Cleo
McKinley
Wismer
aka Applegate
Born in Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas
Ancestors 
Son of Henry Bliehm Wismer
and Lydia Irena (Norris) Wismer
Brother of
Reona Addie (Wismer) Duncan, Clifford Eugene Wismer, Laverta Esther (Wismer) Tate, Raymond Henry (Wismer) Anderson and Frank Stanley Applegate [half]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died after
after age 24
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 23 Apr 2018
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Biography
Cleo McKinley Wismer was born in Jan 1901 in Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas, the son of Henry Wismer and Rena Norris. [1] According to his sister, Reona Wismer Duncan, Cleo had a twin brother named Clifford Eugene Wismer, who died at birth or in early childhood. [2]
After the divorce of his parents in 1912, very little is known of him. He evidently took the surname of his mother's second husband, and began calling himself Cleo Applegate. In a city directory for Fort Worth, Texas, he is listed as a mechanic under the Applegate name.[3] In Shreveport, Louisiana, he is listed in a city directory in 1923, again as a mechanic under the name of Cleo Applegate.[4]
After that record, he is difficult to track. It is not known if he ever married after that time, or if he ever went again by the Wismer name. Cleo was mentioned by his step-father in a handwritten letter in 1925 [5] after the death of Cleo's mother, Lydia. In the letter, it seems to indicate that Cleo was still alive.
He passed away after some time after Nov 1925.
Sources
- ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MK1T-K4R : accessed 7 June 2022), Cleo Wismer in household of Henry Wismer, Gainesville Ward 4, Cooke, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 51, sheet 16B, family 336, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1542; FHL microfilm 1,375,555.
- ↑ personal papers from 1978 in possession of Shelly Cumbie Tucker
- ↑ From behind Ancestry's paywall Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
- ↑ From behind Ancestry's paywall.
- ↑ letter to Reona Wismer Duncan in possession of Shelly Cumbie Tucker
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Cleo by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Cleo:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Cleo by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Cleo:
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~12.50%
~12.50%
Shelly Cumbie 
:
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member setchmom
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Julie Ann Scovern :
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