She was living with her parents, stepmother and siblings in Moweaqua, Shelby, Illinois in 1900.[2]
She married Charles Ernest Wells on 26 Aug 1905 in Knox county, Illinois.[3] They had three children.
In 1910, they were in Raritan, Henderson county, Illinois.[4]
In 1920, they were in Farmington in Fulton county, Illinois.[5]
They divorced sometime between 1920 and 1930.
In 1930, she was living with son Keith and daughter Mary Doris in Albert Lea, Freeborn, Minnesota.[6] She listed herself as divorced.
She was a lodger in Austin, Mower, Minnesota in 1940.[7]
She passed 10 Dec 1942 in Austin, Mower, Minnesota.[8]
Sources
↑ "Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2LK-NHF : 12 December 2014), Maud Godfrey, 23 Aug 1882; Birth, citing Shelby, Illinois, United States; FHL microfilm 1,008,037.
↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSHK-DLY : accessed 15 June 2017), Maud Godfrey in household of John W Godfrey, Moweaqua Township Moweaqua vill. (pt.), Shelby, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 114, sheet 1A, family 13, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,345.
↑ "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KFV1-Z2B : 3 March 2016), Ernest Wells and Maud Godfrey, 26 Aug 1905; citing Knox, Illinois, United States, county offices, Illinois; FHL microfilm 1,412,062.
↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKD7-839 : accessed 15 June 2017), Maude G Welle in household of Ernest C Welle, Raritan, Henderson, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 37, sheet 1B, family 26, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 289; FHL microfilm 1,374,302.
↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJW1-4RF : accessed 15 June 2017), Maud Godfrey Wells in household of Charles Ernest Wells, Farmington, Fulton, Illinois, United States; citing ED 89, sheet 1A, line 27, family 6, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 369; FHL microfilm 1,820,369.
↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X3ZW-FTL : accessed 15 June 2017), Maud Wells, Albert Lea, Freeborn, Minnesota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 32, sheet 4B, line 61, family 88, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1087; FHL microfilm 2,340,822.
↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KSV4-D1K : accessed 15 June 2017), Maude P Wells, Ward 2, Austin, Austin City, Mower, Minnesota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 50-7B, sheet 4B, line 41, family 81, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1940.
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