Mary "Mayme" Lindsay was the 2nd child and daughter of James Robert and Alice Ann Woodhouse Lindsay. She was born in the now defunct mining town of Frisco, Beaver Co, Utah where her Irish father was the justice of the peace, a notory, saloon owner, and had mining interests.In 1882 after the death of her 13 month old younger brother, James Buckley Lindsay, the family moved to Beaver, Utah where her grandparents had a general store. During her childhood her family also moved to Salt Lake City where her older sister Alice died in 1892. They moved back to Beaver soon after that. Mayme studied and became a school teacher at the Central grammer school in Beaver. She was teaching there in 1900 when her youngest and 6th sibling Alan, was born when Mayme was 22. She was a loving big sister. Her father died suddenly of a stroke in 1904.
Mayme married Clark Orral Dunshee son of Alfred and Zuruah Johnson Dunshee on Jan 11,1911 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
They had 4 children. Alice Dunshee b, Dec 14,1911: Clark Lindsay Dunshee b. Sept 23, 1913: Mary Lee Dunshee b. Aug 11,1911 all born in Salt Lake City, and Barbara Virginia Dunshee born in Los Angeles, California where Mayme fled to get away from the Spanish Flu that was ravaging the United States at the time. During the flu epidemic Mayme's husband Clerk contracted this horrible flu. It left him debilitsed with brain damage until his death in 1923. Needing to support her family Mayme, in about 1919, took her children and moved back to Beaver where she had family and got a job as court clerk. Her mother died of pnuemonia in Oct 1920. Mayme stayed in Beaver, until about 1928 when her younger brother Daniel Lindsay,a bachlor and a successful engineer, living in New Jersey realized she was struggling in Beaver and moved her and the children back there to live with him. He helped her raise and school the children all of whom had very successful lives. In about 1959 Mayme moved to Tustin California with her daughter Barbara and husband, Roy F. Brown, when his company moved him to their facility there. Mayme lived there until her death in 1961.She was 83. Mayme always planned on being buried next to her sister at Mt Olivet cemetery,in Salt Lake, so her children saw to it that she was.
Note* Aunt Mayme was my father Alan's sister. signed, Patricia Lindsay Clemons
Mayme married Clark Orral Dunshee son of Alfred and Zuruah Johnson Dunshee on Jan 11,1911 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
They had 4 children. Alice Dunshee b, Dec 14,1911: Clark Lindsay Dunshee b. Sept 23, 1913: Mary Lee Dunshee b. Aug 11,1911 all born in Salt Lake City, and Barbara Virginia Dunshee born in Los Angeles, California where Mayme fled to get away from the Spanish Flu that was ravaging the United States at the time. During the flu epidemic Mayme's husband Clerk contracted this horrible flu. It left him debilitsed with brain damage until his death in 1923. Needing to support her family Mayme, in about 1919, took her children and moved back to Beaver where she had family and got a job as court clerk. Her mother died of pnuemonia in Oct 1920. Mayme stayed in Beaver, until about 1928 when her younger brother Daniel Lindsay,a bachlor and a successful engineer, living in New Jersey realized she was struggling in Beaver and moved her and the children back there to live with him. He helped her raise and school the children all of whom had very successful lives. In about 1959 Mayme moved to Tustin California with her daughter Barbara and husband, Roy F. Brown, when his company moved him to their facility there. Mayme lived there until her death in 1961.She was 83. Mayme always planned on being buried next to her sister at Mt Olivet cemetery,in Salt Lake, so her children saw to it that she was.
Note* Aunt Mayme was my father Alan's sister. signed, Patricia Lindsay Clemons
Mary "Mayme" Lindsay was the 2nd child and daughter of James Robert and Alice Ann Woodhouse Lindsay. She was born in the now defunct mining town of Frisco, Beaver Co, Utah where her Irish father was the justice of the peace, a notory, saloon owner, and had mining interests.In 1882 after the death of her 13 month old younger brother, James Buckley Lindsay, the family moved to Beaver, Utah where her grandparents had a general store. During her childhood her family also moved to Salt Lake City where her older sister Alice died in 1892. They moved back to Beaver soon after that. Mayme studied and became a school teacher at the Central grammer school in Beaver. She was teaching there in 1900 when her youngest and 6th sibling Alan, was born when Mayme was 22. She was a loving big sister. Her father died suddenly of a stroke in 1904.
Mayme married Clark Orral Dunshee son of Alfred and Zuruah Johnson Dunshee on Jan 11,1911 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
They had 4 children. Alice Dunshee b, Dec 14,1911: Clark Lindsay Dunshee b. Sept 23, 1913: Mary Lee Dunshee b. Aug 11,1911 all born in Salt Lake City, and Barbara Virginia Dunshee born in Los Angeles, California where Mayme fled to get away from the Spanish Flu that was ravaging the United States at the time. During the flu epidemic Mayme's husband Clerk contracted this horrible flu. It left him debilitsed with brain damage until his death in 1923. Needing to support her family Mayme, in about 1919, took her children and moved back to Beaver where she had family and got a job as court clerk. Her mother died of pnuemonia in Oct 1920. Mayme stayed in Beaver, until about 1928 when her younger brother Daniel Lindsay,a bachlor and a successful engineer, living in New Jersey realized she was struggling in Beaver and moved her and the children back there to live with him. He helped her raise and school the children all of whom had very successful lives. In about 1959 Mayme moved to Tustin California with her daughter Barbara and husband, Roy F. Brown, when his company moved him to their facility there. Mayme lived there until her death in 1961.She was 83. Mayme always planned on being buried next to her sister at Mt Olivet cemetery,in Salt Lake, so her children saw to it that she was.
Note* Aunt Mayme was my father Alan's sister. signed, Patricia Lindsay Clemons
Mayme married Clark Orral Dunshee son of Alfred and Zuruah Johnson Dunshee on Jan 11,1911 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
They had 4 children. Alice Dunshee b, Dec 14,1911: Clark Lindsay Dunshee b. Sept 23, 1913: Mary Lee Dunshee b. Aug 11,1911 all born in Salt Lake City, and Barbara Virginia Dunshee born in Los Angeles, California where Mayme fled to get away from the Spanish Flu that was ravaging the United States at the time. During the flu epidemic Mayme's husband Clerk contracted this horrible flu. It left him debilitsed with brain damage until his death in 1923. Needing to support her family Mayme, in about 1919, took her children and moved back to Beaver where she had family and got a job as court clerk. Her mother died of pnuemonia in Oct 1920. Mayme stayed in Beaver, until about 1928 when her younger brother Daniel Lindsay,a bachlor and a successful engineer, living in New Jersey realized she was struggling in Beaver and moved her and the children back there to live with him. He helped her raise and school the children all of whom had very successful lives. In about 1959 Mayme moved to Tustin California with her daughter Barbara and husband, Roy F. Brown, when his company moved him to their facility there. Mayme lived there until her death in 1961.She was 83. Mayme always planned on being buried next to her sister at Mt Olivet cemetery,in Salt Lake, so her children saw to it that she was.
Note* Aunt Mayme was my father Alan's sister. signed, Patricia Lindsay Clemons
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