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a. Note:   Grace Cook West was born on 30 Dec 1853 in Holmes Hole. She married (1st) Adolphus Bradford, son of Alexander W. Bradford and Marianna (--?--), on 5 Jan 1882 in Tisbury. She married (2nd) Capt. Albert Wheaton Cooke, son of Albert A. Cooke and Maria F. Talbot, on 17 May 1890 at the home of her mother in Tisbury Gazette: "...The presents were numerous and costly." She died on 6 Jul 1936 at Crocker Ave., Tisbury, at age 82, of a "cerebral hemorrhage," and was buried on 13 Jul 1936 at Oak Grove Cemetery. Her obituary says, "She had made her home in Vineyard Haven during the greater part of her life. … The daughter of Leander and Love W. West, once keepers of the Mansion House, her youth was spent in and about that establishment. She was a near relative of the opera singer, Lillian Nordica, and she was intimate with the singer and traveled with her to some extent." She appeared as a child with her parents on the Tisbury census of 1855, 1860, and 1865. She appeared on the 1870 Tisbury census, aged 16, "Attending School," living with her widowed mother, and on the 1880 Tisbury census, aged 26, single, "at home," living with her mother. On 15 Mar 1889 (following the death of her first husband) the Gazette noted: "Mrs. Grace C. Bradford returned to Providence Monday. She will return in a few weeks with a full line of Millinery, which she will sell at very low prices". She joined the Vineyard Haven chapter of the DAR in 1898, and was "admitted" to this organization on Mar. 16, 1899. She resided in Malden, MA by 1903, and does not appear in the 1910 Tisbury census, but eventually she returned to Vineyard Haven. Her obituary notes that "For many years she made her home with the late Mrs. William E. Whittemore, and, following her death, she had lived in the Whittemore home."
  SOURCE: http://history.vineyard.net//jeruel3x.htm
  Sources:
 Title: Robinson Genealogy. Descendants of the Rev. John Robinson, Pastor of
 the Pilgrims
 Abbrev: **Robinson Genealogy
 Publication: Robinson Genealogical Society (Newcomb & Gauss, Printers), Salem, MA
 Page: p. 292
 Title: Civil Marriage Record Ledger, 1853-1954. Tisbury Town Hall, Tisbury,
 MA.
 Abbrev: **Tisbury Marr. 1853-1954
 Page: p. 59, #4
 Title: Civil Marriage Record Ledger, 1853-1954. Tisbury Town Hall, Tisbury,
 MA.
 Abbrev: **Tisbury Marr. 1853-1954
 Page: p. 46, #1
 Title: Oak Grove Cemetery gravestone inscriptions
 Abbrev: **Oak Grove Cemetery
 Page: "1854-1936"
 Title: Civil Birth Record Ledger, 1844-1867. Tisbury Town Hall, Tisbury, MA.
 Abbrev: **Tisbury Births 1844-67
 Page: p. 20, #42.
 Title: Tisbury Town Reports
 Abbrev: **Tisbury Town Reports
 Page: 1936 Tisbury Town Report
 Title: The Vineyard Gazette
 Abbrev: **Vineyard Gazette
 Publication: Edgartown, MA
 Repository:
 Name: Vineyard Haven Public Library
  Page: 7 Jul 1936 issue, p. 1.
 Title: Civil Death Record Ledger, 1890-1980. Tisbury Town Hall, Tisbury, MA.
 Abbrev: **Tisbury Deaths 1890-1980
 Page: p. 94, #13.
 Title: The Vineyard Gazette
 Abbrev: **Vineyard Gazette
 Publication: Edgartown, MA
 Repository:
 Name: Vineyard Haven Public Library
  Page: 18 Oct 1935 issue, p. 1.
 Title: 1860 U.S. Census, Dukes Co., MA (Tisbury). (National Archives
 microfilm)
 Abbrev: **1860 census of Tisbury, MA
 Page: Family #540
 Title: The Vineyard Gazette
 Abbrev: **Vineyard Gazette
 Publication: Edgartown, MA
 Repository:
 Name: Vineyard Haven Public Library
  Page: 26 Nov 1903 issue, p. 3.
 Title: The Vineyard Gazette
 Abbrev: **Vineyard Gazette
 Publication: Edgartown, MA
 Repository:
 Name: Vineyard Haven Public Library
  Page: 15 Mar 1889 issue.
 Title: 1880 U.S. Census, Dukes Co., MA. (Tisbury) (LDS microfilm)
 Abbrev: **1880 Census of Tisbury, MA
 Page: p. 573B (26), dwelling #253, family #260.
 Title: DAR Lineage Book Series
 Abbrev: **DAR Lineage Book
 Publication: Washington, D.C.
 Page: 1898, Vol. 24, p. 53, #23149.
 Title: Handwritten Registers, DAR, Sea Coast Defense Chapter, Vineyard Haven,
 MA.
 Abbrev: **DAR Registers (Sea Coast Def
 Title: 1855 Massachusetts State Census, Dukes Co., MA. (LDS Microfilm)
 Abbrev: **1855 Census of Dukes Co.
 Note:
 Note that this census is dated June 1, 1855, but some of the census -
 like the West Tisbury portions - were evidentaly taken as late as
 September. Page 7 (Tisbury) has evidence (David Smith's daughter's
 age) that it was taken in July.
 Page: p. 12, dwelling #89, family #138.
 Title: 1870 U.S. census, Dukes Co., MA. (Tisbury) (National Archives
 microfilm)
 Abbrev: **1870 Census of Tisbury, MA
 Page: p. 2, dwelling #11, family #13.
 Title: 1865 Massachusetts State Census, Dukes Co., MA (Tisbury). (LDS
 Microfilm #0953970.)
 Abbrev: **1865 Census of Tisbury, MA
 Page: p. 13, dwelling #111, family #151.
 Title: Roy Norton card file, Martha's Vineyard Historical Society
 Abbrev: **Roy Norton card file
 Publication: Edgartown, MA
 Page: West 345 Card.
 Title: Civil Marriage Record Ledger, 1853-1954. Tisbury Town Hall, Tisbury,
 MA.
 Abbrev: **Tisbury Marr. 1853-1954
 Page: *GET DETAILS!*
 Title: The Vineyard Gazette
 Abbrev: **Vineyard Gazette
 Publication: Edgartown, MA
 Repository:
 Name: Vineyard Haven Public Library
  Page: 23 May 1890 issue, p. 4.
  SOURCE: http://history.vineyard.net/bridesi.htm


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