Mate Eleanor Updegraff1,2 
F, (29 July 1896 - 21 April 1972)
- Relationship
- 7th great-granddaughter of Herman Op Den Graeff
Mate Eleanor Updegraff was born on 29 July 1896 at Carmen, Woods County, Oklahoma Territory, USA.1 She was the daughter of Alpha Gordon Updegraff and Effie Moore. Mate Eleanor Updegraff married, at age 21, Lee Shorter, son of Andrew Shorter and Alice Stratton, on Monday, 22 July 1918 at Medicine Lodge, Barber County, Kansas.2 Mate Eleanor Updegraff died on 21 April 1972 at Nash, Grant County, Oklahoma, at age 75 years, 8 months and 23 days.1
She and Lee Shorter appeared on the census of 30 January 1920 at McKinley Township, Garfield County, Oklahoma. Mate Eleanor Updegraff was a writer between 1930 and 1960.2 According to the Social Security Administrations Death Index Mate's last known residence was Dallas, Dallas County, Texas.1
She and Lee Shorter appeared on the census of 30 January 1920 at McKinley Township, Garfield County, Oklahoma. Mate Eleanor Updegraff was a writer between 1930 and 1960.2 According to the Social Security Administrations Death Index Mate's last known residence was Dallas, Dallas County, Texas.1
Children of Mate Eleanor Updegraff and Lee Shorter
- Dortha Marie Shorter+2 (23 May 1920 - )
- Margaret Lee Shorter+2 (16 Apr 1925 - )
Last Edited=3 Aug 2010
Citations
- [S731] Social Security Death Index, RootsWeb online, at <http://ssdi.rootsweb.com> (Baltimore, Maryland: U.S. Social Security Administration, January 2006 update). The SSDI component of RootsWeb online is drawn from the Social Security Death Benefits Index of the U.S. Social Security Administration. MATE SHORTER, birth listed as 29 Jul 1895, died listed as Apr 1972, issued in the State of Oklahoma. Last residence (Dallas, Dallas, TX, last benefit (none specified). Accessed 19 Jan 2006.
- [S15] June (Shaull) Lutz, History of the Op Den Graef / Updegraff Family (Grand Rapids, Michigan; 1433 Elderwood Ct. N.W.: J. S. Lutz, 1988), p. U-91.