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  1. Billy Reno Boley: Birth: 27 AUG 1930 in Todd, Kentucky, USA. Death: 18 DEC 1951 in Nottoway, Virginia, USA


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a. Note:   Clyo Estelle Mallory was born at her parents' residence in Todd County Kentucky. She had an older brother and two older sisters, the younger of which was born 8 1/2 years before Clyo. Her father took her to Jennie Stuart Hospital in Hopkinsville where she underwent surgery to close her upper lip. She was self-conscious about her appearance afterwards. She walked barefoot along the dirt road, carrying her shoes and washing her feet in the branch just before arriving at Providence Church. The spiritual faith she received there was the foundation for the rest of her life. Each Christmas "Old Santy" would leave a doll for her. On her 93rd birthday, she recalled having once lined up eleven dolls in a row. Clyo recalled that as a child, she saw "hoop snakes" rolling away from the house toward the bluff where she supposed they lived. On one occasion, a "hoop snake" rolled toward her as she walked on the dirt road leading to her home. These creatures appeared to be similar to any other snake, except for their ability to grasp their tail in their mouth, forming an upright circle to travel quickly across the countryside. She received her primary education at three public schools, Elkton City School on Washington Street, the old Vanderbilt Training School on West Main Street and the one room Hurt Schoolhouse on Claymour Road. Her formal education ended 28 Sep 1928 when she eloped with Damon Boley to get married in Clarksville, TN. They set up housekeeping in a small house on the Boley farm. She was living there when her father's health began to fail. Clyo went to her parents' home for the birth of Billy Reno Boley on 27 Aug 1930. Her father died just over a year later on 12 Sep 1931. In about 1932, Clyo, Damon and Billy moved from the Boley place to the Daysville area to sharecrop a farm owned by her sister Irene and Lawrence Shemwell. Their sister Myrtle and her husband, Zenes Rager also lived nearby. She left Damon soon after and returned to live with her mother and younger brother. Soon afterwards, her mother's cousin, Eif Wright drove Clyo in his buggy to Greenville to file divorce papers. To earn some money, Clyo agreed to sit with a elderly woman in Elkton but had to return to her mother's to be with her son. She worked at the laundry in Elkton where she ran a steam press. The laundry and ironing skills she practiced were appreciated by her family for years afterwards. The laundry operated in a stone building near the northeast corner of Public Square. She was working there when she and James Mayo Violette began courting. On new years day, 1938, they were married. For a short time, they rented a house that had once been a tavern at the corner of the Greenville Road and Blue and Gray Park Road. On a warm day, she was sitting inside on Mayo's lap when she noticed a car driving slowly in front of the house. It was two of Mayo's former girlfriends who just happened to be turning around and were suprised to be making eye contact through the open window. They moved from the corner tavern to a house in north Todd west of Gilley Watson's store where James Mayo Violette Jr. was born 10 June 1940. They soon relocated to a farm owned by Richard Simons and his wife, Willie Sue, directly across the road from Will Shanklin. Clyo later said the seven years they sharecropped on the Simons farm were the happiest of her life. She took her mother's Singer sewing machine there and sewed Mayo Jr. a little overall outfit. Looking back, she would recall this time as the happiest years of her life. They bought their first house in Elkton, but never moved in. Instead, they bought the one bedroom house on Allensville Street where Gary Dale Violette was born 15 February 1951. Billy Reno Boley died ten months later. In 1956, they moved to a larger house on Allensville Street where she was the telephone secretary for the Kentucky Artificial Breeder's Association. She answered the phone while keeping house. She cooked daily meals, worked in the garden, canned vegetables and dried fruit each summer. In addition to Mr. McIntosh's regular stays, Clyo hosted Mayos' aunt Jennie Cowan, cousin Jim and Gertie Page who would visit for a week at a time each year. She and Mayo operated the cream station in Elkton next door to the building where the laundry had been. Clyo moved her Speed Queen wringer washer to the cream station in Elkton so she could do laundry between customers. This ended when the inspector told her she could not do her laundry there. This seemed unfair to her considering that the building was a metal skinned wood shack which had had no toilet and was heated only by a coal stove. She once lost her wedding and engagement rings in a bucket of cream. She notified the factory in Nashville, Tennessee where they were recovered and returned to her by the cream buyer. When Clyo's first grandchild, Pamela Star Violette was an infant, Mayo Jr. and Linda bought a house on Allensville Street. Clyo continued to baby-sit Pam and Sherry, saw them off to school and and was there when they got off the bus each afternoon. Clyo worked for Evelyn Coward Mallory as a clerk at the Dollar Store and Mallory's on Public Square in Elkton. She preferred working in the stock room to dealing with the public. She slept in Mayo's hospital room after his injury in 1967 and cared for him hand and foot afterwards. In 1968, she and Mayo took their first vacation trip to south Florida with Jim and Gertie Page. In May 1971, she attended Gary and Jo's wedding. That fall, Gary helped Mayo Jr. install central heating and air conditioning so Clyo would not have soot and ashes in her house for the first time in her life. On several occasions, she and Mayo drove to Lexington to visit Gary and Jo. They cut one visit short to be at her mother's bedside when Annie passed away on 07 Jun 1977. In May 1979, Clyo was in Lexington with the entire family for Jo Violette's graduation ceremony. In the early 1980's she and Mayo drove to Charleston, South Carolina to visit Gary and Jo. In May 1984, she and Mayo boarded an airplane for the first time to see their newborn grandaughter, Mallory Ann Violette. On 01 Jan 1988, she an Mayo celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at their home with their family. Clyo suffered from arthritis. As Mayo's health deteriorated, Clyo was stressed to care for him and keep house. She was hospitalized at Jennie Stuart briefly for an abdominal blockage. On 02 Sep 1989, her husband Mayo died after 51 years 8 months and 1 day of marriage. She lived with Gary, Jo and Mallory at their home on Cedarcroft Drive in Clarksville, Tennessee for several months before returning home. In 1997, she went to see the motion picture "Titannic" at the theater with Gary, Jo and Mallory. Her brother Selton died in December 1998 and sister, Myrtle died less than a month later on January 1999. She continued to keep house into her eighties, enjoying her home and the peace and quiet it afforded her. She celebrated the return of her flowers each spring. In the summer, she waged a battle to keep groundhogs out from under her house. Each fall, she'd wrap the hydrant and close the house against the coming winter's cold. Meals on Wheels delivered a hot meal to her door on weekdays and she attended church services when someone would take her. On 01 February 2003 Clyo traveled to Starkville, Mississippi with Jo and Gary to visit Mallory at Mississippi State University. That same year, Clyo had her portrait made at Providence Church. Later, she asked that the photo be thrown away because she thought the photographer had hurt her lip with his equipment. This was the first time her family noticed her confusion about ordinary events that clearly had not occurred. She accused the local hardware store of losing a window screen, she reported losing a ring that she had given away previously and reported being scared after letting strangers into her house for drinking water. Clyo tried valiantly to care for her sister, spending long days by Irene's side at Hearthstone Place and depending on others for transportation. She felt it was her duty to be there, in spite of the toll on her health. On 27 Aug 2004, Clyo bought a new mattress set after suffering from back and hip pain from sleeping on a matress that was almost 50 years old. In March 2005, Clyo suffered a large bruise on her arm in a fall at her home. She said she tripped over a chair leg at her kitchen table, but it's likely that she suffered a stroke. Arrangements were made for a nurse's aide to look in on her daily and administer her medication, but Clyo's condition worsened to the point she hardly left her bed. While visiting her son Mayo, 17 Apr 2005 she required EMS and spent the day in the Emergency Room before Dr. Milam diagnosed fractures in her L1 and L2 lumbar sections and admitted to Gateway Medical Center. On 20 April 2005, she moved to Spring Meadows Health Care Center. She was diagnosed with senile dementia, which robbed her of her short term memory. Clyo's physical health improved and she took a private room at Spring Meadows 19 Oct 2005, the day her sister Irene died. On 01 April 2006, her sons divided Clyo's cherished household possessions. In 2006, Clyo appeared before Judge Sue Carol Brown in District Court to testify publicly that she would not oppose her brother's appointment as sole executor of her late sister's estate. Although she understood what he had done, she was never able to justify it because she knew her sister's will had been broken. In November 2006, her sons sold the remainder of her things in a tag sale at 208 Allensville St. in Elkton. In July 2007, Clyo fell in her room and broke her right leg just above the knee. At Gateway Medical Center, an orthopedic surgeon refused to treat her, saying nothing could be done and that she'd never walk again. Her sons had her transfered to Vanderbilt where Dr. Obremski's surgical team performed reduction surgery using titanium plates. By the end of the year, she had fully recovered, though she was advised to use a walker to minimize the risk of another fall. In June 2008, Clyo danced a jig for Mallory Violette and Matt Albert before they left on their wedding trip. 13 October 2008 she was sent to the new Gateway Medical Center Emergency Room after what was later disgnosed as an overmedication error by the Spring Meadows nursing staff. 07 November 2009 Clyo attended the wedding of her great-grandaughter, Brittyne Sager and Johathan Hearn. 10 November 2012, Clyo celebrated her 97th birthday at Spring Meadows with her sons and their families. Sunday, 14 April 2013 the family gathered at her bedside as her physical condition became critical. She died at 6:51pm CDT with her daughter in-law Jo Violette and granddaughter Pam Tomes at her side. Her death notices: WKDZ 106.5 FM Posted: Monday, 15 April 2013 6:00AM Clyo Estelle Violette, 97, of Elkton Funeral arrangements are incomplete for 97-year old Clyo Estelle Violette, of Elkton. Latham Funeral Home, in Elkton, is in charge of the arrangements. The Kentucky New Era online edition: Clyo Estelle Violette Posted: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 12:00 am Clyo Estelle Violette, 97, Elkton, died Sunday, April 14, 2013, at Spring Meadows Healthcare Center, Clarksville, of natural causes. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Latham Funeral Home, Elkton, with Doug Tomes officiating. Clyo Estelle Mallory Violette Obituary ELKTON - Violette, Clyo Estelle Mallory, 97, died April 14, 2013. Latham Funeral Home Published in The Courier-Journal on April 16, 2013 http://surfky.com/index.php/obituaries/local/christian/29840-clyo-estelle-mallory-violette-age-97-of-elkton-ky- Clyo Estelle Mallory Violette, age 97 of Elkton, KY HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. - Clyo Estelle Mallory Violette, age 97 of Elkton, KY passed away April 14, 2013 at Spring Meadows Health Care Center in Clarksville, TN of natural causes. Mrs. Clyo was born November 10, 1915 in Todd Co., KY the youngest daughter of the late Reno Mallory and Annie Harris Mallory. She was a homemaker, Cream Buyer, store clerk and telephone secretary. She was a lifelong member of the Providence United Methodist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Mayo Violette Sr. in 1989, one son, Billy Reno Boley in 1951, four brothers and two sisters. Survivors include two sons, Mayo (Lynda) Violette Jr and Gary (Jo) Violette both of Clarksville, TN; three grandchildren, 6 great grandchildren and 12 great great grandchildren. Services will be 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at Latham Funeral Home in Elkton with Bro. Doug Tomes officiating. Burial will follow in the Glenwood Cemetery. Visitation will be after 6:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at Latham Funeral Home. Clyo Estelle Mallory Violette (1915 - 2013) Obituary Clyo Violette Mrs. Clyo Estelle Mallory Violette, age 97 of Elkton, KY, passed away April 14, 2013 at Spring Meadows Health Care Center in Clarksville, TN of natural causes. Services will be 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at Latham Funeral Home in Elkton, with Bro. Doug Tomes officiating. Burial will follow in the Glenwood Cemetery. Visitation will be after 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at Latham Funeral Home. Mrs. Clyo was born November 10, 1915 in Todd Co., KY, the youngest daughter of the late Reno Mallory and Annie Harris Mallory. She was a homemaker, Cream Buyer, store clerk and telephone secretary. She was a lifelong member of the Providence United Methodist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Mayo Violette, Sr. in 1989; one son, Billy Reno Boley in 1951; four brothers and two sisters. Survivors include two sons, Mayo (Lynda) Violette, Jr. and Gary (Jo) Violette, both of Clarksville, TN; three grandchildren, 6 great-grandchildren and 12 great-great-grandchildren. Latham Funeral Home, Elkton, KY (270) 265-2150. Published in The Leaf Chronicle on April 17, 2013


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