Eva Ethny Reedy

1891-1922 · Kansas

Born 1891, Marshall County, Kansas

Died 1922

Father: William Reedy

Mother: Lillie Jewell

Children include Charles

Eva Ethny Reedy was born in Marshall County, in northeastern Kansas, on 24 June 1891. She was a daughter of William Reedy, an Iowa-born farmer, and Lillie Jewell, who was born in Kansas.

In 1900 she was nine, living at Waterville in Marshall County with her parents and eight brothers and sisters: Thomas, James, Lillie, Louise, Alice, Arman, Josie and Bertie. Within the next ten years the Reedys moved west to Paradise Township in Rooks County, close to the Saline River country of the Simpsons.

By 1909, before she was eighteen, she had married Perry Commodore Simpson, a farmer twelve years older, and went to live in the Saline River country of northern Ellis County. A portrait of the young couple survives: Eva stands beside Perry with her hair piled high, in a long white dress with a lace bodice and puffed sleeves.

She had seven children in thirteen years. Clarence Raymond, called Ray, was born in 1909, William Arvie in 1911, Lillie Ellen in 1914 and Charles Frank in 1915. Lester Allen came late in 1917, and that January a neighbor girl, Merle Brumitt, was "taking care of the new boy at Perry Simpson's." Julia Elvira followed in 1920 and Edward Leroy, called Buster, in 1922.

Eva died at Hays on 25 June 1922, the day after her thirty-first birthday. Her youngest child was a baby that year and her eldest was thirteen. She is buried at Norman Cemetery in Ellis County, and her small panel on the Simpson stone reads "Eva E. 1891 - 1922".

Parents

Lillie Jewell (b. 1861)

William Reedy b. 1854

Children

Charles Frank Simpson 1915-1992

Sources

Find a Grave memorials 19223213 and 19223196, photograph added by Dian Simpson, 6 October 2019

Find a Grave memorial 19223213, Norman Cemetery, Ellis County, Kansas, photograph added 8 February 2009

Hays Free Press, Hays, Kansas, 12 January 1918, page 1, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84029690/1918-01-12/ed-1/?sp=1

Hays Free Press, 12 January 1918, page 1 (Chronicling America, sn84029690); Find a Grave memorial 19223196 with the couple's portrait added by Dian Simpson, and memorial 19223213

United States census, 1900, Kansas, Marshall County, Waterville Township, enumeration district 72, sheet 12A, line 42, FamilySearch, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMYQ-NM5

United States census, 1920, Kansas, Ellis County, Saline Township, FamilySearch, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF6H-ZGM

United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007, FamilySearch, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6K7X-P75G

Hays Free Press, 12 January 1918, page 1 (Chronicling America, sn84029690); Find a Grave memorial 19223196 with the couple's portrait added by Dian Simpson, and memorial 19223213; United States census 1900, Waterville Township, Marshall County, Kansas, enumeration district 72, sheet 12A, line 42 (FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:MMYQ-NM5); United States census 1920, Saline Township, Ellis County (FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:MF6H-ZGM); United States Social Security Numerical Identification Files (FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:6K7X-P7R9)

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