Getty
Sturgeon
Born in Kentucky, USA
Ancestors 
Brother of
Virgie Catherine (Sturgeon) Rasdall, Ada Elizabeth (Sturgeon) Cannon, Myrtle (Sturgeon) Windham, Verina (Sturgeon) Watt, Conrad Sturgeon, John Clellan Sturgeon, Wilmer Newton Sturgeon, Bluford Sturgeon, Hazel Anne (Sturgeon) Wilson, Cornelia (Sturgeon) Cox and Judson Edward Sturgeon
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 29
in Marion County, Indiana, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 22 May 2014
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Biography
- Getty Sturgeon, son of Granville W Sturgeon and Malinda Francis Lewis
- BIRTH AND DEATH
- Birth Date: 11 Mar 1901, per gravestone, death certificate
- Birth Place: Kentucky, per death certificate, census
- Death Date: 3 Sep 1930, per gravestone, death certificate
- Death Place: Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, per death certificate, obituary
- EVIDENCE OF PARENTS:
- Getty has childhood census with his parents and siblings
- Getty's death certificate names parents as "G W Sturgeon and Melinda Lewis
Sources
- BURIAL:
- Find A Grave Memorial# 9015872 (gravestone pictured)
- Inscription: Getty Sturgeon, Mar. 11, 1901 - Sep. 3, 1930
- Cemetery: Penns Chapel Cemetery, Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky
- BURIAL notes:
- The gravestone pictured on find-a-grave is not Getty’s original gravestone; it is a modern memorial gravestone that was placed sometime after 1974. The gravestones for Getty, his father, and 2 brothers Bluford & Judson, were all manufactured and placed at the same time.
- OBITUARY:
- The Park City Daily News (Bowling Green KY), 06 Sep 1930, Sat., Page 8
- Sturgeon Rites Are Conducted In County
- Funeral services for Getty Sturgeon, who died Wednesday afternoon at his home in Indianapolis, were held yesterday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at Penn's Chapel with interment following in the church cemetery. The services were in charge of the Rev. W W Maxey of this city. Mr Sturgeon was 29 years old and was a former resident of the Girkin vicinity of the county.
- DEATH RECORD:
- Ancestry.com. Indiana, U.S., Death Certificates
- Name: Getty Sturgeon
- Status: Male, White, Single
- Age: 29
- Birth Date: 11 Mar 1901
- Birth Place: Kentucky
- Death Date: 3 Sep 1930
- Death Place: Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, USA
- Father: Jw Sturgeon, born Ky … [looks like G W Sturgeon]
- Mother: Melinda Lewis, born Ky
- Informant J C Sturgeon … [brother John Clellan Sturgeon]
- 1910 CENSUS Census: Magisterial District 1, Warren, Kentucky, family#207
- Granville W Sturgeon ... 47 ... KY,KY,KY … married 22 yrs, farmer, owner
- Malinda Sturgeon ......... 40 ... KY,KY,KY … children 11, living 11
- Verina Sturgeon ........... 18 ... KY,KY,KY … attends school
- Conard Sturgeon .......... 16 ... KY,KY,KY … Not attends school...cannot write
- Mccleland Sturgeon ..... 14 ... KY,KY,KY … attends school
- Wilmer Sturgeon .......... 12 ... KY,KY,KY … attends school
- Getty Sturgeon ............. 10 ... KY,KY,KY … attends school <--------
- Blufard Sturgeon ............ 6 ... KY,KY,KY … attends school
- Hazell Sturgeon .............. 3 ... KY,KY,KY
- Carnell Sturgeon ......... 7m ... KY,KY,KY
- 1920 CENSUS Greencastle, Warren, Kentucky, family#281
- Granvil Sturgeon ...... 56 ... KY,KY,KY … Farmer, owner
- Francis Sturgeon ...... 51 ... KY,KY,KY
- Conard Sturgeon ...... 25 ... KY,KY,KY … farm laborer … cannot read/write
- Cleblan Sturgeon ...... 23 ... KY,KY,KY … farm laborer
- Wilmer Sturgeon ...... 21 ... KY,KY,KY … farm laborer
- Getty Sturgeon ......... 18 ... KY,KY,KY … farm laborer … attends school <--------
- Bleuffard Sturgeon ... 16 ... KY,KY,KY … farm laborer … attends school
- Hazel Sturgeon ......... 13 ... KY,KY,KY … attends school
- Carnelia Sturgeon .... 10 ... KY,KY,KY … attends school
- Judson Sturgeon ......... 7 ... KY,KY,KY … attends school
- 1930 CENSUS: Lawrence, Marion, Indiana
- Getty Sturgeon ... 29 ... KY,KY,KY … single, patient
- Institution: Marion County Tubercular Hospital
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Getty by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Getty:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Getty by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Getty:
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~1.56%
Doug Thompson
:
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T531909 [compare], FTDNA kit #663077
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~1.56%
James Cannon :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch LD6545313 [compare], FTDNA kit #722955
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