Living

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Social Security Number: 035-12-2543
• _COLOR: 11
• Residence: 1925, Providence, RI
• Residence: 1930, Providence, RI
• Residence: 1935, Providence, RI
• Residence: 1940, Providence, RI
• Milit-Beg: 1 Feb 1943, Providence, RI

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Buddy, as he was known, was hanging around with Norma and Owen French. Mary French was dating someone else at the time. WWII came along and Buddy went MIA. He came home and had wounds and malaria. Mary got a "dear john " letter from her sweetheart (Ralph DiSimone), they had planned on getting married. Buddy was there to console her. He called her up to go roller skating and said that he and Joe Pino will pick her up (from Winchester Street). So they went roller skating in E. Providence. She made it miserable for him. Left him at the gate to the house. Sometime later he called her and took her to the movies (Saratoga Trunk starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman) at the Majestic in downtown Providence. He called her more and more; they saw more movies; and he visited frequently at the French house. They courted over a year. Her father and mother didn't like his drinking and they told Mary to tell him they couldn't get married if he didn't stop. They sent her to visit her brother Stanley in Norfolk, VA for the summer. If Buddy didn't have a job by the end of the summer there would be no marriage. He got a job at American Screw near R.I. Hospital.

Buddy and Mary purchased the house on Vandewater Street (ca 1952) and his in-laws sold the house on Winchester and moved in to the downstairs apt. (As related to D.M. Caranci by Iola French, his aunt, in 2009)

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"Buddy, as he was known, was hanging around with Norma and Owen French. Mary French was dating someone else at the time. WWII came along and Buddy went MIA. He came home and had wounds and malaria. Mary got a "dear john " letter from her sweetheart (Ralph DiSimone), they had planned on getting married. Buddy was there to console her. He called her up to go roller skating and said that he and Joe Pino will pick her up (from Winchester Street). So they went roller skating in E. Providence. She made it miserable for him. Left him at the gate to the house. Sometime later he called her and took her to the movies (Saratoga Trunk starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman) at the Majestic in downtown Providence. He called her more and more; they saw more movies; and he visited frequently at the French house. They courted over a year. Her father and mother didn't like his drinking and they told Mary to tell him they couldn't get married if he didn't stop. They sent her to visit her brother Stanley in Norfolk, VA for the summer. If Buddy didn't have a job by the end of the summer there would be no marriage. He got a job at American Screw near R.I. Hospital.

Buddy and Mary purchased the house on Vandewater Street (ca 1952) and his in-laws sold the house on Winchester and moved in to the downstairs apt." (As related to D.M. Caranci by Iola French, his aunt, in 2009)
The "house on Winchester" St. was one of a row of duplex houses built for workers at the Wanskuck Woolen Mill across the street. It was purchased by Charles C. K. French after the mill closed.

FindaGrave:
GRID=71994793 sect. 54 #39

Charles married FRENCH, Mary Edith on 20 Sep 1947 in Providence, RI. Mary (daughter of FRENCH, Charles Kimball Worcester and SMITH, Frances Alma) was born on 30 Dec 1927 in Providence, RI; died on 30 Mar 2005 in Providence, RI; was buried in Pawtucket, RI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _COLOR: 11
• Residence: 1930, Providence, RI
• Residence: 1940, Providence, RI

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FindaGrave:
GRID=71994176 section 54, #39

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• _COLOR: 11
• Residence: 1900, Providence, RI
• Residence: 1910, Providence, RI
• Residence: 1920, Providence, RI
• Residence: 1930, Providence, RI
• Residence: 1957, Providence, RI

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GRID=143013409

George married MULVEY, Margaret Ellen. Margaret (daughter of Mary) was born on 12 Sep 1888 in Providence, RI; died on 13 Feb 1965 in RI; was buried in Pawtucket, RI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _COLOR: 11
• Residence: 1900, Providence, RI
• Residence: 1910, Providence, RI
• Residence: 1920, Providence, RI
• Residence: 1930, Providence, RI

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GRID=143013493

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• Ref#: 900
• _COLOR: 6
• Residence: 1900, Columbia, ME
• Residence: 1910, Columbia, ME; Address:
  Saco Road
• Residence: 1935, Providence, RI

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He is named after his biological father, Charles Kimball Worcester and was given his mother's maiden name.

According to the 1900 Federal Census he was living with his grandfather, Talbot and mother, Mary Pendlegras French, in Columbia, Maine.

According to the 1910 Federal Census he was living with his stepfather, Harvey Holly Smith and mother, Mary Pendlegras French Smith, in Columbia, Maine.

According to the 1930 census he was living on Branch Avenue in Providence, RI, with his wife, oldest son, and youngest son and daughter.

According to his WWI Draft Registration Card, 1917-1918, he was a laborer for the Northern Maine Packing Company, Corinna, ME.

Lived at 14 Winchester Street, Providence, RI in 1940s.

He was known as "Charlie K. Smith" as a boy as his step-father was a Smith (according to Charles Drisko, local Columbia, ME historian who knew him as young man).

In an interview with his daughter, Mary Edith French on July 18, 1999 she said "Grampa's mother and step-father were strict Baptists. They made him stay dressed on Sunday and walk around outside reading the Bible".

He worked at the Steere textile mill off Veazie Street in Providence, RI as a boilerman. He was burned on his arm, head and chest. He lost all his hair in the incident. He then went to the Wanscutt mill on Branch Ave, Providence, RI as a boilerman and watchman. He also worked at Brown University as a watchman. He became sick for several years and his wife had to go to work in the mills. He was an excellent housekeeper, cook, baker and he sewed. He was also an excellent carpenter and cabinet maker. He was strict with his children teaching them to share. The family considered themselves "poor". Two of their children (Norma and Carol) were sent to live with his half sister Hazel because of their poverty. The family lived in several "row" houses owned by the mills (Winchester Street) and he ultimately purchased the duplex house he lived in on Winchester Street when the mill closed.

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GRID=63090891

Residence:
living with his mother and step-father

Charles married SMITH, Frances Alma on 7 Nov 1917 in Columbia, ME. Frances (daughter of SMITH, Bartlett Campbell II and DORR, Bessie Graham) was born on 24 Jan 1901 in Columbia, ME; was christened on 7 Dec 1930 in Providence, RI; died on 18 May 1979 in Canaan, CT; was buried in South Buxton, ME. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _COLOR: 6

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Frances's mother, Bessie G. Dorr, died shortly after her birth. She was raised by her grandmother Augusta "Gustie" (Small) and her 2nd husband, Nelson Wallace . She was born in the old Ed Puffer home (then lived in by Roberta Puffer), in the little corner room next to the road. "I remember so well when the Dr. came, he put his satchel bag in a chair and put his coat on it. Mama wanted Cliff and I to go to bed so she told us the doctor had a baby in that bag and put his coat on it to keep the little dear warm, that he was going to leave the baby with Bessie, and sure enough he did, for when we came down stairs the next morning there was a darling baby girl in bed with Bessie". by Elizabeth Roberta Puffer. The 1910 Federal Census shows Frances living with her grandmother and step-grandfather Augusta Small and Wallace Nelson. She is 9 yo.

Per letter from the directory to my mother, Norma I. Caranci date 14 May 1942.

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GRID=63090930

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Married:
By a Justice of the Peace

Residence:
He was a laborer at the Northern Maine Packing Co. Corrinna, ME

Residence:
Worked in the Wanskuck Mill on Branch Avenue