Katherine Mary Mays ^{3 4 5}

   FamilySearch ID: L6YT-N29.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1920 in West Reading, Berks, PA. ⁷ The 1920 census recorded on Reading Avenue: William J. Mays, farm manager, 37, living with wife Mary H., 33; Beatrice E., 14; Kathryn M., 14; Thomas W., 12; Helen G., 2, and J. Robert, 0. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

2. Newspaper: Reading Times: Beecher-Mays, 29 May 1922, Reading, Berks, PA. ⁴ One of the youngest West Reading couples who ever came to the court house were Elwood H Beecher, of 136 Cherry street, West Reading, and Catharine M. Mays, of 424 Penn avenue. Accompanied by their parents the couple came into the court house Saturday and secured the license. The prospective greeom is but 17 years of age, while his bride-to-be is 16.
Rev. Elmer L. Coblentz, pastor of Second Reformed church, performed the ceremony at 6 o'clock Saturday evening.
The couple are prominent in the social life of the younger set in West Reading. Mr. Beecher is associated with his father in conducting the Beecher garage at 4th and Penn avenue. On their return from the wedding trip they will go to housekeeping in West Reading.

3. Newspaper: Reading Times: Woman Motocyclist Hurt In Collision, 6 Apr 1925, Reading, Berks, PA. ⁸ Mrs. Catherine Beecher, 19, of 448 Penn ave., West Reading, received a contusion of the scalp when the motorcycle in which she was riding with her husband, struck a trolley car at Ninth and Spring streets yesterday afternoon. She was treated at the Homopathic Hospital.

4. Newspaper: Reading Times: Miss Beatrice Mays, Bride of Carl W. Fisher, 6 Sep 1926, Reading, Berks, PA. ⁹ "Miss Beatrice E. Mays became the bride of Carl W. Fisher at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon..."
"...Mrs. Ellwood Beecher, a twin sister of the bride, attended as matron of honor. She wore a frock of orchid flat crepe, adorned with a silver flower at the waist and on the left shoulder. She wore an orchid picture hat and carried arm bouquet of pink roses."
"...The flower girls, Virginia Beecher and Elizabeth Mays, who carried baskets of rosebuds, which they scattered in the path of the bride, wore dainty dresses of a pale shade of green with rose trimmings, and little polk shaped green bonnets."

5. Newspaper: Reading Times: Catherine M. Beecher Suit for Divorce, 28 Apr 1928, Reading, Berks, PA. ¹⁰ Catherine M. Beecher, of Berkshire Heights, brought suit for divorce yesterday against Elwood Beecher, of West Reading, alleging infidelity.

6. Newspaper: Reading Times: Divorce Okehed For Brick Tossing Wife, 10 Aug 1928, Reading, Berks, PA. ¹¹ Testimony that she threw a brick through a glass door of their home to gain entry when her husband entertained another woman there obtained for Mrs. Catharine M. Beecher, of Berkshire Heights, a master's recommendation for divorce from Elwood Beecher, 136 Cherry st., West Reading.
Mrs. Beecher, according to the master's report filed yesterday, also threw a brick through the windshield of the sedan that transported the merrymakers from their home. They were married May 27, 1922, and parted January 7, 1928.

7. Census in 1930 in Spring Twp., Berks, PA. ¹² The 1930 census recorded at 2462 Cleveland Avenue: Cathryn Mays, looper in hosiery factory, divorced, 24, living with her sister Beatrice Fisher, 24, and Beatrice's husband Carl W. Fisher, machinist in knitting machine company, 25. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

8. Cause of Death: Katherine died at Community General Hospital from coronary occlusion, chronic vascular disease, arteriosclerosis, 28 Feb 1961, Reading, Berks, PA. ⁵

Katherine married Elwood Herman Beechert, son of Irvin Daniel Beecher and Alva Tamia Fisher, on 27 May 1922 in Reading: Second Reformed Church, Berks, PA.^{1 2} The marriage ended in divorce on 10 Aug 1928. (Elwood Herman Beechert was born on 3 Jul 1904 in Reading, Berks, PA,^{13 14 15 16 17} died on 24 Dec 1980 in Detroit, Wayne, MI ^{16 17 18} and was buried in Detroit: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Wayne, MI ¹⁷.)

Katherine next married John Raymond Miller. (John Raymond Miller was born on 19 Apr 1896 in Reading, Berks, PA,^{3 19} died on 2 May 1974 ³ and was buried in Sinking Spring: Sinking Spring Cemetery, Berks, PA ³.)