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Processed by:
Wilma L. Gibbs
21 September 1995
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 2 folders
COLLECTION DATES: 1880-1907
PROVENANCE: Frances Patterson, Indianapolis, Indiana, 20 September 1995
RESTRICTIONS: None
REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society.
ALTERNATE FORMATS: None
RELATED HOLDINGS: M 470, Frances Patterson Collection *
ACCESSION NUMBER: 95.0758
NOTES: *Martha Mace Lattimore, the sister of Lucy Mace Tyree, was donor Frances Patterson's great aunt. (Tyree was Patterson's maternal grandmother.)
Martha Mace Lattimore (ca. 1846- 17 January 1907), Noblesville, Indiana was the sister of William C. Mace, Glasgow, Kentucky and Lucy Jane Mace Tyree, Indianapolis. She was born in Castilian Springs, Tennessee. Other siblings included Kitty Hannah, Clarky Mariah, Ellen, Jonathan, and Minor. She and her siblings were the children of Jeremiah Mace.
Lattimore was buried at Crown Hill Cemetery on 19 January 1907 in Section E, grave #3564. Prior to burial, her body attended by the Shelton and Willis Funeral Home, was viewed at her sister's (Lucy Jane Mace Tyree) home located at 421 Hiawatha Street in Indianapolis.
Sources: Material in collection
Interview with Frances Patterson (donor and great niece of Martha Lattimore), 20 September 1995
Telephone interview with Wayne Sanford, Crown Hill Cemetery, 21 September 1995
The collection contains letters, a mortgage form, and one photograph. The letters are written to Martha Lattimore. The letter dated 9 January 1880, is written by William C. Mace of Glasgow, Kentucky to his sister, Martha Lattimore in Noblesville, Indiana. He relates activities in Glasgow, as well as comments on family affairs, his state of mind, and race relations. Mace congratulates Lattimore upon her marriage. A shorter letter, not dated, is written to Lattimore from her brother Jefferson Mace, while he resided in Madeira, Hamilton County, Ohio. According to the mortgage form, Martha Lattimore deeded property that she owned in Noblesville, Hamilton County, Indiana to Samuel S. Teter on 4 October 1890. The 1907 photograph is of Martha Lattimore's body in a casket in the parlor of her sister's (Lucy Jane Mace Tyree) home located in Indianapolis.
Folder Content
1 Correspondence, 1880-1890, n.d.
2 (VC) Photograph of Martha Lattimore in a casket, 1907
MAIN ENTRY: Lattimore, Martha Mace, ca. 1846-1907
SUBJECT ENTRIES: Lattimore, Martha Mace, ca. 1846-1907--Death and burial
Afro-American women--Indiana--Noblesville
Race discrimination--Kentucky
Real property--Indiana--Noblesville
Noblesville (Ind.)
Kentucky--Race relation
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