May Ida Devine ^{1 2 3 4 5}

   Cause of her death was septicemia.

   Another name for May was Ida Mae Devine.⁹

  Burial Notes:

Her tombstone reads:
May Devine Beecher
1891 (CROSS SYMBOL) 1921

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Fact: After Ida died early, her children were taken in by Ora and Jenny Guinnger.

2. Fact: May Ida is the step sister of the famous actor, Andy Devine. May's mother died soon after she was born, and later, her father,Thomas Devine, married Amy Ward and they were the parents of Andy Devine, the famous actor, who was born just before the family relocated to Kingman, AZ in 1906. Read about this here: http://www.ctaz.com/~mocohist/museum/andy.htm.

3. She has conflicting birth information of May 1891 and Kansas City, Wyandotte, KS. ^{2 9 10}

4. Census in 1900 in Leavenworth, Leavenworth, KS. ¹⁰ May Devine, 9, born Mar 1891, niece, was living with Jerry Dowling, engineer, 44, Nov 1855, and his wife Mary, 34, Nov 1865. may was born in Kansas, her father in Michigan, and mother in Iowa. Mary was born in Michigan, Jerry in Indiana, and all their parents in Ireland.
[Note: From the above, we can tell that after May Devine's mother died, May is being cared for by her Aunt Mary Devine, the sister of her father, Thomas Devine Jr. Ida May Devine later renuites with her father and his second wife in Arizona.].

5. Census in 1920 in Kingman, Mohave, AZ. ² Sumner H. Beecher, mechanic in garage, 33, was living with wife May D., 28; Howard, 9; Harriett, 8; Eleanor, 5; and Mary J., 2. Sumner was born in Arizona, his father in Ohio, and his mother in California. May was born in Kansas, her father in Michigan, and mother in Iowa. The children were born in Arizona.

6. She has conflicting death information of 25 Jul 1921 and , , CA. ¹

May married Sumner Howard Beecher Sr., son of Gustavous Winfield Beecher and Angeline Feeler, on 16 Jun 1909 in Kingman, Mohave, AZ.¹ (Sumner Howard Beecher Sr. was born on 27 Mar 1886 in Kingman, Mohave, AZ,^{1 2 11 12} died on 13 Nov 1969 in Burlingame, San Mateo, CA ^{1 12} and was buried in Fair Oaks: Mount Vernon Memorial Park, Sacramento, CA ¹².)