Person Sheet

Name Grace Ruth WILSON Birth 30 Jul 1890, Atlantic, Iowa Death 29 Dec 1968, Salem, Oregon Father Frank Walter WILSON (1868-1949) Mother Nettie LANSING (1871-1949)
Spouses
1 Doctor (Doc) McFadden EBY Birth 4 Nov 1889, Rock Springs, Illinois Death 17 Sep 1960
Marriage 21 Feb 1912, Summit Meth. Church, Polk Co., Oregon
No Children
Notes for Grace Ruth WILSON
Grace was about nine years old when the family moved to Washington. There, she, Blanche and Fred, the three oldest children, went to school. Grace was hired out at age 14 to a neighbor family and missed a year of school. In Oregon, west of Salem, all seven children attended and graduated from Popcorn grade school. Grace and Blanche graduated in 19__ with schoolmates Flora and Minnie Grice, Ora Cavit, Olive Porter, and Fred and Duane Gibson. Miss Rita Higgins was their eighth grade teacher. Blanche and Grace used to sing duets. After graduation Blanche & Grace went to town to live and work (Apt was where Sears store is now [Marion & Capitol Sts., Salem]). Grace had polio when she was 21. Her sister Mabel remembered Grace was a very precise person, everything had to have a place. She loved gardening, jewlery, and was always trying to improve herself through reading, attending classes etc. She loved her nieces and nephews, was always sending them something when she & Doc had the Woolworth stores. She was active in the Eastern Star, and became Matron of the chapter in Salem. She belonged to the Baptist Church and supported a missionary for sometime; was very interested in others.
Notes for Doctor (Doc) McFadden (Spouse 1)
Uncle Doc was the (hobby) photographer of the family (his brother was a professional photographer in Salem). He and his twin brother were named for the two doctors that saved them and their mother at childbirth. Uncle Doc was a retail store business manager who worked for Woolworths in Missoula, Montana and Fort Collins, Colorado, and managed a farmers coop store in Salem before he retired.