Daughter of Nicholas Edward and Alice A. Gross Tormey Watkins.
Born in Hazleton, Luzerne Co., Pa. Her father Nicholas changed his trade from miner to carpenter, and moved the little family from Luzerne Co.'s coal country, closer to the city of Philadelphia, where work for carpenters was more abundant.
Sometime after 1910 Nicholas and Alice were killed in a car accident (we believe a trolley car) and the children were placed in an orphanage. It is unclear how long they were orphaned or if they were together, but Viola stayed within the Phila. area.
She married Theodore Graeve in 1919 in Phila. Pa. Her first 5 children were born in Phila. Pa., and baby Donald was born in Pennsauken Camden Co. NJ where Theodore is found working as a "painter" for a printing co.
After the death of her husband, Viola took work at a Dr.'s office to provide for the family. She raised her children on her own. She was a devout Christian, and a member of the Ivey Methodist Church in Pennsauken NJ.
Born in Hazleton, Luzerne Co., Pa. Her father Nicholas changed his trade from miner to carpenter, and moved the little family from Luzerne Co.'s coal country, closer to the city of Philadelphia, where work for carpenters was more abundant.
Sometime after 1910 Nicholas and Alice were killed in a car accident (we believe a trolley car) and the children were placed in an orphanage. It is unclear how long they were orphaned or if they were together, but Viola stayed within the Phila. area.
She married Theodore Graeve in 1919 in Phila. Pa. Her first 5 children were born in Phila. Pa., and baby Donald was born in Pennsauken Camden Co. NJ where Theodore is found working as a "painter" for a printing co.
After the death of her husband, Viola took work at a Dr.'s office to provide for the family. She raised her children on her own. She was a devout Christian, and a member of the Ivey Methodist Church in Pennsauken NJ.
Daughter of Nicholas Edward and Alice A. Gross Tormey Watkins.
Born in Hazleton, Luzerne Co., Pa. Her father Nicholas changed his trade from miner to carpenter, and moved the little family from Luzerne Co.'s coal country, closer to the city of Philadelphia, where work for carpenters was more abundant.
Sometime after 1910 Nicholas and Alice were killed in a car accident (we believe a trolley car) and the children were placed in an orphanage. It is unclear how long they were orphaned or if they were together, but Viola stayed within the Phila. area.
She married Theodore Graeve in 1919 in Phila. Pa. Her first 5 children were born in Phila. Pa., and baby Donald was born in Pennsauken Camden Co. NJ where Theodore is found working as a "painter" for a printing co.
After the death of her husband, Viola took work at a Dr.'s office to provide for the family. She raised her children on her own. She was a devout Christian, and a member of the Ivey Methodist Church in Pennsauken NJ.
Born in Hazleton, Luzerne Co., Pa. Her father Nicholas changed his trade from miner to carpenter, and moved the little family from Luzerne Co.'s coal country, closer to the city of Philadelphia, where work for carpenters was more abundant.
Sometime after 1910 Nicholas and Alice were killed in a car accident (we believe a trolley car) and the children were placed in an orphanage. It is unclear how long they were orphaned or if they were together, but Viola stayed within the Phila. area.
She married Theodore Graeve in 1919 in Phila. Pa. Her first 5 children were born in Phila. Pa., and baby Donald was born in Pennsauken Camden Co. NJ where Theodore is found working as a "painter" for a printing co.
After the death of her husband, Viola took work at a Dr.'s office to provide for the family. She raised her children on her own. She was a devout Christian, and a member of the Ivey Methodist Church in Pennsauken NJ.
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