Helena Wilhelmina "Milhan" Kirk was born on September 4, 1883 in Michigan as the third child of Fred and Henrietta (Grey) Milhan.

On May 2, 1905, she married Clarence Edward Kirk at the First Presbyterian Church in Monroe, Michigan. They had one child.

  1. Violet (Kirk) Durell

According to the 1940 census, the family lived at 728 West Front Street in Monroe. Clarence worked as a carpenter.

Helena died on February 23, 1974 at the age of 90. On February 24, 1949, Clarence died in Monroe at the age of 69.

On January 10, 1921, a fire in the Commerce Department building, Washington, DC, resulted in the destruction of most of the 1890 census.
Fred (50) and Henrietta (47) were living on their farm on South Custer Road with children John (25)  Wilhelmina "Minnie" (24), Anna (21), Fred Jr. (18), Helena (17), William (15), Henry (10). Other relatives on the same page included John Heiden and Bertha Burgard.