Birth: in Memphis, Tennessee where father died in the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1878 with 5,000 others (some 20,000 in the Mississippi river valley), he was buried the 22 September 1878, when Elmwood cemetery was handling about 200 burials a day during the peak of that crisis of 1878, no ministers, no flowers, no mourners, but now, each September, they honor those victims of "yellow jack" so buried therein, such as John BEATTIE, without marker, found 30 June 2011 in Elmwood cemetery, Memphis, Chapel Hill Public Lot 2, space #256 as was family poet, Grace's aunt Fanny Green (Borland) MOORES who is likewise buried in 1879 without marker, plot #552, who died in Grace's mother's Memphis home. A Crepe Myrtle tree, with name-tag was planted December 2011, in Fanny's memory.
Grace M, missing from 1880 census in Tennessee, became a true old maid school teacher. She's found as an assistant matron in 1888 at Arkansas Deaf Mute Institute, after 1923, Arkansas School for Deaf, "Grace M" where her mother spent six years as matron.
Grace M is listed as teacher in 1890, but was first found for us in City Directory 1893-94 in 2003 by Brian ROBERTSON of Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Little Rock and mentioned in Harriette Elizabeth WILLIAMS published, 1958, in Washington County Historcal Society's FLASHBACK of her neighbors, the Colonel Oliver Crosby GRAY family living northeast across the street intersection from her home, to wit: "...it was our greatest joy to know during those years, it was Mary Beattie [Mary Borland (Beattie) Bell (1875TN-1962MS)], Mrs Gray's [youngest] daughter. She had an indescribable charm of manner. She had a disarming smile, such a sweet, courteous way of putting you first, and such a wise head on so young a person -- an altogether winning personality. We enjoyed too, meeting a gentle sister, Grace [(1873TN-1954MS), Colorado Springs, 1902/48], a talented young teacher [career teacher in Deaf schools (1888-1944), never married] who visited them on rare occasions. Mary called her "Dacie" [Both sisters often spent part of summers during 1920/30's with step-brother Carl at his Gray Rocks summer home in Maine]."
1900 census lists her at age 26, in Flint, Michigan at Michigan School for the Deaf, October 1901 she graduated Clarke School for the Deaf, in Massachusetts, (search: "Grace M Beattie") going to Colorado School for the Blind & Deaf where actor Lon CHANEY's (1883CO-1930CA) parents worked and he grew up here but went on the road in 1902.
Grace attended her sister Mary BORLAND when she married their friend Tom CLARKE 1914 in state of Washington.
Census: 1930, age 51 Colorado Springs, El Paso county, Colorado in Emma ARNOLD's home at 504 north Nevada aveenue.
I met Grace in 1936 when my brother and I spent summer with our maternal grandmother, widow, Mrs Maude (Wallick) FLORA (1870IN-1940CO) (husband's sister was wife of Carl Raymond GRAY (1867AR-1939DC)), in Colorado Springs, a friend with whom Grace often had sunday dinner.
Grace M was first found in Colorado Springs', 1902 City Directory, during search for us by Pikes Peak Public Library, with Grace teaching at Colorado School for the Blind & Deaf, (started in Colorado Territory in 1874, same location since 1876) where she remained until 1944, not listed employed in 1945, remaining in Colorado Springs last recorded in 1948, no City Directories again until 1951, when she is missing. We assume she removed to her sister's in Belzoni, Humphreys county, Mississippi where Grace and sister's second husband, Mississippian born Dr John C BELL, died 1954, Mary in 1962, all buried in Belzoni, Humphreys county, Mississippi cemetery.
My cousin, Harriette Flora (Hopkins) ANGLEA, born 1921 in St Louis, Missouri while her father was a medical student, then of Pueblo, Colorado, now California (whom I last saw in 1936, now celebrating their sixty-seventh wedding anniversary 30 June 2010, water-skiing until 2009 at summer home they've had forty years after ten years renting, on south shore Lake Tahoe), told me, mid-2003, she remembered 'Aunt Grace' attending Sunday dinners in Colorado Springs at our grandmother's, Maude (Wallick) FLORA, ie: Grace's step-sister-in-law (widow of step-brother Carl Raymond GRAY's wife Harriette FLORA (1869KS-1956ME) (reportedly first white child born in Montgomery county, Kansas) younger brother, Dr. William Walter FLORA (1871KS-1922CO)).
Dr Robert KNUTSON's wife, Eleanor Howard (Gray) KNUTSON (1923ME-1994MN) second granddaughter of Carl Raymond GRAY, submitted the 1863-1865 diary of her great grandmother, Virginia Davis GRAY, for publication after meeting Dr Carl H MONEYHON of the University of Arkansas, Little Rock during a Minneapolis Civil War Round Table, who published it in Arkansas Historical Quarterly, spring & summer of 1983, in which the Borland girls are often mentioned.
Bob recalls Grace M and Mary Borland visiting their step-brother Carl and wife Harriette Flora at "Gray Rocks" (first known in 1919 as "Friendship Cottage") on Pleasant Point, Cushing, Knox county, Maine during summer vacations. (see Grace (left) & Mary's ca 1930 picture, on Harbor Island in Maine's Moscongus Bay (once home for Carl's mother's favorite uncle, Capt Richard DAVIS.
Census: 1940, age 67 Colorado Springs, El Paso county, Colorado at Acacia hotel, noted education but four years high school.
Grace never married, served in deaf schools at least fifty-six years (1888-1944), in Arkansas, Michigan and Colorado, buried 1954 with sister's family in Belzoni, Humphreys coiunty, Mississippi.
Grace, her sister Mary and mother Mary Melbourne dedicated nearly one-hundred years of service to deaf schools in Arkansas, Michigan, Colorado, Oregon & Mississippi.
Following by Carmen Thompson when asked early February 2013 about the area, to wit:
"It is beautiful and peaceful there. I'm not real familiar with Belzoni but although there is a housing community across the road you have the feel of being on the outskirts of town.
"As far as maintenance, I noticed some graves are sinking and others have broken off their bases, but it's clean and in use. Many new flowers are at many graves. Looks like a storm has recently brought a lot of dirt to slide on some headstones and some branches are down.".
Death: believed (?) to have occurred in Belzoni, Humphreys county, Mississippi.
Father: John M Beattie b: in Scotland.
Mother: Mary Melbourne Borland b: SEP 1850 Hot Springs, Hot Springs, now Garland county, Arkansas.
No record of ever being married.
Last revised 09-10-2013
Grace M, missing from 1880 census in Tennessee, became a true old maid school teacher. She's found as an assistant matron in 1888 at Arkansas Deaf Mute Institute, after 1923, Arkansas School for Deaf, "Grace M" where her mother spent six years as matron.
Grace M is listed as teacher in 1890, but was first found for us in City Directory 1893-94 in 2003 by Brian ROBERTSON of Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Little Rock and mentioned in Harriette Elizabeth WILLIAMS published, 1958, in Washington County Historcal Society's FLASHBACK of her neighbors, the Colonel Oliver Crosby GRAY family living northeast across the street intersection from her home, to wit: "...it was our greatest joy to know during those years, it was Mary Beattie [Mary Borland (Beattie) Bell (1875TN-1962MS)], Mrs Gray's [youngest] daughter. She had an indescribable charm of manner. She had a disarming smile, such a sweet, courteous way of putting you first, and such a wise head on so young a person -- an altogether winning personality. We enjoyed too, meeting a gentle sister, Grace [(1873TN-1954MS), Colorado Springs, 1902/48], a talented young teacher [career teacher in Deaf schools (1888-1944), never married] who visited them on rare occasions. Mary called her "Dacie" [Both sisters often spent part of summers during 1920/30's with step-brother Carl at his Gray Rocks summer home in Maine]."
1900 census lists her at age 26, in Flint, Michigan at Michigan School for the Deaf, October 1901 she graduated Clarke School for the Deaf, in Massachusetts, (search: "Grace M Beattie") going to Colorado School for the Blind & Deaf where actor Lon CHANEY's (1883CO-1930CA) parents worked and he grew up here but went on the road in 1902.
Grace attended her sister Mary BORLAND when she married their friend Tom CLARKE 1914 in state of Washington.
Census: 1930, age 51 Colorado Springs, El Paso county, Colorado in Emma ARNOLD's home at 504 north Nevada aveenue.
I met Grace in 1936 when my brother and I spent summer with our maternal grandmother, widow, Mrs Maude (Wallick) FLORA (1870IN-1940CO) (husband's sister was wife of Carl Raymond GRAY (1867AR-1939DC)), in Colorado Springs, a friend with whom Grace often had sunday dinner.
Grace M was first found in Colorado Springs', 1902 City Directory, during search for us by Pikes Peak Public Library, with Grace teaching at Colorado School for the Blind & Deaf, (started in Colorado Territory in 1874, same location since 1876) where she remained until 1944, not listed employed in 1945, remaining in Colorado Springs last recorded in 1948, no City Directories again until 1951, when she is missing. We assume she removed to her sister's in Belzoni, Humphreys county, Mississippi where Grace and sister's second husband, Mississippian born Dr John C BELL, died 1954, Mary in 1962, all buried in Belzoni, Humphreys county, Mississippi cemetery.
My cousin, Harriette Flora (Hopkins) ANGLEA, born 1921 in St Louis, Missouri while her father was a medical student, then of Pueblo, Colorado, now California (whom I last saw in 1936, now celebrating their sixty-seventh wedding anniversary 30 June 2010, water-skiing until 2009 at summer home they've had forty years after ten years renting, on south shore Lake Tahoe), told me, mid-2003, she remembered 'Aunt Grace' attending Sunday dinners in Colorado Springs at our grandmother's, Maude (Wallick) FLORA, ie: Grace's step-sister-in-law (widow of step-brother Carl Raymond GRAY's wife Harriette FLORA (1869KS-1956ME) (reportedly first white child born in Montgomery county, Kansas) younger brother, Dr. William Walter FLORA (1871KS-1922CO)).
Dr Robert KNUTSON's wife, Eleanor Howard (Gray) KNUTSON (1923ME-1994MN) second granddaughter of Carl Raymond GRAY, submitted the 1863-1865 diary of her great grandmother, Virginia Davis GRAY, for publication after meeting Dr Carl H MONEYHON of the University of Arkansas, Little Rock during a Minneapolis Civil War Round Table, who published it in Arkansas Historical Quarterly, spring & summer of 1983, in which the Borland girls are often mentioned.
Bob recalls Grace M and Mary Borland visiting their step-brother Carl and wife Harriette Flora at "Gray Rocks" (first known in 1919 as "Friendship Cottage") on Pleasant Point, Cushing, Knox county, Maine during summer vacations. (see Grace (left) & Mary's ca 1930 picture, on Harbor Island in Maine's Moscongus Bay (once home for Carl's mother's favorite uncle, Capt Richard DAVIS.
Census: 1940, age 67 Colorado Springs, El Paso county, Colorado at Acacia hotel, noted education but four years high school.
Grace never married, served in deaf schools at least fifty-six years (1888-1944), in Arkansas, Michigan and Colorado, buried 1954 with sister's family in Belzoni, Humphreys coiunty, Mississippi.
Grace, her sister Mary and mother Mary Melbourne dedicated nearly one-hundred years of service to deaf schools in Arkansas, Michigan, Colorado, Oregon & Mississippi.
Following by Carmen Thompson when asked early February 2013 about the area, to wit:
"It is beautiful and peaceful there. I'm not real familiar with Belzoni but although there is a housing community across the road you have the feel of being on the outskirts of town.
"As far as maintenance, I noticed some graves are sinking and others have broken off their bases, but it's clean and in use. Many new flowers are at many graves. Looks like a storm has recently brought a lot of dirt to slide on some headstones and some branches are down.".
Death: believed (?) to have occurred in Belzoni, Humphreys county, Mississippi.
Father: John M Beattie b: in Scotland.
Mother: Mary Melbourne Borland b: SEP 1850 Hot Springs, Hot Springs, now Garland county, Arkansas.
No record of ever being married.
Last revised 09-10-2013
Birth: in Memphis, Tennessee where father died in the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1878 with 5,000 others (some 20,000 in the Mississippi river valley), he was buried the 22 September 1878, when Elmwood cemetery was handling about 200 burials a day during the peak of that crisis of 1878, no ministers, no flowers, no mourners, but now, each September, they honor those victims of "yellow jack" so buried therein, such as John BEATTIE, without marker, found 30 June 2011 in Elmwood cemetery, Memphis, Chapel Hill Public Lot 2, space #256 as was family poet, Grace's aunt Fanny Green (Borland) MOORES who is likewise buried in 1879 without marker, plot #552, who died in Grace's mother's Memphis home. A Crepe Myrtle tree, with name-tag was planted December 2011, in Fanny's memory.
Grace M, missing from 1880 census in Tennessee, became a true old maid school teacher. She's found as an assistant matron in 1888 at Arkansas Deaf Mute Institute, after 1923, Arkansas School for Deaf, "Grace M" where her mother spent six years as matron.
Grace M is listed as teacher in 1890, but was first found for us in City Directory 1893-94 in 2003 by Brian ROBERTSON of Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Little Rock and mentioned in Harriette Elizabeth WILLIAMS published, 1958, in Washington County Historcal Society's FLASHBACK of her neighbors, the Colonel Oliver Crosby GRAY family living northeast across the street intersection from her home, to wit: "...it was our greatest joy to know during those years, it was Mary Beattie [Mary Borland (Beattie) Bell (1875TN-1962MS)], Mrs Gray's [youngest] daughter. She had an indescribable charm of manner. She had a disarming smile, such a sweet, courteous way of putting you first, and such a wise head on so young a person -- an altogether winning personality. We enjoyed too, meeting a gentle sister, Grace [(1873TN-1954MS), Colorado Springs, 1902/48], a talented young teacher [career teacher in Deaf schools (1888-1944), never married] who visited them on rare occasions. Mary called her "Dacie" [Both sisters often spent part of summers during 1920/30's with step-brother Carl at his Gray Rocks summer home in Maine]."
1900 census lists her at age 26, in Flint, Michigan at Michigan School for the Deaf, October 1901 she graduated Clarke School for the Deaf, in Massachusetts, (search: "Grace M Beattie") going to Colorado School for the Blind & Deaf where actor Lon CHANEY's (1883CO-1930CA) parents worked and he grew up here but went on the road in 1902.
Grace attended her sister Mary BORLAND when she married their friend Tom CLARKE 1914 in state of Washington.
Census: 1930, age 51 Colorado Springs, El Paso county, Colorado in Emma ARNOLD's home at 504 north Nevada aveenue.
I met Grace in 1936 when my brother and I spent summer with our maternal grandmother, widow, Mrs Maude (Wallick) FLORA (1870IN-1940CO) (husband's sister was wife of Carl Raymond GRAY (1867AR-1939DC)), in Colorado Springs, a friend with whom Grace often had sunday dinner.
Grace M was first found in Colorado Springs', 1902 City Directory, during search for us by Pikes Peak Public Library, with Grace teaching at Colorado School for the Blind & Deaf, (started in Colorado Territory in 1874, same location since 1876) where she remained until 1944, not listed employed in 1945, remaining in Colorado Springs last recorded in 1948, no City Directories again until 1951, when she is missing. We assume she removed to her sister's in Belzoni, Humphreys county, Mississippi where Grace and sister's second husband, Mississippian born Dr John C BELL, died 1954, Mary in 1962, all buried in Belzoni, Humphreys county, Mississippi cemetery.
My cousin, Harriette Flora (Hopkins) ANGLEA, born 1921 in St Louis, Missouri while her father was a medical student, then of Pueblo, Colorado, now California (whom I last saw in 1936, now celebrating their sixty-seventh wedding anniversary 30 June 2010, water-skiing until 2009 at summer home they've had forty years after ten years renting, on south shore Lake Tahoe), told me, mid-2003, she remembered 'Aunt Grace' attending Sunday dinners in Colorado Springs at our grandmother's, Maude (Wallick) FLORA, ie: Grace's step-sister-in-law (widow of step-brother Carl Raymond GRAY's wife Harriette FLORA (1869KS-1956ME) (reportedly first white child born in Montgomery county, Kansas) younger brother, Dr. William Walter FLORA (1871KS-1922CO)).
Dr Robert KNUTSON's wife, Eleanor Howard (Gray) KNUTSON (1923ME-1994MN) second granddaughter of Carl Raymond GRAY, submitted the 1863-1865 diary of her great grandmother, Virginia Davis GRAY, for publication after meeting Dr Carl H MONEYHON of the University of Arkansas, Little Rock during a Minneapolis Civil War Round Table, who published it in Arkansas Historical Quarterly, spring & summer of 1983, in which the Borland girls are often mentioned.
Bob recalls Grace M and Mary Borland visiting their step-brother Carl and wife Harriette Flora at "Gray Rocks" (first known in 1919 as "Friendship Cottage") on Pleasant Point, Cushing, Knox county, Maine during summer vacations. (see Grace (left) & Mary's ca 1930 picture, on Harbor Island in Maine's Moscongus Bay (once home for Carl's mother's favorite uncle, Capt Richard DAVIS.
Census: 1940, age 67 Colorado Springs, El Paso county, Colorado at Acacia hotel, noted education but four years high school.
Grace never married, served in deaf schools at least fifty-six years (1888-1944), in Arkansas, Michigan and Colorado, buried 1954 with sister's family in Belzoni, Humphreys coiunty, Mississippi.
Grace, her sister Mary and mother Mary Melbourne dedicated nearly one-hundred years of service to deaf schools in Arkansas, Michigan, Colorado, Oregon & Mississippi.
Following by Carmen Thompson when asked early February 2013 about the area, to wit:
"It is beautiful and peaceful there. I'm not real familiar with Belzoni but although there is a housing community across the road you have the feel of being on the outskirts of town.
"As far as maintenance, I noticed some graves are sinking and others have broken off their bases, but it's clean and in use. Many new flowers are at many graves. Looks like a storm has recently brought a lot of dirt to slide on some headstones and some branches are down.".
Death: believed (?) to have occurred in Belzoni, Humphreys county, Mississippi.
Father: John M Beattie b: in Scotland.
Mother: Mary Melbourne Borland b: SEP 1850 Hot Springs, Hot Springs, now Garland county, Arkansas.
No record of ever being married.
Last revised 09-10-2013
Grace M, missing from 1880 census in Tennessee, became a true old maid school teacher. She's found as an assistant matron in 1888 at Arkansas Deaf Mute Institute, after 1923, Arkansas School for Deaf, "Grace M" where her mother spent six years as matron.
Grace M is listed as teacher in 1890, but was first found for us in City Directory 1893-94 in 2003 by Brian ROBERTSON of Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Little Rock and mentioned in Harriette Elizabeth WILLIAMS published, 1958, in Washington County Historcal Society's FLASHBACK of her neighbors, the Colonel Oliver Crosby GRAY family living northeast across the street intersection from her home, to wit: "...it was our greatest joy to know during those years, it was Mary Beattie [Mary Borland (Beattie) Bell (1875TN-1962MS)], Mrs Gray's [youngest] daughter. She had an indescribable charm of manner. She had a disarming smile, such a sweet, courteous way of putting you first, and such a wise head on so young a person -- an altogether winning personality. We enjoyed too, meeting a gentle sister, Grace [(1873TN-1954MS), Colorado Springs, 1902/48], a talented young teacher [career teacher in Deaf schools (1888-1944), never married] who visited them on rare occasions. Mary called her "Dacie" [Both sisters often spent part of summers during 1920/30's with step-brother Carl at his Gray Rocks summer home in Maine]."
1900 census lists her at age 26, in Flint, Michigan at Michigan School for the Deaf, October 1901 she graduated Clarke School for the Deaf, in Massachusetts, (search: "Grace M Beattie") going to Colorado School for the Blind & Deaf where actor Lon CHANEY's (1883CO-1930CA) parents worked and he grew up here but went on the road in 1902.
Grace attended her sister Mary BORLAND when she married their friend Tom CLARKE 1914 in state of Washington.
Census: 1930, age 51 Colorado Springs, El Paso county, Colorado in Emma ARNOLD's home at 504 north Nevada aveenue.
I met Grace in 1936 when my brother and I spent summer with our maternal grandmother, widow, Mrs Maude (Wallick) FLORA (1870IN-1940CO) (husband's sister was wife of Carl Raymond GRAY (1867AR-1939DC)), in Colorado Springs, a friend with whom Grace often had sunday dinner.
Grace M was first found in Colorado Springs', 1902 City Directory, during search for us by Pikes Peak Public Library, with Grace teaching at Colorado School for the Blind & Deaf, (started in Colorado Territory in 1874, same location since 1876) where she remained until 1944, not listed employed in 1945, remaining in Colorado Springs last recorded in 1948, no City Directories again until 1951, when she is missing. We assume she removed to her sister's in Belzoni, Humphreys county, Mississippi where Grace and sister's second husband, Mississippian born Dr John C BELL, died 1954, Mary in 1962, all buried in Belzoni, Humphreys county, Mississippi cemetery.
My cousin, Harriette Flora (Hopkins) ANGLEA, born 1921 in St Louis, Missouri while her father was a medical student, then of Pueblo, Colorado, now California (whom I last saw in 1936, now celebrating their sixty-seventh wedding anniversary 30 June 2010, water-skiing until 2009 at summer home they've had forty years after ten years renting, on south shore Lake Tahoe), told me, mid-2003, she remembered 'Aunt Grace' attending Sunday dinners in Colorado Springs at our grandmother's, Maude (Wallick) FLORA, ie: Grace's step-sister-in-law (widow of step-brother Carl Raymond GRAY's wife Harriette FLORA (1869KS-1956ME) (reportedly first white child born in Montgomery county, Kansas) younger brother, Dr. William Walter FLORA (1871KS-1922CO)).
Dr Robert KNUTSON's wife, Eleanor Howard (Gray) KNUTSON (1923ME-1994MN) second granddaughter of Carl Raymond GRAY, submitted the 1863-1865 diary of her great grandmother, Virginia Davis GRAY, for publication after meeting Dr Carl H MONEYHON of the University of Arkansas, Little Rock during a Minneapolis Civil War Round Table, who published it in Arkansas Historical Quarterly, spring & summer of 1983, in which the Borland girls are often mentioned.
Bob recalls Grace M and Mary Borland visiting their step-brother Carl and wife Harriette Flora at "Gray Rocks" (first known in 1919 as "Friendship Cottage") on Pleasant Point, Cushing, Knox county, Maine during summer vacations. (see Grace (left) & Mary's ca 1930 picture, on Harbor Island in Maine's Moscongus Bay (once home for Carl's mother's favorite uncle, Capt Richard DAVIS.
Census: 1940, age 67 Colorado Springs, El Paso county, Colorado at Acacia hotel, noted education but four years high school.
Grace never married, served in deaf schools at least fifty-six years (1888-1944), in Arkansas, Michigan and Colorado, buried 1954 with sister's family in Belzoni, Humphreys coiunty, Mississippi.
Grace, her sister Mary and mother Mary Melbourne dedicated nearly one-hundred years of service to deaf schools in Arkansas, Michigan, Colorado, Oregon & Mississippi.
Following by Carmen Thompson when asked early February 2013 about the area, to wit:
"It is beautiful and peaceful there. I'm not real familiar with Belzoni but although there is a housing community across the road you have the feel of being on the outskirts of town.
"As far as maintenance, I noticed some graves are sinking and others have broken off their bases, but it's clean and in use. Many new flowers are at many graves. Looks like a storm has recently brought a lot of dirt to slide on some headstones and some branches are down.".
Death: believed (?) to have occurred in Belzoni, Humphreys county, Mississippi.
Father: John M Beattie b: in Scotland.
Mother: Mary Melbourne Borland b: SEP 1850 Hot Springs, Hot Springs, now Garland county, Arkansas.
No record of ever being married.
Last revised 09-10-2013
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