Mary Virginia Calmes was born on 25 March 1889 in Denton County, Texas to Henry Marquis Calmes and [[Pilcher-423|Emma Elizabeth (Pilcher) Calmes. She married Clarence Vernon Short (1886-1939) in Texas about 1913 and divorced him before 1922. She married Benjamin Franklin Hammons (1891-1942) on 12 September 1922 in Doña Ana, New Mexico, United States. On the 1940 Census, she is divorced. On the 1950 Census, she is widowed. She passed in Los Angeles in 1955.
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Title: Ancestral File (R) Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publication: Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998 NAME Family History Library ADDR 35 N West Temple Street CONT Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA Media: Book
Title: CALMES2.ged Repository: Media: Other Text: Date of Import: Mar 10, 2000 Title: Calmes.ftw Repository: Media: Other Text: Date of Import: Mar 10, 2000
"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3GS-2KS : accessed 27 September 2020), Mamie Calmes in household of Henry M Calmes, Justice Precinct 4, Fannin, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 72, sheet 2A, family 18, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,633.
"United States Census, 1940", database with images, FamilySearch (ark:/61903/1:1:K974-YS8 : Sun Jun 11 23:54:18 UTC 2023), Entry for Marian Santos and Mary Virginia Hammons, 1940.
"United States 1950 Census", database, FamilySearch (ark:/61903/1:1:6XLB-Y3ZX : Sat Mar 25 00:26:48 UTC 2023), Entry for Mary V Hammons, 11 April 1950.
"California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGR3-9QG : 26 November 2014), Mary Virginia Hammons, 21 May 1955; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
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