Townsend Drew

Townsend Drew

Townsend Drew (My 4th Great Grandfather) son of Ezra Drew and Katie (Unknown) was born on the 11 of January 1799 in Phillipstown Dutchess New Jersey and died on the 28 of April 1869 in Cornwall Orange New York.  Townsend first married Sarah Jane Babcock at an unknown place and date.  Sarah, whose parents are unknown, was born in New Jersey and died on the 1 of September 1865 in Cornwall Orange New York.  Townsend’s second marriage was to first name unknown last name Lent.  Townsend is buried on Storm King Mountain at a small cemetery along the road to Canterbury which is now called Cornwall Orange New York .  This road was once the main road to the north.  Townsend being born in New Jersey moved to Monroe, then Cornwall, and finally Highland Falls Orange New York.  He was an extensive land-owner and lumber merchant at the time of his death.

 (Photo courtesy of Martin E. Smith III)

 

Hugh Manuel

22nd Battalion North Carolina Infantry Battle Flag

Hugh Manuel (My 2nd Great Grandfather) son of Abner Manuel and Elizabeth (Manuel), was born in April of 1842 in North Carolina and died on the 17 of November 1931 in Madison Mayodan Rockingham North Carolina.  He married Sarah A Lewis daughter of Anderson Lewis and Isabella (Lewis) on the 1 of August 1867 in Stokes County.  Hugh was a veteran of the Civil War enlisting as a private with Company H 22nd Battalion NC Infantry while residing in Stokes County.   Hugh was wounded in the right angle on or about the 25 of May in 1864 while his unit was in retreat from Spotsylvania to Petersburg.  His pension records show that he had been shot with a mini ball in the right ankle joint requiring “amputation” which resulted in the “loss of leg”.  He was hospitalized in Richmond Virginia until furloughed for 60 days on the 15 of July 1864.  Hugh then retired to the Valid Corp on the 14 of December 1864.

(Photographs courtsey of North Carolina Archives)

 

Andrew Dordan

Andrew Dordan Center his wife Margaret Haley to his right and his sister Bridget Dordan McNally to his left

Andrew Dordan (My 2nd Great Grandfather) son of John Dordan and Sara O’Maley, was born on the 1 of November 1821 in Ireland and died on the 9 of February 1905 in Randolph Tp Dakota Minnesota.  He married Margaret Haley, daughter of John Haley and Mary Gorman, who was born on the 6 of January 1835 in Ireland and died on the 4 of October 1924 in Minneapolis Hennepin Minnesota.  Andrew is buried at Saint Pius Cemetery in Cannon Falls Minnesota.  Andrew and Margaret married in 1861 in Ireland.  He emigrated in 1866 from St Johns New Brunswick Canada and then immigrated to St Louis Missouri in 1867.  Andrew’s naturalization took place about 1897 in Dakota County Minnesota.

 (Photo Courtesy of Kathy O’Brien)

 

Rev John Lothrop

Rev John Lothrop (My 9th Great Grandfather) son of Thomas Lowthrop and Mary Salte, was born on the 20 of December 1584 in Etton Yorkshire England and died on the 8 of November 1653 in Barnstable Barnstable MA.  He married Hannah Howse, daughter of Rev John House and Alice Lloyd, on the 10 of October 1610 in Eastwell Kent England.  Hannah was born in 1590 in Groton Suffolk England and died on the 6 of February 1633 in London England.  John was pastor of the Church of England at Egerton from 1611 to 1623.  Then was pastor of the Congregational Society at Southwark London in from 1624 to 1632.  However in 1624 the government formally banned the Southwark Church which force John and his followers for 8 years to gathered in secret worship.  In 1632 Archbishop Laud arrested John Lothrop and 43 of his followers charging them with practicing the teachings of the New Testament and confined them to Newgate Prison in London England.  John’s wife Hannah died while he was in prison in 1633.  After two years of imprisonment he and his followers were released on the condition that they would leave the country.  John Lothrop’s name appears of the passenger list of the Griffin which sailed to America in 1634.  He and his congregation first came to Scituate Massachusetts before settling in Barnstable.

(Photo courtesy of Doug Neibaur)

 

Joseph Mathais Pavek

Joseph Pavek

Joseph Mathais Pavek (My Great Grandfather) son of Mathais Munson Pavek and Mary Maniska Marcinak, was born in Hanover Bohemia Czechoslovakia on the 24 of February 1869 and died in Newburgh Orange New York on the 7 of April 1961.  He married Ella Drew, daughter of John Henry Drew and Ada Jane Curry, on the 11 of November 1893 in Westgrove Orange New York.  Ella was born on the 9 of February 1877 in New York and died on the 18 of September 1921 in Orange County New York.  Ella was her only child.  Joseph (spelt Josef on the passenger list) at the age of 17 came to America on the 25 of May 1885 aboard the ship Westphalia from Wall Bohemia.  He was accompanied by a young boy from Wall named Frank Yelik.  It is believed that he was sent to America by his parents to avoid being pressed into the Austrian Army.  Upon arriving he worked at Drew’s “Mountain Dairy” at West Grove and then went on to become a teamster and worked at the Ficken Ice Company for more than 40 years.  He died at the age of 92.  The photo above of Joseph was taken in 1943 by the US government.  Once America was at war she became more aware of her citizens that migrated from countries now considered to be her enemies.  Joseph being an immigrate from Czechoslovakia which was controlled by Austria then Germany was photographed and cataloged in 1943.

(Photo courtesy of the Smith Family Archives)

 

Chris George Smith

Kindergarten Factory

Chris George Smith (My Grandfather) son of Thomas L Smith and Betty Florence Manuel, was born on the 27 of February 1896 in Stokes County North Carolina.  He died in High Point Guilford North Carolina on the 18 of April 1967.  Chris married Carrie Lee Duggins daughter of Walter Lee Duggins and Hattie Mae Duggins, on the 24 of June 1933 in Martinsville Henry Virginia.  Carrie was born on the 24 of June 1912 in Guilford County North Carolina and died on the 13 of March 1985 in Thomasville Davidson North Carolina.  Chris was listed in the 1910 North Carolina Census of Guilford County as a 12 year old silk mill worker.  The cotton mills of High Point (High Point Hosiery, Piedmont Mills, and Pickett Cotton Mill) were known to use child labor.  In 1912 the Federal Government sent photographer Lewis Hine to document the plight of these children.  Chris appears in one of these photographs taken by Hine.  Hine called these mills the “Kindergarten Factories”  because of the great number of children that worked there.  It was not uncommon for an Ice Cream Vendor to be outside the cotton mills.  In 1924, Congress proposed a constitutional amendment prohibiting child labor, but the states did not ratify it.   In 1938, Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act. It fixed minimum ages of 16 for work during school hours, 14 for certain jobs after school, and 18 for dangerous work.  There is much debate over why child labor was allowed, ranging from poor families needing the extra income to factories simply exploiting the children.  Most children worked for no more than a dollar a week which could be 12 to 18 hours a day 6 days a week.  The most my grandfather could recall making was 75 cents.

(Photo courtesy of The Multimedia Library © 2009)

 

Gerald Emmet Glover

Gerald Emmet Glover

Gerald Emmet Glover (My Grandfather) son of John Elmer Glover and Anna Dordan, was born on the 8 of May1898 in Minneapolis Hennepin Minnesota.  He died on the 27 of July 1961 in Highland Falls Orange New York.  Gerald married Mary Belle Pavek, the daughter of Joseph Pavek and Ella Drew, on the 6 of March 1922 in Highland Falls Orange New York.  Mary was born on the 27 of March 1902 in Highlandfalls Orange New York and died in High Point Guilford North Carolina on the 30 of November 1987.  Gerald was a veteran of World War One and was a soldier in the 166th Infantry, Company I, 42nd Rainbow Division.  He fought in France in the battles of Champagne Marne, Aisne Marne (July 1918), Saint Mihiel (September 1918), Essay, Pannes, and Meuse Argonne (September – November 1918).  During the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, beginning September 12, 1918, Pershing commanded the American First Army, comprising seven divisions and more than 500,000 men, in the largest offensive operation ever undertaken by United States armed forces. For the period ending on the 31 of December 1918, the United States Department of Defense listed American casualties of the war at 116, 516.  This total includes non combat deaths as well as the 128 civilians deaths occurring on the RMS Lusitania.

(Photo courtesy of the Smith Family Archives)