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Mary GRANT died 11th August 1920 in Chicago.
I have copies of the Executor's Bond, oath and letters testamentary.
One of the Executor's named was Alexander O Grant residing at 4351 N Ashland Ave, Chicago (dated 15th Nov 1920) and I am hoping that he was her brother. But I can't find him anywhere! :'(
I've looked in the census records on familysearch but he doesn't show up.
So - two things. How can I get a copy of Mary Grant's actual will? And secondly, can anyone help with further information with regards to Alexander O Grant.
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Can't help with the will, but if you give us some possible dates of birth for Mary and Alexander and where they were born, it might help in tracking Alexander.
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Who was her mother please?
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Per the death Mary born 1842 Scotland.
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This looks like it could possibly be the family:
1870 Census: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-XCMH-1V8?i=199&cc=1438024
all born Scotland
John Grant, head
Christine Grant, wife
Jemima Grant
Alexander Grant
Mary Grant
1880 Census: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYY2-SHNB?i=24&cc=1417683
John Grant
Christina Grant
Jemima Grant
Alexander Grant
Jeanette Grant, dau-in-law
Alexander Grant, gr son
1900 Census: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-673S-J85?i=20&cc=1325221
Alexander is a widower and boarding with his son--landlady, Clara Patterson. Alexander states that he immigrated in 1867.
1910 Census: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRNJ-WWQ?i=28&cc=1727033
Alexander is married to a Clara, they've been married 8 years, 2nd marriage for both
1920 Census: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9R63-FR3?i=3&cc=1488411
Alexander and Clara are living with her daughter, Edith, and family
1930 Census: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9R4L-CZT?i=9&cc=1810731
Alexander and Clara
www.familysearch.org
Illinois Deaths and Still Births
Alexander P Grant
DOD: 25 July 1940
Age: 90
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Hi all I think this is the death for Mary Grant 11 August 1920 Chicago Cook Illinois
Mary Grant birth place Scotland 1842 age 78 years
Retired ...Single
Burial date 14 August 1920
Burial place MT Olivet
Street address 6344 University Avenue 7th Ward ..
There is also a record on www.findagrave.com for a Mary Grant although the death date is out by one day but same place
Cemetery Braemar Graveyard looks like her name might have been added to a grave stone sister of Isabella
Isabella Grant died 17 March 1879 age 22 years think the parents of this family could be John and Jane Grant living in Aberfeldy Perthshire
Rosie
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Mary GRANT died 11th August 1920 in Chicago.
I have copies of the Executor's Bond, oath and letters testamentary.
How can I get a copy of Mary Grant's actual will?
This page might help, I'm not sure
http://chicagogenealogy.com/find-chicago-probate-records.html
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Chicago Tribune
Chicago, Illinois
Friday, August 13, 1920 - Page 15
GRANT - Mary Grant. Aug. 11, at Hotel Hayes, 64th and University. Funeral Saturday, Aug. 14. at 9:30 a. M., from the residence of John Hayes. 6421 University, St. Clara's church; interment Mount Olivet.
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Clara wife of Alexander Paul Grant - appears in Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage
Books
Mrs. Clara M. Thompson Grant. DAR ID Number: 68673; Born in Chicago, Illinois - Wife of Alexander Paul Grant. Descendant of Samuel Clyde. Daughter of Albert Thompson (1821-82)
and Rhoda Smith (1822-1901), his wife. Granddaughter of Stephen Thompson and
Melinda Clyde, his wife. Gr-granddaughter of Mathew Clyde (b. 1770) and Jennie Clark,
his wife. Gr-gr-granddaughter of Samuel Clyde and Catherine Wasson, his wife, m. 1761.
Samuel Clyde (1732-90) served on the Committee of Safety of Tryon County and was chairman in 1777.
He was colonel of militia, and after the massacre of Cherry Valley he superintended
the fortifications and a fort was named after him. He was born in Windham, N. H.
died in Cherry Valley, N. Y.
Clara passed away 3 March 1933 - buried 6 March 1933 - burial Rose Hill Cemetery.
Sandra
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1880 census Dashboard Street Chicago, Cook, Illinois.
John Grant 54 Christina Grant 49
Jemima C. Grant 28
Alexander P. Grant 30 Jeannette Grant 28 Alexander Grant 1
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXNJ-87N
Alexander P Grant - Naturalization - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XKLB-YYF
1900 census Precinct 34 Lake View Chicago city Ward 25, Cook, Illinois
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSQX-W2M
Marriage to Clara - 17 June 1901
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N74M-C5Q
Alexander P Grant - 1910 census - Oak Park, Cook, Illinois
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKHK-H62
Engagement announcement of the son of Alexander Paul Grant- Alexander Warne Grant - to Luella Sarah Patterson - Chicago Tribune - 9 October 1915
Sandra
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Marriage Alexander Warne Grant and Luella Patterson - 9 October 1915
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7Z6-F35
1920 census Milton, DuPage, Illinois.
Alex Grant 39 Louella Grant 35
Alexander Grant 3 Robert Grant 1
Paul Grant 0
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJWL-G1L
1930 census Main Street Milton, DuPage, Illinois.
Alexander W Grant 50 Luella S Grant 45
A John Grant 13 Robert P Grant 11
Paul J Grant 10 Edith C Grant 6
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSY3-H6Q
Louella S. Grant [Louella S. Patterson] passed away 2 December 1937 - Glen, Du Page, Illinois.
Father Pembroke Patterson - Mother Name - Clara Thompson - Spouse Name Alex Grant
Alexander Warne Grant WW2 Draft
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V1KM-JQP
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6SJS-B9V?i=3718&cc=1861144
FIND A GRAVE
Alexander Warne Grant - 1880 - 1951
Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.
FIND A GRAVE
Luella Grant - 1885 - 1937
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133874937
Sandra
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Robert Patterson Grant (son of Alexander Warne Grant and Luella Sarah Patterson - born 30 September 1918 - 15 July 2001 - obituary attached
son - Forest Hill Cemetery Glen Ellyn, Du Page County, Illinois.
PLOT Grave 4 -- Lot 765 -- Section 9
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14930361
wife - Elizbaeth Sloane Beckenridge Grant - 22 September 1922 - passed away 31 July 2012 - Two Harbors Minn esota.
Obituary Kane County Chronical (St Charles Illinois) 18 August 2012
Lists of children sent separately by pm
Sandra
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FIND A GRAVE - Paul James Grant - son of Alexander Warne Grant and Luella Sarah Patterson.
25 November 1919 - 14 June 1997
Florida National Cemetery Bushnell, Sumter County, Florida.
PLOT 319, 0, 335
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/716014
Sandra
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Coralou Edith Grant [Edith Coralou Pfeiffer] [Edith Pfeiffer] - daughter of Alexander Warne Grant and Elizabeth born 1 December 1923 -Geneva illinois - passed away December 1993
Last Residence 85351 Sun City, Maricopa, Arizona.
Sandra
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Birth of Alexander John Grant
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7SS-13V
Alexander John Grant - son of Alexander Warne Grant and Luella Sarah Patterson -
FIND A GRAVE
12 October 1916 - 3 March 1991 -
Florida National Cemetery Bushnell, Sumter County, Florida.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/715556
WIFE - Jessie Olive Strawn Grant - 10 September 1915 - 4 March 2013
Florida National Cemetery Bushnell, Sumter County, Florida.
PLOT 112 0 2064
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/140605904/jessie-olive-grant
Sandra
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Greetings all.
Sorry I've taken so long to reply but I live in NZ and have just got out of bed.
Mary GRANT was born in Scotland in Inverey, Aberdeenshire on the 12th June 1842. Her parents were John Grant and Jane (nee GRANT). Her parents were not named on her death record which I have. There is a monument inscription for her in the Braemar KIrkyard on her sister Isabella's grave which pointed me in the direction of her death in Chicago.
Mary must have left Scotland between 1861 and 1871.
She had nine siblings of which five 'disappeared' from records.
James b. 1846, aft 1872
John b. 1847, aft 1861
Jane b. 1850, aft 1861
Alexander b. 1854, aft 1871
Elizabeth Ann, b. 1857, aft 1891
So when I saw an Alexander O Grant as an executor I got a bit excited.
Mary's father, John seems to have had just one sibling, James and he and his family emigrated to New Zealand in 1863. James is my ancestor but it's proving very difficult to track down any further information about my family and at the moment I can't move back further than John and James' parents. Very frustrating!
Just checking the three entries related to Mary's death it does look more like an O than a P for his second name.
I should add that her parents did not leave Scotland.
I very much appreciate all your efforts ;D
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So when I saw an Alexander O Grant as an executor I got a bit excited.
Just checking the three entries related to Mary's death it does look more like an O than a P for his second name.
I agree that Alexander P is not her brother.
If she had family also living in Chicago you would think they would have been mentioned in the obit/death noticed I previously posted. Also the funeral would have been from that family members residence and not the proprietor of the Hayes Hotel.
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Quote :She had nine siblings of which five 'disappeared' from records.
James b. 1846, aft 1872
John b. 1847, aft 1861
Jane b. 1850, aft 1861
Alexander b. 1854, aft 1871
Elizabeth Ann, b. 1857, aft 1891
Have you checked Scotlands people for possible deaths and marriages of those siblings ?
Sandra
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Hi Sandra
Yes - many times over several years now.
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Not an easy family to find did any of them have a middle name ?
Rosie
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Just Elizabeth Ann (who was Anne, Ann E and Eliza Annie Julia) and two males who died in Scotland and England. Those with middle names were the last three of the children.
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Did they have a middle name Downie ?
Rosie
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Yes, correct. William Downie is one of the siblings.
I have him "completed" in my private tree - born in 1859 and died in 1938.
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Yes, correct. William Downie is one of the siblings.
I have him "completed" in my private tree - born in 1859 and died in 1938.
See William died in Helensburgh this is where I live :) sure I seen some thing for a James but can't find it now will have a look later
Rosie
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He's buried in St Andrews cemetery, Peebles
Gosh if you have anything on James that would be wonderful
Robyn