Aunt Elizabeth and Uncle Merle

Uncle Merle and Aunt Elizabeth.  These 2 were mom's favorite Aunt and Uncle.  I think they were Uncle Bob and Uncle Richards favorite also.  Mom spoke of them often.  I remember we would go visit them in Brandon, Iowa.  They had a horse name Jinx that would throw us sometimes.  I also remember being in the top of the barn in the hay bales with Larry and Patty.  

Aunt Elizabeth

Uncle Merle and Aunt Elizabeth 

This is actually Mom's (Carol Wilson) first cousin.  She just so happened to be my age.  I did locate her just recently and sent her a message.  She lives in Orlando, Florida and has 2 daughter's Jill and Rachel.  He name on Facebook is Jon Pat Ritchie.  

Kenneth was Margaret E. Orr McKinley's second son,  He and Russell Orr McKinley are actually son's of Lloyd Andrew's.  You can see the marriage license below.  Margaret was pregnant with Russell and she and Lloyd had 2 children before they divorced and Margaret married Albertus George McKinley.  I have never found records that Albertus George McKinley ever adopted Kenneth and Russell.  So this makes Uncle Merle their 1/2 brother.  

Lower right entry is for Lloyd and Margaret Orr.  

Lloyd Andrews of the county of Wyandotte in the state of Kansas who is over the age of eighteen years.  Signed the 29th day of April, 1905. 

Margaret was born in 12-1-1886 and died 7-28-1982 and buried in Memorial Park Cemetery and Lloyd was born 4-8-1887.

                                                             I thought mom told me this was Uncle Merle but 

his daughter, Pat, said it was not him.  I will have to research more.  

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This was Aunt Eliabeth's obituary: Obituary found on Find A Grave and the article came from the March 10, 2006 Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier on line newspaper dated March 10, 2006.

Elizabeth McKinley

Independence - Elizabeth L McKinley, 88 years old, of

Independence, Iowa, died Tuesday, March 7, 2006 at the

Buchanan County Health Center In Independence following

a sudden illness.

Graveside services will be held at a later date. Her body

was cremated. White Funeral Home of Independence is

in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. McKinley is survived by her daughter Pat (John) Ritchie

of Metairie, Louisiana, 2 grand daughters, Jill Ritchie and

Rachel Ritchie, 1 sister, Ruth Lund of LaPorte City, Iowa, and

a host of nieces and nephews.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her

parents and 1 sister, Isabelle Robinson.