Individual Details

Israel Bruton Stevinson Jr.

(29 Oct 1899 - 17 May 1970)



Israel seems to have been married at least twice, perhaps three times.

From U.S. Adjutant General Military Records database on Ancestry.com:
1917-1920 National Guard of Missouri
Private, Battery F, St. Louis
Isral B. Stevinson

US Army Transport. Saxonia, sailing 20 May 1918 from New York.
35th Div. U.S.N.G. Headquarters Company, 128th Field Artillery
Stevenson, Israel B., Pvt. 1st Class. Emergency Contact: Mrs. Mattie M. Burke, mother, Hallsville, MO

US Dept of Veterans Affairs Death File. Enlisted: 7 Aug 1922. Discharged 16 Feb 1946.

News-Pilot, San Pero, California, 22 Dec 1925, Tuesday, p.9
Marriages Numerous in Holday Season.
Those to whom marriage licenses were issued in Los Angeles Monday include ....Israel B. Stevinson, 26, of the Navy, and Jeane Knapp, 23, of San Pedro.
Married 31 Dec 1925, Los Angeles, CA.

1930 Census. Centralia, Boone Co, MO
Israel Stevinson, age 31, agent, for Oil Co., b. MO, parents b. MO
Hattie, wife, age 41, b. MO, parents b. KY
Lilliam Irvin, stepdaughter, age 19, b. MO, parents b. MO

Sometime between 1930 and 1940, he was apparently married to Dorothy (Gilmore) Malott, mother of two Malott sons. One of her sons listed Israel as his father in the Social Security records. The other kept the Stevinson surname throughout his life.

Navy Register: Retired Officers
Stevinson, Israel Bruton, Lt., Retired, Dec of 1950. Born 1899. Highest rank, Lt. - received in 1946.

Missouri Marriage Records on Ancestry.com:
Israel B. Stevinson married Lenore L. Hodnett, 17 Feb 1951, Jackson Co, MO.
She was nee Lenore Lucinda Reynolds, b. 21 Aug 1908, Kansas, died 4 May 1992, Dallas, TX. She had been married to John E. Ward, 21 Jul 1926 in Jackson Co, MO. Son Thomas Earl Ward, b. 4 Apr 1928 in Kansas City, MO. His World War II Draft Registration, 4 Apr 1946, when he was age 18, listed his mother as Lenore L. Steinhauser, living at 517 Dewey, Barthlesville, OK,
In 1950, Lenore was living alone in Bartlesville as Lenore L. Hodnett, age 41, Separated, b. Kansas, Owned a flower shop.

1957 City Directory, Independence, MO
I. B. Stevinson (Lenore) r 10021 U. S. Hwy 40.

Found in the SSDI. Israel died 17 May 1970, Grandview, Jackson Co, MO.

The Kansas City Times, Kansas City, MO, 19 May 1970, Tuesday, p.18
ISRAEL B. STEVINSON
Israel B. Stevinson, 70, of 12806 Fifteenth, Grandview, died Sunday at Lakeside Hospital. He was born in Hallsville, MO, and lived in Kansas City 19 years. He was a veteran of World War I. He retired as a Navy Lieutenant in 1946. He was personnel director for Stevinson Automotive and Electrical Trade School, five and a half years after he retired from the Navy. He was a member of the Retired Officers Club, the Fleet Reserve branch in Annapolis, MD, the Masoni Lodge, Hallsville and the Royal Arch Masons. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lenore L. Stevinson of the some; four stepsons, W. W. Mallott, Walnut Creek, CA; Gordon G. Stevinson, Annapoli; Tom E. Ward, Bartlesville, OK, and Robert A. Ward, Euless, TX; a brother, C. H. Stevinson, 3400 Eastvale Drive, Fairway; a sister, Mrs. Helen Chalmer, Hutchinson, KS; nine stepgrandchildren and two step-great-grandchildren. Services will be a 10:30 o'clock Wednesday at the Freeman Chapel; cremation.

Social Security data also perhaps reveals still another wife. There is a record for Wallace Warren Stevinson, whose name was listed also as Wallace Warren Malott, was born 30 Dec 1919 and died 11 June 1997. His parents listed as Israel B. Stevinson and Dorothy M. Gilmore.
I could not determine when Dorothy may have been married Israel but she was definitely married to Walter W. Malotte, 9 May 1918 in Seattle, King Co, WA. They were still together in 1930, in Seattle with children Wallace, 10 and Gordon, 5. The 1940 Census in San Diego, gives her as Dorothy Stevenson, 38; Wallace W., 19, son and Gordon G., 14, son - both listed with the Stevenson surname. She listed her statas as "Married" but husband not in household. She was living in Saline, Kansas in 1935. Wallace was the only worker - in an aircraft factory.
Gordon Graham Stevinson gave his name as Stevinson to Social Security. Born 25 Sep 1925, died 30 Mar 2005. But listed parents as Walter W. Malott and Dorothy Gilmore.

Dorothy died with still another surname.
Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, CA, 23 Dec 1970, Wednesday, p.12
Dorothy Saylors
Funeral services will be held today at 1 pm in the Galindo Street Chapel of Bryant-Lough-Ouimet, Concord, for Dorothy Saylors, 72, who died Friday in a Concord hospital.
A resident of Walnut Creek, Mrs. Saylors, is survived by her husband, J. C. Saylors; two sons, Wallace Malott of Walnut Creek and Gordon Stevinson of Marylan; and a sister, Mrs. Helen Kesterson of San Leandro.
Interment at Oak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose, will follow the services.

Events

Birth29 Oct 1899Hallsville, Boone County, Missouri
Death17 May 1970Grandview, Jackson County, Missouri

Families

FatherIsrael Bruton Stevinson (1858 - 1910)
MotherMathilde Maria "Martha or Mattie" Schniebs (1874 - 1952)
SiblingCharles Hughes Stevinson (1896 - 1977)
SiblingEmma Amelia Stevinson (1901 - 1906)
SiblingHelen G. Stevinson (1904 - 1993)