Mary Amanda Rufus [37052]

   Other names for Mary were Cairns and Maybee.

  General Notes:

From the Maybee Society files. Not all data is verified. Say dates are estimates and are probably within 20 years. The Maybee Society keeps its data on The Master Genealogist�, and has been modified by Gary Hester?s WIT2NOTE� to form the GedCom file. This information is also available in a TMG file.

  Death Notes:

of pneumonia

  Noted events in her life were:

• No Name. ^10188,10200 Mary Amanda Rufus adopted Eric Maybee

• Immigration, 1863, Michigan, USA. ¹⁰²⁰¹

• Census, 14 Jun 1870, Lexington, Sanilac County, Michigan, USA. ¹⁰²⁰² Mary Rufus-17, born in Canada, was a servant in the house of
Sarah Brown-60

• Residence, 1872, Lexington, Sanilac County, Michigan, USA. ¹⁰²⁰³

• No Name, 1 May 1875, Yellow Medicine, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, USA. ¹⁰¹⁴⁵ Mary Amanda Rufus and Milo Frederick Maybee appeared on the
census of 01 May 1875 Yellow Medicine, Yellow Medicine County,
MinnesotaMilo F. Maybee 28, M, W, Michigan, Father: Ill,
Mother, NY
Mary A 20, F, W, Canada, Father: Canada, Mother, Canada
Herbert 2, M, W, Minn, Father: Mich, Mother, Canada
John 0, M, W, Minn, Father: Mich, Mother, Canada

• No Name, 27 Mar 1881, Yankton, Yankton County, South Dakota, USA. ¹⁰¹⁷² Mary Amanda Rufus and Milo Frederick Maybee Milo and his family
were east of Yankton, when an ice dam broke and flooded the
area they were in. Because of a warning from an Indian, they
made it to the top of a bluff,with other settelers,and were
spared, after the water went down, the survivors were tken to
Yankton 27 Mar 1881 Yankton, South Dakota

• No Name, May 1910, Mussigbrod Ranch, Bowen, Beaverhead County, Montana, USA. ¹⁰²⁰⁴ Mary Amanda Rufus appeared on the census of May 1910 in the
household of Orlow William Maybee and Bessie York Mussigbrod
Ranch, Bowen, Beaverhead County, Montana

• Memo, 9 May 1917, Beaverhead County, Montana. ¹⁰²⁰⁵ Mary Maybe Cairns was alloted forty inches of water from the C.
F.Schroeder ditch of the Mussigbrod Creek

• Memo, 9 May 1917, Mussigbrod Creek, , Beaverhead County, Montana, USA. ¹⁰²⁰⁶ Mary Maybe Cairns was awarded 40 inches of irrigation water
from the C. F. Schroeder Ditch.

• No Name, 12 Sep 1918, Dillon, Beaverhead County, Montana, USA. ¹⁰¹⁸⁴ John Wilbur Maybee of Wisdom, Montana, born 24 Jun 1874,
registered for the draft on Sept 12, 1918 at Dillon, Beaverhead
County, Montana. He was a self employed rancher. His nearest
living relative was Mary Maybee Cairns of Wisdom. He was white,
of short height, medium build, with light blue eyes and black
hair.

• Census, 28 Jan 1920, Wisdom Township, Beaverhead County, Montana, USA. ¹⁰²⁰⁷ Mary Cairns, Head, F, W, 65, Wd, Michigan, England, Michigan,
none, owns home free of mortgage
Beaulah A Cairns, Granddaughter, F, W, 10, S, Montana,
Minnesota, Montana, in school
Eric H Cairns, Grandson, M, W, 8, S, Montana, Minnesota,
Montana, in school

• No Name, 28 Jan 1920, Wisdom Township, Beaverhead County, Montana, USA. ¹⁰²⁰⁷ Mary Amanda Rufus appeared on the census of 28 Jan 1920 Wisdom
Township, Beaverhead County, MontanaMary Cairns, Head, F, W,
65, Wd, Michigan, England, Michigan, none, owns home free of
mortgage
Beaulah A Cairns, Granddaughter, F, W, 10, S, Montana,
Minnesota, Montana, in school
Eric H Cairns, Grandson, M, W, 8, S, Montana, Minnesota,
Montana, in school

• Land, 14 Mar 1921, Beaverhead County, Montana. ¹⁰²⁰⁸ Mary Cairns was awarded the following lands under the homestead
act:
Meridian 20, Township 001 S, Range 016 W, Section 20 - 80
acres; Section 29 - 40 acres; and Section 30 - 40 acres.

• Land, 5 Aug 1921, Beaverhead County, Montana. ¹⁰²⁰⁸ Mary Maybee Cairns was awarded the following lands under the
Desert Land Act:
Meridian 20, Township 001 S, Range 016 W, Section 28, 40 acres

• Obituary, May 1925, Salmon, Lemhi County, Idaho, USA. ⁷⁸⁴⁷ Mary Amanda Maybee, 75, pioneer of the west, and a grand little
woman, died Thursday night of pleura pneumonia.. She had been
suffering for a month or more with a severe colic, which
finally settled in her lungs and no medical power was able to
stay the disease. Her son, John W. Maybee, came over from
Bighole basin, and her daughter and her husband, Mr. And Mr.
Jan Burdett came in from Kellogg. to be at the funeral. Mrs.
Maybee had been living at Salmon, keeping house for her
grandchildren who were in the city schools, and at the close of
the term had intended to return to Bighole, where she owned
ranchland.
She was born Nov. 4, 1850. Marrying early, she went with her
husband by ox team, soon after the close of the civil war, to
the big woods of Minn., where they lived some years, and
several children were born. Thence, in 1879, they moved by ox
team to the Black Hills, soon after the Indian wars had abated.
On the way thither, at Burbank, Minn. a fire destroyed their
tent, and one child, a little girl, died, being overcome by
smoke. Twenty years ago, Mrs. Maybee again moved west, coming
with her children to the Bighole basin, and taking up land. Her
boys, John, Billie and Bert, were in Salmon during the Thunder
Mountain boom, John making his residence in Thunder Mountain,
and the others, together with Jim Hash, Mahoney, and John
Herron, ran pack trains to the gold camp. Billie and Bert died
during the world war, the former in British Columbia and the
latter in Deer Lodge. The children in Salmon are orphans of
Billie Maybee.
Deceased is survived by three sisters, one living in Boston and
another in Los Angeles. She was a splendid woman, courageous,
and strong for the upbuilding of the country - always
pioneering in the wilderness, and keeping the brave and loving
family together. Her husband and his brothers had been veterans
of the civil war and all her sons were veterans of the Spanish
war. They loved their country, and had this laudable trait
drilled into them by the mother, whose death they now mourn.
Mrs. Maybee was a member of the Methodist Church and a firm
believer in Christianity however, her life at remote places on
the frontier has ever precluded the possibility of her regular
attendance upon worship. But she has stamped her character
ineffaceably upon the family, and leaves besides these, a
numerous host of loving neighbors and friends in whose thoughts
and lives her sweetly aggressive spirit will continue to live.

Mary married Milo Frederick Maybee [37062] [MRIN: 551605272], son of David Maybee [37041] and Mary Mowland [37033], on 11 Jun 1872 in Washington, Sanilac County, Michigan, United States of America.¹⁰¹⁹³ (Milo Frederick Maybee [37062] was born between 1844 and 1845 in Michigan, USA ^10209,10210.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Census, 1 May 1875, Yellow Medicine, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, USA. ¹⁰¹⁴⁵ Milo F. Maybee 28, M, W, Michigan, Father: Ill, Mother, NY
Mary A 20, F, W, Canada, Father: Canada, Mother, Canada
Herbert 2, M, W, Minn, Father: Mich, Mother, Canada
John 0, M, W, Minn, Father: Mich, Mother, Canada

• Memo, 27 Mar 1881, Yankton, Yankton County, South Dakota, USA. ¹⁰¹⁷² Milo and his family were east of Yankton, when an ice dam broke
and flooded the area they were in. Because of a warning from an
Indian, they made it to the top of a bluff,with other
settelers,and were spared, after the water went down, the
survivors were tken to Yankton

Mary next married on 31 Dec 1900 in Rossland, , British Columbia, Canada.¹⁰¹⁹⁴

  Marriage Notes:

His first, her second