Friday Family ProFile--Anna Leota Church

     

     Anna Leota Church, daughter of Edgar Wilson Church and Eliza Jane Richter, was born on October 13, 1889 at Keyser, Mineral County, West Virginia.  Anne is my paternal second cousin twice removed .  The Church branch is part of my VanGilder family tree.  Edgar's mother was Rebecca VanGilder, daughter of Jacob VanGilder, Jr. and Sarah R. McElroy.


Anna and brother, Charles
Xerox of the original photograph

    Recently a received a message regarding Anna (also known as Annie and Anne) from a fellow researcher through ancestry and I decided to feature her on my Family ProFile.

     Edgar made a living as a laborer and a coal miner while Anna was growing up.  The family lived in Lyon, Preston County and Grafton, Taylor County, West Virginia.  By 1920, Edgar had moved to Akron, Summit County, Ohio. 


Xerox copy of the original photograph

     Sometime between 1910 and 1917, Anna married William T. Burgy.  I have not been able to locate a marriage license for their wedding.  William, son of Martin Luther Burgy and Ida M. Brinker, was born on August 1, 1887 at Newport, Washington County, Ohio.

     William lists 950 7th Avenue in Akron, Ohio as his residence on his 1917 World War I draft registration card.  The Burgy's were still living at 950 7th Avenue in Akron in 1920 and they have a five year old daughter named Ellen Jane.  I have learned that Ellen was adopted.  William was employed with Goodyear Rubber Company, where he worked through the 1940's.

     Listed on the 1930 Ohio census, the Burgy family lived at 824 East Market Street in Akron, Ohio.  Around 1935, the Burgy's divorced.  Anna married JohnW. Jackson.  I have not been able to find their marriage certificate.  She remained married to John until her death.

     William T. Burgy died in Akron, Ohio on March 23, 1947.  Anna died in Akron, Ohio on September 6, 1948.  She is buried in Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, Akron, Summit County, Ohio along with her parents and numerous siblings.

Sources:

1. 1900 West Virginia Census, Lyon, Preston County, Page: 15A; Enumeration District: 103.
 
2. 1910 West Virginia Census Grafton Ward 3, Taylor County,Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 0140.
   
3. 1920 Ohio Census Akron Ward 6, Summit County, Page: 27B; Enumeration District: 197.
 
4. 1930 Ohio Census Akron, Summit County, Page: 17A; Enumeration District: 25.
 
5. Burgy, William, Certificate of Death, Summit County, Ohio, Number 20714.
 
6. Jackson, Anna Leota Church, Certificate of Death, Summit County, Ohio, Number 58132.
 
7. Marsh, William Alfred, Church Family Group Sheets and xerox copies of Church family photographs.

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Friday Family Profile--Eleanor Poole Bashaw

     Eleanor Poole also Eleanor Pool, daughter of Sampson Frum Pool and Sarah Louise Harner, was born in October 1, 1886. She was the youngest in a family of eight children and grew up on the Frum farm north of Morgantown, West Virginia in the Morgan District.  Eleanor, also known as Nell and Nellie, is my paternal great grand aunt.

    Two months shy of her twenty sixth birthday, on August 23, 1912, Eleanor married Leon Hamilton Bashaw, at Morgantown, Monongalia County, Ohio.  She was the third wife in a series of four for Leon.  Leon, son of Lunsford H. Bashaw and Lucretia M. Pettit, was born on December 18, 1871 at Irondale, Jefferson County, Ohio.

     Leon worked a variety of jobs before he married Nell--house painter, carpenter are among them as he moved between Ohio and West Virginia.  From his first two marriages, he had four children--two with each wife.  It appears that the first marriage ended in the death of his wife and the second in divorce.

Children of Leon Hamilton Bashaw and Jennie F.Cunningham:

1. Lucretia Isabell Bashaw, born August 1898 in Ohio.
 
2. Russell Jay Bashaw, born October 12, 1899 in Ohio and died September 18, 1990 at Canton, Stark County, Ohio

Children of Leon Hamilton Bashaw and Theressa Lenore Shriver:

1. Male Bashaw, born 1903 and died February 3, 1902 at Minerva, Ohio.
 
2. Victor R. Bashaw, born June 21, 1904 in Ohio and died July 20, 1975 at East Liverpool, Columbiana County, Ohio.
 
3. Ernest Russel Bashaw born 1906 in Ohio.

Eleanor Poole Bashaw
Olive Pettit Bashaw
Leon Poole Bashaw
circa 1923 at Poole Family Reunion

          

     Soon after her marriage to Leon, the couple moved to Oklahoma, where their first child, a daughter was born.  Olive Pettit Bashaw was born on June 2, 1914 at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.  Her middle name is the maiden name of her paternal great grandmother and her first name taken from her maternal aunt, Olive Pool.


Eleanor Pool Bashaw and baby daughter
Olive Pettit Bashaw


     The Bashaw's second child, a son, was born in Charleroi, Washington County, Pennsylvania.  Leon Poole Bashaw and was born on January 24, 1917.  Since the family was living on a farm in Columbiana County, Ohio at the time of Poole's birth, I wonder if he was born at his maternal aunt's (Sarah Ann Pool Pinyerd) Maternity Hospital in North Charleroi, Pennsylvania.

     The 1920 Ohio Census lists the family as living in Knox County, Columbiana County, Ohio and Leon is employed as a newspaper collector. 



Could Nell already be divorced and living in
Rices Landing, Pennsylvania?


     Sometime between 1920 and 1927, Nell and Leon divorced and she moved with her two children to Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.  Eleanor worked in Pittsburgh and her sister, Olive Pool Reeves, took care of them.  The 1930 Pennsylvania census shows young Olive and Poole Bashaw living on the North Side of Pittsburgh in a boarding house run by their Aunt Olive.

 

     Eleanor Poole Bashaw, age sixty-eight, died at Magee Hospital, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania on February 6, 1954.  Nell was employed as a practical nurse.  She was living at 111 Brilliant Avenue in Aspinwall along with her daughter, Olive P. Bashaw and her sister, Olive Poole Reeves. 

    Eleanor was buried on  February 10, 1954 alongside her parents and sisters in Morgantown, West Virginia in Mount Union Cemetery.

   I was told by a family member that Olive Poole Reeves paid for the burial of her sister, Eleanor Poole Reeves aka Nell, and that Olive Bashaw paid her back for the expenses of the funeral.  

     

Updated, February, 2021

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Friday Family ProFile--John A. Pinyerd

     When I think of steamboats cruising up and down the river, two folks come to mind....my paternal great grandmother, Jessie Pool VanGilder and the husband of my paternal great grandaunt, John A. Pinyerd.  The Pinyerd line has recently come back onto my front genealogy burner with an e-mail from a cousin out in Texas.  Sometimes I need to be shaken awake!

Steamboat Slackwater

     

     John, son of Jesse Pinyerd and Melvina S. Rider, was born on October 20, 1859 in Washington County, Pennsylvania.....possibly in East Bethlehem Township near Fredericktown.  John's father was a blacksmith and the family moved around when John was growing up. Finally, they settled in Cumberland Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania near or at Rices Landing. By age 20, John was also a blacksmith, probably working along side his father.

     How and when he met Sarah Ann Pool, down in Monongalia County, West Virginia is unknown.  Perhaps he was working as a blacksmith on a steamboat and met her when the boat stopped at Morgantown...both Morgantown and Rices Landing are on the Monongahela River.


     The marriage license shows that John was a blacksmith when he married Sarah the day after Christmas, December 26, 1888.  He was nine years her senior.  The wedding took place at Joseph Harner's home in Monongalia County, West Virginia.  Joseph was Sarah's uncle through her mother's side of the family. 

     Sarah Ann Pool, daughter of Sampson Frum Pool and Sarah Louise Harner, was born on October 9, 1868 in the Eastern District of Monongalia County, West Virginia.

     Without access to a census for 1890, it is difficult to determine the newly married Pinyerd's where abouts until 1900.  Oddly, Sarah is the only one with a census enumeration in 1900.  She was living on a farm in the Clinton District of Monongalia County, West Virginia....which is outside Morgantown.  John was not enumerated, although she was listed as married.  Her cousin, Charles Wesley Pool, was also living on the farm and helping her with the work.  A guess is that John was on the river when the census enumerator knocked at the door.

North Charleroi, PA and Lock # 4
from an old postcard

     In 1910, the Pinyerd's had relocated to Fourth Street, near Lock 4, North Charleroi, Pennsylvania.  On this census, Sarah lists that she is the mother of one child who is no longer alive.  I have not been able to find any records to date as to the birth of their child.  In a Poole Family genealogy book, they are listed as the parents of a girl, Viola L. Pinyerd.  Where the author found this information is a mystery.  John was employed as a boat engineer and Sarah is working as a nurse.  Their house location was close to the river.  John would be able to get on and off the steamboat and simply walk up Fourth Street to his home.

     While living in North Charleroi, Sarah Pinyerd seemed to have a direct line to the local newspaper offices. Fortunately for me, she must have phoned in every family and friend "coming and going" from her home. I have had some exciting "finds" in these old newspapers, which are out on Ancestry.  They have also been useful in piecing together other relations lives....where they lived, who they were married to, who they were visiting and their social activities.  The article above tells me that John Pinyerd was almost considered a "visitor" in his own home.

     The 1920 census the Pinyerds were still living on Fourth Street in North Charleroi, Pennsylvania.  John was employed as an engineer on a steamboat and Sarah was a nurse at home.  She has opened up her home as a maternity hospital.  Pregnant women stayed in the bedrooms upstairs and Sarah took care of them before and after the delivery.  A local doctor came to the house for the deliveries.

     One frequent visitor to the Pinyerd home during the 1920's, was John's sister, Jennie Pinyerd Wood.  I believe that Jennie and Sarah were good friends as newspaper articles list them visiting each other at various times.  Jennie was also invited to numerous social gatherings at the Pinyerd home.  One article also listed a Sabina Alfree from Chicago accompanying Jennie to the Pinyerd's.  That lead me on a search for this lady, only to find that she was another of John's sisters....Dorcas Sabina Pinyerd Allfree.

518 Fourth Street
North Charleroi, Pennsylvania

     

     John and Sarah are enumerated on the 1930 Pennsylvania census living at 518 Fourth Street in North Charleroi, Pennsylvania.  John was employed as a marine engineer and Sarah was a nurse at a maternity hospital, which she continues to operate out of her home.  John was still working at age 70 and Sarah at age 61.

     John has two 1930 census enumerations!  On the second one he is a lodger in Pittsburgh, on the North Side in a boarding house operated by his sister-in-law, Olive Pool Reeves.  Perhaps John was staying in Pittsburgh while his boat was being unloaded.  The street where Olive lived was not far from the Allegheny River.



Research done by Richard Yackly



     The North Charleroi newspaper continues to mention the Pinyerd Maternity Hospital/Home throughout the 1930's.  What happened to John and Sarah's relationship?  Apparently they did not divorce....did they separate?  Sarah remained in North Charleroi, Pennsylvania in the house on Fourth Street; however, there is a record regarding John's sister, Jennie Wood in 1938, and his address is listed in Bucyrus, Ohio.  Perhaps this mystery will have a resolution when the 1940 Federal Census is released.

     In fact, when John A. Pinyerd died on February 2, 1951, his address was listed as Bucyrus, Ohio. The death certificate does say "married". John was buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Bucyrus, Ohio with his two brothers, George T. Pinyerd and Uriah R. Pinyerd and their families.      

     Sarah Ann Pool Pinyerd died June 19, 1952 at the Charleroi-Monessen Hospital, was cremated and buried in her Pool Family plot, Mt. Union Cemetery, Route 19, Monongalia County, West Virginia.

NOTE:  I have seen this surname spelled Pinyerd and Pinyard.

Sources:

- 1860 Pennsylvania Census, East Bethlehem, Washington County, page 449.
- 1870 Pennsylvania Census, Jefferson, Greene County, page 277.
- 1880 Pennsylvania Census, Cumberland, Greene County, ED 68, page 163B.
- 1900 West Virginia Federal Census, Clinton District, Monongalia County, ED 79, Sheet 5.
- 1910 Pennsylvania Census, North Charleroi, Washington County, ED 221, Sheet 5A.
- 1920 Pennsylvania Census, North Charleroi, Washington County, ED 203, Sheet 5B.
- 1930 Pennsylvania Census, North Charleroi, Washington County, ED 63-90, Sheet 21B.
- 1930 Pennsylvania Census, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, ED 392, page 2B.
- Cale, Freda Robinson, Poole Family, page 19.
- Hewitt Cemetery Listing, Rices Landing, Pennsylvania
 

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