Jobs School and School Class

 

Jobs School

My maternal grandmother was Ethel May Winchell, daughter of Charles and Kathryn (Saylor) Winchell. Ethel May and her sister, Callie Winchell, are the 4th and 5th children, respectively, from the right in the 2nd row. Ethel May is the girl in the checkered dress.
 
The family moved from Jobs to Oskaloosa, Iowa shortly after this and her father was killed in a mining accident there in 1903. She, her mother and sister came back to Jobs around 1904 or 1905 and she married my Grandfather, Will Harden, in the First Presbyterian Church in Nelsonville in 1906. In 1908 the Hardens moved to Bay City, Michigan where Ethel May died in 1909 at the age of 21 of blood poisoning..
 
Kathryn and Callie Winchell moved to Columbus, Ohio where they worked in a shoe factory, Kate died there in 1943, Callie in 1962. There was a brother, George Edward "Red" Winchell, but he refused to work in the mines that had killed his father, so couldn't find work in Jobs and returned to Oskaloosa where he worked on the railroad until his death in 1960. Aunt Callie never married, Uncle Ed had no natural children (although he adopted two daughters), so Ethel May's two daughters were the only natural grandchildren of Charles and Kate Winchell.
 
This is the only picture I have of Ethel May.  It was given to me by a cousin, Myrtie (Saylor) Hanna, at the Jobs reunion in 1968. 

 

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