The wind always blows in Kansas
Overview
This family history and memoir by Melba McAdams Mayo, born in Clyde, Kansas in 1920, contains recollections of her childhood in Clyde as well as anecdotes from the lives of her Mittelstaedt, Oelker, and McAdams family ancestors as residents of Clyde, Kansas in the 1800s and the early 1900s.
Dates
- Creation: 1970
Creator
- Mayo, Melba McAdams, 1920-1998 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
No access restrictions
Conditions Governing Use
Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.
Biography of Melba McAdams Mayo
Melba McAdams Mayo was born August 2, 1920 at Clyde (Cloud County), Kansas to Del and Clara (Oelker) McAdams. Her father died in 1922, and the family moved to Nebraska in 1925. For a number of years, she returned occasionally to Clyde, Kansas to visit family members still living there. Melba Mayo died in October 1998 at Seattle, Washington.
Extent
1 folder
Language of Materials
English
Scope and Contents
This photocopied 13-page typescript is a memoir and family history by Melba McAdams Mayo, a native of Clyde, Kansas. The undated history and memoir includes many anecdotes regarding the lives of the author's Mittelstaedt, Oelker, and McAdams family ancestors as residents of Clyde, Kansas in the 1800s and early 1900s, as well as recollections of her own childhood in the 1920s while living in Clyde.
Physical Location
RH MS P737
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift, Charles Stansifer, 1993
Subject
- Mayo, Melba McAdams, 1920-1998 (Person)
- McAdams family. (Family)
- Mittelstaedt family. (Family)
- Oelker family. (Family)
Geographic
- Title
- Guide to "The Wind Always Blows in Kansas"
- Subtitle
- The wind always blows in Kansas
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by mh, 2007 Finding aid encoded by mh, 2007
- Date
- 2007
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Finding aid written in<language encodinganalog="language">English.</language>
- Finding aid permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/10407/0443686016
- Preferred citation
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Mayo, Melba McAdams, 1920-1998, The Wind always blows in Kansas, Kansas Collection, RH MS P737, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository