Garriott Family Genealogy
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07-Clementine "Clemmie" Mabel Conlin
Birth: 3 Feb 1880, Barnard, Nodaway Co, MO
Death: 27 Aug 1932, Barnard, Nodaway Co, MO- age 52
Burial: Nodaway Co, MO
Mother: Sarah Elizabeth Robison
Marriage: 20 Jul 1904, Nodaway Co, MO
1st Spouse: Jesse James GROVES
Birth: 7 Feb 1880, Graham, Nodaway Co, MO
Death: 5 Sep 1918, Boise, Ida Co, ID- age 38
Burial: Graham, Nodaway Co, MO
Father: James Franklin Groves (1839-1886)
Mother: Sarah Rosella Spencer
Jesse was a jealous man, if Mabel even glanced at another man she would hear about it from him. 31
1ST MARRIAGE: Clemmie and Jesse had four children:
08----MAVIS OPAL GROVES [b. 1903, listed below];
08----NELLIE FRANKLIN GROVES [b. 31 Jul 1908, Hiawatha, Brown Co, KS; d. 14 Aug 1995, Overland Park Nursing Home, Johnson Co, KS- age 87, of congestive heart failure, bur. 17 Aug 1995, St Joseph, Andrew Co, MO], SSN: 486-09-4924/MO. At her funeral were Geneva, Ivan Jamison, Sis Hannawalt, Tricia, Jim Baldwin, and Rene Wilson. She married Frederick James BEEMS on 19 Dec 1945, Kansas City, Jackson Co, MO;
08----LELAND BYRON GROVES [b. 1910, listed below]; and
08----WALLACE WOODROW GROVES [b. 1913, listed below].
Marriage: 7 Apr 1921, about three years after the death of her first husband Jesse.
2nd Spouse: John Edward SELL
Birth: 21 Apr 1869, IL
Death: 30 Jan 1934, Nodaway Co, MO- age 64
Burial Bernard Masonic IOOF Cemetery
Occupation: Farmer
Father: Andrew Sell (1833-1924)
Mother: Mary Hannah Turley (1840-1923)
(presumably the "Buzzy" of the story below)
CENSUS:
1920 Nodaway Co, MO census: has Fracis M Conlin 71, b. MO, Farmer-General Farm; Sarah E Conlin 69, b. IN; Samuel Conlin 40, b. MO, Laborer-Farm; Clemmie Groves 40, b. MO, Daughter, Housekeeper-Farm; Mavis A Groves 14, b. MO, Granddaughter; Nellie Groves 11, b. KS, Granddaughter; Leland Groves 9, b. KS, Grandson; and Wallace Groves 6, b. KS, Grandson.
1920 Nodaway Co, MO census: has John E Sell 50, b. IL, Clerk-Hardware; Lucy M Sell 50, b. KS; and Everett Sell 22, b. MO, Bookkeeping-Canning Co.
1930 Grant, Nodaway Co, MO census: has John E Sell 60, b. IL, Merchant-Grocery Store; Clemmie M Sell 50, b. MO; Nellie F Groves 21, b. KS (Stepdaughter), Sales Lady-Dry Goods Store; and Wallace W Groves 17, b. MO (Stepson), Laborer-Odd Jobs.
1932 HANGING: A month after Clemmie filed for divorce, Buzzy, her husband, came to her house and asked for $3,000 for her divorce. She told him, "No, you won't get any money from me," as she didn't have that much money. He said, "I will show you. You will never get a divorce from me," in a threatening voice. She told her sister Nellie when she came home from work, to sleep with a loaded shotgun by her bed, for "Buzzy might come during the night and kill them as he was that mean."
Clemmie was found hanged in the barn; her family believed that Buzzy, her husband, was responsible.