B, line 75, family 369, 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 52.