Family:Frank Bourie and Ada Morrow (1)

Parents: William Bourie and Alice Stevens Frank Bourie b. 4 Sep 1873 Ligonier, Noble Co., Indiana d. 9 Sep 1951 Lake City, Columbia Co., Florida

Ada Morrow b. Sep 1879 Ohio

m. Abt 1911

Frank Bourie

Frank Bourie, Sr., son of Harriet Alice Stevens and William Curren Bourie, was born September 4, 1874 in Ligonier, Noble County, Indiana. However, on June 3, 1880, Frank is enumerated as a 2 year old in the US Census of Ligonier, Noble County, Indiana. This would indicate that he was born in 1877 rather than 1874. The September 1877 birth is also given in the 1900 US census enumeration.

The June 3, 1880 census records that Frank was born in Indiana and living with his parents, Alice and William Bourie. Children in the household were: Mary age 5, Frank age 2, and Gertrude Bourie age 6 months born November 1879. There is also a record of a sister Mae who is said to have died in the birth of her first child. This Mae and the Mary of the census may be the same.

Frank was the only child of the three (or four) children to live to maturity.

Ada V. Morrow

Ada V. Morrow was born September 1879 in Ohio. Ada was the daughter of John Morrow. In the US Census enumeration on June 13-14, 1910 of Ada Township, Harden County, Ohio, we find Frank Bourie as a boarder with the family of John Morrow on North Gilbert Street. John Morrow is a 62 year old widower who had been married 26 years and had two children, both living. His two children are still living in the household. Joe Morrow age 32 and Ada Morrow, a divorcee, age 30 both born in Ohio. John was listed as a blacksmith and Joe was a salesman in a grocery store. Frank Bourie was listed as a contractor. Living in the household as a visiting boarder is no doubt how the couple became acquainted. They were not yet married in June 1910.

Frank Bourie and Ada V Morrow Marriage

Frank Bourie married Ada V Morrow about 1910 or 1911. Frank and Ada had four children per the 1920 US Census. On June 21, 1920 US Census of Mill Township, Grant County, Indiana, Ada and the four girls are enumerated. Frank is not in the household.

1) Alice Texas Bourie

Alice Texas Bourie was born in Michigan about 1911. Alice is enumerated as an 8 year old daughter born in Michigan and living with her mother, in the June 21, 1920 US Census of Mill Township, Grant County, Indiana. The recollections of three of her younger step-sisters at a family reunion in 2001, was that she had died by 1951 when their father died.

2) Pauline Bourie

Pauline Bourie was born in Florida about 1912. Pauline is enumerated as a 7 year old daughter born in Florida and living with her mother, in the June 21, 1920 US Census of Mill Township, Grant County, Indiana. No other information on this daughter is known at this time.

3) Madelyn Bourie

Madelyn Bourie was born in Florida in July 1916. Madelyn, her sisters and her mother moved back to Indiana about 1919. Madelyn is enumerated as a 3 and 11/12 year old daughter born in Florida and living with her mother, in the June 21, 1920 US Census of Mill township, Grant County, Indiana.

The recollections of her younger step-sisters in a family reunion in 2001 is that Madelyn Bourie married E. Roy Smith.

4) Deloris Bourie

Doris Thelma Bourie was born in Florida in November 1918. Doris, her sisters and her mother moved back to Indiana soon after. Doris is enumerated as a 1 and 8/12 year old daughter born in Florida and living with her mother, in the June 21, 1920 US Census of Mill Township, Grant County, Indiana.