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Marcella Mae Kirkpatrick[1]

Female 1922 - 1935  (13 years)

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  • Name Marcella Mae Kirkpatrick
    Birth 12 Mar 1922  Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female
    Burial 1935  Bucklin Cemetery, Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 13 Apr 1935  Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I25262  Bisbee
    Last Modified 31 May 2010

    Father Alva Glen Kirkpatrick,   b. 24 Jan 1897   d. 1 Oct 1962, Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years)
    Mother Jessie Melia,   b. 30 Aug 1898, Plains, Meade, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Marriage 18 Nov 1918 
    Family ID F9494  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 12 Mar 1922 - Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 1935 - Bucklin Cemetery, Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 13 Apr 1935 - Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • From "The Melia Family" by Kay Melia 2001

      "Marcella was the only daughter born to Jessie and Glen. She was a beautiful girl, born in 1922, but died at the age of 13 from complications of pnemonia probably aggrivated by the terrible dust storms which were so common during those "dust bowel" days of the 1930s in the plains states." She was Burried on "Black Sunday" the day known Worldwide as the worst of all the Dust storms of the 30s and the cloud of dust was so bad that the procession to the cemetery had to be halted as one could not see the car in front of the other. After it cleared a little, they proceeded on to the cemetery and everyone there had a wet hankerchief over their face and afterwards, the handkerchiefs were black with mud as told to Charlene Kirkpatrick by Marcella's Mother Jessie. She told of riding in the car and one could see this black cloud coming across the horizon and they watched it come just like a huge wave and it soon enveloped them, requiring them all to stop and wait for up to an hour before it cleared enough to continue.

  • Sources 
    1. [S2589] Crandall Melia, Grandson of Birdie Grace Bisbee, Melia, Crandall: Grandson of Birdie Grace Bisbee, (1837 N. San Antonia Ave, Upland, California. Tel. 909-985-4350. Email candcmelia2@yahoo.com).