Dorothy Mae Baird ²

  Noted events in her life were:

• Alt. Birth, January 8, 1899, Wapello, Louisa County, Iowa. ⁵

• Census, 1910, Wapello Township, Louisa County, Iowa. ⁶ Name illegible (Dorothy), daughter, white, age 11, single, born in Iowa, both parents born in Iowa, spoke English

• Census, 1930, Wapello Township, Louisa County, Iowa. ⁷ Dorthy M. Moyers, wife-H, female, white, age 31, married, first married at age 20, did not attend school during the previous year, could read and write, born in Iowa, father born in Iowa, state code 65, could speak English, no occupation

• Occupation, about 1950-1970. ¹ Dorothy worked as a seamstress for J. S. Schramm Company, Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa.

• Religion. ¹ Dorothy Mae Baird was a Methodist.

• Obituary, between June 1970 and July 1970. ¹ Dorothy M. Moyers, 71, of Burlington, Iowa passed away Sunday afternoon June 28, 1970 in the Mercy hospital, Iowa City, Iowa. She had been a patient in the hospital for four weeks.

The daughter of Tom and Cora Congrove Baird, she was born January 9, 1899 at Newport, Iowa. On September 20, 1919 she married Earl Moyers at Newport. Mrs. Moyers was an employee of the J. S. Schramm Company for the past 20 years as a seamstress. She was a member of the Methodist church.

She is survived by one son and one daughter: Wendell Moyers, Burlington, Iowa and Mrs. Phyllis White, Wilmette, Illinois.; seven grandchildren; one brother and seven sisters: Mr. Max Baird, La Mesa, California, Mrs. Mildred Pogemiller, Wapello, Iowa, Mrs. Hallie Mattson, Everleth, Minnesota, and Mrs. Freda Wilson, Mrs. Opal Nichols, Mrs. Myrtle Hamilton, Mrs. Wilma Bryant, and Mrs. Jean Griffin, [and] one Aunt, Mrs. Serilda Baird, all of Morning Sun.

Funeral services will be at the Methodist church in Morning Sun, with burial in the Elmwood cemetery at Morning Sun.

• Gravestone Inscription. ⁴ Dorothy Mae (Baird) Moyers' gravestone is located in Elmwood Cemetery near Morning Sun, Louisa County, Iowa. The inscription on the stone is: "Dorothy M. Moyers 1899 - 1970"

• Social Security Administration Information. ⁵ Dorothy Moyers; born: 8 January 1899; died: June 1970; last residence: 52601 (Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa); state where issued: Iowa

Dorothy married David Earl "Earl" Moyers, son of Pearl Alfred "P. A." Moyers and Jessie Mae Swan, on September 20, 1919 in Newport, Louisa County, Iowa.^{1 2} (David Earl "Earl" Moyers was born on October 19, 1898 in Mediapolis, Des Moines County, Iowa ² and died in January 1981 in Davenport, Scott County, Iowa ⁵.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage Fact. The information online at the LDS lists the marriage date as September 10, 1919.

• Residence, July 7, 1947, Wapello, Louisa County, Iowa. ⁸

• Divorce. ² Their filing for divorce was in Burlington, Iowa.