Barbara Jeanette (Wiles) Kirby (1921 - 1957)

Born 19 Jan 1921 in Fort Myers, Lee, Florida, United States

Ancestors

Daughter of Homer Franklin Wiles and Grace Mae (Curry) Wiles

Wife of Edwin Henderson Kirby — married 30 Sep 1945 (to 1950) in Lee, Florida, United States

Died 24 Aug 1957 at age 36 in Fort Myers, Lee, Florida, United States

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Biography

Barbara Jeannette Wiles claimed to have been married to Lawrence Edgar Ferguson, a serviceman stationed in Tampa, Florida and gave birth to a son, Lawrence Damon Ferguson, b. April 27, 1943. Lawrence Edgar Ferguson was killed in an airplane accident in Hillsborough, Florida on March 9, 1943. He was found to have been married to Robert Lee Stamps on December 1, 1942 and his obituary naming her as his spouse. No marriage record can be found for Barbara Wiles and Lawrence Edgar Ferguson yet a birth announcement was published in the Tampa Tribune, Sunday, May 2, 1943, page 28 noting the parents as Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Ferguson and also noting his death: "Staff Sgt. Lawrence E. Ferguson was killed recently in the crash of a MacDill field medium bomber."

Barbara went on to marry Edwin Henderson Kirby on September 30, 1945 in Lee county per Florida marriage records. They were divorced in 1950 per Florida divorce records. They had one son, Wayne Edwin Kirby, b. January 13, 1949 Tampa, FL, d. December 19, 2016 Tampa, FL.

An article was published by Barbara Wiiles' father Homer in the News-Press in Fort Myers, FL on February 5, 1952 that Barbara had been married to James Haun and had returned from Key West the previous day to make her home in Fort Myers. No marriage record has been found. Barbara and James Haun had a female child born to them on March 9, 1955 and she was given up for adoption to a local family. She and James were not together at this point but no divorce record has been found. Barbara had been very sick and was battling cancer. She died in Fort Myers on April 24, 1957. James moved on to Georgia where he passed in Catoosa county on November 7, 1994.

Sources

See also:

• Florida Death Index
• obituary
• Find a Grave

DNA

• Maternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal GEDmatch comparison between Anonymous Haun , GEDmatch kit # KJ1731121, and John Waller, GEDmatch kit # A424401 , his 3rd cousin . Their most-recent common ancestors are William Curry and Nancy Adams, the great great grandparents of both Anonymous Haun and John Waller. Predicted relationship from GEDmatch: GEDmatch, based on sharing 30.3 cM across 1 segments.
• Maternal relationship is confirmed by a triangulated group on GEDmatch who share a 9.7 cM segment on chromosome 3, consisting of Anonymous Haun, GEDmatch kit # KJ1731121, and Irene (Lowe) Payne, her 4th cousin, GEDmatch kit # T829035, and Peter Adams, her 4th cousin, GEDmatch kit # T939668. (Irene and Peter are 4th cousins.) Their most-recent common ancestors are Jacob Adams and Wyannie Malone, the 3x great grandparents of both Anonymous Haun and Irene (Lowe) Payne and 3x great grandparents of Peter Adams. DNA test taker Anonymous Haun is the daughter of Barbara Wiles, the daughter of Grace Curry, the great granddaughter of the common ancestors Jacob Adams & Wyannie Malone.