Friday, July 22, 2016

More About Ethel 3

In a follow up post http://www.voy.com/225534/4/9314.html Jesse writes:
"If this is our Ethel, then she was born August 21, 1892 and died October 5, 1963. * almost gotta be, but I find it odd that if she remarried, she'd keep her divorced first husband's last name?"
with a link to California Deaths record
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VPCZ-1Z2
Mother's maiden name is given as Dunne, which fits what we already know.

In a further follow-up http://www.voy.com/225534/4/9315.html Jesse then writes:
"Maybe that was a false alarm. Still, what are the odds?" and includes links:
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K8JF-2K5
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-29948-35419-53?cc=1804002
This shows Ethel marrying George L. Cooke-White in Los Angeles on 9 September 1934. This is definitely our Ethel - middle names and parents names match. But she is being somewhat creative about her age. She says she is 34 but would actually have been 42. Her address is 321 South Reeves Drive, Beverly Hills. She gives her father's birthplace as Scotland, not Mauritius, but as previously mentioned, her father and his father were military men and many of the McCanns were born overseas, so some confusion is understandable.
George's age is given as 37. His occupation is given as insurance underwriter. His address is 1732 North Whitley Avenue, Los Angeles and his birthplace New York. His parents were Edgar Mills White and Marietta Cooke.
Officiant was J.K. Stewart, Pastor of Beverly Vista Community Church. (Although raised a catholic, as a divorcee, Ethel could not marry in a catholic church.)

 https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K97C-SZY
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-27791-14008-46?cc=2000219
And this is Ethel and George at Tract 383 Beverly Hills in the 1940 census. Ethel's age is correctly given as 47. George now describes himself as an actor in motion pictures. He is listed as George L.C. White.

After some further research, I have found George and Ethel buried in Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego California.
https://billiongraves.com/grave/Ethel-Caroline-White/18586140#
This has photos of both headstones. George's dates are given as February 28, 1899 to April 17, 1962. The inscription includes "PVT RCT DET 79 FIELD ARTY WORLD WAR 1". (I'm guessing the abbreviations mean Private, Regimental Combat Team Detachment, 79 Field Artillery but stand to be corrected) Fort Rosecrans is a military cemetery so no doubt his WWI service qualifies him and his spouse for interment here.

Can we find anything more about George?
Here is his birth record (indexed as George Curtis Cooke White but all other details match)
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WWH-BQH
He had an older sister Margaret Mary White, born 1898 in Manhattan.
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2W8J-3C3
In 1900, 1905 and 1910 he was with his parents (see details below for Edgar). So far, I have not found him in the 1920 Census.
This looks like him in the 1930 census, lodging at The Crest Hotel, 4969 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles (now long gone as far as I can tell from Google Streetview), describing himself as a salesman
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCJ1-3B9
Here he is in the deaths register
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VP4W-6HM
Father was Edgar Mills White, born Charlestone, Suffolk, Massachusetts, 27 October 1858. He had a twin brother Waldo.
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHTL-N4F
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FXCR-H5F
 https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11846-35248-92?cc=1536925
Died on 26 January 1912 and was buried in Swan Point Cemetery, Rhode Island
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVPM-P75Q
The family was in Manhattan in 1900
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSKR-V87
and 1905
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SPN4-G33
and 1910
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M5HZ-2B1




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