On November 10, 1903 Jerome Haimes Potter married Mabel Clara Boone in Greenwood County, Kansas. Mabel was a daughter of Lenox Martin K. Boone and Annie Elizabeth "Nannie" Houck, who had migrated to Greenwood County from Greencastle, Putnam County, Indiana before Lenox was born. (These Boones were also related to the famous Daniel Boone, through his brother Squire Boone II, but that was not locally known until later on after their deaths, when I started compiling a master list of all of the Boones when the internet was invented and when people around the U.S. started sending me packets of their own genealogies to upload and share. As per my grandparents and great grandparents testimony of common knowledge of their peers in the two counties, the local Missouri transplants from the Kansas City line of direct descendants of Daniel were sure that they were no relation to the Indiana Boones, and in some cases spelled their name without the final "e" to differentiate. lol)
Jerome and Mabel were the parents of Wayne LeRoy Potter.
Like so many people of their area and time, Jerome went to Wichita to work. He worked for many years as a fireman for the Santa Fe Railroad. He and Mabel can be found in the Wichita Directories, including 1907. That same year he moved his family to Needles, San Bernardino County, California. He was killed that September in a terrible train accident near Amboy, an unincorporated village in San Bernardino County. His body was returned home to Neal, Greenwood County, Kansas for burial. His wife Mabel Clara Boone and their son returned home and lived with her family. They were enumerated twice on the 1910 census - once with her whole family and again with her, little Wayne, and Mabel's next older brother Ross Albert. (They may have had a little place in town for work, though Ross did marry soon after that in that same year.)
Mabel did finally go on to remarry about 1921, to Myrtle Leland Sanders, a local veterinarian in Neal. They had a son together, Robert Elliot Sanders. Mabel shares a stone with Myrtle Leland Sanders in the Neal Cemetery.
by Lila Cole
Jerome and Mabel were the parents of Wayne LeRoy Potter.
Like so many people of their area and time, Jerome went to Wichita to work. He worked for many years as a fireman for the Santa Fe Railroad. He and Mabel can be found in the Wichita Directories, including 1907. That same year he moved his family to Needles, San Bernardino County, California. He was killed that September in a terrible train accident near Amboy, an unincorporated village in San Bernardino County. His body was returned home to Neal, Greenwood County, Kansas for burial. His wife Mabel Clara Boone and their son returned home and lived with her family. They were enumerated twice on the 1910 census - once with her whole family and again with her, little Wayne, and Mabel's next older brother Ross Albert. (They may have had a little place in town for work, though Ross did marry soon after that in that same year.)
Mabel did finally go on to remarry about 1921, to Myrtle Leland Sanders, a local veterinarian in Neal. They had a son together, Robert Elliot Sanders. Mabel shares a stone with Myrtle Leland Sanders in the Neal Cemetery.
by Lila Cole
On November 10, 1903 Jerome Haimes Potter married Mabel Clara Boone in Greenwood County, Kansas. Mabel was a daughter of Lenox Martin K. Boone and Annie Elizabeth "Nannie" Houck, who had migrated to Greenwood County from Greencastle, Putnam County, Indiana before Lenox was born. (These Boones were also related to the famous Daniel Boone, through his brother Squire Boone II, but that was not locally known until later on after their deaths, when I started compiling a master list of all of the Boones when the internet was invented and when people around the U.S. started sending me packets of their own genealogies to upload and share. As per my grandparents and great grandparents testimony of common knowledge of their peers in the two counties, the local Missouri transplants from the Kansas City line of direct descendants of Daniel were sure that they were no relation to the Indiana Boones, and in some cases spelled their name without the final "e" to differentiate. lol)
Jerome and Mabel were the parents of Wayne LeRoy Potter.
Like so many people of their area and time, Jerome went to Wichita to work. He worked for many years as a fireman for the Santa Fe Railroad. He and Mabel can be found in the Wichita Directories, including 1907. That same year he moved his family to Needles, San Bernardino County, California. He was killed that September in a terrible train accident near Amboy, an unincorporated village in San Bernardino County. His body was returned home to Neal, Greenwood County, Kansas for burial. His wife Mabel Clara Boone and their son returned home and lived with her family. They were enumerated twice on the 1910 census - once with her whole family and again with her, little Wayne, and Mabel's next older brother Ross Albert. (They may have had a little place in town for work, though Ross did marry soon after that in that same year.)
Mabel did finally go on to remarry about 1921, to Myrtle Leland Sanders, a local veterinarian in Neal. They had a son together, Robert Elliot Sanders. Mabel shares a stone with Myrtle Leland Sanders in the Neal Cemetery.
by Lila Cole
Jerome and Mabel were the parents of Wayne LeRoy Potter.
Like so many people of their area and time, Jerome went to Wichita to work. He worked for many years as a fireman for the Santa Fe Railroad. He and Mabel can be found in the Wichita Directories, including 1907. That same year he moved his family to Needles, San Bernardino County, California. He was killed that September in a terrible train accident near Amboy, an unincorporated village in San Bernardino County. His body was returned home to Neal, Greenwood County, Kansas for burial. His wife Mabel Clara Boone and their son returned home and lived with her family. They were enumerated twice on the 1910 census - once with her whole family and again with her, little Wayne, and Mabel's next older brother Ross Albert. (They may have had a little place in town for work, though Ross did marry soon after that in that same year.)
Mabel did finally go on to remarry about 1921, to Myrtle Leland Sanders, a local veterinarian in Neal. They had a son together, Robert Elliot Sanders. Mabel shares a stone with Myrtle Leland Sanders in the Neal Cemetery.
by Lila Cole
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