WILLIAM MERTON (or METTON WILLIAM) KELLOGG {14903} <1.2b.3a.4f.5c.6j.7a.8d.9e.10e.11c.12f>, son of Leoline Valentine {8125} <1.2b.3a.4f.5c.6j.7a.8d.9e.10e.11c>, b. in Walnut Grove, Minn., 29 June 1873; m. on 3 October 1902, in Harvey, Ill., Florence Ella Hughes, dau. of George Washington Hughes and Alice Jane Powell, b. 7 Feb. 1875.

He d. 4 Nov. 1949 in Los Angeles, Cal.; she d. 4 Oct. 1966 in Long Beach, Cal.

He rem. to Milton, Ill. before 1900, Hansen, Ida. before 1910, Erie, Ill. before 1920, and prob. to Los Angeles, Cal. around 1935.

Children:

VERA VENITA {} <1.2b.3a.4f.5c.6j.7a.8d.9e.10e.11c.12f.13a>, b. 18 Dec. 1903 in Maywood, Ill.; m. 5 Apr. 1930, Harold Dennis Young, b. 31 May 1903; she d. 10 Nov. 1966; he d. 4 December 1969.

CLARENCE HUGHES {} <1.2b.3a.4f.5c.6j.7a.8d.9e.10e.11c.12f.13b>, b. 18 May 1905 in Ill.; m. 1 Mar. 1930, Velma Mae Miller, b. 19 July 1909; he died 10 April 1963; she d. 17 Sept. 1994.

GWENDOLYN [19790] <1.2b.3a.4f.5c.6j.7a.8d.9e.10e.11c.12f.13c>, b. 22 Nov. 1906 in Ill.; m. 5 Apr.1930 in Erie, Ill. in a double wedding with her sister Vera Venita <1.2b.3a.4f.5c.6j.7a.8d.9e.10e.11c.12f.13a>m. in Erie, Ill., Frank S. Burt; he d. 1983; she d. 19 June 1984 in Shasta, Cal.; prob. had no children.

LOIS IRENE {} <1.2b.3a.4f.5c.6j.7a.8d.9e.10e.11c.12f.13d>, b. 12 Apr. 1910 in Hansen, Ida.; m. 25 June 1933, Rudolph Gaydosh, b. 6 June 1901 in Austria-Hungary; he d. 29 Mar. 1983; she d. 11 May 1987.

THELMA ANNICE {} <1.2b.3a.4f.5c.6j.7a.8d.9e.10e.11c.12f.13e>, b. 15 Sept. 1912 in Jewell, Ia.; m. 27 June 1929, Ronald Melvin Carpenter, b. 8 Mar. 1910 in Lyndon, Ill.; he d. 13 Aug. 1934 in Erie, Ill.; she m. (2) abt. 1940, "Jinx" Jenkins; divorced abt. 1947; she m. (3), before 1950, Robert Ransom, b. 22 Nov. 1912; she d. 15 July 1966; he d. 2 Feb. 1978.

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