An American Family History

Mae Fox McKelvey was the youngest of John Newton Fox and Sarah Jane Ricketts' children. She was born on April 30, 1885 in Benton Township, Lucas County, Iowa. She attended school through grade 9.

She married Lambert Loriane (Mac) McKelvey. He was born in 1881 in Keokuk County, Iowa. His parents were David William McKelvey and Amanda Catherine Koontz. He attended school until grade 8.

Mae and Mac appeared in the 1920 census in Des Moines on Eighth Street. He was 38 and had no occupation and she was 34 (sic 24) and worked as a saleslady in a department store. 

In 1930 they were living in Des Moines.

Mae became a widow when Mac died in 1952. In 1961 she had her mother's remains re-interred from New York cemetery in Millerton in Wayne County to the Glendale Cemetery located in Des Moines near where she is buried. She died in June, 1964.