Babcock Family with Bertha and Norman Graves
https://heritagecollections.elgin.ca/link/archives199795
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Graves Family Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- ca. 1945-1946
- Accession Number
- 2021-41
- Storage Location
- M5 S2 Sh4 B8 F1 5
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Graves Family Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Number
- 2021-41
- Storage Room
- Archives 4th Floor Storage Room
- Storage Location
- M5 S2 Sh4 B8 F1 5
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- ca. 1945-1946
- Publication
- October 5, 2022: Published on Facebook.
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 15 cm
- History / Biographical
- Llloyd Graves was born in Kentucky State, USA. His birth year is disputed. According to his tombstone, funeral card, obituary, and a 1934 newspaper article where his wife, Amanda Graves, was interviewed, he was approximately 104 years old at the time of his death in 1928, suggesting that he was born in 1824. However, census records vary; the 1861 and 1871 census records indicate he was born in circa 1837, the 1881 census indicates that he was born in circa 1836, the 1911 census indicates he was born in circa 1834, and the 1921 census indicates he was born in 1824. Graves used the Underground Railroad to flee the United States from Cleveland, Ohio, where he boarded a boat that crossed Lake Erie and arrived in Port Stanley. He was later hired as a driver for Lindop's Grocer in St. Thomas and settled in a log cabin on River Road. According to his obituary, he worked as the caretaker of the Mount Salem church and school until a few months before his death in 1928. He married Mary Irons and they had a daughter, Martha Ann. Mary died at the age of 28, when their daughter was three years old. After the death of his first wife, Lloyd married Amanda Irons on August 19, 1868. Martha Ann died at the age of 24 from tuberculosis. Lloyd and Amanda eventually settled in Mount Salem and had twelve more children: Oliver, Ernest, George, Walter, William, Emma, Hattie, Etta, Martha Jane, Frank, Bertha and Norman. Lloyd died at the age of 104 in 1928 and his wife, Amanda, died at the age of 99 in 1939. Along with ten of their children, they are buried in Dunboyne Cemetery, Township of Malahide.
- Scope and Content
- A photograph showing members of the Babcock family with their neighbours, Bertha Craig (nee Graves) and Norman Graves. The following individuals have been identified: Front row, from left to right: Oral Segui (nee Babcock) (1918-1998), in Oral's arms, Louis Segui (1940-2015), Paul Segui (1941-2021), Marjorie Crawford (nee Babcock) (1919-2017), John Segui (born 1942), and an unidentified individual. Middle row, from left to right: Martha Babcock (nee Irish) (1865-1947), Bertha Craig (nee Graves) (1880-1969), Orvis Babcock, and Norman Graves (1887-1978). Back row, from left to right: David Babcock (1924-2000), Mina May Babcock (1892-1966), unidentified, Stanley Babcock (1929-1999), and Oviet Babcock (1895-1965).
- Name Access
- Graves (family)
- Mount Salem (Ont.)
- Subject Access
- Black History
- Website / Street View Notes
- URL directs to a social media post featuring the image, published on October 5, 2022.
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