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McLean Genealogy Page For the surnames McLean, Mills, Jaroniewski, Braden, Mlynarek, Delventhal, Preble, and James |
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Jaroniewski Braden overview of
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Delventhal / Delfenthal Henry Delventhal was born in Germany around 1845 (the Census date is contradictory regarding the exact year); both of his parents were born in Germany. He immigrated around 1881, and was naturalized in the late 1800's (the Census record is difficult to read). His wife, Doris (maiden name unknown) was born in Germany around 1854; both of her parents were born in Germany. She immigrated around 1883. She does not appear to have become naturalized. Doris (or "Dora") first married somebody by the name of "Fox" (about which nothing is known), because her four oldest children had that last name. She had eight children in total: Henry Fox (b. Dec 1883), Dora Fox (b. Feb 1886), William Fox/Voss (b. Nov 1887), Anna Fox (b. Aug 1889), Mayme Delventhal (b. Apr 1892), Kate Delventhal (b. May 1894), Fritz Delventhal (b. Aug 1895), and George Delventhal (b. Sep 1897). All the children were born in Ohio. In the 1900 Census, Henry Delventhal was listed as being 54 years old and living in a rented house in Holgate (Henry County), Ohio. All eight children were living with him, the youngest being two-year-old George. According to the Census, Henry could not read or write. He worked for the city as a laborer. His step-son Henry Fox was working as a day laborer; his step-daughter Dora did housework. In the 1910 Census, only Henry's older step-son Henry had moved out. The other seven children still lived with him; in addition, his older step-daughter Dora's illegitimate sone Walter W Fox (b. c1905) was being raised right along with Henry's younger children. The family lived in a rental house. Henry was a laborer for the streets department; step-daughter Dora was an ironer at a laundry; step-son William was a fitter; step-daughter Anna was a cigar-maker; Mayme ("Mamie") was working as a bookkeeper. (Henry's last name was spelled "Delfenthal" on this Census.) By the 1920 Census, Henry was 72 years old; wife Dora was 64. They still lived in Toledo (Lucas County), Ohio, in a rental house. Henry was still working as a laborer, even at this age. Step-daughters Doris ("Dora") and Anna (mis-named "Ella" in the records), Doris' son Walter, daughter Mayme ("Mamie"), and son George were living with him. Doris was still an ironer; Anna still made cigars; Mayme was an ironer; George was a clerk. Mayme shortly afterwards married Herman Braden, but he left her when their daughter (and only child) Mary Alice (b. 15 Feb 1921) was still young. Mary Alice does not remember her father ever having been affectionate, and therefore never missed him much. He left Toledo (Lucas County), Ohio, to get work (this being the Depression) and came back on weekends. But eventually he stopped visiting, and then disappeared altogether. He appears to have died on 16 Feb 1978, in St Petersburg (Pinellas County), Florida. He may have been married to a woman named "Minnie" at that point. Mayme's half-brother William Voss came to visit her and Mary one day, and found the two of them bundled in all their clothes and huddled over the coal stove. They'd had to choose that week whether to buy food or fuel and, it being winter, had chosen to get coal. "Uncle Will" was appalled, and would not leave until Mayme and Mary packed up their few belongings and came home with him. For some years, Mayme and Mary lived with William and his wife Lillian. |
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