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Louisa Alexandria Woollums

Louisa Alexandria Woollums

Female 1865 - 1953  (87 years)

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  • Name Louisa Alexandria Woollums  [1, 2, 3] 
    • Louisa's 1880 marriage record (to Sharp) names her as "Louise Alex Woollums."
    Born 16 May 1865  Carlyle, Clinton County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5] 
    Gender Female 
    Census 8 Jan 1920  337 Alexander St., 16th Precinct, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    • 1. Griscom, Powell, head, renting, male, white, 52, married, can read and write, Maryland, Maryland, Maryland, clerk, railroad
      2. _____, Louise, wife, female, white, 52, married, can read and write, Illinois, Scotland, Tennessee
      3. Sharp, Bea, step-daughter, female, white, 28, single, can read and write, Illinois, Louisiana, Illinois, assistant manager, collection agency
    Military 31 Aug 1926  [7] 
    Louise applied for a widow's pension based on her husband Griscom Powell's service in the Spanish American war. 
    Census 7 Apr 1930  736 City Park Ave., Ward 5, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    • 1. Griscom, Louise, head, owns, value $5000, owns radio set, not a farm, female, white, 65, widowed, first married age 15, can read and write, Illinois, United States, Tennessee, needleworker, embroidery work
      2. Sharp, Beauchamp, daughter, female, white, 48 divorced, first married age 24, can read and write, Illinois, Illinois, Illinois, assistant manager, [Rep. and Col.] agency
    Died 14 Feb 1953  New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Obituary 15 Feb 1953  New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    • Obituary, Louise (Woollums) Sharp Griscom, 1953, New Orleans
      GRISCOM
      Of 421 Baroane street, on Saturday, February 14, 1953, at 4 o'clock [? m.], LOUISE WOOLUNS [sic], wife of the late Powell Griscom; mother of Mrs. Beauchamp Sharp; a native of Carlyle, Ill.m and a resident of New Orleans for the past [30? 50?] years.
      Funeral services were held Saturday, February 14, 1953, at 4 o' clock p.m., from the auxiliary funeral home of Jacob Schoes and son, 3827 Canal street, at North Scott street.
      Interment in Hope Mausoleum.
    DAUGHTER 19 Mar 1977  New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    • Obituary, Mrs. F. Beauchamp Sharp, New Orleans
      SHARP
      Mrs. F. Beaucahmp (Bea) Sharp, on Thursday, March 17, 1977 at 9 o' clock p.m., daughter of the late Louise Woollams [sic] and Franklin Sharp, and Powell Griscom by second marriage, age 95 years, a native of Carlisle, Illinois, and a resident of New Orleans.
      Services were held from the funeral home of Jacob Schoen and Son, Inc., 3827 Canal St. at N. Scott, on Friday, March 18, 1977 at 2:30 o'clock p.m. Interment in Hope Mausoluem [sic].

      [This is confusing because it makes it appear that her married name is Sharp, but also states that her maiden name was sharp.]
    Parents
    Louise's 1880 marriage to Hardin Franklin Sharp names her parents as "Alex. Woollums" and "Salnia Walker" [Salina Walker]. "Salnia" may be a transcription error.  [3] 
    Buried Hope Mausoleum, New Orleans, New Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Person ID I888  Full | ProgenitorWalker
    Last Modified 27 Apr 2013 

    Father Alexander H. Woollums,   b. 1843, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Apr 1865, General Hospital No. 1, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 22 years) 
    Mother Ritha Salina Walker,   b. 9 Jan 1843, Humphreys County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Feb 1922, Carlyle, Clinton County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years) 
    Married 28 Dec 1862  Dickson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11, 12] 
    Family ID F925  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Hardin Franklin Sharp,   b. 9 May 1850, Assumption Parish, Louisiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 30 Sep 1880  Clinton County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 13] 
    Children 
     1. Frank Beauchamp "Bea" Sharp,   b. 1 Sep 1881, Carlyle, Clinton County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 22 Apr 2013 
    Family ID F1491  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Powell Griscom,   b. Abt 1868, Maryland, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 Jan 1920, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 52 years) 
    Married 17 Aug 1908  New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location  [14] 
    Last Modified 12 Jan 2010 
    Family ID F1485  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Documents
    John M. Journey and wife Ritha S. (Walker) Woollums Journey, 1880 Clinton County, Illinois, census    		John M. Journey and wife Ritha S. (Walker) Woollums Journey, 1880 Clinton County, Illinois, census
    1880 U.S. census, Clinton County, Illinois, population schedule, Carlyle, Carlyle township, enumeration district (ED) 84, p. 28 (penned), p. 522 (stamped, verso), dwelling 19, family 19, J. M. Journey household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 December 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 182; FHL…
    Hardin Franklin Sharp biographical entry in book about Henry Sharp and descendants. Includes material on Ritha S. Walker and her daughter Louisa Woollums.    		Hardin Franklin Sharp biographical entry in book about Henry Sharp and descendants. Includes material on Ritha S. Walker and her daughter Louisa Woollums.
    Elizabeth Cobb Steward Eastwood and Helen Sharp Wickliffe, comp., Henry Sharp (c. 1737-1800) of Sussex County New Jersey and Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and his wife Lydia Morgan and some of their Descendants. . . . (Cleveland, Oh.: n.p., 1975), 68, for Hardin Franklin "Frank" Sharp.

  • Sources 
    1. [S1298] Military - Civil War pension files (Union, NARA).
      My p. 8, "Declaration of Minor Children for Pension," Clinton, Illinois, 18 May 1868; John M. Journey as guardian of Louisa A. Woollums, making a claim on behalf of her deceased father, Alexander [H.] Woollums. States that Alexander H. Woollums died in Nashville, Tennessee on 7 April 1865, of measles, and that his widow remarried on 7 June 1866.

    2. [S3338] "New Orleans, Louisiana, Marriage Records Index, 1831-1920," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 April 2013), entry for Louisa Alexandria Woollums-Powell Griscom, 17 August 1908, New Orleans, Louisiana; citing State of Louisiana, Secretary of State, Vital Records Indices, Division of Archives, Records Management, and History, Baton Rouge.

    3. [S3340] "Illinois, Marriages, 1815-1935," database, Family Search (https://familysearch.org : accessed 23 April 2013), entry for Hardin F. Sharp-Louise Alex Woollums, 30 September 1880, Clinton County, Illinois; the record description states that it does not index any specific set of records and is not complete for any particular place or time.

    4. [S1298] Military - Civil War pension files (Union, NARA).
      My p. 8, "Declaration of Minor Children for Pension," Clinton, Illinois, 18 May 1868; John M. Journey as guardian of Louisa A. Woollums, making a claim on behalf of her deceased father, Alexander [H.] Woollums. States that Alexander H. Woollums died in Nashville, Tennessee on 7 April 1865, of measles, and that his widow remarried on 7 June 1866. Also that Louisa Woollums was born on 16 May 1865 [does not state the place of birth].

    5. [S1304] Louisiana, Orleans - census 1920 (Ancestry), Louisiana, Orleans County, (http://www.ancestry.com: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

    6. [S3332] 1920 U.S. census, Orleans County, Louisiana, population schedule, 16th Precinct, New Orleans (337 Alexander St., enumeration district (ED) 60, sheet 9A (penned), p. 317 (stamped, recto), dwelling 187, family 202, Powell Griscom household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 April 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 619.

    7. [S3324] Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900, microfilm publication T289, 765 rolls (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administraiton, [year?], roll 736, index card for application of widow (1926), for Powell Griscom (pvt., Co. D, 1st Regt. U.S. Volunteer Engineers., Spanish-American War); "Civil War and Later Veterans Pension Index," digital images, Fold3 (http://www.fold3.com : accessed 20 April 2013).

    8. [S3331] 1930 U.S. census, Orleans County, Louisiana, population schedule, Ward 5 (736 City Park Ave.), New Orleans, enumeration district (ED) 36-66, sheet 1A, p. 113 (stamped, recto), dwelling 39, family 43, Louise Griscom household; digital images, _Ancestry.com_ (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 April 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 803.

    9. [S3326] "Deaths: Griscom," The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana), 15 February 1953, p. 8, col. 6, obituary of Louise (Woollums) Sharp Griscom; digital image, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : accessed 20 April 1977).

    10. [S3325] "Deaths: Sharp," The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana), 19 March 1977, morning edition, sec. 1, p. 20, col. 5; digital image, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : accessed 20 April 1977).

    11. [S1847] "Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 December 2011), for Alexander Woollums-Ritha S. Walker, Dickson County, [book not stated]: 45, license no. 1499, 27 December 1852, and return, 28 December 1852; citing Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville.

    12. [S1851] John M. Journey (Pvt., Co. F, 49th Ill. Inf., Civil War), pension application no. 262,224, certificate no. 186,802, Case Files of Approved Pension Applications..., 1861-1934; Civil War and Later Pension Files; Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15; National Archives, Washington, D. C. , Declaration of Minor Children for Pension (18 May 1868).
      [My page 8, stating that Alexander Woollums died in Nashville, Tennessee, of measles on 7 April 1865, and Ritha married John M. Journey on 7 June 1866.]

    13. [S1207] Illinois - Marriages State Archives online, Illinois State Archives, ((http://www.ilsos.gov/GenealogyMWeb/marrsrch.html)).

    14. [S1307] Louisiana, Orleans - New Orleans marriage records, 1831-1925 (Ancestry), ((http://www.ancestry.com)).


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