White female, born about 1903 in Florida (probably Gadsden County). (A reading of her gravestone in 1986 gives her birthdate as 7 February 1907, but this seems inaccurate given her ages in other resources.)
She first enters my research as the mother of an infant son stillborn on 31 May 1920. The death certificate inaccurately indicates she was born in Michigan. The certificate also states the father is unknown, though there may have been reason for Elouise to not have disclosed the father of her child. The death certificate gives Elouise’s residence as 315 S. Baylen St. in Pensacola; however, the 1919 and 1921 Pensacola City Directories indicate that house was owned by someone else, so she may have been renting or a visitor.
In the 1910 census, Elouise was 7 years old and living with her parents, C.R. and Vera Atwater, in River Junction, Gadsden County, FL. Also in the household were her sisters Robie (age 11), Loraine (age 18), and Clarise (age 4). Elouise was born in Florida, as were both her parents.
Elouise’s mother, Vera, died in 1918 of pellagra (a disease of nutritional deficiency).
Elouise Atwater is enumerated in the 1920 Census of Escambia County, FL in the household of her father, C.R. Atwater, on North 9th Avenue. C.R. Atwater was a carpenter. Elouise was 16 years old, single, and was working as a waitress. Also in the household were two sisters, Clarise Atwater (age 13) and Lonnie (Loraine) Boyd (age 19), along with Lonnie’s husband, J.E. Boyd, and their son, J.E., Jr. The census indicates Elouise was born in Florida, as we both her parents.
The 1920 census was enumerated on 15 January 1920. C.R. Atwater died on 12 March of that year, rather suddenly of blood poisoning brought on by a bruised hand. Also at some point between the census and her father’s death, Elouise’s sister Clarise married J.T. Hines. This left Elouise the only unmarried Atwater daughter.
Elouise’s movements become difficult to trace after 1920. At some point she married John R. Remick; they appear in the New Orleans City Directories for 1947 and 1954.
Elouise died in New Orleans on 4 August 1961 at the age of 58, leaving John Remick a widower. Her body was returned to Pensacola for burial near her parents in Roberts Cemetery at Gull Point.
FAMILY:
Children: Unnamed stillborn son
Father: C.R. Atwater (this line is well-documented on Ancestry and thus is not included in Unforgotten Lives)
Mother: Lila Vera Opry
Grandfather: Frank Opry
Grandmother: Sally Pitman
SOURCES:
Florida Certificate of Death, Florida Deaths, 1877-1939. Database. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 14 June 2016. Index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City. (for C.R. Atwater and Lila Vera Atwater)
Ancestry.com. U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. (Pensacola and New Orleans).
Year: 1910; Census Place: Precinct 9, Gadsden, Florida; Roll: T624_160; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 0034; FHL microfilm: 1374173. Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
Year: 1920; Census Place: Pensacola, Escambia, Florida; Roll: T625_219; Page: 17; Enumeration District: 29. Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
The Pensacola News, 5 August 1961, p. 3 and 7 August 1961, p. 3.
Roberts/Noble Cemetery, aka Gull Point Cemetery, Escambia County, FL [http://files.usgwarchives.net/fl/escambia/cemetery/robnoble.txt]