George Albert Winterer

1 February 201628 March 2016 ~ ctw ~ Leave a comment

George Albert Winterer (1900-1960) of Pottsville, PA was Chief Burgess of Mechanicsville, PA. He was the son of Joseph Winterer (1868-1924) and Sarah J. Eyler (1871-1955). The three of them are buried in Charles Baber Cemetery in Pottsville.

He married Eva Irene Weiss in 1922 and they had one son, George Allan Winterer (1924-1974). They were still married in 1935 but by 1940 George was divorced and, along with his son, living with his widowed mother. In the late 1930’s he married Elizabeth Katcher and they remained married until his death.

The photo is 2.5″ X 3.5″. I purchased it at an antique store in Baltimore, MD, in January 2016.

***Update on 28 March 2016*** A niece of George’s saw the blog and contacted me. I sent her the photograph on 1 March 2016.

Daniel Stone and Ella Crouse

11 January 201618 February 2016 ~ ctw ~ Leave a comment

This photograph was in a box of stuff I bought on The Avenue in the Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore. The box contains dozens of photographs centered around the Upton, Griffith, Hahn, and Pumphrey families in Baltimore City and Anne Arundel County, MD.

Pictured are Daniel Stone and his second wife, Ella. This matches genealogical records for Daniel Louis Stone (1852-1918) whose second wife was Ella Crouse (1863-?). They were married circa 1883 after the death of Daniel’s first wife Elizabeth (1849-1881).

According to the U.S. Census, in 1910 four of Ella’s six children were living. Ella’s widowed father, Frederick Crouse (1824) was living with the family as was Daniel’s 13-year-old niece, Lizzie L. Pumphrey.

Ella lived on Light Street in Baltimore as late as 1928, listed as Daniel L. Stone’s widow.

Daniel, Elizabeth, and Ella are listed on a gravestone in Baldwin Memorial United Methodist Church in Millersville, Anne Arundel County, MD. Daniel’s findagrave.com memorial is #64696232.

Daniel Stone

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1506 Church Street, Baltimore, MD

28 December 201528 December 2015 ~ ctw ~ 2 Comments

This undated photograph, probably from the 1920s, depicts part of 1506 Church Street in the Curtis Bay neighborhood of Baltimore City. At first I thought the building was a private residence. It turned out the building is part of a church. Described as a “Greek Catholic Church” in the MD Department of Assessments and Taxation record, it is identified as the Saints Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church according to this website.

Here is what the building looks like today:

This photograph was in a box of stuff I obtained from Strawberry Fields, the same box where I found the Venice Etta Thayer Steward post card. The box contains material associated with the family of William T. Upton Sr. (1888-1973) and his wife Ruth Ann Griffith (1893-1984). There are dozens of photographs of Uptons and Griffiths, many inscribed on the back by the same hand as the above photograph. Watch for more on these families, unless a family member who wants this material comes forward.

Venice Etta Thayer Steward

15 December 2015 ~ ctw ~ 1 Comment

I never knew a lady whose name was Venice.

Venice Etta Thayer (1895-1978) was the daughter of Herman Thayer (1865-1945) and Clara A. Thompson (1870-1948). Charles Herman Thayer (1903-1997) was her brother.

Venice married Fremont Phiness Steward (1895-1982) in 1915 and they apparently had one child, Doctor Edith Etta Steward (1927-2008) who died in CA.

Here is a photograph of the Thayer family tombstone in Whitefield Cemetery, Whitefield, ME:

I picked up this postcard at Strawberry Fields off The Avenue in Hampden, Baltimore, in late 2015. It was apparently never mailed.

There were five other postcards in the box which Venice had received from others. The most interesting of those was this one depicting the brand new Waterville Senior High School which was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. Venice’s unnamed correspondent marked a window with an “X” where she had place a banner.

These postcards were in a box with a bunch of stuff associated with a Baltimore area family and I have not yet discovered the connection between that family and the Thayer family of ME. Perhaps there is no connection and they were mixed in with that bunch by fate. As I work through the box perhaps a connection will be revealed.

John Barton Montgomery, Sr.

1 December 201528 March 2016 ~ ctw ~ 5 Comments

I think the above young gentleman is John Barton Montgomery Sr. who was born in KY in May 1887 and died in IN on 8 March 1951. He was variously known as John, Bart, and a combination of these two. He had a son whose name was John Barton Montgomery Jr. (1926-2009) according to what is written on his tombstone.

“Bart” married Heathy E. Mitchell in September 1916, and they had four sons and two daughters.

If you’re a member of this family and would like more information, just give me a holler.

I purchased this photograph during Thanksgiving week 2015 at Sturgis Antiques on The Avenue in Hampden, Baltimore, MD.

***Update on 28 March 2016*** Today I heard from some of John’s grandchildren who live in Georgia and I mailed them the photograph this afternoon.

Bonita Margaret McGuire Ali

23 November 201524 November 2015 ~ ctw ~ 1 Comment

Bonita Margaret McGuire (1915-1989) was a nurse in the U.S. Army from November, 1942 to February, 1946. In 1945 Bonita married Chester F. Ali (1919-2009) who was born in Italy. He was also in the U.S. Army from August 1941 to May 1946 and resigned as a major in the Medical Administrative Corps. They were both from West Virginia and settled in the Clarksburg area. They had at least two children.

Bonita signed the following photograph: “To the sweetest Lt. I ever knew, Bonita McGuire.”

Bonita McGuire

The photograph of Bonita was one of several torn from an album which probably belonged to the unidentified lieutenant mentioned above, who was probably the subject of the two following photographs taken at Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, TN.

Here is she is with an unidentified colleague on the streets of Atlanta, GA.

Here are the remaining photographs from this batch:

I purchased the photographs from Strawberry Fields off The Avenue in Hampden, Baltimore.

Letter: Moul Family of New York

21 November 201521 November 2015 ~ ctw ~ Leave a comment

The following letter is one of two I bought on The Avenue in Baltimore at Millbrook Antiques & Prints in October 2015. I did a little genealogical research on the family. Please contact me if you’re interested in further information, or if you would like to own the original letter.

The Moul family was very prominent in Rensselaer County, NY.

The town of Cato Four Corners is now known as Meridian and is located in Cayuga County, NY.

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Here is my transcript of the letter:

[Address on the front]

Mr. Frederick Moul
Cato Four Corners
Cayuga Co., NY

Sand Lake, NY

[Page 1]

January the 1, 1836, Sand Lake

Dear Cousin,

I take this opportunity to write to you that I am well at present and hoping these few lines will find you enjoying the same blessing. I have just left aft working for Mr. Hillard yesterday. Now I am uncle Henry and expected our folks after me but has been so stormy they did not come. I am now going to work about the neighborhood. I should be very much pleased to see you all but if I never see you on earth I hope to meet you in a better world than this.

Eliza Moul
Margaret Moul

Dear Cousins,

It is with much pleasure that I embrace this opportunity of writing a few lines to you on this storm New Years evening, being very comfortably situated in our room and thinking you had forgotten us. We would remind you of what you promised when last we parted. My health with the rest of our cousins is good at present. Hoping these few lines through the goodness of God will find you enjoying the same blessing. Dear cousins, I should be pleased to see you all yet we re at some distance from one another so that we cannot visit as we once did although we can recollect the past enjoyments we have had together, but know not that we shall ever enjoy them again on the shores of time. How important it is that if we meet no more on earth that we be prepared to meet in heaven. My best respects to you all.

Mother sends her best respects to your mother and says she would be pleased to see her. Her health has been very good this summer. Write to us as soon as you can.

Your Affection Friend,

Abigail Moul

[Page 2]

Sand Lake, January the 1 1837
Thomas M. Moul

Dear Uncle,

On this ((snowy)) day being new years day I take this opportunity to inform you that we through the goodness and mercies of god are enjoying tolerable good health which I think is the greatest temporal blessing on earth and hoping these few and broken lines will find you enjoying the same blessing. We have not heard from you since we received your letter. Your mother has been very unwell this last fall so that they sent up word father and uncle Peter and Jacob went down, but she has recovered her health again. Also, ((Mary)) has been sick but has gotten better. I have been down since and grand mother has been very much grieved thinking that you did not come and see her before you removed to the west. Grandma Measick is very sick the last that we heard from her. I suppose that you have heard that Sally is married. Cousin Frederick has bought a farm not far from the lower aqua duct. Father says that you must come down and he will go with you to Rhynebeck [Rhinebeck]. You must write us a letter how the prospects are there and how your crops were last summer and whether you think we had better sell yet or not. Thomas Measick offered us 50 dollars an acre for our farm. Charles and Hannah has been down and stayed with us one night and were all well. The rest of our friends are well as far as I know of. The snow fell about 15 inches on new years day.

I remain your humble servant until death.

Frederick Moul, Cato

J. H. Gladfelter

17 November 201511 January 2016 ~ ctw ~ 4 Comments

Here is J. H. Gladfelter. I was unable to pin him down to an specific person.

I purchased this photograph from Sturgis Antiques on The Avenue in Hampden, Baltimore.

James A. Carman

17 November 2015 ~ ctw ~ Leave a comment

Here is James A. Carman of Baltimore, MD. There are several possible matches in the 1880’s, a carpenter, a clerk/book keeper, and others, but it is impossible to tell which he is without a little more information.

I paid $3 for this at Sturgis Antiques on The Avenue in Hampden, Baltimore.

A Bunch From Westminster, MD

17 November 2015 ~ ctw ~ Leave a comment

I paid $5 for this batch of photographs at Strawberry Fields off The Avenue in Hampden, Baltimore. They were in a box of photos which apparently came from an estate sale in Westminster, MD.

Here are three photographs of Gary Lee Noel. The third one has no identifying information but the subject is recognizable as GLN as identified in the other two photographs.

The following is a photograph of members of Miss Hooper’s 4th grade class and their Frontier Exhibit: Skipper Myers, Buddy Long, Donna Bole, Maxine Magee, Carole Bollinger, Sally Mather, Charles Beard, and Fred Magsmen.

Finally, here are three ladies at “camp” in July, 1932: Louella Downey, Miriam Waldemeyer, and “Peggy” Beard.