Abiathar Cahoon (1811-1883)

Mary Nye McManiman (1827-1910)

William Barrett Haley (1837-1882)

Bessie Philenia Harrison (1851-1931)

Alphonso Francis Cahoon (1859-1937)

Martha Lenora Haley (1873-1961)

Ruth Frances Cahoon (1898-1983)

 

Family Links Spouses/Children: Edgar Hamilton Pinnix Harrison Pennix Jr.+ Ruth Frances Cahoon Born: 2 Feb 1898, Bourne, Barnstable, MA Marriage: Edgar Hamilton Pinnix about 1913 in , , , MA 1 Died: Aug 1983, Boston, Suffolk, MA at age 85   General Notes: Ruth Frances appears in the 1900 "Twelfth Census" of the United States, in the Town of Bourne, Barnstable County, in the state of MA, as a two-year-old. Enumeration date is 12th day of June, 1900, by Enumerator, Alfred W. Bourne, number 6516, in enumeration district: 3; Ruth appears on Line Two of Sheet NO. 11A and her seven-year-old brother, Louis A., appears on line One of the same sheet. Their parents appear on the preceeding page, 10B, at the bottom, on Lines 99 and 100. Found in 1970 and 1973 Boston directory, widow of Edgar, retired, living on Dorchester Street. In 1981 Boston directory, retired, living at 1410 Columbia Road, Apt. 2d. SSN:029-24-1555, State (Before 1951) SSN issued: MA, U.S.A. Last Residence: 02127 Boston, Suffolk, MA, U.S.A. 2 Ruth married Edgar Hamilton Pinnix, son of John Pinnix and Martha Coleman, about 1913 in , , , MA.1 (Edgar Hamilton Pinnix was born on 30 Apr 1890 in Danville, , VA and died between 1933 and 1962.)

1 H. A. Manning Co.,1933- St. Johnsbury Directory-1933 (1933 Directory for St. Johnsbury, (Vermont, United States of America)
Mailing and Trade Lists-Industrial Publications
H. A. Manning Co., Directory and Map Publishers, Springfield, MA, United States of America.), 103. (*) Directory mispelling of the name, Cahoon.
According to Letters written in 1930 and 1931, by Ruth's mother, Martha:
Alphonse F. and Martha Cahoon had purchased farm property in Victory Hill, where their son, Louis and his second wife, Jessie Y. (Stewart) resided with Louis Jr., Edward, (sons of Mary M.M. Stewart, Louis' first wife) and either his son James, but more likely his nephew Edgar Jr., and two of his four daughters, Jessie Louise and Elizabeth Ann, known respectively as "Weecie" and "Betty Ann", (daughters of Louis and Jessie) where as youngest daughter, Mary Jane was not yet born, in 1931.

Martha does mention in her letters that her daughter and son-in-law, a "steam shovel operator" was living with them because a new road was going through Vermont and her son-in-law would be working on that project.

While not mentioned in Martha's letters, Louis' eldest daughter, named after his sister, Ruth, and his youngest son, James, did for the most part reside with their mother, Mary M.M. (Stewart) Cahoon after he left his family, to marry her younger sister, Jessie. Louis's daughter, Ruth, was drowned in MA, the year of this 1933 publication, while rescuing her yournger brother, James, so it is probable that those two children did remain with thier mother, Mary.

Photo copies are available of this directory listing; also photo copies available of letters written by Martha Lenora (Haley) Cahoon, written in 1931. It is probable that when Martha and Alphonse returned to Cape Cod, in MA, the Pennix family may have stayed on at the Danville Rd. residence because Pennix had been hired to work on a new road that was being installed in Vermont at that time. I may have actually driven on the road that he helped to first pave!

2 Martha Lenora Haley, Letters written by Martha "Mattie" L. (Haley) Cahoon (Between 1930 and 1931, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, USA). Ruth and her husband and son came to live with Alphonso and Martha in 1930 or 31, because her husband got a job building a road through Vermont, he was a steam skidder or other equipment operator. On 17 OCT 1931 Martha had written that she was taking her husband back to Buzzard's Bay, MA, in hopes that his failing health would improve there.

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