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MATHIES GENEALOGY
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ABRAM J. MATHIES
(February 14, 1893, Schönbrunn [Schönfeld],
South Russia - June 21, 1974, Leamington, Ontario, Canada)
and
MARGARETHA [MARGARET, MARGARETHE] DÜCK
(April 6, 1897, Schönbrunn [Schönfeld], South Russia - May 10, 1986, Leamington,
Ontario, Canada)
MATHIES IN SOUTHERN ONTARIO
1926 to c. 1935
and
1938 to PRESENT
MATHIES
DESCENDANTS
1927
SEPTEMBER
Miss Mildred Blair - Inman School, No, 7
http://ink.ourontario.ca/browse/kr - The Kingsville Reporter. September 8, 1927 - Page: 8
Note: This is Union School Section 7 -
http://ink.ourontario.ca/browse/lp - The Leamington Post
- Page: 17, located east of Cottam -
http://ink.ourontario.ca/browse/kr -
The Kingsville Reporter. July 26, 1934 - Page: 4].
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1927 - 1928
RUTHVEN
Note for 1927: No Mathies are mentioned in the Ruthven School Report of May, 1927 - http://ink.ourontario.ca/browse/lp -The Leamington Post. May 5, 1927 - pg. 2
Note for 1927: Erna Mathies appears in the Ruthven School Report of October, 1927 - http://ink.ourontario.ca/browse/lp -The Leamington Post. October 6, 1927 - pg. 12
Ruthven School Report
Junior Room
*Erna Mathies (2nd Class), Erica Mathies (Senior Primary) and Margaret Mathies (Junior Primary - older sister of Annie Krause) appear in the Ruthven School Report for the Month of October, 1928
E. H. Malott, Teacher
* Denotes honors
http://ink.ourontario.ca/browse/lp -The Leamington Post. November 8, 1928 - Page: 2
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1929
Ruthven School Report
Junior Room
Sr. Pr. [Senior Primer] - John Mathies, Annie Mathies ...
*Erica Mathies
2nd Class - Erna Mathies ...
E. H. Malott, Teacher
Names in Order of Merit * Denotes honors
http://ink.ourontario.ca/browse/lp -The Leamington Post. April 4, 1929 - pg. 9
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Ruthven Public School
To Jr. 1st - *Erica Mathies ... *John Mathies, *Annie Mathies ...
Promoted to Jr. 3rd - ... Erna Mathies ...
E. H. Malott, Teacher
Names in Order of Merit ... * Denotes honors
http://ink.ourontario.ca/browse/lp -The Leamington Post. July 11, 1929 - pg. 9
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1931
1731 CENSUS
INMAN SIDE ROAD
(NEAR INMAN PUBLIC SCHOOL, RUTVEN)
https://central2.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?id=e011636849&app=census1931&op=img
Province: Ontario District name: Essex South District number:
103
Sub-district name: Gosfield South (Township), No. 22 Sub-district number: 22,
Page 6
Abram Mathies - Age 38 - German - Born Russia - Immigrated 1924 - Naturalized 1931 - Mennonite - Can speak English - Other language German - Renting 6 occupied rooms ($10 per month) - No radio - Farm Labourer - General Farm - $750 earnings since June 1, 1930 (i.e the last 12 months) - At work on June 1, 1931
Margaret Mathies - Age 34 - German - Born Russia - Immigrated 1924 - Naturalized - Mennonite - Can speak English - Other language German - Home Maker
Margaret Mathies - Age 10 - German - Born Russia - Immigrated 1924 - Naturalized - Mennonite - Can speak English - Other language German - Student
Annie Mathies - Age 8 - German - Born Russia - Immigrated 1924 - Naturalized - Mennonite - Can speak English - Other language German - Student
William Mathies - Age 6 - German - Born Ontario - Mennonite
George Dick - Age 21 - German - Born Russia - Immigrated 1924 - Mennonite - Can speak English - Other language German - Farm Labourer - General Farm - $320 earnings since June 1, 1930 (i.e the last 12 months) - At work on June 1, 1931
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1931 CANADA CENSUS
Province: Ontario District Name: Essex South District
number: 103
Sub-district name: Mersea (Township), No. 26 Sub-district number: 26
- Page 21
JOHN TIESSEN
POINT PELEE
John Tiessen - Age 41 - Born Russia - Mennonite - Immigrated 1926 - No radio - $780 earnings since June 1, 1930 (i.e the last 12 months) - At work on June 1, 1931 - Farmer - Fruit Farm
Margaret Tiessen - wife- Age 38 - Born Russia - Mennonite - Immigrated 1926
Elizabeth Tiessen - daughter- Age 12 - Born Russia - Mennonite - Immigrated 1926
Henry Tiessen - son- Age 10 - Born Russia - Mennonite - Immigrated 1926
Martha Tiessen - daughter- Age 8 - Born Russia - Mennonite - Immigrated 1926
Margaret Tiessen - daughter- Age 5 - Born Russia - Mennonite - Immigrated 1926
Issac Tiessen - son- Age 3 - Born Ontario
https://central2.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?id=e011636924&app=census1931&op=img
ISSAC TIESSEN
POINT PELEE
https://central2.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?id=e011636924&app=census1931&op=img - Page 21
NOTE: "John Henry Tiessen, Isaak Tiessen and Margaret Tiessen, for purchase of land, Point Pelee National Park, $20000 ..." Public accounts of Canada, Volumes 1-3, 1961, p. 25-20
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1933
S.S. No. 5 Gosfield South (Olinda) School [Township of Gosfield South]
Mary Balkwill, Teacher
Margaret Mathies (2nd Row), Annie Mathies (2nd Row), Bill Mathies (4th Row)
Also Erna Mathies (Back Row), Jacob Mathies (2nd Row)
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1937
AUGUST
Annie Mathies - Lower School Examination - June 1937 - Beamsville
[At this time: Grades 9 and 10 was Lower School, 11 and 12 was Middle School, and 13 was Upper School]
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1938
FEBRUARY
No Mathies (Note: No grades are noted beyond Grade 4) in the February Report of S S Point Pelee School
http://ink.ourontario.ca/browse/lp - The Leamington Post. March 10, 1938 - pg. 6
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1938
APRIL
April Report of Point Pelee School
William Mathies (Grade 7); Harry Mathies (Sr. Pr.)
Alice G. Warmington, Teacher
Also in the School: Rudy Krause - Jr. Pr [Grade 1 Junior]
http://ink.ourontario.ca/browse/lp - The Leamington Post. May 5, 1938 - pg. 10
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1938
MAY
Monthly Report of Rural Schools
Point Pelee For May
William Mathies (Grade 7); Harry Mathies (Grade 1 Sr.)
Alice G. Warmington, Teacher
Also in the school: Rudy Krause - Grade 1 Jr.
http://ink.ourontario.ca/browse/lp - The Leamington Post. June 9, 1938 - pg. 11
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1938
SEPTEMBER
September Report Point Pelee School
Wm. Mathies (Grade 8); Harry Mathies (Grade 2)
Alice G. Warmington, Teacher
Also in the school: Rudy Krause - Grade 2
http://ink.ourontario.ca/browse/lp -The Leamington Post. October 6, 1938 - pg. 3
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1939
JUNE
June Report of Point Pelee School
Harry Mathies (Grade 2)
Alice G. Warmington, Teacher
Also in the school: Rudy Krause - Grade 2
http://ink.ourontario.ca/browse/lp -The Leamington Post. July 6, 1939 - pg. 3
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1939
DECEMBER
December Report of Point Pelee School
Harry Mathies (Grade 3)
Alice G. Warmington, Teacher
Also in the school: Rudy Krause (Grade 3)
http://ink.ourontario.ca/browse/lp -The Leamington Post. December 28, 1939 - pg. 3
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1940
JUNE
No Mathies in the June Report of Point Pelee School
http://ink.ourontario.ca/browse/lp -The Leamington Post. July 4, 1940 - pg. 18
All Canada, Voters Lists, 1935-1980
Abrani John Mathies Essex, Ontario electoral district 1940
Name: Abrani John Mathies
Occupation: Labourer, R. It
Year: 1940
Location: Essex, Ontario, Canada
Electoral District: Essex South
Abram John Mathies, Labourer, R. R. 1, Leamington
Mrs. Abram John Mathies, R. R. 1, Leamington
http://search.ancestry.ca/search/DB.aspx?dbid=2983
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1941
JUNE 1
Taufspruch fuer Anna Matthies ... Gegeben am Tage der Taufe.
Baptismal motto for Anna Matthies ... Given on the day of baptism.
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1945
All Canada, Voters Lists, 1935-1980
Mrs Abraham Mathies Essex, Ontario electoral district 1945
Name: Mrs Abraham Mathies
Gender: F (Female)
Year: 1945
Location: Essex, Ontario, Canada
Electoral District: Essex South
Abraham Mathies, farmer, Cottam
Mrs Abraham Mathies, Cottam
http://search.ancestry.ca/search/DB.aspx?dbid=2983
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1963
All Canada, Voters Lists, 1935-1980
A J Mathies Essex, Ontario electoral district 1963
Name: A J Mathies
Occupation: Retired Fox St
Year: 1963
Location: Essex, Ontario, Canada
Electoral District: Essex South
44 Fox Street
Mrs. A. J. Mathies, 44 Fox Street
ANCESTRAL GENEALOGICAL NOTES
ESSEX COUNTY
INTRODUCTION
From: "Louise Ross" <lross@mnsi.net> Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:33:15 -0400 To: krausehouse@krausehouse.ca Subject: Re: Mathies Clarification
Mom and Dad moved all over Essex County .. (not sure of the order of
moves or if I have them all)
At Wigles (on #3 hwy or 3rd conc. ?)
On the 5th conc. west of the Olinda school at Dukes;
Shared a house with relatives at Broadwell's brick yard near Kingsville;
In a house on a sideroad near the Inman Public school;
At Pt. Pelee;
On the 7th conc. near Wheatley where I started school on the 8th conc.,
(Margaret & Annie were married here.)
On the 10th conc. where Harry and I went to a school at the corner of the
9th and Graham sideroad;
On the 7th conc. again near Cottam where Harry & I went to the Inman School
c 1945;
Then moved 5 miles east on the 7th conc. I went to S. S. # 17 Elmwod school,
corner of the 7th and Olinda sideroad;
On the 6th Concession near Olinda where I started High School at the U.M.E.I.
Sold the farm and moved to 44 Fox St., Leamington ...
1926
ESSEX COUNTY
Lohrenz and his family, the first Mennonites to settle in Essex County, lived on the farm of Edmund Wigle on the third concession near Kingsville? N.N. Driedger, in his history of the Leamington United Mennonite Church, points out that Lohrenz, being "already a missionary candidate and [having] ... preached in Russia. . . . was in an excellent position to be the first minister to the Mennonite families coming to Essex County . Mr. Lohrenz, however, left after about one and one-half years to take a ministerial position in the U.S .A ."' Thus he did not become the pillar around whom the Mennonites might gather, as families followed him beginning in the spring of 1925 . They settled in scattered fashion in Kingsville, Leamington, Wheatley, Olinda, Coatsworth, Harrow, Windsor, and Pelee Island.
Employment was available on farms and in two brickyards : one at Kingsville and one at Coatsworth . Among the more than thirty families and individuals that arrived in 1925 and 1926 were: Jacob M. Barkowsky, Jacob D. Janzen, Nicolai Schmidt, Johann Martens, Heinrich P. Enns, Abram J. Mathies, Heinrich Schmidt, Isaac Tiessen, Daniel Boschman, and Heinrich Thielman.
Jacob D. Janzen, who was to become a prominent minister in the Leamington United Mennonite Church, had arrived with his family at Quebec City on August 8, 1924, having crossed on the liner "Empress of France." He went directly to Winkler, Manitoba, but came back east to Leamington on March 6, 1925 . To bring these people together into a community of worship was the next step . It should be noted that these Russian Mennonites were composed of two groups: the "Kirchliche," or those who became the United Mennonites, and the Mennonite Brethren . In areas where members of both groups lived, as in Leamington, worship services were generally held together in the early years. The split, when it finally came in October 1932, was an amicable separation ...
http://www.mhso.org/publications/Mennogesprach5-2.pdf -"Mennonites in Essex County: The Early Years" by Henry D. Janzen, Mennogesprach, September, 1987, Volume 5, Number 2
1927 - c. 1935
ESSEX COUNTY
Relatives urged them to come to the Leamington area, and here they worked for a while at Broadwell's and then at Wigles. But Dad was looking for a place where he could be his own boss, and we ventured forth to Inman [to a farm bought in 1927 between Kingsville and Cottam on the Inman Sideroad], where we lived together [1927-1929] with Uncle John Dicks [John and Maria Dick] for a while. The land here was very hard. At any rate it was not the place to put down roots, and so, with another child on the way ..."How did we know?" Well, now, that we too old, to be sent upstairs, Dad and mom began to talk in Russian, and then, when we moved to that large house at Foxes, "Fräulein Friesen" came, our brother Harry was born [1931] ...
Golden Anniversary (1969) of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Mathies by Annie Krause
;
Ernest J. Dick, Courage, Courage, The Lord Will Help, The Family
History of Johann P. Dück and Descendants from Schönfeld, Southern
Russia (Leamington, John H. Dick, 1990), pp. 57-60
THE DEPRESSION BEGINS Prices plummeted overnight, and , in short order, the stock and implements Dad had signed for at premium price dropped to about 1\4 of their value. So the new venture began with a sizeable debt. The one teacher, Inman Country school was just about 200 yds. down the road and so Agnes, Helen, and I came home for lunch. Miss Blair was the teacher’s name and she drove in from the Essex area every morning in a Model A Ford to teach all the grades to 40 odd students. She was capable and a hard worker, but then for the princely sum of $500 annually, why shouldn’t she work hard! And so we settled in on the White farm located on #3 Highway about 2 miles east of the village of Cottam.
J.G. Dyck, 1951, 95 Erie Str., North Leamington, Ont. Canada
- http://www.familienforschung.online-dick.de/index.php?id=65 - RANDOM
RECOLLECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS FROM THE DIRTY THIRTIES AND BEYOND OR A STROLL
DOWN MEMORY LANE, A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY VICTOR J. DYCK WHAT FOLLOWS IS FOR
MY KIDS, WITH LOVE. VICTOR DYCK, LEAMINGTON, 1996
I must have been about 4 years old when we moved to Zacky Wigles near Ruthven. There was a little white frame house on the yard, where many of our people (the Mennonites) had been taking turns living as they also strove to get ahead in this free land of opportunity. My older sister Margaret started school here, as did our cousin Helen Janzen who stayed with us since her mother, a widow had to find work elsewhere.
There is one day that stands out because it could have been the last one for our younger brother Bill. We were running over some old boards that covered a sewer. Mrs. Wigle, the bosses wife was hanging up clothes outside and had just finished warning us about the danger of what we were doing, when one of the middle boards cracked, giving way and Bill fell in. He came up twice and was about to go down for the third time when Mrs. Arnold Wigle with her huge goitre & finding it very difficult to bend over, managed to grab him by the hair on his head, and drag him over the edge. Now Mother who was inside had heard all of the screaming but thought nothing of it, since we were always doing that because of the cats. She was sitting by her sewing machine when we came in with our foul-smelling brother who brought up that sewer water for days to come.
From Wigles, we moved to Broadwells. One day as my father was spraying the apples, I was watching & warned not to eat them as they were also green. Of course I just had to taste one. Was I sick! and up untill this day, a green apple can cause me problems.
Not far away we moved again; this time to Inman where I started school and walked barefoot along with most of the rest of the kids as long as the weather co-operated. One-half of our home was shared with uncle John Dick & his family as they tried to farm the hard clay land that even my tough bare feet could hardly walk on.
In this one-room school house was a teacher Miss Blair! who didn't seem to like immigrants. Not understanding too much English since German was our first language, I whispered to my sister Margaret who was sitting in the desk across from me to explain what the teacher had said. That did it! She pointed her pointer to the corner I was to go & stand, but when I did, there I was facing her. This brought out her anger even more & directed me with that long stick to turn around where I remained untill [sic] recess ...
But Dad was looking for a place where he could be his own boss, and we ventured forth to Inman, where we lived together with Uncle John Dicks for a while. The land here was very hard. At any rate it was not the place to put down roots, and so, with another child on the way ..."How did we know?" Well, now, that we too old, to be sent upstairs, Dad and mom began to talk in Russian, and then, when we moved to that large house at Foxes, "Fräulein Friesen" came, our brother Harry was born [November 21, 1931 in Leamington] ...
Dukes had a small house at the corner of Olinda where we could live and grow tobacco, but we didn't know about the "Vonstche" - bed bugs that is! And even the sulphur treatment didn't clear them up entirely ...
They attempted farming in Essex County together with John and Maria Dick on a farm between Kingsville and Cottam on the Inman Sideroad. They bought this 50 acre farm with a house that was large enough for both families in 1927. Their intentions were that one of them would work at the brickyard while the other would do the farming. Their unfamiliarity with clay farming, and bad luck with their crops, did not bring them sufficient income to make their payments and after two years they lost this farm and their investment ...
Thank goodness we moved again, this time to Grant Foxes at Olinda who had Cora & Nora living there also. Our father used to tell us about driving the huge truck over the hills on the way to Delhi for Mr. Fox. The school here had the most wonderful teacher I've ever known. At only 18, Miss Balkwill took a great interest in both Margaret & myself, taking us to various functions to sing duets, after which we were rewarded with the first banana split we'd ever eaten.
While papa was busy spraying in the peach orchard, mama was busy trying to keep us dressed in the latest styles by getting second-hand used coats & re-designing them to fit, as well as the empty spray bags, that were first bleached, & then dyed the desired colour before they were sewn with added hand-made lace around the collars. Both the coats and dresses were very itchy, but we did look fashionable except for the high buttoned shoes that were for sale, at a second-hand store in Ruthven.
When we walked to German school on Saturdays, we usually returned to the smell of bean soup, a tradition it seemed to me.
Both Uncle Herman & Uncle George Dick stayed with us for a while at Foxes, and I loved to hear Uncle George play the Ukeleyle. He also had a radio with earphones from which we heard what was going on in the world. It was the time of the Great Depression and Uncle George decided to become a bum, and took to riding on top of the trains wherever he went. Maybe that's where someone got the song from, and wrote "Hallaluehia I'm a bum!" I can still remember that one. Uncle Herman on the other hand was determined to find a white-collar job, and it wasn't too long till he got one. It was at Fox'es that a Fraûlin Friessen arrived in the middle of the night and our brother Harry was born. All of the Mennonites in our area had her for a mid-wife & she was well liked.
Then it was time to move again.
Just down the road were Dukes, with a house for us to live in, and tobacco kilns on the yard. The first night after helping papa put up the stove-pipe (my job, since I was the tallest with the longest reach), we didn't get much sleep. There was something crawling around under our bed covers & biting us. All of the cracks around the windows & doors were plugged inside plus the chimney & something called "schwevel" was burned to get rid of the bed bugs. But the old couch with a head-rest that was there when we moved in had to be burned. It was probably where the trouble was. We all left for the day and the Olinda school just across the road where Miss Balkwill first read us "Little Women" followed my interest in books and still does to this day ...
Our Uncle David Mathies had bought a farm at Beamsville [c. 1935], and so it was arranged for us, to go ...
Golden Anniversary (1969) of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Mathies by Annie Krause ; Ernest J. Dick, Courage, Courage, The Lord Will Help, The Family History of Johann P. Dück and Descendants from Schönfeld, Southern Russia (Leamington, John H. Dick, 1990), pp. 57-60
1938 - c. 1940
ESSEX COUNTY
One day a Mr. Tiessen from Point Pelee came over with a truck, & everything was loaded except the second-hand piano, & we followed in our good, second-hand car. It was like a garden of Eden. A huge apple orchard, and the whole family had things to do. Margaret & I were given our first job; picking up brush after the pruning. Then the trees could be climbed where the apple thinning began. This put us in the mood for singing & yodeling, for it sure was a lot of fun working outside in the sunshine along with the rest of the young people like ourselves.
Soon it was time to cut asparagus & with that came daylight saving time which made it 5 A.M. & you had to keep a sharp eye on job. It grew so fast in the spring that it had to be cut again in the late afternoon. now some of the early apples were ripening, so up went the ladders. Hoeing between the asparagus rows also kept us quite busy, but that was easy in the soft sand.
Our evenings were spent around the fires built on the beach to keep the mosquitoes away. We did as lot of singing here, mostly cowboy songs, & some went for a swim. This is where my husband-to-be came to join us, & we began to go out together. I was 15 & he 17. My curfew was 10 P.M., after that the door was locked. I was late only once when Bill got the car stuck on a stump in the bush where he drove.
When tomato season came along, Heinz's needed people to work nights in busy season, so Margaret & I went. They paid good wages, and at last papa could look for a farm to buy. He would be his own boss ...
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c. 1940s
KENT COUNTY
http://collectibles.bidstart.com/1948-1949-Kent-County-Map-Ontario-Canada-/18114187/a.html
According to Louise (Mathies) Ross:
"I knew that Mr. & Mrs. Jacob Kornelsen lived on the 7th
concession in Wheatley, they were our neighbours, but I never knew that
at one time your
[Eric's] grandparents lived there as well.
It was while they were on the 7th Concession that Grandmother Enns came to live with them, and she went along as they moved to the 10th and then to Pratt's farm ...
We moved to the 7th Conc. where a house had two storeys, the upper one formerly used for hatching chickens. Our first job was to shovel & clean up the mess so we'd have a place to sleep. Margaret & I had always shared the same bed, but unless it was very cold, we'd stay as far apart as possible. Often when we were supposed to be sleeping, a flashlight would be used under the covers to read, since hydro was too costly.
The barn needed a new roof & in order to earn that we'd have to go & work for Mr. Brown from whom the place had been bought which had cost all of our savings. He picked us up & took us to his place near Wheatley to block sugar beets in the hard clay. We took a long time to do the job. It was piece work & you could hardly get the shovel in. There was also tobacco to hang & once again my long arms came in mighty handy. Finally we earned enough & with our brother helping, shingled the roof.
With winter coming, the tobacco factories were looking for help, so Margaret and I stood outside in the cold along with many others as Len Branton stood on a platform and picked the ones he chose. Being taller, even though two years younger, I had my fingers crossed when he asked my age. After all, hadn't papa told us to get one, and I always obeyed him? I was only a few months short of 16, but it upset Margaret since she then also had to lie after I began work first.
It was too far from the 7th to the factory in Leamington so we went to "bachel it' at the Wiense's who lived nearby.
Here for the first time I was exposed to the real world, and I hated it. The foul language, and the dirty jokes that left me blushing while it seemed to encourage more of the same. One day while hanging tobacco leaves on a stick placed across a wooden horse, a guy who'd been flirting with me from where he worked across the room, came over and I started to run around the other way so as not to be pinched from behind as the others had done. Accidentally my hand went down on one end of the stick while the other one got him in the eye. The next day I was informed was his wedding day, and he went down the aisle with a black eye. I wonder what excuse was given to a new bride.
Then the war came along, and with it came Hitler, so now those of us who spoke German even though we were pacifists were considered the enemy; so after being questioned, were all fired.
Spring was just right for planting the tomatoes, and by May 20, it was also time
for our brother Arthur [May
20, 1940, in Leamington]
to be born. This was quite a surprise for both Margaret
and myself as we were both dating seriously with marriages, in the near future,
and here was mama at 45 having a baby. Dr.
Llyon insisted she go to the hospital
for this one, so when they had just returned from town with the groceries and
mama said they'd have to go right back again, papa was pretty upset because of
the gas it was costing, so why wasn't he told in time before making the same
trip back? The only Grandmother we ever knew was our papa's stepmother who
stayed with us, for a while when Art was small, and that he was, born weighing
only 5 lbs., but we soon changed all that by feeding him lots of pablum. He's on
a family picture, mama looking happy with the fat little baby on her lap and
papa a little grin with another mouth to feed which probably caused his ulcers
to act up. But we never heard one word of complaint from him; he'd just go to
his bedroom, while mama held her head. Meanwhile it was back to doing housework
again when the weather got cold, and Maynard's with two young children and a
large dog was ideal ....
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1950s
ESSEX COUNTY
We thought that perhaps they'd found their Ideal Home when they bought the apple orchard at Olinda, but here Dad's ulcers finally broke, followed by an operation, that has left him with such a good appetite that if you were to be passing 44 Fox Street, and see a light on in the kitchen, that's dad frying some "Varenicki" because he just can't wait for breakfast ...
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1960s
ESSEX COUNTY