Individual Notes

Note for: Mertie (Mertyl) White, 4 JUL 1867 - 10 MAR 1950 Index

Census:
     Date:   1880
     Place:   New Haven, Olmsted, Minnesota

Event:   I2721
     Type:   REFI

Burial:
     Date:   1950
     Place:   - Byron Cemetery, Byron, Olmsted, Minnesota
     Note:

Township Kalmar
County: Olmsted
Name: MERTIE W. Tompkins
Birth Date: 1867
Death Date: 1950
Cemetery: Byron
Comments: SP. LAFAYETTE
Section: 28 6

Individual Note:
     She was the mother of Myra Tompkins Fox.

Death Note:    Obituary:
Mrs. L. Tompkins, 82, Dies in Byron

Byron - Mrs. La Fayette Tompkins (sic), 82 year old former Kalmar township resident, died early today at the home of her son, LeRoy Tompkins, at Byron. The former Mertie White was born in Othello township July 4, 1867 and was married to Mr. Tompkins October 5, 1892, at Byron.
The couple lived on a farm northwest of Byron for nearly fifty years. Mr. Tompkins passed away in 1939, and Mrs. Tompkins moved to her son's home in Byron in 1948 after suffering a stroke and a hip injury. She had lived with LeRoy since then.
Survivors include a twin sister, Mrs. Dan Quimby of St. Paul Park; a sister, Mrs. C.T. Webb of Mantorville; a daughter, Mrs. Frank Fox of New Athens, Ill. and three sons, Leon of Mantorville, and Clarence and LeRoy of Byron.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday at the LeRoy Tompkins home and at 2:30 at the Methodist church. Rev. John Agema will conduct the services and burial will be in the Byron Cemetery.

Tompkins, MERTIE
CertID# 1950-MN-010585

Date of Birth:n/a
Place of Birth:n/a
Mother Maiden Name: n/a
Date of Death:03/10/1950
County of Death: OLMSTED

Individual Notes

Note for: Amelia Tompkins, 13 NOV 1856 - 12 MAY 1864 Index

Event:   I2728
     Type:   REFI

Burial:
     Date:   1864
     Place:   - Byron Cemetery, Byron, Olmsted, Minnesota
     Note:

Township Kalmar
County: Olmsted
Name: AMELIA Tompkins
Birth Date: 13/NOV/1856
Death Date: 12/MAY/1864
Cemetery: Byron
Comments: DAU. OF DANIEL D. & CATHARINE M.
Section: 9 17

Individual Note:
     Origionally, I had a listing that showed Amelia as the wife of Walter Freeman Tompkins. From the substantiation by Donald Tompkins, the gravestone shows that Ameilia died at approximately 8 years old. Thereby, the marriage to Walter is incorrect.

Individual Notes

Note for: William H Tompkins, 3 NOV 1850 - 24 APR 1856 Index

Event: I2729
Type: REFI

Individual Notes

Note for: Charles William Kay, 1847 - 1924 Index

Census:
     Date:   1870
     Place:   Grant Precinct, Washington, Nebraska
     Note:   23 years old

Census:
     Date:   1880
     Place:   Wisner Precinct, Cumings, Nebraska
     Note:   1880 Census
Charles W. Kay
Age: 33
Estimated birth year: <1847>
Birthplace: Missouri
Occupation: Farmer
Relation: Self
Home in 1880: Wisner, Cuming, Nebraska
Marital status: Divorced
Race: White
Gender: Male
Head of household: Charles W. Kay
Father's birthplace: KY
Mother's birthplace: KY

Event:   I2757
     Type:   REFI

Individual Note:
     It has been a family story that Charles' ancestor came over on the Mayflower. I found this information at the Mayflower Website. It may shed some light on the story.

(GEB) " Between 1620 and 1630 a "Mayflower," or "Mayflowers," crossed the seas three times. One in 1620 carried the Pilgrim Fathers to New Plymouth; one in 1629 carried Higginson's party to Salem; and one in 1630 carried Winthrop's party to Charlestown. It has generally been assumed that these three voyages were made by the same ship; but the strong probability is that the voyages of 1629 and 1630 were not made by the ship that sailed in 1620." According to Bowman the name Mayflower for ships was uncommonly common, with numerous ships of that name trading from numerous ports abroad.

There is not a Kay listed on the origional Mayflower Manifest. If the ancestor was female, it is impossible at this time to determine if she was a passenger on any of the listed voyages.

Death Note:    Death date was in severe shadow. It APPEARS to be 1924 from an enlargment of the photo.