Mary was born in Florida, likely in the panhandle region where her mother, Edith Rickard Achord, lived with her parents in the late 1800's and likely up to the time Mary married Reginald Coykendale.
Dalkeith was the Florida "winter hometown" of her grandparents and where Mary's mother was living in 1900 for sure, as Edith is listed on that Census and had the Enumerator note her parents were in Ohio for the summer. (Indeed, Byron H and Mary Rickard, her maternal grandparents, are found in Findlay, Ohio in the 1900 Census.)
Mary was the 2nd child of William D Achord and Edith Rickard, joining them and older brother, Otis (born Ohio) in 1906. Sometime before 1910 her parents moved to Alabama where they lived until shortly after 1920 when Mary's mother died.
The reason for the Alabama move is unclear, but may have been prompted by her father's business endeavor, beekeeping and the production of honey. I haven't found a clue as to how this relatively uncommon career came to be, but by 1910, her father was an "apiarist" or beekeeper in Greenwood, Bullock County, Alabama. Mary is age 5 in 1910 and living with her parents, older brother (Otis, age 7) and younger sister (Catherine, age 2).
Mary's father was a successful apiarist. By 1920 he had moved the family to Montgomery County in Alabama and home was in the town of Pike Road. Mary is now 14. The 1920 Census recorded her as born in Ohio, but I'm maintaining Florida as her birthplace as it is documented on all other Census records and on her Ohio Death Certificate.
Mary attended Lanier High School in Montgomery County and graduated in 1923. I found a photo of her among a group of 6 young women graduating from Lanier HS and headed for college; it was in the Montgomery Advertiser of 16 May 1923. Another 1923 article noted she had been accepted to Woman's College of Alabama (now Huntingdon College) and it appears she graduated as her Death Certificate records 4 years of college. This college was in Montgomery County.
By 1922, Mary's father had moved to Findlay, Ohio where it appears he had lived earlier with Mary's mother, Edith. Likely Mary followed after graduating college in Alabama and met and married Reginald Coykendale there (have not found a marriage record).
The 1930 Census shows Mary and Reginald living in Avon Lake, Lorain County, Ohio, not far from Cleveland. Reginald is a public school teacher; his WW II Draft Registration showed his place of employment as Glenwood Junior High School.
By 1940, Mary and Reginald have moved to Findlay, Ohio where her father (remarried) is living as are her 2 siblings. Reginald is still teaching and no children are listed in this Census record. At 34, it appears Mary did not have children.
I found no later records or newspaper articles about Mary until 1997 when she died at a nursing home in Findlay at age 91. She was buried beside Reginald who had died about 9 years earlier.
16 Oct 2020: Draft
Vicki Edwards
Los Angeles
Connected to Mary thru her mother's paternal line
Dalkeith was the Florida "winter hometown" of her grandparents and where Mary's mother was living in 1900 for sure, as Edith is listed on that Census and had the Enumerator note her parents were in Ohio for the summer. (Indeed, Byron H and Mary Rickard, her maternal grandparents, are found in Findlay, Ohio in the 1900 Census.)
Mary was the 2nd child of William D Achord and Edith Rickard, joining them and older brother, Otis (born Ohio) in 1906. Sometime before 1910 her parents moved to Alabama where they lived until shortly after 1920 when Mary's mother died.
The reason for the Alabama move is unclear, but may have been prompted by her father's business endeavor, beekeeping and the production of honey. I haven't found a clue as to how this relatively uncommon career came to be, but by 1910, her father was an "apiarist" or beekeeper in Greenwood, Bullock County, Alabama. Mary is age 5 in 1910 and living with her parents, older brother (Otis, age 7) and younger sister (Catherine, age 2).
Mary's father was a successful apiarist. By 1920 he had moved the family to Montgomery County in Alabama and home was in the town of Pike Road. Mary is now 14. The 1920 Census recorded her as born in Ohio, but I'm maintaining Florida as her birthplace as it is documented on all other Census records and on her Ohio Death Certificate.
Mary attended Lanier High School in Montgomery County and graduated in 1923. I found a photo of her among a group of 6 young women graduating from Lanier HS and headed for college; it was in the Montgomery Advertiser of 16 May 1923. Another 1923 article noted she had been accepted to Woman's College of Alabama (now Huntingdon College) and it appears she graduated as her Death Certificate records 4 years of college. This college was in Montgomery County.
By 1922, Mary's father had moved to Findlay, Ohio where it appears he had lived earlier with Mary's mother, Edith. Likely Mary followed after graduating college in Alabama and met and married Reginald Coykendale there (have not found a marriage record).
The 1930 Census shows Mary and Reginald living in Avon Lake, Lorain County, Ohio, not far from Cleveland. Reginald is a public school teacher; his WW II Draft Registration showed his place of employment as Glenwood Junior High School.
By 1940, Mary and Reginald have moved to Findlay, Ohio where her father (remarried) is living as are her 2 siblings. Reginald is still teaching and no children are listed in this Census record. At 34, it appears Mary did not have children.
I found no later records or newspaper articles about Mary until 1997 when she died at a nursing home in Findlay at age 91. She was buried beside Reginald who had died about 9 years earlier.
16 Oct 2020: Draft
Vicki Edwards
Los Angeles
Connected to Mary thru her mother's paternal line
Mary was born in Florida, likely in the panhandle region where her mother, Edith Rickard Achord, lived with her parents in the late 1800's and likely up to the time Mary married Reginald Coykendale.
Dalkeith was the Florida "winter hometown" of her grandparents and where Mary's mother was living in 1900 for sure, as Edith is listed on that Census and had the Enumerator note her parents were in Ohio for the summer. (Indeed, Byron H and Mary Rickard, her maternal grandparents, are found in Findlay, Ohio in the 1900 Census.)
Mary was the 2nd child of William D Achord and Edith Rickard, joining them and older brother, Otis (born Ohio) in 1906. Sometime before 1910 her parents moved to Alabama where they lived until shortly after 1920 when Mary's mother died.
The reason for the Alabama move is unclear, but may have been prompted by her father's business endeavor, beekeeping and the production of honey. I haven't found a clue as to how this relatively uncommon career came to be, but by 1910, her father was an "apiarist" or beekeeper in Greenwood, Bullock County, Alabama. Mary is age 5 in 1910 and living with her parents, older brother (Otis, age 7) and younger sister (Catherine, age 2).
Mary's father was a successful apiarist. By 1920 he had moved the family to Montgomery County in Alabama and home was in the town of Pike Road. Mary is now 14. The 1920 Census recorded her as born in Ohio, but I'm maintaining Florida as her birthplace as it is documented on all other Census records and on her Ohio Death Certificate.
Mary attended Lanier High School in Montgomery County and graduated in 1923. I found a photo of her among a group of 6 young women graduating from Lanier HS and headed for college; it was in the Montgomery Advertiser of 16 May 1923. Another 1923 article noted she had been accepted to Woman's College of Alabama (now Huntingdon College) and it appears she graduated as her Death Certificate records 4 years of college. This college was in Montgomery County.
By 1922, Mary's father had moved to Findlay, Ohio where it appears he had lived earlier with Mary's mother, Edith. Likely Mary followed after graduating college in Alabama and met and married Reginald Coykendale there (have not found a marriage record).
The 1930 Census shows Mary and Reginald living in Avon Lake, Lorain County, Ohio, not far from Cleveland. Reginald is a public school teacher; his WW II Draft Registration showed his place of employment as Glenwood Junior High School.
By 1940, Mary and Reginald have moved to Findlay, Ohio where her father (remarried) is living as are her 2 siblings. Reginald is still teaching and no children are listed in this Census record. At 34, it appears Mary did not have children.
I found no later records or newspaper articles about Mary until 1997 when she died at a nursing home in Findlay at age 91. She was buried beside Reginald who had died about 9 years earlier.
16 Oct 2020: Draft
Vicki Edwards
Los Angeles
Connected to Mary thru her mother's paternal line
Dalkeith was the Florida "winter hometown" of her grandparents and where Mary's mother was living in 1900 for sure, as Edith is listed on that Census and had the Enumerator note her parents were in Ohio for the summer. (Indeed, Byron H and Mary Rickard, her maternal grandparents, are found in Findlay, Ohio in the 1900 Census.)
Mary was the 2nd child of William D Achord and Edith Rickard, joining them and older brother, Otis (born Ohio) in 1906. Sometime before 1910 her parents moved to Alabama where they lived until shortly after 1920 when Mary's mother died.
The reason for the Alabama move is unclear, but may have been prompted by her father's business endeavor, beekeeping and the production of honey. I haven't found a clue as to how this relatively uncommon career came to be, but by 1910, her father was an "apiarist" or beekeeper in Greenwood, Bullock County, Alabama. Mary is age 5 in 1910 and living with her parents, older brother (Otis, age 7) and younger sister (Catherine, age 2).
Mary's father was a successful apiarist. By 1920 he had moved the family to Montgomery County in Alabama and home was in the town of Pike Road. Mary is now 14. The 1920 Census recorded her as born in Ohio, but I'm maintaining Florida as her birthplace as it is documented on all other Census records and on her Ohio Death Certificate.
Mary attended Lanier High School in Montgomery County and graduated in 1923. I found a photo of her among a group of 6 young women graduating from Lanier HS and headed for college; it was in the Montgomery Advertiser of 16 May 1923. Another 1923 article noted she had been accepted to Woman's College of Alabama (now Huntingdon College) and it appears she graduated as her Death Certificate records 4 years of college. This college was in Montgomery County.
By 1922, Mary's father had moved to Findlay, Ohio where it appears he had lived earlier with Mary's mother, Edith. Likely Mary followed after graduating college in Alabama and met and married Reginald Coykendale there (have not found a marriage record).
The 1930 Census shows Mary and Reginald living in Avon Lake, Lorain County, Ohio, not far from Cleveland. Reginald is a public school teacher; his WW II Draft Registration showed his place of employment as Glenwood Junior High School.
By 1940, Mary and Reginald have moved to Findlay, Ohio where her father (remarried) is living as are her 2 siblings. Reginald is still teaching and no children are listed in this Census record. At 34, it appears Mary did not have children.
I found no later records or newspaper articles about Mary until 1997 when she died at a nursing home in Findlay at age 91. She was buried beside Reginald who had died about 9 years earlier.
16 Oct 2020: Draft
Vicki Edwards
Los Angeles
Connected to Mary thru her mother's paternal line
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