Pictures & Obits - Healey/Vincent

courtesy of Patrick Wild

I was able to complete a couple more people in the tree today…and I must thank Patrick Wild from Ancestry.

Helen Aline Vincent was the daughter of George Gordon Vincent & Lina May Joyce.  George hails from Nova Scotia but relocated to Connecticut as a young man.

Based on the area directories, it looks like Helen married Andrew John Healey sometime in 1939 and in 1940 the newly married pair were found living with his parents….sadly, Andrew died later that year

courtesy of Patrick Wild

Danbury News-Times, 27 Nov 1940

Fatally Hurt In Pittsfield - Andrew J Healey, Danbury Brakeman, Run Over In Railroad Yards

Andrew J Healey, 25, of 11 Moss Avenue, a brakeman employed by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, was fatally injured last evening in Pittsfield, Mass, when he slipped and fell between two freight cars.  Although both legs were so badly crushed, they had to be amputated.  Mr Healey lived for five hours, dying late last night at St Luke's Hospital in Pittsfield.   The young man was a member of the crew of a traveling road switcher which worked north from State Line, Mass, switching freight at stations between State Line and Pittsfield.  The exact circumstances of the accident are not known.  Mr Healey was well known here and well regarded.  He was a graduate of Danbury High School in the class of 1933 and was graduated from St Peter's Parochial School in [1920].  He attended Danbury High his freshman year and attended high school in Cleveland, O his sophomore and junior years, returning here for his senior year.  He was a grandson of the late Andrew J Healey, who for many years was employed as a conductor on the switcher crew in the Danbury railroad yards and was a son of John T and Loretta Tierny Healy, of this city.  In addition to his wife, the former Helen Vincent, he is survived by his parents and by his grandmother, Mrs Daisy Healey, and by several uncles and aunts.  He was a member of St Joseph's Church and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.  The body will be brought here this afternoon and the funeral will be held at St Joseph's Church at a time to be announced.

Helen A Vincent - courtesy of Patrick Wild

Helen married again, this time to a John Joseph Ahearn and she died in 1998 in Georgia

Ridgefield Press, 19 Mar 1998

Helen A. Ahearn, a former bookkeeper and secretary for the Bacchiochi Construction Company, died Monday, March 9, at the Tanner Medical Center in Carrollton, Ga. She was 84, and the wife of John J. Ahearn of Carrollton. Born in New Milford on March 6, 1914, she was a daughter of George and Lina Joyce Vincent. A Danburian most of her life, she worked in her early years at the former Bacchiochi Construction in Ridgefield. Mrs. Ahearn was a member of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Carrollton and a former member of St. Joseph's Church, Danbury. She moved to Georgia eight years ago. Besides her husband, she is survived by a daughter, a sister, a brother, two granddaughters, and several nieces and nephews. Green Funeral Home in Danbury was in charge of arrangements. Burial was in St. Peter's Cemetery, Danbury.

Strange Meets Stranger

A while back I wrote about George Vincent & Matilda Swallow and the story written by Marilyn Symons – together they had one child – Eldora Elizabeth Vincent who married Walter Trescott and relocated to Massachusetts.

Eldora & Walter 3 daughters but today I write about Annie who was born in 1883 at Massachusetts and she went on to marry a fella Herman Straub and had a boy Walter Jean Straub.

Here’s where it gets strange.  

I still can’t find a death entry for Herman but based on the SSN entry found on Ancestry and the city directories for Denver, CO, I am betting he died either late 1943 or early 1944.  Annie on the other hand, relocated to California with her son and died there.  

I discovered that purely by accident because of this article ~~ 30 years after the fact and after she died, the school received her request for her grades so she could apply to college!  It ran in several newspapers and in numerous states but this article is from the Marion Star in Ohio, published 9 Mar 1954

Then I stumbled across an article that gives new meaning to monsters-in-law - er, I mean, mother-in-laws.  

Daily Messenger, 7 Jun 1935No JokeDenver - Denver may have a mothers-in-law day, but it will be in court.  Mrs Katheryn V Straub filed a suit in District Court seeking $75,000 from her mother-in-law, Mrs Annie May Straub, Denver school teacher, charging she alienated the affections of her husband.  The husband, Walter J Straub, a packing house employee, followed this with a $100,000 suit against Mrs Catherine Hart, his mother-in-law, charging she alienated the affections of his wife by "subtle contrivances and coaxing".

Edna Maleski (nee Lippert)

Edna Mae Lippert was the daughter of Adam Henry Lippert & Florence Mary Thompson from Ohio – the Lippert line runs back to the Masons on the maternal side going back to the Arbuckles of Nova Scotia – you know the one….Ole Willie who married Mary Vincent….

Anyways, Edna met a Pennsylvanian named Stanley Brian Maleski and by 1932, they were married in West Virginia; together they had 6 children.  They lost the first one in West Virginia; had 4 more back in Ohio; and the last one was born in California where they had settled.  They are both buried at the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, CA.

courtesy of James R Mason (Romper90069) - Find A Grave

The Desert Sun, 10 Aug 1976
Private services were held Monday for Edna Mae Maleski, 66, 169 Ocotillo Ave, Palm Springs, who died of leukemia Friday at the home of her daughter in Palos Verdes.  She worked in the restaurant business with her husband, Stanley, in the Pomona area for more than 20 years.  After moving to Palm Springs in 1968, Mrs Maleski became interested in consumer activism.  She frequently contributed to the "Letters to the Editor" section of The Desert Sun, especially concerning city spending.  She is survived by her widower, Stanley Maleski; her mother Florence Lippert; three sons, Stanley Maleski Jr of Lakeport, James Maleski of Palm Springs, and Steven Maleski of Upper Lake; five daughters, Barbara O'Reilly of Palos Verdes, Mary Spengler of Indian Harbor Beach, Fla, Joan Sanka, Teresa Maleski, and Kelly Maleski, all of Palm Springs, and nine grandchildren.  The family has requested donations to the Edna Maleski Foundation of Saint Mary's Medical Center in Long Beach in lieu of flowers.

Duggan Mystery Solved

courtesy of Jody MacKeil - Find A Grave

Thelma Cameron Murdock was the daughter of Samuel Cameron Murdock & Charlotte Ellen Arbuckle was born in 1925 at Avondale, Nova Scotia and she had married twice – first to a Stuart Duggan and 2^nd to a Robert Sweet……but how did I figure this all out back in 2015 and now in 2017, I have found out who Stuart was!

I found Thelma first thru her sister Esther’s 2009 obit back in 2013 where she is listed simply as Thelma; then 2015, I found her again in her brother George’s 1995 obit where it names a sister Thelma Sweet – woot – a step closer.  From there I found the full name and obit for her second husband – Robert Arthur Sweet who died in 1992. 

However I was no closer to finding out anything about this Stuart Duggan ?!? Grrr  I got the first name from a tree on ancestry that has since been removed – oy – I am on my own here.........…..or am I? 

I held onto the fact that Stuart had to have died very young, hence no records BUT he was also a Nova Scotian – there has to be a record somewhere. I scratched my head, tried every creative search I could think of until…..until…….gee persistence pays off!

Viola…..

courtesy of Jody MacKeil - Find A Grave

May I introduce you to….Charles ‘Stuart’ Duggan….the son of Charles Nathaniel Duggan & Elizabeth Stewart (yep, will be haggling over Stu or Stew).  Stuart died in a car accident in Apr of 1959.

Thelma and Stuart had 2 children together – Linda Lorraine, and LouAnne who died in 1977

courtesy of Jody MacKeil - Find A Grave

Chronicle Herald, Tues, 13 Dec 1977

Duggan – Louanne, 21, of Merigomish died Sunday following a car accident in Ontario. Born in New Glasgow she was the daughter of Thelma (Murdock) and the late Stewart Duggan.  She was employed in Fort McMurray, Ontario and was a member of St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church.  Surviving besides her mother is a sister, Linda at home.  The body will be at R.H. Porter Funeral Home, New Glasgow after 3:30 p.m. today.  Funeral service will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. in St Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Rev. Kenneth MacLeod officiating with burial in Murray’s Point Cemetery.

Picture Series - Ahlf/Whidden

As while back I wrote about David Whidden & Rebecca ‘Grandma’ Grey….they had 7 children and the pictures below are of Tina Vincent Whidden and her husband Carl Frederick Ahlf shared by Jody19641 (Williams Family Tree) on Ancestry and from Elizabeth Tambeau.

Carl Ahlf was born in Missouri to Claus Hienrich Ahlf & Elizabeth Anne Osborne.  

According to the censuses, Carl's father worked for the railroad and I wonder if they took a trip north at one point because by 1921, Carl had left home, married and had 4 children!

If you have never seen the fields of mustard or wheat on the prairies, with the Rockies in the background ~ oy, it can take your breathe away ~~ yep, just got smacked with it - homesick ~~ perhaps that was the draw for Carl because became a farmer.

Wedding Day

Pictured on their wedding day at some place called Bats Valley, Irma, in 1913, Tina & Carl had 6 children - David, Elmer, Enid, Mary, Carol & Arthur.

Yet Irma would not be their final destination.

In 1930, Carl and his clan relocated to Edson, Alberta - over 200 miles west of Irma.  

It's a mere 3 ½ hr drive today but trekking over 200 miles in an old Model-T, hauling all your belongings probably took all day and then some back then; even by train it probably took all day!

This picture is Carl, Tina, and their baby David Claus Ahlf who was born in 1916 being held by Grandma Whidden 

Carl died in 1965, Tina in 1969 and are both buried at the Glenwood Cemetery.