He was the oldest son of John and Etta in this Ulster County
town, listed with them in the 1900 and 1910 censuses, born 1893. It seems he married Georgiana Lavanture about 1913 in
Bridgeport, CT (where his two older sisters lived in 1910). Their only son was born there in 1914 and
by 1918, Harry was back in Ulster County where he referenced his mother, not
his wife, on his WW I registration card.
I have searched and searched for him in the 1920 and 1930
records without success. He and
Georgiana evidently went their separate ways shortly after their son’s birth
and were divorced before 1922 when she married Albert Dawsey. Their son Bernie was found in Bridgeport with
his mother (listed as a WIDOW) and maternal grandmother in 1920 and with his
mother and step-father in the 1930 census. But where was Harry? And what
happened to Bernie?
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