m. 6 Apr 1900
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| Birth |
17 Sep 1879 |
Missouri, USA  |
| Death |
21 Oct 1965 |
St. Francis Hospital, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, USA |
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| Notes |
Married:
- they had no children together
Land:
- Shortly before Oklahoma entered statehood in 1907, John decided
he and Lottie (he often called her Lottie Jane) would try to
homestead in what was to become a new state. John made a brief
trip to Oklahoma to look over 160 acres of land and compare it
with government field notes. They looked pretty correct. He
talked to some of the other people that were out there looking
at the land and went back to Missouri and bid from the field
notes. He said, "The 160 acres that I got was described in the
field notes as 140 acres of tillable land, but it was the
poorest 160 acres in Oklahoma. When I went to prove up on it, I
had my neighbors for witnesses and the old Judge asked my
neighbors how much land I had in cultivation and my neighbor
told him that I didn't have any and that I had to plow up part
of the section line to get a place big enough for a garden."
"We built a little house on it, dug a well and got gyp water.
Our place was close to a creek that was called íDeep Red'.
There was lots of red sand that blew in the water. There were
lots of cyclones around there. Snyder, Oklahoma, was blown away
three times that spring by cyclones, so we dug us a storm cave.
There were lots of rattle snakes there and after we dug the
storm cave, Lottie Jane and I were afraid to go in the cave on
account of the rattle snakes and we were afriad to stay out
because we were afraid we'd be blown away. We drank the gyp
water and both of us took down with the typhoid fever."
Census:
- John Mabee, Head, M, W, 30, M1, 10, Arkansas, Arkansas,
Illinois, Stockman, Buying Stock, owns home
Lottie E. Mabee, Wife, F, W, 30, M1, 10, no children, Missouri,
Arkansas, Illinois, none
- John E Mabee, Head, M, W, 40, M, Missouri, Illinois, Kansas,
Mule skinner
Lottie E Mabee, Wife, F, W, 40, M, Missouri, Illinois,
Illinois, housewife
- John E Mabee, Head, M, W, 57, M@19, Illinois, Illinois,
Illinois, Drilling Contractor for an Oil Well
Lottie E Mabee, Wife, F, W, 40, M@21, Missouri, Illinois,
Missouri
Anecdote:
- In 1948, John and Lottie formed The J. E. and L. E. Mabee
Foundation, Inc., a Delaware non-profit corporation., with its
office in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As stated in its charter, the
purposes of the Foundation are to aid Christian religious
organizations, charitable organizations, institutions of higher
learning, hospitals and other organizations of a general
charitable nature. The Mabee Foundation makes grants in the
states of Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and New
Mexico. It was the feeling of John and Lottie that their wealth
had come from this area and they wanted the benefits of the
Foundation to be spent in that area. The Foundation continues
to honor that feeling and confines its grants to that
geographical area. From its beginning to 1989, the Mabee
foundation made grants totaling approximately 250 million
dollars.
See the website at www.mabeefoundation.com.
Directors include John H. Conway, Jr. in Tulsa and Joe G.
Mabee and his son J. Guy Mabee, Jr.
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- [S1241] Maybee Society Communicator, #8 (Reliability: 3).
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