Gazlay Family History
 

FamilyJames Clyde Gazley

DIRECT DESCENDANT OF JOHN GAZLAY (from England c.1715)
James Clyde Gazley7 (Clarence Gazley,6 James Gazley,5 Samuel Gazley,4 Jonathan Gazlay,3 John Gazlay,2 John Gazlay1)

Parents

FatherClarence Gazley (29 January 1854 - 7 February 1910)
MotherMinnie Belle Roberts (July 1864 - )

Personal Information

Record Created: 5 September 2011; Last Edited: 6 March 2015 
Person ID3062
NameJames Clyde Gazley
GenderMale
Born 14 July 1895 in St. Louis, Missouri1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Married March 1924 to Madge Madra ‘Mabel’ Mayo6
Died 25 July 1943 in Contra Costa County, California7

Person/Family

Spouse 1FamilyMadge Madra ‘Mabel’ Mayo (daughter of John B. Mayo and Clara Belle Stevenson)
Born 30 August 1890 in Myrtle Creek, Douglas County, Oregon
Married 8 November 1914 to Fredrik S. ‘Fred’ Johnson
Married March 1924 to James Clyde Gazley
Died 9 November 1972 in Douglas County, Oregon
  
Children of James Clyde Gazley and Madge Madra ‘Mabel’ Mayo:
  
+1.FamilyMadra Mignon ‘Blossom’ Gazley
Born 28 December 1924 in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon
Married 11 November 1944 in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon to Charles Edward Behee
Married 1977 in Multnomah County, Oregon to Bernard J. Noll
Died 11 June 2005 in Lane County, Oregon
  
+2.FamilyJames Franklin ‘Jimmie’ Gazley
Born 15 January 1926 in Butte County, California
Married 31 July 1949 in Josephine County, Oregon to Bobbie Jean Harris
Died 30 December 1984 in Myrtle Creek, Douglas County, Oregon
  

Sources

  1. Draft Registration Card, World War I, J. Clyde Gazley, born: 14 July 1895 in St. Louis, Missouri; farmer, in business for self, in Canyonville, Oregon; single.
  2. US National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938, Record Book, Home No. 1731, James Clyde Gazley, born: 14 July 1895 in St. Louis, Missouri; Rank: chauf.; Co. and Regiment: 835th Aero Sqdn.; Nov. 1917 to March 1919; civilian condition: married; occupation: farming; father: Clarence Gazley, born in Douglas County, Oregon; mother: Minnie Belle Roberts, born in Kentucky; dates of admission and discharge: 5 April 1931 - 2 May 1932; 20 April 1933 - 9 May 1933; cause of discharge: AWOL; transferred to vets adm. fac., Roseburg, Oregon; nearest relative or friend: Mrs. J. C. Gazley, Myrtle Creek, Oregon.
  3. US National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938, Record Book, No. 45239, James C. Gazley, enlisted: 15 December 1917 in Ft. McDowell, California; pvt., 835 Aero Sqdn.; discharged: 15 March 1919 in Garden City, L.I., demol. chauf.; disabilities when admitted: chr. infected tonsils, dental carries, psycho neurosis; born: St. Louis, Missouri, age 37; 5’ 6”, fair complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, read and write, Protestant; married; Mrs. Madge M. Gazley, Myrtle Creek, Oregon; rate of pension: $12.00; date of admission: 23 December 1932; pension certificate D.A. 1392936.
  4. U.S. Federal Census, 1900, California, San Francisco County, San Francisco, Enumeration District 248, Sheet No. 3A; family of Clarence Gazley (46, Oregon, Jan 1854, fruit grower); wife of 13 years Minnie B. Gazley (Illinois, July 1864, 2 children, 2 living); Claire Gazley (8, California, Jan 1892); James C. Gazley (4, California, May 1896). All are borders at the Westminster Hotel.
  5. U.S. Federal Census, 1910, Oregon, Douglas County, Days Creek, Enumeration District 77, Sheet No. 8A; family of Minnie Gazley (46, Illinois, widow, farmer, own farm, 2 children, 2 living); daughter Claire Gazley (19, Missouri); son Clyde Gazley (14, Missouri). [The children’s birth places shown here are different than in other records.]
  6. Marriage Licenses, Sausalito News, Sausalito, California, available at California Digital Newspaper Collection (website: cdnc.ucr.edu), 29 March 1924: March 13 [1924] - James C. Gazley, 28, and Madge m. Johnson, 32, both of San Francisco.
  7. California Death Index 1940-1997; Ancestry (website), and Familysearch (website). Gazley, James Clyde, died: 25 July 1943 in Contra Costa [County], California; born: 1 January [sic] 1895, Missouri.