1911 Gladys Hiestand graduation picture -May

Written on back in GHU's handwriting:
Gladys Hiestand Uible
Commencement 1911
Hillsboro, O

 

This picture of Gladys (standing 4th from right) and presumably the other female graduates of Hillsboro High School, Class of 1911, was turned into a postcard.  

Photo of CJ, Gladys & Mary in Westboro c1918

Cecil on far left, Gladys on far right, the child is Mary Uible Horton 
c1918

 

1910s-20s-30s - C.J. Uible - Multi-business Entrepreneur

Postcard Print.  HH writes on back: Store in Westboro, Ohio about 1913.  Folks lived next door [in a house] which burned.  From N.V. we use to go once a month to Westboro for groceries to help the Dudleys [who were buying out the store] pay for the store.  The building still stands 

 

Background: Business Stationery
Top left: Back of picture: "C.J. Uible in foreground - road job" appears to be on tracks
Top Right: CJ posing with c1925 - in his later life he had a fondness for Black Cadillacs, maybe this was his first one
Bottom:  "Harold on tar truck near Gratis, Ohio"  on OH-73 SW of Dayton

"Station at Morrow, Ohio that we had for a few years"

1911 Ira Franklin & Mary Ellen (Fawley) Hiestand

 

Ira Franklin Hiestand (1852-1912) &
Mary Ellen Fawley Hiestand (1853-1929) in 1911 
Married Sept. 19, 1871

Father & Mother of 

Harry Clarence Hiestand (1872-1967)

Luna Hiestand Mitchell (1874-1970)

Dorsa D. Hiestand (1876-1959)

Fawley Hiestand (1879-1881)

Gladys Hiestand Uible (1892-1993)

1910 Wedding Invitation Brown/Scott -Nov.10

 

Outside envelope postmarked 10 Nov 1910
Inside envelope addressed to M/M N.W. Ballantyne and Robert Brown Ballantyne

Mr. and Mrs. John Rush Scott

request the honor of your presence

at the wedding reception of their daughter

Leora

and

Mr. Robert Morrow Brown

on the evening of Wednesday, the thirtieth of November

nineteen hundred and ten

at seven o'clock

Thirty-one South Main Cross Street

Somerset, Pennsylvania

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Notes:

Robert "Bert" Morrow Brown (1877-1946) was the older and only sibling of Lucie Sarah Brown Ballantyne (1880-1957).  His bride, Leora Hay Scott Brown (1880-1944), was from Somerset PA, about 65 miles SW of Pittsburgh.  Her father was a lawyer.  After marriage the couple lived in New Cumberland.  The 1910 census shows that Bert was also a lawyer, but in 1920 his occupation is listed as Newspaper Editor.

Red Roses True Love - June 8, 1910

Originally posted Dec. 5, 2009

Red Roses True Love, originally uploaded by morgazgc.

June 8, 1910, originally uploaded by morgazgc.

Tuesday, Well Mamma I received a postal from Dorsa saying that they would stay one day longer if O.K. with me & of course it was. So will not arrive home until Sat. night. I received a letter from Cecil today & he had intended to come to H.[Hillsboro] Sat. evening but I wrote & told him not to come until Sunday morning. But do not go to any extra work. Nurse going away to-morrow, Sis is feeling fine. We had several callers. I will have a pleasant surprise for you when I arrive home. We are still eating strawberries. I made a cake Sat. & was all gone Sun night. Robert ate 3 pieces for dinner & 2 for supper & he is still alive. Had a shower this morning. I guess I still have enough money to get home on. G.H.

I hope Grandma's Mamma had good eyesight, otherwise she would have needed a powerful magnifying glass to make out Grandma's small handwriting. Mary Ellen Hiestand (Mamma) was 55 in 1910. The mention of changing her plans to come home a day later because of Dorsey (1877-1959) might indicate they had traveled together and then he had gone on to somewhere else since he had to send her a card to tell her of the change of plans -- at least nice to know she wasn't traveling alone. I like the signs of humor in the cake part and of course the mention of Cecil -- still two years before their wedding.

1910 May Calendar postcard

Uncle Dorsey received a lot of postcards in this era, most advertisements such as this one.  Presumably he shared them with his younger sister, our grandmother, Gladys Hiestand Uible.

As a refresher to his place in the family:

• Dorsa D. Hiestand was born Dec. 31, 1876, died March 10, 1959.  He is the great-uncle of the Uible-Horton cousins.
• He was the third child of Ira Franklin (1851-1912) and Mary Ellen Fawley Hiestand (1853-1929).
  
• His siblings:
  Harry Clarence Hiestand (1872-1967)
  Luna Hiestand Mitchell (1874-1970),
  Fawley Hiestand (1879-1881)
  Gladys Ethel Hiestand Uible (1892-1983)
  
• In 1900-1902 he spent some time in Warrensburg, Missouri where he attended Normal School (Teachers College)  [Note: Aunt Luna moved to Missouri in in 1901.]
• Married Margery Herrell (1881-1969) from Missouri on May 10, 1904 in Johnson, Missouri.  Before 1910 the family had moved to Hillsboro.
  
• Dorsa and Margery had four children who would be 1st cousins 1x removed:
  Mary Georgeana "Mugs" Hiestand Scarborough, 1905-1996
  Aileen Hiestand Evans, 1907-1988
  Margery Doris Hiestand Hilliard, 1909-1982
  Frank Ira Hiestand, 1911-1979
  
• Occupation:
  1910 the census reports he was a Grocer
  1920 - Farmer/Grocer
  1930 - Farmer
  1940 - Supervisor of A.A.A. Program

2020 GHU makes news -Apr.21

The following is copied from an article by Jeff Gilliland about a Hillsboro City Schools Board of Education Meeting held on April 19, 2020.  First news about the donation of Gladys' banners was received from GG and then again by Patty Walker Ryan.  I was beginning to wonder if this was something that had been mentioned to me and I had forgotten or what was the story?

"Also noted was the donation of two banners by the family of Gladys Hiestand Uible, a 1911 Hillsboro High School graduate, which evidently come from the time she was attending the school. One of the banners is purple and white and the other is purple and gold. Davis said they will likely be placed on some sort of plaque in the board office or high school office." -- The Times Gazette, April 21, 2020.

Hillsboro Superintendent Tim Davis holds a pair of 1911 era banners that were recently donated to the school.

The following clipping comes from the Highland County Press:

Then in yesterday's mail came the answer to the mystery in a letter from Angela Horton which included the thank you note from Hillsboro City Schools.  Angela reports that the banners "were well done, sewn, wool felt.  Not printed or "stamped" as they are today . . . and her name is on the back."

THANK YOU!

Dear Angela,

Thank you so much for the banners, they are awesome!!  I will have them put on display either at our high school or in our boardroom.  I will also make a name plate that reads, donated by the family of Gladys Hiestand, Hillsboro High School Class of 1911.  I will also present them at our board meeting  Monday April 20th.

Thank you again for donating a great piece of our school's history.

Tim Davis
Superintendent
Hillsboro High School class of 1997

1918 Nat Ballantyne with Auto Group

1918 Nat Ballantyne back left, on Auto Trip to Deland

Seems a bit strange that only Nat is wearing a light colored suit, if this auto party is traveling in July in Florida.  Did read that Deland, known as "the Athens of Florida" and the home of Stetson University, opened a new train station in 1918, to encourage travelers from the northeast to visit.

From Take the Highway: Crosswords Series - Deland, Florida

• In 1918, DeLand built its own train station on New York Avenue a few minutes west of town.  The station is located on what it now Old New York Avenue; old but charming and still maintaining the rural character it’s had for the past 98 years.  The station is built among the trees, complete with a dirt parking lot, and hardly a house or building in sight.  Today, the DeLand station serves as an Amtrak passenger train stop.

1918 Nat, Lucie, Robert & Virginia Ballantyne -March

1918 Nat, Lucie, Robert & Virginia Ballantyne -March "Taken at the [Clarendon] station the morning Nat went away. March 1918"

Nathaniel Wallace Ballantyne - age 49 (1868-1949)
Lucie Sarah Brown Ballantyne - age 37 (1880-1957)
Robert Brown Ballantyne - age 8 (1910-1956)
Irene Virginia Ballantyne Dailey - age 3 (1914-1983)

William Arnold Horton 1914-1994

Uncle Bill is one of the few relatives I can think of that were born and died in a "4" year.  The following is from some typed notes that may have been turned into his obituary, but since his birthday comes earlier in the year this will serve as a summary of his life.

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William Arnold Horton was born January 31, 1914 in East Springfield an unincorporated village in Jefferson County, Ohio, the son of Joseph and Selina Weals Horton.  He was the third of four children.  He grew up in East Springfield and graduated from Amsterdam High School in 1932.  Amsterdam, a town of about 500, is about five miles from East Springfield.

Bill attended Indiana University at Indianapolis in Business Administration.

On June 24, 1942 he married Mary Uible at Columbus, Ohio.  They met at Fort Hayes, Columbus, Ohio in Civil Service 5th Corp. Area Medical Corp.

A veteran of World War II, he served as a Master Sergeant in the Medical Unit in Calcutta, India.  Upon returning to the States, he resided in Hillsboro, Ohio for seven years.  In 1952 he relocated his family to Lake Worth, Florida and this remained his home until his death.

The last five years of his life he enjoyed his summer months in New Vienna and he was an active member in the Senior Citizens Center and the Methodist Church.

He became licensed as a stock broker for the Brokerage Security Firms of Sutro Brothers of Palm Beach, Hirsch and Co., and DuPont, Glore, Forgan, Inc., of Lake Worth, and Dean Witter of West Palm Beach, Florida.

He was an active member of Calvary United Methodist Church, serving as lay leader, member of Board of Trustees, Finance committee and other leadership capacities.  He was a life long member of the Masonic Grand Lodge, F. & A.M. of Florida and was also a Past President of the Lake Worth Lions club.

He enjoyed playing golf and was a member of the 9 Hoelrs of the Lake Worth Golf Course.

His family included his wife, Mary Uible Horton (1913-2012), three sons, Joseph Uible Horton, Cris Weals Horton (Angela), and Robert Hiestand Horton (Cindy) and a daughter, Marianne Horton Kintner (Larry); born between 1947 and 1956; and six grandchildren.

1913 MUH Life Begins - Aug. 8

1913 Mary Uible Horton Birth Announced 

The News-Herald. (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, August 14, 1913, Page 5, Image 5

2003 MUH 90th Birthday - Aug. 8

1912 Postcard from Cecil to Gladys - Sept. 18

This is one of a very few cards that is written by Cecil.  He must have been traveling around, by train we can assume, for his grocery business.  Transcription follows.

Gooddale Park, Columbus, Ohio postcard, postmarked 18-Sep-1912.

1912 Postcard from CJ to Gladys Uible - Sept. 18

[postmarked 2:30 PM Sep 18 1912.]
Dear Glady:
In Col today.  Was in Cincy yesterday.  Get home tonight.  Hope to see you soon and will tell you how much miss am I. [I miss you? mess?]  I hope you are feeling allright by now.  With love, Cecil.

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Gooddale Park has either changed the spelling of the name to Goodale Park or is spelled incorrectly on this card.  Assuming that it is spelled incorrectly, the park is in the Victorian Village area of Columbus, and served as a staging area for new recruits to the Union Army in 1861.

1912 Wedding of Cecil J Uible and Gladys Hiestand - June 10

The clipping from Hillsboro newspaper is scanned below.  The announcement appears on page 5 (of 8), column 5 (of 6) of the weekly News-Herald.  Their application for a marriage license also appears in this issue of the newspaper, on page 8, column 2.  Transcription follows.

Uible-Hiestand Wedding Announcement - June 13,1912 Hillsboro News-Herald

Uible---Hiestand.

Monday, June 10, [1912], at 6 p.m., Miss Gladys Hiestand became the bride of Cecil J. Uible, of Westboro, Rev. Colley officiating.  There were no invited guests on account of the illness of the bride's father.  The bridal couple left on the 6:30 train for Atlantic City.  They will spend a fortnight in eastern parts.

Postcards from their honeymoon can be found here:
Honeymoon Card #1 - Oyster Stew
Honeymoon Card #2 - Rolling Chairs on the Boardwalk
Honeymoon Card #3 - Absecon Lighthouse
Honeymoon Card #4 - Back home

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The headlines in Hillsboro that week included Court News, Public School Honor Roll, Teachers Employed, Agricultural Statistics, Big Celebration planned (July 4th) and In Memory of Deceased (two prominent men, Judge Gardner and Ulric Sloane).

Aunt Luna Hiestand Mitchell

Aunt Luna Hiestand Mitchell (1874-1970) was the older sister of Gladys Hiestand Uible, being born  18 years before Grandma.  She married Robert G. Mitchell in Hillsboro on February 20, 1901 and they moved to Mound City, Missouri.

Mitchell-Hiestand Wedding Clipping 28Feb1901 Hillsboro Ohio News-Herald

They had six children: Ellen (1901), Roberta (1904), Lois (1908), Robert (1910), Gladys (1912) and Luna (1915).  They later moved from Mound City to Columbia, Missouri, in order for the children to attend college there.  Robert died in the 1930s.  We visited Aunt Luna on the trip west in 1962 and she visited New Vienna several times.  HH reports that Aunt Luna was the slowest eater he ever knew – even slower than Grandma!  Evidently a Hiestand family saying was that it may take a couple of hours to fix a meal so we shouldn't gulp it down in 10 minutes.

Robert and Luna Hiestand Mitchell c1915 postcard

 

Revised the date on the (above) back of the postcard after realizing the children mentioned with the cameras would have been a bit older. Message is quite faded but was written by Luna to her mother (Mary Ellen Fawley Hiestand) and/or sister, Gladys.  Transcription follows.

This picture Ellen snap-shot as Rob. & I came from the Chare-Park at the Evangalistic (sic) service in the afternoon.  They all thought it so inferior on account of the light.  They did not want me to send it but here goes –!


Roberta will take some shortly with the children at play with her kodak.  – Luna

Grandma & Aunt Mary - the early years +

I'm scanning some of the pictures Marianne gave me of her Mother's which I need to return to her next month.  Here are a few of the earliest:

 Gladys Hiestand Uible & Friend c1910 postcard

 Gladys Hiestand Uible with Mary Uible Horton 1915 - postcard

1916 Gladys Hiestand Uible (23), Mary Uible Horton (2½) with pony - postcard

Mary Uible Horton: The Early Years - Part 1

Mary Uible Horton August 8, 1913 - March 2, 2012

Written by the Hortons for Aunt Mary's 90th Birthday [with notes added by Catherine].  Transcription follows.

A Mary Life . . .  Reflections and Special Recollections

All of us pretty much know what Mom has been up to the last few decades, but what about "Mary – the Early Years"?  Well we went to the source and asked Mom to reflect back over four score and ten years ago and share some of her special recollections.  So, with a little help from other family members and in her own words, here goes some things you many not have been aware of, may be worthwhile remembering yourself or may just be some tidbits that you'll get a kick out of.


In the Beginning . . .
I was born at my Grandmother's home in Hillsboro, Ohio.  I was a "Preemie."  We didn't have a special hospital.  I weighed less than five pounds.  They fed me Eagle Brand Milk (no wonder my teeth were so bad).  When I went riding in the carriage, Mother was sure to put a bonnet on my head because I had a head shaped like an "egg"; but Mother admitted I had a cute face!

My Dad built and owned a grocery store in a "hick town" called Westboro, Ohio.  He went to work on the local train.  We lived in the "big house" with my Grandmother.  Grandpa died before Mother was married. [Actually he died on 27-July-1912, about six weeks after the wedding.]  We had indoor plumbing!  Spoiled!!  The family lived on a large estate at the top of the hill.  The big excitement was running to the window to see the electric car [also called an interurban, traction or electric railroad, which ran from Hillsboro to Cincinnati from 1906-1920, GHU wrote a postcard about riding this, see September 2, 1910 Grandma Takes Traction.]  Imagine seeing the first car going down the hill!

I'm sure Dad got tired of taking the train back and forth, so they decided to move to Westboro.  Dad had a wagon and a team of horses to haul our bit of "this and that" . . . . to keep house.  We drove the back roads through the farm country.  We caused quite a commotion . . . .  They thought we were gypsies!  I didn't understand???


I take a bite outa life . . .
Our house was in what they called a row house . . . houses "knit" together and we lived in one next to the store.  No "niceties" here.  I'd say we "roughed" it . . . outdoor toilet and the like!!  We learned to adjust to the new life style.  I wasn't allowed to go in the  store by myself.  WE had a young couple who were clerks and they kind of watched me.  I saw men come in and buy tobacco to chew.  One day, I sneaked in the store to grab a piece of tobacco.  Boyeee, it tasted terrible!  Couldn't believe men chewed this stuff.


My special playmate . . .
Most of the families lived on farms.  Not too many lived in towns.  No kids!  Just Walter Nichols [1913-2007, he became Clinton County Superintendent of Schools] whose Father lived up the street from us.  His father was a blacksmith (shoed horses).  Walter would run down to my place and we would play on the swing.  His Mother was afraid he'd hurt me.  Walter always had a knife or some "weapon."  She would come down and take him home.  I kept in touch with Walter, off and on, over the years.  He ended up as Superintendent of the local school in that area (years later consolidated).


What to do when there's no TV . . .
For entertainment we took horse and buggy rides on Sunday.  We always went to the Methodist Church.  Our front door had a big window facing public buildings and they would show movies and I could see movies, such as they were!  Dad and I liked musicals (that was years later when we moved back to Hillsboro).  He would bribe me to eat my spinach and then he would take me to the movies.  In summer, we had those large metal tubs to play in the water.  Indoors, the metal tubs served as our bathtub.  We took baths in the kitchen.  Also I remember making rooms (playing house) out of the fallen leaves in Autumn.  What a far cry that is from today!

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To be continued . . .

Gladys Hiestand (Uible) - High School pictures

Recently obtained a copy of the 1908 Hillsboro Ohio High School magazine, The Trident, published at graduation time in 1908.  Although there are class pictures of the high school classes of 1908, 1909, 1910 and 1911, unfortunately none of them have the students identified.  Based on Gladys' graduation picture she is fairly easy to pick out in her class picture.

Hillsboro Ohio HS Class of 1911, as freshman in 1908.  Students are not identified in this picture printed in the HS magazine, The Trident, Commencement Number 1908.  Gladys Hiestand is 2nd from left in top row.

Gladys Hiestand (Uible) - High School Graduation 1911

1911-1913 and 1925 were important years in the life of Gladys and our lives today.

• 1911 June High School Graduation, Hillsboro Ohio High School
• 1912 June Marriage to Cecil J Uible
• 1913 August Birth of Mary Uible Horton
• 1925 October Birth of Harold Hiestand Uible

Serena Uible Reynolds & "Four Little Kittens"

Serena Uible Reynolds (sister of CJ Uible) and "the four little kittens" Helen, Marjorie, Serena, Lucile.  Blanchester, Ohio 1919, before Leslie's birth.

Serena Uible Reynolds 1882-1963, was one year older than Cecil J. Uible.  Her husband, Leslie Clinton Reynolds died in 1924 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.  She died in San Mateo, California on December 20, 1963.  They were moving to California for his health.  Not sure if they made it to California or if he died en route.  Since daughter Serena was born in California they had obviously been to California previously.

Helen Reynolds Hancock 1910-1963, married Paul W. Hancock, Jr. (1915-2002) before 1942, she died in Los Angeles on July 31, 1963.

Marjorie Reynolds Guild born June 22, 1912 and died February 17, 1994 in Los Angeles.  Married to Henry Guild.

Serena Reynolds Pugh born April 17, 1914 in Kern, California, and died February 4, 1968 in San Francisco.  She married Keith E. Pugh and had a son Keith, Jr., who has 3 daughters and two sons.  One of Keith Jr.'s sons, Scott Christopher Pugh died in 2004.

Lucile Reynolds (1-Robert Triplett, 2- Dustin Hunnicut) Ito 1916-?.  Her last husband Naboru Ito.

Leslie Clinton Reynolds 1922-1998, born three years after this picture.  He married Joan Berry.  He became Leslie Sr., when his son, Jr. was born and he also had a daughter.  Leslie Jr. has two daughters.
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Here's another picture which MV originally posted in 2008:

Supposedly L-R: Harold Uible, Gladys Uible, Leslie, Serena, Lucille Reynolds and CJ Uible.  Something seems funny though if Leslie is supposed to be three years older than HH.  Could this be one of Serena's grandsons?  Keith Pugh, Jr. maybe who was born in 1937?  Could be a son of Lucille except I don't know if she had any sons....

Harold, Gladys and CJ traveled to California in 1936 spending some time with the Reynolds, where HH learned to ride a bike on Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles..  See this post: 1936 & 1944 trips - California and Florida for more information.  [Some of the pictures need to be reposted though.]
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There may be more information about Aunt Serena's family in my possession, but this is what is currently at hand.  Corrections and additions welcome and I'll post more when I find it!

Honeymoon card #4 - Back home

CJ and Gladys' honeymoon is over and they have returned to Westboro, sending a card in the 10am mail to Hillsboro to say they'll be there on the 4:00 train in the afternoon.  Nothing too exciting, but still always glad to hear from relatives.

Capitol, Washington DC postcard c1910

US Capitol postcard sent 6/21/1912 to Mrs. Ira F. Hiestand from her daughter, Gladys Hiestand Uible

Fri. morning [June 21, 1912]
We have just finished eating our breakfast.  Arrived in Westboro at 7 this morning.  Will be home on the 4 this afternoon.  We are both well.  Hope you are all getting along all right.  --G.H.U.