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Both my Great Grandfather Ivory Scott And His Wife Dicey Relocated to Los Angeles

 After learning that my Great Grandfather Ivory Scott died on January 11, 1969 in Los Angeles, California and that he was a widower at the time,  I checked to find information about his longtime second wife Dicey Wilson.   I wanted to see if Great Grandpa Ivory moved to Los Angeles from Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana with her.

https://diversegenes.blogspot.com/2023/09/death-certificate-of-my-patrilineal.html


I found a 1958 Los Angeles, California voter registration record of Great Grandpa Ivory and Dicey registered as Democrats and living at 3639 Adair Street.

Some time between the time of the 1950 Census and the time of the 1958 voter registration, they relocated to Los Angeles from Thibodaux. Some of their children relocated to.  My father Lawrence Nolan Scott left his birthplace New Orleans to join them later. 


 I also found a 1958 Los Angeles, California voter registration record of Great Grandpa Ivory and Dicey's daughter Florence and her husband Clyde Dawson registered as Democrats and living at 714 East 105th Street.


I found Great Grandpa Ivory and Dicey's daughter Odessa's Social Security Applications and Claims Index Record that shows that she was issued a Social Security Number in California in August 1952.  She was married to Alfred Porche, and they were living with the Scott family in Thibodaux at the time of the 1950 Census.  

https://diversegenes.blogspot.com/2023/02/learning-about-my-scott-family-of.html  



I found Dicey's May 8, 1963 Los Angeles death record




 I  got copies of death certificates that show that Great Grandpa Ivory and Dicey had children Ivory and Elsie that died as infants. 


Uncle Ivory died on July 8, 1933 at the age of 7 months. 


 Aunt Elsie died on Aug 9, 1942 at the age of 3 months, 18 days. 


The more research that I do on Great Grandpa's side of the family,  the more tragic loss that I see

His first wife Victoria Rhodes died very shortly after giving birth to their daughter Thelma on January 2, 1912. 

His brother Matthew Scott died on June 28, 1920 at the age of 31 from Acute Nephritis. (according to copy of death certificate that I got)

His mother Maria Lilly Scott died on Nov 15, 1922 at the age of 53 from bronchial asthma with chronic myocarditis as secondary contributor. (according to copy of death certificate that I got)

His sister Pinky Scott Johnson died on August 8, 1930 at the age of 42 from Typhoid Fever. (according to copy of death certificate that I got)

His aunt Ollie Lilly Good died on March 15, 1932 at the age of 56 from Chronic Nephritis and some other conditions that I couldn't make out. (according to copy of death certificate that I got)

His firstborn child my Grandfather Nolan Scott died on January 31, 1944 just around a week before his 35th birthday from Bilateral Bronchio Pneumonia. (according to copy of death certificate that I got). My father was just 3 years old at the time of his father's death. 

His father William Scott (aka William Henry Daggs Jr) was out of the picture by 1918. Even though 2nd Great Grandma was recorded as a widow in 1920 Census, she was really divorced just like Aunt Pinky who was a divorcee wrongly recorded as being divorced even though her former husband, my Great Grandmother's brother Nazareth Johnson was alive until 1958 according to Census Records and death certificate.  The wrong name Tom Scott was put down for Great Grandpa Ivory's father on his death certificate.   The name of father wasn't put down on Aunt Pinky's death certificate even though Aunt Ollie's husband Reuben Good was the informant. Reuben and Aunt Ollie married on January 8, 1896 in Lafourche Parish, and that was 8 years after my 2nd Great Grandparents married on January 11, 1888 in Lafourche Parish.  Aunt Ollie knew 2nd Great Grandpa William.   William Scott was put down for father on Uncle Matthew's death certificate. 

https://diversegenes.blogspot.com/2023/06/corrections-about-my-paternal.html


His son Wilson Scott died on June 13, 1968 at the age of 47.





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