Mary Elizabeth (Kirkland) Rutherford (abt. 1860 - 1941)

Born about 1860 in Louisville, Kentucky

Ancestors

Wife of William McElroy Rutherford — married about Apr 1883 (to about 1897) in Trident, Benton County, Arkansas

Wife of John Hull — married 27 May 1901 (to 1904) in Benton County, Arkansas [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 9 Jul 1941 at about age 81 in Cane Hill, AR

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Biography

This profile is part of the Kirkland Name Study.

Upon their divorce, William McElroy Rutherford took three children with him: Nola, Fred, and Dott; however, Dott was returned to Mary Elizabeth Kirkland Rutherford Hull.

Elizabeth remarried a Captain John Hull (1-30-1844 to 11-23-1904), sometime in 1900. He lived three years after this marriage and is buried in Bethlehem Cemetery in Washington County, near Morrow, Arkansas.

Elizabeth ("Lizzie" and "Grandma Hull"), along with Dott, Clyde, & Edith are buried in Bethesda Cemetery, Washington CO, Arkansas.

Gertie died of Typhoid Fever at 1:30 pm, just three weeks after becoming sick and weeks before her marriage. She is buried in Dutch Mills Cemetery, Wash. Co, Arkansas

Sources

• Personal family knowledge, collected by Samuel Lowrie Carmack in the 1960s. Also, I live within 15 miles of all of the burial sites.

The Reeds 1710-1981, by Bonnie Sellers, second printing, 1996

Luginbuel Funeral Home @luginbuel.com, Genealogy Section.