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Jasper Edmund “Ed” Shirley BIRTH 23 Mar 1873 Melbourne, Harrison County, Missouri, USA DEATH 21 Jun 1937 (aged 64) Melbourne, Harrison County, Missouri, USA BURIAL Cat Creek Cemetery Gilman City, Harrison County, Missouri, USA MEMORIAL ID 42001454 · View Source

FIND 'ED' SHIRLEY DEAD IN CORNFIELD Melbourne Man Succumbs to Stroke While Plowing-Was 64 Years Old J.E. (Ed) Shirley, widely known farmer living north of Melbourne, was found dead in a cornfield on his place late Monday afternoon by Jack Little, who was passing on a road which runs by the spot where Mr. Shirley had been plowing. The body was left there for examination by Coroner Joe E. Wheeler of Bethany, who pronounced death due to a cerebral hemorrhage. Wheeler reached the spot early that night. The gentle team which Mr. Shirley had been working had moved but a short distance from where he fell. Mr. Shirley, 64 years old, had not been well for about two years. He is survived by his wife, by step-children, and by children from a former marriage. A 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Shirley, their only child, was Emory Edmond, who died in January of a brain concussion after he had been injured in a fall while coasting on the heavy sleet.

he married Amanda in 1901. his second wife lived until 1960.

Emery Edmund Shirley BIRTH 4 Mar 1927 Grundy County, Missouri, USA DEATH 18 Jan 1937 (aged 9) Grundy County, Missouri, USA BURIAL Cat Creek Cemetery Gilman City, Harrison County, Missouri, USA MEMORIAL ID 8913687 · View Source

s/o Jasper Edmund & Lela Rebecca (GIBLER) SHIRLEY. brain concussion from coasting accident.

Emery's half siblings: Earl Chester Shirley 1902–1979; Clay William Shirley 1903–1980; Otis Roy Hobbs 1905–1977; Edna Cloe Hobbs 1907–1916; Everett Austin Shirley 1907–1972; Albert Noah Hobbs 1911–1972; Alice Nadene Hobbs Misner 1917–1964; George R Hobbs 1922–1923