Cecelia Hazel Anderson 1910s

Cecelia Hazel Anderson 1910-1945

Cecelia Hazel Anderson Young is the mother of my mother-in-law.  She lived in St Louis Missouri, had a hard life of poverty for the most part.  According to Shirley, my mother in law, she was known as Seley (or Celey?) like her father, Seley Edgar Anderson.

1910s

Mini Pedigree

Dayspringacres, 2020
from Ancestry.com LifeStory

In other news -- Things were happening before Cecelia was born (OurTimelines.com, 2018).

• 1899 was the 6th Cholera Pandemic that lasted until 1923
• 1901 started the reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) until 1910
• 1910 started the reign of King George V (Windsor) until 1936

1910

President William Howard Taft

Taft Sherman Campaign Poster
Wikipedia -- Taft, 2018

William Howard Taft, 27th President
Wikipedia -- Taft, 2018

William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States.  He was also the tenth Chief Justice of the US, the only person to have held both offices.  The vice president became president when Theodore Roosevelt was assassinated, was defeated in 1912 by Woodrow Wilson after splitting the Republican Party by running as a third party candidate (Wikipedia -- Taft, 2018).

President Taft Quote:  "A government is for the benefit of the people" (Taft, 2018).

April 1910 -- Halley's Comet

Cecelia was born with Halley's Comet.  It was special to Cecelia, and because of that, it became special to her daughter Shirley, who saw that comet later.

9 April 1910

Haze Hides Halley's Comet

Staff, Haze Hides Halley's Comet, 1910

East St. Louis Smoke Bank Spoils Sport of Observers.

Rev. Father Martin S. Brennan, the astronomer, has a grievance with East St. Louis as the result of smoky conditions shutting off his view of the wandering comet which came within range yesterday morning.  Father Brennan took a party of four faithful comet enthusiasts to see the splendor, but East Side smoke blinded their vision.

Father Brennan is authority for the statement that the comet is close enough to mother earth to be observed with the naked eye.  Other comet observers, like Father Joseph Wilcewewiski of St Louis University and M.A. Lawler, reported their failure to see the comet by reason of the haze

If conditions are right this morning the comet may be visible about 4:30, rising a short time in advance of the sun.

13 April 1910

Scientists Acquit Halley's Comet of Being a Celestial Tramp

Staff, Scientists Acquit Comet of
Being a Celestial Tramp, 1910

Staff, Scientists Acquit Comet of
Being a Celestial Tramp, 1910

Observers Prove Long-Tailed Visitor is as Regular as a Bill Collector With Route as Steady as That of Milkman.

Halley's comet, now visible to St Louis at telescope range, is not such a loafer as one might suppose from the pleasantries about its being a "hobo of the heavens."  It has its regular route, and it travels that route as unvaryingly as the most methodical of milkmen or bill collectors.

The sun, or a point just a few million miles the other side of the sun, is one end of the route.  The other end, three and a quarter billion miles from the sun, is known on sky maps as Aphelion.  The route is an ellipse, resembling some of the South St Louis street car lines which run north on one street and south on another, with a loop at each end of the line.  The circuit of the ellipse is six and one-half billion miles.

How long Trip is Made

Starting from Aphelion for a 76-year absence, the comet crosses the paths of Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars before it gets down into the region of the sun and crosses the orbits of Mars, the Earth and Venus.

The nearer the comet gets to the sun, the faster it travels, and while it is 23 years in covering the 500,000,000 miles that separate Aphelion from the orbit of Neptune, it later makes a longer jump, between the orbits of Uranus and Saturn, in five years.  On the other side of the eclipse, on its way back, it slows up in the same ratio.

By the time it gets within view of the Earth, it is hitting such a clip that it goes on around the sun, comes back and passes out of view Jupiter-ward, in a few months.

The plane of the comet's orbit being inclined 18 degrees to the general plane of the Earth and other planets it is, when it crosses Neptune's path, 750,000,000 miles deep in space.  But when it reaches the Earth's path it loops over and under it.  Only Mercury's path escapes, being so near the sun that it does not even show in the chart.

Puff of Gas if It Hit Sun

Were the comet simply dropped from its most distant point it would fall straight into the bosom of the sun and go out in a puff of gas.  But it yet retains a bit of that original momentum which was given it when the worlds were created.  This, combined with the sun's attraction, keeps it working the treadmill of its ellipse.

Method of Finding Visitor

"The comet arose this morning at 4:31 o'clock.  It attains a height in the heavens, if I remember correctly, of 15 degrees.  If you are searching for the comet, measure with your eye one-sixth of the distance from the horizon to the zenith.  In this one-sixth space from the horizon you will se the comet, if your eyes are keen enough, for an hour after 4:31 a.m.

"Look in this one-sixth space just a trifle to the north of where the glow on the horizon tells you that the sun is going to arise."

21 April 1910

Halley's Comet seen from St Louis

Staff, Halley's Comet seen from St Louis

St Louis Priests View the Comet with Naked Eyes

Professors Cloud and Wilczewski Sight Freak With Glass, Then Without it.

Venus Advance Agent

Father Brennan Sees Wanderer With Field Glass -- Others Fail to Locate It. 

Arising out of the East in the trail of Venus, which came up before it like a little red lantern, showing the way in the vanishing darkness, Halley's comet was observed with the naked eye at 3:50 a.m. Thursday by Prof. Charles Cloud of St Louis University.  This is the first time that the comet has been seen with the naked eye in St Louis.

Thursday was also the first that St Louis astronomers have been able to observe the comet in the east, even with powerful telescopes, since it was visible to astronomers through glasses in the Western sky in the evenings a month and a half ago.

The comet showed itself to its first St Louis observers with the naked eye under coquettish conditions that might even be called dramatic.  Winking and blinking through the tail of the comet was a dancing little star of the sixth magnitude, says Profs. Wilcsewski and Cloud.  The nucleus of the 75-year wanderer flared brighter than the star, showing that the comet's brightness now is of a greater magnitude than the sixth, which is the limit of the human eye's vision of the heavens.

Father Brennan says that three times, while he was observing it, the comet disappeared from view.  A kind of haze seemed to shut it off, he says.

1911

South Pole reached by Roald Amundsen

Sioux City Journal, Sioux City, Iowa, 1911

1912

16 April 1912

Titanic is Insured for about $5,000,000

Staff, 1912 Titanic is insured for about
$5,000,000 headline, 1912

In other news -- New Mexico enters the union as the 47th state;  Alaska organized as a territory; Arizona enters the union as the 48th state.

1913

6 March 1913

Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States

Cecelia was about 2 years old when Woodrow Wilson became President.  She would be 10 years old when his term ended.

Wikipedia -- Wilson, 2018

Woodrow Wilson was a Democrat.  He was President of Princeton University, and was a New Jersey Governor.  He lead the US during WWI.

President Wilson Quote:  "A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt" (Wilson, 2018).

Staff, Woodrow Wilson Made President, 1913

1914

In other news 

• World War I was the first trench warfare in the world.  Cecelia was 4 years old when the war started, and was 9 years old when it ended.
• The Bra was developed

Townsend & Wyatt Dry Goods Co., 1913

1915

3 April 1915

Death of her Father, Seley Edgar Anderson

Cecelia (who also was known as Seley) was only 4 years old.  Her father was 51 years old when he died of Fibernous Pneumonia.  He had chronic nephritis, which is kidney infection.  In today's terms [March 2020] medicine would recognize that he had died of Sepsis.  The pneumonia was likely because of organ failure from sepsis caused by kidney infection.  

Seley Edgar Anderson Death Certificate

I always find it sad when the informant cannot say who the parents are or where they came from.  In this case, it was his wife who didn't know.  It took a long time to find his family in Canada.

After her father's death, Cecelia and her older brothers Charles and Oren were put into orphanages.  According to several interviews I'd done with her daughter Shirley Young Scott, 4-year-old Cecelia was adopted out by a family friend, Mrs. Emma Pitsch who lived on Ashland Avenue in St Louis Missouri.  I don't know how Shirley remembered everything, but when I've been able to verify her memories, she was spot on.  I have found a census for Mrs. Emma Pitsch.  We will touch on that in a bit.

Emma was about 32 years old when she took in Cecelia.  Her own daughter Ruth was 6 years younger.  Shirley never said how long Cecelia lived with them.

1920 Census, St Louis Missouri
William and Emma Pitsch, daughter Ruth
living on Ashland Avenue

This census is important in that it shows that, indeed, Emma Pitsch lived on Ashland Avenue.  It also does not show Cecelia living with them.

So, she probably lived with the Pitsch family until her momma got married to Albert Tullock, then the family was brought back as one unit.

In other news:

• 1915 -- Einstein developed his Theory of Relativity
• 1916 -- Sonar was invented; The Irish had a rebellion uprising on Easter
• 1917 -- Russian revolution happens

1917

6 April 1917

President Proclaims War

Staff, 1917 President Proclaims War headlines, 1917

1918 - 1919

In other News (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

• 1918 -- Prohibition begins, lasting until 1933
• 1918 -- Flu epidemic takes the lives of 25 million people worldwide in two years
• 1919 -- Shortwave Radio makes waves for the first time
• 1919 -- League of Nations is instituted
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Resources

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