John Wilbur Maybee [37050]

   Another name for John was Jack.

  General Notes:

From the Maybee Society files. Not all data is verified. Say dates are estimates and are probably within 20 years. The Maybee Society keeps its data on The Master Genealogist�, and has been modified by Gary Hester?s WIT2NOTE� to form the GedCom file. This information is also available in a TMG file.

  Death Notes:

a probable cerebral hemorrhage

  Noted events in his life were:

• No Name, 1 May 1875, Yellow Medicine, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, USA. ¹⁰¹⁴⁵ John Wilbur Maybee appeared on the census of 01 May 1875 in the
household of Milo Frederick Maybee and Mary Amanda Rufus Yellow
Medicine, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota

• No Name, 27 Mar 1881, Yankton, Yankton County, South Dakota, USA. ¹⁰¹⁷² John Wilbur Maybee witnessed Milo Frederick Maybee and Mary
Amanda Rufus 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 tken to Yankton 27 Mar 1881 Yankton, South
Dakota

• No Name, Abt 1885. ¹⁰¹⁸⁰ John Wilbur Maybee lived with Lucinda Rufus Circa 1885

• Immigration, 1887, Livingston, Park County, Montana, USA. ¹⁰¹⁸¹ from Brainard, Minnesota, to live with his uncle Jack Sharp

• Occupation: trappers, 1898, Utica, Judith Basin County, Montana, USA. ⁷¹⁹

• No Name, 1904, Wisdom, Beaverhead County, Montana, USA. ¹⁰¹⁸² John Wilbur Maybee lived with Orlow William Maybee and Herbert
David Maybee 1904 Wisdom, Beaverhead County, Montana

• Census, May 1910, Bowen Township, Beaverhead County, Montana. ¹⁰¹⁸³ 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, USA. ¹⁰¹⁸⁴ 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.

• No Name, 12 Sep 1918, Dillon, Beaverhead County, Montana, USA. ¹⁰¹⁸⁴ 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.

• 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, USA. ^10185,10186 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, USA. ¹⁰¹⁸⁷ swore an oath affirming his nephew and nieces births for his
brother Billie's pension request

• No Name, May 1925. ¹⁰¹⁸⁸ John Wilbur Maybee witnessed the adoption of Eric Maybee May
1925 . by his uncle John Maybee, after Mary Amanda's death

• Census, Apr 1930, Wisdom Township, Beaverhead County, Montana, USA. ¹⁰¹⁸⁹ 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]

• Residence, 24 Sep 1934, 113 North Flower Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California. ¹⁰¹⁹⁰

• Memo, 3 Jun 1937, Missoula County, Montana, USA. 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

• Residence, Bet 1938 and 1943, Milltown, Missoula County, Montana, USA. ¹⁰¹⁷⁹

• Funeral, 23 Jan 1943, Marsh and Powell Chapel, Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, USA. ¹⁰¹⁸¹ Newspaper clipping said, "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 vame to 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 pre-emption 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 Blackfoor
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."

John married on 18 May 1903 in Weiser, Washington County, Idaho, USA.¹⁰¹⁷⁷

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Divorced: Divorced, 6 Aug 1909, Washington County, Idaho, USA. ¹⁰¹⁹¹ The first time Della filed for divorce in Washington County was
2 July 1907 but she requested that that action be dismissed on
12 Oct 1907 and her request was granted. She then filed again
29 Dec 1908 and judgment and decree were granted 6 Aug 1909.

John next married.⁷¹⁹

  Marriage Notes:

The only information on this wife, is Jack listing her on a
form requesting Social Security (in the Maybee Association
archives)