Life History

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• Massachusetts, Birth Records, 1840-1915
  Ida May Dillingham
  Birth 2 May 1896 Boston, Massachusetts
  Father Frank Dillingham
  Mother Elsie
  
  Ida May married Benjamin F Lovin.  They lived in Dallas, Texas.  It is not known where they met or married.  Before that marriage Ben had been married to Ruby Larkin, with whom he was enumerated in the 1910 census in Alex, Oklahoma.  Ruby's granddaughter reports that Ben divorced Ruby but he took the children.  But only one child is recorded from that marriage, named Clyde.  He appears in the household with Ben and Ida May in the 1920 census, along with Ida Mae's 1-month-old son Clarence, in Dallas, Texas.
  
  Ruby Larkin's grandson reports that her son Clyde was born in 1917.  In 1918, Ben reported himself Single, with his mother and one child dependent on him.  He in Liberty County, Texas, near Houston, but this time.
  
  U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
  Benjamin Franklin Lovin
  Born 28 July 1890 Washita (Caddo County), Oklahoma
  Residence Gladsell (Liberty County), Texas
  Single, Occupation Log Hauler, Grogan Mfg Co
  Reports his mother and one child are dependent on him.
  Gray Eyes, Light Hair
  Registration 5 June 1917 Liberty County, Texas
  
  This means that he and Ruby divorced soon after the birth of Clyde in 1817.He would have married Ida May some time in late 1918 or early 1919, since in the January 1920 census, Ida May's son is reported as 1 month old.  He and Ida May must have met in the Houston, Texas, area, where he was living in 1918.  I have not found their marriage record.  They are reported in Dallas in January 1920.
  
  1920 Federal Census, Dallas County, Texas, 2 January, Dallas, Precinct 10, District 27, page 1A, 3404 Swiss Avenue, Hse #6, Family #7
  Lovin, Benjamin F Head Rents M W 29 Okla US Ark  House Carpenter [b abt 1891]
  Lovin, Ida May Wife F W 23 Mass Mass Mass [b abt 1897]
  Lovin, Clyde Son M W 8 Okla Okla Mass [b abt 1912]
  Lovin, Clarence Son  M W 1 month TX Okla Mass [b abt November 1919]
  
  They moved to California, and were listed in the 1923 City Directory of Santa Monica, California.
  
  U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989
  Santa Monica, California, City Directory, 1923, p 378
  Lovin Benjamin F (Ida M) carp h 1338 Euclid S M
  
  Ida May later moved to British Columbia, Canada, wheere she died.
  
  British Columbia, Canada, Death Index, 1872-1990
  Ida May Lovin
  Birth Year abt 1897
  Death Age 84, Death 8 Mar 1981 Merritt
  Registration Number 1981-09-004360

Sources

• 1. 1920 Federal Census, Dallas County, Texas
  • 2 January, Dallas, Precinct 10, District 27, page 1A, 3404 Swiss Avenue, Hse #6, Family #7
• 2. Massachusetts, Birth Records, 1840-1915
• 3. British Columbia, Canada, Death Index, 1872-1990
• 4. Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
• 5. Lovinly.net Lovin Genealogy
• 6. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
  • Santa Monica, California, City Directory, 1923, p 378
• 7. Canada Obituary Collection
• 8. California Birth Index, 1905-1995