1901 - 1927 (25 years)
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| Name |
Fout, Mary Catherine 'Katie' |
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Virgil Wilkin and his first wife Mary Katherine Fout
Contributed by Barbara Julien
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| Birth |
25 Sep 1901 |
Mount Erie, Wayne County, Illinois  [1] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Reference Number |
FOUT.M001 |
| _FGRAVE |
114646734 |
| Death |
9 Apr 1927 |
Zif Township, Wayne County, Illinois [1, 3] |
| Cause: Fire |
| Burial |
Wells Cemetery, Wayne County, Illinois [1, 4] |
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Headstone, Wilkin, Mary Catherine "Katie"
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| Person ID |
I27460 |
Carl Wayne Gray Research |
| Last Modified |
28 Jul 2023 |
| Father |
Fout, W. H., b. 13 Jun 1842 d. 27 Oct 1914 (Age 72 years) |
| Mother |
Young, Susan, b. 18 Feb 1859, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio d. 27 Jan 1935, Mount Erie, Wayne County, Illinois (Age 75 years) |
| Family ID |
F9303 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Wilkin, Virgil Irenos, b. 15 Sep 1895, Wayne County, Illinois d. 8 May 1979, Flora Nursing Center, Flora, Clay County, Illinois (Age 83 years) |
| Marriage |
25 Sep 1920 [1] |
| Children |
| > | 1. Wilkin, Mary Ann, b. 14 Oct 1921, Wayne County, Illinois d. 12 Feb 2004, Bridgeport, Lawrence County, Illinois (Age 82 years) |
| + | 2. Wilkin, Glen 'Jim', b. 14 Sep 1923 d. 8 Jul 1982 (Age 58 years) |
| + | 3. Wilkin, Beatrice 'Peach', b. 18 Aug 1925, Wayne County, Illinois d. 18 Mar 2014, Good Samaritan Hospital, Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois (Age 88 years) |
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| Family ID |
F5678 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- 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
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| Sources |
- [S7854] http://www.findagrave.com, Obituary, Wilkin, Mary Catherine, (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114646734/mary-catherine-wilkin), none. (Reliability: 2).
- [S90] http://www.ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census, Mount Erie Township, Wayne County, Illinois, Page 12B, none. (Reliability: 2).
- [S3152] http://www.findagrave.com, Obituary, Cailteux, Beatrice, 88, (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126553839/beatrice-cailteux), none. (Reliability: 2).
- [S7855] http://www.findagrave.com, Headstone, Wilkin, Mary Catherine "Katie", (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114646734/mary-catherine-wilkin), none. (Reliability: 2).
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