Horace Charles Cruze
(1876-)
Lou Bertha Roberts
(1881-1915)
Clarence Allen Roberts
(1908-1952)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Mary Ellen Beecher

Clarence Allen Roberts 1 2 3

  • Born: 3 Sep 1908, Knoxville, Knox, TN 1 2 3 4
  • Marriage (1): Mary Ellen Beecher on 24 Oct 1936 in Santa Ana, Orange, CA 1
  • Died: 5 Aug 1952, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA at age 43 2 3
  • Buried: Gardena: Roosevelt Memorial Park, Los Angeles, CA 3

   Another name for Clarence was Clarence Allen Cruze.4

   FamilySearch ID: L6WC-Q1G.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Fact: Clarence used his mother's maiden surname Roberts instead of father's surname Cruze. 4

2. Census in 1910 in Knoxville, Knox, TN. 5 The 1910 census recorded renting a home at 130 Main Street: Horace Cruze, liveryman in stable, 34, living with wife Bertha, 29; daughter Zella, 6; son Carl, 4; and son Clarence, 1. Everyone and their parents were born in Tennessee. They were married for 10 years and Bertha had birthed 5 children, 3 alive in 1910.

3. Occupation: truck driver on 24 Oct 1936 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. 1

4. Residence: 1192 1/2 Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA on 24 Oct 1936 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. 1

5. Census in 1940 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. 6 The 1940 census recorded renting at 830 East 97th Street: Clarence Roberts, truck driver for wholesale ice cream company, 31, born in Tennesse, living with wife Mary, 31, born in Arizona. Also in the home is a "lodger", Margaret Castro, age 1, born in California.

6. Residence: 830 East 97th Street, Los Angeles, CA on 15 Jan 1942 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. 4


Clarence married Mary Ellen Beecher, daughter of Joseph William Beecher and Petra Valenzuela, on 24 Oct 1936 in Santa Ana, Orange, CA.1 (Mary Ellen Beecher was born on 14 Dec 1908 in Willcox, Cochise, AZ 1 7 8 9 and died on 15 May 1978 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 9.)

Sources

1 FamilySearch.org, California, County Marriages, 1850-1952, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K8FN-3PN Clarence Allen Roberts and Mary Ellen Beecher, 1936.

2 FamilySearch.org, California Death Index, 1940-1997 (Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.), https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VP7N-CWX Clarence Allen Roberts, 1952.

3 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=36113717.

4 Ancestry.com, Tennessee, Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909 (Nashville, Tennessee: Tennessee State Library and Archives.), Certificate D-94824. Clarence Allen Cruze. Online image 732.

5 1910 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MGFS-H98 Horace Cruze, Knoxville Ward 1, Knox, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 79, sheet 13B, family 291.

6 1940 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K9ZN-RCR Clarence Roberts, Councilmanic District 15, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Township, Los Angeles, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 60-1213, sheet 6A, family 118.

7 1920 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MCRX-LFF Joseph H Bucher, Gleeson, Cochise, Arizona, United States; citing sheet , family 36, NARA microfilm publication T625, FHL microfilm 1820046.

8 1930 United States Census, Year: 1930; Census Place: Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; Roll: 163; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 0706; Image: 172.0; FHL microfilm: 2339898.

9 FamilySearch.org, California Death Index, 1940-1997 (Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.), https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VPCS-2MK Mary Ellen Roberts, 1978.


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