| Name |
Lottie Estella Boren |
| Birth |
17 Sep 1879 |
Missouri  [1] |
- daughter of William R. Boren and Aurora Hendricks
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| Gender |
Female |
| Census |
6 Jun 1900 |
Marion, Dade County, Missouri [2] |
- S P Mabee, Head, W, M, July 1840, 59, M, 36, Illinois, Ohio, Connecticut, Farmer, owns farm free of mortgage
Mary J Mabee, Wife, W, F, Nov 1842, 57, M, 36, 8 children born - still living 8, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New York
Joseph S Mabee, Son, M, W, Feb 1883, 17, S, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Farmer
followed by in same building
John E Mabee, Head, W, M, June 1879, 20, M, 0, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Farmer
Lottie E Mabee, Wife, W, F, Sept 1879, 20, M, 0, bore no children, Missouri, Illinois, Missouri
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| Land |
1907 |
Comanche County, Oklahoma [3] |
- Shortly before Oklahoma entered statehood in 1907, John decided he and Lottie (he often called her Lottie Jane) would try to homestead in what was to become a new state. John made a brief trip to Oklahoma to look over 160 acres of land and compare it with government field notes. They looked pretty correct. He talked to some of the other people that were out there looking at the land and went back to Missouri and bid from the field notes. He said, "The 160 acres that I got was described in the field notes as 140 acres of tillable land, but it was the poorest 160 acres in Oklahoma. When I went to prove up on it, I had my neighbors for witnesses and the old Judge asked my neighbors how much land I had in cultivation and my neighbor told him that I didn't have any and that I had to plow up part of the section line to get a place big enough for a garden."
"We built a little house on it, dug a well and got gyp water. Our place was close to a creek that was called ‘Deep Red'. There was lots of red sand that blew in the water. There were lots of cyclones around there. Snyder, Oklahoma, was blown away three times that spring by cyclones, so we dug us a storm cave. There were lots of rattle snakes there and after we dug the storm cave, Lottie Jane and I were afraid to go in the cave on account of the rattle snakes and we were afriad to stay out because we were afraid we'd be blown away. We drank the gyp water and both of us took down with the typhoid fever."
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| Census |
Apr 1910 |
Randlett, Comanche County, Oklahoma [4] |
- John Mabee, Head, M, W, 30, M1, 10, Arkansas, Arkansas, Illinois, Stockman, Buying Stock, owns home
Lottie E. Mabee, Wife, F, W, 30, M1, 10, no children, Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, none
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| Residence |
12 Sep 1918 |
304 D Avenue, Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma [5] |
| Census |
Jan 1920 |
Walters, Cotton County, Oklahoma [6] |
- John E Mabee, Head, M, W, 40, M, Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Mule skinner
Lottie E Mabee, Wife, F, W, 40, M, Missouri, Illinois, Illinois, housewife
|
| Census |
7 Apr 1930 |
810 South Elgin, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma [7] |
- John E Mabee, Head, M, W, 57, M@19, Illinois, Illinois, Illinois, Drilling Contractor for an Oil Well
Lottie E Mabee, Wife, F, W, 40, M@21, Missouri, Illinois, Missouri
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| Census |
24 Apr 1940 |
2141 E 30th, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma [8] |
- John E Mabee, owns home worth $25000, Head, M, W, 60, M, completed 4 years school, born in Missouri, Producer, Petroleum, Employer
Lottie E Mabee, Wife, F, W, 60, M, born in Missouri
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| Anecdote |
1948 |
Tulsa, Oklahoma [9] |
- In 1948, John and Lottie formed The J. E. and L. E. Mabee Foundation, Inc., a Delaware non-profit corporation., with its office in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As stated in its charter, the purposes of the Foundation are to aid Christian religious organizations, charitable organizations, institutions of higher learning, hospitals and other organizations of a general charitable nature. The Mabee Foundation makes grants in the states of Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico. It was the feeling of John and Lottie that their wealth had come from this area and they wanted the benefits of the Foundation to be spent in that area. The Foundation continues to honor that feeling and confines its grants to that geographical area. From its beginning to 1989, the Mabee foundation made grants totaling approximately 250 million dollars.
See the website at www.mabeefoundation.com.
Directors include John H. Conway, Jr. in Tulsa and Joe G. Mabee and his son J. Guy Mabee, Jr.
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| Census |
19 Apr 1950 |
3141 E 30th Street, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma [10] |
- John E Mabee, Head, White, Male, 70, Married, born in Missouri, Owner, Oil Company
Lotta E Mabee, Wife, White, Female, 70, Married, born in Missouri
|
| Death |
21 Oct 1965 |
St. Francis Hospital, Tulsa, Oklahoma [3] |
| Obituary |
22 Oct 1965 |
Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma [11] |
- Funeral services are scheduled here for Mrs. Lottie Estella Mabee, who along with her husband, the late oilman and philanthropist John Mabee, founded Randlett in 1907. Mrs. Mabee died Thursday at the age of 86 in a Tulsa hospital. Her husband died in 1961.
The Mabees established the J. E. and L. E. Mabee Foundation which made gifts totaling millions of dollars to colleges, hospitals, churches, and other institutions.
A principal beneficiary was the University of Tulsa. The Mabees also donated two million dollars for the Hillcrest Medical Center Children's Hospital, Tulsa.
The Mabees, who built their vast oil fortune from a homestead 160 acres in Cotton County, established Randlett when Mabee opened a wagon yard there. Randlett is now a town of 400 population located in southern Cotton County near Red River. It is about 25 miles south of Lawton.
The Mabees were married in Golden City, Missouri in 1900 and farmed on rented land before moving to Fort Worth. In Fort Worth, Mabee, who later became one of the world's richest oilmen, worked for 15 cents an hour in a packing house.
When the "Big Pasture" country was opened, the Mabees homesteaded in Cotton County. Soon after this, Mabee started his wagon yard and also established Randlett. Mabee also obtained a contract to carry mail between Randlett and Temple, 21 miles away. Two years after homesteading the farm, he and Mrs. Mabee received a patent on the land. He later leased it to Carter Oil Co. for drilling and went to work for the firm, buying up leases around Randlett.
In 1919, Mabee made his first venture in the drilling business when he leased 20 acres near Breckenridge, Texas. He drilled two wells and both were gushers, famous in the early day annals of Texas oil booms. From that beginning, he became one of the world's largest drilling contractors, later drilling more than 200 wells in Oklahoma City alone. The Mabee Foundation was established in 1948.
Private funeral services will be held Saturday for Mrs. Mabee. Entombment will be in the family mausoleum in Memorial Park, Tulsa.
She is survived by a brother, J. W. Boren of Colorado Springs, Colorado; three nephews, five nieces, and several great-nephews and great-nieces. Two brothers and two sisters preceded her in death.
[The nephews are John W. Cox of Tulsa and Krum, Texas; Lloyd Cox of Fort Worth and W. J. Boren of Yellow Grass, Sask., and the nieces are Mrs. Naomi Ross of Keller, Texas, Mrs. Ruth Mieth of Glen Rose, Texas, Mrs. Ruby Johnson of Fort Worth, Mrs. Eula Meyer of Colorado Springs, and Sister St. Suzanne of Regina, Sask.]
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| Reference Number |
20485 |
| Burial |
Memorial Park Cemetery, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma [12] |
| Person ID |
I20375 |
Maybee Society |
| Last Modified |
7 Apr 2024 |
1879 - 1965 (86 years)
