Dora Jenny (Bray) Bartlett (1886 - 1984)

Dora was born in 1886, the daughter of Patrick Bray and Mary Bryant. She was born and lived in Missouri until the 1920 US Census shows that she and her husband moved to Oklahoma. For a brief time, she moved from there to Ohio, and then returned to Missouri by 1946. She married twice, the first time at age 17, divorcing her first husband. Dora passed away in 1984 at 97 years old in California.

Timeline with Sources

• 1886 Dec 16 - Birth - Polk, Sullivan, Missouri

• 1900 United States Federal Census[1] - Spring Creek, Phelps, Missouri - Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter

• 1904 Oct 1 - Marriage to Moses Alfred Reed - Phelps, Missouri - Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002[2]

• 1905 Aug 8 - Birth of Daughter Gladys Dorothy - Phelps Co., Missouri

• 1907 Jan 10 - Birth of Daughter Cleadith Cora - Missouri

• 1909 - Birth of Son Thomas F - Missouri City, Missouri

• 1910 United States Federal Census[3] - Boone, Texas, Missouri - Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife; Number of Children Born 3; Number of Children Living 3 - Children Listed: Gladis D 5, Cora C 3, Thomas F 1

• 1911 May 4 - Birth of Daughter Fannie - Missouri

• c 1914 - Birth of Daughter Clivette - Oklahoma

• c 1917 - Birth of Daughter Arlie - Missouri

• 1919 Apr 20 - Birth of Daughter Mary Rozella - Oklahoma

• 1920 United States Federal Census[4] - Turney, Texas, Oklahoma - Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife - Children Listed: Gladys 14, Cledith 12, Fannie 8, Clivette 6, Arlie 3, Roselle 1

• 1930 United States Federal Census[5] - Ponca City, Kay, Oklahoma - Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife (Their daughter Fannie, her husband Dean Grider, and children are living with them.)

• 1935 - Residence: Ponca, Oklahoma - From 1940 US Census

• 1938 - Ponca City, Oklahoma - U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989[6]

• 1940 United States Federal Census[7] - Hunting Valley, Cuyahoga, Ohio - Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Mother-in-law; Highest Grade Completed: Elementary school, 8th grade (Dora and Moses are living with their daughter Gladys and husband JH Evinger.)

• bef 1946 - Divorce from Moses Alfred Reed

• 1946 Feb 21 - Marriage to John Issac Bartlet - Phelps Co. Missouri - Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002[8] (He divorced Merril Nellie Hogan)

• 1977 Aug 1 - Death of Husband John Issac Bartlet - Blackwell, Kay, Oklahoma - U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014[9]

• 1984 Apr 19 - Death - Diamond Springs, El Dorado, California - U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014[10] — Find a Grave[11] Memorial# 75826681 - Burial: Longwood Cemetery, Ponca City, Kay County, Oklahoma