Mary was born in 1889. At an early age, she moved to Muskogee, Oklahoma where she was raised and schooled. In 1912, she married Matt Dormer. They lived in New Mexico and then came to Colorado in 1916. She divorced around 1944 and moved to Oregon, where she worked as a welder in support of the war. She lived there until 1975 when she moved back to Castle Rock. She passed away in 1982.
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"Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995." Database with images. FamilySearch. "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVP6-HJVR : 27 September 2017), J M Dormer and Mary Elizabeth Brown, 29 Dec 1912; citing Oklahoma, various county courthouses, Oklahoma; FHL microfilm.
"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSRB-HY9 : accessed 18 September 2019), Mary E Brown in household of William N Brown, Muscogee District Township 15 Muscogee town, Creek Nation, Indian Territory, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 61, sheet 11B, family 238, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,854.
"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7WL-ZL5 : accessed 21 June 2019), Mary E Dormer in household of James M Dormer, Larkspur, Douglas, Colorado, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 16, sheet 1B, line 52, family 16, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 232; FHL microfilm 2,339,967.
"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VR6W-KZJ : 26 July 2019), Mary E Dormer in household of James M Dormer, Castle Rock, Election Precinct 7, Douglas, Colorado, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 18-9, sheet 2B, line 51, family 39, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 460.
Find A Grave: Memorial #11440807, Bear Canon Cemetery, Sedalia, Colorado
Monumental inscription. United States. Bear Canon Cemetery, Sedalia, Colorado. 1982 (b. 1889) DORMER, MARY GPS: n/a. Photo courtesy of Archives & Local History, Douglas County Libraries, Castle Rock, CO.
Douglas County News, 29 Jun 1982, Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection, Colorado State Library, Mary Dormer Obit
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