Lavada Mae WEST9,2,4,5,3,8,8,9
also known as Lavada M CRISWELL1
30th May 19021,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 - 12th Dec 19971,7,8
Life History
30th May 1902 |
Born in Big Sandy, Upshur, Texas.1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 |
about 1920 |
Married Jesse Quitman CRISWELL.14,4 |
30th Aug 1921 |
Birth of son William Henry CRISWELL in Ethel, Arkansas, Arkansas.5,10,4,11,9,12 |
16th Jun 1975 |
Death of Jesse Quitman CRISWELL in Ethel, Arkansas, Arkansas.13,3,8 |
12th Dec 1997 |
Died in DeWitt, Arkansas, Arkansas.1,7,8 Residence at time of death was Saint Charles, Arkansas, Arkansas |
after 12th Dec 1997 |
Buried in Mt Pleasant Cemetery, Ethel, Arkansas County, Arkansas.8 |
Other facts
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Social Security number 432-72-4048.1 |
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SSN issued in Arkansas.1 |
Notes
- 1920 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 14 February, Prairie Township, District 15, page 9A, Hse/ Fam #176
West, Charley Head M W 46 AR AR AR
West, Margaret Wife F W 39 IN IN IN
West, Lavada Daughter F W 17 TX AR IN Farm Laborer
1930 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 16 April, District 7, Sheet 5A, Prairie Township, Ethel & Point Rd, Hse #88, Fam #89
Criswell, Jesse Q Head M W 34 Married at 24 AR SC AL Farmer
Criswell, Nevad (Lavada) M Wife F W 28 Married at 18 TX AR Indiana
Criswell, W H Son M W 8 AR AR AR
Criswell, Nora M Dau F W 4yrs 1mo AR AR TX
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Cyrus Lester Mcswain Sr, Tissie's son, was married to my grandma's sister Eunice Davis and Kevin [McSwain]'s wife Gina comes through the Criswell line from Lavada Mae West. Lavada Mae was daughter of Charles Winston West. He was Eunice Davis' uncle.
Eunice and my grandma Lela Bridgette Davis were daughters of great grandma Maggie West, who married Alex Davis first and had several girls. When Alex died she married Henry Oliver Marcum. H O had two kids by his marriage to a Rosie? (I can't find what her last name was.) She died then H O married Maggie West then H O's boy Roy Marcum married Lela Davis, Maggie West Davis' daughter.
So I wound up with two great grandparent sets that way on them. Roy and Lela's daughter Maggie Marcum (mom) married my dad Floyd Utley.
-- Ancestry Messaging from Mike Utley to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 19 January 2020
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Lavada's gravestone, which we photographed in July 2003, had no death date. The death date was available when Lavada's memorial on Fidn a Grave was posted in 2013.
Lavada May West Criswell
Birth May 30, 1902 Big Sandy, Upshur County, Texas
Death Dec 12, 1997 De Witt, Arkansas County, Arkansas
Parents:
Charlie Winston West (1873 - 1945)
Maggie Ann Nikirk West (1880 - 1973)
Spouse Jessie Quitman Criswell (1895 - 1975)
Siblings:
Jessie Simpson West (1899 - 1973)
Homer West (1905 - 1924)
Gentry West (1909 - 2005)
Opal West (1911 - 2001)
J. C. West (1913 - 1996)
Emma Harriet West Knowlton (1915 - 2009)
Clarence A West (1918 - 1994)
Burial Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Arkansas County, Arkansas
Created by Susan Criswell Ecker Aug 07, 2013
-- Find A Grave Memorial #115058587, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=115058587
Sources
- 1. Social Security Death Index
- 2. 1920 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
- 14 February, Prairie Township, District 15, page 9A, Hse/ Fam #176
- 3. Gravestone of Jessie Q Criswell, Mt Pleasant Cemetery, Ethel, Arkansas
- 4. 1930 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
- 16 April, District 7, Sheet 5A, Prairie Township, Ethel & Point Rd, Hse #88, Fam #89
- 5. 1940 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
- 18 April, Prairie Township, District 1-18, page 9B, Oak Flat Rd, Hse #146 Rents $500
- 6. Ancestors of Benjamin West
- Location: No longer online;
- Adams Family Tree, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/4599023/person/-1577962221
- 7. Ancestry Trees
- Adams Family Tree, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/4599023/person/-1577962221
- 8. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
- 9. Ancestry Trees
- 10. U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
- 11. Kevin McSwain, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, January 2007
- 12. Gravestones of Mt Pleasant Cemetery
- 13. Social Security Death Index
- 14. U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
- Jesse Quitman Criswell, signs name as Jessie
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