Ronald married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Laurance married TISHER, Cathrene I. Cathrene was born about 1913 in Colorado. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Harold married MCWHIRT, Dorothy M on 6 Jan 1938 in Red Lodge, Carbon, Montana, USA. Dorothy (daughter of WATSON, John Alexander and BURNS, Elizabeth, daughter of MCWHIRT, Garfield M and CORNTHWAITE, Lena) was born on 27 Sep 1911 in Yakima, Yakima, Washington, USA; died on 19 Mar 1983 in Kirkland, King, Washington, USA; was buried in Seattle, King County, Washington, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frank married CROCKETT, Ida on 11 Aug 1910 in Dawson, Montana. Ida (daughter of CROCKETT, Charles and FUNK, Joanna) was born in 1868 in Iowa, USA; died on 17 Sep 1954 in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Garfield had dark brown hair and blue eyes. He was employed as a flour packer. On December 11, 1903, he enlisted in Company "C" of the 10th U.S. Infantry at Crawford County, Kansas. He was discharged at Fort Lawton, Washington, as a sergeant. His first wife Lena and their infant son Clement, died in 1920, in a flu epidemic that caused about 20 millions deaths worldwide. Garfield felt he was unable to care for his children by himself. His son, Emmett, described his father as "kind of an itinerant laborer. A streetcar conductor, a bartender and everything else. And he couldn't take care of me. For real, he couldn't." He asked friends in West Seattle, a contractor and his wife, to take in Emmett.

In 1921, while living in Billings, Montana, Garfield was diagnosed as having pulmonary tuberculosis. Doctors felt that he had had the disease for some time. After his death, Mary applied for a widow's pension while living at 324 South 34th Street in Billings, Montana. The claim was rejected, however, since it could not be proven that Garfield had contracted the disease while in the service. Blanche (Reed) Grooms remembers Garfield living in a small house on his brother William Harry's place. Garfield's daughter Dorothy remembers him as being witty and "quite a talker."

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From Lea Watson:

After my father's father remarried, he had a boy, Gary McWhirt. Gary was here two years ago for Christmas, along with Pat Coryell (another McWhirt cousin) and her two sons. Gary lives in Silverdale. A few times over the last several years my father and I would go to dinner in Bellevue at a woman's by the name of Gloria (can't think of her last name), who was his first cousin. At these dinner's there always was, as well, a first cousin, Bill, who is a retired college professor, who came up from from California. They are all related to the Cornthwaite's, of which there were four sister's - my father and his cousin's mothers. The Cornthwaite's father owned an iron works factory in Ballard. He was also the mayor of Ballard - although myths have a way of becoming more colorful in time and he could have only just run for mayor. A lot more is known about the McWhirt side of the family and we seem to gravitate there. My mother's grandfather, John Hughes, was Seattle's Welsh Presbyterian (sp?) minister. He and his wife had seven children. They were both born in Wales, and the reason he came to America was to attend Princeton's Divinity School. Afterwards, they spent time in NY State and Kansas, before he came here to take over Seattle's Welsh Church, which used to be located on about 10th and East John St. My mother's father came here directly from Southampton, England.


Buried:
Highland Cemetery

Garfield married CORNTHWAITE, Lena about 1907. Lena (daughter of CORNTHWAITE, John and O'REILLY, Margaret) was born in Aug 1886 in England; died on 22 Mar 1920 in Richmond Highlands, King, Washington, USA; was buried in Seattle, King, Washington, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]