Clifford Destin McQUIE

  General Notes:

Photo: Standing in front of his childhood home in Minburn, Dallas County, Iowa is Clifford Destin McQuie as a youngster. This original photo was a gift to DeeAnna Allum Granston from Clifford's wife, Dorothy Ruth (Woodruff) McQuie, 1907-1981.


1901 BIRTH of Clifford Destin McQuie

Although Clifford's middle name is spelled "Destin," it represents the maiden name of his grandmother Clara, whose maiden name is "Distin" in British records

1910 CENSUS, Iowa, Dallas County, Sugar Grove Township, Minburn ("Clifford," age 8, with parents)

1920 CENSUS, Iowa, Dallas County, Sugar Grove Township, Minburn ("Clifford D.," age 18, with parents)

1930 CENSUS, Iowa, Polk County, DesMoines Township, DesMoines ("Clifford D.," age 28, "unemployed," is "roomer" in the household of his sister and brother-in-law, Marguerite and August Brandt) (Clifford is shown as having been married at age 25, but there is no reference to a wife in this census)

1937 MARRIAGE of Clifford Destin McQuie and Dorothy Ruth Woodruff


See "Dorothy Ruth Woodruff" for additional information

Clifford married Dorothy Ruth WOODRUFF, daughter of Harry Bane WOODRUFF and Lake Winona MATTHEWS, on February 19, 1937. (Dorothy Ruth WOODRUFF was born on September 7, 1907 in Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa, died in September 1981 in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa and was buried in Brethren Cemetery, Dallas Center, Dallas County, Iowa.)