FLORIDA

Census Reports

1940 & 1945

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UPDATED OCTOBER 23, 2022

 

FLORIDA 1940 CENSUS

 

DALE PUTNAM  Fort Lauderdale, Broward County

He is 32 IL, his wife Ruth Irene Messer 32 IL and they have John 5 IL, Marie 4 IL and Carl 3 IL. He is a salesman of old and rare books. They were in Bloomington, McLean County Illinois in 1935 and obviously just got here. Dale Wilson Putnam is a son of Ernest Wentworth Putnam and Cora Elizabeth Wilson and was born in Henning, Vermilion County Illinois September 23, 1907 and will die back in Bloomington January 25, 1976. Ruth is a daughter of Isaac Irvin Messer and Mabel Jane Harper and was born in Lexington, McLean County Illinois January 12, 1908 and will die in Marshalltown, Iowa November 2, 2002. His dad Ernest was raised by Joseph Putman and Elizabeth Slusser in Vermilion County, but is actually an out of wedlock son of their oldest daughter Mary Ellen Putman. Southern Putman line out of Kentucky.

 

NELLIE PUTNAM  Coral Gables, Dade County

She is 40 BELGIUM and divorced. Her daughter Helene is 18 GERMANY. She was married to Webster Fletcher Putnam, Jr. who is an officer in the U. S. Army. He is a son of Webster Fletcher Putnam and Helen Preston Meldram from Danvers, Massachusetts. He was born there December 15, 1895. He was in Denver, Colorado in 1917 when he registered for the draft. Then he joined the Army and was stationed in Coblenz, Germany in 1920 where he met and married Nellie. They were here in 1930, and she was by herself and Helene and a son Webster 3rd who was 12 in 1935.

 

RICHARD PUTNAM  Coral Gables, Dade County

He is 46 IN and married to Frances Juanita Hardacre 40 CAN and they have Douglas 8 OH and Kenneth 7 OH. He operates a gasoline service station. He is a son of Ellis Barnes Putnam and Theresa Adelaide Medary and was at home in Delhi, Hamilton County Ohio in 1900. Ellis is a son of Mulford Martin Putman (born Steuben County New York) who moved to Canada and married Elizabeth Barnes In Elgin East, Ontario. Dutch Poutman family from Montgomery County New York. They were married in Vancouver, Washington January 2, 1927 and were in Canton, Stark County Ohio in 1930 and 1935.

 

ALONZO W. (WHIPPLE) PUTNAM  Miami, Dade County

He is 46 MN and his wife Esther Grace is 46 ND. He is a real estate dealer. They were in Miami in 1930 and Fort Lauderdale in 1935 and will be again in 1945. Alonzo Whipple Putnam is a son of Hiram Morgan Putnam and Winnie E. Williams from Traverse County Minnesota. Esther will die in Fort Lauderdale in January 1962. Alonzo will then later marry Lucille Eleanor Lathrop in November 1965. Alonzo was born February 19, 1894 and will die in Fort Lauderdale in May 1977. Lucille was born December 22, 1909 and will die there October 7, 1999.

 

ARTHUR D. (DAVIS) PUTNAM  Miami, Dade County

He is 72 MA, his wife Louise F. Sartelle 72 MA. He is the son of Otis Earle Putnam and Louisa Davis from Worcester City, Massachusetts. He was born there February 16, 1868. He married Louise May 21, 1890. They were in Worcester up through 1935. He was a civil engineer for the electric Company and has come down here to retire it seems. He will die here in August 1957. New England line.

 

ARTIE PUTMAN  Miami, Dade County

She is 28 SC single and lodging. She is a bookkeeper for General Electric Company. She is a daughter of Robert Alexander Putman and Willie Rippy from Cherokee, Cherokee County South Carolina. Her folks were from Cleveland County North Carolina before moving to South Carolina the same year she was born. She was in Atlanta in 1935.

 

CAROLYN PUTNAM  Miami, Dade County

She is 50 IL single and boarding. She says she was in New York City in 1935. She is also here in 1945. Best I can find is a New York Passenger list that has her born February 14, 1891 In Highland Park, Illinois. Doesn’t say if she was married or single. She was coming back from Kingston, Jamaica February 28, 1932. She owns her house and doesn’t have a job so seems pretty well off.

 

CHARLES F. (FRANCIS) PUTNAM  Miami, Dade County

He is 44 KY KY KY and his wife Helen S. is 44 ND SWED SWED. They have been married 13 years, and he is a salesman-agent for ladies dresses as he has been. He is the son of Nathan Henry Putnam and Nancy Spaulding from Lebanon, Kentucky and grandson of Joseph Whitney Putnam from Louisville. They were in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania in 1930 and in San Francisco in 1935, and will be in Chicago, Illinois in 1942 when he registers for the draft and is there in 1950 too. New England family originally from Massachusetts.

 

EDITH L. PUTNAN  Miami, Dade County

She is 58 IN and divorced. She was married to James W. Putnam in Denver Colorado in 1910. She and Howard were in Cincinnati in 1920. She was here with her son Howard in 1930. As to Howard, he is in White Plains, New York in 1940 and says he lived in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1935. He is a Postal clerk in 1940, says he is married but he is alone and lodging. Now as to the husband James. He was born in Texas in 1883 and his folks were from Georgia. Can’t find him in Texas. James will be in Volusia County in 1950 with a wife Mary. Don’t know where he is now though.

 

EDWARD PUTNAM  Miami, Dade County

He is 52 CAN single and lodging. He doesn’t have a job. He was in New York City in 1935. He is Mark Edward Putnam born in Hamilton, Wentworth Ontario October 23, 1886. He is a son of Percy Stephens Putnam from Massachusetts and Helen Jane Lampshire from Hamilton Ontario. He was with the family in the Bronx, New York City in 1920 and was here in Miami in 1930.

 

GARRETT B. (BEATTIE) PUTNAM  Miami, Dade County

He is 30 MO and his wife Helen Dehnert is 26 IL and they have Helen L. 3 MO and William H. 1 MO. He is an auto supply parts salesman. They were in Los Angeles, California in 1935. He is a son of William Putnam and Pauline Beattie and was born in St. Louis, Missouri July 17, 1909. His dad was a son of John W. and Emma Putnam from Cleveland, Ohio and Canada before that. John was a son of Martin Mulford Putman and Elizabeth Barnes from Norfolk Ontario. Garrett will die January 12, 1989 in Scottsdale, Arizona. This is a Dutch Putman line out of New York State originally. Garrett and Helen will divorce as in the 1945 Census, Helen and the kids are gone and Garrett is still here but married to Carrie Ramsey from Florida.

 

ISRAEL PUTNAM  Miami, Dade County

He is a W.P.A. landscaper 65 CT and his wife Arlene is 68 CT. He is Israel Clinton Putnam a son of Giles Putnam and Mary Ellen Burnham From East Hartford, Connecticut. He was at home there in 1880 and 1920. He was in Detroit, Michigan in 1930. They were here in 1935 and are here in 1945.

 

JAMES PUTMAN  Miami, Dade County

He is 33 AL and his wife Mary Morris 26 AL and they have Barbara 4 FL. Says they were in rural Dade County in 1935 but I can’t find them. He is a medical doctor in his own private practice. He is a son of William Ira Putman and Maggie Riley from Alabama City, Etowah County Alabama. He was born there November 27, 1906 and was there through 1930. He will die down here in Escambia County Florida June 4, 1989. They are here in 1950. Southern Putman family.

 

JOHN J. PUTMAN  Miami, Dade County

He is 59 NY and single and boarding and no job. He was in Van Hornesville, Herkimer County New York in 1935. He is a son of John Putman and Abbie Jane Wilcox from Cedarville, Herkimer County. New York Dutch Putman line.

 

MARY PUTNAM  Miami, Dade County

She is 31 WI single and boarding. She is a bookkeeper at the Y.W.C.A. She says she was here in 1935 but I can’t find her. There were no 1 year old Mary Putnams in Wisconsin or 11 year olds in 1920. Only person that kinda fits age wise is Chester Putnam’s wife in West Allis, Milwaukee County Wisconsin in 1930.

 

MARY PUTNAM  Miami, Dade County

She is 70 MA and divorced. Mary Ann Taft was married to Alden Putnam from Worcester and they were in Rockland County New York in 1900. By 1910 she and her daughter Geraldine were in Boston and Alden was gone then. She was here in 1930 divorced. Also in 1930 Alden is out in Humboldt County California with a new wife Mabel from Maryland. She now has her married daughter Jean 45 NY and her husband Herman Hohlboom 42 GER living with her. Herman is a jeweler in a retail store.

 

MARY S. PUTNAM  Miami, Dade County

She is 61 PA widowed and has her sons Thomas S. 30 DC and Donald M. 23 DC still with her. Mary Shryoke was married to Charles Montcalm Putnam here in 1930. He died here May 6, 1934. He was a son of Thomas Jefferson Putnam and Emma Frances Torrey from Danvers, Massachusetts. His dad was a librarian at the Library of Congress for years and Charles was born there in Washington. He and Mary were married there in 1910 and 1920 and here in 1930 and 1935. She and young Thomas are still here in 1945.

 

RUSSELL L. (LAMPHERE) PUTNAM  Miami, Dade County

He 47 DC and his wife Lucille Mildred Atkinson 44 GA. Also here is their married daughter Mary Elizabeth 21 PA and her husband James L. Alspaugh 23 KS. He is a son of Thomas Jefferson Putnam and Emma Frances Torrey from Danvers, Massachusetts. The family was in Washington for a good length of time, and Russell was there with them in the 1900 census. His dad was a Librarian at the Library of Congress there. Thomas is a son of Thomas Jefferson Putnam and Judith Stone from Danvers. Russell and Lucille were married June 22, 1916. They were here in 1920 and on. He was born January 3, 1893 and will die here in Miami December 1, 1970. Lucille is a daughter of Robert Virgil Atkinson and Mary Belle McKeehan and was born in Atlanta, Georgia April 4, 1895 and will die here in Miami July 21, 1957. The Atkinsons are in the real estate business and Russell is a superintendent of a building for them.

 

SUZIE D. PUTNAM  Miami, Dade County

She is 65 MI and widowed. Says she was in Rural St. Joseph County Michigan in 1935. She is Suzie Delia Champion, widow of John Frederick Putnam. John is the son of Peter Putnam and Rachel Schutz from White Pigeon, MI. You can see them in 1870 and 1880 MI. New York Dutch family.

 

TOM PUTMAN  Miami, Dade County

He is 25 GA single and rooming. He drives a truck for a dairy company. Milkman I would guess. He never appears in Georgia so assume not a Putman/Putnam.

 

GEORGE L. (LAURISTON) PUTNAM  Miami Beach, Dade County

He is 72 ME and widowed. He says he was in the same place in 1935 and is a laborer for the City of Miami Beach. He is a son of Lauriston Putnam and Eleanor B. Small of Searsport, Maine. The family moved to Boston by 1870, and his folks were in Malden. George was in Worcester in 1900 and Lynn in 1920 and was a doctor. I don’t know what happened to his wife. He married Ann Elizabeth Evans in Boston in 1895 but by 1900 she was living with her folks and far as I can see was never with George after that.

 

MARCUS C. (CLYDE) PUTNAM  Outside Miami, Dade County

He is 54 SC NC SC. He is a son of Joseph Alexander Putman and Nancy Ellen LeMaster from Spartanburg South Carolina, and was born there September 22, 1885. His dad was born in Waco, North Carolina. He says he is married but there is a line drawn through the ‘M’ for married. He married Carrie Elizabeth Thomason August 26, 1907 and they were in Atlanta Georgia in 1910 and 1920. They were in Polk County Florida in 1930 and Carrie was ‘widowed’ there in 1935 and also now in 1940 and 1945. She will die there September 26, 1966. Catch is that Marcus was in Greenville, South Carolina in 1935, here now and 1945 and will die here September 10, 1959. He keeps saying he is married but they are separated and it will be official in 1951. He will be here in 1950 and Carrie will be around here then too.

 

JACQUELINE PUTNAM  Surfside, Dade County

She is 35 MA and divorced. She says she was in rural Broward County in 1935, but she isn’t listed there and I don’t find her any earlier than this. She is however in Miami in 1945 and in Surfside in 1950.

 

GEORGE A. (ARTHUR) PUTNAM  Jacksonville, Duval County

He is 49 TX and owns a rooming house. He is still here in Jacksonville in 1945 with his son Richard 17 GA who is in the Navy. This is a Dutch Putman family out of New York State. George was indeed born in El Paso, Texas June 6, 1890. He was a son of George Banister Putnam and Mary Holland. His dad died in El Paso December 12, 1889, Mary died in his childbirth in June 1890. He was taken back to his grandmother’s home in Mount Morris, Livingston County New York. His grandmother Helen Marrs Burch was married to George William Putman who was an engineer for the railroad and died in a train wreck in Clay, New York in March 1865. Helen then married his brother Ellis Putnam in 1866 and they were in Mount Morris, New York in 1900 and that’s where I found George Arthur in the 1900 census. Ellis died there March 6, 1905 and Helen died there November 23, 1912. Anyway George Arthur married Hazel Grace Benway June 25, 1913. He enlisted in the draft while in Rochester, New York. In the 1920 census, Hazel was there with her father and a son Arthur 6. By 1930 they were divorced, Hazel married another guy and he died and she and their son Arthur were still back with her folks in Rochester. George married Virginia Alberta Landry in Blaine Oklahoma August 5, 1925. They split as in 1930 Virginia and their son Richard were with her mom here in Jacksonville. Now in 1940 she is married to W. L. Loue or Louis and the listing below is for Richard Putnam. In 1945 Richard is in the Navy and then living here with his dad.

 

ISRAEL PUTMAN  Jacksonville, Duval County

He is a Negro 56 GA married with a granddaughter.

 

JOE PUTMAN  Jacksonville, Duval County

He is a Negro 32 GA married with a family.

 

LYMAN W. (WHEELER) PUTNAM  Jacksonville, Duval County

He is 43 MO and his wife Inez Lanier 38 FL. He is Lyman Wheeler Junior, son of Lyman W. and Fanny Putnam from University City, St. Louis County Missouri. He was born there July 2, 1896. In 1920 he was listed with his folks and also at Camp Dix in New Jersey. That’s probably where he met Inez while he was in the service. They were in Clinton County Illinois in 1930. They were here in 1935. He is manager of a food brokerage company. He will die in Hernando County in 1949. Inez was born February 12, 1902 and will die in Jacksonville October 31, 1979.

 

MINNIE L. (LEE) PUTNAM  Jacksonville, Duval County

She is 35 GA divorced. She is a daughter of Bunyan Barnes and ZetekiahZettieBritt. She is living here with her married sister Mamie 45 GA and husband Joe Willits 56 NC and her widowed mother Zettie Barnes 66 GA. Found several sheets on her but none that mentions marrying a Putnam. She was single here in 1930 and I don’t find in 1935. She will marry Frederick Henry Korbach sometime after this though. Good luck!

 

RICHARD PUTMAN  Jacksonville, Duval County

He is 12 GA and lives with his mother Virginia Augusta Landry 30 WV and her new husband W. L. Loue 30 GA. They say they were here in 1935. His dad George Arthur Putman is here and listed above. See George’s entry for the lineage. Richard is here in 1945 when he is in the navy and will be living with his dad George.

 

RITA BELLE PUTNAM  Jacksonville, Duval County

She is a Negro 30 GA and single.

 

SAM PUTMAN  Jacksonville, Duval County

He is a Negro 31 GA married with some kids.

 

WEBSTER F. (FLETCHER) PUTNAM JR.  Duval County

He is 44 MA and his second wife Ruth Cash is 31 FL. He is a Major in the U.S. Army. He is a son of Webster Fletcher Putnam and Helen Preston Meldram from Danvers. In 1920 he was stationed in Coblenz, Germany where he met and married his first wife Nellie and had two kids over in Germany. He and Nellie were in Coral Gales in 1930. Got divorced and he was with Ruth in Denver in 1935 and now here. He was born December 15, 1895 in Danvers and will die on August 22, 1984 in Dade County. Ruth was born on October 27, 1908 and will die on January 14, 1989 in Dade County. They are in Dade County in 1945.

 

CLARENCE CHARLIE PUTMAN  Pensacola, Escambia County

He is 32 GA and married to Joanne Lee Jones 23 AL. He is a sheet metal worker at the U. S. Navy air station. Check out the next listing, same guy. His info follows:

 

CHARLES C. PUTNAM  Pensacola, Escambia County

He is listed here as 32 AL and listed as married. He is lodging and is a sheet metal worker at the U. S. Navy air station. Also says he was in Phoenix City, Alabama in 1935. He is a son of Charles Bradford Putman and Lydia E. Thomas from Girard, Russell County Alabama. In 1930 his folks were still in Girard and Charles was nearby in Phoenix City married to Annie D. Allen with two daughters. They were married July 1, 1925 and divorced in the 1930s. And yes, he was a sheet metal worker then too. I assume he was still married there in 1935 or in the midst of divorce. He married Joanne Lee Jones April 27, 1941 so the listing is off by a year or they aren’t quite married now. Here he is now and by golly he is the C. C. Putman here in 1945 married to his third girl friend Myrtle Lee Stroll who he married June 8, 1944, also his age and from Alabama.

 

GEORGE PUTNAM  Pensacola, Escambia County

He is 24 MS and his wife Ethel 32 LA. He is an ice salesman. Remember this was still the era of iceboxes though refrigerators were staring to be made. He is George Farris Putnam a son of George Washington Putman and Minnie Ida Tucker and was born in Webster County Mississippi March 23, 1917 and will die in Alabama August 16, 1991. He will become a career soldier in the U.S. Army shortly and will be married three times. I don’t have Ethel’s name but the last one will be Patricia Zebb from Rockford, Illinois. For what it’s worth, his mother will come down here to Pensacola and die here May 16, 1982. Southern Putman Family North Carolina to Alabama to Mississippi.

 

TROY PUTTMAN  Quincy, Gadsden County

He is a Negro 29 FL married with kids.

 

CORA D. PUTMAN  Brandon, Hillsborough County

She is 67 NY single and living by herself. She is a daughter of James Nelson and Catherine Lydia Putman from Sullivan, Madison County New York. She was home there in 1880. She is here in Brandon in 1920, 1930 and 1940. New York Dutch.

 

JAMES PUTMAN  Gary, Hillsborough County

He is a Negro 55 FL and has a family. They were here in 1930 and still are in 1950.

 

JOSEPH B. (BUFORD) PUTMAN  Gary, Hillsborough County

He is 33 NC, his wife Velma Levada 23 FL and they have Agnes 1 FL. They were in Miami in 1935, but not indexed or listed in the census. They are here in 1945 though. He is a grower’s keeper in a greenhouse. He is a son of John Samuel Putman and Laura Agnes Hux. He was born in Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County North Carolina July 26, 1906. He’ll die in Dade County in June 1968.

 

JAMES PUTNAM  Plant City, Hillsborough County

He is 21 GA, his wife Mae Kirkland 19 GA. They live with her parents Arthur and Emma Kirkland. He works in a wholesale strawberry plant. Can’t figure him out though. He is exact age of James Terrell Putnam son of Cossie Phillip Putman and Ida Lillian Ellis from Stephens County Georgia, but that guy is single and at home with them now and will soon marry Josephine Ovis Wilkinson in Georgia.

 

ARTHUR PUTNAM  Tampa, Hillsborough County

He is 48 MN and married to Zella H. McCall 36 WV and they were here in 1935. He operates a steam dredge. He is Arthur Andrew Putnam a son of Arthur C. Putnam and Jennie C. Walrath and was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota May 30, 1890. He will die in Pinellas County Florida in April 1968. He will be here in 1945 and be single once again. He will much later marry Theresa Annette Haga here in November 1961, she will die here in Tampa in 1970.

 

CLARA B. PUTNAM  Tampa, Hillsborough County

She is 69 VT and now widowed. Clara Belle Dunham has been married to Charles Richard Putnam here in Tampa since the 1920s. Before that they were in Lexington, Massachusetts. Charles was a son of George Putnam and Polly Temple, son of Gilbert (2840) Putnam and Thankful Rogers of Stockton, New York. Charles was born while the family was in Geneva, Ashtabula County Ohio in the 1870s and 1880s. Clara Belle was born June 22, 1869 in Montgomery, Vermont and will die here in January 1956. Chuck was born October 10, 1867 and just died here in 1939.

 

PAUL P. (PATRICK) PUTMAN  Marianna, Jackson County

He is 70 MO and his wife Lula C. 65 AL. He is an office supply salesman. He was here and Lula was in San Antonio, Texas in 1935. I can’t find him before this.

 

CARRIE BELL PUTMAN  Lafayette County

She is 26 GA and divorced. She has Curtis 6 FL (GA in 1945) and Viola 3 FL. They are living with her father Marsilious McSwain 47 GA and also divorced. They were all in Marion County Florida in 1935. She is in San Antonio, Pasco County Florida in 1945 with these two kids and one more born in 1941. Carrie Bell McSwain was married to Homer Putman. I never find them and no ideas or leads as to Homer’s folks.

 

GEORGE H. (HILDRETH) PUTNAM  Astatula, Lake County

He is alone and is 66 ME. He is a son of George Alvan Putnam and Lucy Adiline Rea from Andover, Massachusetts. He was born while the family was in Kittery, Maine on November 11, 1873. His dad was then working in the Navy Yard there. George was in Cumberland County New Jersey in 1910 and 1920 and I don’t think ever married. He was single here in 1935.

 

J. R. (JOEL RAYMOND)  Leesburg, Lake County

He is 25 GA, and his wife Betsy Parker is 23 FL and they have Marvin 3 FL and Shirley 2 FL. His sister Lottie Belle Putnam 29 GA is with them. He drives a truck for a fish market. He is a son of John Edward Putman and Mary Ann Harrison from Spaulding County Georgia. He was born there August 26, 1914. John was a son of Sanford Allen Putman. John died back there April 30, 1924 and Mary was widowed there in 1930. All of them were in Winter Park, Orange County in 1935. Mary Ann died there on December 28, 1936. They aren’t around here in 1945. They are  here in 1950.

 

JESSE E. (EDWIN) PUTNAM  Estero, Lee County

He is 66 MA MA VT single and boarding. Jesse is a son of Edwin Putnam and Dianna Titus from Franklin County Massachusetts. He was born in Erving, Massachusetts. He has been here since the 1920 and will be here in 1945.

 

WILLIAM W. PUTNAM  Tallahassee, Leon County

He is 32 MA and Maxine Schannep his wife 32 MO. Her sister Clara Schannaep 27 MO is with them and is a sales lady at Putnam Jewelers. He owns Putnam’s Jewelry Store. Maxine is a school teacher. He is a son of Walter D. Putnam and Marrietta Harrison from Spencer, Massachusetts. He was born there March 19, 1903 and will die in Worcester, Massachusetts June 8, 1991. They were here in 1935 and are here in 1945.

 

LILY M. PUTMAN  East Lake, Marion County

She is a Negro 38 GA and widowed.

 

JAMES HENRY PUTMAN  Lockhart, Orange County

He is 73 TN AL TN and a farmer. His wife Martha Frances ’Mattie’ Lunn is 73 TN, and their son Clifford 40 TN who was married in Nashville in 1930 then here in 1935. James is a son of John Putman and Nancy Vaughan from Williamson County Tennessee. They were in Davidson County Tennessee from 1900 until 1920 and here in 1930. They will be here the rest of their lives. James was born May 4, 1866, and will die in Orlando January 31, 1946. Southern Putmans.

 

EDWARD O. (OWEN) PUTMAN  Orlando, Orange County

He is 40 GA, Carrie Lou Ashley his wife 35 GA and Vivan L. 15 FL. All three were in Winter Park, Orange County in 1930 and Apopka in 1935 but he called himself Jack then. He and Carrie are fruit packers in a packing house. Edward Owen Putman is a son of John Edward Putnam and Mary Ann Harrison from Spaulding County Georgia was born October 13, 1898 in Spaulding County.  He married Rochelle Shivers and then they divorced in the early to mid 1920s. He then married Carrie Lou Ashley and they moved to Orange County Florida and were there in 1930 through 1945. He will die in Orange County in June 1962. Rochelle married Augustus Brown and they were in Spartanburg County South Carolina in 1935 and 1940. She had her son Charles Putman born 1922 in Georgia, with her then. In 1930 Charles was with her mother Alice Shivers in Spaulding County. Southern family out of South Carolina to Alabama to Georgia.

 

CLAUDE PUTMAN  Lake Worth, Palm Beach County

He is 75 PA single and a patient in the Boyce Nursing Home. He is a son of William A. Putman and Lydia Freeland. William was at home with his folks Hiram Putnam and Lucinda Stephens in Steuben County New York in 1850. He was married there in 1860 then was in Pennsylvania very briefly about 1864 where Claude was born, then in Gratiot County Michigan by 1866 after the Civil War ended. Claude married Martha ‘Mattie’ Bartlett there in Emerson Township, Gratiot County May 21, 1899. They were in Houghton County Michigan in 1900 and Benzie County in 1910. He was widowed in Chicago, Illinois in 1920. He will die here in 1943. New England family.

 

ETTA G. PUTNAM  West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County

She is 58 MA and widowed. She has her son Jack A. Housley 33 CA with her as she did in 1935 as well. He is a department head in a retail department store. Her name is Estelle and she was married to Royal Lyman Putnam in Newton, Massachusetts in 1920 through 1930 and then she was widowed here in 1935. In 1920 she had her son Jack with her so she had been married to a Housley before marrying Royal.

 

JOHN H. (HENRY) PUTMAN  West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County

He is 74 MA and his wife Georgiana Allen is 73 MA. He is a son of Henry Putnam and Sarah Cobb from Prince Edward Island, Canada. He was born in Winthrop, Massachusetts February 25, 1866. They were married in Winthrop August 1, 1887 and were there through the 1920. They were here by 1930 and will be in 1945.

 

WILLIAM A. PUTMAN  West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County

He is 28 GA single and living with his married sister Pauline 32 GA and her husband Horace Deason 45 NC. They are kids of Walter Lee Putman and Harriet Elizabeth Riddle from Cobb County Georgia. They were both there in 1920. Walter is a son of Abraham Alton Putman and Ella Alberta McElreath from Bartow County Georgia. Southern Putmans down from Ezekiel Putman from South Carolina.

 

WESLEY PUTMAN  Pasco, Pasco County

He is a Negro 45 LA with a wife and three sons all from Florida.

 

CARRIE E. (ELIZABETH) PUTMAN  Trilby, Pasco County

She is 48 SC still widowed and a housekeeper. Her now divorced daughter Marguerite E. Bates 31 NC and her three kids are with her. Carrie Elizabeth Thomasson was in Lakeland, Polk County married to Marcus Clyde Putman in 1930 and widowed there in 1935. Marcus Clyde Putman was a son of Joseph Alexander Putman and Nancy Ellen LeMaster from Spartanburg South Carolina. His dad was born in Waco, North Carolina. They were in Atlanta in 1910 and 1920. Carries is a daughter of Robert Fleming Thomasson and Margaret Ann Phillips and was born in York County South Carolina May 31, 1891 and will die in Tampa, Hillsborough County Florida September 26, 1966.

 

NANCY L. (LUCE) PUTNAM  Dunedin, Pinellas County

She is 36 MI married and living with her parents Theodore Luce 66 MO and Della Q. Luce 67 IN. The ‘M’ for married has a line through it. My guess is that she and Randolph are separated. Randolph is in New York City now in 1940. They however are together here in 1950. She was married to Randolph Eugene Putnam in Forest Hills in 1930 and 1935. Randolph or Ralph, as he is sometimes called, is a son of Robert H. Putnam and Eunice Wells and was born in Jersey City, New Jersey August 24, 1896. They were in Roscommon County in 1910 and in St. Clair County in 1920. New England Line that went up into Canada and then back down into Michigan.

 

CLARA R. (ROSS) PUTMAN  St. Petersburg, Pinellas County

She is a nurse 59 PA and widowed. Clara Ross was married to Ferdinand Beecher Putman here in 1930. They were married in Birmingham, Alabama in 1900 and 1910 and they were all in York, Sumter County Alabama in 1920. He was a son of John Covington Putman and Elizabeth Graham from Maury County Tennessee. He was born in 1867 while the family was in Warren County Tennessee. He died here in 1932, and I don’t know when Clara died.

 

DONALD E. (EGBERT) PUTNAM  St. Petersburg, Pinellas County

He is 46 ME and manager of his apartment house. His wife Blanche Antoinette White is 46 ME. He is a son of Harry Lyman Putnam and Gertrude Mary Bass from Houlton, Aroostook County Maine. Donald and Antoinette are here in 1940 and 1945 too. Donald was with his folks in Houlton, Maine in 1900 and 1910 and then was in Louisville, Kentucky in 1920 and then back in Waterville, Maine in 1930 and here by 1935. Blanche will die here in 1945 and he will marry Laura Alma Fullerton here September 20, 1946.

 

ELIZABETH PUTNAM  St. Petersburg, Pinellas County

She is 31 AL single and lodging. She says she was here in 1935, but isn’t in the census. And being single and lodging she would just have to be a public school teacher, and yes she is. They never ever get married. Anyway, she was here in 1930 with her parents Ferdinand Beecher Putnam and Clara Ross. They were all in York, Sumpter County Alabama in 1920. Her dad a son of John Covington Putman and Elizabeth Graham from Maury County Tennessee. He was born in 1867 while the family was in Warren County Tennessee. He died here in 1932 and Clara is widowed here and listed just above.

 

EUGENE PUTMAN  St. Petersburg, Pinellas County

He is 32 IL single and living with his aunt Ruth Carlington 44 MO. They were both in Binghamton, New York in 1935. He is a son of Eugene Valentine Putnam and Anna Carlington and was born in Chicago, Illinois October 12, 1907. This is kinda strange. He married Beryl Robertson about 1929 and they were in Des Moines, Iowa with her folks in 1930. But in 1930 he was also listed as single and with his own folks in Wichita, Kansas. Now in 1940 he is listed also back in Des Moines with his wife Beryl. In 1945 he is living here with his widowed mother Ann Carlington Putnam and no Beryl again. He will die back in Des Moines in July 1974. Beats me what’s going on. Southern Putman family from Alabama.

 

FRANK B. (BOYCE) PUTMAN  St. Petersburg, Pinellas County

He is 39 SC, his wife Edith Hayne Smith 32 SC and they have Donald B. 3 FL and Keith C. 0/12 FL. He is a cashier at a railway express office as he has been ever since he came here in 1929. He is a son of William Butler Putman and Mattie Dell Garrett and was born in Laurens County South Carolina November 26, 1900 and will die here September 27, 1977. He married Hayne in Greenville July 4, 1928. She was born in Woodruff, South Carolina February 27, 1908 and will die in Broward County Florida September 30, 1994. They were here in 1930 and will be in West Palm Beach in 1945. Southern Putman family.

 

GEORGE W. PUTNAM  St. Petersburg, Pinellas County

He is 62 PA and his wife Edith Clarke 62 MA. He is retired and was here in 1930, back in North East Township, Pennsylvania in 1935 and back here again now. He is a son of Burton Hill Putnam and Flora Bowers from North East, Erie County Pennsylvania. His folks were from Chautauqua County New York. He and Edith were in Pittsburgh in 1910 and 1920 and are still here in 1945. New Englanders.

 

LEWIS D. (DEXTER) PUTMAN  St. Petersburg, Pinellas County

He is 68 FL and still selling groceries. His wife Alice L. Foster is 72 VA. He is a son of John Lewis Putnam and Florence Thompson of Madison, Florida. He was born there July 30, 1871. This is a New England family going back to Benjamin Putnam from Massachusetts who was in Savannah, Georgia in the mid 1780s. His dad John Lewis died in Savannah in 1876 of yellow fever. His widow Florence Thompson then married Henry F. Wright and they were in Norfolk Virginia in the late 1800s and in the 1900 census. That’s where he married Alice. They were then in Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1920 and here in 1930. Lewis will die November 11, 1966 back in Spartanburg. Alice was born in Virginia in 1868 and will die in Spartanburg January 30. 1958. They are here still in 1945.

 

ROBERT PUTMAN  St. Petersburg, Pinellas County

He is a Negro 7 SC and single. Think age should be 72 SC as in 1950 a similar Negro age 82 SC is right here.

 

WORCESTER PUTNAM  St. Petersburg, Pinellas County

He is 56 NY NY MA and is a certified public accountant. His wife Helen Armington is 56 RI. They were in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1920, and here in 1930 and 1335. He is a son of Bayard Taylor Putnam and Grace Sanderson Thatcher. He was born October 17, 1883. His dad was a son of George Haven Putnam, the book publisher from New York City. His dad died in North Adams, Massachusetts in 1886 and his mother in Jamestown, Rhode Island in 1900. He was born October 17, 1883, and will die here in 1957. Helen is a daughter of Charles Fuller Armington and Sarah Randall. She was born in 1883 and will die here in 1967.

 

CECELIA M. PUTNAM  Bartow, Polk County

She is 44 IL and widowed. Cecelia Mae Howell was married to Ira Ballard Putnam back in White County Illinois January 16, 1915 and they were there in 1920 and then down here in Bartow by 1922. Ira was a son of William H. Putnam and Marian W. King from Wabash County Illinois. They were a New England family. He died here June 15, 1938. I find a couple of family sheets that say Cecelia will marry Wesley Delbert Courter in Tampa, Florida April 25, 1943 and they will be in Lansing, Michigan where Wesley was from in 1955. He will die back here in Tampa February 22, 1977. Cecelia will die in Picayune, Mississippi March 8, 1992.

 

DUDLEY A. (ADELBERT) PUTNAM  Bartow, Polk County

He is 31 IL, his wife Sarah Edith Langford is 31 IL and they have William 6/12 FL. They are living with her widowed mother Ethel Langford. He is a truck driver for a produce farm or company. He is a son of William Dudley Putnam and Helen Bryant from Lake County Illinois. Dudley was a son of Abel Adelbert Putnam and Abbie Anna Dudley from Lake County and then Chester Vermont before that. His folks were both in Lake County Illinois in 1920. They came to Florida in the 1920s, lost their money and the father abandoned his wife Helen Bryant and kids here. In 1930 they were here with Helen’s folks. Dudley was born March 8, 1909 and will die here in Polk County August 22, 2003. His wife Edith was born in July 1905 and will die here October 5, 1989.

 

BEN F. (FURMAN) PUTNAM Lakeland, Polk County

He is 47 NC NC NC and a foreman and steel repairman for the railroad. Willie Meltier his wife is 42 VA. They have Joseph Furman 23 VA who manages a grocery store, Ralph David 21 VA who is a bookkeeper for a bank, Edith May 17 VA, Avery Carol 15 FL and a son Bobby Clark 9 FL. He is Benjamin Furman Bright Putman, a son of Thomas Dickson Putman and Frances Adaline Jenkins from Cleveland County North Carolina where he was born May 29, 1892. They are here in 1935 and 1945.

 

LEON PUTMAN  Lakeland, Polk County

He is 47 TN, his second wife Bertha Ann Ahern 45 MN and they have Iris 17 FL. He is a clerk in a freight office. He is a son of James Henry Putman and Martha Frances Lunn. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee February 2, 1893 and will die in Fort Myers, Florida May 29, 1977 at age 84. He had married Vera J. King there in 1916 and they were in Nashville in 1920. By 1930 they divorced or something and Leon was here in Orange County Florida with his folks. He married Bertha down here in Orange County in 1932 and they were here in 1935. They are in Lockhart, Orange County by 1945 where he is a bus driver. Bertha was born in Grand Forbes, Minnesota March 14, 1895 and will die in Fort Myers, Florida October 14, 1976. They were married in 1932 and never had any children. Now they have a daughter Iris 17, but she was from Bertha’s first marriage. Southern Putmans North Carolina to Alabama to Tennessee.

 

MARY PUTNAM Lakeland, Polk County

She is a Negro 20 MI and a servant in the McAllister household who are also from Michigan.

 

ISRAEL PUTNAM  Federal Point, Putnam County

He is a Negro 80 GA GA GA and has a family. They were here in 1930 as well.

 

CHARLES F. (FREEMAN) PUTNAM  Sarasota, Sarasota County

He is 69 CT and his wife Flora Marie Prince 63 MA. He is a son of Charles Freeman Putnam and Hulda Morse and was born in January 1871 in Eastford, Windham County Connecticut. He and Flora were there in 1900 and in Southbridge, Massachusetts in 1910 through 1930, then here in 1935. Charles will be in the Florida State Mental Institution in Sebring, Gadston County in the 1950 census.

 

STANLEY PUTNAM  Sarasota, Sarasota County

He is 25 MA, his wife Ethel Mae Miley 24 GA and they have Stanley P. 4 FL and Gloria Mae 3 FL. They say they were here in 1935, but I don’t see them. His parents Charles Freeman and Flora Putnam from Southbridge, Massachusetts were though, so he was probably around. His folks are living next door and will be here in 1945.

 

KELLY PUTNAM  Hastings, St. Johns County

He is a Negro 39 GA with a large family.

 

DAVID B. (BINNEY) PUTNAM  St. Lucie County

He is 26 OR, Ruth Nilla Shields his wife 27 GA and they have two daughters Binny 4 GA and Sally 2 FL and two servants. He is an automobile parts retail dealer. He is a son of George Palmer Putnam and his first wife Dorothy Binney. His dad is a son of John Bishop Putnam and Frances Faulkner of New York City. He ran a newspaper in Crook County Oregon in the early 1900s and was there in 1910. He married Dorothy Binney in October 1911 in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. David was born in Oregon May 20, 1913. His folks got divorced in the 1920s and his mom came down to Florida. His dad is owner of G. P. Putnam Publishing and is named for his grandfather the founder. He married Amelia Earhart the famous aviatrix on February 7, 1931 in Noank, Connecticut. Now back to David. He married Nilla in Broward Florida March 5, 1934. She is a daughter of Dr. Jacob Alexander Shields and Nilla Susan Pittman and was born in Walker County Georgia July 21, 1912 and will die in St. Lucie June 25, 1990. They will get divorced here on July 21, 1975. David will die here in St. Lucie June 1, 1992.

 

DOROTHY PUTNAM, St. Lucie County

She is 48 NY and divorced and has a fruit farm. She says she was in the same house in 1935, but I can’t find her in the 1935 census. She is listed lines above David Putnam listed above who is her son. Her other son George is listed just below. Dorothy Binney was married to George Palmer Putnam who is the owner of G. P. Putnam publishing which was founded by his grandfather George. Dorothy is a daughter of Edwin Binney and Alice Stead and was born in Connecticut July 20, 1888 and will ultimately die in Palm Beach, Florida in 1982. She married George Binney in October 1911 in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. Then he was owner of a newspaper in Oregon so they moved out there where her son David was born. They were in Rye, New York in 1920 and then got divorced. I don’t know where she was in 1930 but she and her kids are here and say they were in 1935, maybe they were here in 1930 too but I can’t find them.

 

GEORGE P. (PALMER) PUTNAM JR.  Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County

He is 18 NY and says he was here in 1935. His wife Betty Horne is 19 AL and she was in Birmingham, Alabama in 1935. He is a fruit truck farmer. Also here is George Stall Jr. 25 FL who is a foreman on the fruit farm and was here in 1935 too. He too is a son of George Palmer Putnam and his first wife Dorothy Binney. His folks divorced in the 1920s and he and his brother David came down here with their mother. Their dad has married Amelia Earhart and they live in New York City. George was born May 9, 1921 in Rye New York when the family came back to New York from Oregon.

 

STEWART S. PUTNAN  Geneva, Seminole County

He is 62 NY and his mother Mary E. is 84 VT. He works at the Y.M.C.A. They say they were here in 1935. Never saw before anywhere nor has anyone else on Ancestry. Not a Putnam I’ll bet.

 

ARTHUR L. (LLOYD) PUTNAM  Coleman, Sumter County

He is 34 NY single and boarding. He says he was here in 1935 but he wasn’t listed in the census then. He is a truck driver at a crate mill as is everyone else in this house. Anyway, he is a son of Guy H. Putnam and Julia Vesta Thomas and was born in Cortland County New York October 6, 1905 and will die April 11, 1977 in Calhoun County Michigan. Guy is a son of John Harry Putnam and Julia Dodge from Eckford, Calhoun County Michigan. I find Guy there in 1900, and in Homer, Calhoun County in 1920 and 1930. Didn’t know till now that he had ducked back into New York State in the very early 1900s. New England family.

 

HART W. PUTMAN  Foley, Taylor County

He is a Negro 43 SC married with a family.

 

LILLIAN S. PUTNAM  Daytona Beach, Volusia County

She is 70 IL and widowed. Lillian Sherman is the ex-wife or widow of Henry Jasper Putnam and was with him in Concord, New Hampshire in 1910. But then she was with Louis L. Putnam in Chicago, Illinois in 1920. Could have been married to both and widowed in each case. Lillian was here in 1930 too.

 

A. DELPHINE PUTNAM  Deland City, Volusia County

She is 89 PA and widowed as she was in Flushing Queens, New York City. Her daughter Mary M. Allen 69 NY and husband Ezra Allen 70 PA are with her as they have been. A’Delphine Gardner is a daughter of Peter Harris Gardner and Adeline Sweet Richardson and was born November 17, 1851 in Tuckhannock, Wyoming County New York and will die in Deland, Volusia County Florida September 19, 1944. She was married to the Reverend James W. Putnam. The Reverend James W. Putnam was a son of John Putman and Jane Hammond. John was a son of Ebenezer George Putman and Rebecca Frey. He was born in Jefferson County New York November 6, 1843 and died June 9, 1917 in New York City, New York and was buried in Susquehanna County Pennsylvania. New York Dutch Family. They were married June 21, 1872 in Clifford, Susquehanna County Pennsylvania. They were in Cortland County New York in 1880, and New York City in 1910. A’Delphine was in St. Petersburg, Florida widowed in 1920 and in Flushing, Queens New York in 1930.

 

JULIA PUTNAM  Edgewater, Volusia County

She is 93 NC (Yep 93) widowed as she has been since the 1890s. She is living with her married daughter Laura Webster 65 NC and husband George Webster 56 NJ. Julia Ann Sanders was married to Docker Shiflin Putman in 1873 and they were in Polk County North Carolina in 1880 and she was widowed in Ashville, Buncombe County North Carolina. I don’t know when she’ll die here. Laura was born in October 1877 and will die here in 1942.

 

HOWARD G. PUTNAM  Oak Hill, Volusia County

He is still here and is 68 GA GA GA and still single. He is a citrus grower and grows oranges. He is a son of John Banks and Mary Ann Putman from Cherokee County Georgia. Been here before 1920. He will die in Orange County in 1943 at age 71. Southern Line.

 

JAMES W. PUTNAM  Oak Hill, Volusia County

He is 57 GA GA GA and divorced. He runs a grocery store as he has for some time. He was married in Stephens County Georgia in 1910 and divorced by 1920 and here in 1930. He is a cousin of the above Howard though. They were living together in 1935. Howard is a son of John Banks and Mary Ann Putman from Cherokee County Georgia. He never married and will die in Orange County in 1943, In 1930 J. W. said he was divorced and ran a grocery store. He is here in 1950 married to a Mary.

 

 

FLORIDA 1945 STATE CENSUS

 

JIMMY PUTNAM  Gainesville, Alachua County

He is 28 SC and in the Army. Nellie Bolt his wife is 26 FL. He is James Edwin Putnam a son of Dixon Homer Putman and Nannie Martin from Youngs, Laurens County South Carolina. He was born there June 28, 1918 and will die February 13, 2001 in Gray Court, Laurens County. Nellie was born in Laurens County February 1, 1921 and will die there August 6, 1998.

 

S. L. PUTNAM  Panama City, Bay County

He is a miller 61 NC. His wife Belle is 52 AL. Hate just initials.

 

E. PAUL PUTNAM  St. Andrews, Bay County

He is a welder 31 SC, Janie Pauline Carver his wife 27 SC and they have Thomas M. 10 SC, Ardath L. 6 SC, Anthony L. 4 SC and Aaron D. 2 SC. He is a son of William Ebenezer Putnam Junior and his Wife Nezzie Mae from Newry, Oconee County South Carolina. His line comes down from Hamilton Putman from Oconee County.

 

L. E. (LELLIA ELDERT) PUTNAM  Florence, Broward County

She is 69 MI and her daughter Helen M. is 39 NY. Lellia Eldert was married to Harry Stickney Putnam. He was a son of George Quincy Hill Putnam and Sarah Stickney from Penobscot County Maine. He married Lellia June 15, 1901 just over the border in Essex County Ontario, Canada. They were in Dearborn, Michigan in 1940. Seems Lellia is not working. Helen is a secretary in an advertising agency and actually listed as family head in the 1940 listing.

 

ALONZO W. (WHIPPLE) PUTNAM  Ft. Lauderdale, Broward County

He is 50 MN and his wife Esther Grace Yates is 51 ND. He is a real estate dealer. They were in Miami in 1930 and here in 1935. Alonzo Whipple Putnam is a son of Hiram Morgan Putnam and Winnie E. Williams from Traverse County Minnesota. Esther will die here in January 1962. Alonzo will then later marry Lucille Eleanor Lathrop in November 1965. Alonzo was born February 19, 1894 and will die here in Fort Lauderdale in May 1977. Lucille was born December 22, 1909 and will die here October 7, 1999.

 

GEORGE PUTMAN  Green Cove Spring, Clay County

He is 22 NY and his wife June is 19 NY. He is in the U.S. Navy. George Edward Putman is a son of Omer Edward Putman and Gunda Hanson and was at home with them in Forest Hills, New York in 1930 and 1940. He enlisted in the Navy February 5, 1943 and will get out January 18, 1946. He was born in the Bronx January 28, 1923 and will die October 16, 2009 out on Long Island in Calverton, Suffolk County New York. German family out of Maryland.

 

CAROLYN PUTNAM  Miami, Dade County                                                                            

She is 55 IL. Best I can find is a New York Passenger list that has her born February 14, 1891 In Highland Park, Illinois. Doesn’t say if she was married or single. She was coming back from Kingston, Jamaica February 28, 1932. She was here in 1940 and said she was single then.

 

CLYDE PUTMAN  Miami, Dade County

He is 59 SC. He is Marcus Clyde Putman a son of Joseph Alexander Putman and Nancy Ellen LeMaster from Spartanburg, South Carolina. His dad was born in Waco, North Carolina. He married Carrie Elizabeth Thomasson August 26, 1907 and they were in Atlanta Georgia in 1910 and 1920. They were in Polk County Florida in 1930 and Carrie was widowed there in 1935 and also in 1940 and now in 1945. She will die there September 26, 1966. Catch is that Marcus was in Greenville, South Carolina in 1935, here in 1940 and now in 1945 and will die here September 10, 1959. He keeps saying he is married so I guess they just separated and called it quits.

 

GARRETT B. (BEATTIE) PUTNAM  Miami, Dade County

He is 35 MO and his wife Carrie R. is 35 FL. He is a flight instructor. He is a son of William Putnam and Pauline Beattie and was born in St. Louis, Missouri July 17, 1909. His dad was a son of John W. and Emma Putnam from Cleveland, Ohio and Canada before that. John was a son of Martin Mulford Putman and Elizabeth Barnes from Norfolk Ontario. Garrett will die January 12, 1989 in Scottsdale, Arizona. This is a Dutch Putman line out of New York State.

 

GEORGE PUTNAM  Miami, Dade County

He is 45 MN, his wife Marie C. Richards 35 CT, George Jr. 15 PANAMA, Charlotte 15 PANAMA, Helen 13 CT, Robert 12 CT, Clair 8 CT, Carolyn 6 CT, Sally Ann 4 CT, and Susan 3 CT. He is George Marvin Putnam a son of Franklin Pierce Putnam and Sadie Bennett and was born in Eagle Bend, Todd County Minnesota July 10, 1900. Franklin was a son of Marvin Morris Putnam and Ann Gennette Wheeler from Winnebago County Illinois. Marvin was a son of John Wellington Putnam and Minerva Scott from New York. George will die in Key West, Florida May 26, 1988. Marie was born January 19, 1910 and will die in Key West as well in January 1978.

 

ISRAEL PUTNAM  Miami, Dade County

He is a draftsman 67 CT and his wife Lena B. is also 67 CT. He is Israel Clinton Putnam a son of Giles Putnam and Mary Ellen Burnham From East Hartford, Connecticut. He was at home there in 1880. He was in Detroit, Michigan in 1930. They were here in 1935 and 1940.

 

JACQUELINE PUTNAM  Miami, Dade County

She is 40 MA. She was in Surfside, Dade County in 1940 and was divorced. No ideas as to her hubby.

 

MARY S. PUTNAM  Miami, Dade County

Mary Shryoke 66 PA was married to Charles Montcalm Putnam here in 1930. He died here May 6, 1934 and she was widowed here in 1935 as well as now. He was a son of Thomas Jefferson Putnam and Emma Frances Torrey from Danvers, Massachusetts. His dad was a librarian at the Library of Congress for years and Charles was born there. He and Mary were married there in 1910 and 1920 and here in 1930. She has her son Thomas S. 34 DC still with her.

 

RUSSELL L. (LAMPHERE) PUTNAM  Miami, Dade County

He is a supervisor 52 DC and his wife Lucille Mildred Atkinson 50 GA. They were married June 22, 1916. The Atkinsons are in the real estate business and Russell is a superintendent of a building for them. He is a son of Thomas Jefferson Putnam and Emma Frances Torrey from Danvers, Massachusetts. The family was in Washington for a good length of time, and Russell was there with them in the 1900 census. His dad is a Librarian at the Library of Congress there. Thomas is a son of Thomas Jefferson Putnam and Judith Stone from Danvers. They were here in 1920 and on. He was born January 3, 1893 and will die here in Miami December 1, 1970. Lucille is a daughter of Robert Virgil Atkinson and Mary Belle McKeehan and was born in Atlanta, Georgia April 4, 1895 and will die here in Miami July 21, 1957.

 

CLEVELAND PUTNAM  Dade County

He is a newspaper reporter 34 MN, Georjean Bartlett his wife 34 NV and Lucy Lynn 3 NY. He is a son of Ernest Boles Putnam and Helen Louisa Van Auken. He was born in Volusia County in 1910 and was at home there in 1920. Ernest Boles Putnam was a son of Henry Cleveland Putnam and Jane Eliza Balcom of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Cleveland was in Lake Forest, Illinois in 1930 with and aunt and uncle James and Sarah Hinkley.

 

GEORGE PUTMAN Dade County

He is a mechanic 48 MI and his wife Augusta is 32 AL. Rand Putnam found his middle name was Edward and he died in Alabama. I tried Ancestry and found he is a son of Daniel Putnam and Olive May Jackson and was born in Ontario Canada July 31, 1896 and will indeed die in Camden, Wilcox County Alabama August 9, 1976. He lists his birth here as Michigan as he has been in Detroit most of his life. He married Marie Clark there in 1920 and they divorced there November 9, 1936. He then married Mary Augusta Wilkerson (name of prior husband) July 11, 1940. They will someday move to Camden, Alabama and she will die there January 6, 1969 and George August 9, 1976. This is the Dutch Poutman gang from Montgomery County New York that moved to Niagara County and then up to Aylmer County Ontario Canada.

 

JACK H. (HILTON) PUTNAM  Dade County

He is 26 SC, his wife Maralee 22 SC and they have Patsy R. 4 SC. He is a mechanic. He is a son of Archibald Creswell Putman and was born in Greenville County South Carolina.

 

LLOYD R. PUTNAM  Dade County

He is some kind of instructor, but only finished 9th grade. Anyway, he is 25 NC, his wife Christine Kate English is 23 NC, Loretta Ann 7 VA, Betty J. 6 VA, and Robert Locke 4 NC. He is Robert Lloyd Putnam a son of Robert Nelson Putnam and Bessie Burnett and was born in Madison County North Carolina January 4, 1919 and will die in Black Mountain, Buncombe County North Carolina March 23, 1972. Callie was born November 21, 1921 and will die in Buncombe County August 11, 1959

 

W. F. (WEBSTER FLETCHER) PUTNAM  Dade County

He is an officer in the U. S. Army 49 MA, his wife Ruth Cash 36 FL and there is Ella Lee Cash 56 FL who is probably her mommy. He is a son of Webster Fletcher Putnam and Helen Preston Meldram from Danvers. In 1920 he was stationed in Coblenz, Germany where he met and married his first wife Nellie and had two kids over in Germany. He and Nellie were in Coral Gales in 1930. Got divorced and he was with Ruth in Denver in 1935 and in Duval County here in 1940. He was born December 15, 1895 in Danvers and will die on August 22, 1984 in Dade County. Ruth was born on October 27, 1908 and will die on January 14, 1989 in Dade County.

 

GEORGE PUTNAM  Jacksonville, Duval County

He is 54 TX and divorced. He was here in Jacksonville in 1935. He has his son Richard 17 GA who is in the Navy. This is a Dutch Poutman then Putman family out of New York State. George was indeed born in El Paso, Texas June 6, 1890. He was a son of George Banister Putnam and Mary Holland. His dad died in El Paso December 12, 1889, Mary died in his childbirth in June 1890. He was taken back to his grandmother’s home in Mount Morris, Livingston County New York. His grandmother Helen Marrs Burch was married to George William Putman who was an engineer for the railroad and died in a train wreck in Clay, New York in March 1865. Helen then married his brother Ellis Putnam in 1866 and they were in Mount Morris, New York in 1900 and that’s where I found George Arthur in the 1900 census. Ellis died there March 6, 1905 and Helen died there November 23, 1912. Anyway George Arthur married Hazel Grace Benway. He enlisted in the draft while in Rochester, New York. In the 1920 census, Hazel was there with her father and a son Arthur 6. By 1930 they were divorced, Hazel married another guy and he died and she and their son Arthur were back with her folks in Rochester. Then, George married a gal named Alice Gertrude here July 22, 1943 and they divorced here in 1944. George will give it all up and die in Gadsden, Florida in 1947.

 

ISRAEL PUTMAN  Jacksonville, Duval County                                                  

He is a black 84 GA.

 

MARJORIE D. (DYKE) PUTNAM  Jacksonville, Duval County

She is 49 VT and her son Dyke Anderson is 24 NH and in the Army. She was married to Gordon Allen Putnam in Goffstown, Hillsborough County New Hampshire in 1930 and they were living with her folks Herbert & Charlotte Dyke. Gordon was a son of George Allen Putnam and Nellie Tilton from Manchester, New Hampshire. Dyke was born July 14, 1921 and will die in Hartford, Vermont March 8, 1988. Now, Dyke wasn’t shown in the 1930 census. There is a marriage record that Gordon married Gladys Johnson July 17, 1920. Don’t know what happened to that marriage, but she might be Dyke’s mom and the name changed when adopted by Gordon. Just don’t know.

 

C. C. (CHARLES CLARENCE) PUTMAN  Pensacola, Escambia County

He is a mechanic 37 GA and he has Myrtie Stolll 37 AL who is his wife I guess.   He is a son of Charles Bradford Putman and Lydia E. Thomas from Girard, Russell County Alabama. In 1930 his folks were still in Girard and Charles was nearby in Phoenix City married to Annie with two daughters. And yes, he was a sheet metal worker then too. I assume he was still married there in 1935 or in the midst of divorce. He was here in 1940 married to Joanne Jones and he is here with the third wife in 10 years.

 

ARTHUR PUTNAM  Tampa, Hillsborough County

He is 53 MN and single. He is Arthur Andrew Putnam a son of Arthur C. and Jennie C. Putnam and was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota May 30, 1890. He will die in Pinellas County Florida in April 1968. He was here in 1940 and married to Zella H. McCall from West Virginia. Guess they divorced. He will marry Theresa Annette Haga here in November 1961. She was born about 1918 and died in 1970 in Tampa. She is buried with Art in the Garden of Memories Cemetery in Tampa. 

CLARA B. PUTNAM  Tampa, Hillsborough County

Clara Belle Duncan is now the widow of Charles Richard Putnam who died here in 1940. She is 72 VT. Charles was the son of George Putnam and Polly Temple, son of Gilbert (2840) Putnam and Thankful Rogers of Stockton, New York. Charles was born October 10, 1867 while the family was in Geneva, Ashtabula County Ohio in the 1870s. They were in Lexington, Massachusetts in 1920 and here in 1930.

 

JOSEPH B. (BUFORD) PUTMAN  Gary, Hillsborough County

He is a ‘chipper’ 38 NC, his wife Velma Levada 28 FL and they have Agnes P. 6 FL. He is a son of John Samuel Putman and Laura Agnes Hux. He was born in Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County July 26, 1906.


J. E. (JESSE EDWIN) PUTNAM  Estero, Lee County

He is 76 MA. Jesse is a son of Edwin Putnam and Dianna Titus from Franklin County Massachusetts. He was born in Erving, Massachusetts February 5, 1869. He has been here since the 1920 census, and will be forever.

 

BARBARA MARY PUTNAM  Tallahassee, Leon County

She is 67 IA.

 

HOYT PUTMAN  Tallahassee, Leon County

He is 27 born in Princeton, Alabama and is a laborer at the Federal Correctional Institute. Chain gang probably. Loren Hoyt is a son of Edward Virgil Putman and Mattie Penny from Jackson County Alabama. He will later move to Chicago.

 

WILLIAM PUTNAM  Tallahassee, Leon County

He is 42 MA and his wife Maxine is 42 MO. He is a watchmaker, she is a teacher. He is a son of Walter D. Putnam and Marriett Harrison from Spencer, Massachusetts. He was born there March 19, 1903 and will die in Worcester, Massachusetts June 8, 1991.


LEROY PUTMAN  Lee, Madison County

He is 23 FL and his wife Louise 22 FL. I think the spelling is actually Pulman.

LILLA MAE PUTMAN  Weirsdale, Marion County

She is 45 GA. That’s all I can get.

 

THOMAS B. (BRYANT) PUTMAN  Fernandina Beach, Nassau County

He is 32 IL and his wife Vera Frances Greenwald is 28 FL. He is a Captain in the Army. In 1930 he and his brothers were in Lakeland, Florida living with his grandparents Thomas and Helen Bryant. He is a son of Dudley W. Putnam and Helen Bryant from Lake County Illinois. Dudley was a son of Abel Adelbert Putnam and Abbie Anna Dudley from Lake County and then Chester Vermont before that. Their folks were both in Lake County Illinois in 1920. They came to Florida, lost their money and the father abandoned his wife Helen Bryant and kids here. Thomas was born February 15, 1913 and will die in Bartow Florida June 17, 1998. Vera will die there in 2011 at age 94.

 

CARL PUTNAM  New Valpariso, Okaloosa County

He is in the Army. He is 22 NY, his wife Catherine 23 NY, Judith A. 2 FL and Alice 1 FL. He is a son of Lloyd Hyram Putnam and Maud Storm from Warwick, Orange County New York. Dutch Putman family out of Montgomery County New York.

 

JAMES H. (HENRY) PUTMAN  Lockhart, Orange County

He is 79 TN AL TN and a farmer. His wife Martha Frances ‘Mattie’ Lunn is 79 TN. He is a son of John Putman and Nancy Vaughan from Williamson County Tennessee. They were in Davidson County Tennessee from 1900 until 1920 and here in 1930. They will be here the rest of their lives. James was born May 4, 1866, and will die in Orlando January 31, 1946. Southern Putmans.

 

LEON PUTMAN  Lockhart, Orange County

He is a son of the above Jim and Mattie Putman. He is a bus driver 52 TN and his wife Bertha Ann Ahern is 50 MN. He was born in Davidson County Tennessee February 2, 1893 and will die in Fort Myers, Florida May 29,1977 at age 84. Bertha was born in Grand Forbes, Minnesota March 14, 1895 and will die in Fort Myers, Florida October 14, 1976. They were married in 1932 and never had any children. In 1940 they had a daughter Iris 17, but she was from Bertha’s first marriage.

 

ED OWEN PUTNAM  Orlando, Orange County

He is 45 GA, Carrie Lou Ashley his wife 39 GA and Vivian L. 20 FL. He is a mechanic. Edward Owen is a son of John Edward Putnam and Mary Ann Harrison from Spaulding County Georgia. He was born there October 13, 1898 and will die here in Florida in July 1962.

 

PAUL W. (WATKINS) PUTMAN  Orlando, Orange County

He is 43 IA and his wife Florence Hoenk is 39 IL. He is an auto mechanic. He is the son of Fred Reynolds Putnam and Eva Watkins from Cerro Gordo County Iowa in 1900 and Stephens County Minnesota in 1910 and 1920. They were here in 1930 and 1935. His widowed dad Fred is now here with them at 78 IA.

 

LAWRENCE H. (HERMAN) PUTMAN  Orlando, Orange County

He is currently in the U.S. Army Air Force stationed here. He enlisted January 2, 1942 back in California. He is 26 CA, his wife Mary Frances Seib 26 OH, and Lawrence H. Jr. less than a year OH. He is a son of Oswald Omer Putman and Mary Elizabeth O’Donnell from Colusa, California. He was born there September 5, 1919 and married Mary here in Orlando September 30, 1943. She was born in Wooster, Ohio April 2, 1918 and will die in San Mateo, California December 1, 1990. South Putman Family.

 

LUCINA PUTMAN  Orlando, Orange County

She is 94 PA and lives in a rooming house or something. She is Wealthy Lucina Pierce and was married to Emmet Mackress Putnam in Corry, Erie County Pennsylvania. He was a son of Valentine Putnam from Warren County Pennsylvania. He died there January 4, 1927. Lucina is a daughter of Arnold Pierce and Wealthy Austin and was born in Erie County Pennsylvania August 13, 1847 and will die back in Corry, Pennsylvania March 5, 1953 at age 105.

 

RAYMOND PUTMAN  Orlando, Orange County

He is a salesman 41 GA, his wife Helen 30 GA and James 11 GA. He’s not there in 1920 or 1930. Probably not a Putman at all.

 

W. (WILLIAM) RAY PUTNAM  Orlando, Orange County

He is a inspection man (?) 37 NC, his wife Miriam 36 NC and Jane 12 NC. He is a son of Robert Julius Putnam and Addie Jane Goodrum from Mecklenburg County North Carolina. He was born there August 7, 1907 and will die in Greensboro, North Carolina December 8, 1988.

 

COL. WALTER B. (BENNETT) PUTNAM  Winter Park, Orange County

He is 28 AR and in the Army Air Force. His wife Geneva Estelle 28 OK and they have Joseph Bennett 4 CA and Nancy Jean 1 FL. He will be in Japan as Geneva and the 2 kids sailed from Yokohama back to Seattle on April 15, 1948. He is a son of Walter Franklin Putnam and Ada Keers, and grandson of George Washington Putman from Franklin County and Oregon County Missouri before that. He was born in Franklin County Arkansas August 27, 1916 and will die in Fort Walton Beach, Florida October 12, 2010. When he died in 2010 his wife was Theresa Annette who he married in Okaloosa County April 14, 1993. He will go onto become a Major General in the U. S. Air Force.

 

EDGAR PUTMAN  Lake Harbor, Palm Beach County

He is a Black 52 GA and his wife Mildred 40 GA.

 

FLORENCE PUTMAN  Okeechobee, Palm Beach County

She is Black, 37 GA and has 2 sons (can’t read their names) 14 GA and 12 GA.

 

CLARENCE C. PUTNAM  Riviera Beach, Palm Beach County

He is a contractor 47 IA and Viola R. Keil is 40 IA. He is a son of Jacob Putman and Elizabeth Vandanacker and was born in Belleview, Jackson County Iowa September 11, 1896 and will die back there May 26, 1960. Jacob is a son of Jacob Putman and Eliza Wicks from Montgomery County New York. He was born in Carroll County, Illinois and was in Belleview, Iowa with his folks in 1870 and 1880. His dad and mom returned to Carroll County Illinois in the 1890s, but Jacob (this one) remained on the old farm in Bellevue where Clarence and his dad were born. Dutch family out of New York State.

 

CHARLES W. (WARD) PUTNAM  West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County

He is 64 NY CT NY and is a building contractor. His new wife Edith Anderson is 49 NY. He is a son of Charles H. Putnam and Kate Mary Sargood from Middletown, Connecticut who was a son of Charles Elliott Putnam and Jane Hayes from there. He has been with his mother Kate in Jersey City, New Jersey in the 1900 through 1920 census. He married Marie Van Valkenburg Gifford in New York June 21, 1905, and they were in Jersey City in 1910 and in 1920. They got divorced here in 1941. He then married Edith in Vero Beach February 2, 1942. Charles was born in New York December 2, 1880 and will die here in West Palm September 8, 1963. Edith was born June 28, 1895 and will die here in June 1976. This is a part of the English Putnam line that came out of Yorkshire England and not Hertfordshire where the larger New England family came from.

 

FRANK B. (BOICE) PUTNAM  West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County

He is now a railroad agent 45 SC, Hayne Smith his wife is 37 SC and they have Donald 8 FL and Keith 5 FL. He is Frank Boice Putman a son of William Butler Putman and Mattie Garrett from Greenville County South Carolina. He was born in Laurens County January 3, 1899 and will die in St. Petersburg September 27, 1977. He married Hayne July 4, 1928. She was born in Woodruff, South Carolina February 27, 1908 and will die in Broward County Florida September 30, 1994. They were in St. Petersburg in 1935 and he was a cashier at a bank then. Southern Putman line.

 

JOHN H. (HENRY) PUTNAM  West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County

He is 79 MA CAN CAN and retired. Georgiana Allen his wife is 78 MA. He is a son of Henry and Sarah Putnam from Prince Edward Island, Canada. They were in Winthrop, Massachusetts from the late 1800s through 1920. They were here in 1930.

 

LEONARD W. PUTNAM  West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County

He is 44 AL and Florence V. 45 NH. Leonard was with his folks here in 1930. He is a son of Edward and Anita Putnam. Edward was a son of John W. Putnam from Canada, and he was born in Cleveland and home there in 1870 and 1880. He was a manager of a life insurance company here.

 

CARRIE PUTMAN  Trilby, Pasco County

She is 54 SC and still widowed as she was in 1935 in Polk County. Carrie Elizabeth Thomasson was here married to Marcus Clyde Putman in 1930. Marcus Clyde Putman was a son of Joseph Alexander Putman and Nancy Ellen LeMaster from Spartanburg South Carolina. His dad was born in Waco, North Carolina. They were in Atlanta in 1910 and 1920. Carrie is a daughter of Robert Fleming Thomasson and Margaret Ann Phillips and was born in York County South Carolina May 31, 1891 and will die in Tampa, Hillsborough County Florida September 26, 1966.

CARRIE BELL PUTMAN  San Antonio, Pasco County
She is 33 GA, Curtis 10 GA, Viola 8 GA and Lonnie 3 GA. She was divorced and living with her father Marsalis McSwain in Lafayette County Florida in 1940. Carrie Bell McSwain was married to Homer Putman. I never find them and no ideas or leads as to Homer’s folks.

 

EDITH M. PUTMAN  Clearwater, Pinellas County

She is a nurse 52 CAN and has her mother Helen D. Flagg 71 CAN with her. Edith is or was married to William Albert Putnam and was listed in 1940 with him up in Medford, Massachusetts. William is a son of Philip Austin Putnam and Caroline Hodgkins Tozier from Cambridge, Massachusetts. He enlisted or registered in the Army February 15, 1942. He won’t die till 1959, so he is probably in the Army still and she is down here with her mommy while he is away. They had no children, so I guess she got lonesome.

 

JAMES PUTNAM  Clearwater, Pinellas County

He is 63 NH a fruit grower, his wife and his wife Frances Putnam is 63 NY. Also here is their son Edwin 38 NH, his wife Amelia 38 MA and their child Marilyn 8 MA. He was a apple grower in Lyndeborough, New Hampshire up through 1930. He is a son of Edwin Putnam and Eliza Keys and was born there November 7, 1881 and will die there in April 1972. Frances is a daughter of Byron Putnam and Sarah Carley from Lyndeborough. She was born in Troy, New York December 27, 1891.

 

HENRY ST. CLAIR PUTNAM  Dunnellon, Pinellas County

He is 60 MA and retired. His wife is also 60 MA.

 

MAUDE PUTNAM  Safety Harbor, Pinellas County

She is 47 FL and a citrus worker. Rand Putnam found her death certificate and it reads her name as Maude Johnson Putnam. But still no clue to the husband.

 

CHARLES PUTMAN  St. Petersburg, Pinellas County

He is 80 NY and retired living in a boarding house or something. Charles Mortimer is a son of Horace L. and Ruth Putnam. He was born in Saratoga Springs, New York and has been there up until 1930 when he and his wife Frances Conklin were here in St. Petersburg.

 

DONALD E. PUTMAN  St. Petersburg, Pinellas County

He is 50 ME and manages apartments. His wife Antoinette W. is 45 ME. He is a son of Harry Lyman Putnam and Gertrude Mary Bass from Houlton, Aroostook County Maine. Man that’s one end of Eastern America waaay down to the other. They were in Louisville, Kentucky in 1920 and Waterville, Maine in 1930.

 

EUGENE PUTNAM  St. Petersburg, Pinellas County

He is 36 IL his stepmom Ann 57 IL. He is the son of Eugene and Ann Putnam. He was 2 in 1910 living in Chicago. Can’t find in 1920 and in 1930 they are in Wichita, Kansas where his dad is editor of the city paper. Guess he died since then. His dad was the son of Thomas Mercer Putman and Serena Cummings from St. Francis County, Missouri. He was in St. Louis in 1900.

 

GEORGE W. PUTNAM  St. Petersburg, Pinellas County

He is 66 PA and his wife Maude Johnson is listed 66 PA. He is a son of Burton Hill Putnam and Flora Bowers from North East, Erie County Pennsylvania. His folks were from Chautauqua County New York. He and Edith Clarke were in Pittsburgh in 1910 and 1920 and here in 1930 and 1940. He married Maude sometime in the early 1940s and they are here in 1950. New Englanders.

 

LEWIS D. (DEXTER) PUTMAN  St. Petersburg, Pinellas County

He is 73 FL and still selling groceries. His wife Alice L. Foster is 77 VA. He is a son of John Lewis Putnam and Florence Thompson of Madison, Florida. He was born there July 30, 1871. This is a New England family going back to Benjamin Putnam from Massachusetts who was in Savannah, Georgia in the mid 1780s. His dad John Lewis died in Savannah in 1876 of yellow fever. His widow Florence Thompson then married Henry F. Wright and they were in Norfolk Virginia in the late 1800s and in the 1900 census. That’s where he married Alice. They were then in Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1920 and here in 1930. Lewis will die November 11, 1966 back in Spartanburg. Alice was born in Virginia in 1868 and will die in Spartanburg January 30. 1958.

 

LEWIS PUTNAM  St. Petersburg, Pinellas County

He is 44 VA and in the Navy. His wife Cora Lee is 38 SC and they have Margaret 14 VA, Barbara 12 VA, Lewis 7 FL, Alice 3 HAWAII, Gladys 2 FL. He is Lewis Dexter Jr., son of the above Louis. He was born in Norfolk Virginia October 13, 1901 and will die here in Pinellas Park, Florida in March 1982. He was actually stationed in Honolulu when it was attacked on December 7, 1941.

 

NELLIE PUTMAN  St. Petersburg, Pinellas County

Nellie Crane is 82 MI and now the widow of Burr Kellogg Putman. They were living with their married daughter Diana and her husband George Rowell here in 1930. Burr was a son of Charles and Mary Putnam from Michigan. He was born back in Syracuse, New York. Family was originally from Danvers, Mass. He and Nellie have been in St. Joseph County Michigan in 1900 and in Elkhart County Indiana in 1910 and 1920. He was born in 1857 and died here in 1938. Nellie was born in 1862 and will be here till she dies in 1955.

 

PHILIP G. (GEORGE) PUTNAM  St. Petersburg, Pinellas County

He is a shoe maker 23 MA single and boarding. He is a son of George F. Putnam from Spencer, Worcester County Massachusetts He was home with his divorced dad in 1930, so I don’t know who his mommy was. George was a son of Austin George Putnam and Jane Stearne Garfield from Spencer. Phil was born May 4, 1921 and will die out in San Francisco, California October 18, 1976.

 

RANDOLPH PUTNAM  St. Petersburg, Pinellas County

He is a contractor 48 NJ and Nancy Thompson Luce 44 MI. This should be Randolph Eugene Putnam son of Charles Eugene Putnam and Lilla Taylor and was born in Jersey City, New Jersey on August 24, 1896. Dr. Charles Eugene is the son of George Putnam of Jordan, New York and he is the son of Cornelius Putnam of Fulton County New York. New York Dutch family. In 1942 he registered for the draft and was living in Queens, New York and was married to Nancy at the time. He will die April 28, 1959 in Dunedin, Pinellas County. Nancy is a daughter of Theodore Luce Jr. and Della Harriet Thompson. She was born October 13, 1903 in Detroit, Michigan and will die in Pinellas County November 8, 1983.

 

WORCESTER PUTNAM  St. Petersburg, Pinellas County

He is 61 NY NY MA and is a public accountant. His wife Helen Armington is 61 RI and they have Charles W. 27 MA. They were in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1920, and here in 1930 and 1835. He is a son of Bayard Taylor Putnam and Grace Sanderson Thatcher. He was born October 17, 1883. His dad was a son of George Haven Putnam, the book publisher from New York City. His dad died in North Adams, Massachusetts in 1886 and his mother in Jamestown, Rhode Island in 1900. He was born October 17, 1883, and will die here in 1957. Helen is a daughter of Charles Fuller Armington and Sarah Randall. She was born in 1883 and will die here in 1967.

 

DUDLEY ADELBERT PUTNAM  Bartow, Polk County

He is 36 IL, Sara Edith Langford his wife 39 GA and they have William Dudley II 5 FL. He is a son of William Dudley Putnam and Helen Bryant from Lake County Illinois. Dudley was a son of Abel Adelbert Putnam and Abbie Anna Dudley from Lake County and then Chester Vermont before that. His folks were both in Lake County Illinois in 1920. They came to Florida in the 1920s, lost their money and the father abandoned his wife Helen Bryant and kids here. In 1930 they were here with Helen’s folks. Dudley was born March 8, 1909 and will die here in Polk County August 22, 2003. His wife Edith was born in July 1905 and will die here October 5, 1989.

 

BEN F. PUTMAN  Lakeland, Polk County

He is now 53 NC and still with the railroad. His wife Billy is 47 VA and they have Bobby 14 FL, Joe 28 VA, Ralph 27 VA. He is Benjamin Franklin Bright Putman, a son of Thomas Dickson Putman and Frances Adaline Jenkins from Cleveland County North Carolina where he was born May 29, 1892. They were here in 1930 and 1935.

 

R. N. (ROBERT NELSON) PUTNAM  Lakeland, Polk County

He is a superintendent 44 PA and his wife Nell Rose Rankin is 26 TX. He is a son of Theodore Nelson Putnam and Anna M. Hunt from Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. He was born there December 3, 1900 and will die here in Polk County June 25, 1983. They will get divorced here in 1949. He will later marry Yvonne Pizzi. She was born July 7, 1923 and will die here in November 1983.

 

ROY PUTMAN  Santa Clara County

He is 27 AL, his wife Verdie Reeves 26 AL and they have Nancy 7 and Brenda 2 AL. He is William Roy Putman a son of Benjamin Miller Putman and Josephne Margaret Magourik.

CHARLES F. (FREEMAN) PUTNAM  Sarasota, Sarasota County

He is 74 CT and his wife Flora Marie Prince is 68 MA. He is a son of Charles Freeman Putnam and Hulda Morse and was born in January 1871 in Eastford, Windham County Connecticut. He and Flora were there in 1900 and in Southbridge, Massachusetts in 1910 through 1930, then here in 1935.

 

ROY PUTMAN  Santa Rosa County

He is 27 AL, Sarah his wife 26 AL, Nancy 7 AL and Brenda 2 AL. This is a duplicate listing for the above William Roy Putman.

 

DAVID PUTMAN  Ft. Pierce, St. Lucie County

He is 32 MT, his wife Nellie, Ruth Nilla Ssields, 30 GA, Benney 10 FL, Sallie 7 FL and David Jr. 6 FL. They were here in 1935 and 1940. He is a son of George Palmer Putnam and his first wife Dorothy Binney. His dad is a son of John Bishop Putnam and Frances Faulkner of New York City. He married Dorothy Binney in 1911 in Connecticut. They got divorced in the 1920s and she was down here in St. Lucie. His dad is owner of G. P. Putnam Publishing and is named for his grandfather the founder. He married Amelia Earhart the famous aviatrix on February 7, 1931 in Noank, Connecticut. Now back to David. He married Nilla in Broward Florida March 5, 1934. She is a daughter of Dr. Jacob Alexander Shields and Nilla Susan Pittman and was born in Walker County Georgia July 21, 1912 and will die in St. Lucie June 25, 1990. They will get divorced here on July 21, 1975. David will die here in St. Lucie June 1, 1992.

 

GUY H. (HAMILTON) PUTMAN JR.  Ft. Pierce, St. Lucie County

He is 36 MD and his wife Dorothy 24 MD. He is in the Navy. He is a son of Guy Hamilton Putman and Mary D. Ford from Frederick County Maryland. German Buttman/Putman Family.

 

A. L.(ANDREW LLOYD) PUTMAN  Live Oak, Suwannee County

He is 47 FL and a truck driver like was in 1940. His wife Gladys 39 FL and Steven 36 FL are with him. He is a son of Guy H. Putnam and Julia Vesta Thomas and was born in Cortland County New York October 6, 1905 and will die April 11, 1977 in Calhoun County Michigan. Guy is a son of John Harry Putnam and Julia Dodge from Eckford, Calhoun County Michigan. New England family.

 

HARTWELL PUTNAM  Foley, Taylor County

He is a Black 52 SC and his wife Jessie 46 GA.

 

LILLIAN S. PUTNAM  Daytona Beach, Volusia County

She is 74 IL and widowed. She was here in 1940. She is the widow of Louis L. Putnam. They were in Chicago in 1920. Don’t find them earlier so don’t know who he was.