Myrtle Dora Hartley

Notes:

Who was Myrtle Dora Hartley? Many family members believe she was the daughter of James W. "Wild Jim" Hartley and his third wife Mary Vaughan, born to them in 1881. This would make her second husband, George W. Hartley, her half-brother.

Myrtle's 1943 NC death certificate names her parents as "William Allen" and "Mary E. Vaughan." Missouri Marriages on Ancestry contains the marriage of a Mary E. Vaughan to William H. Allen in Moniteau County, on 19 October 1865. Was this her mother's first husband, whom she said was her father to hide the half-sibling relationship to her husband? Or was her father really William Allen?

Name:

Was Blennerhassett her maiden or first marriage name?

Birth:

Both Myrtle's obit and her death cert specify her birthplace as Beulahville or Beulaville (two different spellings). This town (or variant spelling) has not been located. No county was stated.

Myrtle married Blennerhassett before 1915. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

1. [Unknown] Hartley was born between 1920-1925 in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, USA.

Myrtle married George Walter Hartley on 23 Dec 1915 in Southport, Brunswick County, North Carolina, USA. George (son of James W. "Wild Jim" Hartley and Margretta Delozier) was born in 1874; died on 16 Apr 1939 in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:

Myrtle was enumerated as George's wife in the 1920 Cumberland County census. His youngest daughter, however, was born about 1911 in Puerto Rico of a Spanish mother.