William E. AUCKER

[41579]

AUG 1863 - 1948

Family 1 : Mary Elizabeth REIGLE
  1. +George Allen AUCKER

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[41579] William and his family are listed in the 1900 federal census in Union Twp., Snyder Co., PA. "The Selinsgrove Times-Tribune [Selinsgrove, PA], 1 April 1948," p. 8: "Funeral services will be held Saturday for William E. Aucker, 84, who died yesterday morning of a heart condition at the home of his son, Frank Aucker, of North Eighth street. Prayer services will be held from the Aucker home at 1:30 P. M., and continued in the Evangelical and Reformed Church in Verdilla. The Rev. H. G. Snyder, pastor of the Freeburg Evangelical and Reformed Charge, will officiate, and interment will be in the cemetery adjoining the church. Born in Union township August 18, 1863, Mr. Aucker was the son of Peter and Catherine Aucker. He and the former Mary Elizabeth Riegel were married in 1891. Mrs. Aucker preceded him in death 11 years ago. Mr. Aucker resided for most of his life in Union township, and after the death of Mrs. Aucker, made his home with his sons. He was a member of the Evangelical and Reformed Church at Verdilla for 65 years, and was an active farmer thruout his life. He is survived by two sons, Frank Aucker, at whose home he died, and George A. Aucker, of R. R., Port Trevorton; a brother, J. Irvin Aucker, of Port Trevorton; five grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. A daughter preceded him in death 24 years ago."

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Elizabeth BAIRD

1603 - 1684

Family 1 : Alexander ABERCROMBIE
  1. +James (III) Alexander ABERCROMBIE

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John Chipman BECKWITH

[31140]

27 DEC 1765 - OCT 1847

Father: John BECKWITH
Mother: Katherine CHIPMAN

Family 1 : Grace Benson KELLY
  1. +John Chipman BECKWITH

                                                                                            _Matthew BECKWITH _______+
                                                                                           | (1610 - 1681)           
                                                                     _Matthew BECKWITH ____|_Elizabeth (Mary) LYNDE _
                                                                    | (1637 - 1727)          (.... - 1694)           
                                               _James BECKWITH _____|
                                              | (1671 - ....) m 1693|
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                       _John B. BECKWITH _____|
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                      |                       |                      _Reinold MARVIN ______|_________________________
                      |                       |                     | (.... - 1676)                                  
                      |                       |_Sarah MARVIN _______|
                      |                         (1672 - 1756) m 1693|
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 _John BECKWITH ______|
| (1738 - 1816) m 1764|
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|                     |_Jane WORDEN __________|
|                       (1722 - 1822)         |
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|--John Chipman BECKWITH 
|  (1765 - 1847)
|                                                                                           _Thomas CHIPMAN _________
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|                                                                    _John CHIPMAN ________|_________________________
|                                                                   | (1615 - 1708) m 1646                           
|                                              _John CHIPMAN _______|
|                                             | (1670 - 1756) m 1716|
|                                             |                     |                       _John HOWLAND ___________+
|                                             |                     |                      | (.... - 1673) m 1623    
|                                             |                     |_Hope HOWLAND ________|_Elizabeth TILLEY _______
|                                             |                       (1629 - 1684) m 1646   (1607 - 1687)           
|                      _Handley CHIPMAN ______|
|                     | (1717 - 1799) m 1740  |
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|                     |                       |                      _Thomas HANDLEY ______|_________________________
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|                     |                       |_Elizabeth HANDLEY __|
|                     |                         (1672 - 1725) m 1716|
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|_Katherine CHIPMAN __|
  (1746 - 1764) m 1764|
                      |                                                                     _Samuel ALLEN ___________+
                      |                                                                    | (.... - 1669) m 1630    
                      |                                              _James ALLEN _________|_Anne WHITMORE __________
                      |                                             | (1636 - 1714) m 1662   (1612 - 1641)           
                      |                        _John ALLEN _________|
                      |                       | (1682 - 1767) m 1716|
                      |                       |                     |                       _George PARTRIDGE _______+
                      |                       |                     |                      | (.... - 1695) m 1638    
                      |                       |                     |_Elizabeth PARTRIDGE _|_Sarah TRACY ____________
                      |                       |                       (1644 - 1722) m 1662   (.... - 1708)           
                      |_Jane (or Jean) ALLEN _|
                        (1722 - 1775) m 1740  |
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                                              |                      _William HOLMES ______|_________________________
                                              |                     | (1663 - 1746) m 1693                           
                                              |_Margaret HOLMES ____|
                                                (1695 - 1778) m 1716|
                                                                    |                       _Robert CRAIGHEAD _______+
                                                                    |                      | (1633 - 1711)           
                                                                    |_Katherine CRAIGHEAD _|_________________________
                                                                      (1678 - 1754) m 1693                           

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[31140] John m. (2) 25 March 1802 in St. John Anglican Church, Cornwallis, Kings Co., NS to Elizabeth Whitknacht and they had Prudence Jane Beckwith (1814-1895).

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John BLEACHER

30 OCT 1792 - 20 MAR 1881

Father: Michael BLEECHER
Mother: Mary LINES

Family 1 : Mary BARR
  1. +Michael BLEECHER

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| (1762 - 1845)       |
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Irish BOSTON

____ - ____

Father: Robert BOSTON
Mother: Sharon HEICHEL


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 _Robert BOSTON ______|
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|--Irish BOSTON 
|  
|                                                                                                        _Joseph HEICHEL ______+
|                                                                                                       | (1819 - 1889) m 1843 
|                                                                               _John Luther HEICHEL ___|_Ann Rebecca BASFORD _
|                                                                              | (1850 - 1942) m 1875     (1825 - 1910)        
|                                                     _Jerome Basford HEICHEL _|
|                                                    | (1877 - 1965)           |
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|                                                    |                         |_Mary Falina EASTERDAY _|______________________
|                                                    |                           (1857 - 1934) m 1875                          
|                      _Lyle William Luther HEICHEL _|
|                     | (1907 - 1997)                |
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|                     |                              |_Amy Minnie DIETRICK ____|
|                     |                                (1887 - ....)           |
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|_Sharon HEICHEL _____|
  (1939 - 2013)       |
                      |                                                                                  ______________________
                      |                                                                                 |                      
                      |                                                         ________________________|______________________
                      |                                                        |                                               
                      |                               _Jacob Benjamin MEYER ___|
                      |                              | (1870 - 1938) m 1898    |
                      |                              |                         |                         ______________________
                      |                              |                         |                        |                      
                      |                              |                         |________________________|______________________
                      |                              |                                                                         
                      |_Neva M. MEYER _______________|
                        (1908 - 1990)                |
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                                                     |                         |                                               
                                                     |_Minnie Gertrude PICKEN _|
                                                       (1877 - 1942) m 1898    |
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Raymond Deloss BRILLHART

29 OCT 1919 - 6 DEC 1998

Father: Charles Floyd BRILLHART
Mother: Marie Olive DUTOIT


                                                                                                               _Abraham BRILLHART __+
                                                                                                              | (1763 - 1831)       
                                                                                         _Peter BRILLHART ____|_Eva ALTRU __________
                                                                                        | (1794 - 1847)                             
                                                               _Valentine F. BRILLHART _|
                                                              | (1820 - 1885) m 1839    |
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                                                              |                         |_Susannah FUHRMANN __|_____________________
                                                              |                           (1793 - 1844)                             
                            _Sperry Albert BRILLHART _________|
                           | (1864 - 1936) m 1884             |
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                           |                                  |_Susannah B. DOREMIRE ___|
                           |                                    (1822 - 1905) m 1839    |
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 _Charles Floyd BRILLHART _|
| (1894 - 1975)            |
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|                          |_Nancy ("Nannie") Matilda PARKER _|
|                            (1861 - 1937) m 1884             |
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|--Raymond Deloss BRILLHART 
|  (1919 - 1998)
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Elizabeth DOWNS

[55232]

CA 1753 - CA 1830

Father: Ebenezer DOWNS
Mother: Jane WALTON

Family 1 : Nehemiah SMALL
  1. +Nehemiah SMALL

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                       _Ebenezer DOWNS _____|
                      | (1680 - 1760) m 1715|
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 _Ebenezer DOWNS _____|
| (1719 - 1803) m 1759|
|                     |                                                                  _John HANSON ________+
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|                     |                                            _Thomas HANSON ______|_Frances PRITCHARD __
|                     |                                           | (1586 - 1666) m 1637  (1590 - 1621)       
|                     |                      _Thomas HANSON ______|
|                     |                     | (1643 - 1711) m 1669|
|                     |                     |                     |                      _Daniel PAUL ________
|                     |                     |                     |                     | (.... - 1672) m 1617
|                     |                     |                     |_Mary PAUL __________|_Elizabeth LEVER ____
|                     |                     |                       (1621 - 1689) m 1637  (.... - 1668)       
|                     |_Elizabeth HANSON ___|
|                       (1686 - ....) m 1715|
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|                                           |                      _John KITCHEN _______|_____________________
|                                           |                     | (.... - 1675) m 1643                      
|                                           |_Mary KITCHEN _______|
|                                             (1648 - 1710) m 1669|
|                                                                 |                      _Joseph GRAFTON _____
|                                                                 |                     | (.... - 1682) m 1622
|                                                                 |_Elizabeth GRAFTON __|_Mary MOORE _________
|                                                                   (1622 - 1678) m 1643  (1600 - 1674)       
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|--Elizabeth DOWNS 
|  
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  (1728 - ....) m 1759|
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[55232] The unverified file LHFH-X3L in familysearch.org offers "When Elizabeth Downs was born about 1753, in Lincoln, Penobscot, Maine, United States, her father, Ebenezer Downs Jr., was 27 and her mother, Jane Walton, was 26. She married Nehemiah Small about 1772. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She died about 1830, in Charlotte, New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 79."

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Jennie DWELLEY

____ - ____

Family 1 : Gerald Roy KIRBY

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John Raymond GROVE

[30403]

2 MAR 1893 - ____

Father: Charles L. GROVE
Mother: Bertha S. ("Bertie") GILMORE

Family 1 : Margaretta Catherine BOWERS
  1. +John Raymond (II) GROVE

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| (.... - 1913)                 |
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|--John Raymond GROVE 
|  (1893 - ....)
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[30403] "Public Opinion [Chambersburg, PA], 15 February 1988," pp. 13-14: "Think young people are wild today? Picture a guy riding a motorcycle down Main Street standing on the saddle and steering with a rope attached to the handlebars. Ninety-four-year old John Grove chuckled recalling that stunt. 'And I used to put the sidecar in the air, and myself in the air," he said. "We really made the dirt fly when we started out.' The former national motorcycle hill-climbing champion lives a much more tame life on a much slower set of wheels these days, but there's nothing dull about the sparkle in his eyes when he recalls his stunt-riding days. Confined to a wheelchair, the Chambersburg native probably is better known around town as the man who had the bicycle shop on East Washington Street. But he also likes to be remembered as the first Harley-Davidson motorcycle dealer in the borough. How much did he like motorbikes? Consider that two of his children were named after them Thora Isabelle, for the Thor model, and Walter Davidson Grove, a T.B. Wood's Sons Co. retiree. Another son, Raymond, is deceased. Isabelle (as she prefers to be called) Miller and her father recently spread out old photos, newspaper clippings and scrapbooks on a sofa at Franklin County Nursing Home, where he has lived for more than three years. Faded photos showed a nice-looking young man riding a bicycle across a railroad trestle, doing the ultimate motorcycle wheelie up a mountainside, and, if that isn't adventuresome enough, being shackled with chains to be locked in a barrel. Touted as 'Raymond, the Boy Handcuff King and Bridge Jumper,' John Raymond Grove in his pre-teen years starred in his parents' traveling magic and hypnotism shows. The near-centenarian recalled traveling coast-to-coast by train, 'seeing something new in every town,' and attending school between performances. It seems that the son of Charles and Bertha Gilmore Grove was destined to become a daredevil. He could ride a tricycle before he could walk and as a youngster he delighted in riding a bicycle down the stairs. 'I was an only child. They thought I was enough,' he chuckled. Before he got his first motorcycle a Haverford at age 16 he and a friend rode bicycles on dirt roads to and from Baltimore in 24 hours, he said, presenting a few scrapbook pages documenting the tiring trip. Grove started selling motorcycles in 1912 and in 1914 opened the first motorcycle and bicycle shop in Chambersburg on South Main Street. He later moved the business to his Washington Street home. Grove said John Schall, who sold him his first motorcycle and who had the only bike shop in town, talked him into going into the business when Schall took over the former Ford dealership on North Main Street. Grove said he sold two Harley-Davidson cycles with sidecars to Chambersburg Police Department. To Grove, motorcycles provided a living and entertainment. His hill-climbing career started by chance, with a game called Hare and Hounds that he and his friends played on motorcycles. 'The hare started out and a bunch of the others tried to catch him,' Grove explained. The group often played on Sundays near Radio Hill. 'One time when I was the hare, I got the idea of going up a steep hill to get away from the hounds,' he said. 'The next Sunday we forgot about Hare and Hounds. We tried to see who could get up that hill.' Grove soon organized the first official area hill climb, soliciting funds from motorcycle firms to sponsor it. As the sport increased in popularity, Chambersburg area riders competed with riders in nearby towns. Eventually Grove competed in regional and national competitions, usually winning trophies. 'I got busted up pretty bad; I couldn't do it no more,' he said of his hill-climbing adventures that lasted from 1918 to 1931. He earned the national champ title by winning more climbs than anyone else, he said. A feature story about Grove in the April 1931 edition of the magazine The Harley-Davidson Enthusiast refers to him as 'Smiling Johnny Grove, one of the outstanding heroes of the hills.' Grove conceded that although today's cycles go faster however, he once raced 200 mph on the ice on the Susquehanna River they are more safe and comfortable than the crude models he rode. Given his dangerous lifestyle, he admitted being a little surprised at anticipating his 95th birthday in two weeks. 'I never thought I'd live anywhere near this age,' he said. 'I expected to go a long time ago.' Over the years Grove's skull was fractured four times in motorcycle accidents. 'None of them were my fault,' he said, 'but a lot of people wouldn't believe that, I guess.' In the last spill, in the early '30s, Grove was riding on Warm Spring Road to cool off on a hot summer night when a 'cow jumped in front of me,' he said. Fortunately, neither his friend in the sidecar nor Grove were killed, but Grove's head injury put the brakes on his motorcycle career. Reflecting on his former lifestyle, which some folks might consider reckless, Grove pointed out that motorcycle 'gangs' of the early 1900s did not have the rowdy reputation some have today. 'They were like family,' said his daughter. 'They would bring my mother corn, and come in and play the player piano. I grew up around them; that's how I got my husband.' A high school dropout who also worked for Cumberland Valley Railroad as a young man, Grove has enjoyed reading about motorcycles up into his 90s. 'I think I could ride one yet,' Grove said. "But I couldn't do the stunts I did then.'"

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Thomas PERKINS

[20566]

1616 - 7 MAY 1686

Father: John PERKINS
Mother: Judith GATOR


                                                                                               _Thomas PERKINS ___________
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                                                                         _Henry PERKINS ______|_Alys ("Alice") DE ASTLEY _
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|--Thomas PERKINS 
|  (1616 - 1686)
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[20566] Thomas m. ca. 1640 Phebe Gould, daughter of Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield, MA - she was b. in 1620 in England, and baptised at Hemel Hempsted 20 Sept 1620. Her father gave them 150 acres of land as a wedding present. Thomas was Deacon of the Topsfield Church and selectman. He and Phebe had nine children, listed in Perkins' "The Family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Mass." (1889). "The Great Migration Begins," R. C. Anderson (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999), 3:1432 reports that Thomas was baptised in 1623. Also see "Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 4," William Richard Cutter (New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1908), pp. 1851ff.

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Martailis II of SALM

CA 275 - 309

Father: Symetrius VI of SALM

Family 1 :
  1. +Martailis III of SALM

                                                                                                 _Symetrius II of SALM _+
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                                                                        _Symetrius III of SALM _|_______________________
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                                                _Symetrius IV of SALM _|
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 _Symetrius VI of SALM _|
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|--Martailis II of SALM 
|  (.... - 0309)
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Phebe TIBBETS

[54980]

9 DEC 1816 - 2 APR 1866

Family 1 : Charles Ezra HANSON
  1. +Charles Edward HANSON

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[54980] Phebe is said to be daughter of James Tibbets (1790-1836) & Jane ______ (1794-1829).

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Lawrence Edgar TUCKER

8 FEB 1916 - 27 JUN 1970

Father: Arthur Ernest TUCKER
Mother: Gladys B. CROWLEY

Family 1 : Hazel Elmon CARTER
  1.  Ramona Gladys TUCKER
  2.  Kathleen Patricia TUCKER
  3.  Marilyn Louise TUCKER

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                                               _George William TUCKER _|
                                              | (1835 - 1911)          |
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                         _Edward Otis TUCKER _|
                        | (1868 - 1960) m 1888|
                        |                     |                                                 _Vincent STROUT ___________+
                        |                     |                                                | (1785 - 1854)             
                        |                     |                         _Ephraim STROUT _______|_Abigail DINSMORE _________
                        |                     |                        | (1817 - 1892) m 1942    (1787 - 1854)             
                        |                     |_Abigail H. STROUT _____|
                        |                       (1843 - ....)          |
                        |                                              |                        _Asa LEIGHTON _____________+
                        |                                              |                       | (1789 - 1861)             
                        |                                              |_Hannah LEIGHTON ______|_Lorahannah FICKETT _______
                        |                                                (1824 - 1911) m 1942    (1794 - ....)             
 _Arthur Ernest TUCKER _|
| (1892 - 1968) m 1912  |
|                       |                                                                       _Joseph (Jr) STROUT _______+
|                       |                                                                      | (1774 - 1842) m 1795      
|                       |                                               _Joseph Snow STROUT ___|_Isabelle Cynthia FICKETT _
|                       |                                              | (1796 - ....) m 1815    (1778 - 1815)             
|                       |                      _Elbridge Berry STROUT _|
|                       |                     | (1835 - 1897) m 1861   |
|                       |                     |                        |                        _Ephriam STROUT ___________+
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|                       |                     |                        |_Lydia STROUT _________|_Lydia BROWN ______________
|                       |                     |                          (1800 - 1886) m 1815    (.... - 1852)             
|                       |_Fanny E. STROUT ____|
|                         (1870 - 1902) m 1888|
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|                                             |                         _David Wilson PINKHAM _|___________________________
|                                             |                        | (1824 - 1861)                                     
|                                             |_Basmuth PINKHAM _______|
|                                               (1845 - 1903) m 1861   |
|                                                                      |                        _Barnabus STROUT __________+
|                                                                      |                       | (1791 - 1874) m 1812      
|                                                                      |_Louisa H. STROUT _____|_Abigail FICKETT __________
|                                                                        (1828 - 1900)           (1794 - 1880)             
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|--Lawrence Edgar TUCKER 
|  (1916 - 1970)
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|_Gladys B. CROWLEY ____|
  (1895 - 1917) m 1912  |
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