William Riley Ivey

This article written and copyright 2015 by Will Johnson, wjhonson@aol.com, Professional Genealogist

When William Riley Ivey married secondly on 21 Mar 1877 in Franklin County, Arkansas to Mrs Frances Hardin, she had a prior child Savannah. I had known this since 1995 when my cousin Ida Ross sent me William R Ivy's 1910 Will where he calls her "my stepdaughter Savannah Hicks", but it was not until 2015 when an Ancestry leaf alerted me that William Ivy had appeared as the father on a Washington State death certificate, that I discovered that Savannah had died in Yakima, Washington on 31 Dec 1940 as "Frances S Hicks

Also in May 2015, I found the death certificate for "W R Ivy", I had always thought he likely died in Washington County, Arkansas; but he actuallyy died in Pomeroy, Washington, I suppose living with his daughter Julia and her husband Harvey Edgar "Dick" Wright who had moved there some time ago. His death certificate states that he is buried in the city cemetery of Pomeroy, and "Dick Wright" was the informant. (Image of Death Certificate)