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As you can see, Ray Martin was indeed married 3 times. First to Nancy "Alice" Gravely of Wyoming County, WV. They were married 13 June 1913. I am still searching for death information about her to see if she died or if they divorced, which is possible since I am not finding any children by the two of them and a barren woman was not desired in a wife in those days. But too, since they have no children she may have died. They married after the 1910 Census report and he married Hazel before the 1920 report, so there isn't any clear path to follow using the Census reports, which are often valuable tools in a heritage quest.
I still have not found on-line a marriage certificate for Ray and Hazel, but I assume since both she and Alice were from Wyoming County, that they were married there as well. Ray and Hazel had two children, Sylvia and Harry, between 1916- early 1918. She must have turned right around and gotten pregnant again after Harry because she miscarried just before her own death on 7 November 1918. She died in Sklyes Creek, Webster County, WV.
I'm not sure what happened to Ray after her death, because I cannot find him in the US Census Reports for 1920. His two children (Sylvia & Harry) lived with their grandparents, Benjamin Van and Georgia "Samantha" (Baughman) Hammack at the time of that census. (See December 6th blog posting) Just a note: Ray was apparently not away in the military at this time because the 1930 US Census report reports that he was not a veteran.
On 27 April 1921, Ray married Lula Hoover, in Braxton County.
By 1930 the Ray Hammack family (Ray, Lula, Sylvia, Harry, Van & James) had moved to Akron, Summit County, Ohio. Lula's father, Edgar Hoover lived with them too. Ray worked in a Rubber Plant/Factory.
From there I am not sure how he and all his children ended up back in West Virginia. Any one know what brought them back? Please share if you do.
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