Hammie Gray remembers slavery and life after the Civil War
Hammie Gray born June 6 1870 in Fort Gaines Georgia recalls plantation life under slave owners Jake Daniel Boone’s family. She left the South in 1949 with her granddaughter, later settling in California on a pension, and recounts learning to sew from charts and enduring harsh memories.
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Hammie Gray
Fort Gaines
Jake Daniel Boone
Hammie
Hanmie
South
Florida
California
Long-lived matriarch recalls life from slavery to modern LA
The great-great-grandmother, one of three children born to enslaved parents, lives with her great-granddaughter in Los Angeles. Interviewed at Riviera Hospital in Torrance during minor abdominal surgery, she shares memories of Florida dog days, the Titanic sinking, world wars, and old root-based remedies.
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Schol
Los Angeles
Riviera Hospital
Torrance
Gor
Pederson
Hambie
Florida
Culpit
Hammie Rememers
Hammie
Multiple Local Marriages Highlight Spring Celebrations
A flurry of weddings fills Long Beach area society pages. Lowell Grebbs and Richard Boehun wed at Trinity United Methodist with Lisa Grebbs as maid of honor. Donna Wade and Michael Wade tied the knot at St Pancratius with Mary Riske as maid of honor. Additional unions include Norman Kowallis and Linda Wright at Los Angeles Temple, Debra Hysmith and Alan Cutler at Community Brethren Church, Susan Colborn and Robert Dransfield at Los Angeles Temple, Rachel Fitzhugh and Steven Proctor in Winona Lake, and Peggy Spicer and Richard Tripp in Garden Grove. The brides hail from Long Beach, Lakewood, and nearby towns. grooms from San Pedro, Newport Beach, and beyond. Honeymoons span California sights from San Luis Obispo to Yosemite and Hawaii, with first homes planned in Monrovia, Lakewood, Gardena, Stanton, and Long Beach.
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Trinity United Methodist Church
Lowell Lenyse
Grebbs
Richard Ralph Boehun
Lisa Dawn Paul
Ronald V. Grebbs
Lakewood
James Larry Luke
George Roehm
Anaheim F High School
Cerritos College
Japts
Bethel
Stanton
Honeymann
San Luis Obispo
Wade-Riskedong Beach State University
Donna Riske
Michael T. Wade
St. Pancratius Church
Steven S. Riske
Long Beach
Mary Riske
James LaBrose
James W. Wade
LESU
St. Pancratis Church
Kowallis-Wright
San Diego
Los Angeles
Temple of the Latter-day Saints
Norman Kowallis
Linda Wright
Harold G. Wright
Betty
Larry Kowaltis
Kowallis
Millikan High School
Long Beach City College
Long Beach State University
LBCC
Cutler-Hysmith Community Brethren Church
Debra Caro Hysmith
Flonn
Alan Cutler
Byron Norris
James Hysmith
Raymond Hinke
Maurice Cutler
Shreve
Ohio
San Simeon
Winona Lake
Ind
Lakewood High School
Grace College
How
Dransfield-Colborn
Los Angeles Temple
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Susan Dianne Colborn
Robert Dransfield
Guadalajara
Margaret Loosley
Robert E. Colborn
John Norman
Arnold $. Dransfield
Boulder City
Nev
Associated Women Students
High Sierras
Peggy Louise Spicer
Robert. Munford Spicer
Westminster
Richard Gordon Tripp
Garden Grove Community Church
Jane Spicer
Robert Tripp
Gordon Bennett Tripp
Santa Ana
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RER
Aurthur Pederson
Hotimia
Hanenle
Calif
Mom
Richard Boehm
Mrs. MT. Wade
Bob Shumway
Patrick Hamil
Glenn Cutler
Europe
First Baptist Church of Downey
Patrick William Hamil
Diana Marie Lehner
Alan Armstrong
Herman Lehner
Lakewoood
Rich de Michele
Hamil
Mayfair High School
Dean Spille
Henley-on-Thames
Eng
Land
William Hamil
Dixie Junior College
St. George
Utah
Dixie College
N Eugland
LDS Church
United
Newport Beach
Tripp
Westminster High School
University of Redlands
Tustin
Delta Kappa Psi
Chapter FQ
PEO
U of Redlands
Westlake Tennis Club
Kesler-Jones
Yellowstone National Park
Paw Alen Kesler
Kathy Coedell Jones
Temple
Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday
Saints
Margaret Jones
Roanoke
Norman Seid
Paul Larsson
Bir
Duane A. Kesler
Cypress
Polytechnic High School
Cypress College
Indiana
Michigan
Lds'church
Tamura Casey
Gardena
Atsko Tamura Iia Casey
Los Altos United Methodist Church
William G. Casey
Isao’ Tamura
Shizuoka
Japan
Kristine Annettte Casey
Mike Nishino
Cakewood Synchronettes
Yosemite
Sequoia National Parks
Strasburger
Rita Strasburger
Matthew
Stiffiess
St Anthony's Catholic Church
Harold van Assell
Hans- Newbold
Vies
Middle- N
Pichnel
Antho
Ny’s High School
UCLA
University of Tlinois
Howard University
University of Wisconsin
Stanford University
Hawaii
Ada
Gosselin-Hanson
Lester 'Tanson
Lorrie
Michael
Gosselin
Walter Gosselin
Counte Hanson
Dave Weiner
Barlayana and
Kangsai
Long Beach State
Lake Tahoe
The
Shirley Joy Munn
Eugene P. Munn
Joseph R. Cacek Sr
Donna? Keezuce
James Gilman
Downey
Tempars Fencing Club
Long Beach City
A.R. Dransfield
Paul Kesler
Mrs. S.b-Proctor
B.G. Tripp
Tatsug Tamura
Matthew Suffness
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