May Bell Lightfoot ^{1 2 3 4 5 6}

  General Notes:

Although all census records show her first name spelled as May, she may have preferred Mae. Her gravestone has it spelled as Mae but that may be the result of surviving relatives.
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Email from Linda Reppert, daughter of Lawrence Reppert (2nd husband of May) Nov 2013:

Mae talked very little about her family. I knew there were some in Oklahoma as they would pass thru San Antonio and stop to speak with her but we were not ever introduced to them until Edna came to visit with perhaps her brother in the 70's, then Edna came, as I mentioned in the previous email and lived with Mae for a period of time then I understand went to perhaps California.
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Although she was married to her 2nd husband, Lawrence B. Reppert from 1956 to 1977, when she died in 1992, either she or her surviving relatives opted to have her buried in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery with the gravestone indicating that she was the wife of Capt. Dan R. Boisseau. There is no mention of the Reppert name on her gravestone.
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Email from Linda Reppert, daughter of Lawrence Reppert (2nd husband of May) Nov 2013:

There are several discrepancies in my stepmother Mae's age. Her birth name is recorded in the census of 1900 in Texas County, MO where she and her mother were living when Mae as she spelled it, was born, but her name was recorded as May Bell, and it listed her as 1 month old in May of 1900. If you will access that census you will see that I am correct. Also shows her to be living with Amelia Biggs and a notation that whereabouts of head of household were unknown.

Also, on her driver's license her date of birth was listed as 1904. Making her 4 years younger than the census records show.

On the marriage license App. No. 232374 applied for at The Bexar County Courthouse on December 21, 1956, my father's age was listed as 43. Birthday would have been March 21, 1957, (birth year of 1914) so he would have been 44 in 3 months and Mae's age was listed as 49 and in 4 months on April 12, 1957 (birth year of 1907) she would have been 50 according to the age she listed on the marriage license. That does not meld with a birth year of 1904 which is on her tombstone. Ordered I might add by my sister-in-law who had only been married to my brother for 4 1/2 years when Mae passed away. She did not know much history there.

Anyway, Mae stated she was 49 in Dec. 1956. Her birth date of 1904 would then make her 52 in 1956 and not 49. There in is the first clue. There are census's taken in San Antonio Bexar County in the 1920's that show her a different age then when she was married to Mr. Boisseau. She was 13 years older than she admitted being.

In February 1992, May Bell Lightfoot Boisseau Reppert passed away. She was 92. My sister-in-law was the one who had her name listed on her tombstone as a Boisseau, but she never divorced my father and they were married when my father passed away in June 1977.

Mae was supposed to be buried next to my father who was buried next to my mother who died in 1954. My sister-in-law took matters into her own hands not asking anyone else, and had her buried at Fort Sam Houston a couple of rows over from Mr. Boisseau.

I asked my sister-in-law Lolita, why was she buried under the name of Boisseau and not Reppert and she told me "that my father was buried next to his first love and Mae is buried next to hers" and she was incorrect, my father's first love was not my mother.

His first love was killed in Iowa City, IA while driving along a country road and was clipped by a snow removal vehicle in the 1930's. She was my mother's college room mate at the University of Iowa. So it distressed me somewhat when I found out that my sister-in-law had determined under whose name my stepmother should be buried.
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  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1900 US Census in Morris Township, Texas County, MO on 8 June 1900. ⁴

page 7A, District 142, Dwg 65, Family 65, T623-906
Morris Township, Texas County, Missouri
May Lightfoot...Daughter..Apr 1900..1m..MO
(Living with mother. Father living with eldest son in Oklahoma.)
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• She appeared on the 1910 US Census in Township 4, Craig County, OK on 6 May 1910. ⁵

Page 5B, District 30, Dwg 84, Family 87
Township 4, Craig County, Oklahoma
May B. Lightfoot...Daughter..10..MO
(Living with parents.)
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• She appeared on the 1920 US Census in Township 4, Craig County, OK on January 1920. ⁶

Sheet 7B, Family 127
Township 4, Craig County, Oklahoma
May Lightfoot...Daughter..19..MO
(Living with parents.)
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• She appeared on the 1930 US Census in San Antonio, TX on April 1930. ¹

Sheet 16B, Roll 2295, Household 326, District 0083
San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas
May B. Boisseau...Wife..28..MO
(Living with husband.)

NOTE - If her birth date was 12 Apr 1900, then her age should have been 29 instead of 28.
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• She appeared on the 1940 US Census in San Antonio, TX on 28 April 1940. ²

Sheet 16A, Family 628, District 259-6, Roll 4201
San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas
Last Place of Residence: Same Place
2126 West Mistletoe; home owned, $10000
Wife..Mae Boisseau..38..MO..12th grade
(Living with 1st husband.)

NOTE - If her birth date was 12 Apr 1900, then her age should have been 39 instead of 38.
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• She resided in San Antonio, TX in 1941.
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• She resided in Los Angeles, CA in 1944.
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• She was buried on 26 February 1992 in the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, TX.

Plot: Section R Site 228E
Find A Grave Memorial #382582

The gravestone spells her name as "Mae" but incorrectly gives her birth date as 12 Apr 1904 instead of 1900.
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May married Dan Reynolds Boisseau, son of Alva D. Boisseau and Juliette Reynolds, before 1 April 1930.^{1 2} (Dan Reynolds Boisseau was born on 20 September 1903 in Missouri,^{1 2} died on 14 May 1952 and was buried on 16 May 1952 in San Antonio, TX.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1930 US Census in San Antonio, TX on April 1930. ¹

Sheet 16B, Roll 2295, Household 326, District 0083
San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas
Dan R. Boisseau...Head..27..MO
May B. Boisseau...Wife..28..MO
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• They appeared on the 1940 US Census in San Antonio, TX on 28 April 1940. ²

Sheet 16A, Family 628, District 259-6, Roll 4201
San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas
Last Place of Residence: Same Place
2126 West Mistletoe; home owned, $10000
Head..Dan R Boisseau..36..MO..3 yrs. college..Salesman at Tire and Oil Co..earned $3597 in 1939
Wife..Mae Boisseau..38..MO..12th grade
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May next married Lawrence B. Reppert on 21 December 1956 in Bexar County, TX. (Lawrence B. Reppert was born on 21 March 1913,⁹ died on 3 June 1977 ⁹ and was buried after 3 June 1977 in San Antonio, TX ⁹.). The cause of his death was Lung cancer.