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Note: !BIRTH: On family farm at Farmington,Atchison,Kansas. 25 JUN 1910. !PARENTS' FAMILY MRIN: #188. Her father was Charles Pardee BUTLER-623 and her mother, Mary WRIGHT-624 (related to the WRIGHT brothers who pioneered flight.) Another ancestral name on the WRIGHT line was Parmalee. !EDUCATION: Grammar school at a one room schoolhouse in Farmington and then High School in Effingham. It was necessary because of distance in those days for her to board during the high school week. After graduation, she came to live on East 34th street between Lexington and Park Avenue with her sister, Sybil HASTINGS-625. !MARRIAGE: First wife of the compiler. Married in Rectory of St. Agnes Catholic Church on East 43rd St. New York City on 28 March 1942 during Navy survivor leave of the compiler. Witnesses included compiler's Uncle John MCANERNEY-74 as well as bride's sisters, Sybil HASTINGS-625 and Florence WETMORE-630, both of Tarrytown NY. !DEATH: She died in Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta GA on 5 JAN 1968 after a two year battle with cancer of the colon which long treatment could not keep from invading her liver. !BURIAL: With the compiler's father in the WEAVER lot in the Westview Cemetery, 1680 Gordon St. SW Atlanta GA Lot 323, Sec. 31. The compiler and his second wife expect to be buried there as well. !RESIDENCES: The HASTINGS family built a home (built it themselves) on White Plains Road in Tarrytown NY where they lived when the compiler started dating Betsey BUTLER (as her called her!). They were both employed by J. M. MATHES INCORPORATED advertising agency with offices in the Chanin Building at 122 East 42nd St. in New York City. !REMARKS(1): She was granddaughter of Pardee BUTLER-622, a circuit riding preacher of the Christian faith, who as a Kansas "Free-stater" was tarred and feathered and sent down the Missouri River on a raft by the opposition "slave-staters". This occurred during the days when Congress was debating whether to admit Kansas to the Union as a "free" state or a "slave" state. An historical highway marker describing the event may be found in Atchison KS. He survived the ordeal. !REMARKS(2): She was active in the Georgia League of Women Voters as an officer. Although never licensed she could pilot both airplanes and gliders. Since she had no sense of direction, she would not take pilot's license test. She was active with some of her women friends in an Investment Club. In addition, she was a member with the compiler of the firm of WEAVER Incorporated as secretary/treasurer. For her own amusement, she wrote poetry, samples of which are in her file folder in the compiler's genealogy file.
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