Notes
Note for: Ernest Dupont, FEB 1888 - APR 1974 Index
He was a fabulous carpenter, once building a 12-foot long toy fire engine
for my Dad, Ronald Dupont.
Notes
Note for: Delima Spoor, 18 FEB 1889 - MAR 1989 Index
[Brøderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1, Ed. 4, Social Security Death
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of Import: May 9, 1997, Internal Ref. #1.111.4.66091.42]
Individual: Dupont, Delima
Birth date: Feb 18, 1889
Death date: Mar 1989
Social Security #: 026-07-5973
Last residence: 02746
State of issue: MA
Notes
Note for: Leo Archibald Dupont, 1 MAR 1916 - 19 JAN 1992 Index
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Individual: Dupont, Leo
Birth date: Mar 1, 1916
Death date: Jan 19, 1992
Social Security #: 018-03-7700
State of issue: MA
Notes
Note for: Desirer Dupont, AUG 1862 - 1914 Index
Occupation:
Date: 1889
Place: Weaver
Individual note:
Lived at 929 or 829 South Water
Moved to U.S. sometime between 1862 and 1889
Notes
Note for: James Paul Devaney, 15 JAN 1923 - 20 JAN 1971 Index
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of Import: May 18, 1997, Internal Ref. #1.111.4.60301.26]
Individual: Devaney, James
Birth date: Jan 15, 1923
Death date: Jan 1971
Social Security #: 023-12-6945
State of issue: MA
Notes
Note for: Albert Hayes, 16 MAY 1921 - 3 FEB 1985 Index
He had actually married Nancy Bell Ladd right around when they were 14
years old. But it when Nancy's dad found out, he had the marriage
annulled. After Nancy's second husband, James Paul Devaney, died in 1971
of complications from drinking, she remarried Albert.
She returned to her first love.
Notes
Note for: William Franklin Ladd, 31 MAR 1882 - 23 SEP 1953 Index
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Individual: Ladd, William
Birth date: Mar 31, 1882
Death date: Sep 1953
Social Security #: 230-18-6437
State of issue: VA
Notes
Note for: Nora Ellen Wright, 22 JUN 1906 - Index
Nora actually knew the sisters of her soon-to-be-husband, who was 48 (and
she was 18). She first saw him from her window when he was walking into
the house to talk to her Dad. She called him a "rascal" when she first
saw him. He kept coming back night after night, their first "date" being
a car trip to get ice cream. In that car trip, Benjamin asked her if she
had a boyfriend. Nora jokingly replied, "I don't have ANY friends." They
laughed. Then William said, "I'll be your boyfriend." One month after
first meeting, they married.
Nora tells the story of William going to ask her Dad if they can marry.
"I'm going to ask him to have you," he said.
"You can ask him, but he'll say no," she replied.
So William and Nora's Dad met in the back yard. He came back in.
"What did he say?"
"He said our ages are far apart."
"What did you say to that?"
"I said, 'We'll manage.'"
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School was 3 miles away and she had no transportation so she only went as
high as 5th grade, she said.
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In a Sept. 30, 1956 article in the Richmond Times Dispatch, the following
article ran:
Headline: 'Mom, Meet Grandmother'
Headline: Local Woman Meets Mother After 49 Years
By Bob Preston
Mrs. Nora Ladd, 50, of 1632 Glenfield Avenue, met her mother yesterday.
The introduction was made by Mrs. Ladd's daughter, Mrs. R.J. Eanes of
2304 Pettis Road.
Mrs. Ladd, besides meeting her mother, learned she had six brother and
sisters.
Mrs. Ladd's mother, Mrs. Lillie Belle Sherian of Louisburg, N.C. learned
she has seven grandchildren she had not know about.
It was Mrs. Eanes police work that led to the discovery of these
additional branches on the family tree.
Mrs. Ladd explained that when she was an infant her parents separated and
she was brought up by her father.
Eventually, she married and moved to Richmond. She had not seen or heard
from her mother during the past 49 years.
Mrs. Ladd's daughter, Mrs. Eanes said that she had always wanted to find
her grandmother and, two weeks ago, decided to do something about it.
First, she went to her grandmother's birthplace in Brunswick County.
There, she made inquiries among older people in the area.
She found a woman who remembered her grandmother and had corresponded
with her.
Last Sunday, armed with the name and addresses of her grandmother, she
went to Mrs. Sherian's home in North Carolina.
"It was sort of a shock for her to have an unknown granddaughter drop
in," Mrs. Eanes said.
Mrs. Eanes asked Mrs. Sherian to come to Richmond and visit her long-lost
daughter.
Plan are now under way for a family reunion so an accurate count of
relatives can be made.