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Person · Maude Melville Warner
The record
- HHomethe fan · what changed · open questions
- MMigrationbirths and deaths on a map, by decade
- TTimeline609 entries · 5 eras
- PPeople290 cards, by generationMaude Melville Warner
- LLines13 surname pages
The evidence
- DDocuments896 thumbnails, filterable
- SSourcesS1–S1207, with where each is cited
The findings
- How the wall came downProeger line
- The glass patentsProeger line
- How the Caffey half was closedCaffey line
- What the DNA saysits own page
- Four routesMigration
- The asymmetryLines
- Open questions20 questions
- Add to this recorda form, read by Earl
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apart from the three record tags above S24.
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no DNA result on this page is ever counted as confirmed, because no document
was read for it S46.
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Person · Maude Melville Warner
Skip to sources ↧- Parents
- Ella (Shreckengost) Warner
- Married
- Melton Cleaveland
- Children
- Nettie Ellen Cleveland
- Sources
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Research status
Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from her daughter's death certificate and a Nebraska marriage index; entered in the family tree the same day.
Family parents, marriages, children, siblings
Marriage1896
First wife of
Melton Cleaveland; married
4 February 1896, Belgrade, Nance County, Nebraska
Children1971
Mother of
Nettie Ellen Cleveland, whose 1971 death certificate names her
S145; she is the Nebraska-born first wife implied by the 1910 census, where Milton has remarried
S224Marriage1896
🆕 The Nance County marriage register names her father as
Clifford Warner. She was 18 and born in Nebraska when she married Milton Cleavland at Belgrade on 4 February 1896
S463. added 25 September 2026.
Parents1880
🆕 Her mother:
Ella (Shreckengost) Warner Probable confirm or correct →. The 1880 census of Cedar Precinct, Boone County, Nebraska, has Maud, born in Nebraska, as the daughter of Clifford Warner, 28, whose wife is Ella, 22, born in Illinois
S824; her sister Dessa's 1908 marriage gives their parents as Clifford Warner and Ella Shreckengost
S682. What is weak: the census gives Ella's relationship to Clifford, not to Maud, and Maud's own marriage entry leaves her mother blank
S463. added 28 September 2026.
Open questions what is probable, weak or missing — confirm or correct it
Not found
Also named as mother on her son Edgar's 1929 marriage record; her dates have not been found
In the record
Generation 5 — Kristin's great-great-grandparents
- 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. - S2241910 U.S. Federal Census — Milton Cleveland household, Precinct 5, Brazoria County, Texas. Ancestry record 143961038; ED 11, sheet 2A, lines 14–17. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Milton Cleveland, 37, born California, carpenter, married twice, one year; Desa, 22, born Nebraska, first marriage, one year, no children born; son Edgar, 11, and daughter Nettie, 13, both born Nebraska to a Nebraska-born mother. 🔑 Desa is Nettie's stepmother, not her mother. Nettie's birth mother, a Nebraska-born first wife, is not named. ⚠ A Chas Cleveland, 64, born Michigan, nearby may be Milton's father; not assumed.
- 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.
- S682Nebraska marriage record, Butler County, 1908. Ancestry record 1350028307. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed George Wustrack to Dessa Warner, 20, born Greeley County, Nebraska, married 22 April 1908; her parents Clifford Warner and Ella Shreckengost.
- S8241880 U.S. Federal Census — Clifford Warner household, Cedar Precinct, Boone County, Nebraska, supervisor's district 2, enumeration district 126, p. 15, dwelling 105, family 111, enumerated 9 June 1880. Ancestry collection 6742, record 48152479 (image 4242184-00402). Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed Clifford Warner, 28, farmer, born Illinois, father born New York, mother born Massachusetts; Ella, wife, 22, keeping house, born Illinois, parents born Pennsylvania; Maud, daughter, 1 or 2, born Nebraska, parents born Illinois. The census gives Ella's relationship to Clifford, not to Maud. FamilySearch indexes the same page (ark:/61903/1:1:M8Y7-1WJ), so it is not independent. Collection: 1880 United States Federal Census.
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