THE POLSON-CHENEY FAMILY

        Husband: Madison Monroe Janes
           Born: 05 MAR 1866 in San Jose, California
        Married: 03 JAN 1891 in Tulare, Tulare County, California
           Died: OCT 1930 in Fresno, Fresno County, California
         Father: Thomas Jefferson Janes
         Mother: Mary Jane
        Spouses: 
     Occupation: Farmer and Photographer
      Residence: 1910 Coalinga, California (1)
      Residence: 1890 Tipton, Tulare County, California (2)
      Residence: 1920 Tulare, Tulare County, California (3)
           Wife: Mary Cheney
           Born: 09 NOV 1873 in Petaluma, Sonoma County, California
           Died: 03 SEP 1942 in Bakersfield, Kern County, CA
         Buried: 08 SEP 1942 in Buried at the Union Cemetery in Bakersfield, California.
         Father: Return Jonathan Cheney
         Mother: Martha Eleanor Green
        Spouses: Bob Thornton; Albert W. Freeman
Children
01          (M): Thomas Jefferson Janes
           Born: 13 OCT 1891 in Tulare County, California
           Died: 19 APR 1971 in Alameda County, California
        Spouses: Rita Domonoski
02          (F): Iva Gertrude Janes
           Born: 01 APR 1896 in Tipton, Tulare County, California
           Died: 10 JAN 1972 in Bakersfield, Kern County, California
        Spouses: Robert Harry Blackwell,Sr
03          (F): Ruth Janes
           Born: 27 MAY 1897 in Tulare, Tulare County, California
           Died: 20 JAN 1989 in Mt View, Santa Clara, California
        Spouses: Frank M. Collins; Jesse Ambrose Sammon

Additional Information

Madison Monroe Janes:

Notes:
The 1900 Federal Census for California, Tulare County, Tipton Township listed Madison on sheet 2B, Line 75. He was living next door to his father, Thomas. He owned his farm free of mortgage. He was living with his wife, Mary, and children Thomas, Iva and Ruth.

The 1920 Federal Census for Tulare County listed Madison, 50, as a lodger in the Scott home. He was a Chauffer whose father was born in Missouri and mother in Tennessee.

The 1930 Federal Census for Enumeration District 10-78, Coalinga City, California, showed Madison owning his home at 340 E Street. The house was worth $200.00, and did not have a radio. Madison was 63, divorced and living alone. He was a clerk in a jewelry store who had not worked the day before the census was taken.

Mary Cheney:

Notes:
Mary moved to Coalinga in 1906. Mary became a nurse and later a deputy county assessor. She lived on one side of her parents on East Durian while her brother J.G. and his family lived on the other side.

Mary C. Janes was listed on the 1930 Federal Census on line 18, sheet 5A, Enumeration District 10-78, Coalinga City, Fresno County, California. She owned her home at 276 D Street which she valued at $1,500. She was 56, retired, and listed herself as a widow! Mary had rented a room in her house to an Australian named W.B. Williams who was an Optometrist. She was still living next door to her brother, J.G., and did not own a radio.

Mary Cheney Janes became one of Coalinga's first business women, and worked for many years on the Chamber of Commerce Committee for the West Side Freeway.

Footnotes

  1. "Golden Wedding-Coalinga Couple Celebrate Fiftieth Anniversary of Wedded Life", Daily Coalinga Times (Wednesday, March 9, 1910).
  2. 1890 Great Register of Tulare County.
    Age 24, Born in CA.
  3. 1920 Federal Census, 1b, line 98.
    California, Tulare County, Tulare Township.

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