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Adele Adili Lee "Addie" (Jones) (Tadlock) Guthrie
Tombstone photo
Dempsey Cemetery
Grimes, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma
Photo & Info © Vicki Corbin

Adele Guthrie was born Adili Lee Jones in Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas. She was the daughter of Marion Norris Jones and Catherine Elizabeth Mason Jones.

Adili's nickname was Addie. Around 1889 she married Robert Tadlock, who was a school teacher. Addie's mother disliked Mr. Tadlock and caused the two to get a divorce. Robert and Adili Jones Tadlock had one daughter, named Etta Naomi who was born Dec 11, 1892 in Texas. Later, Adili married John B. Guthrie and moved to Arkansas. After a few years, they moved to Roger Mills County, Oklahoma where Addie's brothers and sisters lived. They acquired a homestead and built a large house. John and Adili had two children between 1900 and 1906, named Pearl and Forrest Guthrie.

Information from "The Family-Jones, Mason, and Maltby" written by Hazel Jones Reeder, Copyright 1983, Published by Mrs. Hazel Reeder, Amarillo, Texas, Manufactured by Staked Plains Press, Canyon, Texas 79015.

Oklahoma Death Certificate # 014452 lists Addie's birth as May 9, 1874.
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Information on The Guthrie Family:
John B. Guthrie, aka John Beverly Guthrie, was born to William Oleander Guthrie and 

Clementine Stewart Guthrie on Feb. 8, 1857 in Georgia.
He married Sallie Thornton Guthrie in 1881 and they had four sons together before her death in 1900 in Texas. 
 
In 1902 John B. Guthrie remarried to Adele Lee Jones Tadlock, a divorced single Mom, in Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas. John and Adele had two more children together.
 
They were living and farming near Adele's family in Roger Mills County Oklahoma when two of John B. Guthrie's sons from his first marriage died.
They share a headstone.
 
The inscription is:
"Tho thou art gone thoun't not forgotten, Come Ye Blessed."

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Oscar L. Guthrie, also known as Oscar Lee Guthrie, was the first child born to John B. Guthrie and Sallie Thornton Guthrie. He was born in Arkansas on July 13, 1881. The 1919 census taken shortly before his death shows him farming with his father and single. He died on November 11, 1911. Accounts if his life and death in the Cheyenne newspaper say he was. Christian man who passed from bleeding lungs.
 
It is possible his condition was from pneumonia or more likely,  tuberculosis. One of Adele Jones Tadlock Guthrie's brothers, whom they lived near while in Texas, died of tuberculosis in 1909. In the early 1900's, tuberculosis was rampant in the US.
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John C. Guthrie, was born to John B. Guthrie and his first wife, Sallie Thornton Guthrie, (1863-1900). He was born in Arkansas on November 6, 1893. He was single when he died on Dec 14, 1912.

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