Person:Mary DeWitt (5)

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Mary Ellen DeWitt
b.15 Dec 1897 DeWitt Farm, Peter Pender, Franklin Co., Arkansas
d.1 Apr 1987
Parents and Siblings
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m. 18 May 1876
  1. Edison Dewitt1880 - 1885
  2. Lee Dewitt1883 - 1978
  3. Mills Dewitt1885 - 1972
  4. Robert Burns Dewitt1888 - 1964
  5. Nellie Dewitt1891 - 1956
  6. Mary Ellen DeWitt1897 - 1987
Spouse and Children
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m. 26 Jun 1924
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Facts and Events
Name[1] Mary Ellen DeWitt
Alt Name Piby Aunt Kid Ellen
Gender Female
Birth[2] 15 Dec 1897 DeWitt Farm, Peter Pender, Franklin Co., Arkansas
Other? 9 Jun 1900 Hurricane Twp., Franklin County, ArkansasCensus 1900
Other[10] 18 Apr 1910 Franklin County, Hurricane Twp., ArkansasCensus 1910
Marriage 26 Jun 1924 to Adlai Stevenson Baker
Occupation[5] Amateur genealogist
Occupation[9] Stenographer, Oklahoma City, OK
Death[3] 1 Apr 1987
Other[4] Alberquerque, New MexicoResided
Other[6] ArizonaResided
Other[7] Business School, Oklahoma City, OklahomaSchool attendance record
Other[8] Corpus Christi, TexasResided
Reference Number? 256

According to the Sallie DeWitt 1981 Genealogy, when Mary Ellen was very young she was asked who she was and when she tried to say the "baby", it came out the "piby". She always carried that nickname. She was also called "the kid" and her many nieces and nephews referred to her as 'Aunt Kid'.

Lee was 14 1/2 years old when his baby sister, Mary Ellen was born. Mary Ellen was only eight years older than Lee's daughters, Boss (Lucille) and Deedie (Louella), who were especially fond of their Aunt Kid. Mary Ellen was given a small, leather bottom, carved rocking chair by her father when she was twelve years old. She rarely got a chance to take her turn rocking, because her two nieces lived close by and thought the chair was so cute. She attended elementary school at Grand Prarie and Branch, Arkansas. Her two nieces, Boss and Deedie, rode to school in a horse-drawn buggy with Mary Ellen.

Ellen went to business school in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and became a stenographer in Oklahoma City. Mary Ellen DeWitt Baker (known as "Ellen") and her husband Adlai Stevenson Baker, traveled the country in 1940 to gather information on the DeWitt and Hudson sides of her family tree. Much of the information contained in the Sallie DeWitt 1981 Genealogy was obtained from the Bakers. They lived in Alberquerque, New Mexico at the time. On one genealogical research trip they visited some of the Boraker descendants, in Rocky Ford, Colorado, with Lee and Claudia DeWitt. Following that trip, Walter Boraker sent an annual newsletter to the DeWitt's and Baker's. After the death of her husband Adlai Stevenson Baker, in Alburquerque, she moved to Corpus Christi Texas where she was very popular with the many offspring of Lee DeWitt. Ellen lived with Boss and Bill Hodgens in Corpus Christi, for a couple of years, before taking her own apartment.

References
  1. ↑ Sallie Lee DeWitt. Research by Sallie DeWitt. (1981)
    ppg. 12, 14, 31, 71.
  2. ↑ Sallie Lee DeWitt. Research by Sallie DeWitt. (1981)
    ppg. 12, 31.
  3. ↑ Ellen DeWitt Baker. Family Bible - Barbara (Beachum) Kanipe. (Presented as a gift on 5/25/1956).
  4. ↑ Sallie Lee DeWitt. Research by Sallie DeWitt. (1981)
    pg. 31.
  5. ↑ Sallie Lee DeWitt. Research by Sallie DeWitt. (1981).
  6. ↑ Sallie Lee DeWitt. Research by Sallie DeWitt. (1981)
    pg. 31.
  7. ↑ Sallie Lee DeWitt. Research by Sallie DeWitt. (1981)
    pg. 31.
  8. ↑ Sallie Lee DeWitt. Research by Sallie DeWitt. (1981).
  9. ↑ Sallie Lee DeWitt. Research by Sallie DeWitt. (1981)
    pg. 31.
  10. ↑ 1910 U.S. Census, Franklin Co., Hurricane Twp., Arkansas
    Series T625, Roll 50, Part 1, Sheet 2A.
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