Dorothy May Scott Part 6

Dorothy Mae Scott, born 1929, died 1996, New Hampshire.  

Part 6, 1980s and 1990s.

1981 age 51

Death of Husband William Percy French Sr, 2 May 1981.  

He was 73 years old, and they'd been married for 22 years.

no further activity noted in this decade.

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1992 age 62

Death of Father Chester C. Scott, 15 July 1992, Derry, Rockingham NH.  

He was 91 years old, and is buried in Franklin Cemetery, Franklin NH.  See his Find a Grave memorial here.

1996 age 66

Died 24 March 1996 in Concord, Merrimack NH.  

Dorothy was 66 years old.  I would like a copy of her death certificate, but NH is extremely stingy with this type of records. 

The story Norm Jr. heard when he was a teenager is that she was dying of cancer.  She'd called her brother Norm, wanted him to take her pascall of kids, but brother Norm either couldn't or wouldn't take those kids in.  Norm Jr always wondered what happened to them, and felt guilty on behalf of his father because they couldn't keep them.  That call would have been about 1965.  The kids were put into orphanages, is what Norm Jr heard, because by the time Dorothy found she wasn't actually dying, it was too late and the kids were all placed. 

Once again, with this family and with this state, I cannot find one ounce of proof for this story.  I have no reason to doubt it, since those parts I was able to prove have panned out.

1998 

John W. Coons died 21 August 1998, Goffstown, Hillsborough County NH.

Isn't it interesting that John Coons died in Goffstown, same place William French lived.

Unfortunately, I don't have that much information on these people.  If you have any information you would like to share, I'd be happy to include this.  If you have any corrections -- because, hey, I'm only human.

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Footnotes:  

John W. Coons seems to have been quite a bit older than Dorothy, may have been a teacher at Tilton School in Franklin NH.  There is, at the same school, a James E. Coons who is the headmaster at Tilton School as well as president of Tilton Junior College.  Could be his father?  Dates found are 1939 directory; 1942 directory; 1947 directory.  Also 1952, John Coons living 121 Hanover, suite 31, Manchester NH.  Also 1961 John Coons living 142 Central, Manchester NH.

Still have no information on the Dick S. and Mary L. Scott Bell who supposedly adopted Dorothy.  I suspect Mary could be an aunt?  It would be on Chester's side.

I found two addresses I've not included in this blog because they seem like anomolies.  They are 68 Boyd Street, Newark NJ, and 1 Branch Brook Plaza, Apartment 2, Newark NJ.  I don't know.

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Dorothy May Scott Part 3

Dorothy Mae Scott, born 1929, died 1996, New Hampshire.  

Part 3, 1940s.

1940 age 10

St Patrick's Orphanage on Hanover street

St Patrick's Asylum, Hanover Street, Manchester NH

She is on line 50, white female age 10, completed grade 4.  Born in New Hampshire.  In 1935, she was living in Concord, Merrimack County NH.  so the options for that time was that she was still living with her parents or she was in a different orphanage.  Or she was living with Dick S. and Mary L. Scott Bell, according to her Social Security application, which we'll see later.

Let's check on the whereabouts of both of her parents in 1935.

Chester was a roomer in Franklin, Merrimack County NH.
Cecelia **Frustration Alert **  I can't actually find a 1940 census whereabouts for Cecelia.  The closest I come is the Divorce 1934 in Franklin, and 10 years later 1944 marriage to Fracker.  I guess Dorothy could have been living with her mother.  I'm not sure she would have lived with any of her extended family -- aunts and uncles.  Don't ask me why, I just have a gut feeling nobody really cared.  If you have anything that will change my mind, throw it at me, please.  Use the contact form on the right.

1941 age 12

Historical Insight -- The United States Enters WWII

Dorothy Mae Scott lived ... when the US declared war on Japan just one day after the attack on Pearl Harbor that killed 2,400 Americans.

1942, USA. Credit: PhotoQuest/Archive Photos/Getty Images

– Ancestry.com Historical Insight

To encourage men and women to volunteer for the US military, the government launched a widespread propaganda campaign; posters were plastered across American cities and towns.  -- Ancestry.com Historical Insight

1944 age 14

Mother Remarries

Dorothy's mother Cecelia remarries to Archibald H. Fracker, 12 April 1944 in Franklin, Merrimack County, NH.  I'm not sure how long this marriage lasted.



I can find City Censuses for Archibald Fracker living with wife Mary Fracker.  Now, his father was also Archibald Fracker and his mother was Margaret Morris Fracker.  I'm not sure if this is the parents or this is Cecelia's husband with a new wife.  I've not delved that much into this part of the equation.  Too many other things to cipher out.

1947 age 17

birth of half-brother Jacky.  

At first I only knew of this person as "Jacky."  Norm remembers ***tell this story ***  Another contact who knew or researched this family better said his name was Harry Everett II Burleigh, born 1947.  Difficult finding any records and certificates.

Vintage-Baby-in-Bath-Image-GraphicsFairy 1941 1942 Printer’s Catalog

1949

Marriage to Paul Kimball

1949 Marriage Certificate
Paul Kimball and Dorothy Scott

Paul Smith Kimball, residence 10 Spruce Street, Manchester, Hillsboro, NH.  Age 24, born NH.  First marriage.  Occupation Mill Worker.  Father Warren F. Kimball living in Maine, born in Massacheusetts.  Mother Bernice M. Smith, living in Concord NH, born in Canada.

Dorothy Mary Scott, living 305 Bridge Street, Manchester, Hillsboro, NH.  Age 19, born NH.  First marriage.  Occupation Nurse-Maid (probably a child-minder).  Father Chester Scott, unknown residence, living, born NH.  Mother Cecelia Adams, unknown where she lives, born NH.

No actual signatures, darn it. 

A few points of interest.  

1. Why are there no actual signatures?  This must be a transcript?
2. Dorothy had no idea where her parents were, although both of them were still living in 1930.
3. Dorothy's occupation as Nurse-Maid, according to the census handbook, is under the Other Domestic and Personal Service category.
4. Dorothy is 19 years old, living in Manchester same as Kimball.
5. Paul works in the mills, also his first marriage.

Let's look at the addresses.

First up --  Paul Kimball, 10 Spruce Street, Manchester NH

Google Maps 2018
1949 Paul Smith Kimball address at time of marriage
10 Spruce Street, Manchester NH

Google Maps Ariel View 2018
1949 Address for Paul Smith Kimball at time of marriage
10 Spruce Street, Manchester NH

It looks like the address is an intersection, now.  Wonder what it looked like then?  Wonder how I would find that information?

Next, let's look at Dorothy's address, 305 Bridge Street, Manchester, NH

Dorothy Scott 1949 address
Google Maps 2018

Dorothy's address is in red, upper right.  Paul Kimball lived a few blocks southwest, in blue circle.  The purple circle is where Norm Scott lived in 1940, the orphanage.

Dorothy's 1949 address
Google Maps Streetview 2018

1949 age 20

Birth of son Paul Smith Kimball Jr

When Paul Smith Kimball was born in December 1949, his father Paul was 25 and his mother Dorothy was 20.

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Resources

https://scottfamilyresearch.blogspot.com/2017/06/census-sunday-nfs-sr-1930-census.html

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Dorothy May Scott Part 2

Dorothy Mae Scott, born 1929, died 1996, New Hampshire.  

Part 2, 1930s.

1930 age 1

Here is little Dorothy, not yet able to walk when the census-taker knocks on their door.  Her parents Chester and Cecelia Scott and her older brother Norman Scott (see his first post here).

Census Franklin City, Merrimack County NH
Scott Family starts line 2

Here the same information as I posted when writing about Norman.

Little Norman in his first Census.  He was about 2 years old, and his little sister Dorothy was just a few months old.  I wonder what happened to that first child.  I wrote in the last blog about NFS birth certificate, and that he is the second child born to Cecelia. 

He lives with parents Chester and Cecelia at 538 Central Street, Franklin NH.  This is a rented house.  I looked through the neighbors on this sheet, and I don't see anybody who may be related.  It seems they were on their own, here.

Scott Family on the map, 1930 census
538 Central Street, Franklin NH

Above and below are the map view, from Google Maps 2017, and the streetview image captured November 2015 from Google Maps.  You can see where the house might have been, but it doesn't look like it is there anymore.  Point of research -- see if there are historical photos of this house, and any record of when it was torn down and why.

Google Maps streetview 2017
538 Central Street, Franklin NH

Dorothy is aged 7 months old, born in NH.  Chester was a laborer in the Saw Shop.  Chester has never been in the military.

1930 Historical Insight

The Great Depression

1930 Great Depression
Credit: Dorothea Lange/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain
Ancestry.com Historical Insight

The Great Depression was still in it's devastating tour of the nation.

Though the vast majority of the jobs created by President Roosevelt during the Great Depression were for unskilled laborers, he also employed artists to document life across the country. This photograph of a migrant family escaping the Dust Bowl was shot by Dorothea Lange and has become an iconic work from the era. 1936, Nipomo, California.   – Ancestry.com Historical Insight

1931 age 1

Birth of Sister Yvonne

Her sister Yvonne L. Scott was born on 25 April 1931 in Franklin NH when Dorothy Mae was 1 year old.  There is not much information about this little sister, except stories I'd heard throughout my marriage into the family.  We'd heard she'd married a man named "Pugh" and that she'd had nose cancer that disfigured her face and eventually she died of that condition.  If you have any information, contact me.  Information on the Scott side of the family is really scarce, both in anecdotal evidence and stories from family, as well as in actual records and documents.  It's almost as if  --  had I not begun researching them, they would have disappeared from the face of the earth.

1934 age 4

Parents Divorce

1934 Chester & Cecelia Scott Divorce

16 February 1934.  Dorothy's parents Chester and Cecelia divorced.  Chester was the one who filed for divorce on the grounds that Cecelia was adulterous.  Merrimack NH.

I will include things like this because, although they did not happen to her in particular, they had to have influenced Dorothy's life in some way.  I mean, imagine being a little 4 year old girl, with a protective older brother age five and a three year old little sister.  Who did they live with after the divorce?  Is this when the kids were placed into orphanages?  Let's explore this little thought experiment further.

And, remember.  The country is still in slow recovery from the Great Depression.

Four years ago, Chester was a laborer in the Saw Shop (according to the 1930 census).  There is no apparent family nearby for him to call upon.  He seems to have had nobody to watch three young kids.  Since Cecelia -- although she contested the divorce -- there had to have been enough incriminating evidence for the decision of adultery.  Would that automatically exclude the children remaining with the mother?  Or, if Cecelia was awarded the children anyway, What was life like then?  Where was momma living?  Women simply did not just raise children as a single mom in those days.  While Cecelia remarried at least once more, It looks like Chester never did.

1935 age 6

Residence per 1940 census

She's living with someone -- who?  I don't know, but she's living in Concord NH.  Could Dick S. Bell and Mary L. Scott Bell have lived here and taken her in?  I wish I had records!

1938 about age 8

Historical Insight -- The Great New England Hurricane of 1938

Dorothy Mae Scott was likely living in Franklin New Hampshire, one of the areas battered in 1938 by a hurricane boasing cyclones with extremely high winds.

Credit: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

 – Ancestry.com

A hurricane pummeled the northeast with sustained winds of 109 mph on September 21, 1938. In New York City, the sea level rose seven feet in 30 minutes. Some 50,000 homes were damaged or leveled and 2 billion trees snapped like toothpicks in a single day. “It came as a shock and it came suddenly,” one survivor remembered. Conflicting weather reports left locals unprepared, and by the time the tempest subsided, 700 were dead, and 700 more injured.  – Ancestry.com

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Resources

https://scottfamilyresearch.blogspot.com/2017/06/census-sunday-nfs-sr-1930-census.html

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Dorothy May Scott Part 1

Dorothy May Scott, born 1929, died 1996, New Hampshire.  

Part 1, 1920s.

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Introduction

Dorothy May Scott is my husband's aunt, the sister to his father.  This has been a challenging person to research for two reasons.  First, I have a name of Coons on one document, and on another is the last name of Bell.  I will go over these two anomalies when we get there.  Actually, there are more than two reasons.  Again, I'll point out the difficultues as we get to them.

Norm has several stories he'd heard about her.  The one that haunts him to this day is when he very first knew that his father had a sister at all.  She'd contacted Norm Sr, explaining that she was very ill, and dying, and wanted him to take her large number of children in.  He couldn't, and my husband always wondered what happened to them.  He really feels as if his father abandoned those kids.  They would be in their 60s or so.

The other story is of the time when my husband's dad and his sisters were put into orphanages.  Both parents were still alive, but this would have been just after the Great Depression.  Perhaps the family couldn't keep everyone fed.  Norm Sr. didn't talk much about it, and the information he's given I can't really verify.  Orphanages didn't actually keep records, at least none that I can access.  Perhaps it is an orphanage thing ... or just a New Hampshire thing.  I'll talk about that more, believe you me.

If you are related, and you know additional information, please contact me.  I am always open to suggestions and corrections.

1929, birth

Dorothy Mary Scott was born on 11 October 1929 in Franklin, NH to Cecelia R. Adams Scott age 19, and Chester C. Scott, age 28

Dorothy Mae Scott Kimball Coons French mini pedigree
from Ancestry.com

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Next post -- 1930s

Wednesday's Child -- Clarence Anthony Scott 1927-1927

I found Norman F. Scott's older sibling.  When we looked at NFS birth certificate, we noted that he was the second child born to this couple.  I found him.

Clarence Anthony Scott 3-gen pedigree
from Ancestry.com

He is Clarence Anthony Scott, and he was born 24 May 1927 in Franklin NH.  They were living on 23 Spring street at the time of his death, two and a half months later.

Clarence Anthony Scott died 1927
2017 Google Maps

I couldn't find a birth certificate, nor even birth record online, but I did find his death certificate.

Clarence Anthony Scott 1927
death certificate front

Whenever you see a record like this, be sure to advance one to check the backside of the record.  Sometimes there is valuable information there, too.  One other example I can think of is the WWI Draft cards.  Be sure to check the backs.

Clarence Anthony Scott 1927
death certificate back

Was he a sickly child?  Did the new parents not know how to be parents?  His mother Cecelia was only 18 when her first-born died.

Census Sunday -- Norman Scott Sr 1940 Census

This is the 1940 census for Norman Frederick Scott.  You'll find him on line 71.  He is 11 years old, and living in St Peter's Orphanage on the corner of Alsace and Kelley streets in Manchester NH. The truly sad part about this is that he was not really an orphan.  The story is that he was put in and out of the orphanage when things got tight for the Scott family.  At one time he lived with his Uncle Fred Adams in Franklin.  That will be another story to tell in another post.

Nope, his parents are still alive at this point in time.  Where are they?  I have yet to find his mother Cecelia in 1940, nor his father Chester.  I have scanned the census for the entire orphanage and found no other Scott children.  So, where did the girls go?  Did they stay with their parents?  Were they farmed out to relatives?  I can find neither hide nor hair of his little sisters Dorothy and Yvonne.

1940 census for Norman Scott, age 11
St Peter's Orphanage, Franklin NH

This census really makes me both sad and mad.  Mad because his family couldn't keep him, and sad because of the same reason.  What does that do to a child's psyche to be put away when they couldn't afford to keep him?  And, again, were his extended family also in a tight bind where they couldn't band together to keep the family together?

I got the impression NFS Sr did not like to talk about his childhood.

Census Sunday --- NFS Sr 1930 Census

Little Norman in his first Census.  He was about 2 years old, and his little sister Dorothy was just a few months old.  I wonder what happened to that first child.  I wrote in the last blog about NFS birth certificate, and that he is the second child born to Cecelia.

He lives with parents Chester and Cecelia at 538 Central Street, Franklin NH.  This is a rented house.  I looked through the neighbors on this sheet, and I don't see anybody who may be related.  It seems they were on their own, here.

1930 Census, Franklin, Merrimack NH

Scott Family on the map, 1930 census
538 Central Street, Franklin NH

Above and below are the map view, from Google Maps 2017, and of the streetview image captured November 2015 from Google Maps.  You can see where the house might have been, but it doesn't look like it is there anymore.  Point of research -- see if there are historical photos of this house, and any record of when it was torn down and why.

Google Maps streetview 2017
538 Central Street, Franklin NH

That's about par for the course as far as the Scott family goes.  It seems as if all record gets wiped off the face of the earth.  If we are related, please feel free to contact me, I'd love to chat.  Subscribe to catch every morsel posted.