Hite, Grace Valentine

Birth Name Hite, Grace Valentine
Gramps ID I6909
Gender female
Age at Death 66 years, 11 months, 19 days

Events

Event Date Place Description
Sources Notes
Birth 1885-02-14 Santa Clara, Santa Clara Cty, California, USA  
1a 2a 3a
Census 1900 Santa Clara, Santa Clara Cty, California, USA  
4a
Census 1910 Phoenix, Maricopa Cty, Arizona, USA  
5a
Census 1930 Santa Clara, Santa Clara Cty, California, USA  
6a
Census 1940 San Jose, Santa Clara Cty, California, USA  
7a
Death 1952-02-04 Santa Clara Cty, California, USA  
3a
Burial   Mission City Memorial Park, Santa Clara, Santa Clara Cty, California, USA  
 

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Hite, Madison [I6902]1845-10-091921-02-15
Mother Huffman, Lydia Jane [I6880]1846-10-231942-03-01
    Sister     Hite, Minnie Leota [I6903] 1867-03-08 1882-09-03
    Sister     Hite, Fannie May [I6904] 1868-03-24 1935-12-24
    Sister     Hite, Nellie Grant [I6905] 1869-06-15 1897-03-22
    Sister     Hite, Nettie Olive [I6906] 1872-04-08 1882-12-19
    Sister     Hite, Anna Alice [I6907] 1877-01-01 1936-02-13
    Sister     Hite, Mary Fred [I6908] 1880-04-21 1955-11-15
         Hite, Grace Valentine [I6909] 1885-02-14 1952-02-04
    Sister     Hite, Hazel Belle [I6910] 1887-10-15 1963-01-05

Families

    Family of Peterson, Robert H. Sr. and Hite, Grace Valentine [F2428]
Married Husband Peterson, Robert H. Sr. [I7525] ( * 1881 + 1910-05-11 )
   
Event Date Place Description
Sources Notes
Marriage 1906-08-03    
1a
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Peterson, Robert H. [I7526]1908-12-031960-06-07
    Family of Murphy, Warren Henry and Hite, Grace Valentine [F2429]
Married Husband Murphy, Warren Henry [I7527] ( * 1884-01-31 + 1972-11-10 )
   
Event Date Place Description
Sources Notes
Marriage 1932-06-22 San Mateo, San Mateo Cty, California, USA  
8a 1b

Narrative

Note: Researching Grace Valentine Hite and family

There are some significant gaps in the records I have found for Grace and her family, so there are some unanswered questions that will need to be addressed by future research.

The text Christian Metzger: Founder of an American Family 1682-1942, in the listing for Grace and her descendants, lists two spouses for her - the first being "Robert Peterson, San Francisco," with no given no birthdate or parentage for him but reporting a death date of 11 May 1910. The text gives that they had one child, "Robert Peterson Jr.," and gives a birthdate for him with no further information.

In the 1910 US Census in Phoenix, Maricopa Cty, Arizona, there is a household for Robert H. Peterson (aged twenty-nine, birthplace Oregon) with son Robert Peterson (aged one, birthplace California) and a wife whose name is indexed as "Tracy" but on the original form looks to be "Grace" (age twenty-five, birthplace California). The date on the form is just a few weeks before the death date for Robert Sr., as reported by the text above.

I have not yet found either Grace or Robert Jr. in the 1920 US Census, and I have not found Robert Jr. at all in the 1930 US Census (though Grace was counted in her mother's household that year, along with her younger sister Hazel). The text gives that Grace's second marriage was to "Warren Murphy," naming his parents and giving the family's origin as Minnesota; the marriage date in the text is reported as four days later (26 May) than the marriage record from San Mateo Cty, California (22 May), so I suspect one is their wedding date while the other is the licence issue date.

By 1940, Grace and Warren were counted living in San Jose, Santa Clara Cty, California, while Robert Jr. was listed in his grandmother Lydia's household (with his aunt Hazel still living there as well). At the age of thirty-one, his marital status was reported as single.

At her death in 1952, Grace was buried in Mission City Memorial Park, Santa Clara, Santa Clara Cty, California; her headstone has a large space without engraving that is obviously intended for a spouse's name and vital dates, but that space has been left blank for decades. Presumably, this space was meant for Warren, who died more than twenty years later, but I have not been able to determine his burial location, so I do not know if he was buried beside Grace or not, or even whether he remained in California or whether he remarried after her death.

Robert Jr. died in 1960, just several years after his mother (and more than a decade prior to his step-father Warren), but I have not discovered his burial location at this time, either. I have not found any information as to whether he ever married or had children. I have also not found any indication that Grace had any other children besides Robert Jr., so I cannot say whether her line has continued at all or not.

Pedigree

  1. Hite, Madison [I6902]
    1. Huffman, Lydia Jane [I6880]
      1. Hite, Minnie Leota [I6903]
      2. Hite, Fannie May [I6904]
      3. Hite, Nellie Grant [I6905]
      4. Hite, Nettie Olive [I6906]
      5. Hite, Anna Alice [I6907]
      6. Hite, Mary Fred [I6908]
      7. Hite, Grace Valentine
        1. Peterson, Robert H. Sr. [I7525]
          1. Peterson, Robert H. [I7526]
        2. Murphy, Warren Henry [I7527]
      8. Hite, Hazel Belle [I6910]

Ancestors

Source References

  1. Ella Metzker Milligan: Christian Metzger: Founder of an American Family 1682-1942 [S0074]
      • Page: p181
      • Page: p181
  2. California, Births and Christenings, 1812-1988 [S0401]
      • Confidence: High
      • Citation:

        "California Births and Christenings, 1812-1988," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2XG-PY6 : 6 December 2014), Madison Hite in entry for Grace Valentine Hite, 14 Feb 1885; citing Santa Clara, Santa Clara, Calif; FHL microfilm 1,302,021.

  3. California, Death Index, 1940-1997 [S0257]
      • Confidence: High
      • Citation:

        "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VP2H-NXR : 26 November 2014), Grace Hite Murphy, 04 Feb 1952; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.

  4. US Census of 1900 [S0039]
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9GK-CZH : accessed 25 September 2017), Paul H Miller in household of Madison Hiti, Santa Clara Township Santa Clara town, Santa Clara, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 78, sheet 8B, family 113, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,111.

        Event Year 1900
        Event Place Santa Clara Township Santa Clara town, Santa Clara, California, United States
        Madison Hiti Head M 55 Indiana
        Lidia J Hiti Wife F 54 Ohio
        Allie A Miller Daughter F 23 California
        Mary E Miller Daughter F 20 California
        Grace H Miller Daughter F 15 California
        Hazel B Miller Daughter F 13 California
        Paul H Miller Grandson M 3 California

  5. US Census of 1910 [S0040]
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVVH-51H : accessed 12 November 2017), Robert Peterson in household of Robert H Peterson, Phoenix Ward 2, Maricopa, Arizona, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 59, sheet 10B, family 216, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 40; FHL microfilm 1,374,053.

        Event Date 1910
        Event Place Phoenix Ward 2, Maricopa, Arizona, United States
        Robert H Peterson Head M 29 Oregon
        Tracy Peterson Wife F 25 California
        Robert Peterson Son M 1 California

  6. US Census of 1930 [S0042]
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCNB-8Z9 : accessed 11 September 2017), Lydia J Hite, Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 106, sheet 6B, line 58, family 173, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 219; FHL microfilm 2,339,954.

        Event Date 1930
        Event Place Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California, United States
        Lydia J Hite Head F 83 Ohio
        Grace Francis Daughter F 45 California
        Hazel Cooper Daughter F 42 California

  7. US Census of 1940 [S0043]
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9DB-9P8 : accessed 11 November 2017), Grace H Murphy in household of Warren H Murphy, Area A, San Jose, San Jose Judicial Township, Santa Clara, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 43-69, sheet 1B, line 56, family 22, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 337.

        Event Date 1940
        Event Place Area A, San Jose, San Jose Judicial Township, Santa Clara, California, United States
        Warren H Murphy Head M 56 Minnesota
        Grace H Murphy Wife F 55 California

  8. California, San Mateo County Records, 1851-1991 [S0417]
      • Confidence: High
      • Citation:

        "California, San Mateo County Records, 1851-1991," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QL9G-92NC : 4 April 2017), Warren H Murphy and Grace Francis, Marriage 22 Jun 1932; citing page 168, County Clerk, Redwood City; FamilySearch digital folder 005165892.