Lura KIRBY

  General Notes:

1877 BIRTH of Lura Kirby

1880 CENSUS, Illinois, Livingston County, Indian Grove Township ("Laura," age 3, with parents)

1900 CENSUS, Illinois, Livingston County, Indian Grove Township, Fairbury (Lura, age 23, with parents) (born "January, 1877") (Lura is "Sarah" in some census indexes)

1900 MARRIAGE of Lura Kirby and Adelbert D. "Del" Westervelt on June 20 in Livingston County, Illinois

1910 CENSUS, Illinois, Livingston County, Indian Grove Township ("Del," age 38, "Farm Operator") (wife transcribed "Levia," age 33) (the couple had been married 9 years; Lura was the mother of 2 children, 2 children living in the year 1910)

1920 CENSUS, Illinois, Livingston County, Indian Grove Township ("Adelbert D.," age 49, "Farmer, Farm") (wife "Lura," age 43)

1920 DEATH of husband, Adelbert D. "Del" Westervelt, at approximately 49 years

1930 CENSUS, Illinois, Livingston County, Indian Grove Township, Fairbury ("Lura," age 53, widow, is in the household of her mother "Clarinda," age 87, also a widow)

1949 DEATH, Lura (Kirby) Westervelt, at approximately 73 years



A photograph of the gravestone of Del Westervelt is at the Find A Grave web site

Lura married Adelbert D. WESTERVELT, son of Oscar S. WESTERVELT and Sarah L. VEATCH, on June 20, 1900 in Livingston County, Illinois. (Adelbert D. WESTERVELT was born on October 26, 1871 in Illinois, died in 1920 in Livingston County, Illinois and was buried in Graceland Cemetery, Fairbury, Livingston County, Illinois.)