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I am looking for an obituary of Rev [!] Jennie Mayo Urban published in the San Francisco
Chronicle on 31 December 1970. For a previous thread on this colorful individual, see:
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=646446.msg4931582#msg4931582
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The San Francisco Examiner
San Francisco, California
31 Dec 1970, Thu • Page 28
obit: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/78842003/rev-jennie-m-urban-death/
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San Francisco Chronicle
Thursday, Dec 31, 1970
San Francisco, CA
Page: 22
Obit: https://www.rootschat.com/links/01qng/
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Thanks, RJ. I am sorry to see that there was no mention of husbands Nicks, Holyfield, Mott, Chapman or Urban or any other husband whose name I have not yet discovered. But at least I now know that she became a Rev at about the time she married #4, Asel B. Chapman, who is the husband of interest to me.
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Strange... her obit implies she was only survived by a niece and nephew, but this article from 1968 when she went home, states she has several siblings still alive.
Omaha World-Herald
Friday, Oct 25, 1968
Omaha, NE
Page: 16
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Omaha World-Herald
Sunday, Mar 29, 1903
Omaha, NE
Page: 24
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That's Jennie's father, 'Lonestar,' in the middle. There is a tree at FamilySearch with a lengthy and amusing account of Lonestar's exploits as a frontier lawman. Unfortunately, it doesn't say much of anything about Jennie.
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These divorce clippings give date and place of 1st marriage to John M Nicks.
Divorce filed-
Omaha World-Herald
Sunday, Nov 14, 1915
Omaha, NE
Page: 5
Divorce Granted-
Omaha World-Herald
Wednesday, Dec 08, 1915
Omaha, NE
Page: 5
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These divorce clippings give date and place of 1st marriage to John M Nicks.
Divorce filed-
Omaha World-Herald
Sunday, Nov 14, 1915
Omaha, NE
Page: 5
Divorce Granted-
Omaha World-Herald
Wednesday, Dec 08, 1915
Omaha, NE
Page: 5
Here's is their marriage.
The Evening Herald
Ottawa, Kansas
02 Dec 1910, Fri • Page 5
Part1: https://kansashistoricalopencontent.newspapers.com/clip/78855831/nicks-hans-marriage-1910-part1/
Part2: https://kansashistoricalopencontent.newspapers.com/clip/78855892/nicks-hans-marriage-191-part-2/
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Thanks again, RJ. That's two marriages down [Nicks and Mott] and at least three [Holyfield, Chapman and Urban] to go.
Does anyone have any idea what denomination the 'Christ Church of God' and the 'Church of God, Spiritual' would be? I can't find any reference to them in San Francisco or Omaha. The address in San Francisco [26 7th Street] is for the Odd Fellows Building but I have found no indication that it was ever used as a church.
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This clipping doesn't answer your question, but does narrow the time frame down a bit, as well as giving a little more insight into what Jennie was doing. She's listed in a classified ad under "Spiritualism". This same ad ran for several days in October 1933.
She's still listed as "Chapman" as of October 1933. I don't know what I.S.S.A. Adviser is? I see she isn't referred to as "Rev", but another lady further down the Spiritualism ads listed is referred to as "Rev"? This puts her in San Francisco as of 1933. Based on other ads, 111 Mason St., appears to be the address of the Mason Hotel.
San Francisco Chronicle
Monday, Oct 23, 1933
San Francisco, CA
Page: 25
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I had a hunch it was something along those lines. I think she was going by the name Chapman up to at least 1938. There was a 1938 city directory listing for Mrs Jennie M. Chapman at 444 Larkin Street, San Francisco which was probably her. I checked that address in the 1940 census but she wasn't there.
It's difficult to imagine a Chapman getting entangled with a spiritualist but perhaps I'm just overestimating their hard-headedness. And, to be fair to Asel, he did fairly promptly disentangle himself, like those who went before him. Jennie almost acquired husbands by the six-pack.