Orestus Gertrude “Ora” Stansbury was
born on May 19, 1888 in Missouri. She
was the daughter of Samuel Stansbury and Josephine Stewart Wilson.
Ora
married Walter John Ainsworth around 1908 in Harper County, Kansas. She was 20 years old and he was 23
years. Walter was born in September 1885
in Rush County, Kansas, the son of James R. Ainsworth and Martha E.
Sinnet.
Walter
and Ora had two children:
Erma
A. Ainsworth born September
17, 1910
Arthur
Glen Ainsworth born 1913
After
their marriage, the couple settled on a farm next to Ora’s parents in
Chicaskia, Harper County, Kansas.
Walter
and Ora separated sometime between 1912 and 1915. Ora and her children were living with her
parents in Chicaskia from 1915 until at least 1925. In the 1925 Kansas Census, Ora’s marital
status was listed as “divorced.”
By
1930, Ora had remarried to Fredrick Wilhelm “Fred” Schiefelbine. This was Fred’s second marriage as well. He was born on October 10, 1885 in Kansas,
the son of Leo Earnest Schiefelbine and Earnestine Urban.
After
her marriage, Ora’s children continued living with her parents in Chicaskia, Harper
County, Kansas. Fred and Ora made their
home on Fred’s farm in Bennett, Kingman County, Kansas.
Fred
and Ora moved to California sometime between 1940 and 1942. Fred registered for the draft for the Second
World War in 1942 in San Diego County, California. He was 57 years old at that time and working
in Fallbrook, San Diego County, California.
Orestus
Gertrude Stansbury Ainsworth Schiefelbine died on July 21, 1944 in San Diego
County, California. She was buried in
the Upchurch Cemetery in Norwich, Kingman County, Kansas. Ora was 56 years old at her death.
Notes
for Orestus Gertrude Stansbury
Birth & Death: Ancestry.com. California
Death Index, 1940-1997 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations Inc, 2000. Original data:
State of California. California Death Index, 1940-1997. Sacramento, CA, USA:
State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics.
Marriage to John Ainsworth: Year: 1910; Census Place:
Chicaskia, Harper, Kansas; Roll: T624_441; Page: 1A; Enumeration District:
0221; FHL microfilm: 1374454. Ancestry.com.
1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
Residence in 1910: Year: 1910; Census Place:
Chicaskia, Harper, Kansas; Roll: T624_441; Page: 1A; Enumeration District:
0221; FHL microfilm: 1374454. Ancestry.com.
1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
Residence in 1915: Ancestry.com.. Kansas State
Census Collection, 1855-1925 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations Inc, 2009.
Residence in 1920: Year: 1920; Census Place:
Chickaskia, Harper, Kansas; Roll: T625_533; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 82;
Image: 1073. Ancestry.com. 1920 United
States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Residence in 1925: Ancestry.com.. Kansas State
Census Collection, 1855-1925 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations Inc, 2009.
Residence in 1930: Year: 1930; Census Place:
Bennett, Kingman, Kansas; Roll: 705; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 0004;
Image: 899.0; FHL microfilm: 2340440. Ancestry.com.
1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.
Residence in 1940: Year: 1940; Census Place: Bennett, Kingman,
Kansas; Roll: T627_1238; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 48-4. Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal
Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
Burial:
Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.
Notes
for Walter John Ainsworth
Notes
for Fredrick Wilhelm Schiefelbine
