Edmona Ernestine (May) Healy (1907 - 1971)

Born 16 Jun 1907 in White County, Illinois

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Died 3 Feb 1971 at age 63 in Evansville, Indiana

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Biography

I met her once at our home in Cincinnati in the mid 1964. I remember because "It's my Party" by Leslie Gore was a big hit. She was like my mother quiet & laid back. My grandfather divorced her because he met another woman. I'm not sure why? She was born poor, lived poor, & died poor.

My Mom was the oldest of all those children Mona bore Seward Healy.

Mom and the 8 of up piled into a 1955 Chrysler New Yorker to see her in her small rundown apt. in downtown Evansville. The only good thing she had was an organ which she played very well. We were only there for a day & we bought our food, Baloney, a loaf of white bread & mayonnaise before we got there. Grandma couldn't have fed the 9 of us plus the 5 from my aunt Shirley and her kids.

Mom & my 2 oldest sisters were the only ones at her funeral. I was in the Corps in Sublc Bay.^[1] Mona is Edward Pikes grandmother. My mother and older sister Doris bought grandma's headstone. She is buried at Locust Hill Cemetery, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana.

Bio posted by Edward Pike on FindaGrave

"All of her children have now died. The oldest Zelma Ilene Healy Pike died in a Mt. Healy nursing home in 2013. She was 87 and my mother. My mother was cremated as my father. Mona's husband was Seward Healy and were later divorced. Dorothy & my mother were the last siblings alive & ask me to post her bio posted this since my mother was enable. The Healy's were an old family that came to White Co. from the Boston area through Vermont & Ohio. Dorothy died just month's before my mother Ilene died in 2013"

Someone on F.A.G. redid the bio and made mistakes.

Corrections

Mona lived to be 63 and my mother lived to be 87. My mother and aunt asked me to post the original bio as a memorial to their mother and I redid it after Mom died.

Mona had more children than this but I don't have information on them yet. Pike-2301 20:18, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

1910 Census

Alexander May, Husband, Male, White, age 34, born Indiana,

Martha May, Wife, White, age 28, born Tennessee,

Ethel May, Dau, White, age 10, born Illinois,

Edmona E May, Dau, White, age 2, born Illinois

Ray May, Son, Male, White, age 0, born Illinois,

Aliza Renn, Grmother, White, age 72, born Indiana,

White County, Illinois,^[2]

1920 Census

Alexander May, Husband, Male, White, Age 45, born Indiana,

Martha May, Wife, Female, White, Age 40, born Tenn, Fath B. Ind, Moth B. Tenn

Emma May, Dau, Female. White, Age 12, born Illinois, (Mona)

Ray May, Son, Male. White, Age 9, born Illinois,

Roy May, Son, Male. White, Age 5, born Illinois,

Lehman May, Son, Male. White, Age 1, born Illinois,

Eliza Renn Grmother, Female. White, Age 83, born Ohio,

White County, Illinois,^[3]

1940 Census

S W Healy, Husband, Male, White, age 41, born Illinois,

Monia Healy, Wife, Female, White, age 32, born Illinois,

Ilene Healy, Dau, Female, White, age 14, born Illinois,

Wayne Healy, Son, Male, White, age 12, born Illinois,

Carl Edmond, Son, Male, White, age 10, born Illinois,

Bobbie Healy, Son, Male, White, age 7, born Illinois,

Martha Lee, Dau, Female, White, age 4, born Illinois,

Shirley, Dau, Female, White, age 2, born Illinois,

Dorothy, Dau, Female, White, age 0, born Illinois,

Saline County, Illinois,^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=119150030 Pike-2301 23:31, 11 January 2016 (EST)
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch Affiliate Name The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKFW-TJR : accessed 15 November 2015 Ed L Pike-2301), Affiliate Film 333, GS Film 1374346, Digital Folder 4971191. Heralds Prairie, White, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 141, Image 303,Household ID 118, sheet 6B, NARA microfilm publication T624, (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,374,346. Pike-2301 00:34, 14 November 2015 (EST)
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch, Affiliate Name The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJZQ-PRQ : accessed 14 November 2015), Digital Folder 4300588, Image 848, Emma May in household of Alexander May, Norris, White, Illinois, United States; citing sheet 11A, family 272, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,820,413. Pike-2301 06:05, 14 November 2015 (EST)
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWZF-3Z1 : accessed 5 June 2015), S W Healy, Ward 7, Harrisburg, Harrisburg Township, Saline, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 83-22, Digital Folder 5459624, Image 707, sheet 2B, family 35, NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), roll 883. Pike-2301 23:24, 6 June 2015 (EST)