THE POLSON-CHENEY FAMILY

        Husband: Walter "Dutch" Cheney
           Born: 02 SEP 1880 in Petaluma, Sonoma County, California
        Married:
           Died: 26 SEP 1935 in California
         Buried: in Buried at Union Cemetery, Bakersfield, California
         Father: Return Jonathan Cheney
         Mother: Martha Eleanor Green
        Spouses: 
     Occupation: 1920 Oil Well Driller (1)
      Residence: 1910 Maricopa, California (2)
      Residence: 1928 Taft, California (3)
           Wife: Martha Ellen "Mattie" Green
           Born: 13 MAR 1880 in Guadalupe, California (4)
           Died: 23 AUG 1965 in Bakersfield, Kern County, CA
         Buried: in Buried at Union Cemetery in Bakersfield, California.
         Father: John Wheeler Green
         Mother: Lewis
        Spouses: 
     Occupation: Teacher and School Principal
      Residence: 1965 3100 18th St, Bakersfield, California
      Residence: before 1955 Taft, California
Children
01          (F): Raydene Cheney
           Born: about 1909
           Died:
        Spouses: King Jenkins
02          (M): David G. Cheney
           Born: 14 JUL 1909
           Died: 27 JUL 1909
         Buried: in Buried at Union Cemetery, Bakersfield, California.
        Spouses:

Additional Information

Martha Ellen "Mattie" Green:

Notes:
Mattie E. Cheney was listed in the 1930 Federal Census for Township 7, Standard Oil 11C, Kern County, California on Sheet 5A, Line 36. Mattie was 49 and renting a home from Standard Oil for $16.00 a month. She was a Public School Principal. Her niece Raydene Green was living with Mattie. Raydene was 13 and born in California.

Footnotes

  1. 1920 Federal Census, sheet 6b, line 73.
    California, Kern County, 16th Township, Taft. Walter was 39 and owned his home.
  2. "Golden Wedding-Coalinga Couple Celebrate Fiftieth Anniversary of Wedded Life", Daily Coalinga Times (Wednesday, March 9, 1910).
  3. Unknown Coalinga Newspaper Article (1928).
  4. California Department of Health Services Office of Health Information and Research Vital Statistics Section, RootsWeb.com (http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi).
    Cheney, Martha E.

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