Grace Cordelia (Long) Larkin (1914 - 2006)

Born 1 Dec 1914 in Ringwood, Major, Oklahoma, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Francis Matt Marcoux — married 24 Aug 1936 (to 18 Dec 1945) in Augusta, Butler, Kansas

Wife of Ethan Allen Larkin — married 1953 in Wichita, Kansas

Died 1 Jan 2006 at age 91 in Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas

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Biography

Grace (Long) Larkin was born in Oklahoma.

Grace Cordelia Long was the youngest of the twelve Long children born in 1914 to Alvin Porter and Phoebe Palestine Morris Long. She was born and raised on the land her parents had gotten from the landrun for the Cherokee Strip. Grace married Francis Marcoux in 1936. This marriage ended in a divorce in Dec 1945, shortly after he came home from WWII. Francis died in 1948. Grace was always very sweet, and she especially loved animals. She and her second husband Ethan Allen "Jiggs" Larkin loved dogs, cats and birds, and they always had several. Grace always had a dog that was like a child to her. Grace and Jiggs did not have any human children, but their pets were their children.

Grace went to Wichita when so many people were going there to help in the war effort in the early 1940’s. When she got to Wichita, she let her sister Nora know that she needed a job. Nora told her that the only job that she knew about was working in one of the clubs where the soldiers came in, and she could serve drink and talk to the soldiers. Grace told Nora that she was too shy and could not do that kind of a job. Nora said there was no choice, so Grace took the job and was soon the most popular young woman working there. She and Jiggs met in Wichita, and they made a home together on 2nd Street in Wichita.

Grace Long Larkin, age 91

Grace was very pretty, and when she was 91 she still had the most beautiful completion, and she was as sharp and quick witted as she had always been. Grace is buried in Wichita with her husband.

Sources

• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MJ9D-2HW : accessed 17 August 2017), Grace C Long in household of Alvin P Long, Stone, Major, Oklahoma, United States; citing ED 163, sheet 3A, line 15, family 39, NARA m...

• "Oklahoma, School Records, 1895-1936", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/Q2L9-1F1B : 3 February 2017), Grace Long, 1923.

• "Oklahoma, School Records, 1895-1936", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/Q2LS-R8L4 : 3 February 2017), Grace Long, 1932-1934.

• "Oklahoma, School Records, 1895-1936," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2L3-M7Z1 : 17 March 2018), Grace Long, 1932-1934; citing School enrollment, Ringwood, Major, Oklahoma, United States, multiple County Clerk offices, Okl...

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XCWC-RVY : accessed 17 August 2017), Grace C Long in household of Alvin P Long, Stone, Major, Oklahoma, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 18, sheet 1A, li...

• Find A Grave: Memorial #103353676 memorial page for Grace Cordelia Long Larkin (1914–2005), Find a Grave Memorial ID 103353676, citing White Chapel Memorial Gardens, Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA ; Maintained by The Old Genealogist (contributor 46920129) .