View Genealogy for Johnnie Mae Granger (2/18/1918-9/1/1989)

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Johnnie Mae Granger

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	Edman F. Granger 8/25/1892 - 8/23/1963

About Johnnie Mae Granger

Johnnie Mae Granger
2/18/1918 - 9/1/1989
(Shown at age 19)

Johnnie Mae Granger was born on February 18, 1918 in Houston County, Alabama and died on September 1, 1989 in Blountstown, Florida. She lived to be 71 years old.

She married Stinson on 3/22/1936. She was a native of Houston Co. AL, she moved to Blountstown and lived there for the rest of her life. She was a homemaker.

Census	6/22/1920	Grangebury and Crosby AL (Houston County)	2 yrs old
Edman Granger (age 27), Trudy Granger (23), Vera Granger (4), Johnie M. Granger (2), Melva L. Granger (11 mos). All were born in AL. Edman is a farmer
Marriage	3/22/1936	FL (Gadsden County)	18 yrs old
Click here to see a copy of the marriage license. Name: Stinson Davis Event Type: Marriage Event Date: March 22, 1936 Event Place: Gadsden, Florida, Gender: Male Age: 23 Birth Year: 1913 Married before: yes Divorced: yes Where: Blountstown Occupation: Truck Driver Address: Blountstown, FL Spouse's Name: Johnnie Granger Spouse's Gender: Female Spouse's Age 19 Spouse's Birth Year: 1917 Born: Alabama Married before: no Occupation: none Page: 218
Marriage	3/23/1936	Quincy FL (Gadsden County)	18 yrs old
Click here to see a copy of the marriage license. Name: Stinson Davis Event Type: Marriage Event Date: March 22, 1936 Event Place: Gadsden, Florida Spouse's Name: Johnnie Granger
Census	1/1/1940	Bloutstown FL (Calhoun County)	21 yrs old
#217 -Stenson Davis (age 26), Johnnie Mae Davis (age 22),They were both born in Florida. Stenson is a Foreman at the sawmill,his income is $1100, The highest grade completed is High School - 1st year. Johnnie's highest grade completed is High School - 2nd year, in 1935 her residents was Miami, FL. They own their home on Pear St., Their house is valued a $300.
Census	1/1/1945	Grand Ridge FL (Jackson County)	26 yrs old
page 12 -E. F. Granger (age 53), Lettie Granger(39) and Johnnie Mae Davis (27) Ed and Johnnie born in AL, Lettie born in FL. Ed has a 4th grade education, Lettie a 6th and Johnnie 11th. Ed is a farmer.
Graveyard/Tombstone	9/1/1989	Blountstown FL (Calhoun County)	71 yrs old
Nettle Ridge Cemetery. -JOHNNIE M GRANGER DAVIS - 2/9/1918 to 9/1/1989 Sec.3 Lot.247

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Age	Date	Event
10	1928	The Tamiami Trail opens. It opens the southernmost 275 miles of U.S. Highway 41 from State Road 60 in Tampa to U.S. Route 1 (SR 5) in Miami, Florida to tourist. It also destroys many of the Seminole Indian waterways and hinders their economy.
39	1957	The Miccosukee Tribe of Florida is organized under the 1934 US Indian Reorganization Act and recognized by the federal government.
44	1962	The Seminole Tribe of Florida is organized under the 1934 US Indian Reorganization Act and recognized by the federal government.
61	1979	The sovereign status of the Seminole Indian Tribe allows it to establish the first gambling establishment in FL. It is a bingo hall located on their Hollywood, FL reservation.

Age	Date	Event
5	1923	Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes
5	1923	Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id"
6	1924	Insecticides are used for the first time on crops
8	1926	Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket
9	1927	The first television transmission was announced in England
10	1928	Big bang theory was introduced
18	1936	The first regular television broadcast happens in England
20	1938	Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission
28	1946	The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes
29	1947	Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor
33	1951	The first color television is introduced in the U.S.
34	1952	The first sex-change surgery was performed to change George Jorgensen into Christine Jorgensen.
39	1957	Sputnik is launched by the Soviets and becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. It marks the beginning of the great "space race" between the Soviet Union and the U.S.
42	1960	The ruby laser was created by Maiman
44	1962	U.S. astronaut, John Glenn, orbits the earth
47	1965	The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union
53	1971	The first unmanned spacecraft hit Mars and was launched by the Soviet Union
56	1974	Discovery of "Lucy" in Africa, an almost complete hominid skeleton over 3 million years old, only 3 and a half feet tall but having adult teeth, a small brain, walked upright
57	1975	Invention of the CAT scanner (computerized axial tomography)
61	1979	First "test tube baby" from artificial insemination
63	1981	AIDS is identified by scientist; The first reusable space shuttle, Columbia, is sent into space.
68	1986	Moments after liftoff the space shuttle Challenger explodes, killing size astronauts and a New Hampshire teacher.
71	1989	An asteroid comes relatively close to colliding with the earth

Age	Date	Event
1	1919	NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty.
20	1938	NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic.
21	1939	NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States
23	1941	NEWS HEADLINES: December 7, 1941 -- Japan launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the US officially declares war on Japan the following day. World War II begins for American soldiers.
32	1950	NEWS HEADLINES: On June 25, the Korean War begins and the United Nations officially declaring war on North Korea two days later.
37	1955	NEWS HEADLINES: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, AL.
42	1960	NEWS HEADLINES: The first birth control pill was approved and made available to the public
45	1963	NEWS HEADLINES: On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
51	1969	NEWS HEADLINES: In July, the U.S. becomes the first nation to land astronauts on the moon. Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to step on the lunar surface.
52	1970	NEWS HEADLINES: U.S. forces invade Cambodia and the Vietnam War continues to escalate. Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix die of drug overdoses. Four Kent State University students are killed during a Vietnam War protest.
59	1977	NEWS HEADLINES: Star Wars is released and becomes the biggest ticket selling movie of all time.
66	1984	NEWS HEADLINES: The first Macintosh computer with a mouse is launched and begins the computer age as it is shortly followed by the first PC and Microsoft.

Age	Date	Event
9	1927	Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs.
11	1929	Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October
12	1930	Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states.
14	1932	Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered.
15	1933	Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president under his "New Deal" campaign. Frances Perkins becomes the first woman to hold a cabinet post when FDR appoints her secretary of labor. On December 5, the 21st Amendment is added to the Constitution, repealing Prohibition. Drinks for everyone!
16	1934	Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize.
16	1934	Farm families must leave the dust bowl-stricken Great Plains areas. The dust bowl includes areas in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas. Radio picks up the "Okie" songs. In all, 400,000 people leave the Great Plains.
17	1935	Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time.
21	1939	Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color.
25	1943	Japanese Americans are relocated to internment camps; Almost 400,000 coal miners go on strike; Race riots break out in Los Angeles and Detroit.
26	1944	On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day")
27	1945	President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.
36	1954	The nationally televised McCarthy hearings lead to Senator Joseph McCarthy's downfall; Segregation by race in schools is declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court; Congress adds the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and requires "In God We Trust" to appear on all American currency.
44	1962	The Cuban missile crisis escalates and Americans prepare for a Nuclear War with Fidel Castro in Cuba.
48	1966	The Black Panther party is founded.
49	1967	Martin Luther King leads an anti Vietnam protest in New York; The American Indian Movement is founded; Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King are assassinated; Three Apollo astronauts are killed in a fire on the launch pad.
53	1971	Charles Manson is found guilt of murder.
54	1972	Break-in at the Democratic headquarters sets of the Watergate Scandal.
55	1973	The Vietnam War peace pacts were signed in Paris and the last of the American forces finally leave Vietnam.
59	1977	Jimmy Carter, a Democrat from GA, is elected president.
63	1981	Ronald Reagan is elected president. He will serve two terms. (Republican)
69	1987	President Reagan and Soviet leader Gorbachev meet in Washington and sign an agreement calling for the dismantling of all Soviet and US missiles.
69	1987	January 24 - approximately 20,000 protesters march through Cummings, Georgia in all White Forsyth County.
71	1989	George Bush is elected president. (Republican)

Age	Date	Event
1	1919	The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I.
2	1920	Adolph Hitler begins to organize the Nazi party in Germany; The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using mass marketing techniques to gain 85,000 new recruits; the first commercial broadcast is made.
20	1938	Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia.
21	1939	Hitler takes over all of Czechoslovakia. On Sept. 1st, Germany invades Poland. On Sept. 3rd, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II has begun.
27	1945	World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
71	1989	The Berlin Wall falls uniting communist East Germany and capitalistic West Germany

Too Many Folks to Feed Inside

Stinson & Johnnie

Johnnie Davis with nieces and nephew

Jonnie & Stinson

Marriages

George Davis
Born on January 24, 1913 and died on November 1, 1990.
They were married 3/22/1936.

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The Children of Johnnie Mae Granger

11 years old

Marianne 'Mary Ann' Davis
Born in Jackson County, Florida on March 23, 1947 and died in Bonifay, Holmes County, Florida on September 29, 2013. She was 66 years old.

She was named Mary Emma Ham. Her birth father was James Ham. Stinson and Johnnie adopted her and named her Marianne in 1952. She went by "Mary Ann". She first married Andrew Ray Hammock, her 2nd marri...

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