Family:Eldon Yardley and Clara Baird (1)

Eldon Lee Yardley b. 10 Nov 1915 d. 11 Sep 1982 Ontario, Malheur, Oregon, United States	Parents: Asa Baird and Eva Barnhill Clara Grace Baird b. 8 Dec 1898 Monroe County, Iowa d. 30 May 1950 Fruitland, Muscatine County, Iowa

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Facts and Events

Marriage^[1]^[2]^[5]

15 Nov 1937

Children

		Birth	Death

References

↑ Find A Grave.
↑ Clara Baird and Eldon Yardley, in Michigan, United States. Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952. (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015).

married 15 Nov 1937 in Emmet, Michigan
according to the transcription, Clara gave her age as 28 (she was 38)
Eldon was 21
[1], in United States. 1940 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T627).

Eldon Lee Yardley, age 24, born in Missouri
wife: Clara Yardley, age 30, born in Iowa
[2], in United States. 1950 U.S. Census Population Schedule: a report of the seventeenth decennial census of the United States. (Washington, District of Columbia, United States: U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1953).

Eldon L Yardley, age 34, born in Missouri
wife: Clara G Yardley, age 51, born in Iowa
↑ Clara presented herself as significantly younger than she was when she married Eldon, who was almost 17 years younger than her. She maintained this fiction in the 1940 census, but the true gap in their ages is acknowledged in the 1950 census.