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Family Sheet

HUSBAND
Name: E. Kent Merry Note Born: Apr 1882 at Ohio, , , Married: 22 Jun 1905 at Wichita, , Sedgwick Co., KS Died: at Divorced , , , Father: Charles C. Merry Mother: Unknown
WIFE
Name: Mayme Josephine Downing Note Born: 23 Sep 1876 at Chester County, , , PA Died: 28 Jan 1951 at Wichita, , Sedgwick Co., KS Father: Benjamin Henry Downing Mother: Kate E. Dowell
CHILDREN

NOTES
1). 18401.ged Cemetery records for Mayme J. Merry show she was divorced at the time of her death in 1951. Downing.ged Cemetery records for Mayme J. Merry show she was divorced at the time of her death in 1951. The Wichita social register for 1921 shows Kent Merry as a member of the Rotary Club and the Wichita Club. The 1900 census for Sedgwick county Wichita shows his name as Kent E. Merry, living at home with his parents, Charles and Pelna E. Merry, and sister, Helen. After his divorce from Mayme, he apparently re married, as indicated in a death notice in The Wichita Eagle, November 14, 1964 Ex Industrialist Kent Merry Dies The founder and former president of Interlocking Cement Stave Silo Co., Ke Merry, died Sunday in Tampa, Florida. Mr. Merry established the company here and sold it in 1937 to B. M. Radcliff, who later sold it to Dodson Mfg., Co. H had lived in Tampa since selling the firm, and is survived by his wife, Edith, 4811 N. Armenia, Tampa.
2).  18401.ged  See letter from Pearl Redfield Downing in her file to Rudolph  Downing commenting the following   I had sad news from Wichita, Rudy.  Mayme passed away last January. Em didn  t have our address, so couldn  t let us know  From a response to a Cemetery Look up Request in Wichita  billpenn@swbell.net  Bill Pennington   Benjamin and Kate Downing are buried together in Maple Grove Cemetery along with Sally Marie Downing and Mayme J. MERRY.   Section F, Lot 35.  Mayme  s addressat the time of her death was 806 Buffam, Wichita.  Cause of death was  Cardiorenal Involvement   kidney failure affecting the heart .  The death certificate of Mayme was obtained from the KS State Board of Health on 7 21 98.  It shows that she was divorced from E. Kent Merry at the time of her death.  Her address was 806 Buffam, Wichita, KS.  The informant for the death certificate was Mrs. Emily E. Alspaugh, and I  m still trying to figur out that family group.  Was that Emma  s married name, or Annie? Downing.ged  See letter from Pearl Redfield Downing in her file to Rudolph  Downing commenting the following I had sad news from Wichita, Rudy.  Mayme passed away last January. Em didn  t have our address, so couldn  t let us know  The 1880 census report for Barton county, Kansas, shows her listed as  Mary .  One might assume this was the name she was called by family.  The death certificate of Mayme was obtained from the KS State Board of Health on 7 21 98.  It shows that she was divorced from E. Kent Merry at the time of her death.  Her address was 806 Buffam, Wichita, KS.  The informant for the death certificate was Mrs. Emily E. Alspaugh, her sister.  Short obituary from the  Wichita Eagle  in files.  A photo of the Buffam address, as it appear in 1999, is in the main album, provided by John Schunk of the Midwest Historica and Genealogical Society. An obituary for Kent Merry was obtained at the Midwest Historical and Genealogical Society in Wichita in May, 2000.  It shows that he re married afte the divorce, and died in Tampa, FL, in 1964.

						

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