Marie Louise Durham, Granddaughter of Cassandra Lincecum (Virtual Graves)

Image accompanying wedding
announcement in 2 September
1917 Austin American-
Statesman (Texas).

Marie Louise Durham was born 8 March 1893 in Austin, Travis County, Texas. She was a daughter of Marie Augusta Packenius (1868-1947) and Walter Winn Durham (1855-1929), and a granddaughter of Cassandra Lincecum (d. 1877) and George John Durham (1820-1869).

The Durhams were among the first settlers of Austin, and Marie's grandfather, George John Durham, was once Austin's mayor. 

Marie Durham married Alexander James Gouldie (1891-1938) of New York, son of Eliza Fife and James Gouldie, on 1 September 1917 in Cameron County, Texas. In a wedding announcement published in the Austin American-Statesman (Texas), Maried was described as "a brunette of the blue-eyed type."

I believe the young couple had five children, though I can only name four: George Alexander (1918-1920), Marie Louise (1919-2000), Hubert David (1922-1982), and Charles Durham (1927-1987).

Marie became a widow in 1938 when her husband died mere hours after having surgery to extract five abscessed teeth. His son from a previous marriage, Alexander James Gouldie Jr., remained close to stepmother Marie after his father's death.

Marie Louise Durham Gouldie died 10 November 1956 at Hermann Hospital in Houston, Harris County, Texas. After Catholic funeral services, she was laid to rest in Mt. Olivet Cemetery of Dickinson, Galveston County, Texas.