Melton Cleaveland

In the record Generation 4 — Kristin's great-grandparents

1. S145Texas certificate of death no. 92128, 1971 — Nettie E. Walker (Nettie Ellen Cleveland). Ancestry collection 2272 (Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903–1982), record 1216570, image 33154_b062847-00961, form VS-112 rev. 1/58. Filed with the local registrar 1 December 1971 (file no. 96, L. M. Sheffield) and received by the Texas Bureau of Vital Statistics 18 December 1971. Read from the image at full resolution — 2811 × 2390 px, 30/30 DeepZoom tiles, 21 September 2026. The sheet gives: name Nettie E. Walker; died 25 November 1971 at 6:00 a.m. in White Settlement Hospital, White Settlement, Tarrant County, after a stay of one month; usual residence 5717 Terrace Trail, Sansom Park; female, Caucasian, married; date of birth 27 November 1897, age 73; birthplace Nebraska, citizen of the U.S.A.; occupation housewife, homemaking; father Melton Cleaveland; mother's maiden name Maude Melville Warner; never in the armed forces; Social Security number on the certificate, not transcribed; cause of death uremia (2 weeks) due to renal shutdown (3 weeks) due to post-traumatic shock (3 weeks); autopsy performed; certified by C. J. Carter, M.D., who had attended her since 1965; buried 27 November 1971 at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, by Maxine Biggers of Biggers Funeral Home. Her parents are named here for the first time in this research — Melton Cleaveland and Maude Melville Warner. Neither has appeared in any earlier file, and neither is given a person record on the strength of one line on one certificate. The burial is the strongest tie to this family: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, on 27 November 1971 is the same cemetery as her son Clarence Melvin Walker. ⚠ The birth date on this sheet conflicts with the one already on this site. The certificate says 27 November 1897; the couple card carries 29 November 1896 — two days and one year apart — and neither date is settled. Item 8 of a death certificate is informant-supplied, not a birth record; the age column (73 last birthday) agrees with the certificate's own date, which corroborates the sheet and not the fact. Both stay on the page until a Nebraska birth or baptismal record decides. ⚠ The certificate is registered under her married surname and names no husband — the form has no spouse field, so the sheet never says Daniel. The identification rests on the Cleaveland maiden surname in item 13, the middle initial E. for Ellen, the Nebraska birthplace already independently on record [S87], and the shared Mount Olivet burial. Ancestry's hint engine also matched it to her, which is an opinion and not evidence. ⚠ The informant is a signature, not a printed name, reading most plausibly E. G. Walker; it is not D. J. Walker and not C. M. Walker as written, and who E. G. Walker was is unknown. ⚠ Post-traumatic shock is named as the underlying cause while every injury field is blank — items 20a–20f, accident/suicide/homicide, time, manner and place of injury, are entirely empty. The certificate contradicts itself by omission, and what happened three weeks before her death is not on this page. ⚠ The physician's street address (item 22b) reads 6721 and the street name is not legible.
2. S463Nebraska, U.S., County Marriage Records — Nance County, p. 145: Milton Cleavland and Maud Warner, 4 February 1896. Ancestry record 116059. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Milton Cleavland, 23, born Rockland [Rocklin], California, son of C. E. Cleavland and V. J. Smith; Maud Warner, 18, born Nebraska, daughter of Clifford Warner. Licence 3 February 1896 at Fullerton; married 4 February 1896 at Belgrade. One register page carries both of Ancestry's hints (record 900116059 for Maud). Her mother's name is left blank.
3. S464Wyoming, U.S., Death Records — Milton Cleaveland, Sheridan, 1939. Ancestry record 180607657. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Milton Cleaveland, carpenter, died 2 June 1939 at Sheridan, Wyoming; born 15 July 1872, Rocklin, California; father Charles E., born Michigan; mother born Wood County, Ohio; wife and informant Alice L.; buried Sheridan Municipal Cemetery, 6 June. The Cleveland genealogy (S467) and the 1880 census (S465) put his birth in 1873; the day, 15 July, agrees.
4. S4651880 U.S. Federal Census — Chas. Cleaveland household, Penn Township, Cass County, Michigan (ED 72, p. 15). Ancestry record 31126485. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Chas. Cleaveland, 34, labourer; Janette, 36, born Ohio; Anna J., 11; Milton, 6, born California.
5. S4661930 U.S. Federal Census — Milton Cleveland household, Fullerton Township, Nance County, Nebraska (ED 63-7). Ancestry record 107521117. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Milton Cleveland, 57, park caretaker, first married at 23; Alice, 52, born Iowa, first married at 40. Alice is his widow in 1939 (S464). Whether she is the wife of the 1910 household (S224) is not settled.
6. S467Descendants of Moses Cleveland (printed genealogy), p. 1939, no. 11632: Charles Edgar Cleveland. Ancestry record 3845121. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Probable Charles Edgar Cleveland, son of Solomon, married 11 April 1866 at Rives, Michigan, Victoria Janette Smith, born 19 March 1844 in Ohio, daughter of Jeremiah Smith and Patience Kittle. In Placer County, California, 1883. Children Anna Jane (1869), Milton (15 July 1873) and Ella. A derivative book. The parents' names agree with the marriage register (S463) and the 1880 census (S465); the ancestry back of Charles Edgar rests on the book alone.
7. S5521920 U.S. Federal Census — M. Cleaveland household, Jackson County, Texas. Ancestry record 80463984. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed M. Cleaveland, 48, owns his farm, born California, father born Michigan, mother born Ohio; wife Alice L., 42, born Iowa; stepson William Kelley, 15.
8. S1156Sheridan, Wyoming, city directory, 1930, p. 60. Ancestry record 1047961996. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 26 September 2026. Confirmed “Cleveland Milton (Alice) carp h725 Canby”: Milton Cleveland, carpenter, wife Alice, house at 725 Canby. A directory gives no age. The trade, the wife’s name and the town fit his card.