The Hendee Family Tree

Myrtle J Handee (Kirker)

Person Chart

Additional Names

Additional Names Name
Name at Birth Myrl Hendee
Married Name Kirker

Parents

Father Date of Birth Mother Date of Birth
Ira Briggs Hendee 05 Oct 1862 Katie M. Taylor 29 Oct 1897

Partners

Partner Date of Birth Children
Edward B Kirker Marguerite E Kirker

Person Events

Event Type Date Place Description
Birth 25 Mar 1893 Chippewa Township, Isabella, Michigan, United States
Place of Residence 1900 ED 72 Lincoln township, Isabella, Michigan, United States
Marriage 19 May 1904 Bancroft, Shiawassee, Michigan, United States
Place of Residence 1910 Shiawassee, Shiawassee, Michigan, United States
Place of Residence 1920 Delhi, Ingham, Michigan, United States
Place of Residence 1930 Delhi, Ingham, Michigan, United States
Place of Residence 1940 Delhi Township, Ingham, Michigan, United States
Death 08 May 1958 Y

Notes

 

b. NOVEMBER 9, 1881-d. MAY 8, 1958 

Aunt Myrtle was born in 1881. She was raised by Henry and Edna (sister to Ira). She was married in their home (3 miles west of Bancroft, MI) May 18, 1904. When I remember Aunt Myrtle and Ed Kirker. they lived on a farm 4 miles north and a mile and one half west of Holt, MI. 

We girls spent at least a week each summer attheir home playing with their only child, Marguerite, and picking cherries. Sometimes Marguerite would drive their horse and buggy to town for groceries and a treat. We had lots of fun because Marguerite was always conjuring up fun things to do like "make-up" games, playing in the horse tank, gagging a cat, etc. etc. We often giggled into the wee night hours. This brought Aunt Myrtle to our bedroom with threats that she never carried out. Also it caused Merva to be very unhappy because she would rather sleep than giggle. Marguerite and I always created our own giggle spells. 

She went to Michigan State College and married Harold Throup before she had a career. Aunt Myrtle, much to her own unhappiness, never became a grandmother, because Marguerite decided she never wanted children. 

After Aunt Myrtle and Uncle Ed died, the Throup's turned the homestead into a convalescent home-a very sophisticated one called "The Holt Home". Before the Throup's died they sold it to, I think, a Reformed Church. It still is a home for older people. 

Aunt Myrtle was a good Presbyterian, a Sunday School teacher and active in community affairs. She was on her way to one of these activities, stopped at a stoplight when she came to the highway and, not seeing the coming car drove right into it. The impact threw her from the driver's seat onto the highway (no seatbelts then) and her neck was broken. I missed her, she was my favorite aunt. 

Sources

Description Page Quality Information Evidence
"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ38-8YK : accessed 17 December 2018), Myrtle Kirker in household of Edward B Kirker, Delhi, Ingham, Michigan, United States; citing ED 83, sheet 4B, line 52, family 82, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 771; FHL microfilm 1,820,771. Don't know Don't know Don't know
"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQYY-8SP : accessed 17 December 2018), Myrtle I Kirker in household of Edward B Kirker, Delhi, Ingham, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 4, sheet 26B, line 95, family 243, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 990; FHL microfilm 2,340,725. Don't know Don't know Don't know
Ira B Hendee Web Page Don't know Don't know Don't know
M*Le Hendee in household of Ira Hendee, "United States Census, 1900" Don't know Don't know Don't know
Myrl Hendee, "Michigan Births and Christenings, 1775-1995" Don't know Don't know Don't know
Myrtle Hendee in entry for Harold L Throop and Marguerite E Kirker, "Michigan, County Marriages, 1820-1940" Don't know Don't know Don't know
Myrtle I Kirker in household of Edward B Kirker, "United States Census, 1930" Don't know Don't know Don't know
Myrtle J Handee, "Michigan Marriages, 1822-1995" Don't know Don't know Don't know
Myrtle J Handee, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925" Don't know Don't know Don't know
Myrtle Kerker in household of Edward Kerker, "United States Census, 1910" Don't know Don't know Don't know
Myrtle Kirker in household of Edward B Kirker, "United States Census, 1920" Don't know Don't know Don't know
Myrtle Kirker in household of Edward B Kirker, "United States Census, 1940" Don't know Don't know Don't know

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Myrtle J Hendee (Kirker) 1930 Census