Born to a Protestant family in McClandess Township in northern Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Tracie's mother died in childbirth when she was just six years old.
Her father, who work in the oil well industry and later as a railroad engineer, remarried and the 1910 census shows Tracie at age 15 in a mixed household with a step mother and two half brothers along with an older sister and two older brothers and a younger brother. One can imagine that Tracie was not entirely pleased by all of this and by the end of 1911, she was married at age 17 in December 1911 to 23 year old Albert Lynch at which time she converted to Roman Catholicism. A family history records that the marriage was much against her father's will as he was a Roman Catholic. The marriage record indicates that Peter Spier was her guardian who signed the certificate of consent due to her age since her father likely disowned her at some point prior to the marriage.
The 1920 census places her at 98 Brookside Ave., Akron, Ohio with four children (ages 7-2 and three lodgers. By the 1930 Census, things have taken a tragic turn as her husband has abandoned her to follow a career in show business in Los Angeles. Tracie has taken a job as a bead taper at the local rubber plant and now lives at 29 Ames Court with her six children and two boarders.
She died tragically just two years later at age 37 leaving her children orphaned.
Her father, who work in the oil well industry and later as a railroad engineer, remarried and the 1910 census shows Tracie at age 15 in a mixed household with a step mother and two half brothers along with an older sister and two older brothers and a younger brother. One can imagine that Tracie was not entirely pleased by all of this and by the end of 1911, she was married at age 17 in December 1911 to 23 year old Albert Lynch at which time she converted to Roman Catholicism. A family history records that the marriage was much against her father's will as he was a Roman Catholic. The marriage record indicates that Peter Spier was her guardian who signed the certificate of consent due to her age since her father likely disowned her at some point prior to the marriage.
The 1920 census places her at 98 Brookside Ave., Akron, Ohio with four children (ages 7-2 and three lodgers. By the 1930 Census, things have taken a tragic turn as her husband has abandoned her to follow a career in show business in Los Angeles. Tracie has taken a job as a bead taper at the local rubber plant and now lives at 29 Ames Court with her six children and two boarders.
She died tragically just two years later at age 37 leaving her children orphaned.
Born to a Protestant family in McClandess Township in northern Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Tracie's mother died in childbirth when she was just six years old.
Her father, who work in the oil well industry and later as a railroad engineer, remarried and the 1910 census shows Tracie at age 15 in a mixed household with a step mother and two half brothers along with an older sister and two older brothers and a younger brother. One can imagine that Tracie was not entirely pleased by all of this and by the end of 1911, she was married at age 17 in December 1911 to 23 year old Albert Lynch at which time she converted to Roman Catholicism. A family history records that the marriage was much against her father's will as he was a Roman Catholic. The marriage record indicates that Peter Spier was her guardian who signed the certificate of consent due to her age since her father likely disowned her at some point prior to the marriage.
The 1920 census places her at 98 Brookside Ave., Akron, Ohio with four children (ages 7-2 and three lodgers. By the 1930 Census, things have taken a tragic turn as her husband has abandoned her to follow a career in show business in Los Angeles. Tracie has taken a job as a bead taper at the local rubber plant and now lives at 29 Ames Court with her six children and two boarders.
She died tragically just two years later at age 37 leaving her children orphaned.
Her father, who work in the oil well industry and later as a railroad engineer, remarried and the 1910 census shows Tracie at age 15 in a mixed household with a step mother and two half brothers along with an older sister and two older brothers and a younger brother. One can imagine that Tracie was not entirely pleased by all of this and by the end of 1911, she was married at age 17 in December 1911 to 23 year old Albert Lynch at which time she converted to Roman Catholicism. A family history records that the marriage was much against her father's will as he was a Roman Catholic. The marriage record indicates that Peter Spier was her guardian who signed the certificate of consent due to her age since her father likely disowned her at some point prior to the marriage.
The 1920 census places her at 98 Brookside Ave., Akron, Ohio with four children (ages 7-2 and three lodgers. By the 1930 Census, things have taken a tragic turn as her husband has abandoned her to follow a career in show business in Los Angeles. Tracie has taken a job as a bead taper at the local rubber plant and now lives at 29 Ames Court with her six children and two boarders.
She died tragically just two years later at age 37 leaving her children orphaned.
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