Reunion--The Annual Smith Family Reunion

   

     Amy Johnson Crow has a 52 Ancestors Week blog challenge which I have decided to give a try for the second year. 

    The prompt for week # 22 is Reunion.

Picnic in our backyard with our Michigan Family
Summer of 1960

A "real" family reunion
Summer 1961

     Growing up, my extended family was rather small--or I was told that.  We did not have annual family reunions.  My Dad and his brother were not close. Cousins we could have shared time with, didn't happen.  Twice in a decade we had a gathering.

     Imagine my surprise when I began researching my genealogy and all the family I found.  I remember mentioning to my Mom that she had numerous cousins she never talked about.  Her response, "I guess we all just grew apart."  Those same cousins were ones I reached out to for family information.

Smith Family Reunion 1950
From the photo files of Roberta Smith Fatzinger

     My husband's Smith family remained close, especially the seven children of Grover Cleveland Smith and Mildred Claudine Tate.  There was an annual picnic reunion every summer.  To be fair, many lived within close proximity of each other in Tiffin, Ohio.  There was a branch, that were railroaders, who relocated to a town in Indiana.  Those cousins also attended.  

     I came onboard in 1969.  My first Smith Family Reunion was the summer of 1970 before we moved to the Boston area.  I was gob smacked at so many folks all coming together for an enjoyable afternoon.  There were games for all ages, conversation, old family photos and THE FOOD.  So many delicious casseroles, hot dogs and burgers, and DESSERTS.  These women could cook.  

Smith Family Reunion 1978

    There was a business meeting.  They elected officers, decided on the reunion date for the following year and gave prizes for the youngest, oldest and family that came the furthest.  My son Aric won the youngest in 1978 at two months old.

     I think my favorite event was Bingo.  Prizes were given to the winners and most were handmade or old family treasures.  

Smith Family Reunion the Hiser Branch
1986

Smith Family Reunion Hiser Branch
1989

     My husband and I missed a few reunions while living in Massachusetts; however, once we returned to Ohio, we were annual attendees.  I can remember driving to Indiana one summer to have the reunion there.  

     Unfortunately, I have few photos to share of the Smith reunions when I attended.  They must remain as fun memories.

Hughes Family Gathering
Cousin Judy Hughes Wedding
June 1989

Hughes Reunion 1990
North Olmsted, Ohio

     My Hughes Family did get its act together in 1986 for Cousin Fran's wedding and 1989 when we all attended Cousin Judy's wedding in Michigan.  For the next few years we gathered at weddings.  In 1990 I sponsored the first Hughes Family Reunion at my home and we were off and running for the next thirty-five years.

 

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Changing Names

     Amy Johnson Crow has a 52 Ancestors Week blog challenge which I have decided to join.  I am hoping it may help me to pinpoint someone or something that I have researched and not blogged about on Flipside.  AND push me to blog about family each week in 2024.  Sometimes I get lazy. 😁  Let's see how well I keep up.

     Week # 8 (February 26-March 3) is Changing Names. 

     The name changes in my family were not due to immigrants coming from non English speaking counties and their names being corrupted at Ellis Island.  Nope!  My family name changes came from within the families by family members.  Frankly, for a genealogist trying to track down family members who at some point in their life decide to change their name can present a stumbling bock.

     The most notorious name changing family member was my paternal grandmother aka Grams.  Her ability to change the spellings of first and last names is not unknown to readers of Flipside.  This was not due to Grams being illiterate.  Quite to the contrary, she had an eighth grade education typical of most women of her age and was an avid reader.

     Grams began with her own name.  Sarah became Sara.  I know Grams maternal aunt, Sarah Ann Poole Pinyerd also shortened her name to Sara and Grams was very close to that aunt.

     Next was the surname/maiden name change from Van Gilder to Van Guilder.  When I had a phone conversation with Cousin Kae (Catherine Wallace Billik my 1st cousin 1 time removed) decades ago, she told me that Grams oldest sister (Mary Louise "Bobs" VanGilder Wotherspoon) was the one in the family who decided to change the name.  I'm glad I reread my note because I had originally attributed it to my Grams.  😉

😀

     The first time I saw the spelling of Van Guilder was when I saw my father's birth announcement.  I had just begun my foray into genealogy and assumed that was the spelling of his middle name and Grams maiden name.  

     However when I checked Dad's actual birth certificate, his middle name is spelled Van Gilder.  I'm certain that the birth certificate was signed by Pop Pop and not Grams.  Grams name is listed as Sara in 1921.

     To further add to the confusion, my Dad's middle name was listed as Van Guilder on the college and medical degrees and his social security card.

     I found his middle name as Van Gilder in 1949 when he enrolled in the National Guard and his Army Honorable Discharge in 1955.  From about 1949 and on, Dad just used his middle initial "V".  Maybe he was confused too. 😇

     I never knew about the spelling change until I began corresponding with a cousin in my Pool(e)/Frum lines who was a noted historian and genealogist.  His Pool(e)/Frum line, like mine traced back to Van Gilder.  When I told him the spelling with a "U", he said he had never seen it written that way.  Now I was on the right track.

Baptism document

Used Aiden as his name in high school

     Grams named her second son, John Aiden Hughes.  I was never certain if the Aiden was a tip of the hat to Pop Pop's West Hartlepool roots.  However, in the UK it is spelled Aidan, after St. Aidan.  There is a laundry list of male Aidan's in the UK Hughes family.  Almost all UK Hughes family members were baptized, married and buried in St. Aidan's Church.  Whether Grams consciously made the change or not we will never know.  Certainly Pop Pop knew the UK spelling was Aidan.  

     I have seen that my Uncle John was referred to as Aiden Hughes throughout his school years growing up.  Great Grandma Hughes also called him Aiden.  At some point, John decided to be called John and I have seen on his college and medical school degrees he is John A. Hughes.  

     And now my take on the name.  I tend to show it as VanGilder, no space between.  So, here I am changing names.  LOL

Poole to Pool and Back to Poole

Sampson Frum Pool Family
Mt Union Cemetery
Morgantown, West Virginia

     My Morgantown, West Virginia Pool/Poole ancestry is also a changing name conundrum.  Maybe some family members decided in the late 1800's to modernize or revert back to a previous spelling of their surname from a hundred years in the past.  

Phillip Albert Poole, Sampson's son
Mt Union Cemetery
Morgantown, West Virginia

     My 6th great grandfather, Walter Poole 1745-1833, my 5th great grandfather William Pool 1765-1808, 4th great grandfather Rev. Asby Pool 1787-1867, 3rd great grandfather Rev William Lanham Pool 1817-1911, 2nd great grandfather, Sampson Frum Pool 1849-1909 and my paternal great grandmother Jessica B. Poole VanGilder 1870-1949.  All of Great Grandmother Jessie's siblings, that did not die at a young age, changed their surname from Pool to Poole.    

     With this family it requires two searches--Pool and Poole.  😁 

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Elizabeth Ferdinande Olesen Hughes Burial Information

My paternal great grandmother, Elizabeth Olesen Hughes as I remember her.
Circa early to mid 1950's

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     Apparently, I never did a Tombstone Tuesday blog on my paternal great grandparents.  Or, if I did, I was not able to find it doing a search on Flipside.  

Page inside the prayer book with Elizabeth Ferdinande Olsen's
date of birth written by her mother

     My paternal great grandmother, Elizabeth Ferdinande Olesen Hughes was born in West Hartlepool, England on October 16, 1876.  Her parents were Christian Invart Olesen and Ferdinande (Ferdinanda) Weiss Olesen.  

     I knew my Great Grandmother Hughes.  She lived with my grandparents and spent a large portion of the day alone in her bedroom listening to the radio.  I do not remember her "hanging around" my grandparent's apartment during the day. In elementary school, during the summer, I often spent several days at my grandparents apartment when they lived in Bellevue, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.  Great Grandma would have lunch in her bedroom and dinner with us in the dining room.  It was customary to have evening tea and a baked good before bed.  Great Grandma was already in the living room watching the television and would join in for teatime.

     She was not an overly warm or friendly individual.  I think the three of us Hughes great grandchildren were somewhat fearful of her.  It was mandatory that we go in to her bedroom to greet and give her a kiss on the cheek or at a minimum, a hug.  I think I can speak for my two younger brothers, it was not a familial duty we looked forward to when visiting Grams and Pop Pop.   

     I might mention that Great Grandmother had a nickname--Noonie.  No one alive now knows who originated the nickname.  I do not remember my Grandmother or Grandfather calling her Noonie and assuredly, we great grandchildren did not use her nickname.  Oddly, when we (cousins, too) refer to her now, many of us do use the name Noonie.

     When my brothers and I visited Hartlepool, England in 2003 and met with Hughes adult cousins, one in particular, John George Marsh, referred to her as "Lil".

Death certificate of Elizabeth Ferdinande Olesen Hughes

      Great grandmother died in her bed at 71 North Bryant Avenue, Bellevue, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania on October 11, 1961 at age eighty-four, just five days shy of her eighty-fifth birthday.   It is my understanding that Grams' niece, Catherine Wallace Billik (Kae), was attending her when she died.  George Henry Hughes, my grandfather and Elizabeth's only child, supplied the information for the death certificate.  Pop Pop did get his Olesen grandfather's name wrong.  To be fair, Pop Pop never knew him since, Christian Invart Olesen, died before Pop Pop was born.  Wm C. Olesen was the name given and it was the name of Pop Pop's uncle.

     My Dad, George VanGilder Hughes, was the attending physician who signed his grandmother's death certificate.  There was a story Dad loved to tell about this day.  Apparently, Pop Pop was extremely annoyed that it took Dad until evening to drive to Bellevue and sign the death certificate as his mother's dead body had been there all day.  My Dad's response to his Dad, "Well, I had live patients to attend to in the office all day."

     When Elizabeth's husband, John George Hughes, died on May 20, 1921, Elizabeth purchased five cemetery plots in Section A, Lot 53 at Woodlawn Cemetery, Aliquippa, Beaver County, Pennsylvania.  When the cemetery was built, the area was called Woodlawn and housed the workers and administrators of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company.  

     Elizabeth is buried next to her husband in plot #3.  John George Hughes is buried in plot #2, Elizabeth's mother, Ferdinande Weiss Olesen, is in plot #1 and Elizabeth's brother, William Christian Olesen, is in plot #2.  There is one plot unused.  Perhaps Elizabeth though her son, George Henry Hughes, would be buried with his parents.  That did not happen.

     I was fourteen when my great grandmother died.  I was not told of her death until after the fact.  Consequently, I did not attend the viewing at the funeral home, the church service or burial.  I have no obituary or burial card.  I do not know if any exist.  I do know that my grandmother had no love of her mother-in-law and may have simply thrown out all reminders.  Family members always thought that Pop Pop would mourn the death of his mother.  The story told is that he threw a rose on her casket and never looked back.  I may have mentioned in another blog, that Elizabeth was not very nice to her daughter-in-law (my grandmother, Grams), in fact, I have been told by many that she was downright nasty.  Sad to say my Great Grandmother Hughes was not mourned or missed.

 

 

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John George Hughes Burial Information

     Apparently, I never did a Tombstone Tuesday blog on my paternal great grandparents.  Or, if I did, I was not able to find it doing a search on Flipside.  No matter, I do have one new piece of information on my paternal great grandfather that has never been included on a blog.

     My paternal great grandfather, John George Hughes, died at age forty-seven, one month shy of his forty-eighth birthday.  Obituaries reveal that he had been ill for some time.  He and his wife, Elizabeth, spent over six months visiting family in England a year before he died.  It begs the question, was he beginning to become ill and took the trip to see his parents and siblings in West Hartlepool before he died?  Or did the onset of the illness begin sometime after his return to the states?  

     

     John died in the Hughes home, 131 Spring Street, Woodlawn, Beaver County, Pennsylvania on May 20, 1921.  Woodlawn was a company town built by Jones and Laughlin Steel Company.  Today, Woodlawn is part of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania.

     Primary cause of death was laryngeal abscess and secondary was pneumonia.  There is plenty of information on the net regarding this condition.  This is a medical journal I chose to take a quote from, "An acute laryngeal abscess is rare in the post-antibiotic era. It is a serious condition characterized by rapid deterioration in the size of the laryngeal inlet necessitating urgent airway management." 

     My great grandfather worked with and around unhealthy agents during his life.  In West Hartlepool he was a coal dealer.  When he came to the United States, he worked in steel mills.  I just assumed his condition was work related.  Breathing in coal dust and dust that contains metallic particles tends to cause throat and lung issues.   

     I did know my Great Grandmother Hughes and certainly my Grandfather Hughes; however, never thought to ask them about their husband and father.  Once they passed, the opportunity to learn more was gone.  John George Hughes died before his grandchildren were born.  My Dad was the oldest of the grandchildren and was born 41 days after his grandfather's death.

    Also of interest, George Henry Hughes, my paternal grandfather and the Hughes' only child, supplied the information and signed the death certificate.

     John George Hughes was buried in a family plot, purchased by his wife, Elizabeth Ferdinande Olesen Hughes.  He was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery on May 23, 1921. Other's buried there are Elizabeth Olesen Hughes, her mother, Ferdinande Weiss Olesen and her brother, William Christian Olesen.

     There was one obituary announcing my paternal great grandfather's death in the local newspaper.  I learned that my great grandfather attended church, that he was a member of the Loyal Order of Moose (LOOM) and the International Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF).  The three interconnected rings on John George's headstone represent the IOOF.

     My UK friend and fellow genealogy researcher sent me this obituary from the West Hartlepool, England newspaper years ago.  This week I just relocated it.  This is the new piece of information mentioned above and finding it lead me to at long last, write the blog.

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John George Hughes--Did My Paternal Great Grandfather Have an Additional Sibling(s) ?

     On the 1911 UK census, my paternal great great grandmother, Mary Ann Storey Hughes lists that she had thirteen children, four have died and nine are living.  Checking my ancestor chart, I have nine living and one deceased.  I am missing three children who died before showing up on a census report.     

     I have been checking the Durham County UK records on line and saw an interesting births and a death listed for Hughes' living in Stranton and on Hill Street in West Hartlepool.  The earliest record that I have found for my paternal great great grand parents, George Henry and Mary Ann Storey Hughes living at 61 Hill Street, is the 1881 UK census.

     The 1881 UK census shows the George Henry Hughes family living at 61 Hill Street, Longhill, West Hartlepool, Parish of Seaton Carew.  The Hughes family in 1881 consisted of George Henry, Margaret A (Mary Ann), Ann M. (Maria) born 1871, John G. (George) born 1873 and Samuel born 1876.  The next child born to George Henry and Mary Ann was Mary Alice in 1881 after the census was taken.

     Going backward, the 1871 UK census shows George Henry and Mary Ann living in the home of George Henry's parents, 60 Thorne Street, Parish of Stranton, West Hartlepool.  I have no record of where George Henry and Mary Ann lived during the 1870' after the 1871 census.  Did they remain with George Henry's parents or find their own home. 

      Two of their known children were born in the Parish of Stranton.  Ann Maria Hughes and my paternal great grandfather, John George Hughes, both baptized the same year they were born.  Of interest is another Hughes from Stranton baptized in 1878, Mary Emilia Hughes.  Stranton is a large area in West Hartlepool and the Hughes surname was somewhat common.  I was able to check more records and found that Mary Emilia was the daughter of Joseph and Margaret Ann Hughes.  That mystery solved.

     

     Next question.  The underlined baptisms are children of George Henry and Mary Ann Hughes.  Joseph Hill  Hughes born 1883, Elizabeth Hughes, born 1886, her twin, Thomas Henry Hughes, and William Hughes born 1888.  Were Elizabeth and Thomas not twins but triplets?  Was Sarah Hughes baptized in 1886 and from Longhill, Seaton Carew from my Hughes family?  I did do a search on ancestry for a Sarah Hughes.  I did find one, daughter of John and Ann Hughes; however they were living in Stranton, in the All Saints Parish.  When the Hughes moved to their home on Hill Street, Longhill, it was located in Seaton Carew, Holy Trinity Parish.  To date I have found no burial records for a Sarah Hughes as a child and Sarah Hughes does not appear on any of my Hughes family records going forward.  A partial question mark, but probably not a member of my family.

  I will let the reader know that two of George Henry and Mary Ann's children did not appear on Durham baptism records on line--Samuel Hughes and Mary Alice Hughes.

     Final record from Durham County lists Eliza Jane Hughes, born about 1879 and a cemetery registration in Hartlepool 1880.  Eliza Jane was born on Hill Street.  Was my Hughes family living on Hill Street in 1879? Wandered back out to ancestry and lo and behold I found another researcher who just posted, a month ago, that Eliza Jane was the daughter of George and Mary Ann. The key is the birth information that lists her mother's maiden name as Storey.

     Accounting of the children of George Henry Hughes and Mary Ann Storey Hughes

1. Ann Maria Hughes Hussey  1870-1945
2. John George Hughes  1873-1920
3. Samuel Hughes 1876-1936
4. Eliza Jane Hughes  1879-1880
5. Mary Alice Hughes Marsh  1881-1949
6. Joseph Hill Hughes  1883-1958
7. Elizabeth Hughes Dawson  1886-1941
8. Thomas Henry Hughes  1886-1963
9. William Alfred Hughes  1888-1959
10. Aidan Hughes  1895-1943
11. Baby Boy Twin  1895-1895

     I am still missing two children.  There is a gap between William and Aiden.  More research is needed.

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Addendum to Burial of George Henry Hughes and Mary Ann Storey Hughes

     

     Always back up your files.  Several years back, I purchased a years worth of access to British newspapers.  There was years worth of the Hartlepool England newspapers.  What fun!  I downloaded so many family articles, changed the PDF into jpegs.  Fortunately, I did use some in blogs because my computer crashed several months later and I lost it all.  Lesson learned....back up your files.  I am slowly trying to rebuild my UK Hughes data, which is what I lost.  

     A decade ago, on January 10, 2010,  I blogged about my paternal great great grandparents death and burial.  It was before my British newspaper subscription.  It was a happy dance day when I found both obituaries.

Obituary and Death Certificate of George Henry Hughes

Northern Daily Mail

Friday, May 9, 1930

Hartlepool, England

page 6

HUGHES--On the 8th inst. (instante mense--a date of the current month) at 70 Florence  Street, George Henry, aged 78, beloved husband of Mary Ann Hughes--Cortege to leave above address Saturday, 3 p.m., for service in St. Aidan's Church.--Friends please accept this (the only) intimation.

     Looking back through my blogs, it appears I never posted George Henry Hughes' death certificate.

Obituary and Death Certificate of Mary Ann Storey Hughes

Northern Daily Mail

Saturday, March 16, 1935

Hartlepool, England

page 4

HUGHES--On the 14th inst. (instante mense--a date of the current month) at 70 Florence  Street, Mary Ana, aged 82, dear beloved wife of the late George Henry Hughes--Cortege to leave 11-45 a.m. Monday for service at St. Aidan's--Friends please accept this the (only) intimation.

     Posting this blog secures these pieces of Hughes history in case the computer and external go belly up.  I really need to look into saving my information to a cloud site.

 

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And the Whole Hughes/Olesen Gang was together Crossing the Pond in 1920

          Have I mentioned how much I am loving having access to the English records on Ancestry....just about every other blog recently...LOL  Here is yet another find.

     Years back I located an application for a passport for my paternal Hughes great grandparents.  It was filed on November 6, 1919 and I figured that since John George Hughes, in particular, had not traveled back to West Hartlepool, England since he and his family crossed the pond in 1906, that he was due.  As it turned out, he made it over to visit about a year before his death.  

     A bonus from the passport application, was a photo of my paternal great grandparents.

     My paternal Hughes great grandmother, Elizabeth Olesen Hughes, crossed the pond twice before the 1920 voyage.  Traveling in 1907 to West Hartlepool accompanied by her young son and my paternal grandfather, George Henry Hughes.  This crossing was about fifteen months after the family arrived in the United States.  When I visited Hartlepool in 2003, John Marsh, a Hughes cousin, recalled that whenever Elizabeth would visit, she would leave with a trunk a full of Hughes and Olesen "stuff".

     A second time Elizabeth traveled alone to England.  Her brother, Bill Olesen, accompanied her back to the US in 1910.  I will admit that I need to follow Bill Olesen's travel records.  I do not think he remained in the United States.  He was there for a visit.    

UK map showing itinerary and Olesen home in Seacombe

         

     From other travel records, it appears it took about a week to cross the pond.  John George and Elizabeth Hughes sailed from the Port of New York around December 30 or 31.  They arrived in Liverpool, England on January 6, 1920.  First stop was Elizabeth's mother's home, 39 Clarence, Seacombe, located in a town directly across from Liverpool.  Her mother, my paternal great great grandmother, Ferdinande (Ann/Annie) Weiss Olesen moved from West Hartlepool to Seacombe sometime between 1911-1920.  I have tried to track down who else lived with Ann Olesen.  My guess is, her married daughter, Emily Olesen Richards and her son, William Christian (Bill) Olesen.  Emily's husband Rowland Richards had immigrated in 1914 and was living with John George and Elizabeth Hughes in Woodlawn, Pennsylvania.

     No wonder I was not able to locate my paternal great grandparents on the 1920 census--they were in England....lol.  Years back I wondered where they were as someone else living in their company house, 131 Spring Street, Woodlawn (now Aliquippa), Pennsylvania.

Hughes Green Grocer
70 Florence Street
Longhill, West Hartlepool, England

     John George and Elizabeth stayed in England for over six months.  Certainly a portion of the time was spent in West Hartlepool, probably staying with John George's parents.  There were countless Hughes relations to visit as well as many friends.  Both John George and Elizabeth Hughes were born in West Hartlepool.  

     Years back I had located the immigration records for my Great Great Grandmother Olesen.  She, her son Bill and daughter Emily all traveled from Liverpool on July 17, 1920 to the Port of New York on the S.S. Aquitania arriving on July 24, 1920.  Emily was on medical call on arrival for a possible illness, but discharged at 10:15am.  Her husband, Rowland Richards, had traveled from Woodlawn, Pennsylvania to welcome her to the United States.

      The immediate Olesen and Hughes Family destination was Ann's youngest son's, Ernest Alfred Olesen, home in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York.

     The information that was found when I added foreign exploration to ancestry was that my paternal great grandparents were also coming back to the United States on the same ship.  Departing on the SS Aquitania on July 17, 1920 from Liverpool and arriving at the Port of New York on July 24, 1920.  The Hughes and Olesen's all traveled back together.  Once everyone returned to Pennsylvania, they all lived together, for a time, at 131 Spring Street, Woodlawn, Pennsylvania.

     Amusing to me.  While John George and Elizabeth Hughes were overseas, their son, and only child, George Henry Hughes, my paternal grandfather, married Sarah Margaret VanGilder.  In a ceremony on June 5, 1920, in Fairmont, West Virginia my paternal grandparents began over fifty years of married life together.  It is said Elizabeth Hughes never wanted her son to marry and I have been told by those who were witnesses, that she was very nasty to my grandmother.  Perhaps one reason is that they married when Elizabeth was too far away to stop the wedding.

Olesen Family Blogs on Flipside

Ferdinande (Annie) Weiss Olesen--wife of Christian Invart Olesen and mother of Elizabeth, Frederick, Bill, Emily and Ernie Olesen.

William (Bill) Christian Olesen

Emily Maude Richards Brown

Frederick Adolph Olesen

Christian Invart Olesen--husband of Annie Olesen and father of Elizabeth, Frederick, Bill, Emily and Ernie Olesen

Ernest Alfred Olesen

   

   

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