Martha Graves

Martha Graves

• Martha Graves was born in June 1870 in Alabama.
• She was known as Mattie.
• Martha Graves appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Demopolis, Marengo County, Alabama, and also siblings Joseph, Thomas, Robert, Warren, Sadie, Aline and Kathleen, not yet recorded.
• She married Edward Seymour Cornish, son of Timothy Gillette Cornish and Louisa Jane Torbert, circa 1900.
• Edward Seymour Cornish and Martha Graves appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Demopolis, Marengo County, Alabama, at Walnut Street and also Mattie's unmarried sister Gladys, not yet recorded.. Other members of the household included George Anthony Cornish and Elizabeth Jane Cornish.
• Edward Seymour Cornish and Martha Graves appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Demopolis, Marengo County, Alabama, at Walnut Street enumerated next to the household of Thomas Graves, likely Mattie's brother.. Other members of the household included George Anthony Cornish and Elizabeth Jane Cornish.
• Edward Seymour Cornish and Martha Graves appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Demopolis, Marengo County, Alabama, at 411 Walnut Street. Also in the household was Mattie's unmarried sister Sadie Graves (age 48).
• Martha Graves became a widow at the 26 October 1936 death of her husband Edward Seymour Cornish.
• Martha Graves died on 14 April 1958 at age 87 in Marengo County, Alabama.

• Last Edited: 16 Jul 2014

• Charts: Descendants of TORBERT Anthony & Margaret Simpson