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Note for: Mary Matilda Raney, 26 JAN 1855 -
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Individual Note: THE KORESHAN UNITY MEMBERSHIP LIST by Claude J. Rahn: Matilda Grier
FOLKS WE KNEW WHILE IN THE K.U. by Marie McCready: Tillie Grier:
"They came to the Unity from the west, and I believe Oklahoma. The two older boys did not stay long, and do not believe they came to Estero. Bessie and Jessie were twins. They came to Florida but soon left. Ada was Lovelle's age. We never thought she paid much attention to her school studies but, when she became angry at someone, as often happened, and sounded off about that person, the big words she used, and generally correctly, were amazing. Everybody in the dormitory would gather around for it was well worth listening to. She married Carlton Case."
1900 U. S. Federal Census; Calument Township; Chicago, Cook, Illinois; Film Roll No. 285; Page No. 285; SD No. 1; ED No. 986; Sheet No. 12; Ward of City: 31; Enumeration Date: 13 June 1900; Enumerator: Ernest E. Ellington; Transcribed by Joyce Nelle Ratliff, 24 May 1999; Koreshan Unity: Matilda Grier; Residence: 99th Street, Dwelling 133; Relation to head of family: Boarder; Color, white; Sex, female; Month of birth: January; Year of birth: 1856; Age at last birthday: 44; Marital statys: Married: No. of years married: 22; Mother of how many children: 7; Number of these children living: 7: Place of birth: Ohio; Place of birth of father: Ohio; Place of birth of mother: Ohio; Occupation: Nothing listed; Can read, yes; Can write, yes; Can speak English, yes.
U.S. Federal Census/Estero/Lee County/Florida/1910; Koreshan Unity; Enumeration Date: 25 Apr 1910; Enumerator: Walter S. Turner, Jr.; Microfilm No.: Fl 1910-H T624; ED: 80; Transcribed by Joyce Nelle Ratliff, January 1995: Mary M. Grier; Sex: female; Race: white; Age 55; Marital status: Married 1 time; Number of years married: 27; Mother of 7 children; No. of these children living: 7; Place of birth: Ohio; Place of birth of mother and father: Ohio; Language spoken: English; Occupation: Domestic; Employer or worker: worker; No. of months not employed: 0; Can read and write: yes.
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Note for: Ada Carlotta Grier, 23 OCT 1889 - 2 MAY 1969
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Burial: Date: MAY 1969
Place: Fort Myers, Lee, Florida
Individual Note: THE KORESHAN UNITY MEMBERSHIP LIST by Claude J. Rahn: Ada Grier: Born: 23 Oct
FOLKS WE KNEW WHILE IN THE K.U. by Marie McCready: "They came to the Unity from the west, and I believe Oklahoma. The two older boys did not stay long, and do not believe they came to Estero. Bessie and Jessie were twins. They came to Florida but soon left. Ada was Lovelle's age. We never thought she paid much attention to her school studies but, when she became angry at
someone, as often happened, and sounded off about that person, the big words she used, and generally correctly, were amazing. Everybody in the dormitory would gather around for it was well worth listening to. She married Carlton Case."
1900 U. S. Federal Census; Calument Township; Chicago, Cook, Illinois; Film Roll No. 285; Page No. 285; SD No. 1; Ed No. 986; Sheet No. 12; Ward of City: 31; Enumeration Date: 13 June 1900; Enumerator: Ernest E. Ellington; Transcribed by Joyce Nelle Ratliff, 24 May 1999; Koreshan Unity: Ada Grier; Residence: 99th Street, Dwelling 133; Relation to head of family: Boarder; Color, white; Sex, female; Month of birth: October; Year of birth: 1889; Age at last birthday: 10; Single; Place of birth: Kansas; Place of birth of father: Ohio; Place of birth of mother: Ohio; Occupation: Nothing listed; Can read: Nothing listed; Can write: Nothing listed; Can speak English: Nothing listed.
U.S. Federal Census/Estero/Lee County/Florida/1910; Koreshan Unity; Microfilm roll number: Fl 1910-H; 163 T624; Enumeration date: 23 Apr 1910; Enumerator: Walter S. Turner, Jr.; ED: 80; Transcribed by Joyce Nelle Ratliff, January 1995: Ada Grier; Sex: Female; Race: white; Age 20; Marital status: Single; Place of birth: Kansas; Place of birth of father: Iowa; Place of birth of mother: Ohio; Language spoken: English; Occupation: student; No. of months not employed: 0; Can read and write: yes; Attending school: yes.
*1910 U. S. Federal Census; State: Florida; County: Lee; Town: Ft. Myers; Enumeration date: 5 (?) 1910; Enumerator: Edward M. Williams; Address: 1st Street; SD: (?); ED: (?). Name: Ada Case; Relation to head of family: Daughter-in-law (Ada is living with her in-laws and her husband); Sex: female; Color: white; Age: 21; Marital status: Married 1 time; Place of birth: Iowa; Place of birth of father: New York; Place of birth of mother: New York; Language spoken: English; Occupation: None; Can read and write: yes. (Evidently Ada married Henry C. Case between the time the census was taken at the Koreshan Unity and the time the census was taken in Ft. Myers)
Magazine Article--GULFSHORE LIFE: October 1995; Page 27; Column 3; (Ada Case, Grandmother of Bill Grace, a Fort Myers attorney)
MEMORIES, MEMORIES--DAYS OF LONG AGO chronicled by Marie McCready with participation by Lovelle McCready: Ada Grier, bitten by a white pet rat called Dreyfus--page 39. "After the Griers came with their daughter Ada, two children by the same name caused confusion, as they were the same age and together most of the time--especially after I went to the children's cottage. Ada was the youngest of the family and pretty much a law unto herself so, when somebody would go to her mother about some little infraction of the rules, whether Lovelle had taken part or not, she was always included, and Tillie Grier, a slow moving, slow speaking little woman, always referred to them as "The Two Hades." As Ada was not Lovelle's name, anyway, it was decided to use her second one, and that was it from then on."--page 47
THE FLAMING SWORD; Community Current Events by D. J. Richards; January 1931: "Brother John Grier has returned to the Unity after an absence of several months. His son, Harry Grier, of Los Angles, Calif., accompanied by his wife, paid the Unity a visit recently, with Mrs. Carlton Case of Fort Myers, a daughter of Brother John. Mrs. Case spent her girlhood in the Unity, both in Chicago and Estero."
OBITUARY FOR ADA C. CASE (No date or title of newspaper); Transcribed by Joyce Nelle Ratliff; January 28, 2004: Mrs. Ada C. Case, 78, of 1326 Melaleuca Lane, died Friday night. She had been a resident here for the past 64 years. Survivors include her husband, Henry C. Case; one son, Harold C. Case; a daughter, Mrs. Angus Grace, Fort Myers; four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. She was a member of St. Luke's Episcopal Church. The funeral will be held today at 1 p.m. at Leo W. Englehardt Funeral Home with Father Juan Lopez officiating. Pallbearers will be Tommy Howard, Walter Sheppard; Dr. Walter Grace; Jimmy Roberts, Ted Evans and Grimes Dennis. Burial will be in Fort Myers Cemetery.