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Amos Martin WHITELEY
(1808 –1882)
Serenia Elizabeth BOYDSTON
(1822 –1895)
Eli Riley Birk HUFFMAN
(1833 –1911)
Rebecca ELLIS
(1835 –1906)
Amos Martin WHITELEY
(1857 –1942)
Mary Ann HUFFMAN
(1857 –1948)
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Mary Lora WHITELEY
(1893 –1993)

 

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1. Sam MATTHEWS

Mary Lora WHITELEY 1
  • Born: 28 August 1893, Texas, USA 2 3
  • Marriage (1): Sam MATTHEWS on 20 November 1910 in Bell County, Texas, USA
  • Died: 13 April 1993, Lubbock County, Texas, USA at age 99
  • Buried: 1993, Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas, USA

bullet   Other names for Mary were Lora M. MATHEW,3 Lora MATTHEWS,4 5 Lora WHITELEY,6 7 Lora WHITELY 2 and Mary WHITLEY.8

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bullet  Burial Notes

City of Lubbock Cemetery, Block 38

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bullet  Recorded Events in Her Life

  • Nickname: Lora.
  • She has conflicting birth information of 21 December 1893 and Texas, USA.
  • She appeared on the 1900 US Federal Census on 12 June 1900 in Justice Precinct 8 (North Part), Bell County, Texas, USA. 2

Whitely A Martin   Head   W  M   Apr  1858   42  M  19         Mousiri   Tennessee   Tennessee   Farmer
   "    Mary       Wife   W  F   Feb  1856   44  M  19  7  6   Texas     Texas       Texas
   "    Fannie     Dau    W  F   Sept 1881   18  S             Texas     Mousiri     Texas
   "    Elva       Dau    W  F   Feb  1886   14  S             Texas     Mousiri     Texas
   "    Amos       Son    W  M   Dec  1887   12  S             Texas     Mousiri     Texas       Farm Laborer
   "    Jessie     Son    W  M   Dec  1889   10  S             Texas     Mousiri     Texas       Farm Laborer
   "    Lora       Dau    W  F   Aug  1893    6  S             Texas     Mousiri     Texas
   "    Lula       Dau    W  F   July 1895    4  S             Texas     Mousiri     Texas

  • She appeared on the 1920 US Federal Census on 2 January 1920 in Justice Precinct 3, Coryell County, Texas, USA. 3

Mathew Sam        Head   M  W  32       M   Texas   Mississippi     Texas           Mail Carrier/U.S. Mail
------ Lora M     Wife   F  W  26       M   Texas   United States   United States   None
------ Cyril H    Son    M  W   7       S   Texas   Texas           Texas           None
------ Buran S    Son    M  W   5       S   Texas   Texas           Texas           None
------ Chloma M   Dau    F  W   2 8/12  S   Texas   Texas           Texas           None
------ Holden D   Son    M  W   5/12    S   Texas   Texas           Texas           None

  • She appeared on the 1930 US Federal Census on 4 April 1930 in Justice Precinct 8, Bell County, Texas, USA.
  • She had a residence in 1942 in Belton, Bell County, Texas, USA. 5

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  • She was buried at the City of Lubbock Cemetery, Block 38, in Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas, USA in 1993.
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Mary married Sam MATTHEWS, son of Alfred Gatlin MATTHEWS and Mary Georgia Ann GATLIN, on 20 November 1910 in Bell County, Texas, USA. The marriage ended in divorce before 1928. (Sam MATTHEWS was born on 1 August 1887 in Texas, USA,3 died on 26 October 1965 in Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas, USA and was buried on 28 October 1965 in Copperas Cove, Coryell County, Texas, USA.)


bullet  Marriage Notes

This might be pure fabrication, but according to a story told by someone from Sam's second family (a known big story teller), the split between Sam and his first wife Lora happened when Sam awakened from a nap, and Lora was standing over him stropping a butcher knife like she was getting ready to cut his throat. Sam rolled off the bed, jumped out the window, and never went back. A creek he'd had to pass over coming back from his mail route was so swollen he couldn't get home, so he'd spent the previous night on the other side.

As another child from Sam's second family commented, "Might not be a bit of truth in it (or about the creek), but it's a pretty good story."

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bullet   Sources   bullet

  1. Kirsty M. Haining.
  2. Ancestry.com, 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls), A. Martin Whitely household, Justice Precinct 8 (North Part), Bell County, Texas, USA.
  3. Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC), Sam Mathew household, Justice Precinct 3, Coryell County, Texas, USA.
  4. FamilySearch, Texas Deaths, 1890 –1976, Mary Ann Whiteley death certificate, 1948, Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas, USA.
  5. FamilySearch, Texas Deaths, 1890 –1976, Amos Martin Whiteley death certificate, 1942, Belton, Bell County, Texas, USA.
  6. FamilySearch, Texas Deaths, 1890 –1976, Chloma M. Griggs death certificate, 1949, Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas, USA.
  7. FamilySearch, Texas Deaths, 1890 –1976, Cyril H. Matthews death certificate, 1951, Amarillo, Potter County, Texas, USA.
  8. FamilySearch, Texas Deaths, 1890 –1976, Whitley Douglas Matthews death certificate, 1923, Copperas Cove, Coryell County, Texas, USA.


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