Daughter of David Johnson Wilson and Julia Didamia Johnson.
Married to Orson Leroy Cluff on December 25, 1894 at Colonia Diaz, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Later married Franklin Demarcus Haymore on September 14, 1908 at Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico.

LIFE SKETCH OF MARY ELLEN WILSON CLUFF HAYMORE

Mary Ellen Wilson, better known at Mazie, was born in Santaquin (Springlake), Utah 29 January 1874. Her parents were David Johnson Wilson and Julia Didamia Johnson. She was from a family of two brothers and eight sisters, Pearl Melissa being one of them. There were four chiildren born in Springlake (Santaquin). They were Edith, David, Pearl Melissa and Mary Ellen.
When Mary Ellen was about 2 years old her family moved from Springlake, Utah to Hillsdale, Utah, which was about 10 miles south of Panguitch, Utah. There she spent the next 7 years helping with the family. While living in Hillsdale, Centenna, Ester and Ben were born. They lived there in Hillsdale with several other Wilson families, including her Grandfather George Deliverance Wilson and his family from a 2nd marriage.
Mary Ellen wrote, "We used to fish in the Severe (Sevier) River and one day my sister Pearl and I were fishing and I got a fish on my hook so large I could not pull it out, so we called to our neighbor who was plowing close by to pull it out. How proud I was to show my fish to my father that evening when he came home from the field."
When their family heard that her Johnson grandparents (Benjamin Franklin Johnson) families were moving from Payson, Utah, to Arizona, her parents decided to move there also. They arrived in Tempe about Christmas time in 1883. In February a new daughter, Harriet, was born. The following summer the oldest daughter, Edith, contracted typhoid fever and died.
When Mazie was twelve or thirteen years old, she had the privilege of taking a few music lessons. She then taught the others in her family how to play the piano and organ.
Rose and Gladys were born while the family was living in the Mesa, Arizona area. Her father had a desire to go to Mexico where his father had served in the Mormon Battalion. In 1888 the family moved to Colonia Diax, Chihuahua, Mexico. During the trip Mazie and her sister, Pearl Melissa, helped drive one of the horse teams.
While living in Diaz, Mazie completed her schooling. Later she met Orson LeRoy Cluff. They were married on Christmas Day of 1894. Then in October 1895 their son LeRoy was born. In 1898 her husband died and two months later she had another baby boy, Ivan Wilson who died when he was about 10 months old.
The Relief Society organization was encouraging young women to come to Salt Lake and take a nursing course from Margaret Shipp and Dr. Jane Schofield. The colonists needed this type of training, so Mazie's parents cared for her baby LeRoy, while she was in Salt Lake. She completed the training and returned to Mexico.
Franklin D. Haymore came from the Colonia Oaxaca, Sonora to Colonia Juarez to conference. He came into the meeting place just as Mazie was going up the stairs and he spoke to her. While he had been married to Pearl Melissa (Mazie's sister), Mazie and her husband LeRoy had visited them on many occasions, so their meeting was warm and cordial.
When Franklin D. first saw Mazie on the stairs, the thought came to him "she is the one I want to marry." She knew he was a fine man and had been a good husband to her sister, Pearl, so she accepted his proposal and they were married 14 September 1908 in Colonia Juarez, Mexico.
Demarcus Luther was born two years later. Times were troubled in Mexico during this period. They had survived the flood, an earthquake, and now in 1912 the U. S. Government was advising them to leave all their worldly possessions and cross the border into the protection of the United States.
Demarcus was only two and Mazie was expecting another baby any time. They could not leave Mexico with her so close to delivery so Abby Jane Scott Haymore stayed to help take care of her. (Her husband, Arthus S., was on a mission in Mexico.) Franklin Reynard was born 24 July 1912 and the family remained in Colonia Oaxaca as long as they dared for the recuperation of Mazie. Franklin D. made a bed in the wagon box for Mazie and the baby. They were the last family to leave Colonia Oaxaca.
They took very few belongings with them as they had about 85 miles to journey. They lived in tents in Douglas, Arizona at the 10th street park, which were provided by the U. S. Army. Later Franklin D. built a very nice two-story brick home at 1139-8th Street in Douglas, Arizona.
Franklin carried on the tradition of the birthday dinners and Dumpling Day. He loved people and food and always had plenty of both on these special occasions. It was before Franklin and Mazie moved into the house on 8th Street that another baby boy, David Wilson, was born 29 August 1914, but he passed away as an infant. Then in 1916 her first, and only daughter, Ellen Ireta, was born.
Family prayers were part of their home life, as well as music and good time. The children of all the mothers were always welcome in the Haymore home as Mazie was their mother now. Franklin D. loved all of the children including Pearl Melissa Brown (child by third wife by a previous marriage) and LeRoy Cluff.
Franklin D. had two jersey cows which he brought from Chihuahua, Mexico. Mazie did the milking. She would milk into a saucepan, holding it in one hand and milking with the other, then pour the milk into bright copper milk buckets. Franklin D. never learned to milk cows because he said in North Carolina where he was raised, the women always did the milking. He said the cows didn't like the men.
During the winter months they moved to Gilbert, Arizona to me near Arthur. Here Franklin purchased a farm and they raised most of their food. Franklin became ill and was taken to El Paso, Texas, for an operation, from which he never fully recovered. They alternated their living between Douglas and Gilbert. In 1930, Franklin built a nice two-story brick home in Mesa, Arizona.
Mazie's health was not very good and on the 7th of June 1931 she passed away at a Phoenix hospital following a goiter operation. She was buried at Douglas, Arizona.
What a wonderful woman. Mazie was able to step into the Haymore household and was found to be a faithful, devoted wife to Franklin D., a tender, loving mother not only to her own children LeRoy, Franklin Reynard and Ellen Ireta, but to all of the Haymore children. She was blessed with wisdom and god judgment to care for the needs of Franklin D. in his aged years. She had been his wife and constant companion for 23 years. Surely she will wear a crown of jewels and be called blessed. She truly is a great lady.