Minnie Flora Hedges: Hedges Genealogy

1877 - 1915 (37 years)

Generation: 1

Minnie Flora Hedges was born on 21 Dec 1877 in Fithian, Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 21 Feb 1915 in Biloxi, Mississippi; was buried in Embury Cemetery, Hope, Vermilion County, Illinois.

Notes:

MHR note: Minnie attended high school in Medaryville, Indiana. She moved with her family to Pulaski County, Indiana in 1896.

She and Bertie were members of the Christian Church.

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55564405/minnie-f_-tillotson

Shares a headstone with her infant son, Charles Albert Hedges Tillotson.

Minnie married Bertie E. Tillotson on 26 Dec 1897 in Medaryville, Pulaski County, Indiana. Bertie (son of Luther Martin Tillotson and Mary Ellen Myrick) was born on 19 May 1872 in Armstrong, Illinois; died on 7 Apr 1936 in Kouts, Porter County, Indiana; was buried in Embury Cemetery, Hope, Vermilion County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

2. Flora Ellen Tillotson was born on 10 Apr 1899 in Medaryville, Pulaski County, Indiana; died on 28 Jul 1963 in Higginsville, Lafayette County, Missouri; was buried on 29 Jul 1963 in Embury Cemetery, Hope, Vermilion County, Illinois.
3. Bertie "Arden" Luther Tillotson was born on 22 Sep 1901 in Armstrong, Illinois; died on 11 Sep 1984 in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Spring Hill Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.
4. Charles Albert Hedges Tillotson was born on 26 May 1908 in Potomac, Rantoul County, Illinois; died on 16 Nov 1908 in Potomac, Rantoul County, Illinois; was buried in Embury Cemetery, Hope, Vermilion County, Illinois.

Generation: 2

Flora Ellen Tillotson

(1.Minnie¹) was born on 10 Apr 1899 in Medaryville, Pulaski County, Indiana; died on 28 Jul 1963 in Higginsville, Lafayette County, Missouri; was buried on 29 Jul 1963 in Embury Cemetery, Hope, Vermilion County, Illinois.

Other Events:

Census: 1920, Ogden, Champaign County, Illinois
Census: 1930, Canton, Lewis County, Missouri

Notes:

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.

Died:
Missouri death certifiacte
https://www.sos.mo.gov/images/archives/deathcerts/1963/1963_00029054.PDF

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55396112/flora-e.-tillotson

Bertie "Arden" Luther Tillotson

(1.Minnie¹) was born on 22 Sep 1901 in Armstrong, Illinois; died on 11 Sep 1984 in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Spring Hill Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois.

Other Events:

Occupation: miner
Census: 1930, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois

Notes:

MHR note: Arden was a miner. He graduated from high school in 1922. He once worked in a coal mine and was park supervisor in Danville, Illinois. In 1952 he began a job as custodian for a theater in Danville, Illinois. He is a member of the Christian Church. In about 1969 they moved to Stultz Mobile home Park.

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46490109/arden-l.-tillotson

Block 9

Bertie married Ethel Bales on 18 Jun 1924 in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois. Ethel (daughter of Perry Webster Bales and Edna Dicken) was born on 22 Oct 1905 in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois; died in 1997; was buried in Spring Hill Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles Albert Hedges Tillotson

(1.Minnie¹) was born on 26 May 1908 in Potomac, Rantoul County, Illinois; died on 16 Nov 1908 in Potomac, Rantoul County, Illinois; was buried in Embury Cemetery, Hope, Vermilion County, Illinois.

Notes:

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55564431/charles-albert-tillotson

Shares a headstone with his mother.

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