Thanks to cousin Jeanette Taborn for making the connection for the Everett Tyler branch of the family. The following email was received today from his daughter, Eve T. Wilkins........
Everett Tyler's mother died when he was very young, he spent many of his youth with his maternal grandparents in Cleveland, where he graduated from East Tech High School where he was on the track team He graduated fom Ohio State. Returning to Cleveland. he graduated from the John Marshall School of Law, while a student there he worked as a sportswriter at the Cleveland Call and Post. In 1928, following her grauation he married Edna Mayer. (b. 1908, in Washington, D.C.) when she was a student at Oberlin College. They met at the home of Gerald Tyler where she along with other Oberlin students lived with Gerald Tyler and his family.
Following their marriage Everett and Edna settled in Cleveland and had one child, EveEstelle Tyler, (b. 1933). Everett practiced law there and Edna, after receiving her Masters in Social Work, worked in Department of Welfare. Both Everett and Edna died in 1991 in Cleveland.
Eve graduated from the University of Michigan in 1955, married Roger Wilkins in 1956, divorced in 1976. They had two children:
Amy Tyler Wilkins, b. 1959, Booklyn NY, married Lane Davenport --1 child, Tyler Edward Davenport b.2002
David Earl Wilkins b. 1964
Eve recently retired from the US Department of State, Office of Protocol, she has lived in Washington since 1973.
Eve, Amy and her family live in Washington
David lives in Baltimore.
I will try to answer any questions, thank you for all of hard work.
Eve Tyler Wilkins
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