Ethel Marie (Birkhimer) Tompkins (1896 - 1963)

Born 21 Apr 1896 in Cambridge, Guernsey, Ohio, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Ira Ogle Tompkins — married 24 Dec 1919 in Guernsey County, Ohio

Died 12 Feb 1963 at age 66 in Cambridge, Guernsey, Ohio, United States

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Biography

Ethel was born 21 April 1896 in Cambridge.^[1]

Ethel married Ira Tompkins. They were living in Cambridge in 1930^[2] and 1940.^[3]

Ethel died 12 February 1963 in Cambridge.^[4] Burial was at Northwood Cemetery, Cambridge.^[5]

"Mrs. Ethel M. Tompkins, 66, of 16 S. Ninth St., wife of Ira O. Tompkins, died at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday at Guernsey Memorial Hospital where she had been a patient two weeks. Death followed a brief illness.

She was born in Cambridge April 23, 1896, and resided here all her life. Her parents, Harry E. and Leota Ruby Birkhimer, are deceased.

Mrs. Tompkins leaves her husband; one son, Harry L. Tompkins of South Euclid; one sister, Miss Helen M. Birkhimer and a brother, William D. Birkhimer, both of Cambridge; two grandsons and one granddaughter. A daughter and a sister preceded her in death and a brother, Raymond Birkhimer, died in 1958.

Mrs. Tompkins was a member of First Methodist Church, Olive Rebekah Lodge No. 570 and Ladies Auxiliary of Canton.

Services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday at Bundy Funeral home by the Rev. Wallace R. Bryenton. Burial will be in Northwood Cemetery."^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ "Ohio Births and Christenings, 1821-1962", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XX84-GBV : 19 January 2020), Ethel M. Berkheimer, 1896.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X47X-PNB : accessed 7 January 2021), Ethel Tompkins in household of I O Tompkins, Cambridge, Guernsey, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 2, sheet 4A, line 49, family 79, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1804; FHL microfilm 2,341,538.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWXV-569 : 11 December 2019), Ethel Tompkins in household of Ira O Tompkins, Ward 2, Cambridge City, Cambridge Township, Guernsey, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 30-5, sheet 7B, line 42, family 153, 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 3075.
4. ↑ "Ohio Death Index, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VKLC-3QF : 11 November 2019), Ethel M Tompkins, 1963.
5. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLY-N9KW : 17 July 2020), Ethel Marie Birkhimer Tompkins, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
6. ↑ Cambridge, Daily Jeffersonian – 13 February 1963