Thomas Bogle Rader Funeral 17 June 1904

 

The National Democrat, Jeffersonville, Indiana, Friday June 17, 1904 Front Page

 

DEATH OF EX-MAYOR THOMAS BOGLE RADER

 

MOST PROMINENT CITIZEN PASSES QUIETLY INTO REST

 

Public and Private Life of Deceased Display Many Qualities Which Made Him Valuable Citizen and Close Friend To Many Acquaintances.

 

Body Will Lie In State At City Hall And Many Orders Will Have Part In Greatest Funeral Witnessed In This City For Very Many Years.

 

ALL CLASSES UNITE IN MOURNING DEATH.  SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.

 

After many alternations between hope and despair Thomas Bogle Rader passed away Tuesday night at 11:10 in the presence of his family and some of his closet friends, the end coming peacefully.  All day long he had lain quietly, at times half conscious and again arousing and greeting his friends and many callers with vivacity and warmth, sinking back again into the same quiescent attitude.  Death was due to uremic poisoning caused by Bright’s disease, and his condition became critical on Monday.  Monday night his end was looked for and the first question in the city Tuesday morning was whether “Tom” Rader was still living.  All day Tuesday inquires and callers poured into the house on Spring hill where the sick man was living out the last few hours of his life.  Dr. O. P. Graham was in constant attendance through the day and did all that could be done for him but his condition was recognized as hopeless.

 

It was about 11 when it was seen that the end was coming.  Only a few minutes before he breathed his last he opened his eyes and requested Fielding Wilson to hold his had and in that attitude after a few minutes he died.  The message was quickly flashed all over the city that the end had come.  The news was early sent to the Knights of Pythias with which, of all the orders in which he was interested, his connections were closest.  The funeral arrangements will be in their hands.

 

The illness which has proven fatal to Mr. Rader began last March and was brought on by campaigning when he was a candidate for the nomination for Joint Senator from Clark, Scott and Washington.  Soon after he received the nomination of Clark county he fell sick and had a very bad spell.  For a time it was feared he would not get up but he rallied, his heart which had been effected, improved, and at the end of April and beginning of May he was down in the city once more and was warmly greeted by his friends.  After only two weeks he as again obliged to take to his bed which caused his friend and the public at large the most profound anxiety.  The condition of his heart was shown by his nervousness, as previously to his sickness he was one of the nervy men in the city.  Two weeks ago every one expected that the end was a matter of hours but once more he rallied, heart and kidneys improved and it was thought that he would perhaps be in the city again before long.  Then came the relapse of Sunday night and the rapid end.

 

The active life of Thomas B. Rader has been spent in Jeffersonville to whose citizens his was one of the most familiar figures, his name one most often on their lips.  He as regarded as one of the best assets of the city’s business and political life and in him the Democratic party had on of its staunchest, most untiring and indefatigable workers.  Since 1878 he had been identified with the interests of the city and his term as mayor showed more than any other part of his life of what stuff he was made.

 

Mr. Rader was born at Henryville Christmas Day, 1859, and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Rader.  His father has been dead many years, his mother dying more recently.  He was educated at that town and found the earliest outlet for his energy in teaching school.  He taught at the country school near Roswell for two years and then moved to this city becoming the deputy of Dr. H. H. Ferguson who was elected to the office of County Treasurer.  When the latter’s term of office expired he went to work for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in Louisville and later engaged in the insurance and real estate  business in this city in which he continued until the time of his death.  He was an expert accountant and made a good record in business.  Later he again became Deputy County Treasurer, serving under Al Jenkins and filling out his unexpired term.  He entered the race for election at the close of that term but withdrew from the race.  With the exception of the four years he was Mayor this is the only office ever held by Mr. Rader, a remarkable things having reference to the activity he always displayed in the political field.

 

In 1896 he was County chairman for the Democrats during William Jennings Bryan’s first campaign and in 1898 he entered the field as a candidate for Mayor.  He had a hard fight for the nomination which he secured by a large majority and then entered into the fight against Mary Whiteside whom he defeated in a square battle.  His victory was largely due to the splendid organization which he effected and it is probable that he could foretell the result within very few votes before the election on account of the manner in which he had his finger on the public pulse.  For four years he held office and Jeffersonville has not often experienced such a time of municipal activity.  Whether he was always wise will be a matter of opinion on which there is room for difference, but none will dispute that he threw himself heartily into the work of governing the city.  To him is due the credit of refunding the city debt thereby saving thousand of dollars a year in interest and providing for the gradual lessening of the debt.  He was in favor of municipal ownership believing that this would prove beneficial to the city.  His strenuous policy roused many interests against him and lead to his defeat in 1902 by present Mayor Schwaninger.

 

Since 1902 Mr. Rader has given himself heartily to business and was engaged with Eli M. Lindley in doing street work for the city, Maple street contract being secured by them.  Early in this year he had determined to enter the race for Joint Senator and went after the nomination with his characteristic energy.  He secured a majority vote in this county and would have had the nomination if the joint convention had been held, but a date for it was never set.

 

Socially Mr. Rader was one of the most agreeable men and numbered his friends by the hundreds.  The best illustration of the fact is the number of order with which he was identified, sixteen different lodges claiming him as a member.  With all of these his connections was that of an active member, but the Knights of Pythias was his particular chosen order and the Uniform Rank more than all lay near his heart.  On this account that body will have immediate control of the funeral by his dying wish.  From its commencement he was it Captain and gave ungrudgingly of time and ability and energy to its success, achieving the result of making it one of the more successful organization in the city and a sure prize winner in any state contest.  He was repaid with the undying devotion of every member of the order.

 

The following list includes the whole of the sixteen that claim him a member.

 

He was a member of Hope Lodge, No. 13, Knights of Pythias, a Past Chancellor and at the time of his death a Trustee; Captain of Company 9, Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, since its formation; belonged to the Dramatic Order Knights of Korassan and the Rathbone Sisters, adjuncts of the Knights of Pythias order.  He was a charter member of Jeffersonville Lodge, No. 362, B. P. O. E.; a Past Master of Jeffersonville Lodge, No 340, F. and A. M.; a member of Jeffersonville Commandery, NO. 27, Knights Templar; Horeb Chapter, No. 66, Royal Arch Masons; the Scottish Rite and the Noble Order of Mystic Shriners.  He was an Odd Fellow and belonged to Jefferson Lodge, No. 8, Daughters of Rebekah.  Other orders he was affiliated with were Clark Council, No. 1,216, Royal Arcanum; Clark Commandery, No. 57, United Order of the Golden Cross, and was at one time an officer in the Grand Commandery, Eden Lodge, No. 240, Knights and Ladies of Honor; Hoosier Camp, No. 3,594, Modern Woodmen of America.

 

Mr. Rader leaves a family, consisting of a wife and five children, one of them married.  Other near relatives he has none.  His wife was Miss Lotta Butterfoss to whom he was married in this city by Dr. W. H. Sheets on May 8, 1882.  The children are Thomas R, Edwin, Ralph, Claud and Mary Rader.  The eldest was born during the fold of 1883 at the time the water was highest, the family being o of those that took refuge in the Rose Hill school building.

 

Of Mr. Rader it seems impossible to say much at this time.  He was too well known to need a newspaper panegyric.  Perhaps the best and truest thing that can be said is that more than any other man in Jeffersonville his death will come home to every member of the community.  In every section of society it will be felt as a calamity and high and low will feel they have lost a friend.  His chief characteristic was his loyalty to his friends and they repaid his faithfulness with the warmest affection.  His qualities were such as endeared him to those who knew him and such a man cannot fail to be missed when his time comes to tread the valley of the shadow.  Mr. Rader was a strict temperance man and never touched intoxicating liquor.  He as not identified with any church until recently, when he joined Morton chapel.  He as much touched when Mr. Butler called to see him at the time of his sickness and soon after gave in his adherence to the church.

 

Mr. Rader’s funeral will be the great4es ever seen in Jeffersonville.  It will include a lying in state at the City Hall and there will be a few who neglect the opportunity to look their last upon him.  It is probable that every lodge will have part in the funeral, passively or actively, and the crowd of mourners will be immense.

 

The funeral will leave the house at 9:30 o’clock under the care of Uniform Rank, No. 9, K. of P., and will proceed to the City Hall where the body will lie in state from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., after which it will be removed to Morton chapel for the service of the church which will be conducted by the Rev. J. B. Butler.  The latter will return specially from his Kentucky home, where he is visiting, for that purpose.  All fraternal orders will muster on Market street, Prof. F. E. Andrews acting as chief marshal and will accompany the remains to the church.

 

W. W. Cain will speak at the funeral for the fraternal life of the deceased, Thomas J Brook will speak for his public life, while the church will be represented, as aforesaid, by the Rev. J. B. Butler.  The pall bearers will be as follows:

 

Honorary—Mayor Abram Schwaninger, Judge James K. Marsh, Henry Nachand, Eli M. Lindley, Dr. O. P. Graham, Al Mahaffey, M. Z. Stannard, Ward H. Watson.

 

Active---Uniform Rank, No. 9, K. of  P., Charles Antz, Fielding L. Wilson, Lee Sylvester, W. B. Thornley, James Applegate, O. L. Chandler.

 

Mr. Rader’s last wish was that Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, should take chare of the remains, and that all lodges of which he was a member should participate at his funeral, and also all city officials.  He felt that no fraternity of which he was a member would feel hurt at his selection of the Uniform Rank to take immediate charge of his remains if they would stop to consider that he ad been Captain for so long a time.

 

The ordering of the funeral procession will be entirely in the hands of the marshal, Prof. F. E. Andrews.  The precedence desired by the dead man will be given to the Uniform Rand both in this and in the services.  Opportunity will be given to every order to which Mr. Rader belonged to conduct their own services at the grave and it is probably that some at least of them will conduct their own ritual in accordance with this liberty.  Not one will be shut out from doing so if it is desire.

Francisco (Frank) Vaillant 1885-1963

 

“Uncle” Frank was the person in the living room in Seattle in a robe racking the shag carpet.  The earliest memory I have of “Uncle” Frank takes place in the early 1950’s on a visit with my parents to my Aunts.  HOWEVER, sharing the same SURNAME does not necessarily make for a relative.

Francis Vaillant registers for the World War I draft on 12 September 1918 at Local Board for Division No. 16, City of Chicago, State of Ill. No. 6, 6240 Kimbark Ave., Chicago.[i]  The information provided on the document states that Francis is living at 6022 Harper Ave., Chicago, Cook, Ill and is 33 years old.  His date of birth is Feb 19, 1885.  He is white.  He is not a Native Born citizen but is a Citizen by Father’s Naturalization Before Registrant’s Majority.

Francis’ present occupation is a Store Keeper for the Edison Electric Co. located at 2240 Ogden Ave., Chicago, Cook, Ill.  The nearest relative is D. M. Scott living at 6022 Harper Ave., Chicago, Cook, Ill.  He signs his name. 

His height is tall and his build is slender.  He has brown eyes and black hair with no physical disqualifications.

6022 Harper is approximately 22 miles from 2240 Ogden Avenue.

Francis is still living at 6022 Harper Avenue in the 20 January 1920 United States Federal Census.[ii]  He is recorded at being a Roomer, Male, White, age 34 at last birthday and single.  He immigrated in 1886[iii] and is a Naturalized Citizen.  He is able to read and write.  He was born in Argentina and speaks Spanish.  His father was born in Argentina and speaks Spanish.  His mother was born in Germany and speaks German.  He is able to speak English and works as a Storekeeper at an electrical business.  He is a wage worker. [There is no D. M. Scott at the same address.]

The R. L. Polk city directory for Chicago published in 1928[iv] lists Francisco Vaillant living at [r] 1425 E. Marq[uette] in apt[apartment] 3.  Also listed under the VAILLANT surname are June, Sten[o] at the J. H. Day & Co [r] 4843 Palmer, Mary, Mrs., [h] 4843 Palmer and Pauline [r] 4843 Palmer.

Two years later a Francisco Valliant appears in the 1930 Federal Census in Texas![v]  He lives on a farm and is a Male, White, and 40 years old on his last birthday and single.  He was born in Argentina as were both his parents.  He speaks Spanish and immigrated in 1895[vi].  He is a Naturalized Citizen and speaks English.  He works as a farm manager.

Francisco is cited in the Cameron County, Texas, County Court document filed 7 May 1947 for real estate transactions that took place starting 5 April 1929 and recorded in Cook County, Illinois[vii]

The Brownsville Herald newspaper on Sunday, November 8, 1931, features “Guest Day Observed By San Benito Music Club” on page eleven.[viii] SAN BENITO, Nov. 7—One of the outstanding events of the past week was Guest Day observed by the Wednesday Morning Music club.  More than four hundred and fifty guests were present for the annual event of the club which was held at the First Methodist church….Mrs. C. B. Chase, president of the club, welcomed the guests and introduced the three guest artists, David Christensen of Fort Worth, Frank Vaillant, formerly of Chicago, and Robert Reed.  The program was as follows:

          Silent Woe, Roses, Secret Greetings, Moonlight Night from the song Cycle “Elilan”…Alexander Von Flclitz. Mr. Frank Vaillant (Guest Artist)

The entire front of the church was banked with plumbago, roses and corona.

Frank must have settled into the San Benito community quickly.  He is still there for the 1940 Federal Census[ix] stating he had been in the same house in 1935.  He is living on a farm owning his own home valued at $650.  He is the head of household, male, white, 55 years old and single.  He has completed 4 years of high school.  He was born in Argentina.  He is an American citizen born abroad.  He works on his own account as a farmer and worked 60 hours in the past week.

In 1942 he registers for the World War II draft[x].  The document is typed with the following information:  Name—Franc (nmn) Vaillant, living at R. R. #2 San Benito, Cameron, Texas. His mailing address is the same. He has no telephone and his age in 57 years.  His date of birth is Feb. 19, 1885 in Argentina, Rep. S.A.  The Name and Address of Person Who Will Always Know Your Address is Mrs. M. J. Poeltl, 6227 No. Leader, Chicago, Ill.[xi]  He is self-employed on a Farm located on R. R. #2 in San Benito, Texas.  He signed the document.

 

It appears that “Uncle” Frank stayed in San Benito until 1947-1949 at which time he went to Seattle.  He went for a two week visit and stayed 15 years!  He was instrumental in caring for my cousin while her mother and sister worked full time.

 

Evergreen Cemetery Obituary [Seattle, WA]:  VAILIANT-Francisco, 146 N. w. 154^th Uncle of Mrs. Pauline O’Rourke, Mrs. June Larrabee, both Seattle; Ben Vaillant, Oakland, Calif. Services 3 p.m. Saturday, Green Lake Funeral Home.  Frank died March 21, 1963.  The cemetery arrangements were made by Mrs. Pauline O’Rourke of 146 N. W. 54^th Street.  He is buried in the Cedar Slope section. Lot 30, Grave 1.  The costs of $910.00 were to be paid by the King Co. Welfare.

The Certificate of Death[xii] has as Informant Mrs. Pauline O’Rourke[xiii].  She supplied Francisco n/m/n Vaillant who was a male, with, Never Married, whose date of birth was Feb 19, 1877 and he was 86 years old on his last birthday.  He was a grower of citrus fruit whose birthplace was New York.  There was no record of his father or mother’s name.  He is alleged to have been in the Spanish-American War.  Cause of death was uremia of two weeks duration and ACVD of 20 years.  The attending physician treated Frank from May 1959 to Mar. 21 and last saw him alive on 3-20-63.  Burial was 3/23/63 at Washelli Cemetery in Seattle with Green Lake Funeral Home at the Funeral Director.

 

I know of no blood relationship to Francisco Vaillant!

 

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[i] World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, Ancestry.com, accessed 20 March 2005, 23 August 2013 and 28 October 2014.  The later image is the clearest to view information!

[ii] 1920 United Federal Census, Ancestry.com., Chicago, Ward 7, Cook County, page 19A, Enumeration District 381, Image 42, line 6,accessed 29 February 2012.

[iii] I have not found an immigration record searching the One Step website for all ports!

[iv] Family History Library, Microfilm 1320731, viewed 18 January 2002, page 3079.

[v] 1930 Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Precinct 4, Cameron County, Texas, Page 7A, Enumeration District 27, Image 944, line 19 from FHL microfilm 2342038.

[vi] I am unable to find a record for this immigration date.

[vii] The Brownsville Herald, Thursday, May 15, 1947. Court Records:

Cuates Development Company to Francisco Vaillant, North 10 acres of South 10 acres, Lot 2, Block 6, Bowle subdivision of Lots A, B, C, D and E. Espirtu Santo Irrigated Land Company’s subdivision. Page 13 Ancestry.com, assessed 28 February 2012.

 

THE STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF CAMERON KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENT: That Cuates Development Company, a Texas Corporation, with its domicile at San Benito, Cameron County, Texas, hereinafter called Grantor, has Granted, Sold and Conveyed and by these presents does hereby Grant, Sell and Convey unto Francisco Vaillant, of the County of Cook, State of Illinois, hereinafter called Grantee, all that certain tract, piece or parcel of land, and being situated in the County of Cameron, State of Texas, and being more particularly described as follows, to wit-wit:

The North Ten (10) acres of the South Twenty (20) acres of lot tow (20, of the Bowie Subdivision of Lots A, B, C, D and E of the Espiritu Santo Irrigated Land Company’s Subdivision out of a portion of Share Wo. One, of the Espiritu Santo Grant as shown and recorded in the Map Records of Cameron County, Texas, in Plat Book 4, page 34; being the same land conveyed to Grantor herein by deed of even dated herewith of H. C. Harding, Trustee, which deed is hereby referred to and made part hereto and this conveyance is made subject to all of the terms, conditions, restrictions, reservations and exceptions, together with all of the rights, privileges and benefits set forth and contained in said deed.

Grantee assumes and agrees to pay all taxes and water charges against said property for the year ending December 1^st, 1929.

The considerations for the conveyance are as follows.

1.         The payment by the Grantee to the Grantor of the sum of Two Thousand Seven Hundred and no/100 ($2700.00) Dollars cash, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged and confessed; and

2.        The execution and delivery by the Grantee to the Grantor of six certain vendor’s lien purchases money notes, of even date herewith numbered from one to six inclusive, note No. 1 payable to the order of Cuates Development Company at San Benito, Texas, and notes nos. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 payable to the order of Irrigated Farms Corporation at Chicago, Illinois, said notes being numbered, for the amounts and with the maturities as set out below:

Note No. 1 amount of $50.00 due April 5, 1930

Note No. 2 amount of $310.00 due April 5, 1930

Note no. 3 amount of $360.00 due April 5, 1931

Note no. 4 amount of  $360.00 due April 5, 1932

Note No. 5 amount of $360.00 due April 5, 1933

Note No. 6 amount of $360.00 due April 5,  1934

Said notes bear interest from date to maturity at the rate of six percent per annum….

 

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the above described property, together with all and singular the rights and appurtenances thereto in anywise belonging unto the said Francisco Vaillant, his heirs and assigns forever; and the Grantor does hereby bind itself, its successors and assignee to WARRANT AND FOREVER DEFEND, all and singular the said property and premises unto the said Grandee, his heirs and assigns against every person whomsoever lawfully claiming, or to claim the same, or any part thereof, by, through or under it.

 

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the Cuates Development company, has ---these presents to be signed by its President, R. G. Treon ---duly authorized and its common seal to be hereunto affixed on this the 5^th day of April, A.D. 1929.

 

STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF CAMERON BEFORE ME, the undersigned authority, on this day personally appeared, R. G. Treon, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same for the purposes and consideration therein expressed and in the capacity therein stated, as the act and deed of the Cuates Development Company.

 

GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE, this the 5^th day of April, A.D. 1929. Signed by the NOTARY PUBLIC, CAMERON COUNTY, TEXAS. [Unable to read the signature.]

 

 

#6871

TRANSFER OF VENDOR’S LIEN,

IRRIGATED FARMS CORPORATION

TO

F. B. PROCTER.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,

 

COUNTY OF CAMERON. 

 

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:  That Irrigated Farms Corporation, of the County of Cook, State of Illinois, for and in consideration of Fourteen Hundred Forty and no/100 ($1,440) Dollars to it in had paid F. B. Procter, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, has this day sold, conveyed and assigned, and by these presents do sell, convey and assign unto the said F. B Procter, four (4), certain vendor’s lien notes executed by Francisco Vaillant, in favor of the irrigated Farms Corporation, in the sum of Fourteen Hundred Forty and no/100 Dollars, dated April 5^th, 1929, and bearing interest from April 12^th, 1931 at the rate of six per centum per annum, together with an attorney’s fee of ten per cent, and due on the Fifth day of April 1931, 1932, 1933 and 1934, respectively.

Said notes having been executed in part payment for the following described lot or parcel of land situated in the County of Cameron, State of Texas, to-wit:  Land situated in Cameron County, Texas, described as being the north ten (10) acres of the south twenty (20) acres of Lot two (2) Block six (6), of the Bowie Subdivision of Lots A, B, C, D and E of the Espiritu Santo Irrigated Land Co.’s  Subdivision our of Share no. one  of the Espiritu Santo Grant.  And it also hereby bargains, sells and conveys unto the said F. B. Procter all of the right, title and interest owned or held by the Irrigated Farms Corporation in said land by virtue of said notes herein conveyed and assigned.

Said land and notes being fully set out and described in a deed duly executed by the Cuates Development Company to the said Francisco Vaillant, and recorded in Volume- page- Records of Deeds for Cameron County, Texas, which is referred to and made a prat hereof for further description…. Witness the hand of its president this 30^th day of December A.D. 1931. Irrigated Farms Corporation, By H. C. Harding, President

THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF COOK. BEFORE ME, J. K. M. Weilby, a Notary Public, in and for Cook County, Illinois, on this day personally appeared H. C. Harding, president of the Irrigated Farms Corporation, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument…GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE, this 30 day of December 1931…. Filed for record at 8:10 o’clock A.M. May 26^th 1932 and duly recorded at 9:25 o’clock A.M. May 31^st, H. D. Seago, County Clerk, Cameron County, Texas... By I. Zarate, Dy.

[viii] Ancestry.com, database created from microfilm copies of the newspaper, assessed 5 March 2014.

[ix] Ancestry.com, 1940 United States Census, Cameron [County], Texas, Page 6B, Enumeration District 31-39. Assessed 6 February 2013

[x] United States, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, index and images, FamilySearch citing NARA microfilm publications M1939, M1936, and M1937; FHL microfilm 4161422, assessed 6 February 2013.

[xi] This is June VENEZIANO Vaillant Poeltl (her husband was Michael J. Poeltl, Jr. 1909-1940) Larrabee 1909-1973.

[xii] Washington State Department of Health-Bureau of Vital Statistics, State File No. 5337 obtained 29 November 2001.

[xiii] Pauline VENEZIANO Vaillant O’Rourke 1911-1974.

Josephine “June” Renee VENEZIANO Vaillant Poeltl Larrabee 7 July 1909 – 8 March 1973

 

Aunt June was a lively one full of smiles and energy when I came to observe her in the late 1950’s.  Our family would take my father’s two week vacations annually and head to Seattle where she, her sister and mother lived.  Those vacations started in the early 1950’s.  It really wasn’t until I was in high school that I appreciated her sense of adventure.  One day when both my parents were at work and it was time for me to attend high school she suggested that I drive there.  Never having driven a car before how could I say no!!  Off we went and you can read here that it was an experience I have carried for almost 60 years.  Aunt June’s start to life was an adventure; however, it was an adventure filled with challenges.

 

June’s delayed Birth Certificate listed her birth as 7 July 1909 in St. Louis, MO.[i]  In the delayed birth document June claims her father to be August Vaillant (born in New York) and mother Mary Branc (born in France).[ii]  Before she was 10 years old she welcomed a new sister, Pauline[iii], a new brother, Benjamin[iv], a visit from her Uncle Vincenzo[v] and a new sister, Gloria[vi].  The events around Gloria indicate that the family relocated from St. Louis, MO[vii] Gloria’s Death Certificate says she was born in Chicago and we do know that she died there in early 1917.  So June experienced relocation (St. Louis to Chicago) and a family death (Gloria) before her 10^th birthday.

 

June experienced being abandoned by her father before her 10^th birthday.  It appears that “August” who registers for the World War I draft on 12 September 1918 with a wife Mary recorded and files his Intention for Naturalization on 2 April 1919 as an unmarried male left his wife and three small children to strike out on his own.

 

In 1920, June is living with her mother and sister and brother at 1251 Oregon Avenue in Chicago.[viii]  Her mother Mary is listed as a 38 year old widow who immigrated in 1903 and is a naturalized citizen.  Mary is working as a finisher at a tailor house[ix] and is able to speak English.[x]  I think that as the oldest child, June had to take on much responsibility.  Her education is taking place at McLaren School located at 1500 Flournoy Street where she is registered as Josephine F. Veneziano.[xi]  She continues at McKinley High School located at 2040 W. Adams Street where on 28 January 1925 she completes a two year vocational course in Stenography.  She is 15 and half years old.  She works as a Stenographer for the J. H. Day Company[xii] by 1928 and resides at 4843 Palmer.[xiii]  June is at 4843 Palmer for the 1930 census along with her mother and siblings.[xiv]  She is recorded as June a 20 year old white female single who was born in Missouri and works in the office of a manufacturing company.[xv]

Along with her sister Pauline, June is initiated into the Delta Zeta Chi Sorority[xvi] on 23 January 1931.[xvii]  Their residence is listed as 4843 Palmer.  In 1933 June and the family would move to 4105 Fletcher where they would remain until 1940 or a little later.  The Chicago Telephone Books would list her as June Vaillant, phone number PAL 7021.[xviii]

A month before her 27^th birthday, June marries Michael J. Poeltl, Jr. on the 6^th of June, 1936.[xix]  “Mikey” was the love of June’s life as I heard many times in family conversations. Unfortunately, he would die of either cancer or TB about the 16^th of April 1940.[xx] 

On 5 January 1937, in the application for a social security account number Josephine Veneziano Poeltl living at 4105 Fletcher Street in Chicago, Illinois and working for the J. H. Day Company applies as a 27 year old whose birth date is July, 7, 1909 in St. Louis, MO and father was August Veneziano and mother Marion Branca.  June is a female, white and signs her application Josephine Veneziano Poeltl.  It is interesting to note that after taking on the Vaillant surname in the summer of 1928 she uses her birth surname of Veneziano for this government document![xxi]

In the 1940 Federal Census taken on 7 April 1940, June is listed as Mrs. Michael Poeltl and the daughter of Mary.  June is a female, white 30 year old married who has completed three years of high school.  She was born in Missouri.  She has lived in the same house in 1935.  She has worked for 40 hours March 24-30, 1940.  She is listed as stenography in machinery mfg. working 52 hours and earning $1100. The person providing the information is her sister Pauline.  June is listed at 4105 Fletcher in the June 1940 Bell Telephone Directory at page 1393 as Miss June Vaillant.

When Francisco Vaillant[xxii]  registers for the World War II Draft in 1942, he cites Mrs. M. J Poeltl at 6227 N. Leader in Chicago as the person who will always know his address.

It appears that June moves to Seattle by 23 July 1943 when she makes an application for a Delayed Birth Certificate with the State of Missouri as that date and place is one of the documents she cites in her application.  She certainly is in Seattle as she gives her address as 3205 15^th W on the 14^th of December in her marriage to Bernard Church Larrabee[xxiii].   Bernard is living at 1623 Taylor.  They are married by Joseph G Weber a Justice of the Peace at 1230 E 89^th Street at 10:25 P.M.!  This marriage would last until 1948.

 

June would remain in Seattle until her death the 8^th of March 1973 at the age of 63 from heart disease complications.[xxiv]  The informant is her daughter who states June’s father was August Vaillant and mother Mary Branc.  June was widowed and worked as a secretary in the insurance business.  June died at Ballard Community Hospital and was buried at Calvary Cemetery in Seattle on March 12, 1973.

 

She would have been in the same home for 15 years. In her Last Will and Testament she directs all her debts and funeral expenses be paid, that her real and personal property go to her sister Pauline if she survives her (she does) otherwise to her daughter and the executrix be her sister or in the case of her demise her brother Benjamin or his wife Virginia.  The executrix or executor can act freely and without bond in settling her estate.  The will was signed on the 8^th day of February 1973.[xxv]

What I recall of this period is the surprise I had at the “estate” of June and Pauline.  These two sisters, one could almost say joined at the hip they had been together so long, had what appeared as modest jobs as secretaries; HOWEVER, they were extremely astute business women flipping houses (as we call it now) and keeping houses as rentals.  As I recall there were some 30+ properties that needed to be sold to settle the estate.  That is another story!

 

 

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[i] State of Missouri, City of Jefferson, State Board of Health of Missouri, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Delayed or Special Certificate of Birth, Number 246584, file February 8, 1944 and approved February 23, 1944, copy obtained July 7, 2000.

[ii] Not trueJJ

[iii] Pauline VENEZIANO Vaillant O’Rourke 2 April 1911 – 7 November 1974.

[iv] Benjamin VENEZIANO Vaillant 24 May 1913 – 24 December 2002.

[v] Vincenzo VENEZIANO arrives in New York on 22 October 1913 with his going to see his brother Agostino at 901 Franklin.  See separate blog for more details.

[vi] Gloria VENEZIANO 29 September 1915 – 5 February 1917

[vii] See separate blog about Finding Gloria.

[viii] 1920 Federal Census, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, Enumeration District 1070, Sheet 15A, Lines 47-50 at ancestry.com assessed 20 June 2012.

[ix] http://www.genealogyinc.com/encyclopedia/jobs/#F says a “FINISHER - operated machine giving final touches to a manufactured article in various trades”

[x] Unfortunately we do not know who supplied the information to the enumerator.  The family surname in the 1920 Census is spelled “Venezina” and both parents are listed as born in Italy.  This will all change by 1930.

[xi] There was several years ago a website listing Chicago graduates.  The site is no longer available-drats!

[xii]See http://www.littleford.com/0501_ribbon.htm for details on the J. H. Day Company.

“Today’s powder mixing processing technology was born and driven to world prominence by John Howard Day, in 1887.

 

His efforts created the world recognized, J.H. Day Company, producing what is called today a “Ribbon Blender”. J.H. Day’s products, frequently shortened to simply “Day” have been sold worldwide for more than 100 years, becoming the backbone for basic powder processing in the western hemisphere.

 

J.H. Day Company, also known as Day Mixing, being located in Cincinnati, Ohio was ideally situated servicing the dramatically growing food, chemical and pharmaceutical industries of the mid to late 1900’s. The Ribbon Blender and Day became synonymous because of the thousands of units sold, clearly superior engineering design, reliability and Day’s outstanding service provided to customers.

 

During this same time frame, another well-known American company – Littleford Bros., expanding upon their 100+ year Cincinnati industrial fabricating background, entered the process equipment industry at the forefront of high speed sophisticated mixing, drying and reacting for their customer’s processing applications.

 

In 1981 Littleford Bros. acquired the J.H. Day Company. This blend of two great companies – created a new company capable of identifying process solutions, understanding customer’s needs and proving process refinements in their extensive lab. This new company’s mission “Where Processing Ideas Become Reality” created the premier name in the industry – Littleford Day.

 

The new company leads in the manufacturing of high quality, price effective processing and plastic equipment while providing superb world class after sales service with more experience than any anyone in the world. Continuing the century + of traditions of total excellence, Littleford Day proudly presents the Day Ribbon Blender.”

[xiii] The Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago.

[xiv] 1930 Federal Census, Chicago, Cook Illinois, Enumeration District 16-1309, Sheet 1B, lines 54-57 at ancestry.com assessed 20 June 2012. And here is where the story gets interesting as the family is listed as “Vaillant” with the mother Mary born in France and immigrating in 1905 and is a naturalized citizen.  The children’s birthplace remains as Missouri.  This will be the subject of a separate blog!

[xv] Pauline is 19 years old and working in the office of an electrical company.

[xvi] http://www.deltathetachi.org/aboutus.html. “This Sorority is a non-profit fraternal corporation. Its purpose is to promote cultural education, to foster personal development and good citizenship, to form a nation-wide fellowship, to attain a broader outlook and enjoyment of contact with those of similar purposes and ideals… Delta Theta Chi Sorority was originally organized in 1920 in Chicago. Six of the seven charter members are known: Hope Barkley of Radcliff College, Cambridge, MA; Esther Cejnar of the University of Nebraska; Miriam Brewer of Northwestern University in Evanston, IL; Edith McKay of the University of Montana; Myrtle Raymond of the University of Nevada and Lela Scopes of the University of Chicago.

By 1930 the rapid growth of our Sorority warranted a national entity and the officers applied to the State of

Delaware, where most sororities and fraternities are incorporated, for a state charter granting national

privileges.”

[xvii] Southtown Economist, Chicago, Illinois, Friday, January 23, 1931, page 4 at Newspaper Archives (http://newspaperarchive.com/us/illinois/chicago/southtown-economist/1931/01-23/page-4?tag=vaillant&rtserp=tags/?psi=37&pci=7&ndt=by&py=1930&pey=1932&pl=vaillant) assessed 6 November 2014 because I did not do this initially!

[xviii] Illinois Bell Telephone Directory, September 1933 on page 1137, June 1934 on page 1155, December 1935 on page 1220, September 1936 on page 1260, June 1937 on page 1295, December 1938 on page 1313 and September 1939 on page 1335 viewed at the California Genealogical Society, 2201 Broadway, LL2 in Oakland, CA 94612 (www.californiaancestors.org) on site.

[xix] State of Illinois, Cook County, Marriage License and return, document numbered 1490913.

[xx] Finding his death record remains challenging.  He is buried at St. Joseph Cemetery in River Grove, Cook, Illinois in Lot E1/2 of 338, Section KK.

[xxi] U. S. Social Security Act, Application for Account Number, dated Jan, 5, 1937, Copy obtained from SSA under FOIA.

[xxii] See separate blog about Francisco Vaillant

[xxiii] Bernard Church Larrabee 30 April 1894 – 4 April 1965. He was previously married and divorced.  His middle name was his mother’s surname.

[xxiv] Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Health Services Division, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death, number 2097, copy obtained November 3, 2000.

[xxv] Superior Court of Washington for King County, file number E214052, Order establishing the will filed 3-14-73 and a new administrator appointed 12 November 1974 (after sister Pauline’s death).