Maude
Margaret Neyman (4 Sep 1898 – 17 Dec 1966)
Maude was the second of eleven children of Willie
Lawson Neyman and Adeline
Haley. She was born in
Arkabutla, Tate County, Mississippi. Maude
lived in Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee and Texas.
She married Lester L. Newman and gave birth to three daughters.
After divorcing Lester and the death of her two youngest daughters (the
oldest named Mildred went to live with her father and his sister and
brother-in-law, Annie and Hopson Pressley) Maude remarried to A.J.
"Jack" Damron. No
children were born of this union. She
and Jack resided in Memphis for a while where Jack worked for the Memphis
Publishing Company. When he was
laid off, Maude and Jack moved to Waco, Texas, where Jack had two sisters and
they remained there for a few years. They
moved back to Memphis and Jack did yard and landscape work before gaining
employment at Malone and Hyde Company . After
he left Malone and Hyde Company he went to work at the Army Depot in a Civil
Service Job as a retired Army Veteran of World War I.
When her daughter Mildred became a teenager she moved to the home of
Maude and Jack where she resided until her marriage to Gilroy Black, whom she
later divorced. She remarried Loyes Shirley but left her small son William
Gilbert Black with Maude and Jack. Maude
then became a foster parent to many newborn babies and small children until
they were adopted.
After Jack's death Maude lived in Memphis for a while then moved to
Delta View area of Eudora, Mississippi, and later moved to Hernando,
Mississippi, where she succumbed
to a heart attack December 17, 1966.
Maude was an accomplished seamstress who did beautiful hand smocking.
She enjoyed crocheting and embroidering.
She played the organ.
Children
|
NAME |
BIRTHDATE |
BIRTHPLACE |
|
26
Jan 1919 |
27
Sep 1961 |
|
|
Hattie
Eugene Newman |
30
Jun 1920 |
17
Jan 1922 |
|
Annie
Lurline Newman |
28
Aug 1923 |
24
Jan 1927 |
Biographical
information from the GEDCOM of Phil Neyman, which is quoted from Joyce Neyman