We continue with the research done by Kent Brown with his maternal ancestry. This will be posted in 11 segments, although three sections are so long that I will split them into two posts each.
Hardin
Simpson and Lottie Bell Hall
Their Early Lives
Hardin Simpson was born in Ohio Co., KY, on August 25, 1880. He was the son of Robert Simpson and Nancy Ellen Leach. Hardin
came from an extremely large family. His father had twenty-two children by two
wives, with Hardin being the eighth born to the first wife. Hardin was born
with six fingers on both hands, the extra fingers being underdeveloped.[1]
Hardin appears to have had little formal schooling.[2]
Lottie Bell Hall was born in Ohio Co., KY
on March 21, 1887. She was the daughter of Phillip Foster Hall and Temperance
Carolyn Crowder. Lottie had one older and one younger brother and two younger
sisters, along with eight half-siblings from her Dad’s earlier marriage (four
of which were likely still at home).[3]
Her Dad was a farmer and a hod carrier. He died at age 50 when Lottie was about
five years old. She had only one clear memory of him. There were several men
working at their place, and Tempy was cooking their lunch. As she was bringing
the food out to the tables on a very large platter, she dropped it and broke
all of the dishes. Phillip simply said, "Oh, that's alright Tempy"
and hitched up the wagon to head out to get more dishes (and to tell the men
that lunch would be a bit late). All her life, Lottie remembered the calm and
gentle manner with which her dad responded.
With five children at home and no clear
source of income (with no one to work the farm), the family struggled. As
opportunities for single mothers were essentially nonexistent, her mom’s only
real choice was to quickly remarry. This she did on December 18, 1892, to
Benjamin Franklin Autry. Ben, a KY native, was a widower, ten years Tempy’s
senior, with three children of his own under 15.[4] The
next year, Lottie likely began school but was to receive only about three
months of formal education before Ben took her out and put her to work. In his
mind, there was no reason to waste time educating girls. Lottie went into life
having “learned her letters and numbers” but not knowing how to read.[5] The
couple rented a small farm where Ben worked.
[1] Sometime in his early adult years, Hardin lost both
underdeveloped fingers in a mining accident. The condition was some kind of
genetic aberration. His grandson (me), Kent W. Brown, was born with a sixth
finger on the left hand. It was also underdeveloped and was removed immediately
at birth.
[2]
Some documents Hardin signed with an ‘X’. There is one document where he wrote
his name. The penmanship could best be described as a scrawl. According to the
1940 census, he competed the 2nd grade. There is no evidence that he
had a middle name.
[3]
Phillip had married Cynthia Spinks on November 8, 1860, not long after the
Hall’s arrival in Ohio Co. The groom was 17, the bride was 14.
[4]
The historical trail for Benjamin F. Autry is maddening. Using the 1900, 1910
and 1920 census his date of birth can vary from 1853, 1854, and 1858,
respectively. His earlier family also seems to be missing from the 1880 census.
The headstone thought to be his states that Ben was born in 1861.He declared
his place of birth as KY for the 1900 and 1910 census but IN for the 1920
census. Ben and Tempy would add three more boys and another daughter over the
next fifteen years.
[5]
The oral tradition passed from her daughter, Garnette, said that Lottie only
had three months of schooling. This conflicts somewhat with census data (the
1940 census indicates that she had completed the 7th grade).
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century, Lottie, as she approached her teens, became
afraid for her safety.[6]
One of her stepbrothers (perhaps Holland or John T.) encouraged her to run
away, saying that Ben “had his eye on her”. At age 13, according to her
daughter Garnette, Lottie fled through the woods to a pre-arranged location to
meet up with her aunt, Mary Hall Allen. From there, the pair traveled by buggy
to her home in Cloverport, KY. There she lived for a time with her aunt and her
husband John. John was employed by the railroad. Soon, Lottie got a job on a
riverboat owned by a couple named Howell. The boat worked the Green River
selling dishes (including Queensware).[7]
Lottie worked as the chief cook and bottle washer. She also became their
seamstress.[8]
A couple of years later, Lottie
returned to Ohio Co., where she was employed by William B. Leach as a live-in housekeeper.
Old man Leach, a well-respected, God-fearing, Civil War veteran and community
leader, was blind. Used to reading his Bible daily but was no longer able, he
asked young Lottie to read to him after one of their first meals. Having spent so
little time in formal schooling, Lottie could not read. Concerned for the young
girl and desirous that they should both hear God's word, over time the blind William B. Leach taught Lottie to read.
Little is known of Hardin’s youth. One
childhood event had a lasting impact. As a kid, he and other boys were playing
on a hillside. Some of the other boys accidentally dislodged a “large” boulder
which rolled and struck Hardin. He suffered a broken hip that did not mend
correctly. As a young man, this just caused him to have a slight limp. In his
later years, he had to walk with a cane and wear a built-up shoe.
An 1893 newspaper report gives some
insight into Hardin’s education at age 13. His teacher reported that Hardin was
carrying a 100-grade point average.[9] It
was little over a month later that his mother died.[10]
With perhaps as many as seven children still at home, Robert remarried some
seventeen months later. His new bride (and Hardin’s stepmother) was 24 years
younger than Robert and barely two years older than the first-born Simpson
child. Hardin’s new ‘Mom’ was just 16 years his senior.
Life was still dangerous in the late
nineteenth century, so both Hardin and Lottie experienced the pain and grief of
the loss of a parent and the adjustment to a stepparent.
Marriage
Following her return to Ohio Co., Lottie began to date Warren Simpson, a young man four years her senior. Through Warren she became acquainted with his blue-eyed older brother, Hardin.
[6]
Lottie appears incorrectly in the 1900 Ohio Co, KY census as Lottie Autry;
Census Place: Rosine, Ohio Co., KY, page 8B.
[7] The boat that Lottie worked on is believed to have
been called The Trader (something) or The (something) Trader. Her daughter, Garnette, recalled Lottie
telling stories fishing and cooking on the Green River.
[8]
Oral tradition says that Mary Hall Allen had taught her to sew while she was in
Cloverport.
[9]
Hartford Republican, September 22, 1893, page 4. Ironically, the 1940 census
will report that Hardin only completed 2 years of school, while as noted, he
was 13 at the time of this report. Numerous other Simpsons appear in the report
for the Sugar Grove School, all scoring well. Even today, a Sugar Grove School
exits in the community of Fordsville.
[10]
That same month, Nancy had given birth to twin males. Both died the same day.
Nancy’s death was likely related to that delivery though no oral tradition has
come down to provide confirmation.
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Soon, Hardin, seven years older than
Lottie, won her hand from Warren and they became engaged.[11]
The couple married in Ohio Co. on Thursday,
October 27, 1904, at the home of William Ezell, the husband of Lottie's
half-sister Annie. James Keown conducted the service and Ezell and Hardin's
brother, William, served as witnesses.[12] It
was the first and only marriage for both. Lottie was only 17 and had to obtain
a certificate of permission from her mother, Tempy. Lottie was said to have
only seen her mother once between the time of her flight in 1900 and 1926. Perhaps
the need to obtain that permission occasioned the meeting.
Hardin and Lottie began their family
right away. James Richard was born on July 23, 1905.[13]
Another boy, Everett Ray, was born on June 1, 1907.[14]
Daughter Donnie Ethel came along on September 5, 1909.[15]
The 1910 census indicates that Hardin’s brother, Simon J., and his family lived
next door. Another son, Stanley, was born on April 11, 1913.[16]
In early 1918, with the US’s
involvement in WWI finally in full swing, the 38-year-old Hardin was required
to register for the draft. He was of medium height and medium build with light
blue eyes and black hair. Hardin listed his occupation as ‘coal miner’.[17]
Hardin did not get drafted. Shortly thereafter, Lottie became pregnant with
twins.
1918 was also the year of the Spanish influenza epidemic.[18] In late October, the flu struck the young family hard, especially Everett Ray and Lottie. Lottie became sick with fever to the point of delirium and appeared on the verge of death. In a move of desperation, her Doctor laid her out on the kitchen table and performed surgery to drain her lung.[19] With Lottie in a coma, Everett Ray’s condition worsened, and he succumbed in the very early hours of November 8th. In the early afternoon of the 10th Lottie, still unconscious, gave birth to Melton and Welby.[20] The babies were three months premature and lived just three hours. [21]
[11]
Their engagement was noted in two lines in the October 28, 1904, edition of the
Hartford Republican on page 1 and in the November 9, 1904, edition of the Ohio
County News, page 3. It was never clear what attracted Lottie to Hardin over
the gentle Warren. Hardin was said by his daughter, Garnette, to have had a
blunt, almost brusque, disposition the older he got. Those who recalled his
grandmother, Rosannah Morris Leach, claim that Hardin’s personality was much
like hers. Hardin never smoked or drank. Those were not the cause of his
difficult personality.
[12] Marriage Bond, Hardin Simpson and Lottie Bell Hall,
Ohio Co., KY, October 27, 1904, pages 162-163. Evidence of Hardin's lack of
schooling is the uneven hand he used to sign his license. Additionally, he
spelled his name "Harden" and left out the second "s" in
Simpson, inserting the correction above the line.
[13]
James Richard, born July 23, 1905, Ohio Co., KY, died January 4, 1978,
Jefferson Co., KY, death volume 3, certificate 1005, SSN 403-01-8884. Some
spiteful neighbors hinted at Richard being Lottie's "wood's colt"
inferring that he had been conceived out of wedlock. The interval from the
wedding to the birth was 269 days: a nominal nine months being 270 days. Babies
have a mind of their own while her neighbors seem to have had very small ones.
[14]
Everett Ray, born June 1, 1907, Ohio Co., KY, died November 8, 1918, Ohio Co.,
KY, death volume 73, certificate 36221. Buried in the Leach Cemetery in Ohio
Co.
[15]
Donnie Ethel, born September 5, 1909, Ohio Co., KY, died June 7, 1994,
Jefferson Co., KY, death volume 34, certificate 16736, SSN 406-46-9572. Married
James Taylor Ralph, SSN 709-05-0317.
[16]
Stanley Lee, born April 11, 1913, Ohio Co., KY, birth volume 45, certificate
22066, died 1944.
[17]
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, Hardin Simpson, April 12,
1918.
[18]
Though called the Spanish flu, the first report case was actually in Kansas.
Because of the War, censors in most belligerent nations had blocked news of an
epidemic in their own country. Spain chose not to censor such news. As a
result, the outbreak became known as the Spanish flu.
[19]
Her granddaughter, Dorothy Ann Brown, could still vividly recall her scar in
2021.
[20]
Melton (appears as Milton in some records), born November 10, 1918, birth
volume 109, certificate 54348, died November 10, 1918, Ohio Co., KY, death
volume 73, certificate 36215. He is buried in the Taylor Mines (KY) Cemetery in
Ohio Co.
[21] Welby (appears as Wilby in some records), born November 10, 1918, Ohio Co., KY, birth volume 109, certificate 54349, died November 10, 1918, death volume 73, certificate 36220. He too is buried in the Taylor Mines (KY) Cemetery in Ohio Co.
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Some days later, Lottie recovered only
to learn that during her own sickness she had lost three children, including
two she never saw or held.
Garnette Mae came along on May 22,
1920, while the family was living in a rented home in west Beaver Dam.[22] Richard,
Donnie, and Stanley were all in school. Brother Foster Hall and his young
family lived next door. Lottie’s brother, Park, boarded with Foster and his
family. Like Hardin, Foster was a coal miner. In fact, a very large percentage
of the men in the surrounding homes worked coal, likely at the Taylor Mines.[23]
While there, Donnie accidentally dropped Garnette on her head. The injury
crossed Garnette’s eyes.[24]
Lottie’s final child, Dorothy Nell, was born on March 27, 1925.[25]
Lottie’s stepfather, Ben, had died at
age 60 on December 11, 1922. However, there was no contact between Lottie and her
mother until about 1926. It was then that the long breach was healed. Lottie
was sitting on her porch with young Garnette at her side, breaking beans when
an older woman and a young man came up the front walk. Lottie dropped the beans
and exclaimed, "Oh my God, that's my mother!" The young man was
Tempy's son, Noble (about 14 years old). It was said that Lottie did not even
know of his existence. Garnette would later recall that she and Lottie visited
Tempy together on at least one other occasion.
In 1929, Hardin’s father Robert died.[26]
The Union veteran was 87 years old at his passing. He had suffered his entire
adult life with the aftereffects of having caught the mumps at Shiloh.
By 1930, Stanley, Garnette, and Dorothy
remained at home. Donnie Ethel, now 20, lived next door with her husband, James
Taylor Ralph. James, like Hardin, was a coal miner. Hardin and Lottie rented
their home for $8 per month. That census recorded the penetration of the newest
technology, radio, into private households. A quick scan of their census
records for the community indicates that such wondrous devices were rare in
poor areas in the midst of the Depression. There was perhaps one device for
every 10-15 households. There was none in the Simpson household and none
nearby.
In 1936, in the midst of the
Depression, 73-year-old Tempy died after coming down with pneumonia. She had
been the last living parent or stepparent for either Hardin or Lottie.
By 1940, the three youngest children (Stanley, Garnette and Dorothy) were still at home. The family was still renting ($9 per month). With the Depression in full swing, Hardin had not worked a single week in the preceding year and reported a net income for 1939 of $0. However, by the time of the April census, he’d found employment in the coal industry
[22]
Garnette Mae, born May 22, 1920, Ohio Co., KY, birth volume 54, certificate
26810, died Jul 16, 1992, Jefferson Co., KY, death volume 37, certificate
18179, married Adril Brown, June 1, 1946. The notice of her death in the
Louisville paper lists Rosine, KY as her place of birth. This was an error of
stress (mine).
[23]
Taylor Mines is a small community and the location of the coal company of the
same name. The mines were less than half a mile from the southwestern edge of
Beaver Dam.
[24]
Garnette would undergo eye surgery in Louisville in the 1950s to uncross her
eyes. The surgery was largely successful.
[25]
Dorothy Nell, born March 27, 1925, Ohio Co., KY, birth volume 55, certificate
27388, died August 24, 1996, Audubon Hospital, Jefferson Co., KY, death volume
50, certificate 24637. Her last, and happiest, marriage was to Frank Beebe.
[26]
The official cause of death was given as “acute indigestion”.
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as a laborer. Stanley, having dropped out of school after the 7th
grade, was working for the Beaver Dam Milling Company, a flour mill. Garnette
had graduated from high school and was working at home. Dorothy was still in
high school. Their eldest son, Richard, and his young family lived next door.
Richard was working as a laborer for the railroad. In December 1941, the nation
was plunged into WWII. Almost immediately, a draft registration act was passed.
Amazingly, even older men like the 61-year-old Hardin had to register.
Appearing before the draft board in Harford, KY (Ohio Co.) on April 27, 1942,
Hardin was noted to be 5’5”, 135 lbs., blue eyes, black hair, and a light
complexion. He declared himself self-employed.[27] He
was not drafted.[28] Sometime
after 1942, the family moved from their rented home in Beaver Dam to the
Portland section of Louisville. This placed them near Garnette, who had gone to
Louisville to enter business school, and put Hardin near to various industries
supporting the war effort. They lived at 2802 Portland Ave.[29]
On July 24, 1944, Stanley died of after
a fall from a billboard following contact with a power line. He was working
across the river from Louisville in Jeffersonville, IN as a painter’s helper
for an outdoor advertising firm. The fall fractured his skull.[30]
Lottie never got over the grief of his loss. She spoke lovingly of him until
her death.
In the early 1950s, Lottie and Hardin
separated.[31]
Hardin, unable to work, returned to Ohio Co., taking up residence in the town
of Horse Branch with Artie Crowder.[32]
Lottie would spend most of the rest of her life residing with Garnette at 1125
Garden Row in Louisville, KY.[33]
Periodically, she’d go for an extended visit with Richard or Donnie. At
Garnette’s, she played a vital role in the raising of Dorothy and Kent.[34]
Garnette had always been closer to her Mom than to her Dad. In later years, she
had become estranged from Hardin, believing that he poorly treated his
immediate family, though he was beloved by his other relatives and the
community. Garnette would eventually cut herself off from her Dad and withheld
her children from direct contact with him.[35]
[27]
The 1940 census sheds light on this. Hardin was a laborer on a farm.
[28]
Stanley had registered before the US was drawn into the war, visiting the draft
board in Beaver Dam in October of 1940. It is not clear why Stanley was never
drafted. Oral tradition recounts that he had some kind abscess, perhaps behind
one of his ears. This might account for his status.
[29]
Inspection of the street on Google Maps seems to indicate that the house is no
longer there. The neighborhood is run down with some houses boarded up and
other lots now vacant.
[30]
Stanley is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, 4623 Preston Highway, Louisville.
Stanley may have originally been buried in Memorial Cemetery, as this was the
burial site identified on his death certificate.
[31]
Though separated, they continued to be on good terms, frequently conversing on
the telephone.
[32]
Horse Branch is a small community located 11 miles east of Beaver Dam along US
62. Artie Crowder was born Sarah Artie Jarnigan on February 25, 1867. Her
husband, Miles B. Crowder, had died March 10, 1931. The census lists Hardin,
69, as the ‘partner’ of Artie, 83. The census notes that they are living on a
lot of less than 3 acres, and it is not used in farming. Artie died some 6
years before Hardin at age 93 in the Pattie A. Clay Hospital in Richmond, KY.
She is buried in the Mt Zion Cemetery in Ohio Co.
[33]
In the 1980s, Garnette had to move from Garden Row as the entire subdivision
was taken in an expansion of Louisville’s major airport, Standiford Field. Most
mapping programs cannot find the site The approximate location was 38.18229086743953,
-85.72933554373157
[34]
Garden Row, and the Standiford Place subdivision of which it was a part, was
taken as part of an expansion of Standiford Field (Louisville’s commercial
airport) in the 1990s and no longer exists.
[35]
Garnette did allow limited telephone interaction between her dad and her
children. Dorothy met Hardin at least once (unknown to her Mom at the time).
Kent never did.
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At Hartford in 1956, Hardin’s sister,
Maggie Cummings, held a party to celebrate his 76th birthday at her KY, home. There were approximately ten guests but no one from Garnette’s family.[36]
The trim Lottie of the 1950s and 1960s
could be described as ‘spiffy’. She wore hats and white gloves to church. She
took her faith seriously. She attended Farmdale Baptist Church with Garnette
and the kids.[37] She and
her widowed friends sat in the middle section of pews, about midway from front
to back.[38]
She also was a firm believer in dosing kids with castor oil in the springtime.
That quickly stopped when Garnette found out that Dot and Kent were being
subjected to ‘spring cleaning’.
Lottie was a good cook. Her country
ways stayed with her even though she left the country. Her fudge was to die
for.[39]
Breakfast at the Brown house when Lottie was there has been known to include
fried chicken and homemade biscuits along with the other usual hot items. When
the dishes were done and Adril and Garnette had gone off to work, the small
table model Emerson AM radio would play country and western music throughout
the day with occasional interludes of gospel music.
Decline
Hardin died May 6, 1966.[40] He
had been a patient at the Hazelwood Tuberculosis Hospital in southwest
Louisville, KY.[41] He was
buried in Louisville’s Evergreen Cemetery.[42]
Garnette did not attend the funeral, nor did she allow any of the kids to go.
Lottie suffered at least one stroke in
her 70s. Her recovery was almost total, with some memory impairment. After her
stay at St. Joseph’s Hospital (then at Eastern Parkway and Preston Highway in
Louisville), she had trouble remembering the name of the current president,
frequently called grandson Kent ‘Stanley’ (the name of her deceased son), and
refused to believe in the accomplishments of the historic Mercury and Gemini
space programs. Despite that, her basic disposition never changed.
That disposition was a significant element of my story of the night that she died. In my mind, if Grandmother Simpson said it, it was so. She had been sick for some time and spent much of it on the couch or in bed. Wherever she was, I would go to her and give her a hug and tell her good night. This was an important ritual. For perhaps the only time, she patted the bed and
[36]
Ohio County News, September 7, 1956, page 4.
[37]
It was then located on Preston Highway in the northeast quadrant of land where
the road intersected with the Waterson Expressway. A later expansion of the
Watterson forced the Church to relocate to its present site off of Durrett
Lane.
[38]
I (Kent W. Brown) sat with her and the other older ladies almost every Sunday as
a small child. I can still remember her bony finger tracing out the words to
the songs for me in the Baptist Hymnal even though I could not yet read.
[39]
Garnette did not get the cooking gene. Her idea of ‘cooking’ in the 1950s when
Lottie was away with other family was often a frozen ‘TV dinner’. Thankfully,
Nancy seems to have inherited the ‘fudge gene’ though she was only six when
Lottie died.
[40]
Courier Journal, Louisville, KY, May 7, 1966, page 11.
[41]
With the release of effective drugs in the 1950s, the number of tuberculosis
cases plummeted. In the 1970s, Hazelwood would begin to care for a variety of
patients and eventually become the Hazelwood Center for developmentally
challenged individuals. The Hazelwood Hospital was located in southwest
Louisville, just outside of the I-265 expressway between Taylor Boulevard and
Manslick Road.
[42] Hardin's Death Certificate was number 10842 and is recorded in volume 66.
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had me sit down on the mattress near her. She
began to explain in a very matter-of-fact way that when I got up in the
morning, she would not be there. She explained that she was old and hurting and
that it was time for her to ‘go be with the Lord’. She instructed not to cry or
be sad. Then she pointed a slightly bent finger at me and said, “Just remember, I’ll be better off than you
will”. With this, I received some ‘life instruction’ (do-this;
don’t-do-that, etc.) and was given a quick hug and kiss and sent to bed.
Because Grandma Simpson said it, it was so. I went to bed and went immediately
and peacefully to sleep. The next morning, my Dad woke me up (an unusual
occurrence). He gently told me that I wouldn’t be going to school that day
because my grandmother had died. I simply said, “I know”. He asked how I knew.
He asked if I had been awake when they came and got her body. I explained that
I had not been awake but knew because she told me the preceding night. I
received a headshake and a very quizzical look from my Dad but little else.
Being obedient, I came down to breakfast and did the usual toothbrushing and
hair combing. It being a cool but beautiful day and not having to go to school,
I grabbed my basketball and ran out back to play. In just a minute or two (at
the most) I was stopped by the sound of my Dad rapping his knuckles on the
window in the kitchen. He motioned for me to come in. There, he asked what in
the world I was doing. Naturally, and respectfully, I replied that I was, “Uh,
playing basketball, sir”. I got another look and headshake. He said, “But
your grandmother just died, son”. To which I of course, replied that she
told me not to be sad and that she was better off than me. My Dad thought for a
second and then said, “True, but your Mom and I are really sad, so stay
inside for us”. She had died in her sleep early in the morning of January
24, 1967, in Jefferson Co., KY, at home on Garden Row.[43]
That would have been that except the
scene was partly repeated during visitation at the funeral home. Lottie’s
daughter, Donnie (my aunt), came up to me as I was standing by the open coffin
and said, “Oh Kent, don’t you just wish she could sit up”. In a
matter-of-fact manner (and with little grace as I look back), I replied “No. She was in pain, but she’s better off
now than we are”. Donnie fled the room with loud sobs and cries. Perhaps a
minute later the door at the back of the hall opened, and there was my Dad,
shaking his head and motioning for me to “come here”.
Hardin and Lottie are buried beside one
another in Evergreen Cemetery, Louisville, KY. [44]
The cemetery was located across Preston Highway (and I-65) from the Standiford
Place subdivision where Lottie had lived (with Garnette and her family) since
her separation from Hardin.
Notes and References
1.
Add info on Autry’s first marriage and
those children
2.
Courier
Journal (Louisville, KY), January 25, 1967, page B3:
Mrs. Hardin Simpson, 79, the former
Lottie Hall, died at 4:30 am Tuesday at her home, 1125 Garden Row. She was a
native of Ohio County and was a member of the Farmdale Baptist Church.
Survivors are three daughters, Mrs. Donnie Ralph, Mrs. Garnette Brown and Mrs.
Dorothy O'Brien; a son, James R. Simpson; 13 grandchildren and 19
great-grandchildren. The funeral will be at 2pm Thursday at the O. D. White and
Sons Funeral Home 2727 S. Third. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery.
3.
Hardin's
Social Security Number was 402-14-1661.
4.
Lottie’s
Social Security Number was 407-64-3514.
[43]
Courier Journal, Louisville, KY, January 25, 1967, page B3. The text is given
in the Notes section.
[44] Lottie's Death Certificate was number 01150 and is
recorded in volume 67.
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5.
1900
Ohio Co., KY, Rosine district. Lottie appears as the daughter of Ben and Tempy.
The family appears at a page break. The pages were not filmed in succession.
|
Name |
Birthdate,
Age |
Birth/Dad/Mom |
Other |
|
Benjamin
F. Autry |
b.
Aug 1853, 44 |
KY/KY/KY |
Farmer,
married 10 years, renter |
|
Tempee
C. |
b.
Sept 1863, 37 |
KY/KY/KY |
7
children born, 5 living |
|
Lottie
B. |
b.
Mar 1888, 12 |
KY/KY/KY |
Attended
school, can read and write |
|
George
W. |
b.
Sept 1895, 5 |
KY/KY/KY |
|
|
Mary |
b.
Jul 1899, 1 |
KY/KY/KY |
|
|
Hollen
C. |
b.
Dec 1877, 22 |
KY/KY/KY |
Tymaker,
can read and write |
|
John
T. |
b.
Dec 1877, 22 |
KY/KY/KY |
Tymaker,
can read but not write |
6.
1910
Ohio Co., KY, census, Arnold District, Ohio Co., KY; Page: 5A. Spellings are as
recorded. Lottie’s brother, Foster Hall, lives next door.
|
Name |
Age |
Birth/Dad/Mom |
Other |
|
Hardin |
29 |
KY/KY/KY |
Can
read and write, was a farm laborer, not out of work, they rent |
|
Lottie
B. |
24 |
KY/KY/KY |
Can
read and write, has had 8 children, 3 are still living |
|
James
R. |
4 |
KY/KY/KY |
|
|
Evert |
2 |
KY/KY/KY |
|
|
Donna
L. |
7/12 |
KY/KY/KY |
|
7.
1920
Ohio Co., KY, census, page 52B, West Beaver Dam district. Lottie’s brother,
Foster, lives next door.
|
Name |
Age |
Birth/Dad/Mom |
Other |
|
Hardin |
39 |
KY/KY/KY |
Can read and write, coal miner |
|
Lottie |
32 |
KY/KY/KY |
Can read and write |
|
Richard |
14 |
KY/KY/KY |
Can read and write, in school |
|
Donnie |
10 |
KY/KY/KY |
Can read and write, in school |
|
Stanley |
6 |
KY/KY/KY |
in school |
8. 1930, Ohio Co., KY, Hartford District, state highway #71. Daughter, Donnie Ethel, and her husband, James Ralph, live next door.
|
Name |
Age |
Birth/Dad/Mom |
Other |
|
Hardin |
49 |
KY/KY/KY |
They rent their home for $8/mo. They do not
live on a farm. Can read and write |
|
Lottie |
43 |
KY/KY/KY |
Can read and write |
|
Stanley |
17 |
KY/KY/KY |
Can read and write |
|
Garnette |
9 |
KY/KY/KY |
|
|
Dorothy |
5 |
KY/KY/KY |
|
9. 1940 Ohio Co., KY, Beaver Dam District. Son, Richard, and his family live just next door.
|
Name |
Age |
Born |
Other |
|
Hardin |
59 |
KY |
2 yrs of school, farm laborer, they
rent, worked 0 weeks last year |
|
Lottie |
53 |
KY |
7 yrs of school |
|
Stanley |
26 |
KY |
7 yrs of school, laborer in a flour
mill, worked 26 weeks last year |
|
Garnette Mae |
19 |
KY |
Completed high school |
|
Dorothy |
15 |
KY |
1 yr of high school |
10. 1950
data for Lottie: Jefferson Co., KY, 1125 Garden Row, Louisville. Only
Garnette’s birth month was correct.
|
Name |
Age |
Born |
Other |
|
Adril Brown |
20 |
Nov, KY |
Worked 40 hrs last week, pressman |
|
Garnette |
29 |
May, KY |
|
|
Dorothy A. |
2 |
Mar, KY |
|
|
Lottie Simpson |
63 |
Sep, KY |
|
11.
1950
data for Hardin: Ohio Co., KY, Cromwell district.
|
Name |
Age |
Born |
Other |
|
Artie Crowder (f) |
83 |
KY |
Widowed, head, unable to work,
dwelling was not a farm |
|
Hardin Simson (m) |
69 |
KY |
Separated, partner, unable to work |
