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Henry
and Sophia Enders
Henry and Sophia Enders lived a generation before anyone
in this history. Sophia was born in
Germany
on
July 25th, 1844
. Her father’s name was Henry Schuster; her mother’s
name is unknown. She came to the
United States
when she was about 23 years old. She married another
Henry; Henry Enders, and they had two girls, Mary A.,
and Catherine, and three boys, John, Joseph, and
Michael. Sophia died of a stroke, on
June 10th, 1924
, at the age of 79, in her home on
577 Broadway Street
, in
Buffalo
. She was a widow. She rests in the Weitzel family plot
in the United German and French cemetery
, section FF, lot 73. The location of Henry’s grave is
not known.
Henry and Sophia’s Children
Mary A. Enders married Henry Weitzel. They are our
direct ancestors. Their story is written below in the
second generation.
Catherine Enders married Henry Himmelsbeck. It is said
that they had no children, but it seems that they raised
a child named Elsie.
Kate
Himmelsbeck lived on
Roswell Street
, in a little cottage probably built for her by her
brother Michael.
John Enders never married and moved to
Chicago
. He bought an elegant rooming house, and lived well
from the proceeds. Agnes Spencer remembers going to
Chicago
to visit John’s place.
Joseph Enders married Mildred
Wittenhower.
Michael G. Enders married Loretta
Eberhardt.
They lived on
Roswell Street
. They had two children, Kenneth and Warren.
Warren
moved to
Columbus
Ohio
.
Loretta
moved to
Hamburg
.
She died
May 10th, 1998
.
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John
and Nellie Spencer
John was born in
Canada
in 1862. He
was a carpenter by trade.
Nellie Smith was born in
Scotland
in 1865
, immigrated to
Canada
,
and married
John. They moved to the
United States
between 1884 and 1887. He was about 23. She was about
20. They had already had two children. They lived in a
section of
West Seneca
that would
later become
Lackawanna
.
After five
more children, John and Nellie vanished without a trace.
The children stayed in the area and raised their
families.
The only record that I was able to
find documenting the presence of John and Nellie was the
1892 census. They can neither be found in the next
census, nor in city directories in
Buffalo
. The city directories list their children but not John
and Nellie.
The City of
Buffalo
and the State of
New York
do not have records of John and Nellie’s deaths. Their
names are absent from their son Arthur’s obituary,
which usually means they are long gone or deceased.
Inquiries to the cemeteries in
Fort Erie
,
Canada
, produced no results. The major cemeteries in this area
do not shelter their remains. I have wandered through
inactive cemeteries in the suburbs of
Buffalo
, searching for their names on tombstones. To further
muddy the waters, the town hall housing vital statistics
in
West Seneca
, which may have had some record of them, was destroyed
by fire in the 1930’s.
It is a mystery how all of their
children settle and stay locally, and yet, there is
neither record nor memory of John and Nellie. Even
stranger yet, when I asked my aunt Sis
(Rosemarie Carnes) in 1996, to tell me about her
grandparents, John and Nellie, she not only knew nothing
about her grandparents, her facial expression indicated
amazement that I would even ask such a question. She was
actually surprised that I knew her grand parents names.
Agnes, my mother, said that her
husband Alfred never mentioned his grand parents, John
and Nellie.
John and Nellie’s Children
Arthur Aloysius Spencer married
Rose Matilda Schroeder. They are our direct ancestors.
Their story is written below, in the third generation.
Charles Rayfield Spencer was born in
Welland
,
Ontario
,
Canada
, in 1882. He made a living as a cabinetmaker. In the
1920’s and ‘30s, he lived at
1145 Niagara Street
in
Buffalo
.
He married
Mary Murray and had three children with her:
Charles, William,
Helen, and
June. Charles Rayfield Spencer died on
August 5th, 1937
, at the age of 56, and now rests in the Chapel Lawn
section, lot 45C, grave 1, in
Elmlawn
Cemetery
, next to Mary. Their graves have no markers.
Charles Rayfield Spencer
’s son, Charles William Spencer, was born
December 14th, 1917
. He first married Mabel Croad
. Then he married Dolores J. Schlenker
. They lived at
289 Hoyt Street
in
Buffalo
, in the 1970’s. He owned a tavern. Charles William
died in 1971, as a result of an automobile accident on
Niagara Street
. He rests near his wife Dolores, and his sister Helen,
in 4th Station of the Cross, lot 266, grave 3, in
Mount
Olivet
Cemetery
,
Tonawanda
,
New York
. Dolores died on
February 6th, 2001
, at the age of 77. Charles William and Dolores were the
parents of Dianna L. Spencer
.
Dianna Spencer was employed at
NAPA
, an auto parts dealer. She was a friend of my sister
Carol, who also worked at
NAPA
. Dianna had a sister Joy M.,
and two
brothers: Charles R.,
and James F.
Spencer.
Charles Rayfield Spencer’s
daughter Helen
married three times; first to a Chambers
, then to a Brennen
, and finally, to a Patton
.
Charles Rayfield Spencer’s
daughter, June,
was actually
born in
Canada
but was
unaware of the fact until she was made to register as an
alien during World War II. She first married Norman L.
Reynolds
, then Charles E. Duge
, and finally, Robert J. Carson
. She died
May 27th, 1998
, at the age of 84.
Martha L. Spencer
was born in
Canada
in 1884. She married George Drummond
. She and George had a boy and a girl, and ended up with
five grandchildren, and six great grandchildren. She was
a widow and was living at
402 Linwood Avenue
in
North Tonawanda
at the time
of her death on
March 17th, 1960
. She is buried next to her sister Nellie in Mount
Olivet Cemetery,
in the Holy
Family Garden, lot B. Martha Drummond’s grave is
unmarked. George is not buried near her.
Nellie Spencer
was born in
West Seneca
on
September 11th, 1888
. When she married Owen Sulvia
, she already had two sons, Frank and Bert Jackson
. In 1925, Owen listed his occupation as carpenter, and
their residence as
1425 Niagara Street
in
Buffalo
. In 1941, he and Nellie owned a restaurant at
2660 Delaware Avenue
in
Buffalo
.
When I saw
the site in April of 2001, it was a defunct restaurant
named The Saratoga. They had four grandchildren and five
great-grandchildren. Owen was born
October 22nd, 1886
, and died
June 6th, 1945
. Nellie died
February 21st, 1957
. They rest together with Nellie’s sister Martha, in
the
Holy
Family
Garden
; lot B, graves 23, 24, and 25.
William J. Spencer
was born in
1888, probably in
West Seneca
. In 1941, the city directory lists a William J. Spencer
as a cabinetmaker, living on
370 Bird Street
,
Buffalo
, with his wife Helen.
Twelve years
later William Spencer’s obituary states that he had
been living in
Dunkirk
with his
wife W. Gertrude (Kiska)
at the time
of his death
April 27th, 1953
. He and Gertrude had two girls. He is buried with W.
Gertrude in the Masonic Lawn section of Elmlawn
, lot 45 C, grave #1.
Albert F. Spencer
was born
around 1893, probably in
West Seneca
. In 1941, he listed his occupation as porter and an
address at
2660 Delaware Avenue
, which was Owens’s restaurant. We lose track of him
after that time.
Elmer H. Spencer
was born
around 1895, probably in
West Seneca
. In 1920, he was a mechanic living at
1145 Niagara Street
. By 1925, he listed himself a salesman living on
254 Plymouth Street
, in
Buffalo
. I did not find any more information on Elmer.
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Henry
and Otilla Schroeder
We have little information about
Henry
and Otilla
. They probably emigrated from
Germany
,
and settled
in
Buffalo
, in or around the 1880s. Henry may have also been known
by the name Wadcinski.
Otilla’s
maiden name was Wolschleger
. Her Mother’s name may have been Bartz
. This sparse information comes from Rose Sommer’s
death certificate.
Henry and Otilla’s Children
Rose Matilda married Arthur
Aloysius Spencer. They are our direct ancestors. That
story is written in the third generation, which follows.
Lydia L. Schroeder
was born and lived in
Buffalo
.
She attended
Bethlehem Presbyterian Church on
346 Bird Street
. She married twice. Her first husband was Roscoe Snell
. Together they had five children, named George,
Roscoe,
Russell,
Doris,
and Audrey.
Later she
married Fred Meyer.
Lydia
died
October 29th, 1983
. The Link-Fox Funeral home on
355 Grant Street
handled the arrangements.
Mildred D. Schroeder
lived in
Buffalo
. She married Roy E. Howard
Sr. Together
they became the parents of four children: Shirley
, Roy E. Jr., Richard
, and Alan
. Shirley married a man by the name of Lampert
.
Matilda Schroeder
was
nicknamed “Tillie”.
She married
a man named Dowling
.
Gertrude, Mary, Elmer and Paul
Schroeder.
Little
information has been unearthed regarding these offspring
of Henry and Otilla. Gertrude may have married a man
named Banks
.
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Jacob
and Sophie Yung
Jacob
was born in Mannheim Kuts,
Germany
, in 1863. It is thought that he originally spelled his
name Jung
, which is the German spelling. The City of
Buffalo
directory lists his occupation as watchman in 1920. A
number of pictures of Jacob exist in Rose Yung’s
collection. He usually looks very serious.
Sophie was born Sophie Sneider
in 1868, in
Alsace-Lorraine.
She usually
has a pixie smile in her pictures in Rose’s
collection. From about 1920 on, Jacob and Sophie lived
at
22 Calumet Street
,
in
Buffalo
. Jacob died in 1948. Sophie died two years later. They
are buried in the northwest section of
Saint
Francis
Xavier
Cemetery
, on
Niagara Street
in
Buffalo
.
Jacob and Sophie’s Children
Nicholas J. Yung married Rose
Weitzel. They are our direct ancestors. Their story
appears in the third generation, which follows.
Frank Yung
was born about 1895. He married Julia Simon
, and together they had three children: Rita,
Dorothy
, and Edward.
He is listed
as residing at 22
Calumet
in the 1941 Buffalo City Directory. There is a Frank
Yung buried in
Saint
Francis
Xavier
Cemetery
on
April 20th, 1963
, who may be him.
Sophie E. Yung
was a
stenographer. Her father, Jacob, arranged for a man
named Eugene Schneider
to emigrate
from
Germany
possibly to
marry one of his daughters, Sophie or Teresa.
Eugene
found the pretty and vivacious Teresa
to be his
favorite and he married her. Sophie ended up owning a
house by herself on
Garfield Street
that had two
apartments. It was located right across from
Calumet Street
.
I lived in the upper apartment with my parents, Alfred
and Agnes Spencer, and later my sister Carolyn, until
about 1951.
Sophie never married. She died on
June 2nd, 1975
, and is buried in
Saint
Francis
Xavier
Cemetery
.
Teresa B. Yung
married the
aforementioned
Eugene
and had just one son, who also was named
Eugene
. They originally lived on
20 Calumet Street
. Eugene, the son, played the marimba, a freestanding
instrument with wooden sounding boards, now little
played. He married Marie Lois Rinsfleish
. They had a daughter named Deborah.
Teresa died
April 19th, 1975
, and is buried in
Mount
Olivet
Cemetery
, Infant of Prague section, lot #48, grave two.
Teresa’s husband Eugene, who was born in 1904, died in
1967. He rests next to Teresa.
Charles A. Yung
married
twice. He and his first wife, Ester, had three children:
Sophia, Billy, and Ruth. He and his second wife, Clara E
(nee
Eisenbeis)
had two boys
and a girl: Charles A, Donald E., and Ruth. The only
information that I have is that he died before
July 4th 1980
.
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Henry
Weitzel and Mary A. Enders
Henry
was born in
Germany
about 1863.
He came to the
United States
and married Mary A. Enders
. Mary was the child of the Henry and Sophia Enders
described above. Mary was born in the
United States
in about 1867. They were members of Saint Mary
Magdalen’s church
. Mary and Henry had three girls and four boys.
Henry Weitzel died
June 22nd, 1913
, at 50 years of age. He is buried in the Weitzel family
plot in the United German and French cemetery
, section FF, lot 73. I believe we have no photographs
of him because he died just before Kodak popularized
home photography. Mary lived as a widow in the home at
127 Box Street
in
Buffalo
for another 37 years. I remember her as my “Gramma
Weitzel”. She passed away
October 8th, 1950
, having lived for 84 years. She rests next to Henry.
As a side note, Anna and John
Winklmann
are also
buried in the Weitzel family plot. Anna is the right
age, born in 1864, to have been Henry or Mary’s
sister, but we do not actually know whom the Winklmanns
are.
Henry and Mary’s Children
Rose Anna Maria Weitzel married
Nicholas J. Yung. They are our direct ancestors. Their
story is written in the third generation, which follows.
Elizabeth (Ella) Weitzel
was born in
1892. She married Joseph Fisher
and they had
a daughter, Juliet. Ella died in
June 11th, 1972
. Joseph died
May 3rd, 1983
, at the age of 92. They are both buried in the Weitzel
family plot in the United German and French cemetery
, section FF, lot 73. Charles H. Fisher
, who died when he was three months old, is buried
between them.
Mayme Weitzel
was born in
1888, in
Buffalo
. She married Joseph Stroh, who came from
Cologne
,
Germany
.
They had
four children:
Elvira,
Ruth, Jerome, and Wilbert. She died in 1972, at 84 years
of age.
George Weitzel
was born in
Buffalo
on
August 3rd, 1895
. He married twice. His first wife was named Hilda
. The second was Thelma.
He died on
March 8th, 1982
, and is buried in
Sylvan
Abbey
Memorial Park
,
Pinellas County
,
Florida
.
Arthur Weitzel
married a
woman named Edna.
Together
they had a daughter named Deanna
.
Harry Weitzel
married a
woman named Jean
and they had
a boy by the name of Harry Jr.
Harry Jr.
married a lady by the name of Marie.
Harry Sr.
died in 1969.
Charles Weitzel
was born in 1894. He married a woman by the name of
Celeste,
and they had
five children: Charles,
Bernadine
,
Lorraine
,
Eleanor,
and Nancy.
Charles lived in
Detroit
,
Michigan
.
He died in
1959, at the age of 64.
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Arthur
Aloysius Spencer and Rose Matilda Schroeder
Arthur Spencer
was born in
Lackawanna
, on
February 21st, 1895
, the son of Nellie and John. He served in the United
States Marines during World War I. After the war, he
sold and serviced marine engines. During this time, he
lived and worked at
557 Tonawanda Street
in
Riverside
,
New York
. In 1932, Arthur sold brewing supplies. He was a member
of the East Street Methodist church.
Rose Schroeder
was born on
June 19th, 1898
, in
Buffalo
, the daughter of Otilla and Henry. She achieved a grade
school education and became a cook and a housewife. She
married Arthur and they had three boys named Arthur,
Alfred, Robert, and a girl named Rosemarie. In 1919, the
family lived at
1242 Niagara Street
. In the late 1920’s, they lived in a house on Fix
road
on
Grand Island
. Later they moved to
42 Royal Street
in the
Riverside
section of
Buffalo
.
Arthur died on
March 8th, 1936
, at the age of 41, in
Batavia
,
New York
. There is some question about an explosion in an
industrial accident. The facts are not clear. The
coroner’s report gives the cause of death as heart
disease. He is buried in the serviceman’s section 19,
grave number 258,
Forest
Lawn
Cemetery
in
Buffalo
.
After Arthur’s death, Rose
Spencer married
a quiet man,
named Thomas John Sommer. She and Thomas continued
living at
42 Royal Avenue
, in
Riverside
,
New York
. Thomas was born on
December 23rd, 1895
. He worked for the railroad. Thomas and Rose adopted a
girl named Noreen when they were older, in about their
late forties.
Tommy died on
January 30th, 1962
, at the age of 66. Rose died about a year later, on
February 2nd, 1963
, at the age of 64. They are buried together in Elm lawn
cemetery,
in the
Chapel Hill Knoll, site 127, in
Tonawanda
,
New York
. There are no markers on their graves.
Arthur and Rose’s Children
Alfred W. Spencer married Agnes
Yung. They are our direct ancestors. Their story is
written below in the fourth generation.
Arthur E. Spencer
was born in
Buffalo
,
New York
. His nickname (or alias, if you will) was Jimmie.
Arthur was a salesman and a laborer who lived in the
rear of
557 Tonawanda Street
from about to 1935 to about 1940. He had a bit of a
reputation in the family for antisocial behavior. He
married a woman by the name of Marie Geist.
They had
three boys. Their son Arthur
married
Diana
and ended up in
Phoenix
,
Arizona
. Arthur’s second son Robert
married
Geraldine
and went to
San Diego
,
California
. Their last son, Thomas M
., married Candis DeWyer.
The couple
had
Shawn, Martin, Lori, and Joel, and stayed here in
Western New York
. Thomas died on
November 3rd, 1999
, and was cremated.
Jimmie is most likely the Arthur E.
buried in the Veteran’s section 19, plot 22, grave 23,
in Forest Lawn. Marie passed away in
San Diego
,
California
,
March 18th, 1997
.
Robert F. Spencer
was born in
Buffalo
, in 1921, and lived at
557 Tonawanda Street
. Eventually he moved to
Lyons
,
New York
, a village located 105 miles East of Buffalo. Bob
worked for the railroad. He and his wife, Jenny,
had two
girls and a boy. The oldest girl was named Roberta
Spencer,
but
everybody called her Bobby. Her married name is Bonaell.
Jenny and Bob’s boy’s name was Glen.
The younger
girl was known as Becky.
When I was about 10 years old in
1951, I stayed with Uncle Bob’s family for a week. Old
farmland and orchards surrounded their home. I played in
the woods, went fishing with Uncle Bob, and had a lot of
fun. I particularly enjoyed the family bath on Saturday
night in a tub in the kitchen. Aunt Jenny brought all
the water from the well in buckets, and heated the water
on the stove. Seems improbable now, but I remember all
the children sharing the same bath water.
I did not like getting up in the
morning to go to a cold outhouse. The family was living
25 years behind the folks in the cities, but that did
not seem to bother them. Television did not exist. In
the evening, the entertainment consisted of sitting on
the front porch watching Uncle Bob drink beer and shoot
flies with a marvelous new invention, the pressurized
bug spray can. After the sun went down and the fireflies
lit their tails, we went to bed.
Uncle Bob died on
April 5th, 1975
, and is buried in
Lyons
South
Cemetery
, on
Geneva
road.
Rosemarie Spencer
was born in
Buffalo
on
July 30th, 1924
. Because she was a girl with three older brothers, she
was known as “Sis”. When the next generation came
along, she became an Aunt. Since her name was already
established as “Sis”, she then became “Aunt
Sis”. It took me a long time before I understood the
reason why she was called “Aunt Sis”. Anyhow, she
married an imposing looking man by the name of John
Carnes
who made a
living driving a truck that carried explosives. That
earned him more money than driving an ordinary truck.
However, the explosives did make people nervous. They
settled down in a home at
3120 Hartland Road
in
Gasport
,
New York
. They raised five children:
John, Dale, Ronald, Cora and Michael.
Tommy and Rose’s Child
Rose and Tommy adopted Noreen
Sommer
at a time
when they were well up in years. She was born of an
affair between Rose’s philandering brother Paul
, and a woman by the name of Mickey who lived in
Rochester
.
Noreen attended the
Ripley
Memorial
Methodist
Church
at
215 East Street
in Black Rock area of
Buffalo
. She married a man by the name of Satrang
. They had two children,
Shannon and Kelly, and then broke up. Noreen and her
children moved around the country. She worked hard and
rose in the ranks of the Marriott Corporation
. In 1997, she was living in
New Jersey
.
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Nicholas
J. Yung and Rose Anna Maria Weitzel
Nicholas
was born in
Buffalo
, in 1890, the son of Sophie and Jacob. He attended
St.
Francis
Xavier
School
. He worked for 13 years as a streetcar conductor for
the International Railway Company, (IRC). Later he
worked for the Dupont Chemical Company in the rayon
division.
Rose Anna Maria Weitzel
was born in
1891, also in
Buffalo
, the daughter of Mary and Henry. She married Nicholas
and they had three girls and three boys. In 1916, they
built the house at
590 Tonawanda Street
,
in
Riverside
,
New York
.
Nicholas made wine in the basement
and filtered it with filter paper he got from Dupont.
Nicholas belonged to the Holy Name Society at Saint
Francis Xavier Church. He died in his home on
Tonawanda Street
,
July 19th, 1948
, at the age of 58.
Grandma Yung was special to me. We
would sail on a ferryboat across lake Erie to Crystal
Beach
amusement
park in
Canada
. The boat was named “Canadianna”. I loved hanging
over the railing and watching the waves go by. After her
husband died, my dad built a house for her two doors
from our house at
202 Ferndale Avenue
. I visited her often. She would eat Limburger cheese
and onion sandwiches, and drink a couple of beers at
night. She was a widow, so it was not a problem to
anybody.
Rose died in
Tonawanda
in July of 1971, at 80 years of age. Rose and Nicholas
rest together in the
Saint
Francis
Xavier
Cemetery
on
Niagara Street
, where the south road bends north. Crystal Beach and
the Canadianna are long since gone.
Nicholas and Rose’s
Children
Agnes Yung married Alfred Spencer.
They are our direct ancestors. Their story is written in
the forth generation below.
George Yung
was born in
Buffalo
about 1912. First, he married Dorothy Fisher
. They divorced. Then he married Margaret Lengyel
. The couple lived at
23 Girard Place
in the city
of
Buffalo
. He worked as a credit manager for the Don Johnson
Company. They had three children named: Martha, Thomas
and Mary. George died in 1970, at the age of 58.
Margaret died
April 25th, 1998
. They rest in the Saint Anne de Beaupre section of
Mount
Olivet
Cemetery
in
Tonawanda
,
New York
. Their graves are unmarked.
George and Margaret’s daughter,
Martha, married Michael Schwing
. They live at
58 Polish Place
,
Buffalo
,
New York
.
Mary married Eric Winterkorn
. Thomas married a woman named Lynne.
Beatrice Yung
was born in 1913, at
590 Tonawanda Street
in
Riverside
,
New York
. She died in 1927, in the living room at
590 Tonawanda Street
, when she was about 14 years of age. She is buried in
the Northwest quadrant of
Saint
Francis
Xavier
Cemetery
on
Niagara Street
, next to her grandparents, Jacob and Sophie Yung.
Richard Frank Yung
was born at home,
590
Tonawanda Street
, with the aid of a mid-wife,
January 3rd, 1918
. He graduated from high school and went to work for
Curtis Wright Aircraft. He married Lillian McConville
on
January 10th, 1940
, and they moved to
California
. They had two children. He worked for the Flying Tigers
Airline, as a manager of data processing for the rest of
his life. Lillian died of cancer in October of 1971.
Richard married Celia Fry
on
November 16th, 1973
. They lived in
Mission Hills
California
. Richard died early in the year 2000.
Richard and Lillian’s son Richard
Joseph Yung,
was born
February 7th, 1942
, in
Burbank
,
California
. He married Patricia Bondar
July 3rd, 1965
. They had two boys:
David Allan, and Christopher John.
Richard and Lillian’s daughter,
Nancy Jane, was born in
Burbank
,
California
, on
June 22nd, 1945
.
Nancy
married Charles Stivers
August 19th, 1969
. They adopted
Kip Anthony and Kara Leanne.
Eleanor Theresa Yung
was born in
Riverside
, on
August 6th, 1923
. She had a sunny, outgoing, personality. She graduated
from high school, and became employed as a bookkeeper.
She married Arnold Joseph Campbell
, a man two years her senior, who was born in
New York City
,
June 15th, 1921
. Arnie was a larger than life kind of guy who was
always ready to sell something, mostly flashy cars, or
buy some thing, also mostly flashy cars. Or go out for a
night on the town. He served in the armed forces in
World War II. Arnie and Eleanor moved to
California
and had three children. They lived on
5427 Spencer Lane
in
Carlsbad
,
California
. Arnold Campbell died in
California
,
September 11th, 1999
, at the age of 78.
Eleanor and Arnie’s first child,
Kathleen Rose,
was born
January 27th, 1948
. She married twice, first to a Freeland, then to Steve
Parker
.
Eleanor and Arnie’s second child
was Scott Lawrence,
who was a
chip off the old Arnie Block, as far I can tell. He
worked as a tuna fisherman for many years, and later
became a free-lance building contractor. In the year
2000, he took his mother on a trip of the North American
continent by car and by boat. They ended up in
Western New York
. Sisters Eleanor and Agnes had a good long visit.
Carolyn, Scott, and I had a few beers.
Eleanor and Arnie’s third child,
Curt James,
was born on
February 9th, 1956
. He died at the age of 16 in a motorcycle accident.
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Alfred
William Spencer and Agnes Mary Dorothy Yung
Alfred
was born the son of Rose and Arthur,
October 14th, 1919
. He lived on
Fix Road
on
Grand Island
from about
the age of 8 to about the age of 12. He studied
cabinetmaking in high school. He first worked at the
Dunlop Tire manufacturing plant, then later at the
Chevrolet Auto Plant.
Agnes
was born
January 6th, 1921
, the daughter of Rose and Nicholas. She graduated from
Riverside
High School
, and became employed as a clerk-typist. Agnes married
Alfred on
November 5th, 1940
. I was born while they lived on
105 Gorton Street
in
Riverside
in 1941. In
September of 1944, Alfred went into the army. While he
fought in World War II in
Europe
, my mother and I went to live with her parents,
Nicholas and Rose, on
590 Tonawanda Street
. Alfred came home from
Europe
in 1946, and the family moved to the upper apartment on
128 Garfield Street
. Carolyn Ann Rose was born in 1948. The post-war
housing boom provided a good living for my dad. He used
his woodworking skills to construct cabinets in the
kitchens of the houses being built. Alfred built the
house on
190 Ferndale Avenue
and we moved
in about 1951. He later built the house at 202
Ferndale
for Agnes’ mother, Rose Yung, after her husband
Nicholas died. Alfred played horseshoes avidly and very
well. He was an outgoing and friendly man who was well
liked by everyone. Alfred died on
September 6th, 1965
, of congestive heart failure. He rests in
Mount
Olivet
Cemetery
, Infant of Prague section, four rows up from the road,
slightly left of center, section 49, grave 3.
Alfred and Agnes’ Children
Richard Spencer
married Carol Ann Schwartz. Carolyn Ann Rose married
Ronald Kirkwood. Both of the stories are appear in the
fifth generation.
Paul Francis Gore and Agnes
Spencer
Paul
was born on
April 20th, 1928
, in
Conemaugh
,
Pennsylvania
.
He worked
for the Town of
Tonawanda
, in the Forestry Division, for many years. He and his
first wife had a daughter, Phyllis Noel.
Phyllis
moved to
Binghamton
,
New York
to attend college. There she married Alan Deyo
, and they had a daughter, Stephanie,
and a son,
Brandon. The family lived at
215 Rundall Place
in
Binghamton
,
New York
.
Paul’s first wife died of cancer.
Paul married Agnes Spencer
on
September 2nd, 1971
. He enjoyed holidays and social events with all of the
family until his death on
January 10th, 2002
. He rests in lot 20, grave 4, in the Infant of Prague
section of
Mount
Olivet
cemetery
.
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