Joseph Crafton "Hap" Girten
1903 - 1964 (60 years)
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Name Joseph Crafton "Hap" Girten [1, 2, 3] Birth 10 Sep 1903 [1, 2] Gender Male Death 1964 [1, 2] Patriarch & Matriarch 
James Valentine Austin Girten, b. Abt 1838, Kentucky
d. 23 Nov 1890, Union County, Kentucky (Age 52 years) (Grandfather) 
Mary Emily Shanks, b. 27 Feb 1825, Washington County, Kentuckyd. 16 Aug 1892, Union County, Kentucky (Age 67 years) (Great Grandmother) Person ID I2875 1665 GOUGH/GOFF (US-MD-STM/US-VA-LOU) I-Y6902-A Last Modified 20 Oct 2023
Father William Virgil Girten, b. 16 Dec 1868, Union County, Kentucky d. 24 Dec 1934, Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas (Age 66 years) Mother Elizabeth Ann "Bettie" Gough, b. 11 Apr 1877, Uniontown, Union County, Kentucky d. 1976, Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas (Age 98 years) Marriage 11 Feb 1899 St. Agnes Church, Union Town, Kentucky [1, 2, 4] Family ID F1657 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Edna Hedrick Family ID F1640 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 20 Oct 2023
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Notes - [Girten, Charles, 1819.FTW]
Joseph Crafton "Hap" Girten worked for the railroad for eight years then bought and operated a tavern, "Hap's Tavern" at 11th and Osage in the 1940's and 50's in the Armourdale neighborhood, Kansas City, Kansas. The tavern was about a block from 1118 Argentine Blvd, home of his mother, Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Gough Girten. Leona Girten Hawver, daughter of Elizabeth, Lloyd Hawver, son Bill Hawver and daughter Judy Hawver lived with Elizabeth for several years until the July 13th, 1951 flood.
Hap supported his mother after her husband died in 1935 and helped his sister, Mary, through high school. Mary worked at the tavern for about a year after high school.
Hap died at St Margaret's Hospital, Kansas City, Kansas of TB and lung cancer.
An interesting coicidence is found in that John Beagle, father of Myrtle Beagle Hawver, Lloyd Hawver's mother, in 1895, was in a fatal horse team and street car accident in the Argentine district and was brought to the car barn at llth and Osage, exactly across the street from Hap's Tavern.[george benjamin gough.FTW]
Joseph Crafton "Hap" Girten worked for the railroad for eight years then bought and operated a tavern, "Hap's Tavern" at 11th and Osage in the 1940's and 50's in the Armourdale neighborhood, Kansas City, Kansas. The tavern was about a block from 1118 Argentine Blvd, home of his mother, Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Gough Girten. Leona Girten Hawver, daughter of Elizabeth, Lloyd Hawver, son Bill Hawver and daughter Judy Hawver lived with Elizabeth for several years until the July 13th, 1951 flood.
Hap supported his mother after her husband died in 1935 and helped his sister, Mary, through high school. Mary worked at the tavern for about a year after high school.
Hap died at St Margaret's Hospital, Kansas City, Kansas of TB and lung cancer.
An interesting coicidence is found in that John Beagle, father of Myrtle Beagle Hawver, Lloyd Hawver's mother, in 1895, was in a fatal horse team and street car accident in the Argentine district and was brought to the car barn at llth and Osage, exactly across the street from Hap's Tavern.
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