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Myrtle <I>Miller</I> Cawood

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Myrtle Miller Cawood

Birth
Death
2 Dec 1999 (aged 95–96)
Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan, USA
Burial
Cremated, Ashes given to family or friend Add to Map
Memorial ID
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Married Fred Lee Cawood, born in 1902, died in 02/02/1938. Fred's father was Stephen Cawood.

Fred died at the age of 36 and Myrtle would never remarry. They were living in Monroe at the time of Fred's death. They met in KY, Middlesboro area I believe. Myrtle always spoke of her husband as a wonderful man.
Children:
Claude Miller Cawood
Clyde Steven Cawood (Steve)
Lela Mae Henderson (deceased)
Ethel Corum

Lilly, Pascal Miller's grand daughter, remembers that her mother (Lillian Miller, daughter of Pascal) and father lived with Myrtle for a time, before moving to Jackson, and then back South.

1940 Census:
name: Myrtle Caywood
event: Census
event year: 1940
event place: Monroe, Monroe City, Monroe, Michigan, United States
gender: Female
age: 35
marital status: Widowed
race (standardized): White
relationship to head of household (original):
relationship to head of household (standardized): Head
birthplace: Tennessee
estimated birth year: 1905
residence in 1935: Same Place
enumeration district number: 58-32
family number: 415
sheet number and letter: 22B
line number: 76
nara publication number: T627
nara roll number: 1792
digital folder number: 005461650
image number: 00280
Household Gender Age Birthplace
head Myrtle Caywood F 35 Tennessee
son Stephen Caywood M 17 Kentucky
daughter Lela May Caywood F 15 Kentucky
daughter Ethel Caywood F 10 Michigan
roomer Carl Kitts M 37 Tennessee
roomer Joe Kitts M 11 Tennessee
roomer Howard Kitts M 9 Tennessee

(Myrtle was a landlord for many years)

Dave P. Miller, my grandfather, and Myrtle were siblings. Due to this fact, my father Tom visited "Aunt" Myrtle quite a bit in Monroe Michigan where Myrtle lived. One year Tom took Myrtle to Dave's home in Tennessee so Myrtle could visit with her brother Dave. They had not seen each other in decades.

We visited often at Myrtles home as children and played on the tracks behind her home.

Myrtle was alway's fond of my father, her nephew TJ. Her face would light up with joy when he would pay her a visit.

I visited Myrtle quite a bit in the nursing home in her later years. Myrtle suffered with blindness in the end due to diabetes, but she lived to be very old. She was sharp of mind up until the last year or two. I remember we talked a bit when my grandfather Dave died. Myrtle stated that she was now the only one left of her many siblings.

June 13, 1992.
In talking with Aunt Myrtle today, I asked her if she could tell
me the bible verse that she had used to remove warts. She said no, that once she passed on the Bible verse to someone else, it would no longer work for her.
She did pass to me a Bible verse, Ezekiel Chapter 16, Verse 6. According
to Myrtle, this verse will stop bleeding. My Grandmother Cox once told
me she remembered seeing this used by a woman on a small boy in the mountains
of KY.





Married Fred Lee Cawood, born in 1902, died in 02/02/1938. Fred's father was Stephen Cawood.

Fred died at the age of 36 and Myrtle would never remarry. They were living in Monroe at the time of Fred's death. They met in KY, Middlesboro area I believe. Myrtle always spoke of her husband as a wonderful man.
Children:
Claude Miller Cawood
Clyde Steven Cawood (Steve)
Lela Mae Henderson (deceased)
Ethel Corum

Lilly, Pascal Miller's grand daughter, remembers that her mother (Lillian Miller, daughter of Pascal) and father lived with Myrtle for a time, before moving to Jackson, and then back South.

1940 Census:
name: Myrtle Caywood
event: Census
event year: 1940
event place: Monroe, Monroe City, Monroe, Michigan, United States
gender: Female
age: 35
marital status: Widowed
race (standardized): White
relationship to head of household (original):
relationship to head of household (standardized): Head
birthplace: Tennessee
estimated birth year: 1905
residence in 1935: Same Place
enumeration district number: 58-32
family number: 415
sheet number and letter: 22B
line number: 76
nara publication number: T627
nara roll number: 1792
digital folder number: 005461650
image number: 00280
Household Gender Age Birthplace
head Myrtle Caywood F 35 Tennessee
son Stephen Caywood M 17 Kentucky
daughter Lela May Caywood F 15 Kentucky
daughter Ethel Caywood F 10 Michigan
roomer Carl Kitts M 37 Tennessee
roomer Joe Kitts M 11 Tennessee
roomer Howard Kitts M 9 Tennessee

(Myrtle was a landlord for many years)

Dave P. Miller, my grandfather, and Myrtle were siblings. Due to this fact, my father Tom visited "Aunt" Myrtle quite a bit in Monroe Michigan where Myrtle lived. One year Tom took Myrtle to Dave's home in Tennessee so Myrtle could visit with her brother Dave. They had not seen each other in decades.

We visited often at Myrtles home as children and played on the tracks behind her home.

Myrtle was alway's fond of my father, her nephew TJ. Her face would light up with joy when he would pay her a visit.

I visited Myrtle quite a bit in the nursing home in her later years. Myrtle suffered with blindness in the end due to diabetes, but she lived to be very old. She was sharp of mind up until the last year or two. I remember we talked a bit when my grandfather Dave died. Myrtle stated that she was now the only one left of her many siblings.

June 13, 1992.
In talking with Aunt Myrtle today, I asked her if she could tell
me the bible verse that she had used to remove warts. She said no, that once she passed on the Bible verse to someone else, it would no longer work for her.
She did pass to me a Bible verse, Ezekiel Chapter 16, Verse 6. According
to Myrtle, this verse will stop bleeding. My Grandmother Cox once told
me she remembered seeing this used by a woman on a small boy in the mountains
of KY.





Gravesite Details

Myrtle was cremated, and according to family, shares her husband Fred's grave



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