Myrtle Virginia Minton

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CENSUS RECORDS

1900 Census
Name: Myrtle Minton
Age: 5
Birth Date: Jul 1894
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1900: Civil District 4, Sequatchie, Tennessee
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Marital Status: Single
Father's name: Joe L Minton
Father's Birthplace: Tennessee
Mother's name: Bertie Minton
Mother's Birthplace: Tennessee
Household Members:
Name Age
Joe L Minton 30
Bertie Minton 27
Festus Minton 9
Myrtle Minton 5
Blanch Minton 1

1910 Census
Name: Myrtle V Minton
Age in 1910: 15
Birth Year: abt 1895
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1910: Civil District 4, Sequatchie, Tennessee
Street: West Valley Road
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Marital Status: Single
Father's name: Joseph Minton
Father's Birthplace: Tennessee
Mother's name: Bethira A Minton
Mother's Birthplace: Tennessee
Native Tongue: English
Attended School: Yes
Able to Read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Household Members:
Name Age
Joseph Minton 40
Bethira A Minton 37
Walter F Minton 18
Myrtle V Minton 15
Blanch Minton 11
Ina R Minton 5
Dortha B Minton 2 months

Birth:
Tennessee State Library and Archives; Nashville, Tennessee; Tennessee Death Records, 1908-1959; Roll #: 88
Name: Myrtle Virginia Ewton
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 22 Jul 1884
Birth Place: Tennessee
Age: 33
Death Date: 22 Jan 1918
Death Place: Dunlap, Sequatchie, Tennessee
Cause of Death: Pellagra with complications
Father's name: Joe Minton [Joseph L "Joe" Minton]
Father's Birth Place: Tennessee
Mother's name: Birtie Tate [Bethia Ann "Bertie" Tate]
Mother's Birth Place: Tennessee
Certificate Number: 622
[Pellagra is a vitamin deficiency disease caused by a chronic lack of niacin. The disease causes inflammation of the intestines preventing nutrient absorption and causing constant diarrhea. Pellagra also causes skin lesions and mental confusion. Untreated it can kill within five years. Today we have medication to treat this disease. At the time of Myrtle's death Pellagra was a frequent disease in the South where corn was a staple food and has a low dose of niacin.]

Buried:
Grave location and tombstone photo:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=79268897

Myrtle married Lee Ewton. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Birth:
Tennessee State Library and Archives; Nashville, Tennessee; Tennessee Death Records, 1908-1959; Roll #: 104
Name: Bertie Lee Ewton
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 22 Jan 1917
Birth Place: Sequatchie, Tennessee
Age: 2
Death Date: 22 Dec 1919
Cause of Death: warm fever and cold
Death Place: Dunlap, Sequatchie, Tennessee
Father's name: Lee Ewton
Father's Birth Place: Sequatchie, Tennessee
Mother's name: Myrtle Minton
Mother's Birth Place: Sequatchie, Tennessee
Certificate Number: 495

Buried:
Grave location and tombstone photo:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=58332881