Tom McCabe's Genealogy 2026

Mayme Connolly Lee

Mary Alline “Mayme” CONNOLLY1892

Name
Mary Alline “Mayme” CONNOLLY
Given names
Mary Alline
Nickname
Mayme
Surname
CONNOLLY
Married name
Mayme LEE
Married name
Mary Alline LEE
Birth June 1892

Birth of a son
#1
Charles LEE

Death of a fatherMartin CONNOLLY
July 29, 1902 (Age 10 years)

Death of a fatherMartin CONNOLLY
July 29, 1902 (Age 10 years)
Cause: Farm Accident
Note: Death date on tombstone.
Birth of a daughter
#2
Margaret Lenore LEE
February 27, 1914 (Age 21 years)
Birth of a daughter
#3
Norma LEE
November 11, 1917 (Age 25 years)
Marriage of a childGordon QUARNSTROMMargaret Lenore LEEView this family
Type: Religious marriage
November 30, 1935 (Age 43 years)
Death of a motherMargaret Jane McCABE
July 13, 1953 (Age 61 years)
Note: Maggie was buried with her husband and young children in Larimore cemetery.
Death of a daughterNorma LEE
June 1986 (Age 94 years)

Death of a daughterMargaret Lenore LEE
March 24, 1991 (Age 98 years)

Family with parents - View this family
father
mother
younger brother
21 months
younger brother
-3 years
herself
5 years
younger sister
4 years
younger sister
-21 months
younger brother
3 years
younger brother
Martin CONNOLLY Jr
Birth: March 1902Grand Forks Co, North Dakota
Death: July 11, 1904Arvilla, Grand Fork Co., ND
Family with Ellis LEE - View this family
husband
herself
daughter
Private
daughter
-4 years
daughter
son

Birth

Census of 1910 in Arvilla, ND. Living with mother and grandfather Michael McCabe

Note

Lee Quarnstrom wrote about his grandparents:

I do know that my mom and her parents, Ellis and Mayme Lee, came to Seattle in a Model T Ford from Montana, often having to use reverse gear to make it up steep hills on the "highway" west. I don't know whether Virginia, or even Norma, was born yet.

In Montana Ellis was a barber, which he continued to be in Seattle, as well as a drummer in a jazz band, the operator of a pool hall and a player on a semi-pro baseball team. Mayme was, for a while, a post mistress in some small town in the same building where Ellis had his barber shop-pool hall. Mayme also taught at a one-room schoolhouse and my mother recalled riding to school as a very young child on horseback with Mayme and watching as her mother started a fire in the iron stove to heat the place and then sweep it out before the students arrived.

For a while Mayme and my mother and perhaps Norma and maybe Virginia lived in a dugout with a sod roof on a plot they homesteaded. Mayme guarded the place with what she told me was her trusty five-shot Colt's revolver.

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