Mabel Adelaide Coble

   FamilySearch ID: KG4S-Z6D. Find a Grave ID: 143022695.

  Events

• residence, 18 Jun 1900, Stuart, Guthrie, Iowa, USA. ³⁴ Listed with her father, mother (May or Mary) and brother Bertie.

• residence, 1920, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, USA. ³⁵

• residence, 1920, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, USA. ³² Widowed and living with her father and mother and young son, Merton.

• residence: 1044 17th, 1923, Columbus, Georgia. ³⁶ Captain U S A

• residence, 1 Apr 1930, San Juan, Puerto Rico. ³⁷

• Census: Jefferson Barracks, "West Louis", Missouri, 1940, Lemay, St. Louis Co., MO. ³⁸ With wife Mabel, son Cyril Jr, daughter Betty Ann, Mother-in Law May and a housekeeper.
Also 1939 when he was identified in the Mankato paper as a pallbearer at his father's funeral as Major - of Jefferson Barracks.

• residence, 1 Apr 1930, San Juan, Puerto Rico. ³⁹ With Mabel A and Cyril Junior. Listed as a Captain in the U.S. Army in the census on the military base in Puerto Rico.

• residence: 1515 19th Av, 1946, Des Moines, Polk Co., Iowa. ⁴⁰ In the same house as Mabel's mother Mae (img 74)
City Directory of 1944 lists him and Mabel at this address, but likely she gave the information and named him even though he was still in Europe.

• residence: 122 Sleepy Valley Rd, 1957, Hot Springs, Arkansas. ⁴¹

• Obituary: Southwest Times-Record, page 7-A, 24 Dec 1961, Fort Smith, Sebastian Co., Arkansas. Resident of a local hotel died at hospital
Survived by husband, two sons, Merton McFarland of Des Moines, and Cyril B.Jr., of Shreveport, La.; a daughter, Mrs. C. B. Still of Des Moines.

• Burial, 27 Dec 1961, Fort Smith, Sebastian Co., Arkansas. ^42,43 Name: Mabel Adelaide Spicer
Service Info.: COL US ARMY
Birth Date: 15 Aug 1890
Death Date: 23 Dec 1961
Interment Date: 27 Dec 1961
Cemetery: Ft. Smith National Cemetery
Cemetery Address: 522 Garland Avenue and South 6th St Fort Smith, AR 72901
Buried At: Section 3 Site 1243

• residence: 3120 S. Independence, 1960, Fort Smith, Sebastian Co., Arkansas. ⁴⁴ Demonstrator, KFSA TV

• residence: 1515 19th, 1947, Des Moines, Polk Co., Iowa. ⁴⁵ Same house as Mabel's mother, May Coble (wid Wm) (img 83) who died in September of that year.

Mabel married Lloyd L. McFarland, son of Robert McFarland and Ada B. Johnston, 25 Jan 1911 in Polk County, Iowa.²⁸ (Lloyd L. McFarland was born in 1891,⁴⁶ died in 1917 in Stuart, Guthrie, Iowa, USA ³¹ and was buried in Stuart, Guthrie, Iowa, USA.)

Mabel next married Col. Cyril Branston Spicer Sr., son of Henry Spicer II and Anabel Thurston, 20 Nov 1920 in Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, USA ²⁹.^,30 (Col. Cyril Branston Spicer Sr. was born 21 Oct 1891 in Galesburg, North Dakota, died 15 Jun 1971 in Abilene, Taylor, Texas, USA ^47,48 and was buried in Fort Smith, Sebastian Co., Arkansas.)

• Marriage License: announced in paper, 27 Nov 1920, Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, USA. ⁴⁹

  Marriage Notes:

File # 2827
Source is the Galvaston County Vital Records Index online at
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tx/galveston/vitals/marriages/1968/galvm68b.txt