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Bertha Elizabeth GREEN
1896 - 1982 (86 years)-
Name Bertha Elizabeth GREEN Birth 19 Mar 1896 Farmersville, Collin, Texas, USA [1, 2, 3, 4] Gender Female Census 11 Apr 1930 Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA [5] - 1215 Denver Ave.
Census 15 Apr 1940 Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA [4] - 1001 Maddox
Residence 27 Apr 1942 Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA [6] - 1201 Hurley
Residence 28 Mar 1982 Haltom City, Tarrant, Texas, USA [2] - 5617 Dana
Occupation Grocer Occupation Housewife Cause of death Massive Pulmonary Embolism Death 28 Mar 1982 North Richland Hills, Tarrant, Texas, USA [2] - at 3:35 p.m. at Glenview Hospital
Burial 31 Mar 1982 Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA [2] Person ID I13191 Dyal and Speckels Last Modified 14 Feb 2018
Family Richard Manley DAVIS, b. 1 Sep 1887, Mineral Springs, Howard, Arkansas, USA d. 23 Feb 1970, North Richland Hills, Tarrant, Texas, USA (Age 82 years) Marriage 21 Jun 1916 [7] Children + 1. Emma Lee DAVIS, b. 2 Apr 1925, Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA d. 25 Jun 1991, Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA (Age 66 years) Family ID F9234 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 1 Feb 2018
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Notes - IN THE BEGINNING
RM Davis and Bertha Green
By Mayola Davis
It wasn't love at first sight because the first time Mama saw Daddy she was ten years old, in pigtails and carrying an empty birdcage, and he was a nineteen year old man-about-town. It was 1906, and the Greens were moving to Grapevine from Merit, Texas. With their families living on adjoining farms, Mama and Daddy were bound to have seen each other often. Every time Daddy drove his buggy by the Green place, usually on his way to go courting (or sparking as they called it), Pencil Paw would eye the dapper young man and say, "He won't amount to a hill of beans!"
By the time Mama was eighteen Daddy was calling on her older sister Cordie and Bernard Parkman was calling on Mama. Daddy always declared that he had his eye on Mama the whole time, but they didn't start going together until about six months later.
How did Daddy and Uncle Bernard come to switch girls? Daddy challenged Uncle Bernard - whoever picked 100 pounds of cotton first got the girl of his choice. Daddy filled his sack (along with cotton) with stumps and rocks, anything he could find in the cotton rows that weighed a lot - and won. He chose Mama. Uncle Bernard didn't find out about the deceit until sometime later.
Their dating consisted of going to church or visiting friends - no dances, parties or social get-togethers not connected with church because the Greens were very strait-laced. They courted in her front room most of the time.
Her little brother, Cecil, thought Daddy was grand because he always had chewing gum for the kids. Cecil hung around until it was passed out - even nudged Daddy a few times when he seemed to forget.
Soon they decided to get married. She made her wedding dress out of white net over taffeta and even tatted the lace collar and trim. She wore blue garters. He wore a navy blue suit, his one and only suit for years to come.
The marriage took place on Wednesday, June 21, 1916. Daddy and Mama both worked in the fields until noon, but took the rest of the day off. Mama cooked the wedding supper (eaten with her whole family present,) then they went into the parlor, stood before the preacher (Rev. Kornegay of the Grape¬vine Methodist Church, where both bride and groom were members), and recited their vows. It was only later, in the buggy on the way to (his brother and wife) Harvey and Ruby's house where they were to spend their wedding night that Daddy kissed Marna for the first time. She knew she'd have a baby pretty soon, because she thought that's how babies came about.
The next morning they went home to Grandpa Davis’s and by noon Daddy put on his overalls and plowed the pea patch. [8]
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Sources - [S82] Ancestry.com, U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011), Number: 456-22-1981;Issue State: Texas;Issue Date: Before 1951.
- [S155] Death Records, File No. 31932.
- [S220] Ancestry.com, Texas Birth Certificates, 1903–1932, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013), Year 1925, File No. 28288.
- [S1629] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, Tarrant County, Texas, ED 237-35, p. 9B, line 42.
- [S15] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930, Tarrant County, Texas, ED 49, p. 10A, line 43.
- [S106] Ancestry.com, U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007), The National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; World War II Draft Cards (4th Registration) for the State of Texas; Record Group Title: Records of the Selective Service System, 1926-1975; Record Group Number: 147.
- [S2348] Find A Grave, Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, USA, 1 Feb 2018.
- [S3057] Steve Hornberger, Proposed Change: Bertha Elizabeth GREEN (I13191).
- [S82] Ancestry.com, U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011), Number: 456-22-1981;Issue State: Texas;Issue Date: Before 1951.