Grace Vava BRUNSON

  General Notes:

Funeral card: This original funeral card for Grace Brunson Tedrow, 1894-1965, defines her dates of birth and death, date of burial and some family participants in her burial service.
From DeeAnna Allum Granston


1894 BIRTH of Grace Vava Brunson

1900 CENSUS, Iowa, Polk County, Walnut Township ("Grace," age 6, with parents)

1910 CENSUS, Iowa, Polk County, Walnut Township ("Grace V.," age 15, with mother Kate Fields Alvord Brunson)

1911 MARRIAGE of Grace Vava Brunson and Jess Edmund Tedrow on October 25

1917 REGISTRATION, World War I Draft, Iowa, Iowa County, North English ("Jess Edmund Tedrow," age 26, born March 16, 1891, self-employed, "Farming")

1920 CENSUS, Iowa, Van Buren County, Village Township (Jess, "Farmer")

1930 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Fillmore Township ("J. E.," age 39, "Farmer") (wife "Grace," age 35)

1965 DEATH, Grace Vava (Brunson) Tedrow, at 71 years 3 months 28 days

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1966 DEATH of husband, Jess Edmund Tedrow, at 75 years 8 months 22 days



BOOK: GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM TEAGARDEN, From Arrival in America, Including European Background, by Helen Elizabeth Vogt, published 1967, page 342, regarding Grace (Brunson) Tedrow and Jess Tedrow:

"Lived on a farm near South English, Iowa"




OCCUPATION (Jess): Farmer

DESCRIPTION (Jess): "Medium height, medium build, blue eyes, brown hair" (World War I Draft Registration)

LOCATION: South English, Keokuk County, Iowa

CHURCH AFFILIATION: Catholic

CAUSE OF DEATH (Grace): "Stroke" --Lucian Tedrow, son



PHOTOGRAPHS:

Jess and Grace (Brunson) Tedrow, 50th wedding anniversary celebration at Zuber's restaurant, Amana Colonies, Iowa

Gravestones with "TEDROW," Little Creek Cemetery



OTHER:

Original funeral card for Grace Brunson Tedrow from Best Funeral Home

Grace married Jess Edmund TEDROW on October 25, 1911 in Iowa. (Jess Edmund TEDROW was born on March 16, 1891 in Iowa, died on December 8, 1966 in (Probably) Iowa County, Iowa and was buried in Little Creek Cemetery, Liberty Township, Keokuk County, Iowa.)