Tombstone Tuesday: Esther Elizabeth (Anderson) Kellman

Photo by Joan Kobernik Hoeft - Find A Grave contributor

Esther Elizabeth Anderson was born on 1 September 1889 in Chicago, Illinois. She was the daughter of my 2nd-great-grandparents Andreas Troedsson/Andrew T. Anderson and Marthe Elisabeth Eriksdatter/Erickson. She married Carl Winton Kellman on 15 November 1913 in Chicago. They had two sons, Carl Winton Kellman and Robert Anderson Kellman. By 1930, the Kellman family had moved to Sycamore, DeKalb County, Illinois. Esther's husband Carl died on 11 November 1944. Esther moved to Selah, Yakima County, Washington in 1960. She died on 17 November 1970 in Yakima, Yakima County, Washington. She was buried in Terrace Heights Memorial Park in Yakima, Yakima County, Washington.

Sunday's Obituary: Mrs. Mary Wray

Nashville Tennessean and Nashville American, 5 March 1911, page 8

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                         LIVED ONCE IN NASHVILLE
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      Negro Woman Centenarian, Dead in Seattle, Was Slave of John Lovell.

SEATTLE, Wash., March 4. – Mrs. Mary Wray, who was born a slave in Virginia in February, 1807, died here yesterday in her 106th year. In her childhood she was sold to John Lovell of Nashville, Tenn., on whose plantation she lived until the close of the war. She helped to cut and haul ties for the first railroad built into Nashville. She is survived by two children, aged 82 and 88, in Nashville.