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Nora Mize (previous marriages Green and also possibly Smith, perhaps one or more others)1883-1973 was my maternal grandmother; I am the daughter of her youngest child, Freddie Mae Mize Davenport who passed away in 1982. She was born about 1921-1925, exact date unknown, it was a home birth and unregistered. My mother did not have a birth certificate even filed until the late 1950's when my father, who was in the Air Force, was transferred overseas and she needed a birth certificate to get a passport.
This is a complicated family. After my parents married and my mother left Gaffney,SC with my father during WWII there was little contact with her mother, my maternal grandmother. I only met her once as a very, very young child and do not even know her maiden name. I did get letters and cards from my grandmother up until the time of her death in 1973, but she was always "Grandma Mize" and until I found her obituary as "wife of Calvin" I did not even know her given name. I know there were several marriages previous to the one to Calvin Mize and my mother had siblings much older than she was.
I heard stories as a child of my mother's very poverty stricken childhood and of the pranks of her much older siblings.....one of her older brothers drove a nail into her head when she was a yound child, she had a distinct scar at the hairline in one temporal area.
I got the impression that Nora's marriages that preceeded the one to Calvin Mize had ended in the death of the husbands rather than divorce. The marriage to Calvin Mize that managed to produce my mother was itself unusual since Calvin Mize was injured in WWI, leaving him incapacitated to the point where he spent most of the remained of his life in a VA hospital, visiting home only intermittantly. He died at Camp Appalachia, Covington Virginia, in 1967.
While I always got the impression that my mother's childhood was literally destitute and she was basically left to run wild, I also got the impression that Nora Green Mize was a descendant of an "old south" important family who had Confederate money hoarded away and expected the South to rise again.I'd love to know her maiden name, with what I know now I am just plain stuck.
Edward Green would have been my uncle. I have a brother, now deceased, who was given edward as a middle name, coming from my mother's family, and a brother with the middle name of Russell, also from my mother's family, I think this was a Smith. Frederick is also used in my family as a middle name originating with my mother's family, one of my brothers has this middle name and my mother gave it to one of my sons. I have no idea where this came from.
The name "Devereaux" has also been mentioned and my mother spoke of Devereaux relatives in the Denver area.
A messed up family for sure, but any help finding this Nora's maiden name would be appreciated.
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