Mayme married Clark Orral Dunshee son of Alfred and Zuruah Johnson Dunshee on Jan 11,1911 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
They had 4 children. Alice Dunshee b, Dec 14,1911: Clark Lindsay Dunshee b. Sept 23, 1913: Mary Lee Dunshee b. Aug 11,1911 all born in Salt Lake City, and Barbara Virginia Dunshee born in Los Angeles, California where Mayme fled to get away from the Spanish Flu that was ravaging the United States at the time. During the flu epidemic Mayme's husband Clerk contracted this horrible flu. It left him debilitsed with brain damage until his death in 1923. Needing to support her family Mayme, in about 1919, took her children and moved back to Beaver where she had family and got a job as court clerk. Her mother died of pnuemonia in Oct 1920. Mayme stayed in Beaver, until about 1928 when her younger brother Daniel Lindsay,a bachlor and a successful engineer, living in New Jersey realized she was struggling in Beaver and moved her and the children back there to live with him. He helped her raise and school the children all of whom had very successful lives. In about 1959 Mayme moved to Tustin California with her daughter Barbara and husband, Roy F. Brown, when his company moved him to their facility there. Mayme lived there until her death in 1961.She was 83. Mayme always planned on being buried next to her sister at Mt Olivet cemetery,in Salt Lake, so her children saw to it that she was.
Note* Aunt Mayme was my father Alan's sister. signed, Patricia Lindsay Clemons
Mayme married Clark Orral Dunshee son of Alfred and Zuruah Johnson Dunshee on Jan 11,1911 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
They had 4 children. Alice Dunshee b, Dec 14,1911: Clark Lindsay Dunshee b. Sept 23, 1913: Mary Lee Dunshee b. Aug 11,1911 all born in Salt Lake City, and Barbara Virginia Dunshee born in Los Angeles, California where Mayme fled to get away from the Spanish Flu that was ravaging the United States at the time. During the flu epidemic Mayme's husband Clerk contracted this horrible flu. It left him debilitsed with brain damage until his death in 1923. Needing to support her family Mayme, in about 1919, took her children and moved back to Beaver where she had family and got a job as court clerk. Her mother died of pnuemonia in Oct 1920. Mayme stayed in Beaver, until about 1928 when her younger brother Daniel Lindsay,a bachlor and a successful engineer, living in New Jersey realized she was struggling in Beaver and moved her and the children back there to live with him. He helped her raise and school the children all of whom had very successful lives. In about 1959 Mayme moved to Tustin California with her daughter Barbara and husband, Roy F. Brown, when his company moved him to their facility there. Mayme lived there until her death in 1961.She was 83. Mayme always planned on being buried next to her sister at Mt Olivet cemetery,in Salt Lake, so her children saw to it that she was.
Note* Aunt Mayme was my father Alan's sister. signed, Patricia Lindsay Clemons
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