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Ella Grace SPENCER

Female 1885 - 1947  (61 years)


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  • Name Ella Grace SPENCER  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] 
    Birth 27 Dec 1885  Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6] 
    Gender Female 
    Birth 27 Dec 1885  Kickapoo, Leavenworth, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 1900  Precinct 2 Leavenworth city Ward 2, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 1940  Silver Lake, Shawnee, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Reference Number 106 
    Death 5 Jun 1947  Kickapoo, Leavenworth, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • This data comes from a Family Tree on Ancestry. OR Ella G. Williams died in Idaho on March 15, 1963. Not sure which is our Ella Grace.
    Person ID I106  scruggshovis
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2020 

    Father William Frank SPENCER,   b. 10 Mar 1843, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Feb 1928, Kickapoo, Leavenworth, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Laura JENNISON,   b. 30 Mar 1851, Brainerd, Crow Wing County, Crow Wing, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Dec 1923, Kickapoo, Leavenworth, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F105  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Lawrence Barnard SCRUGGS,   b. 8 Sep 1883, Leavenworth, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Nov 1973, Gainesville, Cooke, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 90 years) 
    Marriage 7 Nov 1905  Leavenworth, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 7] 
    Divorce Abt 1916 
    Children 
     1. Ernest Raymond SCRUGGS,   b. 3 Jun 1907, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Jan 1988, Deerwood, Crow Wing, Minnesota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)  [natural]
     2. Vera L SCRUGGS,   b. 1909, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. unknown
     3. Helen May SCRUGGS,   b. Abt 1913, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Apr 1952, Crow Wing, Minnesota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 39 years)  [natural]
    Family ID F48  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2020 

    Family 2 William E. WILLIAMS,   b. 18 Aug 1886, Eckloo, East Flounders, Belgium Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Between 1921 and 1929 
    Family ID F122  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2020 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 27 Dec 1885 - Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 27 Dec 1885 - Kickapoo, Leavenworth, Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 7 Nov 1905 - Leavenworth, Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - owner and part operator of telephone exchange - 1940 - Silver Lake, Shawnee, Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 5 Jun 1947 - Kickapoo, Leavenworth, Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 

  • Notes 
    • CENSUS 1900: on familysearch.org. Ella G. Spencer, 13, b. Dec. 1886 in Kansas, living with parents:WmR.56/Laura49 and siblings:PhebeJ.23, ChasA.18, NannieM.16, GroverC.11 Spencer and 4 lodgers. location: Leavenworth City, Leavenworth, Kansas

      CENSUS (Kansas) 1905: on ancestry.com. Ella Spencer, 17, b in Kansas, living with W.F>62/Laura54, Chas24, Nana21, Graver16 Spencer. location; not mentioned on census form. (KickaSoo Cansas)

      MARRIAGE 1905: on familysearch.org. Ella Grace Spencer, 19, married Lawrence B Scruggs, 22 on NOv.7, 1905 in Leavenworth, Kansas. (Kansas, Marriages)

      CENSUS 1910: on familysearch.org. Ella Scrusgs[sic], 24, b in Kansas, married 5 years, had 2 children/2 still living, living with her husband Lawrence and their 2 children: Ernest2, Vera8months Scrusgs. location: Kickapoo, Leavenworth, Kansas

      CENSUS 1920. on familysearch.org. Ella G Scruggs, 33, b. in Kansas. widowed [ts: actually divorced], living with her parents:William76/LauraJ.58 Spencer, 1 brother:DaveC.Spencer31, and her 3 children:ErnestR.12, VeraL.10, HelenM.7 Scruggs. location: Kickapoo Township, Leavenworth County, Kansas

      CENSUS (Kansas) 1925: on ancestry.com. Ella Scruggs [index says Scunggs], 39, living with her children: Ernest, Vera. Je;em Scriggs

      CENSUS 1930: on familysearch.org. Ella G. Williams, 43, b. in Kansas, age 18 at first marriage, living with husband#2 William E Williams43 and her 2 children: Ernest R.22/Helen M.17 Scruggs. location: Kickapoo Township, Leavenworth County, Kansas.

      CENSUS 1940: on familysearch.org. Ella Williams, 56, b in Kansas, occupation: owner and part operator of telephone exchange, living alone. location: Silver Lake Township, Shawnee County, Kansas. (Note: census claims that she is widowed but William Williams appears to be living in Crow Wing County, Minnesota.)

      OR

      CENSUS 1940: on ancestry.com. Ella Williams, 54, b in Kansas, divorced, education: gr.8, living alone. Location: Kickapoo, Leavenworth, Kansas.

  • Sources 
    1. [S5] U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, Found on Ancestry.com.

    2. [S29] Kansas, Marriages. 1840-1935.
      Found on familysearch.org. Kansas, Marriages, 1840-1935," (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FWLP-59J : accessed 28 May 2012), Lawrence B. Scruggs, 1905.

    3. [S38] 1910 USA Federal Census, Location: Kickapoo, Leavenworth, Kansas; Roll: T624_444; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 0089; FHL microfilm: 1374457. Found on Ancestry.com.
      NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29.

    4. [S39] 1920 USA Federal Census, Location: Kickapoo, Leavenworth, Kansas; Roll: T625_537; Page: 11B; Enumeration District: 94; Image: 600. Found on Ancestry.com.
      NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29.

    5. [S40] 1930 USA Federal Census, Location: Kickapoo, Leavenworth, Kansas; Roll: 707; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 0012; Image: 999.0; FHL microfilm: 2340442. Found on Ancestry.com.
      T626, 2,667 rolls.

    6. [S100] 1940 US Federal Census, Location: Silver Lake Township, Shawnee, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 89-13, sheet 4B, line 71, family 83, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627, roll 1259. Found on familysearch.org.

    7. [S30] Personal Information, Handwritten Note by Clarise Ruth Hovis Scruggs and further notes by Marjorie Hockley Scruggs.


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