62. EMMA4 (ADDIE) WRIGHT ( Margaret3, John2, Robert1);
born circa 1871, died between the 1910 and 1920 federal censuses; married Harry J. Doyen, born circa 1861 in Maine.
Children of Harry and Emma (Wright) Doyen:125
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Harvey5
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Warren Doyen; born August 1898. I have a late 1920s photo of my grandmother Josephine (Lytle) Fleming and some other Lytle and Fleming kin, including Harry J. Doyen and one of his sons, believed to be Warren Doyen, son of Emma Adda (Wright) Doyen. My grandmother Jo was a first cousin of Margaret (Watson) Wright, the mother of Addie Wright. See the 1927 photograph of some Flemings and Doyens in the Lytle web site..
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After Addie died, Harry married Margaret (Dane) Lytle, born 8 March 1860; died 8 June 1947. She was a daughter of James and Susan (Watson) Lytle—see #21 of the Lytle web site. Harry and Dane lived first in Enterprise, Southwest Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania, where Harry was in the sawmill business. Sometime after 1920 they moved to Titusville, Pennsylvania. Harry and Dane did not have children.
67. LOREN4 BILLS ( Rachel3, John2, Robert1);
born 26 September 1858; died 10 March 1933; married 21 August 1878 Sophronia Adelia Strang, born circa 1859. She died in a house fire in Enterprise, Southwest Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania. 126
Children of Lorne and Adelia (Strang) Bills:
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Herbert5 A. Bills; born 4 June 1879; died 1881.
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Mina Bills; born 1881; married (first) David Moore; married (second) Fred Stearns.
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141 |
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Ida Bills; born 1883; married Herbert Lore.
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142 |
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Myra Bills; born January 1886; married Ora Duryea.
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143 |
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Fanny Bills; born 1881; married (first) David Moore; married (second) Fred Stearns.
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144 |
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Amy Bills; born January 1889; married (first) Herb Colwell; married (second) [—?—] Alstrom.
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Lee Bills; born January 1891; died 1969. Of the 11 children, Lee was the only son to grow to maturity; he lived in the Enterprise, Pennsylvania, area.
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Ella Bills; born January 1894; married (first) Clarence Hudson; married (second) [—?—] Zimmerman; married (third) Roy Carnahan.
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Bess Bills; born 1897; married (first) Jesse Stevenson; married (second) Earl Bradley.
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Myrtle Bills; married Mendel Myers.
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87. MELVINA4 L. WATSON ( Robert3, James2, Robert1);
born 29 November 1867; died 23 July 1940; married 14 December 1886, HIRAM VOORUS, born December 1856 in New York state; died 24 November 1927.
The family lived in the Shamburg, Oil Creek Township area of Venango County. Hiram was a farmer. Of Melvina (called Vina) and Hiram's ten children, only one, Dorothty, married. In the 1920 federal census, Lena, Robert, Bessie, Blanche, and Dorothy were enumerated as teachers.127
Children of Hiram and Melvina (Watson) Voorus:
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Grover5 Voorus;
born 3 October 1887; died 7 July 1964.
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Lena Voorus;
born 12 October 1889; died 10 October 1978. Lena Voorus was a friend (and kin) of my mother, Marie (Fleming) Clifford. Since both the Voorus and Fleming families lived in the Shamburg area and were members of the Shamburg Christian Church, the Flemings and Voorus’s knew each other well.
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Robert Voorus;
born 10 December 1891; died 20 December 1985. Robert Voorus graduated from Hiram College, 1922, and George Washington University, 1927. He had a distinguished career in the United States Civil Service, retiring in Washington, DC, as Chief Clerk of the Library of Congress.128
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Besse Voorus, born 12 December 1893; died 31 May 1992.
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Clara Voorus;
born 23 January 1897; died 27 February 1976.
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Dorothy Voorus;
born 8 June 1899; died 10 September 1975; married, 24 August 1921, Calvin Hogg; died 16 May 1962. Dorothy was the only child of Hiram and Melvina (Watson) Voorus to marry. In 1930, Dorothy, Calvin and family were living in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, where Calvin was enumerated as School Superintendent, Public Schools.129
Children known from the 1930 federal census:
(a) Theodore Hogg.
(b) Robert Hogg.
(c) Esther E. Hogg.
(d) Florence Hogg.
Also with the family in 1930 was Dorothy's brother Marion Voorus, who was enumerated as a farmer.
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Delilah Voorus;
born 23 September 1902; died 7 January 1951.
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Marion Voorus;
born 17 April 1905; died 17 January 1933. Marion was living with her sister Dorothy Hogg and family in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, in 1930, when he was enumerated as a farmer
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Philip Voorus;
born 22 August 1911; died 16 June 1936.
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89. DELBERT4 D. WATSON ( Robert3, James2, Robert1);
born 1872; died 1906 in West Virginia; married LILLIAN BURGWALD, born 1875; died 1924.
Children of Delbert and Lillian (Burgwald) Watson:
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Manley5
Watson;
born 1902.
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Margaret Watson;
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91. LINNIE4 ELIZABETH WATSON ( Robert3, James2, Robert1);
born 2 April 1878; died 14 November 1966; married GEORGE L. SHAW, born circa 1875 in Pennsylvania, died June 1951. The family lived in Pleasantville, Pennsylvania, where George was an oil well producer. 130
Children of George and Linnie (Watson) Shaw (all born in Pennsylvania):
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Harry5
E. Shaw;
born circa 1905.
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Georgia Shaw;
born 21 July 1906; died 1 February 1983.
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Clarence Shaw;
born 6 June 1911; died November 1931.
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Walter Shaw; married Marguerite Holtz.
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Virginia Shaw; married Carl Burrows.
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92. LEWIS4 MANLEY WATSON( Robert3, James2, Robert1);
born 11 June 1891; died 7 February 1981; married ANNA LAURA CHRISTIE, born 14 October 1889; died 31 December 1968. The family lived in Oil Creek Township, Venango County, where Lewis was an oil producer.
This from Sesquicentennial of Pleasantville: “The Odd Fellow Lodge [in 1971] presented 50 year certificates to Lewis Watson, who lives at the Venango County Manor.”
Lewis Watson, besides being a cousin of my mother, was a friend of my father, Ralph Clifford. Both my Dad and Lewis Watson were in the Pleasantville band—Lewis played the cornet while my father played the trombone. They would also go hunting together.
Lewis Manley Watson (left) and Ralph Zinn Clifford, 1920s, probably Venango County, Pennsylvania. From the photograph album of my mother, Edith Marie (Fleming) Clifford.
This from Babcock (1919), page 1037–1038:
Lewis Manley Watson bears the reputation of being one of the most capable young business men engaged in oil production in Oil Creek township, and he is probably even better known in his musical associations, to which he has devoted most of his leisure for years. He and his brother are operating a valuable lease, with whose development their father was occupied for a number of years before his death …
Lewis Manley Watson was born in Shamburg in northern Venango county June 11, 1891, and has spent his life working with his father and brothers. He had ordinary common school advantages, but he began to make himself useful around the oil wells at an early age, mastering thoroughly the necessary details concerning the care and operation of oil property, so that he is considered an expert in every branch of the work. The death of his father threw heavy responsibilities upon him, but he has measured up to them fully. Production on the property having never been allowed to slacken through negligence or lack of enterprise. There are sixteen producing wells now upon the lease, which has proved one of the most productive in the Shamburg history, and the revenue has been kept constantly on the increase through his up–to–date methods.
Mr. Watson has been a hard worker, but no excess of obligation has ever served to daunt his love for music, and he sacrificed much of his time out of business hours to become a competent performer. He sought the best possible instruction on the cornet, and made such good use of the opportunities that for several years past he has been the leader of the cornet band of Pleasantville, which boasts twenty–five members and considerable talents, the organization having an enviable reputation as an up to date musical body [I have a picture of all members of a Pleasantville band, in their uniforms, including my father, but regrettably no names are given, and not all members were playing cornets]. Being equally skillful as a violinist, Mr. Watson has also a string orchestra, recruited from the band, and which in its line is just as popular. For outdoor recreation he wants nothing better than the stream and woods. He holds membership in Seneca Lodge No. 519, I. O. O. F., of Pleasantville, and in the local Grange. Personally Mr. Watson is much respected for his exemplary character as well as the industry through which he has acquired his substantial standing.
Lewis Manley Watson (left) (1891-1981) and Ralph Zinn Clifford (1893-1963). From a group picture of the Pleasantville (Pennsylvania) band, circa 1920s. From the photograph album of my mother, Edith Marie (Fleming) Clifford.
Children of Lewis and Anna Laura (Christy) Watson:131
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Jean5
Watson.
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166 |
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Ellen Watson.
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Shirley A. Watson.
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