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Elizabeth LaMotte <I>Lesesne</I> Greif Collins

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Elizabeth LaMotte Lesesne Greif Collins

Birth
Manning, Clarendon County, South Carolina, USA
Death
12 Apr 1972 (aged 81)
Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA
Burial
North Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA Add to Map
Plot
Sect. 8, lot 593, space 2A
Memorial ID
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Elizabeth was a graduate of Sumter High School in the class of 1918, Sumter, S. C. See the free school website, classes 1891-1976 (http://www.edmundshigh.com/webmaster.html).

Thanks to Stephanie Gibbons of the Sumter Co. Genealogical Society for her wonderful research & contribution of most of the following bio:

Bio:
Elizabeth married first on 23 May 1923 in Sumter to George Herman Greif, and they divorced in 1931 in Florida. She married again on 17 Oct. 1931 to Orville William Collins in First Presbyterian Church in Miami, and they had a son, O. W., Jr. When she died, services were held in Bess Memorial Chapel, 6th Ave., Miami Shores, Florida. [Bess and maybe Combs records are thought to be on micro film at the Dade County Library.]
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Genealogy: Isaac Lesesne was the Huguenot patriarch of all the South Carolina Lesesnes, and he arrived in Charleston, S. C. around 1700. And thanks to Giselle at Customer Care – Genealogy Department, Miami Dade-Public Library System, Special Collections & Archives for the copies of obituaries of Elizabeth & & O. W. Collins. A call to the cemetery office gave the exact grave locations.
Elizabeth was a graduate of Sumter High School in the class of 1918, Sumter, S. C. See the free school website, classes 1891-1976 (http://www.edmundshigh.com/webmaster.html).

Thanks to Stephanie Gibbons of the Sumter Co. Genealogical Society for her wonderful research & contribution of most of the following bio:

Bio:
Elizabeth married first on 23 May 1923 in Sumter to George Herman Greif, and they divorced in 1931 in Florida. She married again on 17 Oct. 1931 to Orville William Collins in First Presbyterian Church in Miami, and they had a son, O. W., Jr. When she died, services were held in Bess Memorial Chapel, 6th Ave., Miami Shores, Florida. [Bess and maybe Combs records are thought to be on micro film at the Dade County Library.]
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Genealogy: Isaac Lesesne was the Huguenot patriarch of all the South Carolina Lesesnes, and he arrived in Charleston, S. C. around 1700. And thanks to Giselle at Customer Care – Genealogy Department, Miami Dade-Public Library System, Special Collections & Archives for the copies of obituaries of Elizabeth & & O. W. Collins. A call to the cemetery office gave the exact grave locations.


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