Working on Wednesday: Georgia G. Kay (1890 - 1946) Dramatic Soprano

Georgia Kay, the wife of Henry Thomas Warren (my first cousin, twice removed) was born in Utah, the daughter of an English father and Danish mother. She appears in early records first as Alice M. Kay in the 1900 U.S. Census and then, after her 1908 Wyoming marriage to Franklin L. Arnold, as Matilda G. in the 1910 federal enumeration. I'm not sure when she picked the name Georgia by which she was later known.

Georgia and Mr. Arnold had two children together, the second of whom was born in California in 1910. Since her husband married a second time in Utah in 1919 it's clear that he and Georgia had parted before then.

The costume worn by Georgia on this advertising placard looks like it dates from the early 1920s. Unfortunately I don't know where she was performing although it's likely to have been somewhere in Southern California.

[Posted by Heather Valtee on an Ancestry.com family tree]

Cousin Henry Thomas Warren left his home in Cass County, Texas, for California sometime after the 1920 U.S. Census and Georgia married him in Santa Ana in 1924 and she seems to have ended her singing career thereafter because she claims no occupation in the 1930 and 1940 U.S. Census records.*

She died in 1946 and is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale; he never remarried and eventually returned to Texas where he died in 1976.

*Henry was a street car conductor.


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Sunday Drive: Henry W Lunt Roadside Park, Utah - 1949

Until I began sorting through all the family color slides I hadn't realized that our travels in 1949 included a trip to visit Grandpa Grenfell in South Dakota.

[From my personal collection]

In this photo the truck and trailer are parked in the Henry W. Lunt Roadside Park, the first of its kind of Utah. Now known as Lunt Park Rest Area, it looks a bit different now and has both north and south bound parking areas.

[Southbound Rest Stop from Google Street View via Utah Birding Spots]

You can read about Henry W. Lunt here.

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