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Name: Martha Regina "Reggie" KIRBY ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8}
Sex: F
Birth: Sep 1898 in Lonaconing, Allegany County, Maryland, USA ^{1 2 3 4 6 7 9}
Death: 6 Jan 1935 in Terra Alta, Preston County, West Virginia, USA ^{4 6 10}
Burial: Kalbaugh Cemetery, Elk Garden, Mineral County, West Virginia, USA. ⁶
Residence:
1. 1900 in Election District 18, Ocean, Allegany County, Maryland, USA. ²
1. 1900 in Election District 18, Ocean, Allegany, Maryland. ²
1. 1910 in Union, Preston County, West Virginia, USA. ³
1. 1910 in Union, Preston, West Virginia. ³
1. 1920 in Kitzmillerville, Garrett, Maryland. ¹
1. 1930 in Kitzmillerville, Garrett County, Maryland, USA. ⁷
Person Id: P507
Tree Id: 620776

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Parents

Father:

William Maurice KIRBY: Birth: 13 Nov 1866 in Rawlings, Allegany County, Maryland, USA. Death: 21 Jan 1941 in Kitzmiller, Garrett County, Maryland, USA

Mother:

Sarah Elizabeth MANSFIELD: Birth: 10 Jun 1868 in Barton, Allegany County, Maryland, USA. Death: 26 May 1934 in Blaine, Mineral County, West Virginia, USA

Family
Marriage:

Married: James Wallace DAVIS on 22 Sep 1914 at Kitzmillerville, Garrett County, Maryland, USA.¹¹
James Wallace DAVIS: Birth: 18 Jun 1891 in Elk Garden, Mineral County, West Virginia, USA. Death: 7 Dec 1949

Children:

Lotus Pearl DAVIS: Birth: 20 Apr 1915 in Kitzmiller, Garrett County, Maryland, USA. Death: 6 Jun 2004 in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Thomas William Davis: Birth: 7 Jun 1917 in Kitzmiller, Garrett County, Maryland, USA. Death: 21 Sep 1961 in Baltimore, Baltimore (Independent City), Maryland, USA
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Sources

1.	Title: 1920 United States Federal Census Page: Year: 1920; Census Place: Kitzmillerville, Garrett, Maryland; Roll: T625_673; Page: 20A; Enumeration District: 115; Image: . Source: S-1870650446 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Reco
2.	Title: 1900 United States Federal Census Page: Year: 1900; Census Place: Ocean, Allegany, Maryland; Roll: T623_604; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 113. Source: S-1870650471 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 18
3.	Title: 1910 United States Federal Census Page: Year: 1910; Census Place: Union, Preston, West Virginia; Roll: ; Page: ; Enumeration District: ; Image: . Source: S-1870650556 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original data - Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Was
4.	Title: West Virginia, Deaths Index, 1853-1973 Source: S-1640316787 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data - "West Virginia Deaths, 1853–1970." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah. From originals housed in county courthouses throughout West Virginia. "Death Records.".O
5.	Title: Web: West Virginia, Find A Grave Index, 1788-2011 Source: S-1635612949 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data - Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi: accessed 03 March 2012.Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-b Link: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-b
6.	Title: U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1700s-Current Source: S-997636010 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
7.	Title: 1930 United States Federal Census Page: Year: 1930; Census Place: Kitzmillerville, Garrett, Maryland; Roll: 875; Page: 11B; Enumeration District: 0022; Image: 386.0; FHL microfilm: 2340610 Source: S-1870651000 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626,
8.	Title: U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 Source: S-995994675 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
9.	Title: Web: West Virginia, Find A Grave Index, 1788-2011 Source: S-1635612949 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data - Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi: accessed 03 March 2012.Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-b Link: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-b
10.	Title: Web: West Virginia, Find A Grave Index, 1788-2011 Source: S-1635612949 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data - Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi: accessed 03 March 2012.Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-b Link: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-b
11.	Title: MD, State of Maryland, Department of Health, Report of Marriage Source: S-1870652476

Notes

Note: BLAST SUSPECT JAILED ON FORGERY CHARGE Wallace Davis Accused Forging Note For Funeral Costs of Wife.
Oakland, Md., Jan. 12 (AP)
While investigation of his wife's death in an automobile explosion continued, Wallace Davis remained in jail today on a warrant charging him with signing his brother-in-laws name to a note to cover expenses of his wife's funeral.
State's Attorney Neil C. Fraley said Davis was being held on a warrant charging forgery, sworn to by William Harvey, of Kitzmiller, Md. Harvey, Davis brother-in-law alleged his own name was signed to the note Davis obtained.
Davis and his son, Thomas, have been questioned in the mysterious explosion that wrecked the automobile of Carl Trickett, Sunday, killing him and Mrs. Davis.
Fraley said the elder Davis would be held until all angles of the blast are probed.
Published Saturday, January 12, 1935 in THE WASHINGTON POST, Washington, D. C. on page 2, col. 8.
FUNERAL TOMORROW FOR BLAST VICTIMS
Further Activities Of Md. And W. Va. Authorities To Await Burial Of Two
Oakland, Md., Jan. 8 (AP).
Preparations for burying the two Victims of a baffling automobile explosion went forward today while officers pursued a theory the blast was not accidental.
Funeral services for Carl Trickett and his housekeeper, Mrs. Martha Davis, who died as the explosion wrecked Trickett's automobile Sunday, will be held tomorrow.
Sheriff Clarence Spear, who predicted "startling development' soon, returned late last night after he and his deputies had made a trip to Shallmar, a small mining town, but had nothing official to announce.
The trip was made in and effort to check on the theory an enemy of Trickett had hidden dynamite in his automobile while he was working in a power plant there. It was indicated any further disclosures would await burial of the victims.
The explosion, so powerful that it shook the surrounding countryside, blew Trickett's car to bits near the Hopemont, (W. Va.) Sanitarium Sunday, killing him and Mrs. Davis and injuring his two children, William, 12 and Margaret, 13.
Published Tuesday, January 8, 1935 in THE CUMBERLAND EVENING TIMES, Cumberland, Maryland on page 2, col. 6.
Farmers's Auto Explodes; Kills Him, Woman
Deaths of 2 In Auto Laid To Dynamite
Maryland Man, Woman Die; His 2 Children Seriously Hurt
Oakland, Md., Jan 7 (AP)
"Startling"developments were promised today in the investigation into fragments, killing him and his housekeeper and injuring two of his children.
"We may have something startling to announce soon, "said Sheriff Clarence Spear as his deputies joined with West Virginia and Maryland State police in probing the blast that was so powerful it shook the countryside yesterday.
His statement was made after the officers had gone to Shallmar, a mining town, to work on a theory that an enemy of Trickett had secreted dynamite in his automobile while he was working in a power plant.
Trickett left the power plant about 3 a.m. Saturday and drove home. He left his machine in front of his home about 2 miles west of here until Sunday when he, his housekeeper and children set out to visit his brother at Morgantown, W. Va.
The explosion occurred while they were driving along near the Hopemont (W. Va.) Sanitarium. He and the housekeeper, Mrs. Martha Davis, were killed instantly.
Published January 8, 1935 in THE WASHINGTON POST, Washington, D. C. on page 17.
Boy and Girl Are Hurt Trying to Save Father.
Terra Alta, W. Va., Jan. 6 (AP).
A mysterious explosion of an automobile killed a man and a woman today and injured two small children two miles west of Terra Alta.
Carl Trickett, 38, operator of a small dairy farm near Oakland, Md., the owner and driver of the car, was slain by small bits of the motor as the explosion rocked the entire neighborhood. He died in a hospital at Hopemont, W. Va., ten minutes later.
Mrs. Martha Davis, a hired woman of the Trickett family, was fatally injured when thrown from the machine by the explosion. The Trickett children, 12 and 13 years of age, also were thrown from the car.
The explosion occurred a few hundred yards from the hospital. A Hopemont worker, first to reach the scene, said he found the badly bleeding children attempting to extricate their father from the overturned car, which had caught fire.
Small trees and bushes were cut off and mowed down for a distance of 75 feet from the highway by flying particles of the front end of the machine.
Theories as the the cause of the accident ranged from use of kerosene as a radiator anti-freeze, to placing of dynamite in the car by an enemy of the man.
Published January 7, 1935 in THE WASHINGTON POST, Washington, D. C. on page 5.

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