| Name |
John Wilbur Maybee |
| Birth |
24 Jun 1874 |
Wilmar, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Census |
1 May 1875 |
Yellow Medicine, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota [3] |
- Milo F. Maybee, 28, Male, White, born in Michigan, Father born in New York, Mother born in New York
Mary A Maybee, 20, Female, White, born in Canada, Father born in Canada, Mother born in Canada
Herbert Maybee, 2, , Male, White, born in Minnesota, Father born in Michigan, Mother born in Canada
John W Maybee, 0, , Male, White, born in Minnesota, Father born in Michigan, Mother born in Canada
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| Memo |
27 Mar 1881 |
Yankton, South Dakota [4] |
- Milo and his family were east of Yankton, when an ice dam broke and flooded the area they were in. Because of a warning from an Indian, they made it to the top of a bluff,with other settelers,and were spared, after the water went down, the survivors were taken to Yankton
|
| Immigration |
1887 |
Livingston, Park County, Montana [5] |
- from Brainard, Minnesota, to live with his uncle Jack Sharp
|
| Occupation |
1898 |
Utica, Montana [6] |
| trappers |
| Residence |
1904 |
Wisdom, Beaverhead County, Montana [7] |
- Bert and Billy lived with their Brother John and his wife Della. Times evidentally were hard and the boys were looking for work and taking day jobs.
|
| Census |
May 1910 |
Bowen Township, Beaverhead County, Montana [8] |
- John Maybee, Head, M, W, 36, D, Minnesota, New York, Canada, Ranches own Hay Ranch
He lived near his brother Billie and his mother
|
| Land |
11 May 1911 |
Big Hole Basin, Montana |
- granted homestead of 160 acres in Section 13, twp 1S, range 16W. Recorded at Missoula Montana Patent Number 197056
|
| Anecdote |
12 Sep 1918 |
Dillon, Beaverhead County, Montana [9] |
- John Wilbur Maybee of Wisdom, Montana, born 24 Jun 1874, registered for the draft on Sept 12, 1918 at Dillon, Beaverhead County, Montana. He was a self employed rancher. His nearest living relative was Mary Maybee Cairns of Wisdom. He was white, of short height, medium build, with light blue eyes and black hair.
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| Land |
8 Nov 1919 |
Big Hole Basin, Montana |
- granted land of 80 acres in Section 13, twp 1S, range 17W. Recorded at Missoula Montana Patent Number 717803
|
| Census |
15 Jan 1920 |
Wisdom Township, Beaverhead County, Montana [10, 11] |
- John W Maybe, M, W, 47, D, Minnesota, Michigan, Michigan, working as a rancher as an employee of a stock ranch, Owns own farm
|
| Memo |
20 Oct 1922 |
Wisdom, Beaverhead County, Montana [12] |
- swore an oath affirming his nephew and nieces births for his brother Billie's pension request
|
| Adopted |
May 1925 [13] |
- by his uncle John Maybee, after Mary Amanda's death
|
| Inform-Death |
1 May 1925 |
Salmon, Lemhi County, Idaho [14, 15] |
|
| Census |
Apr 1930 |
Wisdom Township, Beaverhead County, Montana [16] |
- John W. Maybee, head, Owns farm house worth $100, M, W, 56, Divorced, married at age 23, able to read and write, born in Minnesota, both parents born in Michigan, Farmer on own Farm, not a veteran
[73 36 44 Maybee, John W, head, O, 100, yes, M, W, 56, D, 23, no, yes, Minnesota, Michigan, Michigan, 64, yes, Farmer, Farm, vvvv, E, yes, no, 28]
|
| Vote |
1934 |
113 North Flower Street, Los Angeles, California [17] |
| Residence |
24 Sep 1934 |
113 North Flower Street, Los Angeles, California [18] |
| Vote |
1936 |
29 South Flower Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California [17] |
- He listed his occupation as rancher, party as Democrat
|
| Memo |
3 Jun 1937 |
Missoula County, Montana |
- John W. Maybee and John Kortbein filed a mining claim on a Quartz Location bearing gold, silver, and radium that they discovered on 18 April 1937 located in section 11, twp 13, range 16 west of Missoula County. Filed for record on June 3, 1937 and recorded in book 7 of the Lode Locations, on Page 224, Records of Missoula County, Montana
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| Residence |
Between 1938 and 1943 |
Milltown, Missoula County, Montana [19] |
| Census |
9 Apr 1940 |
Milltown, Missoula County, Montana [20] |
- John W Maybee, Head, M, W, 65, Wd, completed 4 years school, born in Minnesota, residence 1 April 1935 was Ravalli County, Montana, Placer Miner, own claim
|
| Anecdote |
- Remembrances by Barbara Maybee Carter
My great uncle, John Wilbur Maybee (usually called Jack) was born June 24 1874 in Yellow Medicine Minnesota. His older brother was Herbert (called Bert) born March 24 1873 in Yellow Medicine. Younger than Jack were Majesta Pearl, born about 1875, who died when aged about 15 months when a prairie fire swept toward the tent they were using as a house. Jack says they were moving to the big woods of Minnesota. Their father, Milo was able to save her from the fire, but she succumbed to the gases. The next child was my father, Orlow William (called Billie), then came Stella born December 12, 1880. (Jack says they were awaked one morning before Christmas to see a wonderful present, and it was a girl baby).
Jack says that when he was a year old the family had to kill millions of grasshoppers that were eating up the crops.
Stella apparently was a frail baby and concern for her health sent the family south. For a short while the family lived 3 or 4 miles about Yankton, South Dakota. Jack says that his mother, Mary Amanda, packed up what they would need on their trip and the rest was shipped to Sauk Lake by railroad. The horses, Prince and Texas were hooked to the covered wagon. Billie, Bert and Jack went to school while there and all learned to swim, row a boat or paddle a canoe.
Paraphrasing from a semi-autobiographical book that Jack wrote in the late 1920s
Jack said that an Indian came in March of 1881 and told Milo, using signs and gestures that they needed to leave the area. Milo asked him and his family to come in and eat. The Indian did not even want to unload his ponies. Their belongings were loaded on poles, one end of which trailed on the snow. The loads had crosspieces to hold them together. Milo whistled to Mary Amanda like a whippoorwill and she came and gave the horses some hay and then Milo said. "Get supper as quick as you can for all hands" and Milo started to harness the horses. Soon they had on the hayrack and a load of hay and corn stalks. There was a feed box on behind the cow's calf so that the cow would follow. The family and the Indian's family ate quickly, and then they tied the horses and started for the bluffs. Mama packed quilts and washed the dishes quickly. It was 3 or 4 miles to the top of the bluffs. Jack was just a child and was terrified. He was sure that they Indians were going to kill them all. Jack jumped off the wagon to get his dog's dish and was left behind for a while. Milo realized he was missing and turned around to find him. Jack kept walking until he found them again and his dad and the Indian were so glad to see him that they both gave him a big hug.
They wrapped the cold boy in a blanket and Milo sang "The Hat Me Father Wore", and "Marching Through Georgia". He had never held Jack so tight before.
Pretty soon they came in sight of the fire. Bert met them and told them that there was a big dam of ice up the Missouri River, the water backing up higher and higher and when the ice broke everything would be washed away."
Jack's said his family moved to Sauk Lake, Minnesota.. The three boys attended school there for about 2 years. They next reached a town ‘on the father of the waters north of Sauk Lake'. (This could likely have been Brainerd, Crow Wing, Minnesota. It fits the general geographical description and Jack's obituary says that the came from there.)
Apparently Jack traveled with a peddler for a while in the summer. He says that the man also helped him with his lessons in the winter. He says when they came to a place with a big barn and little house, he talked to the man. If the house was big and the barn small, the talked to the woman. The peddler could read the sign language the Indians used. Sometimes they would help themselves to produce out of the farmer's field. (A common practice at the time.)
One day in 1886 (at age 12) Jack got in a fight over a kitten with some boys. He wanted to save the kitten and take it home. The other boys wanted to kill it. It ended with them throwing rocks and so on at each other. Jack threw a piece of crockery at one boy and it blinded him. The next day while he was in school a big policeman came and said he had come to get Jack. He was taken to the courthouse. When they took him home his mother wrote a letter, which was taken to the sawmill. Then the policeman told him he could go home. Milo talked to a lawyer until late in the evening. His brother Bert woke Jack up and gave him a sign to be very quiet. Bert had two packs made up and they were off to the big swamps. They came to a log cabin. Bert said that if anyone came Jack was to hide in a ditch covered with brush. After a while, Jack's peddler found them. The boys wanted to know about mama and papa and their family. The peddler said that Milo was fighting the case to a finish in the courthouse. But the bonds were no good and the best thing was for them to help Jack get out of the state. Mary Amanda told the peddler that if he found the boys to give them his money and clothes and send them to Montana. The father of the boy who had been blinded was offering a reward for Jack.
Plans were made for Jack to go to Montana with a family going west, pretending to be their brother. He didn't get along with all of the girls, but there was one little girl who sang to him to help him feel better. Mary Amanda sold a lot of starch to get him clothing ‘like a Montana boy'. Bert gave him a big kiss and hug and then Jack headed west on the train. Jack said he knew he dared not cry in front of all the girls, even if he lost the whole family.
Jack Sharp met Jack at a station. He says Jack Sharp was about 5'6" tall and weighed about 140 pounds. He made straight for Jack and they hugged. Jack says that he wrote the family in care of Bert. His book/journal ends in 1888.
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| Death |
19 Jan 1943 |
Saint Patrick's Hospital, Missoula, Missoula County, Montana [19, 22] |
- a probable cerebral hemorrhage (stroke)
|
| Obituary |
22 Jan 1943 |
Missoula, Montana [23] |
- Funeral Services for John W Maybee, 68, of Milltown, who died at a local hospital Tuesday night, will be held at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the Marsh & Powell chapel. Rev Carl Muirhead will officiate and burial will be in the Missoula cemetery.
Mr Maybee was born June 24, 1874, in Wilmer, Minn. He was a pioneer rancher in Western Montana for many years and had been living in Milltown the past five years. He is survived by one daughter, Mrs Mamie Jackson, Los Angeles, Cal; a sister, Mrs James Burdett, Spokane; a nephew, Eric H Maybee, Butte, and a niece, Mrs W J Neidt of Dillon.
|
| Funeral |
23 Jan 1943 |
Marsh and Powell Chapel, Missoula, Missoula County, Montana [24] |
- Last rites for John W Maybee, who died at a local hospital Tuesday night are pending the arrival of his sister, Mrs James Burdett of Spokane. The Marsh & Powell funeral home is in charge.
|
| Burial |
23 Jan 1943 |
Missoula Cemetery, Missoula, Missoula County, Montana [19, 22, 25] |
| Obituary |
25 Jan 1943 [5] |
- Old Pioneer Had Interesting Life
Funeral Services for John W. Maybee, 68, of Milltown who died at a local hospital Tuesday night, were held at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the Marsh & Powell chapel. The Rev. Carl Muirhead officiated and the burial was in the Missoula Cemetery. John Wilbur Maybee came to Livingston from Brainerd, Minn, at the age of 13, to the home of his uncle John Sharp, and was a call boy at the N. P. [Northern Pacific] railroad shop there for two years. In 1892 he learned the pattern makers trade at Anaconda. Mr Maybee married Della Baine of Weiser, Idaho in 1902, and the couple drove to the Big Hole basin in a wagon on their honeymoon. They took up a homestead and preemption in the Basin, where they engaged in ranching for 33 years. Both were excellent marksmen and enjoyed hunting and fishing. Mr Maybee was also a great trapper and shot many big game animals such as moose, elk, and deer, which were plentiful at that time. He retired from ranching in 1931 and spent the next three years traveling in Oregon and California. Returning to Montana he took up prospecting as a hobby, moved to Milltown, and was working a mining claim up the Blackfoot river at the time of his death. He will be remembered by a great many friends throughout Western Montana for his great sense of humor and jovial disposition. Mrs Stella Burdett, Spokane, his sister and only survivor.
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| Reference Number |
4708 |
| Person ID |
I4681 |
Maybee Society |
| Last Modified |
7 Apr 2024 |
1874 - 1943 (68 years)
