Ava C (Watkins) David (1892 - 1964)

Born 20 Aug 1892 in Indiana, United States

Ancestors

Died 15 Jan 1964 at age 71 in Mississippi, United States

Biography

Ava was born in 1891. She is the daughter of Asa Watkins and Ava Burton.

US Census Year 1900: Recorded in the household of her grandparents Newton and Edith Watkins, along with her parents and sister Edna in Beat 1 Clinton town, Hinds, Mississippi, United States. Aged 9.

Her mother died in 1904 and her father remarried.

US Census Date 1910: Living with her father, stepmother and two half sisters in Pascagoula Ward 2, Jackson, Mississippi, United States. Aged 18 and single.

She married John Allen Collier.

US Census Date 1930: Living with her husband and three children John, Ava and James in Beat 4, Washington, Mississippi, United States. Aged 37.

Her husband passed away in 1945. Ava remarried.

Ava passed away in 1964.

Burial

Stoneville-Leland Cemetery, Stoneville, Washington County, Mississippi, United States^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114453966

Census Records

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M96R-35R : accessed 23 October 2018), Ava C Watkins in household of Newton M Watkins, Beat 1 Clinton town, Hinds, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 54, sheet 2A, family 33, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,809.

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MP82-V1F : accessed 23 October 2018), Ava C Watkins in household of Ara C Watkins, Pascagoula Ward 2, Jackson, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 58, sheet 7B, family 134, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 743; FHL microfilm 1,374,756.

• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNTT-54V : accessed 23 October 2018), Ava Collier in household of John A Collier, Leland, Washington, Mississippi, United States; citing ED 156, sheet 10B, line 53, family 166, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 898; FHL microfilm 1,820,898.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9MG-LB4 : accessed 23 October 2018), Ava Collier in household of John A Collier, Beat 4, Washington, Mississippi, United States

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VB3J-DK6 : 14 March 2018), Ava Watkins Collier in household of John A Collier, Beat 4, Washington, Mississippi, United States