Notes for Hellen Amelia THURTELL

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Notes for Hellen Amelia THURTELL

The 1963 Thurtell Family History and the History of the Thurtell Family compiled by Susan Persia Thurtell about 1968 show Hellen Amelia Thurtell was born in 1895 and died in Nitro, West Virginia, in 1918.

She is listed as Helen A. Thurtell, age 4 and born in Wisconsin in August 1895, in the 1900 U.S. Census for Manitowoc County, Wisconsin (SD 213, ED 71, Sheet 9), living in the First Ward of Manitowoc City, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, with her parents, Herbert and Carrie M. Thurtell, her brother Howard C. Thurtell, and her maternal grandfather, Llewellyn Chapel, whose last name looks like Chaper in the census.

She is listed in the 1911 Traverse City directory as "Thurtell, Helen, student, bds 440 6th."

The U.S. Census Soundex for Michigan for 1910 (030 0056 0270) shows Helen Thurtell as age 14, born in Wisconsin, and living in Traverse City, Grand Traverse County, Michigan, with her parents, Herbert and Carrie Thurtell, her brother Howard age 16 and her sister Irene age 9.

She is almost certainly the Helen Thurtell who was in the Junior Class at Traverse City High School as listed in the school yearbook, "The Pines" posted on the internet in November 1998 at http://members.aol.com/kingsley/1913gtjr.html.

She is buried at Oakwood Cemetery, 1225 East Eighth Street, Traverse City, Michigan 49686, telephone 616-922-4907, in Block 5, Lot 2, Second Edition. Oakwood Cemetery records show she died at age 22 on August 10, 1918, in Charleston, West Virginia.

Articles in the Traverse City Record Eagle on August 12 and 14, 1918, show Helen Thurtell was a graduate of the Traverse City, Michigan schools and very popular. Her parents had moved to Benton Harbor in May 1918, and she had gone with them, later going to Nitro, West Virginia, where she had taken a government position in a munitions plant. She had been there only six weeks when she was striken with typhoid fever, and she died in Nitro two weeks later. Funeral services were held from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Caldwell, 416 Sixth Street, Traverse City, by Rev. Demas Cochlin from the First Congregational Church.

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