Died
at age 95
in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States
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Biography
Emma Rhoda Belle Moberly was born on April 8, 1901 in Cherry Creek Township, Kansas to Thomas Lewis and Martha Lucina (Gudgel) Moberly. She married Robert E. Kirkland on February 4, 1925 in Saint Francis, Kansas. They were the parents of Charles Lewis (1926-1998), Eunice Marie (1929-1998), Emma Roberta (born in 1930), Mabel June (born in 1934), and Robert Earl (1935-2010). She married Verd Ransome Hafley on June 28, 1951 in Vancouver, Washington. They had no children. She died on June 23, 1996 in Portland, Oregon, at the age of 95 and was buried in Fairview Cemetery in Scappoose, Oregon.
Fact: Residence (1910) Cherry Creek, , Kansas
Fact: Residence (1920) Wano, Cheyenne, Kansas, United States
Fact: Obituary (25 Jun 1996) Portland, Oregon, United States
Fact: Burial (26 June 1996) Fairview Cemetery, Scappoose, Columbia, Oregon, United States
Sources
1910 Census: "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2HT-8BF : accessed 28 December 2020), Emma Moberley in household of Thomas L Moberley, Cherry Creek Township, Cheyenne, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 2, sheet 2A, family 34, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 434; FHL microfilm 1,374,447.
1920 Census: "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFDB-TN1 : accessed 28 December 2020), Emma R Moberly in household of Thomas L Moberly, Wano, Cheyenne, Kansas, United States; citing ED 6, sheet 2B, line 78, family 49, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 527; FHL microfilm 1,820,527.
1930 Census: "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7W6-2M8 : accessed 28 December 2020), Emma R B Kirkland in household of Robt E Kirkland, Armel, Yuma, Colorado, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 13, sheet 3B, line 53, family 77, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 252; FHL microfilm 2,339,987.
1940 Census: "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRDX-R4B : 6 February 2020), Emma Kirkland in household of Robert E Kirkland, Election Precinct 9, Yuma, Colorado, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 63-13, sheet 4B, line 43, family 74, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 483.
Obituary: Emma R. Hefley. Portland, Oregon: The Oregonian, June 25, 1996.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Emma by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
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Moberly-125 and Moberly-106 appear to represent the same person because: Clear duplicate. My Great Aunt Emma Rhoda Belle married Robert Edmund Kirkland 4 Feb 1925 at Saint Francis, Cheyenne, KS, Methodist Ch. After he died she married Verd Hefley