Grace Gertrude Towner

  General Notes:

Grace Gertrude Towner was born in Wessington Springs, South Dakota , June 22, 1890. Graduated from Centralia High School. Taught school one term. Married JohnW. Mulford on April 1912. They lived in and around Centralia. They had two daughters. John was killed by a train November 5, 1916. Grace went to business College for six months and went to work. Most of the time in Real Estate and Insurance. Was in the book-keeping dept. of a department store for six years. Had a bad street car accident in 1938 and was in the hospital for 9 months and was two years before able to walk without crutches. Had another accident in 1940 (car) was pretty well battered up again. Got back to work in 1942. Lived in Seattle from February 1924 to October 1954. Her two girls were married in a Double Wedding Ceremony in 1936. Married William Rains in 1946. Took Annie to live with her after her family were all gone from home. Lived together in Seattle for 5 years. Returned tjo Centralia in October 1954.



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On 1910 Washington Census for Lewis County Ed # 132 1850 Sheet # 10 Line 74 ( I saw 2 numbers on the page I didn't know if it was page number 1850 or page 10 of Lewis County, Centralia , Superviser district No 2 , Done on April 25th 1910. Grace Towner , Servant , 19 years old , Single and born in Washington, Father born in New York and Mother born in Canada.

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On the 1920 soundex of Washington (Code M416) Vol 27, ED 132, Sheet 3, Line 37 Race - White Lewis County Grace G. Mulford (age) 28 (Born in SouthDakota)

Enumerated with Rhodes Nathaniel G.

Sister -in-law

( Nathaniel G. Rhodes was the husband of Rachel Towner )


Grace G. Towner's Obituary; " A resident of Centralia for 80 years, Mrs. Grace G. [Towner] Rains, 81, died Thursday morning in a Centralia hospital.
Mrs. Rains was born June 22, 1890, in South Dakota. She was graduated from Centralia High School in 1911 and also a graduate of the Centralia Business College. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Henry [Elnora] Moore, Cottage Grove, Ore., and Mrs. Lloyd [Leona] Stevens, Sacremento, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. Florence Vincent, Centralia, and Mrs. Lilly Schorer, Tacoma; six grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Services will be Monday at 1:30 p.m. at Newell-Hoerling's Centralia, with the Rev. Harvey Hartling officiating. Interment will be in the Washington Lawn Cemetary, Centralia. " [ Also where Harry Hayes Mulford is buried. ]
Obituary dated April 21, 1972.

Grace married John Watt Mulford, son of Jonathan Burnett Mulford and Myra Catherine Watt, in Apr 1912 in Probably Centalia, Washington. (John Watt Mulford was born on 17 Mar 1889 in Guide Rock, Webster, Nebraska and died on 5 Nov 1916 in Centralia, Lewis, Washington.)