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with eight roomers. She was listed as a "servant" and Grant as a carpenter. In May 1941, her husband filed for divorce because of desertion, claiming that she left him on
November 26, 1930. At the time, she lived on Rhode Island Avenue, NW in Washington, D.C. Her daughter Yvette died in 1944. In
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