Jimmy Lovell's Family Notes
contributed by Kathy Abbey

In 1905, the Lovells are in Cayuga Co. NYS, where James (Jimmy) Lovell is born. (James father, Louis came from NYS to Detroit with his father and siblings, where Louis and Jennie first met.)
In 1910, the Lovells are in the Detroit area.
In 1920 James and his mother, Jennie are found in Laporte, IN.

James Lovell family in 1930 Federal Census: Michigan City, LaPorte, Indiana
Name: James Lovell (Jimmy- son of Jennie and Louis)
Gender: Male Age: 25
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Birthplace: New York
Estimated Birth Year: 1905
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Father's Birthplace: New York
Mother's Birthplace: Michigan
Enumeration District Number: 0020 Family Number: 121 Sheet Number and Letter: 5B Line Number: 95
Household Gender Age
James Lovell M 25
Spouse Bertha Lovell F 22
Child James Lovell M 7
Child Leroy Lovell M 5
Child Betty Lovell F 3
Child Virginia Lovell F 1
Parent Louis Lovell M 52
NARA Publication: T626, roll 604 Film Number: 2340339 Digital Folder Number: 4584699 Image Number: 00063

Note: James and Bertha are buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Michigan City, Indiana.

Eliza Jane Cooley (Jennie) had these other children: Frank Cooley, b. 1888; he married Mary E. Pearsall and had 6 children in Michigan. Edna Violet Cooley married twice (her second husband was surnamed Barnowski) and died in Titusville, Fl. These two were illegitimate and raised by Jennie's parents. Jennie's daughter, Edith Areba Thompson b. 1896 in Petrolia, Ontario, Can, the daughter of William Warren Thompson; 1st married Emil Ernst Floehr in Michigan and had 1 dau. Marie Ernestine; Edith 2nd married Percy Beam.
Jennie Cooley was Kathy Abbey's Great Grandmother's sister.

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