Mars Pierson Kinyon (1899 - 1951)

Born 15 May 1899 in Marshfield, Coos, Oregon, United States

Husband of Della (Vantrease) Goforth — married 7 Feb 1920 in Mendocino, California, United States

Died 22 Dec 1951 at age 52 in Seattle, King, Washington, United States

Biography

Son of David Oliver Kinyon and Nora Pierson.

Aged 1 in 1900, Mars was in Coos River with his parents.^[1]

At age 23, Mars P. Kinyon was lighthouse keeper at Tree Point Light Station, Ketchikan, Alaska. As part of his application for compensation for services in World War I, he declared that he was a resident of the state of Washington during the war, as he had resided there seven years prior to his father's appointment as lighthouse keeper in Alaska Territory. "As we resided on a government reserve," Mars wrote, "same does not change one's legal residence from the state of Washington but returned from Alaska and resided in Bellevue, Washington and resided there at the time of my enlistment" (in World War I). In 1917 his mother Nora E. Kinyon was at Mary Island Light Station in Ketchikan, Alaska.

Mars was living in Willits, Mendocino, California in 1920, in the household of his father David O. Kinyon, age 44, mother Nora E. Kinyon age 38 b Mo., and brother Norman, infant b California.^[2]

He married Della Vantrease 7 Feb 1920 in Mendocino County, California.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSD8-9JZ : 10 March 2022), Mars P Kinyon in entry for David O Kinyon, 1900.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH7K-N9B : 31 January 2021), Mars P Kinyon in entry for David O Kinyon, 1920.
3. ↑ "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8XG-VCY : 19 August 2022), Mars Pierson Kinyon and Della Vantrease, 1920.

• *"Washington Deaths and Burials, 1810-1960", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HVD9-D4T2 : 30 June 2021), Mars Pierson Kinyon, 1951.

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24063831/mars-pierson-kinyon

• Photo on file of Mars and his parents ca 1906-07 in Mukilteo Historical Society photo archive 2005.017.001