Cecelia Anderson Young 1940s

Cecelia Anderson Young, 1910-1945

Cecelia Hazel Anderson Young
mini pedigree from Ancestry.com

1940

Census

Cecelia Anderson Young lived in St Louis Missouri on 1 April 1940.  She and her family were lodgers in a home.

1940 Census for Cecelia and Clarence Young

Line 6 starts with Clarence Young, followed by Cecelia and daughter Shirley.  They are all still lodging with Helen Mead at 1711 Grand Boulevard in St Louis Missouri.

Clarence is 38 years old, Cecelia is 29 and Shirley is 9.  Cecelia has completed the 8th grade, while Shirley is in 4th grade.  Clarence occupation is listed as Helper at WPA laundry sanitarium as a government worker.  Cecelia is a private worker doing housework in a private home.  

Time to look at a map of this place.  So far, every place we tried to find for Cecelia was either an empty lot, a parking lot, or an apparently abandoned building.  Shirley actually remembered living here on Grand.  She did some babysitting while here.

Cecelia Anderson Young 1940 Census map
Google Maps 2020
Red is 1711 Grand Boulevard
Pink are the addresses where she died
Yellow is Cecelia's mother in law

Cecelia Anderson Young 1940 Census address
Google Satellite view, 2020
Looks like our luck holds, it is an empty lot

Cecelia Anderson Young 1940 Census address
1711 Grand Boulevard is an empty lot as of 2015
from Google Maps Street View 2020

5 November 1940 age 30

Death of Step-Father Albert R. Tullock in St Louis Missouri.  He was 83 years old.  You can visit his Find a Grave memorial here, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96204961.

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• Colour Television was invented
• First Black General was appointed in the US army
• https://history.army.mil/html/topics/afam/davis.html

Benjamin O. Davis Sr, about 1899
US Army, n.d.

After the war (about 1899) he was assigned as a special assistant to the Secretary of the Army (Wikipedia -- Benjamin O. Davis Sr, 2020).

1941

In Other News (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

• Manhattan Project from 1941-1945

1942

8 December 1941

Historical Insight -- The United States enters World War II

Cecelia Anderson Young lived in St Louis MO when the United States declared war on Japan just one day after the attack on Pearl Harbor that killed 2,400 Americans.

By the war's end in 1945, women made up nearly 40% of the workforce,
while 150,000 more served in the military.  After the peace, they were
systematically cast out of factories to make way for returning soldiers
1942, USA
Credit:  Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/UIG via Getty Images
Ancestry Historical Insights, 2018

As factories pushed to keep up with skyrocketing demand and with male bodies in short supply, women entered the workforce in record numbers.  Before the Allied victory was celebrated in 1945, nearly 420,000 Americans gave their lives (Ancestry Historical Insights, 2018).

Photographed by Dayspringacres
from a kitchen towel found in a museum somewhere

Cecelia left little Shirley with her Grandma Rose, while she went to work at a war plant.  The work was tough, the heat unbearable, as Cecelia donned her coveralls, tied her raven black hair with a red bandanna, rolled up her sleeves, and went to work on the airplanes.  Cecelia was the embodiment of the posters of Rosie the Riveter seen at every street corner.  

Clarence was busy with his house painting, and the extra money helped.  This was a time when women were encouraged and expected to work outside the home to ensure that the country would run smoothly.  In the unventilated buildings where the planes were manufactured, where Cecelia worked as a Riveter, diseases were difficult to avoid.  

One such disease was tuberculosis, which Cecelia contracted.  She had to stop working and spend some time recuperating at a sanatorium.  She was placed outside in the fresh air and sunshine as the standard method of treatment.  Antibiotics had been developed which quickly killed the bacteria.  Unfortunately, since it also killed the host, it was unsuitable for medical use.  

Cecelia eventually recovered, and went home to live with her beloved family.  She got strong enough to go back to work.  Nobody said anything about her long absence, but they knew.  They could tell by her gaunt frame and the lively light in her eyes – all features typical of recovered tuberculosis victims.

In Other News (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

• Nuclear Reactor
• Magnetic Recording Tape

Staff, 1942 Magnetic Recording Tape, Gifts Accepted for University, 1942

1942

15 February 1942

Clarence Arthur Young Draft Card

1942 Clarence Young Draft Card Front
from Ancestry.com

1942 Clarence Young Draft Card Back
from Ancestry.com

Clarence lived at 1711 N. Grand Avenue, St Louis MO.  He is 40 years old, and although he is married, lists his father Oliver Young (living at 1916-A Coleman Street, SLMO), as one who will know where he is at all times.

Clarence has a different job every time we look at him.  Here, he works at Mack’s Screen Shop, 8029 Frederick St., St Louis.  He is white, about 5’11”, weighs about 144 lbs.  His eyes are gray, hair is brown, and complexion is light.  He has no scars or distinguishing marks.

Bonus Points for Signature!  I believe this is Clarence's genuine signature.  Sometimes, I think the clerk just signed for the men.

I don't know if Clarence was ever in the military, Shirley never mentioned that he was.

1945 age 35

Harry S Truman President of the United States 1945-1952

Harry S. Truman, President of the United States

12 April 1945

Historical Insight -- First Inauguration of Harry S. Truman

Cecelia Anderson Young of St Louis Missouri was likely shocked when Harry S. Truman suddenly became president of the United States in 1945.

Ancestry Historical Insights 2018
For a time, President Truman continued
in the same vein as his predecessor, but he
eventually developed his own programs
1945  Credit:  Getty Images

18 July 1945

Cecelia is admitted to Isolation Hospital

Google Maps for Bernard Free Cancer Isolation Hospital

The red circle on the upper right is Cecelia's address on Bacon Street, at the time of her death.  The Blue circle are her husband's address in 1929 when they married, and her mother-in-law's 1940 census address.  The larger red circle is what looks like the hospital district.

14 August 1945

Historical Insight -- V-J Day

At the close of World War II Cecelia Anderson Young might have taken part in V-J Day celebrations while living in St Louis Missouri in 1945.  She was 35 years old.

14 August 1945, New York City, New York
The largest crowd ever recorded in Times Square celebrated the end of World War II
Credit:  Dick DeMarsico/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain
Ancestry Historical Insight 2018

An estimated crowd of 2 million erupted in cheers.  The War in the Pacific, and thus World War II, was over.  "Victory over Japan," or "V-J Day" was celebrated August 14 and spilled over into August 15 in the United States -- Ancestry Historical Insights, 2018

It is highly probable that Cecelia never knew about this victory.  She was already in the hospital for about a month by this time, according to her death certificate, below.

5 September 1945

Death of Cecelia Hazel Anderson Young

She lived in St Louis Missouri her entire life.  Her address at death was 1925 Bacon Street, according to her death record, as well as Shirley's memories.

Cecelia Anderson Young Death Certificate

5 September 1945 death certificate for
Cecelia Hazel Anderson Young
age 45

She was in Isolation Hospital from 18 July 1945 to 5 September 1945, about 8 weeks.  Husband Clarence Young was 45 years old.  Cecelia was 35 years, 2 months and 5 days old, born 30 June 1910.  Her parents were Seley Anderson born in Canada;  Ida Omohundro born in Missouri.  She was buried 8 September 1945 at St Matthews Cemetery, 4452 Washington Boulevard.

Cecelia's address was 1925 Bacon Street.  Her cause of death was Carcinoma of the Cervix.

There is no marker for Cecelia, as the family could not afford one.  Her grandson tells the story of how Shirley went to visit her mother's grave and was devastated when she couldn't find it.  Shirley cried for about a week.

The area where Cecelia was buried

You can visit Cecelia's Find a Grave memorial here. 

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• United Nations was formed this year

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Resources

Ancestry Historical Insights. (2018). First Inauguration of Harry S. Truman. (Ancestry) Retrieved 2018, from Historical Insights: Ancestry.com

OurTimelines.com. (2018). TimeLines. (Timelines courtesy of www.ourtimelines.com. Timeline formatting and technology copyright © 2000-2018 ourtimelines.com, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED under the Pan-American Conventions.) Retrieved from OurTimeLines.com: http://ourtimelines.com/

Staff. (1942, January 23). 1942 Magnetic Recording Tape, Gifts Accepted For University. (Ancestry) Retrieved April 3, 2020, from Journal and Courier, Lafayette Indiana: https://www.newspapers.com/image/262061185/?terms=magnetic%20recording%20tape#

US Army. (n.d.). Profiles of Bravery: Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Sr. Retrieved April 2, 2020, from African Americans in the US Army: https://www.army.mil/africanamericans/profiles/davis.html

Wikipedia -- Benjamin O. Davis Sr. (2020, March 19). Benjamin O. Davis Sr, First Black General of the US Army. Retrieved April 2, 2020, from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_O._Davis_Sr.

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Cecelia Anderson Young 1930s

Cecelia Anderson Young, 1910-1945

Mini Pedigree

Cecelia Anderson Young mini pedigree from Ancestry
Dayspringacres, 2020

Search for Cecelia's record of birth

It's a little bit out of place, and I am too lazy to search for the correct place.
This documents that Cecelia's birth is not recorded
Or, at least, it is not found using the search terms.
If you have more information, let me know

1930, age 19

1930 Census

10 April 1930

1930 Census, St Louis Missouri
First two lines are continued from previous page

Here is a primary source showing some information about these two.

First, Clarence is 28 years old and Cecelia is 19 years old as of 10 April 1930.  We also see that Clarence is a Door maker at the Tool? Woodwork Company, working for a wage, and that he is not a veteran.  He did not fight in World War I.

Cecelia and Clarence lived at 3814 Page Boulevard
Google Maps 2018

A closer view of the Google Map

3814 Page Boulevard
Google Maps Street View 2018
An odd looking house, seems quite small

Cecelia was living with her husband's family.  In one small house on 3814 Page Boulevard in St Louis there were three couples:  Clarence and Cecelia; his parents Oliver Bebe and Rosa Evelyn Davis Young [Rosa is presumed to have been Indian per Shirley's interview]; and his brother Roscoe and Lucille Young.

23 June 1930

Birth of daughter Shirley Mae 

I don't have primary sources for Shirley's birth.   I have her death certificate, and other tertiary sources of her birth date.  Okay.  Moving right along.

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• 1930 Pluto Discovered

Blakeslee, 1930

1931

In Other News (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

• Chinese-Japanese war #2 is fought until 1933

1933 age 23

Franklin Delano Roosevelt President of the United States, 1933 - 1945

FDR Presidential Library & Museum, 2018

President Roosevelt Quote:  A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward (Roosevelt, 2018).

Historical Insight 

The Social Impact of the First "New Deal"

The government programs started by the first "New Deal" in 1933 may have assisted Cecelia Anderson Young

The National Recovery Administration was established to bring
industry, labor, and government leaders together
to solve the nation's economic problems
About 1933, San Francisco, California
Credit:  Getty Images

Ancestry Historical Insights, 2018

The first "New Deal" created by President Franklin Roosevelt and his cabinet was aimed at providing relief and recovery to those hit hardest by the depressed economy (Ancestry Historical Insights, 2018).

Historical Insight

The End of Prohibition

Cecelia Anderson Young may have been part of the majority that celebrated in St Louis Missouri when the 21st Amendment ended national alcohol prohibition.

In the post-prohibition era, taverns were promoted as places
for families and mixed crowds of men and women.
September 1938, Raceland, Louisiana
Credit:   Russell Lee/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain
Ancestry Historical Insights, 2018

Ratification of the 18th Amendment in 1919 led to a lucrative black market for organized crime, corruption within police departments, and a general lack of respect for the law by a broad cross section of the American public.

In Other News (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

• Soviet Communist party purge
• Radio Astronomy
• Armstrong invents FM modulation

1935 age 25

Residence per 1940 census

1711 Grand Boulevard, St Louis Missouri.  They were boarders in a home.  We will look at this in a moment,  Well, in five years in the future, actually.

Historical Insight

Living on Route 66

In 1935, Cecelia Anderson Young lived in St Louis Missouri, one of the towns along "The Mother Road" -- Route 66

The popular rhythm ad blues standard "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66"
was first recorded by Nat King Cole in 1946 and has been
covered by more than fifty other artists,
including Aerosmith and The Rolling Stones
About 1940, New Mexico
Credit:  FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images
Ancestry Historical Insights

Mom-and-pop businesses boomed -- word spread quickly about a diner's tasty menu or a gas station's exceptional service.  Towns of just a few buildings blossomed into several streets of convenience stores and hotels.

Historical Insight

The Great Depression

During the Great Depression, Cecelia Anderson Young, age 25, likely faced hardships like joblessness and scant resources while living  in St Louis Missouri in 1935

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
Credit:  Dorothea Lange/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain
Ancestry Historical Insight 2018

The "only thing we have to fear is fear itself" declared incoming President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his 1933 inauguration.  Immediately he set to work rebuilding the country (Ancestry Historical Insight, 2018).

In Other News (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

• Abyssinian war, 1935-1926

1936

Historical Insight

The 1936 North American Heat Wave

Cecelia Anderson Young experienced one of the worst heatwaves in North American history while living in St Louis Missouri during the summer of 1936.

In addition to crop failures, farmers had to be concerned
about a lack of vegetation for their livestock
1 July 1936, Kansas
Credit:  Keystone-France/Gamma-Geystone/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images
Ancestry Historical Insight, 2018

About 200 deaths were attributed to the heatwave in the city, but Chicago was just one of many places where extremely hot weather caused havoc that summer.  Across America, the heatwave was blamed for more than 5,000 deaths and the failure of crops in the nation's breadbasket.

In Other News (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

• Short Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor)
• Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from 1936-1952
• Spanish Civil War
• Helicopter developed

1937 age 27

8 February 1937

Death of Cecelia's mother

Cecelia's mother Ida passed away on 8 February 1937 in St Louis Missouri at the age of 61.  Either Cecelia or Ida was living at 819 Chambers Street, St Louis Missouri

Staff, Ida M. Tullock Burial Permit, 1937

Tullock Family, 1937

Her address is listed as 819 Chambers, St Louis MO.  Wife of Albert Tullock, she was a mother, mother-in-law, grandmother, sister, sister-in-law and aunt.  

What this tells me is that her family was fairly close to her.  Later generations proved to be less cohesive, but here she had children and grandchildren, siblings and their family.  I wish there was more information.  She is buried at Calvary Cemetery.  You can view her Find a Grave memorial here. I'm afraid there is not a photo of her grave, there may not have been a stone.   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46205259

In Other News (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

• Nylon (by DuPont)

1938

In Other News (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

• Germany annexes Austria

Staff, 1938

1939

In Other News (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

• World War II from age 29 to age 35
• Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain)
• Digital Computer

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Resources

Ancestry Historical Insights. (2018). The Social Impact of the First "New Deal". Retrieved from Ancestry.com: Ancestry.com Ancestry Historical Insights. (2019). The End of Prohibition. Retrieved from Ancestry.com: Ancestry.com Ancestry Historical Insight. (2018). Living on Route 66. (Ancestry) Retrieved 2018, from Ancestry Historical Insight: https://www.ancestry.com/contextux/historicalinsights/route-66/persons/131344145:1030:14582634 Ancestry Historical Insights. (2018). The Great Depression. Retrieved from Ancestry.com: Ancestry.com Ancestry Historical Insight. (2018). 1926 North American Heat Wave. Retrieved 2018, from Ancestry: Ancestry.com Blakeslee, H. W. (1930, August 4). Annual Meteor Shower Be Due. (Ancestry.com) Retrieved March 2020, from The Sedalia Democrat, Sedalia Missouri: Newspapers.com Dayspringacres. (2020). Cecelia Hazel Anderson Young mini-pedigree. Retrieved March 27, 2020, from Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/14582634/person/293016749/story?cachedcontent=no FDR Presidential Library & Museum. (2018). Franklin D. Roosevelt. Retrieved May 28, 2018, from Wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47600299 OurTimelines.com. (2018). TimeLines. (Timelines courtesy of www.ourtimelines.com. Timeline formatting and technology copyright © 2000-2018 ourtimelines.com, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED under the Pan-American Conventions.) Retrieved from OurTimeLines.com: http://ourtimelines.com/

Roosevelt, F. D. (2018). Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes. Retrieved from BrainyQuote: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/franklin_d_roosevelt

Staff. (1937, February 11). Ida M. Tullock Burial Permit. (Ancestry) Retrieved April 1, 2020, from St Louis Post-Dispatch, St Louis Missouri: Newspapers.com

Staff. (1938, September 27). 1938 Germany Annexes Austria. (Ancestry) Retrieved April 1, 2020, from St Louis Globe-Democrat, St Louis Missouri: https://www.newspapers.com/image/573375797/?terms=Germany%2Bannexes%2BAustria#

Tullock Family. (1937, February 9). Ida Omohundro Anderson Tullock obituary. (Ancestry) Retrieved April 1, 2020, from St Louis Post-Dispatch, St Louis Missouri: Newspapers.com

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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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Dayspringacres. (2020). Cecelia Hazel Anderson Young mini-pedigree. Retrieved March 27, 2020, from Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/14582634/person/293016749/story?cachedcontent=no

OurTimelines.com. (2018). TimeLines. (Timelines courtesy of www.ourtimelines.com. Timeline formatting and technology copyright © 2000-2018 ourtimelines.com, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED under the Pan-American Conventions.) Retrieved from OurTimeLines.com: http://ourtimelines.com/

Staff. (1910, April 9). Haze Hides Halley's Comet. (Ancestry.com) Retrieved March 27, 2020, from St Louis Globe-Democrat, St Louis MO: Newspapers.com

Staff. (1910, April 13). Scientists Acquit Comet of Being a Celestial Tramp. (Ancestry) Retrieved March 27, 2020, from St Louis Post-Dispatch, St Louis MO: Newspapers.com

Staff. (1910, April 21). Halley's Comet seen from St Louis. (Ancestry) Retrieved March 27, 2020, from St Louis Post-Dispatch, St Louis MO: Newspapers.com

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