Mary B. Whitehurst

  General Notes:

The 1920 Federal Census for Norfolk (Independent City), Virginia, Monroe Ward, District 23 records Mary B. Whitehurst (5) living with her parents Lee E. (30) and Alberta L. (29) Whitehurst at 621 Twenty Ninth Street. Also in the household is a sister, Ann (4 ?/12). Lee as well as his parents are born in Virginia as are Alberta and her mother while Alberta's father is born in Nova Scotia - French Canada. Lee is employed as a Loading Clerk on a Steamboat.

See general notes on her husband, Garnet Terry, for 1930 census facts.

The 1940 Federal Census for Norfolk (Independent City), Virginia, District 114-58, page 710B, dated April 9, 1940 records Mary Whitehurst (25 - VA) as single and living with her parents Lee (50 - VA) and Alberta (49 - VA) Whitehurst. Also in the household are Lee's widowed step mother, Susan Whitehurst (76 - VA), and his divorced sister-in-law Janette Miller (39 - VA).

It may be of genealogical use to note that Alberta's parents are Charles and Arureina Boudro: The 1900 Federal Census for Norfolk (Independent City), Virginia, Ward 6, District 114 records Alberta Boudro (Jan 1890) living with her parents, Charles (April 1865) and Arureina (June 1866) Boudro and her siblings May E. (July 1898), Charles A. (March 1899), and Infant (April 1900). Charles has been married for 21 years, immigrated in 1879, and is employed as an Oyster Jacker.

In additon: The 1910 Federal Census for Norfolk (Independent City), Virginia, Ward 6, District 54 records Alberta L. Boudro (20) living with her parents, Charles (44) and Armenia L. (41) Boudro and her siblings May E. (12), Charles A. (11), and Jeanette F. (10). Charles has been married for 22 years with 5 children and is employed as a Foreman in an Oyster House.

Mary married Garnett Preston Terry Sr., son of Eldridge Preston Terry and Abigail (Abbie) Francis Adkins, in 1931. (Garnett Preston Terry Sr. was born on 14 Feb 1908, died on 11 Jun 1969 in Norfolk, VA. and was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Norfolk, VA..)