Keith Elias Poffenbarger ^{1 2 3 4}

  Death Notes:

Name: Keith E. Poffenbarger
Event Date: 26 Apr 1947
Event Place: Rock Island, Rock Island, Illinois
Gender: Male
Age: 46
Birth Year (Estimated): 1901
Father's Name: Bert Poffenbarger
Mother's Name: Ethel Lawrrance
Spouse's Name: Helen C. Poffenbarger
Reference ID: cn 17942

Citing this Record
"Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7M7-HJH : 9 March 2018), Helen C. Poffenbarger in entry for Keith E. Poffenbarger, 26 Apr 1947; Public Board of Health, Archives, Springfield; FHL microfilm 1,991,771.
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  Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the 1930 US Census in Aledo, IL on 19 April 1930. ¹

1930 US Census
Sheet 17A, District 9, Family 583, Roll 539
Aledo, Mercer County, Illinois, United States
505 South Maple; Home rented, $35
Keith Puffenbarger..Head..29..IL..Agent, Insurance

(Living with wife.)
.

• He appeared on the 1940 US Census in Rock Island, IL on 15 April 1940. ²

1940 US Census
Sheet 8A, District 81-76, Family 179, Roll 876
Ward 3, Rock Island, Rock Island County, Illinois, United States
1311 2nd Avenue; Home rented $38
Kieth Poffenbarger..Head..39..IL..1 year college..Superintendent, Interstate Commerce

(Living with wife.)
.

• He was buried after 26 April 1947 in the Rock Island Memorial Park Cemetery in Rock Island, IL.

Find A Grave Memorial 130015238
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Keith married Katherine Amlong, daughter of Samuel R. Amlong and Ellen Carnahan, about 1925.^{1 2} (Katherine Amlong was born on 30 December 1902 in Joy, IL,^{1 2 5 6 7 8} died on 25 December 1940 in Rock Island, IL ^{7 8} and was buried on 28 December 1940 in Aledo Cemetery, Aledo, IL ^{7 8}.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1930 US Census in Aledo, IL on 19 April 1930. ¹

1930 US Census
Sheet 17A, District 9, Dwelling 559, Family 583, Roll 539
Aledo, Mercer County, Illinois, United States
505 South Maple; Home rented, $35
Keith Puffenbarger..Head..29..IL..Agent, Insurance
Katharine Puffenbarger..Wife..27..IL..Clerk, Bank
Gladys Ramp..Lodger..24..IL..Stenographer, Lawyers Office
.

• They appeared on the 1940 US Census in Rock Island, IL on 15 April 1940. ²

1940 US Census
Sheet 8A, District 81-76, Family 179, Roll 876
Ward 3, Rock Island, Rock Island County, Illinois, United States
1311 2nd Avenue; Home rented $38
Kieth Poffenbarger..Head..39..IL..1 year college..Superintendant, Interstate Commerce
Katherine Poffenbarger..Wife..37..IL..4 years college
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  Marriage Notes:

The 1930 and 1940 US Census records show Katherine Amlong living with and apparently married to Keith Poffenbarger. No marriage record can be located and there is no other information about Keith Poffenbarger.

However, there was perhaps another or the same Keith Elias Poffenbarger, son of Bert and Ethel Poffenbarger, who was born in the same year about 1901 in Illinois. He appears with his parents in the 1910 and 1920 US Census in New Boston, Mercer County, Illinois. On 12 Jun 1920 he was married to Martha Jean Baner in Aurora, Kane County, Illinois. He died on 26 Apr 1947 in Rock Island, IL but the death records indicate his wife's name at that time was Helen C. Cramer.

If this is all the same Keith Poffenbarger, then his marriages seem to have gone like this:

--1920 Married to Martha Jean Baner
--about 1925 Married to Katherine Amlong
--about 1943 Married to Helen C. Cramer

To complicate this slightly, there is a 1930 US Census for a Keith Poffenbarger who was enumerated on 8 Apr 1930 and was living as a roomer in Muscatine, IA. He was listed as married for about 5 years but there is no wife or other family members listed with him. His occupation was a Salesman for Life Insurance. Based on his exact same age, exact same occupation, and exact same age when married, this certainly seems to be the same Keith Poffenbarger. It is not know why he was separated from his wife at the time. This enumeration in Muscatine was 11 days prior to his enumeration with his wife, Katherine, in Aledo, Mercer County, Illinois.

In addition, there is a death record of an infant born in Chicago on 7 May 1948 and died the next day whose father's name was Keith Poffenbarger. The infant was buried the next day in New Boston, Mercer County, IL. The mother's name was shown as Rosemary Mazzochi. But because of the death date of Keith Elias Poffenbarger known to be 26 Apr 1947, this infant that was born in May 1948 means that the same Keith Poffenbarger could not be the father.

That means that there was at least two different Keith Poffenbargers with direct ties to the New Boston, Mercer County area. I have been unable to locate any other parents or family members to which the second Keith Poffenbarger could be from.
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