Lillian Mae (Byler) Grainger (1873 - 1906)

Born Nov 1873 in Kansas, United States

Ancestors

Died 18 Nov 1906 at about age 33 in Seattle, King, Washington, United States

Biography

Lillian Mae "Lillie" (Byler) Grainger was born in November of 1873 in Kansas. She was the youngest of the four children born to Jonathan Byler and Adeline (Gerber) Byler.

Lillie married Francis Ernest "Frank" Grainger on the 23rd of November 1898 in Los Angeles, California.^[1] Their daughter Leenona was born in 1901. Lillie was one of the forty-nine people that drowned in the tragic accident involving the steamer Dix in 1906.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Events in Society - Miss Lillian M Byler and Frank E Grainger were married Los Angeles, California, The Los Angeles Times, 25 November 1898, p 12, col 5.
2. ↑ The Bylers, Wellington, Kansas, The Wellington Daily News, Wellington, Kansas, 18 April 1912, p. 1, col. 4. (This article is about three of Jonathan'a children dying in the Dix steamer accident)

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (www.FamilySearch.org : accessed 18 March 2019), Lillie M Byler in entry for Jonukan Byler, 1880; citing enumeration district ED 154, sheet 239D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d), roll 0389; FHL microfilm 1,254,389.

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (www.FamilySearch.org : accessed 18 March 2019), Lillie M Grainger in household of Frank E Grainger, Damon Precinct Spokane city Ward 4, Spokane, Washington, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 70, sheet 2A, family 35, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,751.

See Also:

• Lillie Byler Sick, Wellington, Kansas, The Sumner County Press, 13 January 1887, p 5, col 5. TEXT Lillie Byler, who has been sick for a few days, is now able to be up.

• YWCA Gospel Meeting Los Angeles, California, The Los Angeles Times, 2 July 1894, p 5, col 6. Miss Byler of the First Methodist Church sang two solos.

• Social Notes and Personal Gossip from Round About - Out of Town Society, Los Angeles, California, The Los Angeles Times, 31 May 1896, p 10, col 4. Miss Byler, Mr Granger and Mr Donell sang solos at a May floral social.

Acknowledgements

• This profile was created as a result of a question in the G2G Forum, as part of the Integrators Challenge.