Fout, Mary Catherine 'Katie'

1901 - 1927  (25 years)

• Name	Fout, Mary Catherine 'Katie'
  Birth	25 Sep 1901	Mount Erie, Wayne County, Illinois   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Census		1920 Census, Clay City, Illinois, page 12a 1920 United States Federal Census, Clay City, Illinois, (District 0003) (Village), image 23, page 12a
  Reference Number	FOUT.M001
  _FGRAVE	114646734
  Death	9 Apr 1927	Zif Township, Wayne County, Illinois   [1, 3]
  	Cause: Fire
  Burial	Wells Cemetery, Wayne County, Illinois   [1, 4]
  		Headstone, Wilkin, Mary Catherine "Katie"
  Person ID	I27460	Carl Wayne Gray Research
  Last Modified	28 Jul 2023

  
  

  Father	Fout, W. H.,   b. 13 Jun 1842   d. 27 Oct 1914 (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Young, Susan,   b. 18 Feb 1859, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio d. 27 Jan 1935, Mount Erie, Wayne County, Illinois (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F9303	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Wilkin, Virgil Irenos,   b. 15 Sep 1895, Wayne County, Illinois d. 8 May 1979, Flora Nursing Center, Flora, Clay County, Illinois (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	25 Sep 1920  [1]
  Age at Marriage	She : 19 years - He : 25 years.
  Children	> 1. Wilkin, Mary Ann,   b. 14 Oct 1921, Wayne County, Illinois d. 12 Feb 2004, Bridgeport, Lawrence County, Illinois (Age 82 years) + 2. Wilkin, Glen 'Jim',   b. 14 Sep 1923   d. 8 Jul 1982 (Age 58 years) + 3. Wilkin, Beatrice 'Peach',   b. 18 Aug 1925, Wayne County, Illinois d. 18 Mar 2014, Good Samaritan Hospital, Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois (Age 88 years)
  Family ID	F5678	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 25 Sep 1901 - Mount Erie, Wayne County, Illinois Death - Cause: Fire - 9 Apr 1927 - Zif Township, Wayne County, Illinois Burial - - Wells Cemetery, Wayne County, Illinois  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

  Virgil Wilkin and his first wife Mary Katherine Fout Contributed by Barbara Julien

  
  

• Notes

  Wayne County Record, Apr 14, 1927, obit: On last Friday afernoon a terrible accident occurred in Zif Township whereby Mrs Catherine Wilkin was so badly burned that she died in about twelve hours after she had received the injury. Mrs Wilkin and her husband, Virgil, had been to a hatchery and returned home with a lot of little chickens and as the weather was somewhat cold for them, a fire was built in the kitchen stove and the little chicks were placed behind the stove. Mr Wilkin left the home to go to a neightborhood store and the children of the family were playing around in the yard with a neighbor child. In working around the stove the dress of Mrs Wilkin got against the stove which had become red hot and her clothing was soon a mass of flames. The children heard Mrs Wilkin scream and the little neighbor girl ran to her home and told her mother and a passing neightbor and they rushed to thehome and found Mrs Wilkin with her clothing entirely burned off andt he body was a mass of blacken flesh. Katie Fout, daughter of W H and Susan Fout was born in Mt Erie Township, Wayne County, IL on Sep 25, 1901 and departed this life Apr 9, 1927 at her home in Zif Township, Wayne County, IL, age 25 yr, 6 mo and 15 da. She has lived in this community all her life. On her nineteenth birthday, Sep 25, 1920, she was united in marriage to Virgil Wilkin to this union were born three children, Mary Ann, Glen and Beatrice. Information from Barbara Julien

  
  

• Sources

  [S7854] http://www.findagrave.com, Obituary, Wilkin, Mary Catherine, (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114646734/mary-catherine-wilkin), none. (Reliability: 2). [S90] http://www.ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census, Mount Erie Township, Wayne County, Illinois, Page 12B, none. (Reliability: 2). [S3152] http://www.findagrave.com, Obituary, Cailteux, Beatrice, 88, (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126553839/beatrice-cailteux), none. (Reliability: 2). [S7855] http://www.findagrave.com, Headstone, Wilkin, Mary Catherine "Katie", (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114646734/mary-catherine-wilkin), none. (Reliability: 2).