Person:Anna Weimer (4)

OBITUARY: Wooster (Ohio) Daily Record, Friday, June 27, 1969, page 2.

Mrs. Maude English, 81, Nurse in World War II

Mrs. Maude Weimer English, 81, widow of Joseph English and retired nurse, died Thursday afternoon at the Veterans Hospital in Dayton after an extended illness. She formerly lived at 251 North East St., Smithville. She was born at Smithville July 19, 1887 to Elias M. and Anna Sinclair Weimer. She served as a nurse with the Armed Forces during WW I. She was a member of the Smithville United Methodist Church and the American Legion Auxiliary. Surviving is a sister, Mrs. Raymond (Mae) Drushel of Akron. Her husband, 1961, a brother and three sisters died previously. Services will be Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. from the McIntire Funeral Home with her minister, Rev. William Blackwell officiating. Friends may call Monday from 7-9 at the funeral home. Burial will be in Smithville.

She was a nurse for 26 years, living in southern Ohio. Maude's expression "As Irish as Paddy's old pig." Lucy Pancoast said that Maude's mother was a wonderful woman and that Maude must be like her.

Letter from Maude Weimer to Virginia Spearman January 20, 1960.

Mrs. J. M. English 251 Northeast Street Smithville, Ohio

At Smithville, Jan 20, 1960

Dear Mrs Spearman, This is a bright and beautiful winter morning, and this is 24 hours later. My writing has gotten to be a mess in many ways. Time just seems to get away from me and no one knows, at least I do not, where it goes. My face is very red. Your nice letter and the photo of the old building. It would be most interesting to know its history from building time to now. If we just had more of what it takes, we would like to go poking our noses into some of those places. But we are beyond that now. Joe is reasonably good, in fact, quite good all things considered. He has had numerous "little strokes" and three not so little also has had a number of coronary occlusions. For some reason or other he has been able to overcome them all. Am a bit on the irresponsible side this morning. Did not finish the sentence about your letter. It is postmarked Aug. 31st. Since it is among my unanswered ones I am afraid I was just that bad! Haven't gotten much done yet with the stories of Grandmother's old place. They are very funny to us when we recall them but it is the memory of the ones involved and Grandma's laugh over everything that makes them funny to us. Have asked my sisters and my brother to help and with one accord they informed they just couldn't remember one funny thing. Part of the charm to the families who came to Wayne County to vacation was the old farm and the mode of life on it. Pretty enjoyable for a week or two but, rather rugged when lived day after day for 40 years or so as Grandma - your Aunt Sade - did it. But she never complained. Was always glad for visitors and made the most of any happening. Many times I wonder now how she ever put up with us noisy children. (There were six Weimers and 5 Uncle Henry Sinclairs and later 4 Gerstenschlagers.) She had such distances to walk. The house was large and the summer house was 150 ft from the big house. It contained a kitchen part and a milk room with running water in a trough. That is, running when it was pumped and it was everyones duty to pump some each day to keep the milk cool. In another corner of the yard was a woodshed which always had an abundant supply of wood. Near it was the bake oven. And I can well remember Grandma baking 12 loaves of bread and 10 or 12 pies at a time in that old oven. Then back of all this and a nice long walk, too, was the cave where fruit and vegetables were kept. Out of that old place came some of the most delicious fruits and crisp potatoes late in winter and spring when no one else had them and it was worth the snowy walk to get them. Oye!!! all this makes me homesick! I liked that old place!! It is a bad wreck now. No one cares for it and one can't expect them to as it took an enormous amount of work to do it. I must ask my sisters about the funeral incident. I was overseas when she died and was buried and so much happened so often after my return that if I did know about it I have forgotten. This is not the letter I intended writing at all. Just got started and kept on going. Anyway, I'll likely feel better for I do so hate to find letters a years or so old that have been neglected. If your Aunt Anna could hear well enough to know what I've written she could picture it in her mind. Do hope you are all having a good winter. More later, I hope. Sincerely, Maude

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Coup Genealogical Chart by Lucy Hall Pancoast, May 1959. Copy in the possession of William A. Coup, Boca Raton.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Letter from Catherine Stephenson Costas, Mountain View, California to William A. Coup, Boca Raton, Florida 31.
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 United States Government, Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census. 1900 Census, Ohio, Wayne County, Green Township - Eli Weimer. (Name: 1900 Census, Series T623, Roll 1331, Page 191; Ohio, Wayne County, Green Township, Sheet 13A, Supervisor's District 16, Enumeration District 152, 18 & 19 June 1900, Line 34, Dwelling 285, Family 293;).
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 United States Government, Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census. 1920 Census, Ohio, Wayne County, Green Township - Eli M. Weimer. (Name: 1920 Census, Series T625, Roll 1448, Page 181; Ohio, Wayne County, Green Township, Smithville Town, 10 January 1920, Supervisor's District 15, Enumeration District 202, Sheet 9A, Line 10, Main Street, Dwelling 90, Family 95;).
5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 United States Government, Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census. 1930 Census, Ohio, Wayne County, Smithville Village - Eli Weimer. (Name: 1930 Census, Series T626, Roll 1888, Page 54; Ohio, Wayne County, Smithville Village, 1 May 1930, Supervisor's District 14, Enumeration District 85-21, Sheet 1A, Line 31, East Main Street, Dwelling 9, Family 9;).
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Obituary of Maude English in the Wooster (Ohio) Daily Record, Friday, June 27, 1969, page 2.