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Full Name	Jessie Cloyce Newburn Erpelding R Reese
AKA Full Name	Cloyce Newburn Erpelding Reese Johnson
People ID	480940
Title
First Name	Jessie
AKA First Name	Cloyce
Nickname
Middle Name	Cloyce R.
AKA Middle	Cloyce
Patronymic/Matronymic
Priorsurnames	Erpelding
Surname	Reese
AKA Surname	Erpelding Reese Johnson
Father's Surname	Newburn
Mother's Surname	Douglas
Suffix
Gender	Female
Full Birth Date If Known	1897-05-02
Birth Year	1897
Birth Month	5
Birth Day	2
Full Death Date If Known	1982-08-23
Death Year	1982
Death Month	8
Death Day	23

Events, Dates and Places

Event	Date	Geo Top Level	Geo 2nd Level	Geo 3rd Level	Geo 4th Level	Geo 5th Level	Notes
Birth	1897/05/02	USA	Georgia
Death	1982/08/23	USA	California	Los Angeles

Relationships

Relationship	Related To	Relative's People ID	Relative's Birth Year	Relative's Death Year	Other Date (typically Marriage Date)
Sister of	Mae L Anderson	14386	1893	1978
Wife of	Lawrence David Reese	709006	1902	1966

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Interment, Inurnment or Memorialization Information


Cemetery	Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Address	1712 S. Glendale Avenue
City/Town	Glendale
County/District	Los Angeles
State/Province	California
Postal/Zip Code	91205
Country/Principality	USA
Section	Commemoration
Map	1
Lot	2574
Space	3

Organization
Property Type	Ground
Has Marker	Yes
No Marker
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End of Interment Record	If there are additional interments or cenotaphs for this person they will appear below

Inscription Information


Cloyce R. Johnson In Loving Memory 1906 - 1982

Biographical or other information about the person

https://mills-sfv.com/Genealogy/GLS/People/Text/480940.txt

This gal did some very creative things with both her birth date and her names so it took some hunting to connect all the dots on her.

She began life as Jessie Cloyce Newburn. By age 12 she had started dropping her first name Jessie and it comes and goes thereafter but is last seen in 1932 upon her marriage to Harry Homer Erpelding.

By 1940 she had not only dropped her first name in favor of her middle name (this time for good) but she had changed her married name from her husband's surname (Erpelding) to his middle name (Homer). In addition she sent him to an untimely end since she listed herself as a widow rather than divorced, a bit of a fib since Harry Homer Erpelding didn't die until 1969.

In 1949 she married Lawrence David Reese, at which point her name matched what she used in the 1940 census, "Cloyce Homer".

After this it's a bit murkier. I suspect she didn't stay married to Lawrence Reese either, but I haven't found a divorce record for them. By the time Cloyce died in 1982, she had also picked up another surname, "Johnson", which shows up as an alternate in the California Death Index as well as on her grave marker. I have no idea who "Mr. Johnson" was but it seems likely she was married again.

However, there is still an entry for her in the CADI as "Cloyce R Reese" and the social security death master file also lists her as "Cloyce Reese" but with no middle initial. I have no idea what the initial "R" is supposed to stand for, the only thing that makes sense to me is if it stood for Reese for the CADI entry where she is listed as "Cloyce R Johnson".

Other than sorting out her names, Cloyce had another interesting habit. As she aged, she didn't age chronologically as most people do. She shows up in the 1900 census so she was definitely born before 1900. That census lists her as two years old, but her family search record listed a birthdate of 2 May 1897. At best that is her birthdate, at worst it is a year too early, but I suspect it's correct. By 1910 her birthyear had slipped to 1899, and by 1930 it had slipped to 1905. By the time she died in 1982, both the CADI and SS DMF listed her birth year as 1906, which is obviously wrong. In addition they have different dates, I have gone with the day of the month and the month from social security, figuring those are more likely to be correct than the date from the CADI. I don't know how she got the social security administration to think she was born in 1906 rather than 1897 or 1898, but she did.

Lest someone think there is a case of mistaken identity with the names and dates going all over the place here, the fact that Cloyce is buried right next to her older sister Mae Newburn Anderson should put that theory to rest.

Normally with having 3 different sets of records list her birth year as 1906 it would be a done deal, but that 1900 census record trumps the later records. BTW, I double checked the 1910 census to make sure there wasn't another younger daughter who might have gotten mixed up with Cloyce, and there isn't one. So she was definitely born in 1897 or 1898.

Anyway, that's all for now. The only remaining mystery is "who was Mr. Johnson"? I am sure that too will eventually come to light, but perhaps not any time soon.

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Family Search ID	MZ4B-CMT
Find A Grave 1	85495059
Famous per Find A Grave
Famous per Consensus
Find A Grave 2	233609366
Find A Grave 3
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Record Entry Date	2012-01-18 01:00:00
Record Last Edit Date	2021-11-03 20:59:36

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