My great grandfather is buried next to Helen Beals (2nd wife who he initially met as his housekeeper). He served in WWI for a short time. A cruel man- the 1st generation of his children explained with horrid stories. During WWI he was sent to Brest, France May 23, 1919, returned June. The battles were mostly over despite the legends he passed down he was a NOT a war hero & never battled, he was discharged on account of mental trouble & later arrested-found printed in a news publication; pretending to be a mute and panhandling town for money.
In small detail of his tyrannical behavior-He met his first wife, my great grandmother Eliza Pearl Jane Hutzell; each of her children given away, 5 of 8 to the family's knowledge. They kept the older boys Wm, Harry and Walter for work and they mined coal and cut lumber at home. My grandmother Dorothy Ernst given @ 8 mos, the youngest, to Elmira (Emerick)and Raymond Martin and Raymond their 1/2 brother; George at 3-to Herbert and Grace Severe, Alice at 9 to Mary Barnhart, one sibling not yet clarified to Stella and Norman Emerick.
Martha was given to a foster home and went through abuse, sister Nellie too; raised by those she was later given to.
Second wife was Helen Beals...together they had Raymond, Elmer, Paulmor, Laura and Rosella (Rose). Eliza Pearl Hutzell perished in the home. These kids tell a different story of growing up with Harry, he worked them to the bone it is said though and almost daily used the strap on the first boys as recollected from Walter Dayton Ernst. He and never spoke to them, only for orders and commands, no abuse to recollect among the Helen Beals children.
He claimed to of received a purple heart around the town of Nancy, France during his foreign service in Europe, again-not true.
WWI US ARMY Infantry 8 Hdq.train Registered out of Rockwood, Pa. Aug 30, 1918 Discharged June 12, 1919. Our family originated from Neidersachen, Hannover, Germany.
In small detail of his tyrannical behavior-He met his first wife, my great grandmother Eliza Pearl Jane Hutzell; each of her children given away, 5 of 8 to the family's knowledge. They kept the older boys Wm, Harry and Walter for work and they mined coal and cut lumber at home. My grandmother Dorothy Ernst given @ 8 mos, the youngest, to Elmira (Emerick)and Raymond Martin and Raymond their 1/2 brother; George at 3-to Herbert and Grace Severe, Alice at 9 to Mary Barnhart, one sibling not yet clarified to Stella and Norman Emerick.
Martha was given to a foster home and went through abuse, sister Nellie too; raised by those she was later given to.
Second wife was Helen Beals...together they had Raymond, Elmer, Paulmor, Laura and Rosella (Rose). Eliza Pearl Hutzell perished in the home. These kids tell a different story of growing up with Harry, he worked them to the bone it is said though and almost daily used the strap on the first boys as recollected from Walter Dayton Ernst. He and never spoke to them, only for orders and commands, no abuse to recollect among the Helen Beals children.
He claimed to of received a purple heart around the town of Nancy, France during his foreign service in Europe, again-not true.
WWI US ARMY Infantry 8 Hdq.train Registered out of Rockwood, Pa. Aug 30, 1918 Discharged June 12, 1919. Our family originated from Neidersachen, Hannover, Germany.
My great grandfather is buried next to Helen Beals (2nd wife who he initially met as his housekeeper). He served in WWI for a short time. A cruel man- the 1st generation of his children explained with horrid stories. During WWI he was sent to Brest, France May 23, 1919, returned June. The battles were mostly over despite the legends he passed down he was a NOT a war hero & never battled, he was discharged on account of mental trouble & later arrested-found printed in a news publication; pretending to be a mute and panhandling town for money.
In small detail of his tyrannical behavior-He met his first wife, my great grandmother Eliza Pearl Jane Hutzell; each of her children given away, 5 of 8 to the family's knowledge. They kept the older boys Wm, Harry and Walter for work and they mined coal and cut lumber at home. My grandmother Dorothy Ernst given @ 8 mos, the youngest, to Elmira (Emerick)and Raymond Martin and Raymond their 1/2 brother; George at 3-to Herbert and Grace Severe, Alice at 9 to Mary Barnhart, one sibling not yet clarified to Stella and Norman Emerick.
Martha was given to a foster home and went through abuse, sister Nellie too; raised by those she was later given to.
Second wife was Helen Beals...together they had Raymond, Elmer, Paulmor, Laura and Rosella (Rose). Eliza Pearl Hutzell perished in the home. These kids tell a different story of growing up with Harry, he worked them to the bone it is said though and almost daily used the strap on the first boys as recollected from Walter Dayton Ernst. He and never spoke to them, only for orders and commands, no abuse to recollect among the Helen Beals children.
He claimed to of received a purple heart around the town of Nancy, France during his foreign service in Europe, again-not true.
WWI US ARMY Infantry 8 Hdq.train Registered out of Rockwood, Pa. Aug 30, 1918 Discharged June 12, 1919. Our family originated from Neidersachen, Hannover, Germany.
In small detail of his tyrannical behavior-He met his first wife, my great grandmother Eliza Pearl Jane Hutzell; each of her children given away, 5 of 8 to the family's knowledge. They kept the older boys Wm, Harry and Walter for work and they mined coal and cut lumber at home. My grandmother Dorothy Ernst given @ 8 mos, the youngest, to Elmira (Emerick)and Raymond Martin and Raymond their 1/2 brother; George at 3-to Herbert and Grace Severe, Alice at 9 to Mary Barnhart, one sibling not yet clarified to Stella and Norman Emerick.
Martha was given to a foster home and went through abuse, sister Nellie too; raised by those she was later given to.
Second wife was Helen Beals...together they had Raymond, Elmer, Paulmor, Laura and Rosella (Rose). Eliza Pearl Hutzell perished in the home. These kids tell a different story of growing up with Harry, he worked them to the bone it is said though and almost daily used the strap on the first boys as recollected from Walter Dayton Ernst. He and never spoke to them, only for orders and commands, no abuse to recollect among the Helen Beals children.
He claimed to of received a purple heart around the town of Nancy, France during his foreign service in Europe, again-not true.
WWI US ARMY Infantry 8 Hdq.train Registered out of Rockwood, Pa. Aug 30, 1918 Discharged June 12, 1919. Our family originated from Neidersachen, Hannover, Germany.
Bio by: S. Fletcher ~Gravemother~
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