Oliver B Granum

  Research Notes:

1. 1910 US Census

- listed in Crookston, Polk Co, MN - enumerated on 20 Ap 1910 with parents
AND
- listed in Spokane, WA - enumerated on 4 May 1910, as a lodger in the household of Julia Thompson, age 24, single, born in MN, works as a Printer with a Newspaper


2. 1920 US Census, Houston, Harris Co, Texas

- lists Oliver B, age 34 <1886> in Minnesota
- wife, Minnie D, age 30 born in Tennessee, with both parents born there
- both Oliver and Minnie work as a Printer, in the industry "job printing"
- Oliver - working on own account; Minnie for wage
- house # 1507, Denis

++ ++ Daniel Haglund database: checked with US SDDI - Minnie Granum death Oct 1868 in Harris Co, TX; however birth is listed as 1883 (** US SDDI - no listing Oliver Granum)

3. 1930 US, Houston, TX

- Oliver, age 44 <1886>; Minnie age 43 <1887>; married 24 years <1906>
- own home, value $8000 (719 Peden ??)
- Oliver - typsetter - own business; Minnie as a proofreader - own business
- (no children listed)


4. ancestry.com - private member photos [ email sent 30 May 2009 - received reply the same day from Mary Brannen, related to Oliver's wife, Minnie Dorris Marlin]
- plane crash 13 Aug 1952 (Lubbock and San Antonio TX)
- Oliver was the pilot on a flight from St Louis to Houston
- light plane crashed in a farmer's orchard near Piggott, Arkansas - wreckage found 18 Aug
- two passengers - Mr and Mrs W J Thrasher of Houston
- two residents of Piggott said the plane was flying low in "an electrical storm)...dipped over a lake, then pulled up shortly "on one wing" and disappeared over a hill

- - Mary Brannen states that she could not find a death certificate for Oliver in Texas (since she could get Minnie's, possibly his doesn't exist OR his death cert would be from Arkansas)


5. Minnie's death cert

- dates, death (cerebral hemorrhage), parents, born in Tennesse, widow, been in Harris Co, TX for 54 years <1914>, owner of Typographical Co; burial

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Residence - 1920, 1 Jan 1920, Houston, Harris Co, Texas, United States. ³¹⁰⁸

2. Residence - 1910, 4 May 1910, Blaine, Spokane Co, Washington, United States. ³¹⁰⁹

3. Residence - 1930, 1 Apr 1930, Houston, Harris Co, Texas, United States. ³¹¹⁰

Oliver married Minnie Marlen about 1906. (Minnie Marlen was born on 22 Nov 1883 in Tennesse, United States,³¹¹¹ died on 18 Oct 1968 in Houston, Harris Co, Texas, United States ³¹¹¹ and was buried on 21 Oct 1968 in Hollywood Cemetery, Houston, Harris Co, Texas, United States ³¹¹¹.)