Clara Belle Henley (McGee)

Clara Belle Henley (McGee)

(28 Apr 1898, Hawthorne, NV- 14 Jun 1982, Reno, NV)

(My Maternal Grandmother)

(Note; These are topics I hope to cover in later posts. I wanted to post the outline and some pictures that might interest you.)

Known to her family as “Granna”

Bookkeeper

Yerington & Tonopah Pioneer Diaries

Hartford Insurance

Isabel Construction

American Heart Association

Christmas’ at Granna’s

“Sixty-Thousand Dollar Question”

Dignified and Proper

Setting linen for cowhands

Business Woman’s Association

Stroke Event 1936

Stroke Recovery

Diabetic

445 Thoma Street, Reno Street

Bridge player

Matriarch of family

Autograph Book

Cook Book

Childhood Years 1998-1919

Married Life 1920-1936

Widowed Life 1936-1946

Granna Life 1946-1982

Family Lines:

Husband: Charles Barton McGee (30 May 1883. Inyo County, CA, -1936, San Francisco, CA) Buried: Masonic Memorial Gardens, Reno, NV) Married: 25 Feb 1920 Reno, NV

Children: Clara Belle (20 Jan 1921, Tonopah, NV-1999), John Barton McGee (26 Feb 1922. Reno, NV), Anna Lee McGee (10 Nov 1924, Tonopah, NV) Charles William McGee (2 May, 1928, Tonopah, NV) (the forbidden child), possible unknown other child lost at birth

Father: William James Henley (11 Nov 1861, PA - 12 Jul 1909, NV)

Mother: Henrietta Kate Rosenthal (May 1867, Hornitos, CA-28 Mar 1926, Reno, NV)

Siblings:

Benjamin Henley

David (Dave) (Davis) Henley

Esther (Essie) Henley (Miller)

Lloyd Henley

William (Willie) James Henley, Jr.  (29 Jun 1894 - 14 Jul 1959)

Childhood Years (1998-1919)

Clara Belle Henley, age 3, Hawthorne, NV (1901)

Clara Belle Henley, age 9, Hawthorne, NV (1907)

Clara Belle Henley’s mother and father, Henrietta Kate Rosenthal Henley and William James Henley, Sr. (Age 7. 1905)

Clara Belle Henley (left) with brother Willie (right)  in Hawthorne, NV.  Center boy is unknown.  (1907-1908?)

Clara Belle Henley (left top), Willie (center top) Henrietta Kate Rosenthal Henley (right top) Bottom Row: unknown, possibly Rosenthals (1906-1909?)

Clara Belle Henley with Rosenthal aunts in Hawthorne, NV (1910-1912?)

Clara Belle Henley with Rosenthal aunts in Hawthorne, NV (1910-1912?)

Clara Belle Henley as teenager in Hawthorne, NV (1912-1914?)

John Barton McGee and Clara Belle Henley before marriage in southern California (1919)

Henrietta Kate Rosenthal Henley (behind) & Clara Belle Henley with unknown male (possibly a Rosenthal) on southern California beach. (1919)