Violet May Rhoads

Abt 1905 -

• Name	Violet May Rhoads  [1, 2, 3]
  	1910 census "Violet Jolly" 1920 census "Violet Tyson" (step-father's surname) 1928 marriage as "Violet May Rhoads"
  Born	Abt 1905	Montana or Missouri   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Parents	Violet's 1928 marriage to Harold Dawson in Sanilac County, Michigan, names her parents as "May Jolly" and her father as simply "Rhoads."  [3]
  Residence	Jan 1963	Lexington, Sanilac County, Michigan, USA   [4]
  	Violet was listed in her mother's obituar as Mrs. Harold N. Dawson of Lexington.
  Person ID	I571	Gilmore-Donald
  Last Modified	3 Feb 2016

  
  

  Father	Unknown [Partner of Mae Elizabeth Jolly]
  Mother	Mae Elizabeth Jolly,   b. 6 Feb 1878, Laclede County, MIssouri, USA ,   d. 14 Jan 1963, Sanilac County, Michigan, USA  (Age 84 years)
  Married	Probably never married.
  Narrative	Abt 1905
  	Mae E. Jolly had daughter Violet Jolly in 1905, likely out of wedlock. Violet is listed as "Violet Jolly" in the 1910 Montana census with her mother--her mother's marital status given as "widowed." In 1920 she as listed as Violet "Tyson," taking her step-father's name. In 1928 she was married as "Violet May Rhoads." The marriage record listed her mother as May Jolly and her father simply as "Rhoads." I searched the surname "Rhoads" for 1900 Laclede County. It did not appear in Laclede County, but two of that spelling appeared in neighboring Camden County, in the Russell community where May's older sister Cora lived at the time of the 1900 census. Cora and her husband, Samuel A. Park had moved to Jackson County by 1910, but we don't know the exact date of their move. Was May living or staying with her sister Cora's family in the Russell community in 1904 or 1905, when she became pregnant with her daughter Violet? It seems possible. Additionally, families named Rhoades and Rhodes appeared in 1900 Laclede County.
  Family ID	F209	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Harold Dawson
  Married	29 Feb 1928	Amadore, Sanalac County, Michigan, USA   [3]
  Last Modified	2 Feb 2016
  Family ID	F210	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S533] 1910 U.S. census, Chouteau County, Montana, population schedule, school district 1, Fort Benton, enumeration district (ED) 58, sheet 1B, p. 101 (stamped, verso), dwelling 72, family 72, John V. Carroll household, for May Jolley; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 31 Mar 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 830. [S534] 1920 U.S. census, Sanilac County, Michigan, population schedule, Worth township, enumeration district (ED) 168, sheet 5A, p. 55 (stamped, recto), dwelling 102, family 104, David Tyson household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 31 Mar 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 797. . [S540] ?Michigan Marriages, 1822?1995,? database, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 31 March 2011), for Violet May Rhoads-Harold Dawson, Sanilac County, (1928); citing FHL film no. 978,671. [S542] "Mrs. Mae E. Tyson," The Sanilac Jeffersonian (Lexington, Mich.), 17 January 1963, [p. and col. not on clipping], obituary of Mae Elizabeth (Jolly) Tyson.