Addie Pearl Springfield

Notes:

Her Alabama death certificate lists her parents as Dr. and Mrs. Th??? J Springfield.

She had lived in Carbon Hill for 7 or more years, which is where she contracted Pellagra, which she had suffered from for 18 months. She was not yet 33 years old when she died.

Cemetery was shown as Pisgah.

Addie married Oscar T. Pearce about 1896. Oscar was born in Oct 1871 in Mississippi; died on 27 Feb 1925 in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

At the time of the 1930 Federal Census, a Jefferson C. Pearce was listed as an inmate at the US Veterans Hospital 74, in Gulfport, Mississippi. He was listed as Male, White, age 33 and married, born in Alabama, with a father born in Mississppi and a mother born in Alabama. His Mississippi Death certificate indicates he was a veteran of World War I, his usual occupation was shown as clerk, and his parents were listed as Oscar T. Pearce and Pearl Springfield. He died at the a Veterans Administration Hospital.

(Research):

Census Listings:

1930 Census
Mississippi, Harrison County, Biloxi, District 5
Enumerated April 28, 1930
ED 24-5 SD 11 Sheet 21B
Reynoir Street
309-521-536
Pearce, Clayton J Head R 25 M W 33 M 26 Ala Ala Ala Propietor Pecan Shop
Pearce, Iduma W Wf F W 30 M 22 North Dakota (sic) Miss Miss
Pearce, Anna G Dtr F W 6 S Miss Ala Miss

1940 Census
Mississippi, Harrison County, Biloxi City, Beat 1
Enumerated May 1, 1940
Sd 6 ED 24-2 Sheet 24B
315----R 22
Pearce, Jefferson C Head M W 43 M No 8 Ala Same Place
Pearce, Nora I Wf F W 40 M No H-1 Miss Same Place
Pearce, Anna G Dtr F W 16 S Yes H-2 Miss Same Place

Jefferson married Nora Iduma Latimer about 1922. Nora (daughter of William Edwin Latimer and Mary Alice West) was born on 24 Oct 1899 in Handsboro, Harrison County, Mississippi; died on 3 Oct 1968 in Biloxi, Harrison County, Mississippi; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Gulfport, Harrison County, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

When she applied for a social security account, she was living at 2103 Chesnut Street in New Orleans, LA. She 18 years old, and her first job was at Realty Operators in the 500 Marine Building in New Orleans.

Josephine married Walter Samuel Falk, Jr. on 2 Jun 1944 in Biloxi, Harrison County, Mississippi. Walter (son of Walter Samuel Falk and Anna Thompson Sneden) was born on 22 Mar 1914 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; died on 27 May 2001 in Austin, Travis County, Texas; was buried in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, Bexar County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Legendary Texas artist, Walter S. Falk III died unexpectedly on Tues., July 10, while painting in his home studio in Rockport. The son of the late Anne and Lt. Col. Walter S. Falk, Jr., he is survived by wife Rhonda Stout Falk, Rockport; daughter Sheryl Falk, Houston; sons Nathan and Benjamin Falk, Rockport, sister Patricia Falk, Bridgeport, CT; and devoted friends and collectors around the world.

Born Sept. 20, 1945, in Philadelphia, Walter graduated from The University of Texas at Austin. He attended graduate school in philosophy, but when his advisor lost his Ph.D. dissertation, Falk crossed Guadalupe St. and began painting and selling watercolors on the sidewalk. Falk pushed to establish a dedicated marketplace for artists and craftspeople, which led to the creation of the People's Renaissance Market.

Falk was an exquisite artist with a distinctive artistic style-lyrical, whimsical and captivating. He combined dreamlike color in watercolor, acrylic, or oil backgrounds, with human figures inked with unerring gesture and movement, with brief, poetic titles. He had gallery shows, but he felt art belonged to the people, not to the upper crust alone. So he sold his paintings on the street and in festivals, which made him a keen human observer, contributing to his artistic reach even as it challenged him materially. Walter loved beauty, and made many sacrifices for his art. He sold nearly 40,000 original works in his life time, an achievement friends believe is unequalled, and he sold them on every continent on the globe.

Falk traveled extensively throughout Mexico, Canada, Europe, and South America. He had great adventures, climbing pyramids, mountains, and waterfalls, swimming with alligators and fighting bandidos. He shared his adventurous spirit in his paintings and through his captivating stories. He was a larger than life character who has been compared to Hemingway and Steinbeck. He relished life, and stayed true to himself throughout his.

A funeral service will be held this Sunday, 2:30 pm, at the First United Methodist Church, Rockport. A celebration of his life will be held soon in Austin. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made toward any charity supporting the arts or the environment or the American Heart Society.

(Courtesy of Sheryl Falk)

Walter married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Walter married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]