Friday's Photo: Elva Batchelor and Family

Elva, James, and Lelialu - about 1920

In this photo, one found in Marguerite Cook Clark's collection, only Elva Batchelor was identified. A search of Ancestry.com's Public Member Trees was a little confusing as some gave Elva's parents as Daniel P. Batchelor and Sara Josephine Woodard and others said her parents were Henry B. Batchelor and Leila Estelle Woodard. 

I was finally able to see that Daniel and Henry were brothers who married sisters. Census records showed that Daniel P. and Sara J. had a daughter Eula and Elva was the daughter of Henry B. and Lelia E. And, when Elva's daughter married in 1948, it was written in the newspaper announcement that her daughter, Lelialu, was the grand-niece (not granddaughter) of Mrs. D. P. Batchelor. 

Elva was born on July 10, 1893. She was found with her parents in Bienville Parish on the 1900 United States Census and sometime before 1920, she married James Herbert Hutchinson of Tennesee. The 1920 census shows Elva, James, and a new baby living in Murray, Kentucky where James is a high school teacher. Ten years later they are living in Drew, Arkansas where she is a music teacher and James is an administrator at Arkansas A&M College (now the University of Arkansas at Monticello). In 1940, James was Dean of Academics.  

Elva and James had children Lelialu, William, and James Jr. Elva died in 1981 at age 89. James died in 1975 at age 85. Both are buried in Oakland Cemetery in Monticello, Arkansas. 

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Diana

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Sources 

Arkansas, Drew County. 1930 U. S. Census, population schedule. Database with images. Ancestry. https://www.ancestry.com : 2020.

Arkansas, Drew County. 1940 U. S. Census, population schedule. Database with images. Ancestry. https://www.ancestry.com : 2020.

Family photographs and documents from the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark. Accessed April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016. Used with permission.

Find A Grave.com. Digital images. http://www.findagrave.com: 2020.

Kentucky, Calloway County. 1920 U. S. Census, population schedule. Database with images. Ancestry. https://www.ancestry.com : 2020.

Louisiana, Bienville Parish. 1900 U. S. Census, population schedule. Database with images. Ancestry. https://www.ancestry.com : 2020. 

"Marriage of Niece of Shreveporters Is Solemnized." The Shreveport Times 75, no.26 (1948): 48.

"Public Member Trees." Ancestry. https://www.ancestry.com. 2019.