Individual Notes

Note for: Jones Weldon Lamb, 3 Jan 1943 - 7 Jan 1989 Index

Christening:
     Date:   18 Aug 1943
     Place:   Oklahoma City,, Oklahoma, USA

Nickname:   "Jon" until 1980's; changed to John

Burial:
     Date:   10 Jan 1989
     Place:   Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, USA

Individual Note:
     NAME: Jones Weldon Lamb, Jr., was called Jon. He had his name legally changed on 8 AUG 1983 to John Austin Rittenhouse about the same time that his sister Judith had hers also legally changed to Rittenhouse on 22 July 1983. He took name "Austin" from Rittenhouse family names. He is now known as "John."

BURIAL: John's wife Tanya bought her plot next to John at Forest Hills Cemetery in Memphis. She has ashes of her lst son at home which she wants buried with her when the time comes.

MARRIAGE: John had three wives, all of whom he married under his original birth name of Jones Weldon Lamb, Jr.
        (1) MD Sallie Manning Blair on 26 Nov 1965 at home of her parents in Lauderdale Co., AL; DIV @Apr 1975.
        (2) MD Johanna Lester on 19 Apr 1975 in DeSoto, MS; divorced 17 Apr 1983 in Memphis, Shelby, TN. Their address was 777 Beasley St., Memphis, TN.
        (3) MD Tanya Lea Aylor on 20 Dec 1986 at a chapel in Memphis, TN. Tanya and John lived at 1906 Glen Ave., Memphis, TN., where Tanya still resides June 1992.

TEMPLE WORK: Bro. Narvin Peel was proxy for John during his endowment and sealing to parents; Judith Rittenhouse, his sister, was proxy for their mother Alma Elizabeth Rittenhouse Lamb for the sealing.

BIRTH: Photostatic copy of Oklahoma birth cert. in poss. Judith Rittenhouse. Wesley Hospital.

CHILDREN: No Issue.

SOURCE: Mrs. Elizabeth Lamb, 125 Riverside Dr., Greenwood, Mississippi 38930.

CHIRISTENING: 18 Aug 1943 St. Anthony's Hospital, Okalahoma City, Oklahoma, by James Mills Dean of St. Paul's Episcipal Cathedral. Oklahoma City. Grandfather Rittenhouse was quite ill and the baptism was held in his hospital room.

Individual Notes

Note for: Lamb, ABT 27 Jan 1950 - ABT 27 Jan 1950 Index

Individual Note:
CHILD: When Elizabeth Rittenhouse's father died, she lost a child while in Oklahome City, OK, sometime around the funeral, which was 27 Jan. 1950. Judith Rittenhouse 9-10-1989.

~SEALING TO PARENTS: Ted Carpenter, Judith Rittenhouse, and April Tucker attended the sealing session and were able to personally do half of the women. We were there as the others were done with Ted being a witness. During this child's sealing, we all three were especially touched and tears flowed easily. Either the child was there and old enough or Judith 's mother and maybe even father were there.

Individual Notes

Note for: Percival C. Mottley, 12 Jan 1895 - 1 Apr 1971 Index

Burial:
     Place:   Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, USA

Individual Note:
     PERSONAL INFORMATION: Percival was known as "Percy." Injured in WWI & had plate in head. In letter dated 21 July 1986, David said of his father Percy, "My father was in the Veteran's Hospital from the time I can remember as a child and I never really knew him. He had injuries from World War I and had a metal plate in his head." David was trying to determine if #505/136E was his father's soldier number. NOTE: Perhaps someday World War I veterans will all be indexed and parental information for Percival Mottley can be obtained. 23 Feb 2007 Judith Rittenhouse found his two brothers, George and Raymond, in the World War I Draft Registration Cards, but not Percival.

CENSUSES:
1900 Census, Waitsburg, Walla Walla Co., WA, Vol 19, Enum Dist 86, Sheet 9, Line 44 shows Percival Mottley in household of Grandparents William & Mary Ryan with mother Tilly Mottley and brothers George & Raymond. Born Jan 1895, age 5 on last birthday, single. Born Washington. Father born in Oregon and mother born in Iowa.
1910: The state maintains a penitentiary at Walla Walla and two reform industrial schools for youthful delinquents at Chehalis and Monroe. The total number of inmates of the state's penal, charitable, and reform institutions in 1906 were 3939, which increased to 4288 in 1911. The hopelessly insane are provided for by two asylums at Steilacoom and Medical Lake; while those suffering from milder forms of insanity are placed in the state sanitarium at Sedro-Woolley.
1930 Census, Ward 5, Tacoma, Pierce, Washington. Percy C. Mottley, head, rents, $12.50, worth of home, no radio, not on a farm, M, W, age 34, married at age 30, can read and write, born in Washington, parents born in U.S., can speak English, occupation looks like a sanderman of some kind at possibly a Veneer Plant (here spelling like Ueineer Plant), worker, presently working,, veteran of World War (known as WWI today).

DEATH: Death Certificate #9131 gives birth date 12 Jan and Soc. Sec. #532-52-5758, parents as George W. Mottley & Ollie Ryan, states he was divorced, living at VA Hospital in American Lake before death. Informant was son David Mottley.

BURIAL: Burial plot in Veteran's Section of MT. View Cemetery in Tacoma, WA, Grave 5 in lot 12 during visit by Judith Rittenhouse Mottley in July 1990. Percy had no gravestone.

SOCIAL SECURITY DEATH INDEX: Soc. Security #532-52-5758 obtained in Washington in 1965. Last residence 98493 Tacoma, Pierce, Washington. Born 11 Jan 1895; died Apr 1971.

MARRIAGE: Estimate 1925 because year before first child born. On 3 Apr 1930 in the census they have been four years which would be 1925/1926.