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Descendants of Edmund Bracewell

Generation No. 12

41. EMMETTE LEWIS¹² MOSELEY (MARY MAGDALENE¹¹ WRIGHT, SALLY ANN¹⁰ BRASWELL, PETERSON⁹, JESSE⁸, MISSING⁷, JACOB⁶ BRACEWELL, RICHARD⁵, ROBERT⁴, RICHARD³, ROBERT², EDMUND¹) was born September 23, 1895 in White Plains, VA in Brunswick County, and died June 03, 1987 in Huntington, WV. He married MABEL ANNE JANES. She was born June 24, 1900 in Rosco, Montana, and died March 14, 1987 in Huntington, WV.

Child of EMMETTE MOSELEY and MABEL JANES is:

MARY ALICE¹³ MOSELEY, m. WILLARD WARREN TOMLINSON.

Notes for MARY ALICE MOSELEY:
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42. NORA ELLEN¹² WRIGHT (BENJAMIN LAXTON¹¹, SALLY ANN¹⁰ BRASWELL, PETERSON⁹, JESSE⁸, MISSING⁷, JACOB⁶ BRACEWELL, RICHARD⁵, ROBERT⁴, RICHARD³, ROBERT², EDMUND¹) was born June 22, 1906 in White Plains, VA in Brunswick County. She married WILLIAM FRANKLIN LADD August 06, 1924 in Richmond, Virginia. He was born March 31, 1882 in North Carolina?, and died September 23, 1953 in Richmond, Virginia.

Notes for NORA ELLEN WRIGHT:
Nora actually knew the sisters of her soon-to-be-husband, who was 48 (and she was 18). She first saw him from her window when he was walking into the house to talk to her Dad. She called him a "rascal" when she first saw him. He kept coming back night after night, their first "date" being a car trip to get ice cream. In that car trip, Benjamin asked her if she had a boyfriend. Nora jokingly replied, "I don't have ANY friends." They laughed. Then William said, "I'll be your boyfriend." One month after first meeting, they married.

Nora tells the story of William going to ask her Dad if they can marry.

"I'm going to ask him to have you," he said.

"You can ask him, but he'll say no," she replied.

So William and Nora's Dad met in the back yard. He came back in.

"What did he say?"

"He said our ages are far apart."

"What did you say to that?"

"I said, 'We'll manage.'"

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School was 3 miles away and she had no transportation so she only went as high as 5th grade, she said.

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In a Sept. 30, 1956 article in the Richmond Times Dispatch, the following article ran:

Headline: 'Mom, Meet Grandmother'
Headline: Local Woman Meets Mother After 49 Years

By Bob Preston

Mrs. Nora Ladd, 50, of 1632 Glenfield Avenue, met her mother yesterday.

The introduction was made by Mrs. Ladd's daughter, Mrs. R.J. Eanes of 2304 Pettis Road.

Mrs. Ladd, besides meeting her mother, learned she had six brother and sisters.

Mrs. Ladd's mother, Mrs. Lillie Belle Sherian of Louisburg, N.C. learned she has seven grandchildren she had not know about.

It was Mrs. Eanes police work that led to the discovery of these additional branches on the family tree.

Mrs. Ladd explained that when she was an infant her parents separated and she was brought up by her father.

Eventually, she married and moved to Richmond. She had not seen or heard from her mother during the past 49 years.

Mrs. Ladd's daughter, Mrs. Eanes said that she had always wanted to find her grandmother and, two weeks ago, decided to do something about it.

First, she went to her grandmother's birthplace in Brunswick County. There, she made inquiries among older people in the area.

She found a woman who remembered her grandmother and had corresponded with her.

Last Sunday, armed with the name and addresses of her grandmother, she went to Mrs. Sherian's home in North Carolina.

"It was sort of a shock for her to have an unknown granddaughter drop in," Mrs. Eanes said.

Mrs. Eanes asked Mrs. Sherian to come to Richmond and visit her long-lost daughter.

Plan are now under way for a family reunion so an accurate count of relatives can be made.

More About NORA ELLEN WRIGHT:
Another Fact: Went as high as 5th grade
Fact: September 30, 1956, 1632 Glenfield Avenue, Richmond, VA
Fact 1: May 16, 1997, Phone: 804-233-4781
Fact 2: May 17, 1997, 4418 Pettus Road, Richmond, VA 23234-1967

Notes for WILLIAM FRANKLIN LADD:
[Brøderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1, Ed. 4, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Social Security Death Index, Surnames from A through L, Date of Import: May 18, 1997, Internal Ref. #1.111.4.132177.34]

Individual: Ladd, William
Birth date: Mar 31, 1882
Death date: Sep 1953
Social Security #: 230-18-6437
State of issue: VA

More About WILLIAM FRANKLIN LADD:
Fact 1: He was 42 years old when he married his wife, 18.
Fact 2: Social Security #: 230-18-6437 ¹
Fact 3: State of issue: VA¹

More About WILLIAM LADD and NORA WRIGHT:
Marriage: August 06, 1924, Richmond, Virginia

Children of NORA WRIGHT and WILLIAM LADD are:

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN¹³ LADD, b. May 06, 1925, Richmond, Virginia; d. June 13, 1925.

More About BENJAMIN FRANKLIN LADD:
Fact 1: Premie baby, didn't survive

47.	ii.	NANCY BELL LADD, b. July 16, 1926, Powhatan, VA.
48.	iii.	THOMAS PATRICK LADD, b. March 17, 1930, Richmond, Virginia; d. February 29, 1980.
49.	iv.	MARY MAGELEINE LADD, b. November 22, 1932, Richmond, Virginia; d. September 20, 1995.
50.	v.	JOHN PAUL LADD, b. January 20, 1936, Richmond, Virginia.
	vi.	RUBIN JOSEPH LADD, b. December 15, 1938; d. 1960, South Hampton Farm.

Notes for RUBIN JOSEPH LADD:
He died when a guard shot him in the head at South Hampton Farm, a place where minor offenders are sent. Apparently, Rubin was driving the car when a friend got out and stole oil from a gas station. Rubin said he was not aware his friend took the oil, but the courts put Rubin at South Hampton Farm for six months. That's where he got shot.

His mom, Nora, doesn't know why he was shot.

More About RUBIN JOSEPH LADD:
Fact 1: Bug exterminator

51.	vii.		SAMUEL MOSES LADD, b. October 24, 1941, Richmond, Virginia.
52.	viii.		RUTH NAOMI LADD, b. June 10, 1946, Richmond, Virginia.

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