Fout, Mary Catherine 'Katie'

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• Reference Number: FOUT.M001
• _FGRAVE: 114646734

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Wayne County Record, Apr 14, 1927, obit: On last Friday afernoon a terrible accident occurred in Zif Township whereby Mrs Catherine Wilkin was so badly burned that she died in about twelve hours after she had received the injury. Mrs Wilkin and her husband, Virgil, had been to a hatchery and returned home with a lot of little chickens and as the weather was somewhat cold for them, a fire was built in the kitchen stove and the little chicks were placed behind the stove. Mr Wilkin left the home to go to a neightborhood store and the children of the family were playing around in the yard with a neighbor child. In working around the stove the dress of Mrs Wilkin got against the stove which had become red hot and her clothing was soon a mass of flames. The children heard Mrs Wilkin scream and the little neighbor girl ran to her home and told her mother and a passing neightbor and they rushed to thehome and found Mrs Wilkin with her clothing entirely burned off andt he body was a mass of blacken flesh. Katie Fout, daughter of W H and Susan Fout was born in Mt Erie Township, Wayne County, IL on Sep 25, 1901 and departed this life Apr 9, 1927 at her home in Zif Township, Wayne County, IL, age 25 yr, 6 mo and 15 da. She has lived in this community all her life. On her nineteenth birthday, Sep 25, 1920, she was united in marriage to Virgil Wilkin to this union were born three children, Mary Ann, Glen and Beatrice.

Information from Barbara Julien

Mary married Wilkin, Virgil Irenos on 25 Sep 1920. Virgil (son of Wilkin, Alferton Chesney Vanlandingham and Barnes, Mary Emma) was born on 15 Sep 1895 in Wayne County, Illinois; died on 8 May 1979 in Flora Nursing Center, Flora, Clay County, Illinois; was buried in Wells Cemetery, Wayne County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Wilkin, Mary Ann was born on 14 Oct 1921 in Wayne County, Illinois; died on 12 Feb 2004 in Bridgeport, Lawrence County, Illinois; was buried in Wells Cemetery, Wayne County, Illinois.
2. WILKIN, Glen 'Jim' was born on 14 Sep 1923; died on 8 Jul 1982; was buried in Scott Cemetery, Mount Erie, Wayne County, Illinois.
3. WILKIN, Beatrice 'Peach' was born on 18 Aug 1925 in Wayne County, Illinois; died on 18 Mar 2014 in Good Samaritan Hospital, Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois; was buried on 21 Mar 2014 in Clay City Cemetery, Clay City, Clay County, Illinois.

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• Reference Number: FOUT.W001
• _FGRAVE: 20550908

W. married Young, Susan. Susan was born on 18 Feb 1859 in Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio; died on 27 Jan 1935 in Mount Erie, Wayne County, Illinois; was buried in Wells Cemetery, Wayne County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: YOUN.S004
• _FGRAVE: 20550912
• Census: 9 Jan 1920, Clay City, Clay County, Illinois; 1920 Census, Clay City (Village), Illinois, page 12a
• Census: 9 Jan 1920, Clay City, Clay County, Illinois; 1920 Census, Clay City (Village), Illinois, page 12a
• Census: 29 Jan 1920, Mount Erie Township, Wayne County, Illinois; 1920 Census, Mount Erie Township, Wayne County, Illinois, Page 12b
• Census: 10 Apr 1940, Clay City, Clay County, Illinois; 1940 Census, Clay City (Village), Clay County, Illinois, page 10a