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Maybe I have not shared this with you. I found this census:
1880 US Census, Monmouth, Jackson Co., IA
Eliza KERR Self W Female W 44 PA Keeping House PA PA <1836> [A Widow]
Maggie WAGONER Dau S Female W 20 PA Keeping House PA PA Estella KERR Dau S Female W 6 IA At School PA PA
Source Information:
Family History Library Film 1254346 NA Film Number T9-0346 Page Number 577B Jackson Co. is just north of Scott Co., IA.
You told me that Wilda Estella Kerr's mother was Eliza Kerr, I am quite certain that she was Eliza (--?--) [Wagoner] Kerr. And you told me that Eliza was married to a Samuel Kerr. There is an Eliza Wagoner, 35, living in Chartiers, Allegheny Co., PA in 1870 with a daughter Mary or Marg, age about 12-13, and other children. This Eliza is the wife of John Wagoner b. France, who may have died and she remarried Samuel Kerr by whom she had Estella in 1875, then Samuel died and in 1880 she is a 44 y/o widow with a 20+ daughter Maggie Wagoner and a 6 y/o daughter Estella Kerr. They would be half sisters. Other children left home or died...
At the same time (1870) in Elizabeth, Allegheny Co., PA, there is a Samuel Kerr, 50, b. PA, with probably a daughter Elizabeth, 26, keeping house for him and four children, 17-24, probably of a desceased wife. Maybe he is the person she married -- my speculation, of course.
Al Braley
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Sedgwick County, KS Marriage Affidavits Index
Midwest Historical and Genealogical Society
http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/mhgs/marriage.htm
Grotz, Michael Hitchcock, Stella S107
Later, I found that she did remarry. In the INDEX TO MARRIAGE AFFIDAVITS MAY 24, 1922 THROUGH NOVEMBER 25, 1933 on http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/mhgs/F-H%202.htm
Grotz, M. Hitchcock, Stella 16 Aug 1924 CC190
This indicates an affidavit is on file in book CC, page 190. I will check into this.
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She was found in a 1939 or 1940 City Directory:
I dug through some City Directories there and found Dad, Marion Hitchcock, son of Albert C. Hitchcock, and found some information of some value to me. I know Grandma divorced Albert in the time after Dad was born (ca. 1910) and she must have married Michael Grotz around 1924.
Beginning in the 1931 City Directory, I surmise a misspelled name, but there was a Mrs. Stella (she called herself Stella) Gross, at 825 South Emporia Ave, apt 4H in Wichita. No mention of a Michael Grotz or Gross.
In the 1939 and 1940 directory before Dad and Mom married, he was listed at 320 west 3rd Street. in Wichita. I found her name in the 1940 directory at the same address, 320 west 3rd, as "Grotz, Stella (widow of Michael) and Marion Hitchcock", her son listed alphabetically, of course, at "320 west 3rd", too! She was in 1934, 1935, and 1936 directory.
She does not appear in the subsequent City Directory books that I checked after 1940, but Mom said she was alive when I was a baby, so that makes her living in 1944, anyway. She was not found in the 1943 book. Wilda Estella died July 13, 1945, according to records of Cemetery which I learned with a phone call.
March 20, 2004
Richard C. Hitchcock
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April 18, 2004: I found this line of information:
Hitchcock, Albert C. 1891 Sep 3 Kerr, Wilda E.
For a marriage certificate online at http://www.qcmemory.org/Genealogy/MarrCert/GroomHI.htm. To obtain copies of obituaries, marriage notices and other records indexed on this site please contact the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center at Davenport Public Library via e-mail or phone at 563-326-7902.
Subsequently, I wrote and they sent a copy of the marriage certificate from Davenport.
Richard Hitchcock.
Wilda Estella died July 13, 1945, according to records of Cemetery which I learned with a phone call. I have a transcription of the obituary, below.
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Hi Richard,
I'm having trouble sending this page to you. I'll just type out the
contents below.
Eliza Kerr, widow female age 44 keeping house b. PA;
father b. PA; mother b. PA
Maggie Wagoner daughter single female age 20, keeping house, b. PA;
f & m b. PA
Estella Kerr daughter single female age 6, at school, b. IA, f
and m. b. PA
Monnouth, Jackson Co., Iowa. 1880 Census page 577B
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Here is the obit for Estella:
"Dies Friday at 79. Mrs. Wilda Estella Grotz, 79, of 320 West Third,
died in a local hospital Friday. She had been a resident of Wichita
for 30 years. She was born in Johnston Co., Iowa. Surviving is a son,
Marion Hitchcock, 400 North ST. Francis. Funeral services will be
held at Gill mortuary today at 2 p.m. Rev. Wayne E. Mccoy will
officate. Burial will be in Old Mission cemetery." The Wichita
Eagle, July 14, 1945.
I checked the Gill mortuary record, and it did not list her parents.
I'll send a copy of the obit if you want vis snail-mail. Later.
Dan
Lindsted, Dan <dan.lindsted@@boeing.com>
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Found at http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/1900hdir.htm, under the H's, Albert and Estella listed in Davenport Times, Davenport, Scott, Iowa
March 16, 1900, THE TIMES 20TH CENTURY DIRECTORY shows they lived at 222 w 9th, Davenport.
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Estella is found in 1910 in Wichita:
HITCHCOCK, ALBERT C (1910 U.S. Census)
KANSAS , SEDGWICK, 4-WD WICHITA
Age: 62, Male, Race: WHITE, Born: IA
Series: T624 Roll: 456 Page: 13
Sedgwick County KS Archives Obituaries.....Grotz, Wilda Estella July 13, 1945
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File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Richard Hitchcock atsf3768@@sbcglobal.net August 22, 2005, 1:57 pm
The Wichita Eagle, July 14, 1945.
Mrs. Wilda Estella Grotz, 320 West Third,
died in a local hospital Friday.
Surviving is a son, Marion Hitchcock, 400 North ST. Francis.
Funeral services will be held at Gill mortuary today at 2 p.m.
Burial will be in Old Mission cemetery.
Additional Comments:
She was born Wilda Estella Kerr. She married Albert C. Hitchcock on Sept 3, 1891 in Davenport Iowa. She divorced Albert at a later date. She married M. Grotz on Aug 16, 1924.
File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ks/sedgwick/obits/g/grotz16ob.txt
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