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

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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

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Harvey Scott Part 9 Pension Index

• Pension Index

Harvey Scott 1868 Civil War Pension Index
from Ancestry.com

Harvey Scott.  Widow Mary J. Scott.  Curiously, B.E. Badger is written in the "minor" line and is listed as "Gd'n" which, according to Ancestry, the abbreviation "Gdn" means guardian.  Not sure who was guardian for whom.
On an Ancestry Message Board, the abbreviation as it is listed here might mean that Badger is the guardian or decision-maker for Mary Bacon Scott.

On the lower half is some information I should be able to use later on.  1865, April 22, the Widow Mary J. Scott made an application 90531, certificate 99380.

On 1868, October 23, on the Minor line, is application 166.981, certificate 122.800 -- did Badger make another application for Mary?  or what?  He had three children, Marshall born 1856, Adella born 1860, and Silia born 1862.

Another Index, found on Fold3

NARA T289. Pension applications for service in the US Army 

between 1861 and 1900.

So, I wanted to see if I could get some information using the Civil War pension application numbers.  Below is some information to that effect, but I haven't accessed it yet.  It is here for your perusal.

From a Rootsweb threadThe numbers are the application numbers. If you send to NARA for the pensionfile, you will use at least one of these numbers.

http://www.pacivilwar.com/cwpahelp.html 

This page should help you out; even though, it is Pennsylvania.

http://www.searchforancestors.

com/genhelp/military/nara.html 

This pagewill help, as well.

http://www.archives.gov/research

_room/obtain_copies/military_and

_genealogy_order_forms.html 

This page is where you can order the forms that you will need to order records from NARA.

[UPDATE] I searched on Google and found (again) Fold3.  I have a premium account there, and they've provided me with most of those documents I wanted from NARA!  yay!

Widow's Application

Below is a Widow's Pension application for Mary and her three children.  It looks like she made this application with the help of B.E. Badger of Concord NH.

Widow's Pension listing all three children
found on Fold3
Approved pension applications of widows
and other dependents of Civil War veterans

No 99.380; New Hampshire; Mary J. Scott
Widow of Harvey Scott; Private, Company E, 10th Regiment NH Volunteers
Concord (NH) Agency; Rate per month -- $8 starting 31 January 1865
Additional sum of $2 per Month for each of the following children until arriving at the age of 16 years, commencing July 25 1866 wiz:
Marshall W., 10 October 1872
Adella G., 3 July 1876
Lilla E. 12 March 1878
Certificate dated 12 September 1867; Sent to B.E. Badger, Concord NH
Act 14th July 1862
Book C, Volume 9, Page 289

Claim for Widow's Pension, with Minor Children

Here is another application with more detail.  The quality of the image is not very good, but it is still readable.

Another Pension application
found on Fold3
Approved pension applications of widows
and other dependents of Civil War veterans

Concord
War of 1861, claim 99.380
Brief in the case of Mary J. Scott, Widow of Harvey Scott, Private, Co E, 10th NH Volunteers
Post office address Salisbury NH
Proofs Exhibited
Service -- Adjt. Genl (Adjutant General) Reports Harvey Scott musterd into Service September 14, 1862.  and died in US Hospital Jany 30, 1865, of Phthisis.
Death -- Surg. Genl. Reports Harvey Scott as having died Jany 30th 1865 at Hampton Genl. Hospital, Fort Monroe, VA, of Phthisis.  Lient. Tucker certifies that Harvey Scott died of Consumption got by exposure in the US Service and in the line of his duty.
Marriage -- Records shows that Harvey Scott and Mary Jane Bacon were married Jany 2, 1855
Names and dates of birth of children

• Marshall W. Scott, born Oct 11th 1856, who will be 16 years old Oct. 10th, 1872

• Adella G., born Feby 4th, 1860, who will be 16 years old Feby 5th, 1876

• Lilla C, born March 13th 1862, who will be 16 years old March 12th 1878

Proof of ages -- Affidavit of Persons present
Loyalty -- Shown
Agent and his PO address -- B.E. Badger, Concord, NH
Issue certificate for Eight dollars per month, commencing January 31st, 1865, and two dollars per month additional for each of the above-named children, commencing July 25, 1866
Signed C.M. Tompkins, Examiner; Passed September 2nd, 1867
Approved S.F.S.; I.B.M

My thoughts about this document:  It looks well preserved, but I'm looking at photos of scans of photos -- you get the idea.  The writer who filled this document out has wonderful handwriting, and it looks like Spencerian penmanship.  You can get the similar books and improve your own handwriting!

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In the proof of death, we find the connection between Phthisis and consumption, another term for pulmonary tuberculosis.  Also we notice that this disease is spelled differently.  We also find written down how he contracted this, and that it was in the line of duty.

We find a secondary proof of marriage date.  It is secondary, in that it isn't the original marriage document, but the writer looked at and obtained the date from that primary source.

We have the exact dates of birth for each of the children.  The third child I've always seen spelled as Silla.  This may have been an error in deciphering Spencerian handwriting, but it is Lilla.

We find that Harvey Scott was a loyal soldier.

And, finally, we find the name B.E. Badger again.  He seems to have acted as Mary Jane's liason, helping her with the government forms, endless forms.  Did he act free of charge?  Or did he charge a commission to help families out?  Perhaps this is a subject for another search, when I run out of ideas.

Harvey Scott mini pedigree
from Ancestry.com