SHAWLER, Myra

MYRA SHAWLER
New Berlin NY, Class of 1909

Identification on photo: MYRA SHAWLER
Photo taken: Talbot Studio, New Berlin, NY 1909
Purchased: Aug 2018 Madison-Bouckville NY Antiques Week

Myra Lucy Shawler was born 20 Nov 1889 to parents Floyd Shawler (1852-1923, a farmer) and Bertha G. Whitney (1860-1949). She was the eldest of three siblings, the others being Hoyt N. Shawler (1892-1983) and Evelyn M. Shawler (1894-1987).

On the 1910 Census, the year after this photo was taken, she is living at home and works as an English Teacher at the District School.

In Dec of 1912, she married Walter Hathaway Clark, and appears to have had no children, as there is no mention of them on the subsequent Census rolls. State Census records of 1915 and 1925 also show no children in the household.

1920 Census > NY > Chenango > Columbus > Shawler Brook Rd
CLARK, Walter H., head, 33, born in NY of NY and Mass. parents, dairy farmer
CLARK, Myra L., wife, 30, born in NY of NY parents.

1930 Census > NY > Chenango > Columbus
CLARK, Walter H., head, 44, born in NY of NY and CT parents, farmer
CLARK, Myra L., wife, 40, born in NY of NY parents.

No real changes on the 1940 Census, except for Walter and Myra being a decade older.

Myra died July 1984 (age 94) in New Berlin, NY. She is buried in the Columbus Corners Cemetery, and interestingly she had also been the treasurer for the Columbus Corners Cemetery Association.