Life History

Notes

• In 1940, Davis is married again and is enumerated with his second wife Pauline, living next door to his father Mart, who has also remarried, and he and hsi second wife have three children in the household.
  
  1940 Federal Census, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, 8 April, Chickasaw Township, District 62-18, page 3B, Hse #12, Rents $4
  Tatum, Dave S Head M W 34 Married Grade 4 b Okla Same Place in 1935 Laborer [b abt 1906]
  Tatum, Pauline Wife F W 19 Married Grade 5 b Okla Rural Pontotoc Co OK in 1935 [b abt 1921]
  
  1940 Federal Census, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, 8 April, Chickasaw Township, District 62-18, page 3B, Hse #13, Rents $4
  Tatum, Mart S Head M W 48 Married Grade 5 b Georgia Same Place in 1935 Laborer [b abt 1892]
  Tatum, Ethel Wife F W 38 Married Grade 4 b Okla Same Place in 1935 [b abt 1902]
  Tatum, Sam M W 19 Single Grade 3 b Okla Same Place in 1935 [b abt 1921]
  Tatum, Nora Ruth Dau F W 14 Single Grade 2 b Okla Same Place in 1935 [b abt 1926]
  Tatum, Billy Joe M W 10 Single Grade 2 b Okla Same Place in 1935 [b abt 1930]
  
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  Pauline Turner Tatum
  Birth Nov. 8, 1922 Ada, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma
  Death May 16, 2009 Ada, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma
  
  Mrs. Tatum died Saturday, May 16, 2009 at her son's home. She was born November 8, 1922 at Ada, Oklahoma to Jay Christopher and Ethel Mae Odom Turner. She lived in this area all her life. She married Dave Sanford Tatum Nov. 15, 1938 in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma. Mr. Tatum preceded her in death.
  
  Mrs. Tatum was a labeler for Wrangler/Blue Bell Company in Ada until medical retirement, a charter member of Morris Memorial Baptist Church and a volunteer at the Ada Public Library.
  
  Survivors include a son, Ishmel Tatum and wife Oma, Ada; one daughter, Linda Davis, Oklahoma City; two brothers, Bill Turner and wife Mary, Shelby, IN, and Sam Turner and wife Ruby, Ada; six grandchildren; fourteen great grandchildren; thirteen great great grandchildren; and six great great great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a step-daughter, Ethelyne Tatum Arterburn; two sisters, Katherine Shay and Nora Ruth Taylor; a grandson, Punch Houchen; and a granddaughter, Debbie Houchen. Bearers will be Terry Dunn, Woody Wilson, Mickey Tatum, Jimmy Jackson, Mike Wilkinson, and Bill Turner.
  Services are 2 p.m. Thursday [May 21, 2009] at Morris Memorial Baptist Church, Rev. Gary Jamar will officiate. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.
  
  Burial Memorial Park Cemetery, Ada, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma
  
  Created by MillieBelle May 22, 2009
  --  Find A Grave Memorial #37394333, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Tatum&GSiman=1&GScid=98935&GRid=37394333&
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Sources

• 1. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 2. 1940 Federal Census, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma
  • 8 April, Chickasaw Township, District 62-18, page 3B, Hse #12, Rents $4
• 3. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
  • Memorial #53133849, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=53133849
• 4. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014