Myrtle Elicia Hedges
1877 - 1963 (85 years)
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Name Myrtle Elicia Hedges Born 21 Dec 1877 Fithian, Vermilion County, Illinois 
[1, 2, 3, 4] Gender Female Census 1940 Dows, Wright County, Iowa Died 28 Jul 1963 Higginsville, Lafayette County, Missouri [1, 3, 4, 5, 6] - Missouri death dertificate
https://www.sos.mo.gov/images/archives/deathcerts/1963/1963_00029034.PDF
Buried 29 Jul 1963 Fairview Cemetery, Dows, Wright County, Iowa [4, 6] Person ID I370 Hedges Last Modified 1 May 2023
Father Peter Thompson Hedges, b. 29 Jan 1831, Fleming County, Kentucky , d. 12 Jun 1924, Tilton, Vermilion County, Illinois (Age 93 years) Mother Mary Ann Vawter, b. 11 Dec 1836, Jefferson County, Indiana , d. 15 Dec 1912, Canton, Lewis County, Missouri (Age 76 years) Married 12 Mar 1857 Rowan County, Kentucky [7, 8] Family ID F9 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Albert Andrew Denger, b. 18 Apr 1869, Livingston County, Illinois , d. 23 Jan 1931, Dows, Wright County, Iowa (Age 61 years) Married 31 Dec 1902 Medaryville, Pulaski County, Indiana [1, 9] Children 1. Nellie Elizabeth Denger, b. 25 Jul 1906, Armour, South Dakota , d. 28 Jul 1963, Higginsville, Lafayette County, Missouri (Age 57 years)2. Charles Peter Denger, b. 24 Mar 1909, Louis County, Missouri , d. 12 Jan 2002, Urbandale, Polk County, Iowa (Age 92 years)3. Edward Thaddeus Denger, b. 20 Oct 1915, Rudd, Floyd County, Iowa , d. 27 Jun 1976, Sepulveda, Los Angeles County, California (Age 60 years)Last Modified 18 Feb 2018 Family ID F225 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 21 Dec 1877 - Fithian, Vermilion County, Illinois 
Married - 31 Dec 1902 - Medaryville, Pulaski County, Indiana 
Census - 1940 - Dows, Wright County, Iowa 
Died - 28 Jul 1963 - Higginsville, Lafayette County, Missouri 
Buried - 29 Jul 1963 - Fairview Cemetery, Dows, Wright County, Iowa = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Mary Virginia Atkinson, Peter Thompson Hedges and Myrtle Elicia Hedges 
Myrtle Elicia Hedges 
Mattie Dell and Myrtle Elicia Hedges 
Myrtle Elicia Hedges 
Cousins: Hedges, Horn, Brown, Smith, Bagley, Denger, Cronkite, Gilkison 
Hedges Reunion 1946
The Seventeenth Annual Hedges Reunion was held Sunday, August 18, 1946 at Lincoln Park, Danville, Illinois with 99 relatives and friends present. A basket dinner was served at the noon hour. George F. Hedges presided at the business meeting in the afternoon. Talks were given from those from distances and was enjoyed by all. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year. President J. W. Hedges, Vice President P. T. Hedges, Secretary Treasurer Anna Bagley. The next meeting will be held the 3rd Sunday in August 1947 in Missouri. Gifts were presented to the oldest man present, George F. Hedges, 79. Oldest woman was Mrs. Cora Hedges, 76 years old. The youngest was Robert Alan Yeazel, 3 month old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Yeazel. Newlyweds were Mr. and Mrs. John Hanks. The one coming the farthest was Jasper N. Hedges of Dubois, Wyoming, 1650 miles. There were 6 marriages, Betty Buckman and Dale Wood, Geraldine Hedges and Frank Pesorara, Betty Lou Smith and Frank Day, Lois Smith and Max Dodd, Roy Hedges and Inez Cola, Irene Smith and John Hanks. There were 9 births [transcriber has omitted this section to preserve privacy] Two deaths: Ercel Eldon Simpson and James A. Hedges. Greetings were received from those from a distance who could not attend.
Hedges, Minnie and Myrtle Hedges, Myrtle 
Hedges, Minnie and Myrtle
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Notes - MHR note: Myrtle was a worthy matron, Eastern Star, Dows, Iowa, 1940. She cooked in a private hospital in Detroit in 1943. She attended Valparaiso Teachers College, Valparaiso, Indiana. She keeps house for her brother in South Haven, Kansas since his wife died.
[1] - From Hedges Reunion Book: Nell Gillam, her mother Myrtle (Hedges) Denger, and Flora Tillotson died in a car accident on their way home from California.
[5] - Four persons died in the Missouri crash that took the lives of three Iowa women.
The dead all relatives riding in one car:
Mrs. Neill Elizabeth Gillam, 57, Des Moines school teacher.
Her mother, Mrs. Myrtle Denger, 86, of Des Moines,
Mrs. Clara Mae Gillam, in her 60s, of Tipton, a sister-in-law of Mrs. Nell Gillam, and
Flora E. Tillotson, 62, of St. Joseph, Ill., niece of Mrs. Denger.
A car driven by Mrs. Nell Gillam, 1962 University of Iowa Mother of the Year, apparently went out of control on U.S. Highway 40 near Higginsville in western Missouri and swerved into the path of a car driven by Lee L. Lowder, Jr., of Allen, Kan. Lowder escaped injury, but his wife was hospitalized at Lexington, Mo, in critical condition.
Officer said the dead women were returning from a California vacation.
Iowa City Press-Citizen, Iowa City, Iowa. Monday, 29 July 1963.
[10] - Mother, Daughter Rites
Services for Mrs. Myrtle Denger, 85, and her daughter, Mrs. Nell E. Gillam, 57, both of 920 Creston ave., who were killed in an auto accident Sunday near Higginsville, Mo., will be at 9 a.m. Thursday at Park Avenue Christian Church.
Burial for Mrs. Denger will be at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in the cemetery at Dows. Burial for Mrs. Gillam will be in Glendale Cemetery.
Also killed in the accident were Mrs. Gillam’s sister-in-law, Mrs. Clara Mae Gillam of Tipton, and Flora E. Tillotson, 62, of St. Joseph, Ill., a niece of Mrs. Denger. The four women were returning to their homes from a California vacation trip when the car driven by Mrs. Nell Gillam collided with another car.
D.M. Teacher
Mrs. Nell Gillam, a teacher at Dunlap School here, was born at Armour, S.D. She came to Des Moines from Tipton 27 years ago, and was a member of Park Avenue Christian Church and South Gate Order of Eastern Star, and was past president of Park Avenue School Parent-Teacher Association and of the American Legion Auxiliary at Tipton.
She is survived by a son, 2nd Lt. Lynn Gillam of Ft. Bragg, N.C.; two brothers, Charles P. Denger of Des Moines and Edward T. Denger of Ojai, Cal., a stepson, Robert E. Gillam, and a step-daughter, Mrs. Eloise Griffin, both of Des Moines, and four grandchildren.
Lived at Dows
Mrs. Denger, born in Illinois, lived in Dows before moving here six years ago. She was a member of Park Avenue Christian Church and was past worthy matron of the Eastern Star at Dows and past president at Dows of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the Missionary Society.
Surviving are her two sons, six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
The bodies of Mrs. Denger and her daughter are at Arnold’s Highland Park Funeral Home.
Des Moines Tribune, Des Moines, Iowa. Tuesday, 30 July 1963.
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- MHR note: Myrtle was a worthy matron, Eastern Star, Dows, Iowa, 1940. She cooked in a private hospital in Detroit in 1943. She attended Valparaiso Teachers College, Valparaiso, Indiana. She keeps house for her brother in South Haven, Kansas since his wife died.
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