Wood & Torbert Families

Myrtle Ernestine Bay

F, b. 2 February 1902, d. 14 January 1943

Myrtle Ernestine Bay Palmer Cellum, 1902-1943

Myrtle Ernestine Bay was born on 2 February 1902 in Bell County, Texas.
She was the daughter of John Edwin Bay and Stacy Scott Teague.
She and Olive Elizabeth Bay, Francis Oscar Bay and Eugene Salome Bay were enumerated in the census of 15 April 1910 in the household of John Edwin Bay and Stacy Scott Teague in Grimes County, Texas.
She and William Boyd Wood, Walter Warren Wood, Solomon William Wood, Martha Clarana Reed, Henry Campbell Wood and Claude Irvin Wood were enumerated in the census of 1 January 1920 in the household of Rush Brevard Wood II and Claudia Gertrude Bay in Richards, Grimes County, Texas.
She was a public school teacher, according to the census.
She married Jewitt M. Palmer, son of James Palmer and Minnie O. Barker, on 22 December 1922.
Myrtle Ernestine Bay and Jewitt M. Palmer appeared in the census of 1 April 1930 in Edcouch, Hidalgo County, Texas.
She married James Myrl Cellum circa 1933.
This photo of the Bay sisters was made about 1940: yungest to oldest, Myrtle, Ollie, Mary, Claudia and Willie.
Myrtle Ernestine Bay died on 14 January 1943 at age 40 in Edcouch, Hidalgo County, Texas, Her death was officially witnessed by James Myrl Cellum.
She was buried at Fairview Cemetery in Richards, Grimes County, Texas.