Alice Maria Bååv Kemp was born in Göteborg in January 1888 and died in Chicago in July of 1970. She had lived in the United States since the spring of 1913, for 57 years.
Alice’s name appears alongside her husband’s on documents between their 1915 wedding and her husband’s death in 1939. After 1939 her son, Walden, born in 1916, is listed as the head of household. Alice is listed as a widow.
I don’t know if Alice ever worked outside the home after she married. The notes for her on the censuses say ‘housework’, or ‘at home’. Before she married she worked at an institution the for developmentally disabled in upstate New York. I have wondered what her time there was like.
Alice was my grandfather Kratz’s first cousin, and she’s one of my closest immigrant relatives. Her life is a mystery. There is very little information.