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  • ID: I310
  • Name: Bertha Lois WEEKS
  • Sex: F
  • Birth: 11 OCT 1881 in Streator, La Salle, IL
  • _RIN: 427 1 2
  • _RIN: 43 3
  • _RIN: 426 4
  • Death: 17 JUL 1962 in Fairhope, Baldwin, AL
  • _RIN: 444 5
  • _RIN: 427 1
  • _RIN: 16 6 of arteriosclerosis
  • Burial: 19 JUL 1962 Memory Gardens Cem, Fairhope, Baldwin, AL
  • _RIN: 444 5
  • _RIN: 427 1
  • _UID: A55C2799D3CD8346B5FBA6C5731D0EF4D757
  • Census: 1900 Martin, McLean, IL
  • Census: 1920 Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
  • Note:
    History of the Welch Family, pg 102:
    ... On June 1, 1910, at Bloomington, Ill., he was united in marriage to Bertha Weeks (born Oct 11, 1886, at Streator, Ill., the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Weeks - Thomas being Inspector of Mines for the State of Illinois.) Bertha Weeks is a graduate of Bloomington High School and Illinois State Normal University. The home was made in Bloomington, Ill. until 1916 when they moved to California...

    BURIAL: 19142 Greeno Rd (US 98), Fairhope. Grave is Section 1, 95 B1. Enter cemetery, go right of pond; turn left and drive towards back. At the tallest tower, the grave is to your left, about 5 rows back in that section about 20 feet from the road way.
    Bertha is listed on the Bloomington, Il (Blooming Grove Cem) cemetery page, next to her husband
    as "Bertha, no dates, wife of H. Borden, married 6/1910", but she is actually buried in Fairhope, AL.

    CENSUS: 1900 with father Thomas Weeks Martin township, McLean IL, ED 112, Sheet 8B

    CENSUS: 1910 with father Thomas Weeks Bloomington, McLean, IL, ED 85, Sheet 20B, line 87 to 91.

    CENSUS: 1920 with husband Harry B Calhoun Los Angeles, CA Sup Dist 8, Enum Dist 273, Sheet4A

    CENSUS: 1930 Bertha Calhoun with brother Charles Weeks
    2nd Ward, Evanston, Cook, IL ED 16-2112, Sh 4A
    Name Rel Sex Age Mar, Birth,Father,Mother,Occp, Vet
    Charles Head M 46 Wd 36 IL, Eng, OH
    Sarah Moth-H F 70 Wd 21 OH, Wales, Wales
    Genevia Dau F 8 S IL, IL, OH
    Bertha Calhoun Sister F 47 Wd 29 IL, Eng, OH
    Margaret Calhoun Niece F 18 S IL, IL, IL
    Thomas Calhoun Nephew M 13 S CA, IL, IL

    OBIT: Mrs. Bertha Lois Calhoun died July 17 following Long Illness...
    Mrs. Bertha Lois Calhoun, 80 died at the Beasley Nursing Home Tuesday July the 17th, at 7 p.m., after a long illness. Mrs. Calhoun, who was a native of Illinois, was moved here <Fairhope, AL> two years ago so she could be near her son, Thomas B. Calhoun and family.
    She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. John Luft, of Fort Worth, Texas; one son Thomas B. Calhoun, Fairhope; 6 grandchildren and other relatives.
    Funeral services will be held Thursday morning at the chapel of Higgins Mortuary at 10:30 o'clock. Rev Underwood will officiate.
    Interment will be in the Fairhope Memory Gardens with Higgins Brown Service Mortuaries, Inc. in charge of arrangements.
    Published 1962, paper unknown, probably Fairhope, AL.
  • _RIN: 87 7
  • _RIN: 43 3
  • Change Date: 2 JAN 2007 at 15:21:46



    Father: Thomas WEEKS b: 25 MAR 1850 in Kates Hill, Dudley, Worcester, England c: 14 APR 1850 in St. Thomas Par, Dudley, Worcester, England
    Mother: Sarah JENKINS b: 28 OCT 1859 in Pomeroy, Meigs, OH

    Marriage 1 Harry Borden CALHOUN b: 23 APR 1881 in Bloomington, McLean, IL
    • Married: 1 JUN 1910 in Bloomington, McLean, IL 8 3
    Children
    1. Has No Children Mary Margaret CALHOUN b: 1 JAN 1912 in Bloomington, McLean, IL
    2. Has No Children Thomas Borden CALHOUN b: 11 SEP 1916 in Bakersfield, Kern, CA

    Sources:
    1. Title: Death certificate
      Abbrev: Death certificate
      Note: For named indivdual.
      Quality: 3
    2. Title: US Census - 1900
      Abbrev: US Census - 1900
      Note: Thomas Weeks - Martin township, McLean IL
    3. Title: GEDCOM File : weeks-Grant-Collard-0504.ged
      Abbrev: GEDCOM File : weeks-Grant-Collard-0504.ged
      Text: Imported 223 Weeks names from Grant Collard in ID
      Date: 30 MAY 2004
    4. Title: Birth Certificate of named individual
      Abbrev: Birth Certificate
      Note: For named person
      Quality: 3
    5. Title: Marker in Cemetery listed
      Abbrev: Marker in Cemetery listed
    6. Title: Obituary
      Abbrev: Obituary
      Note: For named individual
    7. Title: Luft, Margaret (Calhoun) - 1988
      Abbrev: Luft, Margaret (Calhoun) - 1988
      Note:

    8. Repository:
        Name: Jared Jones Personal Library

      Title: Calhoun, Harry B obituary, 1928
      Abbrev: Calhoun, Harry B obituary, 1928
      Note:
      Obituary of H. Borden Calhoun, in Bloomington, IL paper

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