John Victor
Ferren
Nov. 7, 1875
July 22, 1927
Maggie A. Ferren
Wife of John Victor Ferren
Dec. 15, 1871
Nov. 8, 1945
Although
both died in Los Angeles, California, they are buried in Smithland Cemetery,
Livingston County, Kentucky. Their tombstones were photographed 25 January 2015.
The 1880
Livingston County census shows John V. Ferren, age 4, in the household of Peter and Mary E. Ferren.[1] Also in the household was George L. Ferren,
age 1, and Catherine Ferren, age 54 and born in France. Peter Feren [sic] and Mary E. Hale married 21
September 1873 at J.W. Hale's in Livingston County. The bridegroom was 24 years
old and the bride was age 18.[2] Catherine Ferren was the mother of Peter Ferren.
John Victor
and his wife, Maggie Amanda Ferren, moved
to Paducah and are found on the 1910 McCracken County census, along with
their daughter, Sevilla, age 10.[3] By 1917, they had moved to Cochise County,
Arizona, where they were listed on the City Directory in Bisbee.[4] They
also appear on the 1920 Cochise County, Arizona census.[5]
The Ferren
family moved to Los Angeles, California, where John V. Ferren died 22 July 1927. A short death notice mentions
his death.[6] It
states that Forrest Ferren received word that his father, John V. Ferren, had
died in Los Angeles. Born in Livingston County, John V. Ferren had lived most
of his life in Paducah and was to be buried in Smithland.
Maggie
Amanda Ferren was the daughter of George D. Scott and Mary Evaline Jones,[7] who had married in Livingston County 14 April
1867. [8] After her
husband died, she continued to live in Los Angeles, where she is found on the
1930 census. Living with her is her mother, Mary E. Scott, age 87.[9]
Mary E.
(Scott) Ferren lived in Los
Angeles until her death 8 November 1945.[10]
[1]
1880 Livingston County, KY census, Driskill Dist., Roll 429, E.D. 81, p. 316B,
Ancestry.com.
[2]
Livingston County, KY Marriage Bond Book, pp 101-102.
[3]
1910 McCracken County, KY census, Dist 2 (Part of), Ward 3, E.D. 119, Sheet 1B,
Ancestry.com.
[4]
1917 City Directory, Bisbee, Cochise County, AZ, Ancestry.com.
[5]
1920 Cochise County, AZ census, Bisby, E.D. 5, Sheet 8B, Ancestry.com.
[6]
"Dies in California," Lexington
Leader, Tues., 26 July 1927.
[7]
U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims Forms 1936-2007, Ancestry.com.
[8]
Joyce McCandless Woodyard. Livingston
County, KY Marriage Records Including Marriages of Freedmen Vol II (Aug 1839 -
Dec. 1871), (Evansville, IN: Evansville Bindery, 1994) 160.
[9]
1930 Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA census, E.D. 211, Sheet 16A, Assembly
Dist. 58, 1637 Berendo Street, Ancestry.com
[10]
California Death Index 1940-1997, Ancestry.com.
Published 29 May 2018, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/
