Omer L CUNNINGHAM Omer L CUNNINGHAM Bobby Dale HOOVER Hershell HENDERSON Robert L CUNNINGHAM James Chester CUNNINGHAM Betty Jean CUNNINGHAM Jessie Mae CUNNINGHAM Charles Tilman CUNNINGHAM Alma Mae MADDOX Mini tree diagram
Bertie Elizabeth CUNNINGHAM

Bertie Elizabeth CUNNINGHAM6,1,2,3,7,4

25th Jun 19321,2,3,4 - 31st Jul 19915,4

Life History

25th Jun 1932

Born in Arkansas County, Arkansas.1,2,3,4

15th Sep 1951

Married Bobby Dale HOOVER in Arkansas County, Arkansas.3

31st Jul 1991

Died in Arkansas.5,4

after 31st Jul 1991

Buried in Cedarcrest Memorial Gardens, De Witt, Arkansas County, Arkansas.4

UNKNOWN

Married Hershell HENDERSON in Arkansas County, Arkansas

UNKNOWN

Divorced from Bobby Dale HOOVER

Notes

  • 1940 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 16 April, Prairie Township, District 24, page 7A, Ethel Rd, Hse #100, Rents Farm, Value $20
    Cunningham, Omer Head M W 32 Grade 5 b Arkansas same house in 1935 Farmer
    Cunningham, Alma Wife F W 53 Grade 9 b Arkansas same house in 1935
    Cunningham, Birdie Dau F W 7 Single Grade 0 b Arkansas same house in 1935

    Bertie's marriage record for her first marriage, to Bobby Dale Hoover, reports her age consistent with birth in 1932 or 1933.

    Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957
    Bertie Elizabeth Cunningham
    Age 19 (born abt 1932)
    Residence Stuttgart, Arkansas
    Bobby Dale Hoover, Age 21  (born abt 1930)
    Residence Reydell, Jefferson, Arkansas
    Marriage 15 Sep 1951 Arkansas County
    Marriage License Date 13 Sep 1951

    Later directory entries further confirm Birtie Elizabeth's birth with the actual date in 1932.

    U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1
    Bertie E Henderson
    Birth Date 25 Jun 1932
    Phone Number 946-1143
    313 So Adams, Dewitt, AR, 72042 (1985)
    113 S Adams St, DeWitt, AR, 72042-2036 (1992)

    It is not known when Bertied married Hershell Henderson.  She died before her first husband Bobby Dale Hoover, so they were divcrced at some point.  But no divorce record or record of her marriage to Hershell Henderson has been found.  Her cousin Edith McSwain Jenkins commented, "I thought she was married and divorced twice before she married Hershell Henderson."  The name of the third husband between Bobby Dale and Hershell is not known.  No record has been found of the second marriage or divorce.

    Bertie E Cunningham Henderson
    Birth 25 Jun 1932
    Death 31 Jul 1991 (aged 59)
    Burial Cedarcrest Memorial Gardens, De Witt, Arkansas County, Arkansas, USA
    Parents:
    Omer L Cunningham 1908-1955
    Alma Mae Maddox Cunningham 1913-2006
    Spouse Bobby Dale Hoover 1931-1998 (m. 1951)
    Created by Jerry Grisham 1 Mar 2012
    --  Find a Grave Memorial 86054150, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86054150/bertie-e-henderson

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    This genealogy previously reported the birth date of Bertie Elizabeth Cunningham as birth 26 November 1935 and death in Wichita Kansas 26 January 2006.  This was based on a public directory record for an Elizabeth Henderson living in Friars Point, Mississippi, in 1995.

    In August 2012, I found information clarifying that this Elizabeth Henderson was a different person, and not Bertie Elizabeth Cunningham who married Herschell Henderson.  So this birth date is for the other Elizabeth Henderson.  I found a memorial on Find a Grave for the Elizabeth Henderson in Friars Point, Mississippi, that gave details on that person.

    These records indicate (Bertie) Elizabeth was born in November 1935.  But in the 1940 census, the parents of our Bertie Elizabeth Cunningham reported her as 7 years old, which would make her born in about 1933.  The census says their son Bobby was born in 1935.
    Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=HE&GSfn=e&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=27&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GSsr=321&GRid=36349579&df=all&
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