Grady Latham

Grady Latham

• Father: John W. Latham b. 24 September 1860, d. 27 April 1944
• Mother: May Emily Rembert b. 28 September 1866, d. 15 January 1959

• Grady Latham was born on 28 February 1897 in Louisiana.
• John W. Latham and May Emily Rembert appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Sabine Parish, Louisiana. Other members of the household included Grady Latham, Gladine Latham, William Blair Latham, L. Vivian Latham and Helen Dewey Latham.
• John W. Latham and May Emily Rembert appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Sabine Parish, Louisiana, at Converse & Hamlin Road. Other members of the household included Grady Latham, Gladine Latham, William Blair Latham, Helen Dewey Latham, Adina Maude Latham and Zella M. Latham.
• She married Sidney Lee Asby circa 1914.
• Sidney Lee Asby registered for the draft on 5 June 1917 in Sabine Parish, Louisiana, while living with his wife and two children in Toro, and employed at log hauling by W. R. Pickering, Bonham.
• Sidney Lee Asby and Grady Latham appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Shamrock Logging Camp, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Other members of the household included Ralph Truett Asby. Also in the household were two Edwards children identified as sons, likely enumerator error, since Grady is identified as a male board employed as a log cutter.
• Sidney Lee Asby and Grady Latham appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Vernon Parish, Louisiana. Other members of the household included Ralph Truett Asby, Fannie Mae Asby, Sidney Lee Asby Jr. and John L. Asby.
• The following appeared on 13 January 1956 in the Sabine Index: Funeral services for William Blair Latham, who passed away at Anchorage, Alaska, Dec. 29, were held Saturday, Jan. 7 at the Baptist church in Converse, with the pastor, the Rev. Ben Worley, officiating assisted by the Rev. James Lawton, pastor of the First Methodist church.
       Graveside services were held by Floyd Jordan American Legion Post of Many.
       Mr. Latham had been employed by the Civil Aeronautics Administration in Anchorage for the past 10 years.
       Surviving are his mother, Mrs. J. W. Latham of Converse, and four sisters, Mrs. S. L. Asby of Newton, Texas, Mrs. Helen Miles of Pleasant Hill, Mrs. L. G. Edwards of Noble and Mrs. J. T. Cates of Converse.
        Interment was in the Oak Grove cemetery under the direction of the Drewitt Funeral home of Mansfield.
• Grady Latham became a widow at the 12 February 1966 death of her husband Sidney Lee Asby.
• The following appeared on 23 March 1978 in the Sabine Index: Adina M. Edwards, 76, of Ada, Okla., died Saturday, March 18, at her residence, following a short illness. Funeral services were at 2 p.m., Tuesday, March 21, in the Noble Methodist Church, with burial following in the Noble Cemetery, under the direction of the Drewett Funeral Home of Mansfield. Mrs. Edwards is survived by one daughter, Marilyn Cates; one son, Winston B. Edwards; three sisters, Zell Cates, Grady Ashby and Helen Miles of Pleasant Hill; four grandchildren, and four great grandchildren.
• Grady Latham died on 15 January 1985 at age 87 in Newton County, Texas.
• She was interred at Newton City Cemetery, Newton, Newton County, Texas.

• Last Edited: 29 Mar 2012