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Ancestors

Mary Ellen Stubbs

b. 1896 · Missouri
Born 1896, Missouri
Children include William

Mary Ellen Stubbs was born about 1896 in Missouri. She married James Mayhan and lived with him at Marble City, in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, where she was known as Ellen. In January 1920 she was 24, with four children under seven: Dessie, Frankie, Cleadus and Clarence, who had been born on 1 November 1918. By 1930 there were eight at home. Her daughter Martha was born at Marble City on 1 November 1928, and when Martha applied for a Social Security number in 1944 she named her mother as Mary E. Stubbs. Two more daughters, Coralee and Alice, followed.

In the early 1930s the Mayhans often drove down to Evening Shade, south of Marble City, where the Stubbs family lived. By 1941 most of the family had gone west to Farmersville, in the San Joaquin Valley of California. There, on 14 June 1941, Ellen's son Kenneth, 20, was killed when a Southern Pacific train struck the car he was riding in with his father and his brother Cletis.

Her son Clarence's obituary of 1992 names her as his mother, Mary Ellen Stubbs Mayhan.

Sources

Obituary of William Clarence Mayhan, newspaper clipping, June 1992, photograph added 8 September 2022 to Find a Grave memorial 30465413.
United States Census 1920, Marble, enumeration district 156, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, sheet 9A, line 11, NARA T625 roll 1488; FamilySearch 1:1:MN13-CHX.
United States Census 1930, Marble City, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma; FamilySearch 1:1:XC4J-D3P.
United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files, 1936-2007, Martha Mayhan Busby; FamilySearch 1:1:6K49-VQR8.
Visalia Times-Delta, Visalia, California, 14 June 1941, page 1, and 28 June 1941, page 2; Sacramento Union, 15 June 1941, page 16.
Visalia Times-Delta, Visalia, California, 17 June 1941, pages 1 and 2.
Visalia Times-Delta, Visalia, California, 26 March 1942, page 5.
United States Social Security Numerical Identification Files, Martha Mayhan Busby, FamilySearch 1:1:6K49-VQR8; United States Census 1920, FamilySearch 1:1:MN13-CHX; United States Census 1930, FamilySearch 1:1:XC4J-D3P; Visalia Times-Delta, 17 June 1941, pages 1 and 2, and 26 March 1942, page 5; obituary of William Clarence Mayhan, June 1992, clipping on Find a Grave memorial 30465413.

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