Individual Details
Robert [Burton Melvin] McBee
(7 Jul 1900 - 28 Sep 1976)
Robert as a child and young man also appeared in the censuses as Burton and Melvin. His grave marker reads simply Robert McBee. Correspondence with a grandchild reveals he went only by the name Robert in her lifetime and she did not know of the other names.
1930 Census, Claiborne Co, TN, Hh 28
Melvin B. [Burton in 1910, Robert in 1920], age 29, married at age 21
Nora S., age 31 [his first wife - married at age 24
Hazel, dau, age 8
Robert and his first wife Verdie Stubblefield, share a grave marker in Thompson Chapel Cemetery, Claiborn Co.. They had one surviving daughter, Hazel, b. 7 Jan 1922. Robert later married Nora Kitts - she is also buried Thompson Chapel Cemetery as "Wife of Bob McBee". Robert and Nora also had a single daughter, Dellaphine, b. 15 Jan 1931, d. 14 Apr 1948, at age 17 - she is also buried Thompson Chapel Cemetery. [FindAGrave.com]
Events
Birth | 7 Jul 1900 | Claiborne County, Tennessee | |||
Marriage | 1 Apr 1921 | Claiborne County, Tennessee - Verdie Stubblefield | |||
Death | 28 Sep 1976 | Claiborne County, Tennessee | |||
Marriage | Nora Kitts |
Families
Spouse | Verdie Stubblefield (1898 - 1922) |
Child | Living |
Spouse | Nora Kitts (1895 - 1982) |
Child | Dellaphine McBee (1931 - 1948) |
Father | Oscar L. McBee (1879 - ) |
Mother | Sarah Emily Jennings (1878 - 1930) |
Sibling | William Herman McBee (1902 - ) |
Sibling | John Edward McBee (1904 - ) |
Sibling | James Clayton McBee (1905 - ) |
Sibling | Living |
Sibling | Living |
Sibling | Living |
Sibling | Living |
Sibling | Living |