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Ancestors

Jocie Cleo Dobbs

1919-1995 · Sallisaw OK
Born 1919, Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma
Died 1995
Children include Mary

Jocie Cleo Dobbs was born on 12 February 1919 at Sallisaw, in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. She was known as Cleo, and her name was also written Josie. Her memorial gives her parents as James S. Dobbs and Gordilee Hightower.

On 16 July 1938, at nineteen, she married William Clarence Mayhan at Sallisaw. Their daughter Mary Lee was born there on 18 March 1939. In April 1940 the census found Cleo, 21, with Clarence and the baby in Marble Township, outside Marble City and near the Dwight Indian Training School. A second daughter, Betty Lou, followed.

Clarence worked as a plumber, and he retired from the plumbers' union local at Oroville, California. They came back to northeastern Oklahoma. When Clarence died in 1992 they were living at Bluejacket, in Craig County, and his obituary named "his wife, Jocie Mayhan of the home".

Cleo died on 19 March 1995, aged 76. She was buried beside Clarence in Maple Cemetery northeast of Sallisaw, under their double stone headed "MAYHAN", which reads "CLEO J., FEB. 12, 1919, MAR. 19, 1995".

Children

Mary Mayhan 1939-2009

Sources

Obituary of William Clarence Mayhan, newspaper clipping, June 1992, photograph added 8 September 2022 to Find a Grave memorial 30465413.
Find a Grave memorials 30465413 and 30465414, Maple Cemetery, Maple, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, photograph added 21 March 2011.
United States Census, 1940, Oklahoma, Sequoyah County, Marble Township, enumeration district 68-12, sheet 3B, line 49, FamilySearch ark 1:1:VBKL-LWS.
United States Census 1940, Marble Township, Sequoyah County, FamilySearch 1:1:VBKL-LWS; obituary of William Clarence Mayhan, June 1992; Find a Grave memorials 30465414 and 30465413.

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