Bessie B. WICKHAM ²

  General Notes:

IA, COUNTY BIRTHS, 1880-1935:
Name: Bessie Wickham
Event: Birth
Event Date: 15 Apr 1898
Event Place: Bethel, Fayette, Iowa, United States
Gender: Female
Father: William Wickham
Mother: Hattie "Milles"
Certificate Number: 4582
Film Number: 1018347
Digital Folder Number: 4708019
Image Number: 00226

1920 IA CENSUS, Fayette Co, Auburn Twp: Bessie Pierce, sister, 19, married, b. IA, parnets b. IA; dau. Emma Pierce, 1, b. IA, parents b. IA; "Roth" Pierce, 19, married, b. IA, parents b. IA, laborer, day labor. They were living with Roy (Ray?) & Neva Pierce.

1925 IA STATE CENSUS, Fayette Co, Auburn Twp: Ralph "Perce", 25, 8th grade education, b. IA, father: Walter "Perce" who was b. IA, mother: Irma(?) Entwhisle(?) who was b. IA and married IA, engaged in agriculture; wife Bessie, 27, 8th grade education, b. IA, father: Will Wickham who was b. IA, mother: Hattie Miller who was b. IA and married IA; dau. Dorothy, 6; dau. Shirley, 4; dau. "Hariatt", 2. All children were b. IA, father: Ralph "Perce", mother: Bessie Wickham who was married IA. All were Methodist.

1930 IA CENSUS, Fayette Co, Eden Twp.: Ralph Pierce, 30, married age 19, farmer; wife Bessie, 31, married age 20; dau. Dorothy E, 11; dau. Shirly, 9-2/12; son Harrold (?) J., 6; dau. Elaine M, 4-4/12; dau. Donna, 1-5/12. All were b. IA and parents b. IA. (Listed next to them in the census were Archie and Emily Bowers.)

Bessie married Ralph Lester PIERCE about 1919 in IA.¹ (Ralph Lester PIERCE was born on 22 Feb 1900 in IA ⁴ and died in Jan 1972 in Hawkeye, Fayette Co, IA ⁵.)