Rooney Family Tree

Ed and Mayme were married in Windham, Montana where he was probably a railroad station agent for the Southern Pacific. Later they moved to California. Mayme worked as a hairdresser and with wigs in San Francisco, but in 1935 Ed moved to Seattle and lived in a rooming house. Peter Brown and Rena Jensen visited him there. Mayme followed in 1940 and they lived in a house in Kirkland that was owned by Joe Wirtzfeld for a while. They later moved to a small house on Lake Washington Boulevard.
Ed had a stroke in 1943 and didn't get around too well after that. He is buried in the Kirkland Cemetery next to Peter J. Brown, a brother of his sister Mary's husband John J. Brown. Peter had bought 20 acres of land in Kirkland and John J. Brown lived there until he died; John J. Brown is also buried in this cemetery. John Henry Martin is als o buried here.
Frank C. Martin and John Francis Martin are buried in the Greenwood Cemetery, Bend, Oregon.
Mayme Wolfe Martin and Elmer H. Jensen are buried in Sunset Hills Memorial Park, Bellevue, Washington.

We have a photograph taken of Ed and Mayne sitting at desks in a railway station office. There's a calendar on the wall from the Moccasin State Bank in Moccasin, Montana (near Windham), dated Thursday, January 23rd. Lyle Matin says the 23rd happened on Thursday only four times between 1900 and 1920 (1902, 1908, 1913, 1919). Since Mayme and Ed were married in 1909 and they were living in Helena, Montana in 1919, the picture must have been taken in 1913.