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May Elizabeth Smith

May Elizabeth Smith

Female 1889 - 1973  (83 years)

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  • Name May Elizabeth Smith  [1] 
    • Though listed as "Mary" in her parents' 1900 enumeration, and in most family histories since that time, she was named as "May E." in her marriage record (Hoop), and in the 1910 and 1920 census.
    Born 2 May 1889  Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    Gender Female 
    Census 15 Apr 1910  LeRoy township, Barton County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    • 1. Hoop, Charles E., head, male, white, 47, widowed, Indiana, Indiana, Indiana, farm, general farm, own account, can read and write, owns farm with mortgage, farm schedule no. 1
      2. _____, Lonnie P., son, male, white, single, Missouri, Indiana, Missouri, farm labor, home farm, can read and write
      3. _____, Karl W., son, male, white, 8, Missouri, Indiana, Missouri, attending school
      4. _____, Charles F., son, male, white, 19, first marriage, married 0 years, Missouri, Indiana, Missouri, farm labor, home farm
      5. _____, May E., daughter in law, female, white, 20, first marriage, married 0 years, 0 children 0 living, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri
      6. Beck, Martha S., servant, female, white, 17, single, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Missouri, servant, private family, can read and write
    Census 23 Jan 1920  Leroy township, Barton County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    • 1. Hoop, Charles F., head, owns with mortgage, male, white, 28, married, can read and write, Missouri, Indiana, Missouri, farmer, general farm, farm schedule no. 84
      2. _____, May E., wife, female, white, 30, married, can read and write, Missouri, Missouri, Tennessee
      3. _____, Jennie M., daughter, female, white, 9, attending school, can read and write, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri
      4. _____, Dora A., daughter, female, white, 6, attending school, can read and write, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri
      5. _____, Frank E., son, male, white, 5, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri
      6. _____, Jack C., son male, white, 3 1/12, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri
      7. _____, Charles E., Sr., father, male, white, 58, widowed, can read and write, Indiana, Indiana, Indiana
    Census 5 Apr 1930  Orosi township, Tulare County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    • 1. Hoop, Chas. F., head, renting, farm, male, whtie 37, married, first married age 19, can read and write, Missouri, Indiana, Indiana, laborer, farm, not a veteran
      2. _____, May E., wife, female, white, 38, married, first married age 20, can read and write, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri, servant, private family
      3. _____, Frank E., son, male, white, 15, attending school, can read and write, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri
      4. _____, Jack C., son, male, white, 14, attending school, can read and write
      5. _____, Charles W. son, male, white, 8, attending school, can read and write, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri
      6. Aleshire, Jennie, daughter, female, white, 19, divorced, first married age 17, can read and write, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri
      7. _____, Catherine, daughter, female, white, 1, California, Missouri, Missouri
      8. Hoop, Chas E., grandfather, male, white, 67, widowed, can read and write, Indiana, Indiana, Indiana

      [Jennie "Aleshire" looks like "Ateshire," but is probably just a mistaken cross of the 'l.']
    Note 2 Apr 1940  Sierra St., Reno, Washoe County, Nevada, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Jack C. Hoop was enumerated as a lodger in a house in Reno, where he was employed as a taxi driver. The census stated that in 1935 Jack was living in Bakersfield, California. 
    Note 15 Apr 1940  Merlin township, Josephine County, Oregon, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    • May E. (Smith) Hoop's family was enumerated without her in 1940, in Oregon. Her husband Charles is enumerated as "divorced," though his 1958 Josephine County death certificate names his wife as "Mae Hoop."

      An interview with Bonnie Compton (descendant of Mary C. Walker's brother Helton Alanson Walker) indicated that May also married Clarence Allen Venable, but with no information as to when or where. Were Charles and May divorced? Clarence A. Venable was a married near neighbor to Charles and May in the 1910 Barton Co MO census. Did may return to Missouri from California or Oregon? Were they divorced and she married a possibly widowed Clarence Venable? The same interview indicated May's death in Barton County in 1973.

      1. Hoop, Charles F., head, male, white, 49, divorced, completed 1 year high school, Missouri, same house in 1935, 0 weeks worked, $0 income, other income, farm schedule no. 46
      2. [Jack Hoop, son--crossed out and written across several columns "Taken in Nevada"]
      3. _____, William C., son, male, white, 17, single, completed grade 8, Missouri, same house, performed public emergency work, occupation "C C C cook," Umpqua Falls filler project, worked 12 weeks, unemployed 25 weeks, income $90, other income
      4. Pennington, Ambrose R., lodger, male, white, 27, married, completed 2 years of high school, born Oklahoma, lived on farm in Willow Creek, Josephine Co OR (1935), does public emergency work, unemployed 72 weeks, laborer, WPA road project, income $450
      5. _____, Irene M., lodgers wife, female, white, 24, married, completed 3 years of high school, born Nebraska, lived on farm in Egremond, Alberta, Canada in 1935
      6. _____, Earl Ladd, lodger's son, male, white, 11 months, born in Oregon
    Residence Aug 1950  Liberal, Barton County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    The 1950 obituary of her sister Alice A. (Smith) Brooks names her as her sister "Mrs. Mae Venable" of Liberal. 
    Died 15 Mar 1973  Liberal, Barton County, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Person ID I3462  Full | ProgenitorWalker
    Last Modified 27 Apr 2014 

    Father Andrew Jackson Smith,   b. 20 Sep 1858, Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Feb 1940, Bryan County, Oklahoma, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years) 
    Mother Mary Carolina "Molly" Walker,   b. 29 Jan 1860, Dickson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Feb 1920, Liberal, Barton County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 60 years) 
    Married 17 Jan 1878  Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 10, 11, 12] 
    Family ID F1174  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Charles Frank Hoop,   b. 20 Oct 1890, Lane, [Unknown County], Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Jul 1958, Josephine County, Oregon, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years) 
    Married 27 Jul 1909  Barton County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 13, 14] 
    Children 
     1. Jennie M. Hoop,   b. Abt 1921, Liberal, Barton County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Dora A. Hoop,   b. Abt 1914, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Frank E. Hoop,   b. Abt 1915, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Jack C. Hoop,   b. Abt 1916, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Charles W. Hoop,   b. Abt 1922, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 15 Oct 2012 
    Family ID F15  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Clarence Allen Venable 
    Married Y  [2] 
    • Clarence Allen Venable was married to Sarah Edds. Sarah died in 1936 and was buried in Crawford County, Kansas. Clarence lived until 1969, dying in Barton County, Missouri. He was buried with his wife Sarah.

      It is quite possible that May E. (Smith) Hoop left her husband in California or Oregon and went back to Missouri, where she divorced him and married the widowed Clarence Venable. No record of the marriage has been found. [15, 16]
    Last Modified 15 Oct 2012 
    Family ID F443  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S10] Walker - research of Hugh Reeves, Hugh Reeves.

    2. [S11] Alta A. Dayton, Record of the Posterity of Samuel Harrison Smith and Caroline Mooney Smith and Mary Ellen Batman Smith (Publisher: [N. p.], 1957).

    3. [S457] SSDI - Ancestry.com, (Social Security Administration, "U.S. Social Security Index," database, «i»Ancestry.com«/i» (http://www.ancestry.com/)), Number: 496-54-4222; Issue State: Missouri; Issue Date: 1965. (Reliability: 3).
      Name: Mary E. Venable
      SSN: 496-54-4222
      Last Residence: 64762 Liberal, Barton, Missouri, United States of America
      Born: 2 May 1889
      Died: 15 Mar 1973
      State (Year) SSN issued: Missouri (1965 )

    4. [S2757] 1910 U.S. census, Barton County, Missouri, population schedule, LeRoy township, enumeration district (ED) 25, sheet 1A, p. 1 (stamped, recto), dwelling 1, family 1, Charles E. Hoop household, detail for Charles F. and May E. Hoop; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 14 Oct 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 768.

    5. [S2758] 1920 U.S. census, Barton County, Missouri, population schedule, Leroy township, enumeration district (ED) 30, sheet 10B (penned), p. 195, (stamped, verso), dwelling 123, family 124, Charles F. Hoop household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 14 Oct 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 902. .

    6. [S2759] 1930 U.S. census, Tulare County, California, population schedule, Orosi township, Delaware township, enumeration district (ED) 54-38, sheet 3A, p. 3 (stamped, recto), dwelling 51A, family 52A, Chas. F. Hoop household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 14 Oct 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 226.

    7. [S2761] 1940 U.S. census, Washoe County, Nevada, population schedule, Reno (Sierra St.) , enumeration district (ED) 16-14 sheet 1B, p. 189, (stamped, verso), household 554, Minnie L. Dawson household, for Jack "Hoops" [Hoop], lodger; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 15 Oct 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 2281.

    8. [S2760] 1940 U.S. census, Josephine County, Oregon, population schedule, Merlin township , enumeration district (ED) 17-21 sheet 3A, p. 182, (stamped, recto), household 57, Charles F. Hoop household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 12 Oct 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 3364.

    9. [S4284] “Alice A. Brooks,” Liberal (Missouri) News, 10 August 1950, p.1, col. 4; [likely reel no. 26584], State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia.

    10. [S2717] Howell County, Missouri, Marriage Book [1978]: 17, A. J. Smith-Mary Walker, 17 January 1878; digital image, "Missouri Marriage Records, 1850-2002," Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 29 August 2013); citing Missouri Marriage Records, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City.

    11. [S2709] 1880 U. S. census, Howell County, Missouri, population schedule, Goldsberry township, enumeration district (ED) 52, p. 25 (penned), p. 469 (stamped, recto), dwelling 200, family 200, A. Jackson Smith household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 8 Oct 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 691; FHL film no. 1,254,691.

    12. [S4372] Howell County, Missouri, Marriage Book C:17, A. J. Smith-Mary Walker, 1878, certificate and return; Recorder's Office, West Plains.

    13. [S13] Missouri, Barton - 1910 U.S. Census, Missouri, Barton County, Leroy township, Barton County, Missouri, ED 25, Sheet 1A, Dwelliing 1, Family 1, Charles E. Hoop household, jpeg image (Reliability: 3).

    14. [S2756] “Missouri Marriage Records, 1805–2002,” digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 14 Oct 2012), Howell County, marriage license and return, book [not stated]: 103, for May E. Smith-Chas. F. Hoop (1909); citing Missouri Marriage Records, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City. .

    15. [S2762] "Rosebank Cemetery, Mulberry, Crawford County, Kansas," database and digital images, FindAGrave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 15 Oct 2012), entry for Clarence A. Venable (1881-1969), memorial no. 91899021, posted by Linda Dukes (LindaDukes50@aol.com), 14 June 2012.

    16. [S2763] "Rosebank Cemetery, Mulberry, Crawford County, Kansas," database and digital images, FindAGrave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 15 Oct 2012), entry for Sarah Lou Edds Venable (1882-1936), memorial no. 91898886, posted by Linda Dukes (LindaDukes50@aol.com), 14 June 2012.


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