Person:Susan Chivvis (1)

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Susan Ross Chivvis
b.9 Mar 1918 St. Louis,, MO
d.11 Sep 1990 Pier Cove,, MI
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m. 25 Sep 1913
  1. Mary Ellen Chivvis1915 - 2001
  2. Susan Ross Chivvis1918 - 1990
  3. Allan Glasgow Chivvis1925 - 1926
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  • W.  Susan Ross Chivvis1918 - 1990
m. 28 Jun 1941
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Name Susan Ross Chivvis
Gender Female
Birth[1][2][3][4][22] 9 Mar 1918 St. Louis,, MO
Other[5][24] ABT 1 1924 St. Louis,, MOanecdote
Other[5][25] ABT 5 1924 St. Louis,, MOProperty Ownership
Other[6][26] ABT 7 1927 Douglas,, MItravel
Other[27] 29 Sep 1927 St. Louis,, MOanecdote
Other[6][28] 1929 Douglas,, MItravel
Other[7][6][8][9][29] 1929 St. Louis,, MOresided
Other[2][30] Abt 1930 St. Louis,, MOanecdote
Other[6][31] 30 Nov 1933 St. Louis,, MOmeeting
Other[2][32] Abt 1934 St. Louis,, MOanecdote
Other[10][33] Abt 19 Aug 1934 Pier Cove,, MItravel
Other[10][34] ABT 07 1935 Pier Cove,, MItravel
Other[11][35] 1936 St. Louis,, MOhigh school graduation
Other[2][36] Abt 1936 St. Louis,, MOeducation
Other[6][12][37] 1939 ,, CAtravel
Other[6][38] 1939 Wellington,,, New Zealandtravel
Marriage 28 Jun 1941 to Unknown
Other[13][39] BEF 05 1943 Port-au-Prince,,, Haititravel
Other[12] 10 Oct 1943 St. Louis,, MOanecdote
Other[12][40] 1944 St. Louis,, MOphoto/painting
Other[12][41] 15 May 1946 St. Louis,, MOanecdote
Other[12] 13 Aug 1946 St. Louis,, MOanecdote
Other[2][42] ABT 08 1947 St. Louis,, MOtravel
Other[14] 1951 Webster Groves,, MOresided
Other[14] 6 Jan 1951 St. Louis,, MOmeeting
Other[43] 1952 Zurich, Switzerlandtravel
Other[15][44] 1953 Washington,, DCtravel
Other[16][45] 11 1954 Canal Zone, Panamatravel
Other[17][46] 4 Mar 1957 Property Ownership
Other[18][47] 8 May 1962 St. Louis,, MOProperty Ownership
Other[19][48] Abt 1965 St. Louis,, MOanecdote
Other? Abt 1969 Chicago,, ILmigration
Will[20][49] 22 Jan 1970 St. Louis,, MO
Other? Abt 1973 Clayton,, MOmigration
Other[21] Abt 1973 St. Louis,, MOchurch membership
Death[4][23] 11 Sep 1990 Pier Cove,, MI
Reference Number? 1411
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  1. ↑ Curtis, Thomas Bradford Pier Cove, MI Curtis, Susan Harker abt 1984 notes in SHC files 1999.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Haiti, Spain.
  3. ↑ Chivvis, Susan Ross Birth Record Registered No. 3529No. 17488, Health Dist. 23 3/25/1918 for birth on 3/9/1918.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Social Security Death Index at Ancestry.com..
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Leland Curtis Webster Groves, MO Susan Harker Curtis.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 MEC memory, told to SHC.
  7. ↑ 8 pages by Nancy Chivvis copy in files of SHC.

    2, 5

  8. ↑ Obituaries - 7 on Ada Chaphe Chivvis St. Louis, MO 8/10/1937 and 8/12/1937.
  9. ↑ St. Louis City Directories 1877. (David B. Gould).
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Curtis Dr. Bill memory, told to SHC 1999.
  11. ↑ Mary Institute Alumnae Directory 1859-1985 125th Anniversary Edition.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 Curtis & Chivvis photo album photographs & captions Chivvis, Susan Ross question.
  13. ↑ Chivvis, Mary Ellen Glasgow, Mary Branch 5/18/1943 Port-au-Prince, Haiti MEC files; copy in SHC files 1999.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Charles J. Miller's 90th Birthday Celebration january 6, 1951 OR A NIGHT (mare) at 1437 McCausland Ave..
  15. ↑ Anniversary Dinner for C.J. Miller Society Section of question St. Louis, MO 1/18/1953.
  16. ↑ Curtis, Susan Harker scrap book put together by MEC.
  17. ↑ Lane, George W. and Lindell Gordon, Jr. Curtis, Susan C(hivvis) 10/18/1960 TBC files; copy in SHC files 1999.
  18. ↑ Glasgow, Mary Branch Curtis, Edward G; Quackenbush, Arthur D; Curtis, Thomas B; Willcockson, William H. 5/9/19.
  19. ↑ Charles Russell's Valentines Post-Dispatch St. Louis, MO 2/14/1990.
  20. ↑ Glasgow, Mary Branch = Mary Glasgow Chivvis Estate No. 146,362.
  21. ↑ Chivvis, Susan Ross obituary Fennville or Saugatuck paper question Fennville, MI abt 1990.
  22. ↑ Susan Ross Chivvis Birth Certificate:
    "I hereby certify that I attended the birth of this child, who was
    born alive at 7. AM. on the date above stated. (Signature) Frank A
    Glasgow 3894 Washington"
    U.S. Social Security Death Index lists birth 9 Mar 1918
  23. ↑ U.S. Social Security Death Index lists death 11 Sep 1990
  24. ↑ Leland Chivvis pocket diary:
    "Just remembered that I have Grandfather Chivvis' pocket diary from
    1924. (It was found stuck in a crevice in a wall in the basement just
    a few years ago by the family then living at 1437. They called us for
    a last "walk through" before they sold the house.)Chock full of
    meaningless yet interesting arcania. He notes his highlights of
    1924-"learned to skate...skating at Forest Park with Mary Ellen and
    Susan...took first dancing lessons with Mary..built swimming pool and
    bird bath..." He painstakingly records all monies spent on oil &
    gasoline for his cars, lunches, haircuts,travels, and poker losses,
    but
    fails to note Grandmother's pregnancy with Allen other than this
    cryptic
    entry Aug 5- "Mary acting strange"(Allen was born approx 9 months
    later on
    May 10, 1925.)"
  25. ↑ Leland Curtis re Leland Chivvis pocket diary:
    "Just remembered that I have Grandfather Chivvis' pocket diary from
    1924. (It was found stuck in a crevice in a wall in the basement just
    a few years ago by the family then living at 1437. They called us for
    a last "walk through" before they sold the house.)Chock full of
    meaningless yet interesting arcania. He notes his highlights of
    1924-"learned to skate...skating at Forest Park with Mary Ellen and
    Susan...took first dancing lessons with Mary..built swimming pool and
    bird bath..." He painstakingly records all monies spent on oil &
    gasoline for his cars, lunches, haircuts,travels, and poker losses,
    but
    fails to note Grandmother's pregnancy with Allen other than this
    cryptic
    entry Aug 5- "Mary acting strange"(Allen was born approx 9 months
    later on
    May 10, 1925.)"
  26. ↑ MEC story to SHC 3/21/1999:
    "We went to Douglas when polio was bad. It got bad in the summer. We
    went the first year after Allan drowned in the swimming pool [9/1926],
    so Mother wouldn't have to look at the swimming pool."
    "Adelaide Cherbonnier was my mother's best friend from Wash U. She
    and Uncle Ed and my father were all there at the same time. Auntie
    Adelaide was quite a character. She was a handsome woman; she was
    French with a hooked nose. Not beautiful, but handsome. She was the
    one who "took care of the bills" by putting them under her mattress.
    Uncle Ed had told her that she couldn't go up to Douglas unless she
    took care of the bills first. She and my mother would go up to
    Douglas together. Adelaide took all the bills and put them under her
    mattress. She would have gotten away with it, except they were
    expecting company and the maid cleaned the sheets and was tucking them
    in when she found the bills. Uncle Ed was furious.
    Uncle Ed worked for Ralston Purina and became very wealthy. But
    Auntie Adelaide didn't manage money very well; she used to run out and
    then ask my mother to borrow $50. My mother said she was burnt when
    one time Adelaide borrowed $50 and said to her: "It must be marvelous
    to be rich." Here were my mother and father scraping to get by..."
  27. ↑ SHC copied from TBC records:
    "9/29/1927 1:00 PM tornado across length of St. Louis (including
    McCausland Ave) from Southwest to Tower Grove; 300 ft wide 2 1/2 miles
    long. Caused 72 deaths, $10 million - $20 million damage; 2,000
    buildings destroyed in 6 square miles; 1,200 injured, 6,300 families
    suffered loss. Red Cross fund $1 million."
  28. ↑ SRC obituary Fennville paper? "...summers in Fennville-Douglas since
    1920..."
    MEC story to SHC 3/21/1999:
    "We went to Douglas when polio was bad. It got bad in the summer. We
    went the first year after Allan drowned in the swimming pool [9/1926],
    so Mother wouldn't have to look at the swimming pool."
  29. ↑ St. Louis, MO Directory 1929 NARA MF 434; 040428:
    "Chivvis Ada M. (Mrs. W. R.) Attorney-at-Law Suite 1122 Boatman's Bank
    Bldg 314 N. B'way Tel Chestnut 0867 r1437 McCausland...
    Chivvis, Dan'l S. parkkpr r3607N 11th
    Chivvis, Leland civ eng h 1437 McCausland av"
    newspaper clippings 8/10/1937-8/12/1937 Kate Moody Collection of
    Missouri Historical Society:
    "[P.D. 8-10-1937] Mrs. Ada C. Chivvis, Attorney, Dies in East... She
    resided alternately with her sons, Norman Chivvis, 116 Jefferson road,
    Webster Groves, and Leland Chivvis, 1437 McCausland avenue. She spent
    her summers with her daughter."
    "[Star 8-10-37] Mrs. William Chivvis, Lawyer, Dies in East.... Mrs.
    Chivvis, who lived with her son, Norman Chivvis at 116 Jefferson road,
    Webster Groves, had been visiting her daughter for two months."
    MEC memories:
    "Grandmother Chivvis lived four months with us, four months with Uncle
    Norman and four months with Aunt Ruth in the East. She would talk
    about how well Ruth's children colored; how they stayed within the
    lines. We hated them. And then years later we found out that she had
    bragged about us to them, and they hated us, too. Grandmother Chivvis
    was nice, and seemed very old to me. We used to stay up and play
    Russian Solitaire, a double solitaire game. I haven't played it
    since."
    Nancy Chivvis memories 8 pages
    p. 1:
    "We lived at 1437 McCausland Avenue because my father's job with the
    St. Louis Water Dep't required that he live in the city of St. Louis.
    The house was half a block inside the city limits."
    p. 2:
    "My grandmother used to live with us in those days. She went to a
    different church than we did. For some reason she needed help that
    Sunday getting to church on the street car, so I was detailed to see
    that she made it alright. I could not have been very old, 12?, but I
    walked up to the street car stop, helped her on, paid both our fares,
    saw to it that we got off at the right place (I had to help her with
    the step down) & then walk the block to her church. All I can
    remember of her church service was that they said the Lord's Prayer
    "forgive us our debts." Being an Episcopalian, I said "forgive us our
    trespasses" and was amazed at how the "S" sound carried all over the
    church."
    p. 5:
    "Our maid was Melinda. I don't recollect her last name. She stayed
    in the maid's room off the kitchen. Winter evenings we all sat around
    the grate [sic] fire (a coal fire) in the living room. My
    grandmother, who lived with us, taught Melinda how to knit, Mary-Ellen
    & I embroideried, and my mother would read to us."
    p. 8
    "When we were young, the second floor at the back of 1437 (McCausland
    Ave) was an unheated glassed in sleeping porch with the windows
    running from about two feet above the floor up to the ceiling. (It
    was probably that way when my mother and father bought the house. An
    odd arrangement.) My grandmother and I slept out there. I was always
    cold, in spite of comforters and blankets, so father bought me a hot
    water bottle at an Army-Navy store that sold surplus World War
    equipment. It was a metal one (to be sure it was durable or because
    rubber had not yet been perfected for hot water bottles?) When full
    of boiling hot water it had to be wrapped in a towel so it wouldn't
    burn me, but by the middle of the night it had cooled off and I would
    be waked up cuddling this icy cold piece of metal. I remember feeling
    sorry for the soldiers who couldn't just kick it onto the floor and
    creep in beside a nice warm grandmother."
  30. ↑ Mary Glasgow Curtis "Stories about Grandmother and Grandfather
    Chivvis" 8/99:
    "Grandfather Chivvis was a civil engineer and found it very difficult
    to get jobs during the Depression, as nothing much was being built.
    Once he found a $2 bill in a pair of white flannels that he hadn't
    worn in a long time. In those days that was enough to buy a week's
    worth of groceries. Mother thinks they bought eggs, a great treat.
    Grandmother Chivvis' maid offered to work for free during the
    Depression. It was unthinkable for a middle class family in those
    days not to have a maid."
  31. ↑ MEC to SHC 3/28/1999:
    "My mother had an Open House at 1437 for the Thanksgiving Day football
    game. For some reason she invited the Curtises. She used to play
    bridge with Isabel in Douglas. I guess they had gotten reacquainted
    or something. Anyway, Tom and Glion came.
    And that was where I first met Glion. Sue and Nancy had met Tom and
    Ernie that summer. I was away at camp or at Pensacola. I was talking
    about Philip Beal, and Sue and Nancy were talking about Tom and Ernie.
    There was a big rivalry between Washington University and St. Louis
    University. St. Louis University won, as usual. The Eberle's, next
    door, were good Catholics and rooted for St. Louis U. We always used
    to declare that we had the 'moral victory' because they only beat us
    by 20 points and they should have won by a lot more."
  32. ↑ Mary Glasgow Curtis "Stories About Grandmother and Grandfather
    Chivvis":
    "During this time Mother, Nancy and Sue had three dresses between
    them. The one that got the first date got first choice of which to
    wear. The loveliest was a periwinkle blue with a beaded top. "They
    looked so glamorous," said Sarah, the baby sister. The same system
    applied to shoes. Once AD wanted to take Nancy dancing. Mother had
    gotten the first date, with Daddy, and she had gotten the best shoes.
    But she was playing bridge at the Curtises. Nan came by the house on
    Gray Avenue and exchanged shoes with Mother, because no one would see
    Mother's shoes under the bridge table."
    MEC memories told to SHC 1999:
    "The three Chivvis girls (Mary Ellen, Nancy and Sue) called the Curtis
    boys (Glion, Tom and Ernie) with 3 offers: do you want to take us to
    movie? If they said "No." We'd suggest that we all go dutch, and if
    they said no to that, we said, "Fine how about if we take you to the
    movie?""
  33. ↑ William Shepley Curtis 4/99 to SHC:
    "I spent summers; I spent my whole year in New Hampshire at Dartmouth
    when I was going to college, 1932 - 1936. But in the summer of 1934 I
    came back.
    Mrs. Chivvis rented the Simonds farmhouse for two summers: 1934 and
    1935. I suppose she knew Glion and knew that he had brothers, and she
    had other daughters to marry. She had been going to Douglas before.
    I met Sue and Nancy in Pier Cove."
  34. ↑ William Shepley Curtis 4/99 to SHC:
    "I spent summers; I spent my whole year in New Hampshire at Dartmouth
    when I was going to college, 1932 - 1936. But in the summer of 1934 I
    came back.
    Mrs. Chivvis rented the Simonds farmhouse for two summers: 1934 and
    1935. I suppose she knew Glion and knew that he had brothers, and she
    had other daughters to marry. She had been going to Douglas before."
  35. ↑ Mary Institute Alumnae Directory 1985:
    "Class List - 1936...CHIVVIS, Susan (Mrs. Thomas Bradford
    Curtis)...ELMER, Frances (Mrs. William S. Curtis)" [51 girls in class]
  36. ↑ Mary Glasgow Curtis "Stories about Grandmother and Grandfather
    Chivvis" 8/99:
    "The other two [Mary Ellen and Susan] never graduated from college.
    Mother attended Washington University for a year and was going to
    major in physical education, but she married my father instead. Sue
    became an occupational therapist and worked as such for a while."
  37. ↑ MEC:
    2/27/99 Leland Chivvis' camping trips:
    "When WWII was declared, Sue was visiting us in New Zealand. She got
    a job in Hawaii. I can't remember if she was on her way back, but
    WWII was declared and Father told her to come straight home. He drove
    west to meet her and on their way back they made a camping trip of it
    and visited Yosemite or whatever."
    SHC copies from TBC files:
    "Leland and Sue drove and camped at:
    Sun. 8/13/39 Indian Flats Camp on Merced River below Yosemite.
    8/19/39 Clear Lake Col.
    8/21/39 Prairie Creek State Park
    8/26/39 Clarks Fork River
    8/28/39 North Shore Lake, McDonald, Glacier Park
    9/1-2/39 Indian Creek Campgrounds, Yellowstone"
  38. ↑ MEC:
    2/27/99 Leland Chivvis' camping trips:
    "When WWII was declared, Sue was visiting us in New Zealand. She got
    a job in Hawaii. I can't remember if she was on her way back, but
    WWII was declared and Father told her to come straight home. He drove
    west to meet her and on their way back they made a camping trip of it
    and visited Yosemite or whatever."
  39. ↑ MEC letter to family 5/18/1943:
    "Sue will be interested to hear that we killed a real tarantula the
    other night -- he was right at the door waiting to greet us as we came
    home, and I thought it was a good thing that she wasn't with us after
    seeing the fuss she made over a little old house spider when she was
    here."
  40. ↑ Nancy Chivvis note on back:
    "This pose is the same as a picture of Ellen Morgan Miller (Mrs.
    Charles Miller) holding two of her children: Maud, b. 1856 & Eliza
    ("Lil") born 1857."
  41. ↑ SHC copied from TBC files:
    "May 15, 1946 Sarah was may Queen; Liz was flower girl; MG Chivvis
    attended."
  42. ↑ Mary Glasgow Curtis Memories:
    "On leaving Spain we flew in on TWA, on a propeller airplane. During
    the night you could see the exhaust of the engines glowing red. I
    thought the plane might be on fire, but decided the grownups or the
    pilots would do something about it if it were. The sunrise behind us
    in the east was gorgeous as it like up the western sky with all shades
    of red, orange and gold.
    I believe we landed in New York. I was startled when the man running
    the elevator spoke to me in English, rather than Spanish. Did Daddy
    just tease us about staying in the Waldorf-Astoria or did we really
    stay there? Vaguely I remember a luxurious room and a lobby so big a
    kid could get lost in it.
    I think we traveled to St Louis by train. I had studied the map of
    the US and wondered why we the train went all the way to Washington
    State before leaving us in St. Louis. I guess I overheard the adults
    talking about the train passing through Washington, DC.
    We spent home leave with Sue, Tom and their kids on Florence Avenue in
    Webster Groves."
  43. ↑ SHC notes from TBC files:
    "June 1952 MGChivvis, SRC, Miss Adelaide Cherbonnier & Tig sail on Ile
    de France to get Liz & leave Tig, then visit Florence & Paris."
  44. ↑ Society Section newspaper clipping 1/18/1953:
    "One of the Chivvises' daughters, for instance, lives in Switzerland,
    andother lives in the East, and a third, Mrs. Thomas Bradford Curtis,
    whose husband is a congressman from Missouri, is in Washington for
    President-elect Eisenhower's inauguration."
  45. ↑ Saga of Susie scrapbook of SHC by MEC:
    "Tom Curtis visit to Panama Nov. 1954"
  46. ↑ George W. Lane letter 10/18/1960:
    "A partial distribution is being made of principal of Trust #2 created
    under the Trust Agreement dated March 4, 1957, made by Charles J.
    Miller. The distribution to you consisted of the following:
    Cash distribution of $525.00
    Less - Missouri inheritance taxes paid by the Trustees $39.43
    Check dated October 13, 1960 enclosed $485.57
    The remaining capital assets of this trust consist of cash of
    $3,543.73. The Internal Revenue Service has not yet audited our
    Federal tax returns. The retained assets are being held to cover any
    additional taxes and other final expenses.
    Yours very truly
    GEORGE W. LANE and LINDELL GORDON, JR., Trustees"
  47. ↑ George R. Wolf of Biggs, Hensley, Curtis and Biggs 5/9/1962:
    "Yesterday, May 8th, 1962, your mother and I met with Mr. Platt at
    A.G. Edwards & Sons, and arranged to transfer to each daughter,
    son-in-law, and each grandchild [25 people in all] 40 shares of
    Florida Power & Light Common stock. [1,000 shares in all] It will no
    doubt be several weeks before you actually receive these certificates,
    but I want you to have the following figures for your permanent
    records in connection with the shares which you will soon receive.
    The certificates and the shares represented thereby arise out of the
    purchase in March of 1954 of 400 shares of Florida Power at a cost of
    $42.55 each. As a result of two successive two-for-one splits, the
    cost of this stock was reduced to $10.64 per share. In the event of
    sale of any of this stock, that amount will be your base cost and not
    the market value on the date of transfer which will be something over
    $70.00. [net value about $2,400 per person, or $60,000 total] In
    other words, your cost is the donor's cost for the purpose of
    computing any capital gains. However, your mother has asked that I
    remind you of her earlier suggestion that should you desire to sell
    any Florida Power & Light stock it would be best for you to sell those
    shares which you received from your father's estate because of the
    much higher base and consequently lower capital gain as to those
    shares compared with the ones now being transferred to you."
  48. ↑ Post-Dispatch:
    "Nellie's descendants were aware of three of the Russell cards, but
    Susan Curtis found a fourth about 15 years ago while sorting out her
    mother's house shortly after Mary Chivvis' funeral. In a closet,
    Curtis found an old wicker-topped sewing chest, about 3 feet by 2
    feet, filled with colorful embroidery silks and cross-stitch patterns.
    "A less devoted housecleaner might have tossed out the materials in
    haste and saved only the chest. Fortunately, Curtis brought the whole
    chest home. Days later, at the bottom of the basket she found a piece
    of cardboard, turned it over and found it was a painting of a cowboy
    in a yellow rain slicker riding herd in the rain. It was a rather
    rough watercolor, but its cowboy in a yellow rain slicker reappears
    years later in a polished painting by Russell.
    "'We think the sewing chest originally had belonged to Nellie,' Curtis
    said. 'I don't know if mother ever knew about the card.' On the back
    of the cardboard, Curtis found a line saying it was a wedding present
    to Nellie."
  49. ↑ Mary Branch Glasgow Chivvis Will p. 2:
    "TWELFTH: All the rest, residue and remainder of the property which I
    may own at the time of my death, both real and personal, and of every
    kind and description, wherever the same may be situated, I give,
    bequeath and devise to my four daughters, MARY ELLEN CHIVVIS CURTIS,
    NANCY CHIVVIS QUACKENBUSH, SUSAN CHIVVIS CURTIS and SARAH CHIVVIS
    WILLCOCKSON, in equal shares, the share of any daughter who may then
    be deceased shall go to her then living descendants, per stirpes, and
    if no such descendant is then living, the same shall go in equal parts
    to the others of my daughters, or to their respective descendants then
    living, per stirpes, if any of them is then dead."
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