Grace B HOBSON

1889 - 1959  (70 years)

• Name	Grace B HOBSON
  Birth	9 Jun 1889	Pennsylvania
  	According to the California Death Index, her birth date was 9 Jun 1889. That is confirmed in the 1900 census.
  Gender	Female
  Death	9 Jun 1959	Los Angeles County, California
  	As Grace Hobson Smith. The California Death Index also calls her Grace Hobson Hobson, mother’s maiden name Short.
  Notes	In the 1921 Philadelphia city directory, there is a Grace B Hobson, widow of Lorenzo, living at 17 West School House Lane, Greaten. In the 1920 census, she is probably the Grace Hobson, a 30 year-old divorcee, living with her parents, Henry and Laura Marvill or Marvell in Philadelphia. That Grace was a saleslady in a dry good store. The family lived at 17 School House Lane. Included in the family were, apparently, Grace’s two children: Gladys Farra, 12, and William Farra, 7. Their father had also been born in Pennsylvania. In the 1910 census, that Grace was known as Grace B Farra, age 20, married, and living with her mother and siblings in Philadelphia. The mother was the widow Laura Hobson. Grace apparently had a daughter, Gladys, age 2. The 1900 census shows that Grace to be the daughter of Thomas and Laura Hobson of Philadelphia. Thomas is a flower and seed dealer. The family lives at 17 West School Lane. In the 1930 census, she was Grace Warner or Warren, age 40, married but with no husband listed. She was a housekeeper living in the household of James Glinsky of Flourtown in Springfield Twp, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Living with her in that household was her mother, Laura Marvill, 69, and married but no husband listed with her, Gladys Yeager, 22, married but with no husband listed with her, Geraldine Yeager, 3, Gladys’s daughter, and William Farra, 17. Glinsky is a painter, Gladys is a bookkeeper at a bank. William has no occupation. Gladys B Farra married a man named Kohler in Philadelphia in 1932. According to her death record, her mother’s maiden name was Short.
  Person ID	I19667	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	16 Jul 2013

  
  

  Family 1	Lorenzo FARRA,   b. 9 Jan 1888, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania d. 20 Feb 1958 (Age 70 years)
  Family ID	F14417	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Oct 2012

  
  

  Family 2	WARNER
  Family ID	F14420	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	Fred Jay SMITH,   b. 7 Mar 1883, Minnesota d. 16 Aug 1957, Los Angeles County, California (Age 74 years)
  Family ID	F14282	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart