Aug 2006
Ancestry of Betty Stankowitch
Generation
One
1. Betty1 Stankowitch
(Anthony,
#2)1
was born on 27 May 1901 at Chicago, Cook, IL.2
She died on 26 Jun 1978 at Altadena, Los Angeles, CA, at age 77.2
Betty, originally named Genevieve Virginia, spent the first four years of
her life in Chicago, then her parents moved to Meridian, Mississippi where they
had a five-year contract with the Women's College.
The Stankowitch family left just after Halley's Comet had appeared in
1910; Betty had just passed her ninth birthday. They went to Buffalo where they remained for a year, then to
Montgomery, Alabama, where Anthony taught at the Women's College.
Betty left here and moved to New York when she was 13 years old.
In 1920 she married Paul Bowman Popenoe and moved to California.
Betty
Generation
Two
2. Anthony2 Stankowitch
(Anton,
#4)3
was born on 26 Feb 1862 at Philadelphia, PA.
He married Genevieve Marie Lee
(see #3), daughter of James Curtis Lee
and Nellie Adelle Fox,
on 22 Jun 1892 at Gouverneur, St. Lawrence, NY.4
He died in 1934 at Buffalo, NY.
Anthony was born in Philadelphia at 12th and Market Streets, where the
Reading RR Station was later located, then lived at 1513 and 1534 Vine Street.
He went to public school on Cherry Street, then to grammar school, then
to a private school conducted by a Frenchman.
At the grammar school he played for the boys marching.
Anthony also went to a Lutheran seminary to study catechism, to be
confirmed, and at age ten or eleven he sang in the choir at an Episcopal church.
He first studied music with his aunt, Agnes Tegtmeier.
He also studied violin and harmony with a Prof. Heinemann.
Anthony Stankowitch
In 1877, when he was 16, his mother took him and
his sister Emily to Leipzig to study music.
His mother stayed 6 months, then returned home.
He took his violin to Leipzig but dropped it after a year as he was more
proficient on the piano and couldn't master both. Anthony had four lessons a week at the Leipzig Royal
Conservatory, graduating after three years in 1880. One summer he took a tour north, largely walking, to see his
great aunt, Tante Gretchen, near Rinteln. She
was engaged to a man for 15 years who couldn't marry her until his mother died;
then he died.
Extracts
from Anthony Stankowitch’s letters from Germany
Leipzig,
Nov 25, 1877, age 17
After
a couple of examinations by different Professors, Emmie and I were taken up as
scholars of the Conservatory; she played very well but I became confused and was
very nearly left behind. My time is
all occupied as you can imagine. I
am taking harmony, history and on the violin and piano, have also to sing along
in the chorus, my voice is second bass. The
only time I get to be in the fresh air is in my fifteen minute walk to the
Conservatory two or three times daily. There
are twenty teachers in the Conservatory of which I have four.
They are all very good teachers. The
one, Herr Lammers, especially is exceedingly strict….I have Czerny’s etudes
and a Mozart sonata by him and everything is played so differently from what I
practiced….It is beautiful to live in the midst of music; you get quite
different ideas. Leipzig is a very
nice city although nothing like Philadelphia.
Firstly it is exceedingly smaller; and secondly more like N. York, the
houses are very large, occupied by many families and the streets and sidewalks
mostly narrow so that the people walk more on cobblestones than pavements….
I
thought of you all on that Sunday, it was also the day that Felix Mendlessohn
Bartholy died; we had entertainment in the Conservatory and nothing but his
compositions were played….Last week we received tickets for a concert given by
the Jubilee Singers, emancipated slaves from N. America.
They were ten in number and have the most melodious music I ever heard;
it just went through me. Last night
we were in the Gewandhaus; it was Chamber music evening which the
Conservatorists have free; Saint Saens played on the piano.
You have heard of him, of course, he is a Frenchman, has a wonderful
technic and beautiful position at the piano, although he lacks that amount of
feeling that thrills the listener.
Leipzig,
Jan 4, 1878, age 17
Our
studies are in full circulation already. In
the last Gewandhaus Probe we heard Mr. Brahms; he played one of his own
Concertos. That is just the great
difference between here and America; the Gewandhaus orchestra is the first in
the world and none but the greatest artists perform, whereas in America their
compositions are played by others and consequently you have not the same effect
because the composer only can play his composition with the ideas he intended.
Schwalenberg,
Sep 14, 1879, age 18
Never,
when I have written to you, was I in the humor to pour out my feelings and home
yearnings of my soul. Whenever I
was asked if I were homesick I answered in the negative, although it was an
untruth. I could not leave any one
doubt that I was not man enough to overcome such childish whims, but sadly did I
repent when alone. The memories of
my home occupied and overflooded my thoughts….But now I feel quite different,
it seems as though I left you but yesterday, as though I still feel the
impression of our parting kiss, as though I had just recovered from the grief of
leaving my dear father behind, and seeing my dearly beloved mother whirled away
by the cars, both gone, and so very far away, an ocean separating us and oh when
should we meet again. Now my
thoughts are thusly occupied and I am in Schwalenberg, by very good people.
It is Sunday and I have just heard uncle preach a most beautiful sermon
comparing the love of our earthly parents to that of our heavenly Father.
I
have not been myself all along. I
felt desperately mad but it was really not my own fault, or rather leave me say
I was blind for you cannot imagine what it is to have ones hopes destroyed, to
give up a profession for which one was born and in which one could do something
great, for I feel that it is in me that if I have the time I can yet attain the
point which I can already see dimly in the far distance, with such hopes, oh
dear! I compare myself to the
Captain of a vessel of great value. His
whole fortune lines in this voyage. He
has already braved many storms. He
is overjoyous that his voyage may be crowned with success, nay he is sure of
succeeding for now he can already discern land on the distant horizon.
But alas, in all this glory, in all these hopes with land in view, his
success is foundered. A storm arises and his vessel becomes a leaky one but
nevertheless the storm is bravely overcome, but now he has lost sight of his
destination and with a leaky vessel what hope has he? I am this captain, the ocean on which I am is my path and the
ship on which I am sailing is my profession.
My profession became leaky through the misfortune with my arm.
But now I feel better and can hardly wait until I get back to Leipzig.
Emily left last week and is now studying diligently. I have not intended returning to Leipzig before Oct and will make several foot tours which will be healthy for me.
Anthony spent three more years in Vienna.
He lived at the Weidener Freihaus. There
was a courtyard in the center with a little garden where Mozart was said to have
written the Magic Flute.
In the fall of 1883, Anthony returned to
Philadelphia where he taught privately and in the Philadelphia Conservatory and
gave recitals. He belonged to a musicians club, the Utopian Club, also the Fine
Arts Club. Before his marriage he
had a little house in Forked River, NJ, along the sea coast..
Emily and Anthony gave a joint recital at the 20th Century Club in
Philadelphia. She taught singing at
the Mt. Holly Seminary just outside Philadelphia in New Jersey and Anthony met
Genevieve Lee, his future wife, who was a student there.
After his marriage he taught for seven years at the Ogontz School, a
wealthy girls school. He also had a
studio in the Hazeltine Art Galleries with Frederick Peakes, the best vocal
teacher in Philadelphia.
Then he moved to New York City where for three
years he worked for the Virgil Piano School.
Then the company made him director of the Virgil Piano School in the
Auditorium Tower, Chicago with a five year contract. He followed this with an appointment at Northwestern
University, spending nine years altogether in Chicago.
Then he got a five year contract as director of music at the Womens
College, Meridian, Mississippi. Genevieve
taught art and needlework there. This was followed by a year in Buffalo where he taught at
D'youville College. Then he went to
the college in Montgomery, Alabama.
After four years, Genevieve left to get a position
in NYC, reflecting, no doubt, their difficulty in getting along with each other.
She never succeeded in finding what she was after.
She was living in Berkeley Heights, NJ and refused to pay the rent
because of a problem with the water. She
had tickets to go back to Alabama but the landlord brought suit and attached
everything she had. It took six
months for the suit to be decided in her favor.
Meanwhile Betty had gotten into the Noyes School and Emily was making
friends, so she decided to stay on and moved into 333 E. 31st St., NYC.
Anthony moved to the Tulsa School of Music, then to
Pittsburgh, Kansas, and finally back to Alabama, working there 13 years
altogether. He would visit NYC in
the summers to be with his family. Then
he spent two years at the Utica Conservatory of Music, followed by six years in
Buffalo, where he died. In 1930 he
was living there with Genevieve in the house jointly owned and occupied by her
mother, Nellie Lee, and her sister Eula House and her family.
Here are a few press notices:
The
Pianist, New York: Mr.
Anthony Stankowitch, although an American by birth, received his musical
education abroad. At an early age
he entered the Leipzig Conservatory. His
success at the conservatory concerts and elsewhere induced him, after three
years training in this celebrated institution, to continue his work still
further in Vienna. Here he studied
the higher art of piano playing for several years with the renowned pedagogue,
Prof. J. Dachs, master of De Pachman, and his theoretical studies were directed
by that great contrapuntist, Anton Bruckner.
During his sojurn in Vienna he appeared in public on various occasions,
and his playing was always well received, the critics being unanimous in
praising his beautiful touch and artistic interpretation.
Musical
America, New York:
Irreproachable technique and flashes of dramatic intensity, a musician
whose artistic standard is impressive. Ideal pianism as exemplified in the
suave, velvet tone, not small but rich and noble in its impressiveness.
His rendition of Grieg Ballade, Op. 24, was a revelation of the capacity
of the formal and romantic through the conception of the master pianist.
James Huneker in the New
York Musical Courier: His
playing is characterized by great delicacy, beauty of tone and admirable variety
of shading. He plays Brahms with
reverent understanding, but is also in sympathy with Chopin, Schumann, Bach and
Beethoven.
Philadelphia
Democrat:
An artistic concert draw a large and cultivated audience to the Academy
of Fine Arts last night. The
well-known and celebrated piano virtuoso, Anthony Stankowitch, gave a recital
that was highly appreciated, and in which every number received well-earned and
enthusiastic applause. He has
developed a great technique and his interpretation is genuinely artistic.5
Children of Anthony2 Stankowitch
and Genevieve Marie Lee
(see #3) were as follows:
i. Anita1
6
was born on 28 Sep 1894.7
She died on 18 Jan 1906 at age 11.7
ii. Harry
6
was born on 12 Jan 1896.7
He died in Jul 1896.7
iii. Phyllis
6
was born on 29 Mar 1898.7
She died in Jun 1899 at age 1.7
1.
iv. Betty.
v. Anthony
6
was born on 10 Jun 1902.7
He died on 1 Oct 1905 at age 3.7
vi. Emily
8
was born on 22 Dec 1903.9
She died on 11 Jan 2001 at St. Louis, MO, at age 97.9
vii. Anthony
10
was born on 22 Nov 1904.11
He died on 23 Nov 1927 in an auto accident, Indiio, CA, at age 23.11
viii. Anne
6
was born on 12 Aug 1905.7
She died in Sep 1905.7
ix. Brunnhilde
8
was born on 29 Feb 1912 at Alabama.9
She died on 23 Apr 1988 at Riverside, CA, at age 76.9
x. Louis
6
was born in May 1913.7
He died in Sep 1914 at age 1.7
3. Genevieve
Marie2
Lee
(James,
#6)12
was born on 9 Jan 1872 at Watertown, NY.9
She married Anthony Stankowitch
(see #2), son of Anton (Anthony) Stankowitch
and Anna Sophia Victoria Tegtmeier,
on 22 Jun 1892 at Gouverneur, St. Lawrence, NY.4
She died on 15 Jul 1966 at Altadena, Los Angeles, CA, at age 94.9
Genevieve was one of four daughters of James Curtis Lee, a merchant and
life insurance representative in northern NY State, near the Canadian border.
Born in Watertown, she went to school in Gouverneur, then to a convent
school in Montreal, then a private girls school, Mt. Holly Seminary, NJ. where
she met Anthony. During the later
years of their marriage, Anthony and Genevieve lived apart most of the time,
though they were together in Buffalo when he died.
Afterwards she moved to California where her three living daughters were
located. They set her up in various
apartments, not too close to them, as she was a cantankerous and complaining old
lady and a short visit once a week at most was all any of them could take.7
Genevieve
Stankowitch
Generation
Three
4. Anton
(Anthony)3
Stankowitch
3
was born on 5 Jun 1829 at Don (Croatia), Hungary.3
He married Anna Sophia Victoria Tegtmeier
(see #5), daughter of Carl Justus Tegtmeier
and Sophia Johanetta Rosetta Zeiss,
in 1856.3
He died in 1893 at Philadelphia, PA.3
He was born Anton Stankovic (changing his name in America to Anthony
Stankowitch) in Don, or Duna, or Thiersow (according to various accounts) in
Croatia, Hungary. His father is believed to have come from Russia.
He was a tow-headed boy with brown eyes who sang in the choir at the
Catholic Church. He ran away from
home at the age of 14, and went to Budapest and later Prague and lost touch with
his family. He emigrated to New
York in 1848 on a sailing vessel named Anna.
Anton Stankowitch
Letter from his daughter Emily to her nephew Tom:
"Your grandfather spoke Hungarian and German and some English when
he arrived in America. He had learned piano making and organ building from A to Z,
even to the gilding of the organ pipes. In
those days they did not only learn one branch.
He had a wonderful ear for music and
because he did not have the capital to manufacture instruments, although
two organs of his are in two churches, one in Hartford, Conn. and one in Penna,
near Tamaqua, so he became an expert tuner.
He was sought for long after his passing on by old customers and he made
a fine living.
"But what I wanted to tell you about him was
this, on arriving in New York he found no work in his line as builder of organs
so he went to New England states and in Hartford, Conn. he was not too proud to
work on the street driving cobble stones. He
was a handsome man and two strangers accosted him and asked him why he was doing
laborer's work. They spoke German
and he told them that he was an organ builder, etc. and Alois Gemünder, who had
an organ factory, engaged him on the spot.
He had brought fine tools and patterns for pipe organs with him from
Prague where he had learned his trade but when he came to Philadelphia and
started for himself, he came to his shop [one day] at 12th and Market where the
Reading Terminal now is and found that the shop burned down during the night and
morning and he lost everything.
"Thus he started in tuning and repairing
pianos and organs. Just think of
the grit he had to work on the street and how wonderful he was fed. He was very painstaking to the minutest details and accurate
and never left a job until it was perfect and all the overtones could be heard,
no matter how much time it took. He
had a beautiful voice and sang tenor in the boy choir of the Catholic church in
which he was raised. He had an
uncle who was a priest and his father had him educated to become a priest also,
but he had a stepmother who was not very kind to him and as he did not want to
become a priest and did not like his home he ran away and learned his trade.
He was born in a town in Croatia, Hungary.
The Croatians are the temperamental class and excel in art, sculpture,
poetry and especially music, all the fine arts.
He was 63 years old Jan 26th 1894 when he passed on.
He was so good hearted and generous to a fault.
A jovial, genial nature but a hot temper which was fiery but over in a
minute or two and laughing and ending. He
did not believe in any creed and never went to church much less his own."
Anthony had a friend, a Hungarian nobleman who had
also come over in 1848, Charles Kisch (later spelled Kish). Charles went to work in Hartford for a gold chain
manufacturing company. Anthony also
had a cousin on his father's side, Louis Reimer, born in Kassel, Hesse, Germany
who induced the widow Sophia Tegtmeier to come to America with her two
daughters, Emily and Anna. Sophia
took a position as tutor in New Rochelle, NY, later in Springfield, Mass. and in
Connecticut. Her daughter Emily met
a language teacher, Karl Ludolph, and married him at 16.
He died a year and a half later, and she married Charles Kisch.
Charles introduced Anthony to her sister, Anna, and they were married,
probably around 1856.
Reimer was a piano tuner and he persuaded Anthony
to take up piano tuning, and also to go to Philadelphia, along with Charles
Kisch. In 1860 the Stankowitch and
Kisch families were living together there, Charles with one small daughter;
Anthony with two. Later, Charles
became a physician and had a successful practice in Chester, PA.
Anthony was listed as a piano maker in the 1860 Census and as a piano
tuner in later ones.
Anthony Junior described his father as a short,
fat, pudgy man, long beard, very genial and with strikingly brilliant and
beautiful eyes. Being under size,
he did not worry about being drafted into the Hungarian army. About three years before he died he was paralyzed by a stroke
and bedridden.13
Children of Anton (Anthony)3 Stankowitch
and Anna Sophia Victoria Tegtmeier
(see #5) all born at Philadelphia, PA, were as
follows:
i. Emily2
14
was born on 1 Feb 1857.3
She died after 1930.3
Emily went to Europe with her brother Anthony to study music. She graduated from the Royal Conservatorium, Leipzig and
later studied in Paris under Mme Le Grange and Fidele Koenig.
The Leipziger Tageblatt, in a very flattering article, predicted a
brilliant future and said "Miss Emily Stankowitch, of Philadelphia, sang at
Gewandhaus, 'Rode Variations' with string quartet accompaniment which showed her
excellent technique combinted with an artistic temperament."
After returning to Philadelphia, she set up a studio at 1520 Chestnut
Street where she advertised herself as a teacher of voice culture, artistic
singing and piano. Her brochure
said she "teaches the pure, old Italian method of voice development, which
preserves the voice so that it retains its beauty and youthful sound into old
age. Comprising correct breath
control, voice placing, resonance, pure diction, concentration and physical
development. Weak voices
strengthened, partial tone deafness and vocal defects overcome. Foundation to artistic finish.
Church, Concert, Oratorio and Opera Repertoire."
Emily Stankowitch
Emily became engaged to Louis H. Spellier, born in
Germany in 1841, who had moved to Philadelphia from Doylestown in Bucks County
where he had a watch, clock and jewelry store.
After closing hours he worked out the idea that clocks could be run by
electricity instead of winding. He
built the court house clock and received one of the earliest, if not the
earliest, patents for an electric clock. In
a paper read before the Franklin Institute in 1880 he concluded "providing
there is battery power enough to move them, we have reason to believe that they
may still come into general use in hotels and public buildings...They will
hardly ever come into general use and always be a costly novelty for those who
desire to have them." In 1887 he received a medal and a premium in money from the
City of Philadelphia for his electric clock.
In August, 1891, while vacationing at the seashore, he contracted
pneumonia and died before he and Emily could be married.
He left her $4,000 in his will.
Louis H. Spellier
Emily later moved to Atlantic City where her mother
lived with her until her death in 1918 and her sister Rosalie spent some time
with her before her death in 1925. In
1930 Emily was living alone in Atlantic City in her own home, valued at $15,000.
She received income from several houses she owned as well as a mortgage
on the former house of Charles Kisch in Chester.15
ii. Rosalie
14
was born on 4 Nov 1858.3
She died on 4 Jun 1925 at age 66.3
Rosalie was a very attractive girl--pretty--petite, dark but highly
colored, rosy cheeks, black hair, vivacious. She was also described as short and
swarthy like her father. In 1880
she was a music teacher. Her mother
wanted her to be a physician. In 1900 she was still living with her mother and
two sisters, and was a doctor. She
had received a Master of Homeopathy in 1894 from the Post Graduate School of
Homeopathy at Dunham Medical College, Chicago.
However, she became more timid and shy as she got older and was not
fitted to be a doctor. She
married John Pierson, said to be in real estate.
The 1910 Census for Philadelphia shows a John L. Pierson, 35, born PA,
clerk in real estate, married ca 1907 to Rosalie, 35, born PA (as were both her
parents), occupation none. If this
is our Rosalie, she dropped about 14 years off her age to match that of her
younger husband and gave up doctoring for being a housewife.
(It may be, however, that the census was answered by a neighbor who did
not know her age or that her parents were immigrants.)
According to family information, John Pierson's father was a physician
who claimed to have invented celluloid but a British company stole it from him.
Rosalie finally refused to live with him and he committed suicide by
drowning.
Rosalie Stankowitch Pierson
Despite the above, her obituary (newspaper
unknown--maybe written by Bruce Reid) was as follows:
Pleasantville, June 10, 1925. Dr.
Rosalie S. Pierson, retired physician, died last night at the home of her
sister, Mrs. W. Bruce Reid, California Ave. and New Road, in her 65th year,
after six month's illness. Her
husband, John Pierson, died in Washington several years ago and Dr. Pierson has
since made her home partly with her sister, Miss Emily Stankowitch, North
Providence Avenue, Atlantic City, and partly with Mrs. Reid.
Dr. Pierson was an accomplished and talented woman and vocalist.
She was of great personal charm and lovable qualities, which made her a
host of friends. Dr. Pierson was
well educated and a graduate of the Women's Medical College of Philadelphia as
well as of the Homeopathic School of Medicine of that city.
She was a successful practicioner for twenty years and was well-known in
medical circles. Her sole ambition
in life was to serve humanity, to help the weak and the needy, as well as her
own relatives. Her whole life was
practically in such service, ready always with purse, or hand, or kindly,
skilled advice, to help others. Many
there are who will miss the "little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness
and of love" which were as natural to her as flowers to the spring
sunshine. Her illness was
accompanied by severe suffering, borne with a quiet endurance, amounting to
heroism.16
2. iii. Anthony.
iv. Adelaide 17 was born on 1 Dec 1869.18 She married William Bruce Reid circa 1902; In 1910 they were living in New Harford, near Utica, NY, where Bruce was a reporter for the daily paper. In 1920 Bruce was listed as a farmer on a chicken and truck farm in Atlantic .County, NJ. In 1930 he was again a newswriter for a newspaper. In 1933 it was reported that Mr. Reid, 72, a veteran member of the Press Club of Atlantic City, was having difficulty refinancing the $3,000 mortgage on his $10,000 house due to bureaucratic difficulties between two Federal agencies. She died after 1934.18
Adelaide Stankowitch at 25
5. Anna
Sophia Victoria3
Tegtmeier
(Carl,
#10)20
was born on 27 Jan 1834 at Rinteln an der Wesser, Germany.3
She married Anton (Anthony) Stankowitch
(see #4) in 1856.3
She died in Jan 1918 at Atlantic City, NJ.3
Anna was about 17 when she came to the US in 1851; about 22 when she
married. In later censuses she was
called Annie. Beside the children
listed here, she had two others Minna and Anna who died in infancy.
She lost the sight of one eye in her youth and had a bad cataract on the
other during most of her life.21
Anna
Tegtmeier
6. James
Curtis3
Lee
(John,
#12)22
was born in Sep 1845 at Clayton, Jefferson, NY.23
He married Nellie Adelle Fox
(see #7), daughter of Alfred Fox
and Olive Bent,
in 1870 at Clayton, Jefferson, NY.24
He died on 6 Mar 1919 at Buffalo, Erie, NY, at age 73.25
James grew up on a farm in Clayton next to the farms of Alfred and Elisha
Fox, Nellie's father and grandfather. So
James and Nellie doubtless visited together as children and it was a natural
thing for them to marry, even though they waited until she was nineteen and he
twenty-five. Clayton is on the St.
Lawrence River and their farm was at the southwestern corner of the town, below
the village of Depauville. After
their marriage they moved to Omar, a dozen miles away, where James had a store.
Lydia Fox, a niece, wrote: "I used to love to visit Aunt Nellie at
Omar. The Lees were near the St.
Lawrence River and one feature of a visit there was usually a day of fishing on
the river...We would fish all morning, then land on an island, make a fire and
cook the fish. Aunt Nellie would
have potatoes ready to cook and green corn or some vegetables in season, and if
it was berry time, a can prepared ready to eat, and with the blue sky above and
the beautiful river and the appetite we had acquired, those meals were truly
memorable."
James Curtis Lee
Star Lake Inn
Sometime in the 1880s, James moved east to
Gouverneur in St. Lawrence County, where he had a jewelry store.
Around 1895 he traded it for the Star Lake Inn, one of the largest hotels
in the western Adirondacks and he ran it for three years. In 1900 he was an
insurance agent in Buffalo and in 1910 he was in Syracuse where he described
himself as a concrete builder. Then
he moved back to Buffalo where he sold life insurance. When he died in 1919 the funeral was held in the family
residence, 68 Dewey Avenue. He was
a member of Washington Lodge #240, F. and A.M. and a life member of Central City
Consistory, S.P.R.S.
It is curious that James Curtis Lee appeared to be
successful in a variety of businesses throughout his life while neither of his
brothers showed any evidence of initiative or independence.26
Children of James Curtis3 Lee
and Nellie Adelle Fox
(see #7) were as follows:
3.
i. Genevieve
Marie2.
ii. Eula
Hope
27
was born in Jul 1876.24
She married Roscoe House
circa 1901. She
died after 1950.28
Lydia Fox: "That summer
[1876] Aunt Nellie's second child was born and Grandmother [Olive Bent] went out
to Omar to attend her. Genevieve
had been a difficult child and Grandmother said that she hoped the next baby
would make up for it. And she got
her wish. Eula Hope was an answer
to Grandmother's prayer and had the sweetness of dear Aunt Nellie. [And in 1950:] Eula has much of her mother's sweetness but
has struggled always against poor health."29
iii. Mollie
Elaine
30
was born in Apr 1880.31
She married Mark D. Leonard
in 1901. She
died after 1950.31
iv. Josephine Carol 8 was born on 1 Jun 1895 at Gouverneur, St. Lawrence, NY.9