• General Notes

  After the death of his father, Jep Tampling's mother, Eliza, married Andrew J. Gage January 24, 1906, in Elmore City, Garvin Go., OK.
  
  1910 Garvin Co. Census, living in Elmore City:   Andrew Gage 42, Lida Gage 38, Harvey Gage (should be Clement) 15, Jep Gage (should be Clement) 13, Warner (should be Warren) Gage 2, May Gage 1 month.
  
  1920 Garvin Co. OK Census, living at Pauls Valley:  Andrew J. Gage 51, Lida Gage 48, Harvey W. Clemiceus (should be Clement) 25, Jep T. Clemeiceus (should be Clement) 23, Warner (should be Warren) Gage 12, May Gage 9, John Gage 6. , Jennie Cargile 69 (listed as Andrew Gage's mother-in-law).
  
  The spelling of the family surname of Jep Tampling Clement,  was changed to Clemons sometime after his mother married Andrew Gage.  The probable reason for this is that John and William Clement, the two sons of Lucinda Gage Clement who had gone to Garvin Co. OK before statehood and became U. S. Marshals, changed the spelling of their surname from Clement to Clemons.  When Lucinda's nephew, Andrew Gage married the widowed mother of Jep Tampling Clement, he was very young and probably thought that Clemons was the correct spelling for his name, and thus, Clement became Clemons.
  
  Jep Tambling Clemons moved to Texas between 1920 and 1925.  He married Zelma Smith in 1925.  This date is estimated from the 1930 Taylor Co. TX Census record.
  
  1930 Taylor Co. TX Census, living at Lawn:  Jep T. Clemons 33, born in OK; Zelma Clemons 26, born in TX; Jep T. Jr. 4 months old, born in TX.  According to that census record, Jep was 25 years old when he married and Zelma was 18 years old.  It doesn't say where they were married.  That census record lists Jep's occupation as a foreman on the railroad.  It also shows that he was a veteran of World War I.
  

Details of Jeptambling's family with Zelma SMITH