Lena Elvira Dixon ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7}

  Birth Notes:

Name: Lena E. Dixon
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: Aug 1875
Event Place: Rockbridge, Virginia, United States
Event Place (Original): Rockbridge, Virginia, United States
Sex: Female
Ethnicity: American
Race: White
Father's Name: Thos. Dixon
Mother's Name: Elvira T. Dixon
Source Details: p 255

Citing this Record
"Virginia Births and Christenings, 1584-1917", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HN4D-K1W2 : 28 January 2020), Lena E. Dixon, 1875.
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  Death Notes:

Name: Lena Elvira Dixon Fast
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 03 Mar 1947
Event Place: Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina
Birth Year: 1875
Burial Date: 05 Mar 1947
Burial Place: Charlotte, N. C.
Cemetery: Forest Lawn
Residence Place: Charlotte, Mecklenburg, N. C.
Address: 2928 Rush Ave.
Sex: Female
Age: 71
Marital Status: Widowed
Race (Original): White
Birth Date: 13 Aug 1875
Birthplace: Rock Bridge Co., Virginia
Father's Name: Thomas J. Dixon
Father's Birthplace: Rock Bridge Co., Virginia
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Spouse's Name: Rufus Allen Fast

Citing this Record
"North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FP8C-YS9 : 17 July 2017), Lena Elvira Dixon Fast, 03 Mar 1947; citing Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, v 5A cn 5287, State Department of Archives and History, Raleigh; FHL microfilm 1,909,217.
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  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1900 US Census in Hamilton District, Nicholas County, WV on 22 June 1900. ²

1900 US Census
Sheet 14A, District 103, Family 234
Hamilton District, Nicholas, West Virginia, United States
Farm owned, no mortgage
Lena Fast..Daughter..Aug 1877..22..Virginia..0/0

(Living with husband at the home of her father.)

NOTE - If her birth date was 17 Aug 1875, then her age should have been 24 instead of 22.
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• She appeared on the 1910 US Census in Richwood, WV on 15 April 1910. ³

1910 US Census
Sheet 1A, District 106, Family 1, Roll 1691
Richwood, Nicholas, West Virginia, United States
Water Street; Home rented
Married 11 years
Lena E. Fast..Wife..34..Virginia..1/1

(Living with husband and son.)
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• She appeared on the 1930 US Census in Charlotte, NC on 14 April 1930. ⁵

1930 US Census
Sheet 16B, District 36, Family 311, Roll 1706, Ward 10
Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States
12 Rush Avenue; Home owned, $4000
Lena E. Fast..Mother..54..Virginia..married at age 21

(Living at the home of her married son, Dain, and his family.)
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• Death Image: 3 March 1947, in Charlotte, NC. ⁶

• She was buried on 5 March 1947 in the Forest Lawn West Cemetery in Charlotte, NC.

Find a Grave Memorial 89088082
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Lena married Rufus Allen Fast, son of Waitman Melancthan Fast and Delia Elizabeth Stansberry, on 25 December 1898 in Birch River, WV.^{1 2 3} (Rufus Allen Fast was born on 24 July 1873 in Monongalia County, WV,^{3 9 10 11 12} died on 5 June 1936 in Charlotte, NC ^{11 12} and was buried on 7 June 1936 in Steele Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Charlotte, NC ^{11 12}.). The cause of his death was arteriosclerosis, hypertension/cerebral hemorrhage.

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1900 US Census in Hamilton District, Nicholas County, WV on 22 June 1900. ²

1900 US Census
Sheet 14A, District 103, Family 234
Hamilton District, Nicholas, West Virginia, United States
Farm owned, no mortgage
Thomas Dixon..Head..Feb 1828..72..Virginia..Widowed..Farmer
Lena Fast..Daughter..Aug 1877..22..Virginia..0/0
Rufus A. Fast..Son-in-law..1876..24..West Virginia..Farm Laborer
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• They appeared on the 1910 US Census in Richwood, WV on 15 April 1910. ³

1910 US Census
Sheet 1A, District 106, Family 1, Roll 1691
Richwood, Nicholas, West Virginia, United States
Water Street; Home rented
Married 11 years
Rufus A. Fast..Head..36..West Virginia..Foreman, Lumber Yard
Lena E. Fast..Wife..34..Virginia..1/1
Dane Fast..Son..8..West Virginia
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  Marriage Notes:

Name: Rufus Allen Fast
Event Type: Marriage
Marriage Date: 1898
Marriage Place: Nicholas, West Virginia, United States
Spouse's Name: Lena Alvina Dixon
Source Reference: County Records
Record Number: 1059

Citing this Record
"West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FTHZ-T5H : 11 February 2018), Rufus Allen Fast and Lena Alvina Dixon, 1898; citing Nicholas, West Virginia, United States, , county clerks, West Virginia; FHL microfilm 495,643.
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Neither Rufus nor Lena are found in the 1920 US Census. Rufus appears in the 1930 US Census where he is a boarder with another family while Lena was living at the home of Dain and his family. All of which leds to speculation that they might have been separated or divorced sometime after the birth of Beulah in 1912.
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