Myrtle Dora Hartley

1880 - 1943  (62 years)

• Name	Myrtle Dora Hartley  [1]
  	Was Blennerhassett her maiden or first marriage name?
  Born	2 Sep 1880	Beulahville, Arkansas, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  	Obit states that she was a "native of Beulahville, Ark., but had resided in Fayetteville most of her life." GNIS does not find a Beulahville in Arkansas, nor does a Google search. Her marriage to George W. Hartley in 1915 states her age at that time as 33. 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.
  Gender	Female
  Died	19 Feb 1943	Wesley Long Hospital, Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, USA   [2]
  Buried	Cross Creek Cemetery, Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, USA   [2]
  Person ID	I5233	Full | ProgenitorWalker
  Last Modified	19 Jan 2013

  
  

  Family 1	Blennerhassett
  Married	Before 1915
  Children	1. [Unknown] Hartley,   b. Between 1920-1925, Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, USA
  Last Modified	19 Jan 2013
  Family ID	F1825	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	George Walter Hartley,   b. 1874,   d. 16 Apr 1939, Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, USA  (Age 65 years)
  Married	23 Dec 1915	Southport, Brunswick County, North Carolina, USA   [3, 4]
  	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.
  Last Modified	19 Jan 2013
  Family ID	F1823	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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? [1, 5]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1549] Diane Erwin, contributor, “Cedar County Pioneers: James Hartley, Sr.,” descendant report, Welcome to Cedar County, Missouri (http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocedar/ : accessed 19 January 2013). . [S3067] "Obituary: Mrs. Myrtle Hartley,", Greensboro (North Carolina) Daily News, 20 February 1943, p. 2, col. 7; digital image, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : accessed 19 January 2013). [S3066] 1920 U.S. census, Cumberland County, North Carolina, population schedule, Manchester (Monroe Rd.), Camp Bragg, enumeration district (ED) 64, sheet 11B (penned), p. 17, (stamped, verso), dwelling 130, family 146, George W. Hartley household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 17 January 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 1294. [S3070] "North Carolina, Marriages, 1759-1979," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 19 January 2012), entry for Geo. W. Hartley-Myrtle Blenneshasset [sic], 23 December 1915, Brunswick County; citing FHL microfilm no. 328, 782. [S3071] "North Carolina Deaths 1931-1994," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 19 January 2013), for Myrtle Hartley, 19 February 1943, Guilford County; North Carolina Deaths, Department of Public Health, State Department of Archives and History, Raleigh.