Bertha Marie TATUM6,1,5,3,2,7,4,8
18th Feb 19241,3,4 - 21st Mar 19991,5,4
Life History
18th Feb 1924 |
Born in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma.1,3,4 |
21st Oct 1946 |
Married Johnnie Othell BROWN in Crawford County, Arkansas.7 |
21st Mar 1999 |
Died in Denison, Grayson, Texas.1,5,4 |
after 21st Mar 1999 |
Buried in Fairview Cemetery, Denison, Grayson, Texas.1,2 |
Notes
- "Samuel and Mary also had another daughter named Bertie Marie Tatum (brown). She is buried in Fairview Cemetery in Denison Texas. She was my grandmother."
-- Crystal Brown, Message to Orville Boyd Jenkins, through OurFamily Genealogy messaging
I did not find her listed in the graves list of Fairview Cemtery in Denison, Grayson County, Texas. Neither Bertie Marie nor her husband Johnnie are listed in the official list of the genealogy society or in another list.
The Fairview Cemetery is also called Maple Grove. Fairview Cemetery
aka- Maple Grove Cemetery Denison, Texas
-- http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txgrayso/ceme-fairview1.html
1930 Federal Census, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, [no date], Allen Township, District 9, page 2B, Hse #36, Fam #39
Tatum, Sam R Head Rents M W 50 Married at 19 GA AL GA Farmer
Tatum, May [sic] A Wife F W 47 First married at 17 AR MS AR
Tatum, Birdie M Dau F W 6 Single AR GA AR
In the 1940 census, the enumerator gives Marie the middle initial of A, maybe by analogy to her mother's entry as Mary A.
1940 Federal Census, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, 12 April, Allen Township, District 2-11, page 4B, Hse #68, Rents, $0
Tatum, S R Head M W 61 Grade 5 b Georgia, same place in 1935 Farmer
Tatum, Mary A Wife F W 58 Grade 5 b Arkansas, same place in 1935
Tatum, Marie A Dau F W 16 Single Grade 8 b Oklahoma, same place in 1935
Going by the name Marie, Bertie and her fiance Johnnie O Brown went over the border east into Arkansas to get married in 1946.
Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957
Marie Tatum
Age: 22, Birth Year: abt 1924
Residence: Allen, Pontotoc, Oklahoma
Spouse's Name: Johnnie O Brown
Spouse's Age: 21, Spouse's Residence: Allen, Pontotoc, Oklahoma
Marriage 21 Oct 1946 Crawford County
Marriage License Date: 21 Oct 1946
"Everyone knew my grandmother as Marie but her name was Bertie but she didn't want anyone to know this."
-- Crystal Brown, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 16 April 2012
Social Security Death Index
Bertie M. Brown
Born 18 Feb 1924
Died 21 Mar 1999
SSN 444-26-4836 issued Oklahoma (Before 1951)
The Texas Death Index record confirms, as we would expect, that Bertie's actual name is Bertha.
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Bertha Marie Brown
Death 21 Mar 1999 Grayson County
Gravestone of Johnnie O and Bertie Marie (Tatum) Brown, Fairview (Maple Grove) Cemetery, Denison, Grayson, Texas
Brown
Bertie Marie Feb 18, 1924 Mar 21, 1999
[Married] Oct 21, 1946
Johnnie O Oct 15, 1925 Mar 23, 2010
Sources
- 1. Gravestone of Johnnie O and Bertie Marie (Tatum) Brown, Fairview (Maple Grove) Cemetery, Denison, Grayson, Texas
- 2. OurFamily Genealogy
- 3. 1940 Federal Census, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma
- 12 April, Allen Township, District 2-11, page 4B, Hse #68, Rents, $0
- 4. Social Security Death Index
- 5. Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
- 6. 1930 Federal Census, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma
- [no date], Allen Township, District 9, page 2B, Hse #36, Fam #39
- 7. Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957
- 8. Email Sources
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