NOTE: When the census taker stopped by the McCaleb home, Carlos was the only one there. Velma had gone with her sister Zelma to see their father in Brilliant and was going to return later in the day. Carlos told the census taker that Velma was 31, just for a laugh. He told me about it in 1969. He said that from that day on, my mother was always older than him. He was still laughing about it!
Carlos took a job as a coal miner for a relatively new mine in Jefferson County, Alabama, called Concord Mine. The couple was not sure where they wanted to live, so they rented one side of a duplex in Fairfield, Alabama. Velma was keeping house.
She was a wonderful housewife and mother to their only child, a daughter. Velma passed away on February 13, 1996.[8] She was laid to rest beside Carlos in West Alabama Memorial Gardens, Gu-Win, Marion County, Alabama.[9]
↑1920 Census:
"1920 United States Federal Census"
Year: 1920; Census Place: Baccus, Marion, Alabama; Roll: T625_33; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 67 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 6061 #106328789 (accessed 14 October 2022)
Velma Mills (1), single daughter, in household of William M Mills (45) in Baccus, Marion, Alabama. Born in Alabama.
↑1930 Census:
"1930 United States Federal Census"
Year: 1930; Census Place: Baccus, Marion, Alabama; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 0018; FHL microfilm: 2339774 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 6224 #118956014 (accessed 14 October 2022)
Velma Mills (11), single daughter, Laborer, in household of William M Mills (56) in Baccus, Marion, Alabama, USA. Born in Alabama.
↑Marriage: Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q21C-T2DQ : 19 February 2021), Carlos McCaleb and Velma Mills, 16 Oct 1937; citing Election Precinct 29 Alabama City, Etowah, Alabama, United States, County Probate Courts, Alabama; FHL microfilm 1,877,200. Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., Provo, UT, USA.
↑1940 Census:
"1940 United States Federal Census"
Year: 1940; Census Place: Eldridge, Walker, Alabama; Roll: m-t0627-00087; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 64-37 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2442 #61137924 (accessed 14 October 2022)
Velma McCaleb (31), wife, in household of Carlos McCaleb (24) in Eldridge, Walker, Alabama. Born in Alabama.
↑1950 Census:
"1950 United States Federal Census"
United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: Fairfield, Jefferson, Alabama; Roll: 3253; Sheet Number: 72; Enumeration District: 37-249 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 62308 #98480709 (accessed 14 October 2022)
Velma McCaleb (33), wife, in household of Carlos McCaleb (34) in Fairfield, Jefferson, Alabama, USA. Born in Alabama.
↑Social Security:
"U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007"
Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007 Ancestry Record 60901 #14838931 (accessed 14 October 2022)
Name: Velma McCaleb [Velma Mills]; Gender: Female; Race: White; Birth Date: 14 Oct 1918; Birth Place: Glen Allen F, Alabama; Death Date: 13 Feb 1996; Father: W M Mills; Mother: Martha L Wakefield; Type of Claim: Birth record established before age of 5.; Notes: 28 Jan 1976: Name listed as VELMA MCCALEB.
↑Memorial: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/210615357/velma-m-mccaleb : accessed 31 December 2021), memorial page for Velma M Mills McCaleb (14 Oct 1918–13 Feb 1996), Find A Grave: Memorial #210615357, citing West Alabama Memorial Gardens, Gu-Win, Marion County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by Pamela Parker (contributor 50435758) .
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