Individual Details
Mary Belle "Mayme" Fisk
(28 Aug 1893 - 7 Jan 1981)
Children:
Lavonne Jennings Wilson 1917–2000
Mary Belle Jennings died January 7 at Grand Junction, and her remains were cremated and placed in the Fisk family plot at Grandview Cemetery January 17.
Mary Jennings was born in 1893 at Laird and she was the last family survivor of the Fisk family which included nine boys and three girls.
Her brothers, Art and Myron Fisk, were businessmen in Wray, operating a garage, Conoco bulk plant and gas station, and restaurant until the late 1930's. They sold their garage and gas business to the late Al Wyland in 1939.
Mrs. Jennings attended schools in Yuma County and graduated from Wray High School. In 1915 [1913] she married A. B. Jennings, a son of the then county judge.
A. B. was a former Wray Postmaster, worked for the Game and Fish Department, and was superintendent of the Fish Hatchery at Cedar Ridge until 1950 when they moved to Grand Junction to retire. A. B. preceded Mary Belle in death in 1950.
Wray Gazette January 22, 1981 Transcribed by Carol Moore
Events
Families
Father | Freeman Kenyon Fisk Sr. (1831 - 1894) |
Mother | Mary R. Hawkins (1850 - 1912) |
Sibling | William King Fisk (1869 - 1961) |
Sibling | Kittie Fisk (1870 - 1892) |
Sibling | Harry V. Fisk (1872 - 1946) |
Sibling | Hiram Frank Fisk (1874 - 1947) |
Sibling | Freeman Kenyon Fisk Jr. (1876 - 1938) |
Sibling | Myron M. Fisk (1878 - 1948) |
Sibling | Wilbur Fisk (1880 - ) |
Sibling | Arthur Chester Fisk (1883 - 1964) |
Sibling | Walter Fisk (1887 - 1976) |
Sibling | Clinton B. Fisk (1890 - 1947) |
Notes
Census-shared
Mary R Fisk Head F 50 New YorkHarry B Fisk Son M 28 Kansas
Immand K Fisk Son M 24 Kansas
Myron N Fisk Son M 22 Kansas
Wilber Fisk Son M 20 Kansas
Arthur C Fisk Son M 17 Kansas
Walter Fisk Son M 13 Kansas
Clinton B Fisk Son M 10 Colorado
Mary B Fisk Daughter F 8 Colorado
Census-shared
Mary R Fisk Head F 50 New YorkArthur C Fisk Son M 26 Kansas - Laborer, lumber yard
Walter Fisk Son M 23 Kansas - Salesman, drug store
Clinton B Fisk Son M 19 Colorado - Farm laborer, working out
Mary B Fisk Daughter F 17 Colorado
Endnotes
1. "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3Y1-FD2 : accessed 8 October 2018), Immand K Fisk in household of Mary R Fisk, Haigler & Blaine Precincts, Dundy, Nebraska, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 46, sheet 4B, family 84, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,926..
2. "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MK4N-7R8 : accessed 8 October 2018), Mary R Fisk, West Wray, Yuma, Colorado, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 294, sheet 4A, family 72, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 124; FHL microfilm 1,374,137..
3. Find A Grave Memorial 81538664.