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Myra Halfpenny |
Myra Halfpenny -- also spelled "Mira" -- was born in Aug. 1894, presumably in Rohrsburg, Columbia County, PA, the daughter of Calvin and Caroline (Minerd) Halfpenny
She grew to adulthood near Rohrsburg. By the age of 15, in 1910, she boarded away from home, in West Scott Township, Columbia County. At that time, she dwelled in the residence of 72-year-old widower Hiram H. Brown, who kept several other teenage boarders at the time.
By 1915, when she would have been age 20, Myra lived in Orangeville. The Wilkes-Barre Times noted in one of its columns in September 1915 that she was "spending a few days in town among friends." Her residence circa 1917, when mentioned in the Bloomsburg (PA) Morning Press obituary of her sister Mary Averill, was in Bloomsburg.
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| Schoolhouse in Rohrsburg, a local landmark |
She has not yet been located on the federal census enumeration of 1920.
In 1922, Myra was named as an heir of B.F. Redline and slated to receive an inheritance of $568.66.
After that time, her name disappears from the public record. She was not named as a surviving sibling in the 1925 obituary of her brother or Ira or a survivor of her mother in 1935. No Pennsylvania certificate of death has been found for her between 1906 and 1970.
Nothing more is known, but will be added here once learned.
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