Sunday’s Obituary - John William "Will" Handy August 7, 1947

Sunday’s Obituary -  if you have obituaries of family members and ancestors, consider posting them along with other information about that person as part of Sunday’s Obituary. This is an ongoing series developed by Leslie Ann at Ancestors Live Here.

Sunday’s Obituary - Ernest R Alcorn October 20, 1988

Sunday’s Obituary - if you have obituaries of family members and ancestors, consider posting them along with other information about that person as part of Sunday’s Obituary. This is an ongoing series developed by Leslie Ann at Ancestors Live Here.

Ernest R. Alcorn

Ernest R. Alcorn, 84, of 20 Centerwood Drive, died yesterday at Concord Hospital.

Born in Boston, Mass., he lived many years in Boscawen before moving to Concord.

He worked as a repairman of hotel and restaurant equipment for Pete DiPirro Co., Charlestown, Mass. He was a member of White Mountains Lodge of Odd Fellows and Fidelity Rebekahs, both of Concord.

He leaves behind his wife, Frances (Knowlton)Alcorn of Concord; a son, George H. Alcorn of Dracut, Mass: four daughters, Mrs. Barbara J. Johnson of Hudson, Mrs. Edna M. Aversa of Everett, Mass., Mrs. Betty L. Nelson of Taunton, Mass., and Mrs. Phyllis L. Laughton of Merrimack: 17 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.

Services will be tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. at the Bennett Funeral Home, 209 N. Main Street, Concord.
The Rev. Thomas F. Potter Jr. pastor of Immanuel Community church will officiate.

Burial will be at Pine Grove Cemetery, Boscawen.
Calling hours are today from 7 to 9 p.m.at the funeral home.

An Odd Fellows service will be conducted at 7:30 p.m. and Rebekahs service is scheduled for 8 p.m. Memorial donations may be made to the American Heart Association, 309 Pine St., Manchester 03103. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the funeral home.

Burial will be in Pine Grove Cemetery, Boscawen.

Contributions may be made in her memory to the New Hampshire Odd Fellows Home, 200 Pleasant St.

From the Concord Monitor, Friday October 21, 1988

Funeral Card Friday - Nettie Mae (Davis) Blades January 15, 1967

Funeral Card Friday – do you have a collection of memorial cards for your ancestors or family members, the kind that funeral homes produce and give out to mourners? Post images of these cards and stories about the person memorialized during Funeral Card Friday. Funeral Card Friday has been an ongoing series by Dee at Funeral Cards & Genealogy.

Nettie Mae died in Orlando, Florida, buried in
Gardens of Gethsemane Cemetery, West Roxbury, Suffolk County
Massachusetts, USA.  Section: Garden of the Cross.
Find A Grave Memorial #57542615.

Tombstone Tuesday - Ernest R Alcorn 1904-1988 and Frances A Alcorn 1907-1997

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Ernest R. Alcorn is buried with his second wife, Frances A. Alcorn at Pine Grove Cemetery, Boscawen, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA. Find A Grave Memorial #61723175.

Sunday’s Obituary - Nancy Annie Belcher Handy September 12, 1911

Sunday’s Obituary – if you have obituaries of family members and ancestors, consider posting them along with other information about that person as part of Sunday’s Obituary. This is an ongoing series developed by Leslie Ann at Ancestors Live Here. 

Obituary

Died on the 12th of September 1911, near Ballard, Mrs. Annie Handy, wife of Mr. William Handy, aged 51 years.

She was afflicted with Rheumatism for several years, and her suffering was intense.  No one can realize, how severe her pains, unless they could have seen her drawn limbs and her helpless condition.

She had not walked any for six years.

Able physicians were called to see her different times, but they could not conquer her disease.

Her relatives and friends would often visit her, but to their sorrow, could not do anything to ease her pains.

She was always ready to express her faith in God and pleaded and prayed to die, that she might have relief.  We have often wondered why such a true and gentle mother had to suffer so much, and be taken from her children, but God knows best for He giveth and taketh away.

The deceased was a daughter of Mr. John Belcher, dec'd, and Mrs. Nancy Belcher.

She leaves a husband, four children, an aged mother, two sisters and five brothers, besides a number of relatives and friends to mourn her departure.

The bereaved family have the writer's heartfelt sympathy in their loss, but we should rejoice to think that mother is freed from her pains for it was Jesus only who could give her relief.

Her funeral was preached at Mt. View Church by Rev. R.M. Via and Rev. Hylton, after which her remains were laid to rest in the graveyard near the church to await that Glorious Dawn.

A Relative

Published in The Enterprise Newspaper, October 5 1911, Page 1.

Funeral Card Friday - Guy S Clifton

Funeral Card Friday – do you have a collection of memorial cards for your ancestors or family members, the kind that funeral homes produce and give out to mourners? Post images of these cards and stories about the person memorialized during Funeral Card Friday. Funeral Card Friday has been an ongoing series by Dee at Funeral Cards & Genealogy.

Wednesday’s Child - Ollie Handy 1887-1890

Wednesday’s Child – Post photos of gravestones of children. A sad topic indeed but posts can give life to the stories of these young souls. This has been an ongoing series by Amy at Gravestoned.

Ollie Handy died from a snake bite while playing in the front yard.
Her parents were John William Handy and Nancy Belcher Handy.
Buried at Mt. View Methodist Church, Patrick County, Virginia.

Tombstone Tuesday - Thomas Blake Davis 1802-1875

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Thomas Blake Davis
Died Feb 16 1875
Buried: Pleasant Hill Cemetery
Newfield, York County, Maine

Wordless Wednesday - Pauline Handy Clifton



Pauline Handy Clifton
Spring 1966

Tombstone Tuesday - Euell B Handy and Nannie Howell Handy



Euell B Handy b: 12 Mar 1889 d: 7 Jan 1988
Nannie Howell Handy b: 20 Oct 1894 d: 19 Jul 1929
Conner's Cemetery in Meadows of Dan, Patrick County, Virginia

Amanuensis Monday - Letters Home from William Robert Blades March 18, 1941 and March 21, 1941

March 18, 1941



Charleston, SC

U.S.S. Livermore (429)
N.Y.C. N.Y.

Dear Mom and Dad:


Getting along swell and feel pretty happy from the news I heard today from one of the radiomen. He said that two of the ships in our division are in Newport, R.I. and are waiting for duty in the Atlantic Fleet. Our ship is the flag ship and leader of the 21st Division and we carry aboard a Division Commander and he is the head of the 5 ships in the division and the 2 ships that are in Newport came up from Puerto Rica. We report for duty tomorrow. We made our final speed run today and I hope nothing went wrong or we will stay here until they fix it. All we have been doing is going on speed runs and coming back in and rip the engines apart. I weighed my self today and I weigh 139 lbs. and have grown a couple of inches. My face has filled in quite a bit and I feel swell. I met a fellow who comes from Manchester, NH and he lives on Kelly Street and I was telling him how often I went up there and different places I knew. Tell Grammie Davis that he was telling me that at the food of Rock Rimmen they have built a swimming pool and a big park. We had quite a time talking over different places. I am sending some of the match packages we have on the ship. Every ship has their own match covers. I received a letter from Grammie Blades and Edna May Saturday and almost keeled over when Edna May was married. Boy, I thought it was bad getting married down here at 14 or 15 yrs. but she takes the cake, and to an Army man at that. How did you like the write ups we got in Georgia? I laid on deck for a couple of hours yesterday and got quite a tan. It feels good to be in the warm weather. All the girls down here think of is getting married and I’ll hold the fort for a long time before I think of it. Will write again soon and hoping that dope about Newport is good. I give my regards all the folks.

Lots of Love “Bill”

P.S. The Wasp and the Tuscaloosa are in Norfolk. Boy it would be nice to see Rose and Frank.








March 21, 1941
Norfolk, VA

Dear Mom and Dad:


Received your letter and was glad to hear from you. Just before we shoved out of Charleston, yesterday at 4:00 p.m. a new destroyer pulled in and it had all the fellows I went through training with aboard so I missed them. When we left Charleston we didn’t know where we were going and this afternoon we landed in Norfolk, VA at 3:00 p.m. Just as we pulled in the President’s ship Tuscaloosa shoved off. The Wasp is in and four destroyers and a cargo ship. As soon as we landed I went over to get a hold of Roy Frank but they wouldn’t even let sailors of other ships aboard so I have to get in contact with him tomorrow some way. We had all the lights on the ship out while we were under way all night except our running lights. As soon as you open a hatch the lights would go out. Those are orders all the time we in the fleet and we are in the fleet and go through special orders for a couple of months. There is a notice up on the bulletin board to be ready to leave at a minutes notice so I don’t know how long we will be here. There is still talk that we might go to Newport, R.I. and I hope it’s true. I have enclosed some pictures, of The Plunket, a ship that is in our division and ours is an exact duplicate. That S.M.R.L.H. means “Sailors Mail Rush Like H---“. Well there isn’t much more to talk about so will sign off giving my regards to you all.

Your Loving Son “Bill”

P.S. I worked in the laundry one night so a fellow could go ashore, so I will have about $20.00 coming next pay day.

Sunday Obituary - Nannie Handy

Mrs. Nannie Handy died Saturday night (July 19, 1929) after a long spell of illness and was buried at the graveyard at Mt. View.  Her funeral was conducted  by Mr. Mat Conner and Mr. Sol Hylton. Published in The Enterprise newspaper on July 25, 1929.

Her name was Nancy Lannie Howell, but everyone called her "Nannie".  She was the daughter of Everet E Howell and Texas Judith Conner and born October 20, 1894 in Patrick County.  She was the first wife of Euell B Handy and they lived on a farm in Meadows of Dan, Virginia.  Together they had three children.  Their first was Luther Wayne Handy, he was born on Jan 1913 and died in April 1913.  Ruby Handy, their second child was born in 1917 and still lives today in Patrick County, Virgina.  Their third child, Stafford B Handy born on April 25, 1920 and died on December 10, 2004.

Henry Philip Benedix and Ethel C Davis Wedding Wednesday

Henry Philip Benedix and
 his new wife, Ethel C Davis
They were married about 1921

Tombstone Tuesday - James William Stanley Blades and Nettie Mae Davis Blades

JW Stanley Blades was born 30 Jun 1900 in Jamica Plains near Boston, Massachusetts.  He died 27 Jul 1968 in Goffstown, New Hampshire   His wife, Nettie Mae Davis) Blades was born 30 May 1900 in Rochester, New Hampshire and . She died 15 Jan 1967.  They are buried side by side at Getesemane Cemetery in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. 

Amanuensis Monday - Letters Home from William Robert Blades March 5 and March 15 1941

U.S.S. Livermore (429)

N.Y.C.  N.Y.

March 5, 1941

               

Dear Mom and Dad:

Had a fine time in Brunswick.  It was the first time that a big ship had ever been in Brunswick. The people were lined up on the dock from one end to the other.  We landed there Thursday and Friday.  Saturday and Sunday nights different clubs threw a big party and boy what a time.  They had us plastered all over the front page of the newspapers for four days.  We didn’t have to spend money for eats or drinks.  The people would do all the shouting.  Boy! I’ve seen the shock of my life when a little kid 5 years old boy came up to me and started to talk and he had a swollen jaw and I wondered what it was.  He had enough tobacco that would choke a horse and spitting away to beat the band.  The people never seen a ship as big as this and they thought it was the biggest ship in the world.  We even got into the movies and rode taxis at half price.  The people even came down in the cars to take us to church.  We left Brunswick Monday morning and got in Charleston last night.  We are going to Norfolk, VA.  March 12, and take on stoves, from there I don’t know where we go.  I am going to try and get leave in Norfolk if we stay there any length of time.  I will send some pictures and you send some pictures of Judy and the kids if you have any.  Give my regards to all the folks.

Lots of Love “Bill”

Charleston, SC

U.S.S. Livermore (429)

N.Y.C.  N.Y.

March 15, 1941

               

Dear Mom and Dad:

Getting along swell.  I am sending some newspaper clippings that I forgot to send from Brunswick, Georgia.  There is word going around that we might be in Provincetown, ass next Friday and then proceed to Boston.  How true it is I don’t know but every on is talking about it.  We are leaving here Tuesday morning and we might go to Boston or we might come back here.  We get paid today and I drew out $5.00 and left $5.00 on the books.  April 15, I will be getting $36.00 a month because I will be 2C Seaman the 29th of this month. 

Tomorrow I am setting up a mess for 18 men for breakfast dinner and supper for a fellow who has week-end liberty and I get $2.00 instead of going ashore and spending my pay.  They have mess boys who set up the tables and they get $5.00 extra a month besides their tips.  All we do is sit down at chow time and eat instead, like back at the training station when we had trays.  We were going to Norfolk, VA to take on stoves but we took them on here.  Show the clippings to the folks.  I will write again soon unless I come home unexpectedly.  Give my regards to the folks.

Lots of Love “Bill”

Sunday Obituary - D. Lee Handy

On Sundya, May 15, 1955, my grandfather, D. Lee Handy, passed away at a local hospital near his home in Roanoke, Virginia. Originally from Meadows of Dan, Virginia, D. Lee and his wife, Callie moved to Roanoke about 1950.


Funeral services were held a few days later at Oakey's. Interment followed at Evergreen Burial Park in Roanoke, Virginia.

Monday, May 16, 1955, The Roanoke Times

Amanuensis Monday - Letters Home from William Robert Blades February 1941

Here is the fourth in a series of letters I am transcribing which my Dad wrote home to his parents during his first ten years in the military.

Part One  http://bladeshandy.blogspot.com/2010/10/amanuenis-monday-letters-home-william.html
Part Two  http://bladeshandy.blogspot.com/2010/11/amanuensis-monday-letters-home-by.html
Part Three  http://bladeshandy.blogspot.com/2010/11/amanuensis-monday-letters-home-by_08.html

February 1, 1941
U.S.S. Livermore (429)
N.Y.C. N.Y.

Dear Mom and Dad:

Getting along good, having a good time. We just got through having our ship’s magnet d mines tested in Yorktown, VA today, tomorrow we are going to Portsmouth, VA to have one of the engines overhauled and will probably stay there for a couple of weeks. Then we go to the Plantation Flats in the Chesapeake Bay for a test run. We are in the command of the Atlantic Fleet and latest news is that we will have Northern Shore Patrol along the N.C. Coastal waters so that means that I will be home quite often, unless they are ordered to go to Cuba. We don’t have to do any washing, we have a laundry and I pay a dollar a month and have all the clothes I want washed. If we go to Cuba I won’t be home until March sometime. We painted the whole outside of the ship last Thursday and Friday. I had to buy 2 sets of working clothes and they cost me $2.80 for both of them. I had to buy two locks for my lockers and I had my dress blues tailored. We might get paid Monday and then again we might not get paid until the 15th of February. If you have sent mail and I haven’t got it because we have been moving around so much every day and the post office in Norfolk burned down so it might have been in the fire. All we do for work is swab decks, shine brass and have liberty. I have only gone ashore 4 times since I have been on the ship. I went everywhere when we were in Washington, D.C. The Capitol, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, the Agricultural Building, the Smithsonian Institute of Natural History. We past the Mount Vernon home going up the Potomac River and coming back down. I’ve seen the President’s private yacht, the Potomac. It is a beautiful yacht you can see anywhere. I am enclosing some pamphlets I got in the buildings. Well I guess I’ll hit the hay.

Love “Bill”

P.S. Write back soon.

 
 
February 11, 1941
U.S.S. Livermore (429)
N.Y.C. N.Y.

Dear Mom and Dad:

Still going along good and strong. We are leaving Norfolk tomorrow morning and going out in the Chesapeake Bay to test the ships magnetic mines. We will stay out in the bay and come back to Norfolk Saturday to get paid. Monday or Tuesday we are going to Charleston, S.C. and don’t know why we are going there or when we leave there. Word is going around that we will go to Bath, Maine for the final acceptance run. In case they do, give me Carl Maine’s address. An air mail stamp will get to me in a day and it costs 6 cents. I can go from Norfolk to Boston by train for $8.50 round trip. So if we are laid up in Norfolk for 10 days or so I will be home. I would have been home this week if we got paid sooner. We have movies every night that it is possible, that’s where I’m going when I get through with this letter. I’m on a sick list for two days I had a slight fever and a cough so the doctor told me not to work for a couple of days. Well I guess I’ll go to the movies. Give my regards to Hank, Lorraine and the other folks.

Love “Bill”





February 17, 1941
U.S.S. Livermore (429)
N.Y.C. N.Y.

Dear Mom and Dad:

Getting along good so far. I received a letter from Lorraine today and was glad to hear from her and the folks. She said Grammie and Uncle Will looked pretty bad. If anything should happen write right away and I can get 4 or 5 days leave to go home. I got paid today and I drew $12.00 and left $3.00 on the books so in case of any emergency I have the money on the books and I can get leave much easier. The next pay day I have $3.00 that they owe me so I can leave as much money on the books as I want to. I will try to draw as little money as possible in case anything does happen. If I haven’t the money I can always borrow it. The picture at the top of this letter is exactly how the ship looks. We are leaving from South Carolina Wednesday afternoon and I don’t know how long we will be there. I heard yesterday that it will be the home port of the ship, here’s hoping that it isn’t. One of the mess cooks comes from Ohio and he worked for the Consolidated Biscuit Co. and he know some of the fellas that I know that came to Boston to run the factory up on Baker Street. I know a fellow on the ship that knows Mildred and Sandy from Gloucester. It isn’t such a big world after you start traveling around a bit. Today two fellows and I had to go up on the mast and paint it, and boy it is high. I was made a fuse setter on a gun and I have to set the fuse in the shells to go off at a certain amount of seconds. We have gun drills every other day in the morning and the afternoon jus for a couple of hours. This is a big Navy Yard there is 23,000 men working day and night and do thy make a racket riveting at night. In case anything happens, when you send the letter, send it special delivery so I will have time to put in for a leave. When you write the letters address them to Charleston, S.C. and it won’t have to go the New York. Well I think I will go to see the movies in the Marine Barracks so I will close and write again soon.

Lots of Love “Bill”

P.S. Give my regards to the folks, and the kids.





February 24, 1941
U.S.S. Livermore (429)
N.Y.C. N.Y.

Dear Mom and Dad:

Getting along good, weather is fine. Received your letter and was glad to hear from you. We are leaving for Brunswick, Georgia tomorrow morning for our final test runs and we will be back Saturday the first. We will stay here until the 5th and we will leave but nobody knows where we are going. We just got through painting the entire ship today and boy does it look nice. I received my course book for 1st Class Seaman today so I have plenty of time to study between now and September. I will be eligible to go up for my exam in September. I put a six cent stamp on letters because they go by air mail and they get delivered quicker. There isn’t much to write about so I will write again when we come back from Georgia. It sure is beautiful in South Carolina.

Lots of Love “Bill”

Wordless Wednesday - The Last Shades of Fall

Tombstone Tuesday - Stanley CH Blades and Lorraine Blades, his wife

They are buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Orlando, Florida



photo provided by Meradith McGee-Hale
 from www.findagrave.com





Stanley C H Blades
23 Sep 1921 - 28 Sep 1997
photo provided by Meradith McGee-Hale

from http://www.findagrave.com/



Lorraine A. Blades
29 Apr 1924 - 9 Mar 2002
photo provided by Meradith McGee-Hale

from www.findagrave.com



Amanuensis Monday - Letters Home by William Robert Blades January 1941



William Blades is the first row, next to last
person, standing next to the flag holder.  The short one.


Here is the third in a series of letters I am transcribing which my Dad wrote home to his parents during his first ten years in the military.









U.S.N.T.S.
Newport, R.I.
January 5, 1941
Company 79

Dear Mom and Dad:

Sorry I haven’t written sooner but I had to find out the fare home. I have had a sore throat for 4 days and it has just started to go away today. I am coming by bus and train - it costs $1.50 round trip from here to Providence. From Providence to Boston it costs 1 cent a mile and that will come to about $1.00 round trip and if I leave here at 12:00 noon I’ll get home about 2:30 p.m. so it will be quicker and cheaper. All we did last week was have lectures and we went ashore 4 days. Next week we will have gas chamber drill, and on Friday we will have our final bag inspection and Saturday morning we get paid and we had a company picture taken and it came out good. Well will see you Saturday.

Love “Bill”


U.S.N.T.S.
Newport, R.I.
Sea Unit
January 21, 1941

Dear Mom and Dad:

Got back alright and slept in the “Y” and checked in at the station in the morning. My name is on the draft list for the U.S.S. Wasp and I am leaving tomorrow at 1:00 pm by train for Norfolk, Virginia. The Wasp is going to Cuba as soon as they pick us up. It will take us about 20 hours to get there Virginia and we travel first class. I will write again and tell you how to address the letters. It has been 5 above down here for the past week and plenty windy too. Tell dad to get the transfers for the car and to let me know how he made out. I can’t wait to get down to Cuba. Let Hank and Lorraine know how I made out. Well I’ll write again from Cuba.

Love “Bill”

U.S.S. Livermore

January 25, 1941

Dear Mom and Dad:

We boarded our ship today at 10:00 am and was I glad. It is a brand new destroyer about 4 months old. We left Norfolk, VA right away for Dahlgren, VA and we are anchored there now. We will be in Washington, D.C. tomorrow afternoon about 1:00 PM and we will shove off for Norfolk, VA again Monday afternoon. From there we will go either to Boston or Cuba, if we go to Cuba I won’t be home until May or June. I thought I’d be sea sick but I didn’t fell the least bit. We sleep in bunks and we have two lockers apiece. The chow’s twice as good on ship then on the training station. I’m glad in a way that I didn’t go on the Wasp because there is 3,000 men on it and on my ship there is 180 men and you have a chance of quicker advancement. I will write again soon.

Love “Bill”


P.S. This is the address

Wm R Blades
USS Livermore (429)
C/O Postmaster
New York City, NY
Division (1)

429 is the No. of the ship