Florence Edna Torbert

Florence Edna Torbert

Florence Edna Torbert Holcroft Clements, 1883-1967

• Father: James Anthony Torbert b. 20 February 1853, d. 8 March 1924
• Mother: Anna Mary Pegues b. 25 September 1859, d. 4 May 1945

• Florence Edna Torbert was born on 15 March 1883 in Marengo County, Alabama.
• James Anthony Torbert and Anna Mary Pegues appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Jackson's Store Precinct, Marengo County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Florence Edna Torbert, Sidney Ernest Torbert, Thomas Jefferson Torbert, Sarah Decima Torbert, James Everett Torbert, Rebecca Pegues Torbert, George Whitfield Torbert, Sylvester Sledge Torbert and James Bartholomew Pegues.
• A photographic portrait was made of James and Anna Pegues Torbert and children (except older brothers Sidney Ernest and Thomas Jefferson), about 1903.
• She married Lewis Arrington Clements, son of Quincy Edward Clements and Mildred Courtney Holcroft, on 19 February 1908 in Marengo County, Alabama.
• Lewis Arrington Clements and Florence Edna Torbert appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Cedarville, Hale County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Nannie Mae Holcroft. They are identified as Lewis A., Florence E. and Nannie M. Clements.
• Florence Edna Torbert became a widow at the 17 November 1917 death of her husband Lewis Arrington Clements.
• She married Edward Wesley Clements, son of Quincy Edward Clements and Mildred Courtney Holcroft, on 14 April 1919 in Hale County, Alabama. Edward was an older brother of Florence's first husband Lewis Arrington Clements who was known by his adoptive father's name, Holcroft..
• Edward Wesley Clements and Florence Edna Torbert appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Gladewater, Gregg County, Texas. Other members of the household included James Wesley Holcroft and Anna Pegues Clements. Florence's children from her earlier marriage to Edward's younger brother Lewis are identified as Nannie and James Holcroft. Also in the household are Edward's children Ida (age 20) and Jack K. Clements (12), not yet recorded.
• Edward Wesley Clements and Florence Edna Torbert appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Gregg County, Texas. Other members of the household included Anna Pegues Clements and James Wesley Holcroft.
• Edward Wesley Clements and Florence Edna Torbert appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Gladewater, Gregg County, Texas, at Highway 80. Other members of the household included Anna Pegues Clements.
• She officially witnessed the death of Edward Wesley Clements on 7 July 1949 in Gladewater, Gregg County, Texas.
• Florence Edna Torbert became a widow at the 7 July 1949 death of her husband Edward Wesley Clements.
• Florence Edna Torbert died on 17 August 1967 at age 84 in Gladewater, Gregg County, Texas, at Gladewater Municipal Hospital . Her death was officially witnessed by Nannie Mae Holcroft.
• She was interred at Rosedale Cemetery, Gladewater, Gregg County, Texas.

• Last Edited: 13 Aug 2013

• Charts: Descendants of PEGUES Claudius & Marcia Saunders, Descendants of TORBERT Anthony & Margaret Simpson