Ethel Bernice (Bretches) Marsh (1909 - 1968)

Born 28 Dec 1909 in Oak Valley, Elk County, Kansas

Ancestors

Wife of Richard Morgan — married 21 Sep 1926 in Kay County, Oklahoma

Wife of Clarence O'nan — married 21 Aug 1954 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri

Wife of Virgil Marsh — married 10 Oct 1959 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri

Descendants

Died 15 Apr 1968 at age 58 in Salt Lake, Salt Lake County, Utah

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Biography

Ethel was born on December 28, 1909 in Oak Valley, Elk County, Kansas and a daughter of Albert Bretches and Cora Ethel Beathe. Ethel Bretches had four husbands: 1st: Richard Morgan who she met in the Norton Tuberculosis Sanitarium in Norton,Kansas. at the age of fifteen. She and Richard eloped and got married. Richard died of tuberculosis about two years later. She then came to Kansas City to be with family and met Kirby Morgan through her sister, who was married to Kirby's brother. William Byran. Richard Morgan was not related to Kirby and Byran Morgan. They were married several years and had two daughters, LaVerne and Kyrthan and then divorced. 3rd husband was Clarence O'nan. They were married twice and divorced twice. They had one daughter, Cathy. The 4th husband was Virgil Marsh and that marriage ended in divorced. She passed away on April 15, 1968 in the Salt Lake City Hospital and buried in the Spanish Fork Cemetery in Spanish Fork, Utah County, Utah.^[1]

SOURCES

1. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial Number: 12512418.

History

When Ethel Bernice Bretches was born on 28 December 1909, in Longton, Elk, Kansas, United States, her father, Albert Byrd Bretches, was 33 and her mother, Cora Ethel Beathe, was 31. She married Donald D Morgan on 21 September 1926, in Kay, Oklahoma, United States. She lived in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States for about 15 years and Sedalia, Pettis, Missouri, United States in 1940. She died on 15 April 1968, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States.

Researcher: Richard Parker

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Marriages

1926 --- OKLAHOMA COUNTY MARRIAGE RECORDS 1890-1995

Name: Ethel Bratches

Gender: Female

Age: 18

Birth Date: About 1908

Marriage Date: September 21, 1926

Marriage Place: Kay County, Oklahoma, USA

Father: Bratches

Spouse: Dick Morgan

Film Number: 001311020

Researcher: Richard Parker

Source Information: Ancestry.com. Oklahoma, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1890-1995 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. --- Original data: Marriage Records. Oklahoma Marriages. Various Oklahoma County marriage collections.--- Description: This collection consists of county marriage records from various counties in Oklahoma.

1930 --- COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS MARRIAGE iNDEX 190-1960

Name: Kirby L Morgan

Marriage Date: June 25, 1930

Spouse:Ethel B Morgan

Marriage Location: Cook County, IL

Marriage license: {2CE53A83-F696-4683-80D2-6599B0A09D66}

File Number: 281754

Archive collection name: Cook County Genealogy Records (Marriages)

Archive repository location: Chicago, Illinois

Archive Repository Name: Cook County Clerk

Researcher: Richard Parker

Source Information: Ancestry.com. Cook County, Illinois Marriage Index, 1930-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. --- Original data: Cook County Clerk, comp. Cook County Clerk Genealogy Records. Cook County Clerk’s Office, Chicago, IL: Cook County Clerk, 2008. Cook County, Illinois. --- Description: This database contains an index to over 1.2 million marriages from 1930-1960 for Cook County, Illinois. Information listed in the index includes: name, spouse name, marriage date, file number, and marriage license ID.

1926 --- U. S. NEWSPAPERS.COM MARRIAGE INDEX 1800-1999

Name: Dick Morgan

Gender: Male

Age: 23

Birth Date: 1903

Residence Date: About1926

Residence Place: Arkansas City

Marriage Date: About1926

Spouse: Ethel Bratches

Researcher: Richard Parker

Source Citation: Publication Date: 22/ Sep/ 1926; Publication Place: Blackwell, Oklahoma, USA; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/603516388/?article=484f021b-ee76-4f9c-8273-596b6c44f50c/aa118b83-6403-4d82-9b71-2b0ab367d597&focus=0.029398385,0.8414997,0.15256968,0.9106834&xid=3398 --- Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2020. --- Original data: See newspaper information provided with each entry. --- Description:This database consists of facts extracted from marriages found on Newspapers.com™ dating from the early 1800s to 1999.

1952 --- MISSOURI MARRIAGES RECORDS 1805-2002

Name: Ethel B. Morgan

Age: 42

Birth Date: December 28, 1909

Race: White

Marriage Date: 1952

Marriage Location: Jackson, Missouri

Marriage County: Jackson

Spouse Name: Clarence M. O'nan

Age: 54

Race: White

Birth Date: December 10, 1896

[DIVORCED}

Researcher: Richard Parker

Source Information: Missouri State Archives; Jefferson City, MO, USA; Missouri Marriage Records [Microfilm --- Source Information: Ancestry.com. Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007. --- Original data: Missouri Marriage Records. Jefferson City, MO, USA: Missouri State Archives. Microfilm. --- Description: This database contains marriage records from Missouri covering the years 1805-2002. Information that may be found in this database includes the following: Bride and groom's names, races, birth dates or ages, parents' names, marriage date, and marriage place.

REMARRIED ----- 1954 --- MISSOURI MARRIAGES RECORDS 1805-2002

Name: Ethel B. O'nan

Age: 45

Race: White

Birth Date: December 28, 1909

Marriage: Date: August 21, 1954

Marriage Location: Jackson, Missouri

Spouse Name: Clarence M. O'nan

Age: 57

Race: White

Birth Date: December 10, 1896

{DIVORCED}

Researcher: Richard Parker

Source Infornation: Missouri State Archives; Jefferson City, MO, USA; Missouri Marriage Records [Microfilm --- Source Information: Ancestry.com. Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007. --- Original data: Missouri Marriage Records. Jefferson City, MO, USA: Missouri State Archives. Microfilm. --- Description: This database contains marriage records from Missouri covering the years 1805-2002. Information that may be found in this database includes the following: Bride and groom's names, races, birth dates or ages, parents' names, marriage date, and marriage place.

1952 --- MISSOURI MARRIAGES RECORDS 1805-2002

Name: Ethel B. Morgan

Age: 42

Birth Date: December 28, 1909

Race: White

Marriage Date: 1952

Marriage Location: Jackson, Missouri

Marriage County: Jackson

Spouse Name: Clarence M. O'nan

Age: 54

Race: White

Birth Date: December 10, 1896

{DIVORCED}

Researcher: Richard Parker

Source Information:Missouri State Archives; Jefferson City, MO, USA; Missouri Marriage Records [Microfilm --- Source Information: Ancestry.com. Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007. --- Original data: Missouri Marriage Records. Jefferson City, MO, USA: Missouri State Archives. Microfilm. --- Description: This database contains marriage records from Missouri covering the years 1805-2002. Information that may be found in this database includes the following: Bride and groom's names, races, birth dates or ages, parents' names, marriage date, and marriage place.

1957 --- Missouri Marriage Records 1805-2002

Name: Ethel B O'nan

Age: 47

Race/Ethnicity: White

Birth Date: December 28, 1909

Marriage Date: October 10, 1957

Marriage Place: Jackson, Kansas City, Missouri

Registration Place: Jackson, Missouri, USA

Spouse: Virgil C Marsh -

Spouse Birth Date: September 16, 1914

Spouse Race/Ethnicity: White

{Divorced}

Researcher: Richard Parker

Source Information: Missouri State Archives; Jefferson City, MO, USA; Missouri Marriage Records [Microfilm --- Source Information: Ancestry.com. Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007. --- Original data: Missouri Marriage Records. Jefferson City, MO, USA: Missouri State Archives. Microfilm. --- Description: This database contains marriage records from Missouri covering the years 1805-2002. Information that may be found in this database includes the following: Bride and groom's names, races, birth dates or ages, parents' names, marriage date, and marriage place.

U. S. Censuses

1910 --- U. S. Federal Census, Oak Valley Township, Elk County, Kansas -- Dwelling Number: 93 - Sheet: 16B - Microfilm Roll: 439 ----- Albert B. Bretches 34 (head) Kansas - Cora E. 32 (wife) Kansas -- Ada 13 (daughter) Kansas -- Liddie H. 11 (daughter) Kansas -- Everett O. 9 (son) Kansas -- Hazel J. 7 (daughter) Kansas -- Orvil P. 4 (son) Kansas -- Lola A. 2 (daughter) Kansas -- Ethel B 4/12 (daughter) Kansas. --- Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. --- Original data: Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA.

1920 --- U. S. Federal Census, Oak Valley Township, Elk County, Kansas -- Dwelling Number: 36 - Line: 92 - Page: 2B - Microfilm Roll: 529 ----- Albert B. Bretches 43 (head) Kansas -- Cora E. 41 (wife) Kansas -- Everett 19 (son) Kansas -- Hazel J. 17 (daughter) Kansas -- Mabel E. (daughter) Kansas -- Orval P. 13 (son) Kansas -- Lola A. 12 (daughter) -- Ethel 19 (daughter) Kansas -- Lloyd L. 7 (son) Kansas -- Edna R. 4 (daughter) Kansas. --- Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. --- Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 are on roll 323 (Chicago City).

1930 --- U. S. Federal Census, Chicago City, Cook County, Illinois -- Line: 50 ----- Ethel Bernice Morgan 21 - patient - widowed --- Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium - 5601 North Crawford - (husband Richard had died a few years earlier of tuberculosis). --- Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002. --- Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls.

1940 --- U. S. Federal Census, Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri -- Dwelling Number: 664 - Line: 47 - ED:80-25 - Microfilm Roll: 2139 --- Kirby Morgan 46 (head) --- --- Ethel 30 (wife) -- Ehtel 8 (daughter). --- Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. --- Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.

Obituary

1968 --- U. S. NEWSPAPERS OBITUARY INDEX 1800'S-CUUUENT

Name: Ethel Bretches Marsh

Gender: Female

Death Age: 59

Birth Date: About 1909

Birth Place: Longton, Kansas

Marriage Place: Kansas

Residence Place: Spanish Fork

Death Date: About 1968

Death Place: Salt Lake

Obituary Date: April 17, 1968

Obituary Place: Provo, Utah, USA

Parents: Albert Bird Bretches; Cora Ethel Beathe Bretches

Spouse: Virgil Marsh

Children:

La Verne Smith:

Krystyna Morgan

Kathy O'Nan

Siblings:

Ada Muzingo Mable Murphy Everett Bretches Lloyd Bretches Lydia Dickens Lola Hales Hazel Morgan Edna Parker Researcher: Richard Parker Source Citation: The Daily Herald; Publication Date: 17 Apr 1968; Publication Place: Provo, Utah, USA; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/468358544/?article=75e4984c-f5c5-4bf8-8192-a16695d5aa6b&focus=0.2783895,0.5363956,0.39269006,0.81459486&xid=3355. --- Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2019. --- Original data: See newspaper information provided with each entry. --- Description: This database consists of facts extracted from obituaries found on Newspapers.com™ dating from the early 1800’s to current.

Utah Index

1968 --- UTAH CEMETERY INDEX 1847-1997

Name: Ethel B. Marsh

Age: 58

Birth Date: December 28.1909

Death Date: April 15, 1968

Cemetery: Spanish Fork

Burial Place: Utah, County, Utah, USA

Researcher: Richard Parker

Source Information: Ancestry.com. Utah County, Utah, U.S., Cemetery Index, 1847-1997 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1998. --- Original data: Utah Valley Regional Family History Center. Utah County (UT) Cemetery Index. Provo, UT, USA: Utah Valley Regional Family History Center, 1997. --- Description: Index of 80,000 records collected from Utah cemeteries

Cemetery

1968 --- FIND A GRAVE INDEX 1600'S-CURRENT

Name: Ethel Bernice Marsh

Birth Date: December 28, 1909

Death Date: 15 Apr 1968

Cemetery: Spanish Fork City Cemetery

Burial or Cremation Place: Spanish Fork, Utah County, Utah, United States of America

Has Bio?: Y

Father: Albert Byrd Bretches

Mother: Cora Ethel Bretches

Spouse: Clarence Marion O'Nan

Children: Ethel La Verne Smith

URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12512418/ethel-bernice-marsh

Researcher: Richard Parker

Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. --- Original data: Find a Grave. Find a Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.:--- Description: This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find a Grave. Corrections and additions to memorials can be submitted on the Find a Grave site. When viewing a record in this database, you can navigate to the corresponding memorial on Find a Grave by clicking "Go to website" or clicking on the Find a Grave URL. Once viewing the memorial on Find a Grave, corrections can be submitted by clicking the 'edit' tab.

World Events

1910 · The BSA is Made Age 1 Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.

1910 · The Denver and Rio Grande Western Depot Age 1 The Denver and Rio Grande Western Depot, the Rio Grande Depot, is a former train station on the western edge of downtown Salt Lake City. The depot was constructed by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad to surpass the nearby Salt Lake City Union Pacific Depot and was the main jewel of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. The depot included a barber shop, a telegraph office a gift shop, a restaurant, a men's smoking room and a women's lounge. The depot opened Salt Lake City to a new influx of immigrants, and was also a central point in shipping soldiers off to war in both World War I and World War II. The depot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. After the State of Utah purchased the depot in 1977, the building was converted to house the Utah State Historical Society and its research center, the Utah Department of Heritage & Arts, as well as the Rio Gallery.

1927 Age 18 Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

1928 · The Tower Theater Age 19 The Tower Theatre is a historic film theater operated by the Salt Lake Film Society. The theater presents independent films and is a venue for the Sundance Film Festival. It also presents classic films on occasional weekends and hosts a movie-rental library for those that want to expand their cinematic knowledge.

1941 Age 32 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

1945 · George Albert Smith becomes the Prophet Age 36 After the death of Heber J. Grant, George Albert Smith became the 8th Prophet of this dispensation.

1955 · The Civil Rights Movement Begins Age 46 The civil rights movement was a movement to enforce constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that the other Americans enjoyed. By using nonviolent campaigns, those involved secured new recognition in laws and federal protection of all Americans. Moderators worked with Congress to pass of several pieces of legislation that overturned discriminatory practices.

1964 · The Old Hansen Planetarium Age 55 The Old Hansen Planetarium has served many functions throughout its history. Including, the Salt Lake City Public Library, the Hansen Planetarium and the O.C. Tanner Office. During its time as the Hansen Planetarium, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Planetarium officially closed in 2003 before the opening of the Clark Planetarium.

Researcher: Richard Parker Source Information: FAMILYSEARCH.ORG