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Mary G. "Mamie" Tracy was born on Oct. 23, 1869 in Lawrenceville, Lawrence Co., Illinois. She was named after her mother, however, she used the name Mamie, an old-time nickname for Mary. Her middle initial was "G" but it is currently unknown as to what her additional given name was.
Mamie was the first child of Edward "Ed" Tracy (1844-1903) and Mary Jane Mieure (1850-1872). They married in Lawrenceville, Lawrence Co., Illinois on Dec. 2, 1868 and at the time Edward was 24, Jane 18. Mamie's parents are thought to have lived their entire lives in the Lawrence County area and are buried in the old section of the Lawrenceville Cemetery.
Mamie's father, Edward, was born (1844) in Vincennes, Knox Co., Indiana. He was the eighth of eleven known children born to Alvin Waterman Tracy (1807-1851) and Lucinda Thorn (1810-1865). Alvin was born in Buffalo, New York while Lucinda was born in Vincennes, Indiana. Both died in Vincennes and are buried there in the Vincennes City Cemetery. Both Edward and his father were general store merchants.
Mamie 's mother, Mary Jane Mieure, was born (1850) in Lawrenceville, Lawrence Co., IL. She was the daughter of Guillaume (William) "A. J." Mieure (1824-1861) and Sarah Isabel Fyffe (1830-1878). Guillaume is the French equivalent of the English name of William. Both of Mamie's maternal grandparents were natives of Lawrenceville and they too, are buried in the Lawrenceville City Cemetery.
Mamie's mother, Mary, died on Feb. 28, 1872 at the age of 21, leaving her 27 year old widowed husband, Edward, with two small children to care for. Mamie was only two years of age when her mother died while her younger brother, William "Will" Tracy (1871-1942), was just eight months old.
Edward's mother-in-law, Sarah Isabel (Fyffe) Mieure, took her daughter's two young children in to her household after her daughter's death and took good care of them. Sarah died about six years later, just seven months before Edward remarried. Sarah's two daughters, Ada Mieure (1857-1926) and Sarah "Sadie" Mieure (1859-1940), who were age 12 and 10 respectively when their older sister died, also helped with the care of Mamie and Will. Years later, Mamie would say that they were like additional mothers when she was young and eventually became like older sisters.
Mamie's widowed father, Edward (34), married his second wife, Jacqueline Converse "Lena" Coburn (24), on Aug. 15, 1878 in Lawrenceville, IL. Lena, born in Maysville, Mason Co., Kentucky, was the daughter of John Andrew Coburn (1823-1896) and Cornelia Lee Converse (1833-1859). It was her first marriage. She proved to be a good mother to her two older step-children (ages 8 & 6). She and Edward would have 2 additional known children, Roy Colburn Tracy (1880-1953) & Cornelia Converse "Nellie" Tracy (1888-1946).
Mamie graduated from Lawrenceville High School (1840 US Census) around 1888 . She was good student who loved reading the Bible and especially loved history. She even wrote some for the Illinois Historical Society.
On Feb. 18, 1896, Mamie married Jesse Kilgore White (1857-1918) in Anderson, Madison Co., Indiana. He was 38 years old, she considerably younger at 26. Despite their older ages, it was the first marriage for each of them.
Jesse, called Jess by Mamie, was the son of Austin G. White (1829-1874) and Jane Dubois (1831-1882). Jesse's mother, Jane, was the daughter of Jesse Kilgore Dubois I (1811-1876) and a granddaughter of Toussaint Dubois Sr. (1754-1816).
Jesse and Mamie had only one known child during their 22 year of marriage. That child, Tracy White, was born on Sept. 29, 1897. He died less than two months after his birth and is buried in the Lawrenceville City Cemetery.
Mamie's husband, Jesse, died on May 6, 1918 in Lawrenceville at the age of 60. The cause of his death is unknown. He too, is buried in the Lawrenceville City Cemetery.
As indicated above, Mamie was an intelligent lady. She loved to read and also had a fancy handwriting. After graduating from high school she eventually developed her interest in genealogy. In 1919, she was one of twenty charter members of the Toussaint Dubois NSDAR (local chapter of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution). Mamie was the "only one " of the twenty who was actually related to to the Dubois family. Toussaint Dubois (abt 1855-1816) and his wife, Anne "Janne" Bonneau (1770-1800), were Mamie's GG-grandparents.
In the mid-1920s, the widowed Mamie moved to Sulfur Springs (now part of Tampa), Hillsborough Co., Florida, about 25 miles from where her widowed aunt, Sarah "Sadie" (Mieure) Parker (1859-1940), had moved and was living there with her second husband, Charles H. "Charlie" Parker (1846-1938). Only ten years separated Mamie and her aunt Sadie. As mentioned earlier, she was like a mother to Mamie when she was young and like an older sister to Mamie years later.
It was in the Tampa area that the widowed Mamie met and eventually married 60 year old widower, Augustus Clingman "A.C." Boyles (1867-1936). He was a native of Lincoln Co., North Carolina. A graduate of the Baltimore University (now University of Maryland Baltimore) School of Medicine (est. in 1897), " AC" had previously been a medical doctor for 20 years.
About 1916 (age 49), however, AC had given up his medical practice in North Carolina for fruit/truck farming in Florida. This followed the 1910 death (typhoid fever) of his 19 year old son, Henry Paul Tracy (1891-1910) while in college and the resulting long illness (depression) and eventual death of his beloved first wife, Anna Eliza "Annie' Coggin (1862-1914), four years later. In 1916, with his three sons away at school, a despondent and lonely AC decided to give up the medical field, move to Florida and take up farming.
He had grown up on a farm.
A.C. was the son of Rev. Marcus Wrightman "M.W." Boyles (1842-1892), a Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) circuit preacher, and Susan A. (Alice ?) Wood (1846-1895), both natives of Lincoln Co., NC. Marcus died during the worldwide flu pandemic of 1889-91. He and his wife, Susan, are buried in the Lexington City Cemetery in Lexington, Davidson Co., NC. After his death the churches that Marcus had served as their Pastor over the years contributed to the purchase of the rather impressive burial marker that he and his wife share. He had preached in many different Methodist churches as he had preached in six different circuits over the years.
A.C.'s paternal grandfather was Rev. Josiah Adolphus "Joseph" Boyles (1816-1894) and his paternal great-grandfather, Rev. John Boyles II (1770-1843). According to a biography of the Boyles family (DNC Cousins), A.C.'s father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all "old-time" circuit riding Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) preachers in North Carolina. They also farmed (crops and stock) some to provide food for their families.
A.C. and Mamie were married in Bradenton, Manatee Co., Florida in the parsonage of the Bradenton Methodist Church. About 1929/30, with Mamie's encouragement and support, AC decided to resume his medical practice . The family moved to Troy, Montgomery Co., NC and then on to Franklin, Surry Co., NC. It was in Surry County in 1931 that AC accepted a position as a contract physician for the North Carolina Granite Corporation in Mt. Airy (Surry Co.) and also served the community as a general practitioner. He then purchased a small farm in Oak Grove, a rural community located just outside Mt. Airy, Surry Co., NC.
Despite his rather stern appearance, A.C. in reality was a very kind and caring individual. He was known for his benevolence, both with his time and medical skills, and also was known as a "church-going man". Over the years he was often paid by his patents with chickens, eggs, beans, etc. His Christian faith and caring personalty was obviously the result of being raised by Christian parents and grandparents.
On Jan. 28, 1936 Mamie's husband, A.C., who she always called "Doctor", collapsed while tending to some stock in their barn. Their eight year old daughter, Dorothy Boyles (1927-2020), who was with him at the time, immediately ran to the house to get her mother. Mamie rushed to the barn but her husband was already deceased. He was thought to have died instantly from a massive heart attack.
A well-liked and highly respected man in his community, A. C. was 68 years old when he died. His funeral had to be moved from the family's little home church, Oak Grove Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) Church, to the larger Central Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) Church in Mt. Airy. He is buried in the Maplewood Cemetery in Durham, Durham Co., NC, next to his first wife, Anna "Anne" Coggin.
Less that a year after her husband's death, Mamie sold their little farm in Oak Grove, NC and along with her daughter, Dorothy, returned to Florida in 1936. She moved to Sulfur Springs, near Tampa, not far from her Aunt Sadie who was living living in Zephyrhills, Pasco Co., FL. In Sulfur Springs, Mamie purchased and operated a boarding house. About 1938, Mamie moved to Tampa, where she and her daughter lived in their garage apartment and rented out their one family home to create additional needed income. About 1939, they moved again, this time to Seminole Heights where their residence was at 315 1/2 Clifton.
Mamie's "Aunt Sadie", died on Mar. 10, 1940 at the age of 80. Her first husband, William Green Burnett (1833-1906), and her second husband, Charles H. "Charlie" Parker (1845-1938), were both deceased, as well as her two children who had died in 1896 and 1915 at the ages of 7 and 31. Her older sister, Ada (Mieure) Hennessy, had died in 1926 at the age of 67. Having no living close blood relatives, she left her house on 7th Street in Zepherhills (Tampa) to her twice widowed niece, Mamie. Note: Mamie's daughter, Dorothy, said she always called Sadie and Charlie "Grandma and Grandpa". Actually, they were her great aunt and uncle.
As mentioned earlier, Mamie's mother, Mary Jane Mieure (Sadie's older sister), had died in 1872 at the age of 21 when Mamie was just two years of age. Since that time Mamie and her Aunt Sadie had become quite close. Not long after her aunt's death, Mamie and daughter, Dorothy, moved in to her aunt's house in Zephyrhills, now a community in the metropolitan Tampa Bay area.
Due to failing health, Mamie, moved back to her hometown of Lawrenceville, Lawrence Co., Illinois in the 1940s to be near her half-brother, Roy Colburn Tracy (1880-1953), and his wife, Mary "Mame" Howell Tracy (1880-1969). Mamie's daughter, Dorothy, always called them "Uncle Roy and Aunt Mame", described them, as well as her own parents, as "loving, Christian people".
Mamie died on Dec. 22, 1945 in Bridgeport (5 miles from Lawrenceville) where she was staying in a long term health care facility. She was 76 years of age. Mamie is buried in the the Lawrenceville City Cemetery where her parents, brother and first husband, Jesse Kilgore White, are all buried. Numerous other family members & relatives, including her brother, Roy, & his wife, Mame, are also buried in this cemetery.
Less that four months after Mamie's death, her daughter, Dorothy, married WWII Army (Air Force) veteran, Sgt. Mitchell Raymond "Mitch" King (1923-1995). They were married on Apr. 13, 1946, in Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY at the 4th Avenue Methodist Church, just a short walk from their boarding house. At the time they did not own an automobile.
Mamie's daughter, Dorothy, and Mitchell were married for nearly 50 years and were each other's best friend. Dorothy passed away on Oct. 29, 2020, just three weeks short of her 93rd birthday. She was a strong Christian who was ready, even eager, for her graduation to Heaven. Dot's worn out body is buried next to that of her husband, Mitch, who had died in 1995 from lymphoma (cancer) at the age of 72, in Louisville Memorial Gardens East. Their souls, however, are in Heaven.
Unfortunately, Mamie never had the opportunity, at least on this earth, to meet her daughter's husband. Dorothy and Mitchell met in Louisville, KY, after the war only a few weeks after Mamie's death. Both were working in Louisville at the time and met while living in the same rooming house. At that time old houses, divided into rooms (no kitchen facilities & shared bathrooms) were quite prevalent as housing for returning members of the armed forces was in short supply after WWII.
Mitchell, a devout Christian, was a strong man in every way: physically, mentally and spiritually. Mamie, also a devout Christian, would have definitely approved of their marriage. Mamie loved her daughter dearly and would have been so happy for her in finding a good Christian man to marry. One man, for one woman, for one lifetime. Again, Mamie's daughter, Dorothy, and her husband, Mitchell, were married for nearly 50 years.
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Mary G. "Mamie" Tracy was born on Oct. 23, 1869 in Lawrenceville, Lawrence Co., Illinois. She was named after her mother, however, she used the name Mamie, an old-time nickname for Mary. Her middle initial was "G" but it is currently unknown as to what her additional given name was.
Mamie was the first child of Edward "Ed" Tracy (1844-1903) and Mary Jane Mieure (1850-1872). They married in Lawrenceville, Lawrence Co., Illinois on Dec. 2, 1868 and at the time Edward was 24, Jane 18. Mamie's parents are thought to have lived their entire lives in the Lawrence County area and are buried in the old section of the Lawrenceville Cemetery.
Mamie's father, Edward, was born (1844) in Vincennes, Knox Co., Indiana. He was the eighth of eleven known children born to Alvin Waterman Tracy (1807-1851) and Lucinda Thorn (1810-1865). Alvin was born in Buffalo, New York while Lucinda was born in Vincennes, Indiana. Both died in Vincennes and are buried there in the Vincennes City Cemetery. Both Edward and his father were general store merchants.
Mamie 's mother, Mary Jane Mieure, was born (1850) in Lawrenceville, Lawrence Co., IL. She was the daughter of Guillaume (William) "A. J." Mieure (1824-1861) and Sarah Isabel Fyffe (1830-1878). Guillaume is the French equivalent of the English name of William. Both of Mamie's maternal grandparents were natives of Lawrenceville and they too, are buried in the Lawrenceville City Cemetery.
Mamie's mother, Mary, died on Feb. 28, 1872 at the age of 21, leaving her 27 year old widowed husband, Edward, with two small children to care for. Mamie was only two years of age when her mother died while her younger brother, William "Will" Tracy (1871-1942), was just eight months old.
Edward's mother-in-law, Sarah Isabel (Fyffe) Mieure, took her daughter's two young children in to her household after her daughter's death and took good care of them. Sarah died about six years later, just seven months before Edward remarried. Sarah's two daughters, Ada Mieure (1857-1926) and Sarah "Sadie" Mieure (1859-1940), who were age 12 and 10 respectively when their older sister died, also helped with the care of Mamie and Will. Years later, Mamie would say that they were like additional mothers when she was young and eventually became like older sisters.
Mamie's widowed father, Edward (34), married his second wife, Jacqueline Converse "Lena" Coburn (24), on Aug. 15, 1878 in Lawrenceville, IL. Lena, born in Maysville, Mason Co., Kentucky, was the daughter of John Andrew Coburn (1823-1896) and Cornelia Lee Converse (1833-1859). It was her first marriage. She proved to be a good mother to her two older step-children (ages 8 & 6). She and Edward would have 2 additional known children, Roy Colburn Tracy (1880-1953) & Cornelia Converse "Nellie" Tracy (1888-1946).
Mamie graduated from Lawrenceville High School (1840 US Census) around 1888 . She was good student who loved reading the Bible and especially loved history. She even wrote some for the Illinois Historical Society.
On Feb. 18, 1896, Mamie married Jesse Kilgore White (1857-1918) in Anderson, Madison Co., Indiana. He was 38 years old, she considerably younger at 26. Despite their older ages, it was the first marriage for each of them.
Jesse, called Jess by Mamie, was the son of Austin G. White (1829-1874) and Jane Dubois (1831-1882). Jesse's mother, Jane, was the daughter of Jesse Kilgore Dubois I (1811-1876) and a granddaughter of Toussaint Dubois Sr. (1754-1816).
Jesse and Mamie had only one known child during their 22 year of marriage. That child, Tracy White, was born on Sept. 29, 1897. He died less than two months after his birth and is buried in the Lawrenceville City Cemetery.
Mamie's husband, Jesse, died on May 6, 1918 in Lawrenceville at the age of 60. The cause of his death is unknown. He too, is buried in the Lawrenceville City Cemetery.
As indicated above, Mamie was an intelligent lady. She loved to read and also had a fancy handwriting. After graduating from high school she eventually developed her interest in genealogy. In 1919, she was one of twenty charter members of the Toussaint Dubois NSDAR (local chapter of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution). Mamie was the "only one " of the twenty who was actually related to to the Dubois family. Toussaint Dubois (abt 1855-1816) and his wife, Anne "Janne" Bonneau (1770-1800), were Mamie's GG-grandparents.
In the mid-1920s, the widowed Mamie moved to Sulfur Springs (now part of Tampa), Hillsborough Co., Florida, about 25 miles from where her widowed aunt, Sarah "Sadie" (Mieure) Parker (1859-1940), had moved and was living there with her second husband, Charles H. "Charlie" Parker (1846-1938). Only ten years separated Mamie and her aunt Sadie. As mentioned earlier, she was like a mother to Mamie when she was young and like an older sister to Mamie years later.
It was in the Tampa area that the widowed Mamie met and eventually married 60 year old widower, Augustus Clingman "A.C." Boyles (1867-1936). He was a native of Lincoln Co., North Carolina. A graduate of the Baltimore University (now University of Maryland Baltimore) School of Medicine (est. in 1897), " AC" had previously been a medical doctor for 20 years.
About 1916 (age 49), however, AC had given up his medical practice in North Carolina for fruit/truck farming in Florida. This followed the 1910 death (typhoid fever) of his 19 year old son, Henry Paul Tracy (1891-1910) while in college and the resulting long illness (depression) and eventual death of his beloved first wife, Anna Eliza "Annie' Coggin (1862-1914), four years later. In 1916, with his three sons away at school, a despondent and lonely AC decided to give up the medical field, move to Florida and take up farming.
He had grown up on a farm.
A.C. was the son of Rev. Marcus Wrightman "M.W." Boyles (1842-1892), a Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) circuit preacher, and Susan A. (Alice ?) Wood (1846-1895), both natives of Lincoln Co., NC. Marcus died during the worldwide flu pandemic of 1889-91. He and his wife, Susan, are buried in the Lexington City Cemetery in Lexington, Davidson Co., NC. After his death the churches that Marcus had served as their Pastor over the years contributed to the purchase of the rather impressive burial marker that he and his wife share. He had preached in many different Methodist churches as he had preached in six different circuits over the years.
A.C.'s paternal grandfather was Rev. Josiah Adolphus "Joseph" Boyles (1816-1894) and his paternal great-grandfather, Rev. John Boyles II (1770-1843). According to a biography of the Boyles family (DNC Cousins), A.C.'s father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all "old-time" circuit riding Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) preachers in North Carolina. They also farmed (crops and stock) some to provide food for their families.
A.C. and Mamie were married in Bradenton, Manatee Co., Florida in the parsonage of the Bradenton Methodist Church. About 1929/30, with Mamie's encouragement and support, AC decided to resume his medical practice . The family moved to Troy, Montgomery Co., NC and then on to Franklin, Surry Co., NC. It was in Surry County in 1931 that AC accepted a position as a contract physician for the North Carolina Granite Corporation in Mt. Airy (Surry Co.) and also served the community as a general practitioner. He then purchased a small farm in Oak Grove, a rural community located just outside Mt. Airy, Surry Co., NC.
Despite his rather stern appearance, A.C. in reality was a very kind and caring individual. He was known for his benevolence, both with his time and medical skills, and also was known as a "church-going man". Over the years he was often paid by his patents with chickens, eggs, beans, etc. His Christian faith and caring personalty was obviously the result of being raised by Christian parents and grandparents.
On Jan. 28, 1936 Mamie's husband, A.C., who she always called "Doctor", collapsed while tending to some stock in their barn. Their eight year old daughter, Dorothy Boyles (1927-2020), who was with him at the time, immediately ran to the house to get her mother. Mamie rushed to the barn but her husband was already deceased. He was thought to have died instantly from a massive heart attack.
A well-liked and highly respected man in his community, A. C. was 68 years old when he died. His funeral had to be moved from the family's little home church, Oak Grove Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) Church, to the larger Central Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) Church in Mt. Airy. He is buried in the Maplewood Cemetery in Durham, Durham Co., NC, next to his first wife, Anna "Anne" Coggin.
Less that a year after her husband's death, Mamie sold their little farm in Oak Grove, NC and along with her daughter, Dorothy, returned to Florida in 1936. She moved to Sulfur Springs, near Tampa, not far from her Aunt Sadie who was living living in Zephyrhills, Pasco Co., FL. In Sulfur Springs, Mamie purchased and operated a boarding house. About 1938, Mamie moved to Tampa, where she and her daughter lived in their garage apartment and rented out their one family home to create additional needed income. About 1939, they moved again, this time to Seminole Heights where their residence was at 315 1/2 Clifton.
Mamie's "Aunt Sadie", died on Mar. 10, 1940 at the age of 80. Her first husband, William Green Burnett (1833-1906), and her second husband, Charles H. "Charlie" Parker (1845-1938), were both deceased, as well as her two children who had died in 1896 and 1915 at the ages of 7 and 31. Her older sister, Ada (Mieure) Hennessy, had died in 1926 at the age of 67. Having no living close blood relatives, she left her house on 7th Street in Zepherhills (Tampa) to her twice widowed niece, Mamie. Note: Mamie's daughter, Dorothy, said she always called Sadie and Charlie "Grandma and Grandpa". Actually, they were her great aunt and uncle.
As mentioned earlier, Mamie's mother, Mary Jane Mieure (Sadie's older sister), had died in 1872 at the age of 21 when Mamie was just two years of age. Since that time Mamie and her Aunt Sadie had become quite close. Not long after her aunt's death, Mamie and daughter, Dorothy, moved in to her aunt's house in Zephyrhills, now a community in the metropolitan Tampa Bay area.
Due to failing health, Mamie, moved back to her hometown of Lawrenceville, Lawrence Co., Illinois in the 1940s to be near her half-brother, Roy Colburn Tracy (1880-1953), and his wife, Mary "Mame" Howell Tracy (1880-1969). Mamie's daughter, Dorothy, always called them "Uncle Roy and Aunt Mame", described them, as well as her own parents, as "loving, Christian people".
Mamie died on Dec. 22, 1945 in Bridgeport (5 miles from Lawrenceville) where she was staying in a long term health care facility. She was 76 years of age. Mamie is buried in the the Lawrenceville City Cemetery where her parents, brother and first husband, Jesse Kilgore White, are all buried. Numerous other family members & relatives, including her brother, Roy, & his wife, Mame, are also buried in this cemetery.
Less that four months after Mamie's death, her daughter, Dorothy, married WWII Army (Air Force) veteran, Sgt. Mitchell Raymond "Mitch" King (1923-1995). They were married on Apr. 13, 1946, in Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY at the 4th Avenue Methodist Church, just a short walk from their boarding house. At the time they did not own an automobile.
Mamie's daughter, Dorothy, and Mitchell were married for nearly 50 years and were each other's best friend. Dorothy passed away on Oct. 29, 2020, just three weeks short of her 93rd birthday. She was a strong Christian who was ready, even eager, for her graduation to Heaven. Dot's worn out body is buried next to that of her husband, Mitch, who had died in 1995 from lymphoma (cancer) at the age of 72, in Louisville Memorial Gardens East. Their souls, however, are in Heaven.
Unfortunately, Mamie never had the opportunity, at least on this earth, to meet her daughter's husband. Dorothy and Mitchell met in Louisville, KY, after the war only a few weeks after Mamie's death. Both were working in Louisville at the time and met while living in the same rooming house. At that time old houses, divided into rooms (no kitchen facilities & shared bathrooms) were quite prevalent as housing for returning members of the armed forces was in short supply after WWII.
Mitchell, a devout Christian, was a strong man in every way: physically, mentally and spiritually. Mamie, also a devout Christian, would have definitely approved of their marriage. Mamie loved her daughter dearly and would have been so happy for her in finding a good Christian man to marry. One man, for one woman, for one lifetime. Again, Mamie's daughter, Dorothy, and her husband, Mitchell, were married for nearly 50 years.
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