Friday, November 4, 2011

Sarah Eugene Torry (1872-1950)


Sarah “Sallie” Eugene Torry was born August 25, 1872 in Rapides County, Louisiana.  She was the daughter of Lycurgus Eugene Torry andSarah Ann Boggus. She was raised in Grant County, Louisiana.

Sallie married James N. Warner on December 28, 1902 in Saline County, Arkansas.  She was 27 years old and he was 36 years.  James was born in April 1866 in Louisiana, the son of George Washington Warner and Rosanna Vashti Coker.  James and Sallie had four children listed in the 1920 census:

            Corrinne                    born 1905
            Boykin                        born 1907
            Kirk T.                         born 1911
            George A.                  born 1913

After their marriage, James and Sallie settled their family on a farm in Pollock, Grant County, Louisiana, where James was a superintendant in the field of public education.

By 1930, the couple had moved to a home in Colfax, Grant County, where James was employed as Grant County Treasurer.

Sarah Eugene Torry Warner died on March 5, 1950 in Columbia, Caldwell County, Louisiana.  She was 77 years old at her death.

James N. Warner died eight years later on May 2, 1958 in Columbia, Caldwell County, at the age of 92 years.


Notes for Sarah Eugene Torry
Birth & Death:  FamilySearch.org, Louisiana Deaths, 1850-1875; 1894-1954 for Sallie Warner
Marriage:  Ancestry.com. Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

Notes for James N. Warner
Birth:  Year: 1900; Census Place: Police Jury Ward 10, Caldwell, Louisiana; Roll: T623_561; Page: 14B; Enumeration District: 3.
Residence & Occupation in 1910:  Year: 1910; Census Place: Pollock, Grant, Louisiana; Roll: T624_515; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 0060; Image: 94; FHL Number: 1374528.
Residence & Occupation in 1920:  Year: 1920; Census Place: Pollock, Grant, Louisiana; Roll: T625_613; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 19; Image: 88.
Residence & Occupation in 1930:  Year: 1930; Census Place: Colfax, Grant, Louisiana; Roll: 794; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 1; Image: 4.0.
Death:  Ancestry.com “Noone-Humphries Family Tree” accessed on 4 November 2011

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