. Edna Louder-Pope-Wade pressed forward with monitoring the progress of African Americans in the city. Edna took pride in the community, and she was known for her scrapbook full of news articles of achievements made by African Americans in sports, business, and scholastics. She also started recording the history of early Tulare, researching obituaries and other records in an attempt to recognize the first African Americans to settle in the area. This remained Edna’s quest until her death in 1999.
Adie Gardner, who was born in Kentucky on May 18, 1893, researched to have died in Tulare on April 11, 1915 at the age of Twenty-two. Her father John Gardner was recorded as the next of kin. The project has not been able to find out any more information pertaining to either Adie or her Father John Gardner.
Tulare early pioneers have been established with the aide of records from Allensworth Historical Park as well Tulare Advance Register obituary notices.
To date we have been able to establish John and daughter, Adie Gardner in Tulare prior to Adie’s Death on April 11, 1915.
Note: Any information about families not recorded is welcomed
Edna Louder-Wade, 1924 to 1999
Edna Louder-Wade, born in 1924 to the union of John and Emma Louder. The family relocated to the Tulare area settling first on a farm outside of the city limits. Edna had written about her father raising cotton and other items on the farm. The families move into the city of Tulare in the 1928 where they would purchase property in the Lincoln Tract area on R Street. The community around them was quickly growing as more and more lots were being purchased from Mr. James Sims and Arthur King two of the first African American who dealt in real estate. Edna was very proud of her elder sister Kathryn (Kay) Louder-Green, she would credited her sister with teaching her how to read and write, Kay Green would later become deeply involved in the development of the Community, she was also involved in the efforts to restore the history of Allensworth California. Edna although she did not involve herself with that of Allensworth, she would become deeply concern with the lack of development of Tulare and the area of Lincoln Tract, she began to study the activities of some people who fought for the betterment of the area. She watched the efforts of Mrs. Billie Ashby with Cecil Berkley and others who fought for these changes until their deaths.
