How the houses my Grandparents lived in look today--Part 2

Another of the homes of my Grandparents, Thomas Dewitt & Pearl Gray Jakes Cooke

1401 Forrest Avenue--They lived here in the early 1960s

Google Image from Aug 2011

Sept 1963

How the houses my Grandparents lived in look today-- Part 1

Thank You,  Grandma Cooke for gluing the envelopes in your scrapbooks.    This helped me to determine where you lived at different times by checking the postmark and address.  Also a big thank you for thinking that in front of the house was the best place to have a picture taken. 

1209 Calvin Avenue, Nashville, TN, USA

Circa 1953

Google Map Image Street View from Aug 2011

Talking with a friend earlier I realized that while I had the 1940 Census Entry for Conway Twitty(Harold Jenkins) that I did not have Loretta Lynn's 1940 Census entry......and so I searched and found...

1940 Census entry for 7 yr old Loretta Lynn who was born Loretta Webb.
Shown here in Johnson Co KY Magistrate Dist. 2 Butcher Hollow with her parents Melvin & Clara.

Lefty Frizzell in 1940 Union Co Arkansas

The following snippet of the 1940 census shows William Orville Frizzell living in the household of his parents in Union Co Arkansas's El Dorado Township. He was my Dad's 5th cousin thru Dad's double Frizzell line.

They shared common GGGG Grandparents: Nathan Frizzell & Margaret Deason. For those interested...he was born in Corsicana, TX and not Saginaw, Michigan. 😉 You can find his birth certificate at FamilySearch.org as well as the corrected birth certificate from the same day which corrects birth time from 12:35 to 12:30 and lists the city along with the county of birth.




Nathan  Frizzell(Margaret Deason)-----Nathan Frizzell(Margaret Deason)
David Frizzell(Nancy Ballinger) -------Nathan Frizzell (Ruahuma Weaver)
John Wiley Frizzell-----------------------James M. Frizzell
Pleasant Monroe Frizzell----------------David Frizzell
Wm. M. Frizzell--------------------------Thelitha Ann Frizzell
Namon Orville Frizzell-------------------Pearl Jakes Cooke
William Orville(Lefty) Frizzell---------Billy Joe Cooke

Hello Darlin'

If you are a country music fan you might be interested in the 6 yr old Harold Jenkins' 1940 Census entry.

1940 Coahoma Co., MS Beat 2 Friars Point Enumeration Dist 14-4 pg 58B Sheet 12b

1940 US Federal Census Findings

My shocker from the 1940 US Federal census.

Finding my Dad's maternal Grandfather, James Jakes. alive and living with my Grandparents in 1940. When I first began researching over 20 yrs ago I found a Date of death on microfiche for a James Jakes in the area in which he had lived and I incorrectly ASSumed it was him. The date was within 2 yrs of his wife's death and it seemed logical to me(the whole dying of a broken heart bit after losing a spouse). I knew where he was buried however his tombstone did not have a year of death. So I never really gave much thought to researching any more on him other than his children and his ancestors. After finding that he was still alive in 1940 I was able to search FamilySearch's online death records for TN and come up with the correct Death Cert and the correct date of death which happened the following yr. It also gave his birthdate. Prior to that I only had the yr from the tombstone and a month from census records which is off by one from what his Death Cert listed. The certificate also told his place of death-- Davidson Co. Hospital(TN). and gave M as his middle initial...something I'd never seen. Makes me wonder if it is Morrow which was his mother's Maiden name. The informant on the death cert. listed his father as James Jakes...which is probably an error. I have several records showing his father was George Jakes although I don't rule out the possibility that George's middle name might have been James.

Now I'm off in search of his 1930 census entry and also going to find out who Martha Gibson, the informant on his death certificate is. Two Gibson brothers married two of James Jakes' daughters and his Aunt Ann Jakes married a Gibson. Lots of possibilities.


I love learning :-)

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1940 US Federal Census at FamilySearch


1940 US Federal Census at National Archives And Records Administration