Clarence Matthew Grace (b1888)
Clarence Matthew Grace, Sr. (Ancestry.com/Kavi Grace) |
Clarence Matthew Grace, Sr. (Ancestry.com/Kavi Grace) |
Clarence Matthew Grace, Sr. (Ancestry.com/Kavi Grace) |
| Nickname: | C.M. |
| Born: | May 8, 1888, Knoxville, Tennessee |
| Died: | June 9, 1963, Huntsville, Alabama |
| Buried: | Maple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, Alabama |
| Father of: | Marion Francis Grace |
| Son of: | Thomas Patrick Grace |
Notes:
• Son of Thomas P. Grace (1866-1936) and Mary Magdalene "Molly" (Margaret) Ashe Grace (1867-1943) - Ancestry.com
• Married Mary "Mae" or "May" Frances Coyle (March 26-1889 - Sept. 30, 1969) Nov. 17, 1916 in Madison County, Alabama. She was the daughter of Jeremiah Frederick Coyle (1849-1914) and Mary Jane Burns Coyle (1857-1934). - Maple Hill
• Father of:
Clarence Matthew Grace Jr., born January 18, 1918 and died Dec. 21, 1990
Marion (Michael) Francis Grace, born May 5, 1921 and died Aug. 2, 1983
Mary Jane, was born on March 4, 1928 and died July 6, 1991. - Tumminello
• "Thomas Grace, his wife and younger sons, Thomas Cyril and Francis Michael, and daughter Regina lived for a brief period in the 1920s in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where Clarence worked for a railroad in signal maintenance. His sons were working as machinist apprentices for Electrical Product Manufacturing Company." - Tumminello
• "Clarence Grace Sr. was in the foundry business. He manufactured the manhole covers for the city of Huntsville. For many years the name of Grace Foundry could be seen embossed on manhole covers throughout the city. The foundry burned about 1933." - Tumminello
• May 1920: The Acme Club of Huntsville was organized by J.L. Hutton, W.P. Dilworth, W.P. Kelly, D.B. Allen, and C.M. Grace. - Eden
• The Acme Club was organized in Huntsville on May 13, 1920, as a young men's organization designed to promote the development of the moral, social and commercial welfare of the city.
The five young men who founded the group set forth the club's aim in three words: Service, Courtesy and Action.
Acme Club founders were J. L. Hutton, W. P. Dilworth, W. P. Kelly, D. B. Allen and C. M. Grace. First president was Hutton.
The Acme Club has played a prominent role in the city's civic life in the years which have passed since those young men met for the first time." - Sesquicentennial
• He is on the list of "Parishioners Solicited in Drive for Three Thousand Dollars, 1913" and his address is listed as North Church Street. - Tumminello
• In a list of "Prominent Catholic Leaders Buried in Maple Hill" this is said: "Clarence M. Grace, who operated an iron foundry in the city for a number of years, was active in civic affairs. His wife, Mary Frances Coyle Grace, was a major figure in civic affairs as well." - Maple Hill
• Mrs. C.M. Grace was a charter member of The Greenwycke Garden Club organized in November , 1949. - Sesquicentennial
Related Links:
• Ancestry.com - Page owned by Kavi Grace and can be viewed only through an Ancestry.com paid subscription. (Exceptionally good quality page) (Originally found at http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/4752000/person/-1541322281.)
• Eden - Eden of the South: A Chronology of Huntsville, Alabama, 1805-2005, by Raneé G. Pruitt, Editor, 2005, page 138.
• Find A Grave - Page originally created by Heather and maintained by Anne Arkfeld.
• Maple Hill - Maple Hill Cemetery, Phase One, by Diane Robey, Dorothy Scott Johnson, John Rison Jones, Jr., & Frances C. Roberts (Huntsville-Madison County Historical Society), 1995, pages 130 & 142.
• MCRC - Madison County Records Center, marriages
• Sesquicentennial - Commemorative Album, Celebrating our City's Sesquicentennial of Progress, Huntsville, Alabama, by James E. Taylor, General Chairman, 1955, pages 52 & 180.
• Tumminello - A Mighty Fortress of Faith: A History of St. Mary of the Visitation Church, 1861-2011, by Edited by Pat Tumminello, 2012, pages 35, 123, 193, 194.
The Following Pages Link to this Page:
• Eden
• Maple Hill
• Marion Francis Grace
• Sesquicentennial
• Thomas Patrick Grace