Life History

Notes

• 1920 Federal Census, LeFlore County, Oklahoma, 2 January, Shady Point, District 116, page 3B, Country Roads, Hse #14, Fam #16
  Terry, Lewis A Head Owns M W 39 Married GA GA GA City Marshall [b abt 1880]
  Terry, Sarah Wife F W 27 Married AL GA GA [b abt 1892]
  Terry, Jessie Dau F W 11 Single OK GA AL [b abt Sept 1908]
  Terry, Louise Dau F W 1yr4mos Single OK GA AL [b abt Aug 1918]
  
  1940 Federal Census, LeFlore County, Oklahoma, 2 April, Spiro, District 10-33, page 1A, Euclid Avenue, Hse #4, rent $6
  Terry, Louis A Head M W 60 Married Grade 4 b Arkansas Same Place in 1935 City Power Plant Mechanic, Engineer [b abt 1880]
  Terry, Sarah E Wife F W 48 Married Grade 7 b Arkansas Same Place in 1935 [b abt 1892]
  Terry, Louise A Dau F W 21 Single Grade 7 b Arkansas Same Place in 1935 Maid [b abt June 1919]
  Terry, Louis A Jr Son M W 17 Single Grade H2 b Oklahoma Same Place in 1935 [b abt 1926]
  Terry, Wanda M Head F W 15 Single Grade 7 b Oklahoma Same Place in 1935 [b abt 1925]
  
  U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
  Ader Louise Conrad [Ada Louise Garrison] [Ada Garrison] [Ader Louise Terry]
  Birth 26 Aug 1918 Bates (Scott County), Arkansas [Gipson, Scott, Arkansas (?)]
  Death Date 24 Nov 2006
  Father Louis A Terry
  Mother Sarah E McCuller
  SSN 447207240
  Signature on SSN Card Louise Conrad
  Apr 1943 Name listed as ADER LOUISE CONRAD; Name listed as ADA LOUISE GARRISON; 01 Dec 2006 Name listed as ADA L GARRISON
  
  U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
  Ada L Garrison
  Born 26 Aug 1918
  Died 24 Nov 2006
  Last Residence Delaware, Logan, Arkansas 72835
  SSN issued Oklahoma (Before 1951)
  
  Three publication dates are reported for obituaries for Ada.
  
  Obituary Daily Times Index, 1995-2012
  Ada Louise Garrison
  Age at Death 88 (born Abt 1918)
  Death abt 2006 Delaware, Arkansas
  Publication Date 27 Nov 2006 (Newspaper or city not mentioned)
  
  U.S., Obituary Collection, 1930-2018
  Ada Louise Garrison
  Death Age 88
  Birth Date 28 Aug 1918
  Death Date 24 Nov 2006
  Obituary Date 28 Nov 2006
  Published in The Courier, Russellville, Arkansas
  
  Obituary Daily Times Index, 1995-2012
  Ada Louise (Terry) Garrison
  Age at Death 88 (born Abt 1918)
  Death abt 2006 Dardanelle, Arkansas
  Publication Date 29 Nov 2006 (Newspaper or city not mentioned)
  
  The obituary was also published by The Courier on the 27th.  The full text of this one was included in her Find a Grave memorial.
  
  Ada's obituary, and thus the memorial that includes it, reported that she was born in Batesville, Arkansas, which is in the northeast of the state.  This location, however, does not match the configuration of family residence.  Her grandparents and great grandparents were already living in Western Arkansas near the Indian Territory border when her father was born in Scott County, Arkansas.
  
  Her grandfather lived over in Oklahoma part of the time and did business there.  (See profile for Duncan Lafayette Terry.)  Her grandmother Wysetta Terry, after moving with her family to Arkansas, moved into Indian Territory, and died on that side of the border.
  
  Ada's older sister was born across the border in Oklahoma.  In the 1920 census (see above), both Ada and her sister Jessie were reported born in Oklahoma.  Ada's Social Security records report her birth place not as Batesville, but Bates, a location in Scott County, Arkansas, the county where her father was born, near the Oklahoma border.
  
  It does not make sense that after three generations, her parents would move eastward to northeastern Arkansas for a short period when she would be born, then move back to the very same area where her parents and the previous two generations had lived, and their descendants continue to live in that region, or farther west.
  
  Concerning her place of death, there is a discrepancy there also.  Her obituary from the Russelville Courier does report she died in a hospital in Russelville.  The Obituary referenced in the Obituary Daily Times listing (city or paper of publication not given) reports her place of death as Delaware, Arkansas, which is in Logan County, northwest of Dardanelle.  It appears that Delaware was her residence, as indeed her Social Security records tell us, but death occurred in a Dardanelle hospital, as the Dardanelle paper reports.  In fact, the obituary also reports she lived in Delaware.
  
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  Ada Louise Terry Garrison
  BIRTH 28 Aug 1918 Batesville, Independence County, Arkansas, USA
  DEATH 24 Nov 2006 (aged 88) Dardanelle, Yell County, Arkansas, USA
  BURIAL Graves Cemetery, Delaware, Logan County, Arkansas
  obit from online at Russellville Courier, Monday, November 27, 2006
  
  DARDANELLE -- Ada Louise Garrison, 88, of Delaware died Friday, Nov. 24, 2006, at Dardanelle Hospital.
  
  She was born Aug. 28, 1918, in Batesville to the late Lewis and Sara E. McCullar Terry. She was a homemaker and mother and a member of the New Blaine Church of Christ. She was preceded in death by her husband, Floyd Garrison; and a son, Leonard Conrad.
  
  Survivors include a son and daughters-in-law, Floyd and Marilyn Garrison of Delaware and Naomi Conrad of St. Louis, Mo.; four grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren.
  
  Services will be 10 a.m. Monday at Cornwell Chapel, Dardanelle, with Rev. Wiley Jones officiating. Interment will be in Graves Cemetery by Cornwell Funeral Home, Dardanelle.
  
  Pallbearers will be Ben Garrison, Jiggs Garrison, Junior Garrison, Keith Cravens, Bill Jack Parker and Jimmy Reasnor.
  
  Visitation will be 4-5 p.m. today at the funeral home.
  
  Created by Rosa Cline 5 Jun 2008
  --  Find A Grave Memorial 27347545, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27347545
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Sources

• 1. 1920 Federal Census, LeFlore County, Oklahoma
  • 2 January, Panama, District 116, page 3B, Country Roads, Hse #14, Fam #16
• 2. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
• 3. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
• 4. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 5. U.S., Obituary Collection, 1930-2018
• 6. 1940 Federal Census, LeFlore County, Oklahoma
  • 22 April, Spiro, District 10-33, page 1A, Euclid Avenue, Hse #4, rent $6
• 7. Obituary Daily Times Index, 1995-Current