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==Pearl May Cook== Pearl May Cook was born 13 May 1881 in Oregon, probably in Lane County, the daughter of Isaac Cook and his wife Minerva Tuttle, who had probably moved there from Missouri. I was unable to find Pearl's death in the California Death Index at Ancestry, but site reader Tricia Putnam has informed me, that it exists in the Death Index hosted at vitalsearch. I can't explain why there should be a difference. At any rate, the entry now found, identifies her as the daughter of a Cook father and a Tuttle mother. <table><tr><td>http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/ht_wiley9_080515_ssv.jpg</td><td>The picture at the right is Pearl Martin with her grandson John. Original photo at ABCnews.<br><br>She is named as "Pearl Martin, John's paternal grandmother" [http://abcnews.go.com/US/popup?id=4870528&contentIndex=1&page=8&start=false here]. She was born in 1881 ("age 77" at her death), place unknown. She married Juda Wiley, and later a Mr Martin. She is reported to have "run a bordello" (see [http://abcnews.go.com/US/popup?id=4870528&contentIndex=1&page=7&start=false here]). She took John Wiley when he was 4 to raise him herself because she thought her son Clark was unstable. John only lived with his grandmother about two years, since she was killed 29 Dec 1958, in a hit-and-run accident by an "out-of-control pickup trunk", "while crossing a street near her home" which "slammed into [her] and dragged her mangled body down the street" in California when "John Wiley was 6 years old". (see [http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4873347&page=1 ABCnews "Raised by a Tyrant..."], ''Pasadena Independent'' 30 Dec 1958).</td></tr></table> ABCnews reports that "Clark Wiley was devasted by the death of his mother in a hit-and-run accident in 1958. Within months of her death, he moved in to her two-bedroom house on Golden West Road in Temple City, Calif." (see [http://abcnews.go.com/US/popup?id=4870528&contentIndex=1&page=7&start=false here]) "He became enraged when the teen arrested for his mother's death [Alan George Dahle, age 17] was not prosecuted" (see [http://abcnews.go.com/US/popup?id=4870528&contentIndex=1&page=10&start=false here]) ===Primary sources for 5=== *1900 Census of Oakdale, Douglas County, Oregon *Pearl is very hard to find in the California Death Index at Ancestry.com. There is no Pearl May Martin who died in 1958, there is no Pearl Martin who died on 29 Dec 1958. So she must be hiding out under a different name. Site reader Tricia Putnam informs me that at [http://www.vitalsearch-ca.com/gen/ca/_vitals/cadeathm.htm vitalsearch] they '''do have''' this Pearl in the Death Index, so I don't know why Ancestry wouldn't. At any rate the data given there, per Tricia is : "Pearl May Martin, 13 May 1881 Oregon, 29 Dec 1958, Los Angeles County, California; father Cook, mother Tuttle" *''Star-News'', 30 Dec 1958, "Woman, 77, Fatally Injured When Hit by Car in Arcadia" *''Pasadena Independent'', 30 Dec 1958, "Auto Strikes, Kills Arcadia Woman, 77" ===Secondary Sources for 5=== *[http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4873347&page=1 "Raised by a Tyrant, Suffering a Sibling's Abuse"], ABCnews, 19 May 2008, Susan Donaldson James. Thanks to site reader Jan H. Jørgensen for alerting me to this news story.
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