U.S. Social Security Act
Application for Account Number (SS-5)

155-07-6972
Name: John Dayton Dare
Address: 189 Broad St., Bridgeton, NJ
Employer: Wm. Laning & Son Co., Bridgeton, NJ
Age: 54
Date of Birth: August 18, 1884
Place of Birth: Bridgeton, NJ
Father: John Dayton Dare
Mother: Elizabeth Hildreth
Sex: Male
Color: White
Date: Sept. 30, 1938
Signed: John Dayton Dare

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Original Source Citation:
John Dayton Dare, 155-07-6972, 30 September 1938, Application for Account Numbers (Form SS-5), Social Security Administration, Baltimore, Maryland.

My grandfather worked in the forests of Idaho as part of the Civilian Conservation Corp. The picture below is another newspaper clipping I found among my grandmother’s things. The CCC began in April 1933 and the age requirement was 18-25. My grandfather turned 26 in September 1933 so if this was May 1933 (my best guess, see below) he only just qualified. There was a later amendment to the program that allowed older veterans to enroll. My grandfather was also in the military at one time, so this may be later than 1933. My grandfather is on the far right.

At Conservation Camp
Photo by Sylvanus Doughty
The four above youths from Pitman were taken to the Citizens’ Conservation Camp, May 31, by Sylvanus Doughty, local Director of Emergency Relief. They enlisted for a period of six months and will work in the forests. The names of the youths, reading from left to right, are: David Maguire, 128 First avenue; William Groome, Waverly and Linden avenues; Harry Clark Johnson, 25 Circle; Orville Wilson Garrison, 223 Boulevard.

The reverse side of the clipping appears to be one of those “X Years Ago Today” articles with news from 1908. If the article was “25 years ago” this would date the article as 1933. The local news being Pitman and the byline being “–Grove News” leads me to assume this clipping was from the local Pitman paper, The Pitman Grove Review.

Chris… …ng and fa… have b… …adford, Pa., f… months, are spending the summe[r]… home of Mrs. Behling’s pare[nts] Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Watson, North Broadway.
The Episcopalians are holding services in the K.G.E. Hall every Sunday evening.
Chester McGear, of Philadelphia, is building a cottage at the corner of Grant and Lincoln avenues, Pitman Summit. He and his family expect to occupy it about July 1, 1908.
“The Review” Directory of Pitman for 1908 will be out about July 15.
John M. Hitchinson and family, of Camden, are down for the season at their West avenue cottage.
Herman P. Hurff is now engaged in house moving and raising, as well as building. He is a good mechanic and understands his business.
Childs’ Grocery Company will open a branch store in the new McCowan Building, Pitman avenue. This is their 99th store.
Make your cottage and grounds look nice. Paint, flowers and plants will do it. –Grove News.
The new post office will soon be under roof. The metal ceiling is ready and so is the furniture and fixtures. –Grove News.

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This is a newspaper clipping I found among my grandmother’s things after she passed away. I don’t know which paper it was from, but according to Wikipedia, passenger service on the Penns Grove line ended on July 8, 1950. My Grandfather is on the far right.

Farewell Handclasp for Crew of Penns Grove Train
Walter Zane, a representative of the Road Foreman of Engines Office  of the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines, bids farewell to the crew of the local train which made its last run between Penns Grove and Woodbury on Friday. Zane, a former engineer on the local branch, gives a warm handclasp to Richard L. Callahan, of Camden, conductor, while W.J. Dolde, of Haddonfield, engineer, and O.W. Garrison, of Pitman, brakeman, look on. This is the first time the passenger service on the local branch has been discontinued in the 78 years it has been in existence.

There are obituaries on the reverse side, so I am including those in case anyone out there is researching these families.

Obituaries
Mrs. Mabel Grohmann
Pennsville– Mrs. Mabel M. Grohman, 23, of 9 Weinberg Street, died July 7 in the Salem County Memorial Hospital.
Funeral Services were held Monday at 2 p.m. from the Ashcraft Funeral Home, Penns Grove, with interment in Lawnside Cemetery,  Woodstown. The Rev. Samuel Y. Weidler, pastor of the Pennsville Assembly of God, officiated.
Surviving are: Her husband, John; a son, Harry, 2 years old; a daughter, Susan, 1 month old; her father, Lester Carvin; three sisters, Dorothy, Barbara and Nancy Carvin; two brothers, Lester and Frank Carvin, all of Pennsville.

Roderic Moriarty
Roderic Moriarty, 48, of Glen Burnie, Md., formerly of Ordmont, died July 7 in the South Baltimore General Hospital, where he had been a patient for a week.
During the war, Mr. Moriarty was employed at the Delaware Ordnance Depot.
Funeral services were held on Tuesday in St. Louis, Mo.
Surviving are: His widow, Vanita; two daughters, Mrs. Joseph Buyarski, of Ordmont, and Miss Betty Moriarty of Glen Burnie; a son, William J., Glen Burnie; one grandson; and two brothers, G.L. Moriarty and D.W. Moriarty, of St. Louis, Mo.

Mrs. Linda Edwards
Woodstown– Mrs. Linda E. Edwards, 62, of Spring Garden street, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Harold Horner, on Washington street, July 9.
She was a member of the Methodist Church and the Daughters of America…

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Orville Wilson Garrison (20 September 1907 – 22 June 1968)

Orville Wilson Garrison, circa 1930’s

Born:

20 September 1907 in Camden, Camden, New Jersey, United States^1,2,3

Married:

24 July 1937 in Elkton, Cecil, Maryland, United States to Naomi Evelyn Carman⁴

Died:

22 June 1968 in Woodbury, Gloucester, New Jersey, United States⁵

Parents:

John S. Garrison (26 Feb 1877 – aft 1930)^2,5
Mamie E. Ware (3 Jul 1874 – 8 Feb 1960)^2,5

Spouse:

Naomi Evelyn Carman (22 July 1905 – 3 November 1999)

Children:

Carol Lucille Garrison

Ancestors
Orville is a descendant of Samuel L. Garrison & Lydia Burch, Ansel Irelan & Elizabeth Ayars, Robert Ayars, George Ware & Naomi Ackley, Jacob Coleman & Rebecca Venable, Arthur Venable & Rebecca Slim and Hudson Craner & Phebe Clark.

Biography
Orville Wilson Garrison was born on 20 Sep 1907 in Camden, Camden, New Jersey, United States.^1,2,3 He lived at 120 Church St. in Bridgeton, Cumberland, New Jersey, United States on 15 Apr 1910.⁶ He was baptized on 9 Jun 1912 in Camden, Camden, New Jersey, United States.³ Orville lived at 919 S. Fifth in Camden, Camden, New Jersey, United States on 9 Jun 1912.³ He lived at 18 Parker in Bridgeton, Cumberland, New Jersey, United States on 1 Jan 1920.⁷ He lived at West Spokane Street in Seattle, King, Washington, United States on 1 Apr 1930.⁸ On 1 Apr 1930 Orville was a common laborer in Seattle, King, Washington, United States.⁸ He lived at 37 Arbustus in Pitman, Gloucester, New Jersey, United States on 1 Apr 1940.⁹ He died on 22 Jun 1968 at the age of 60 in Woodbury, Gloucester, NJ, USA.⁵ Orville was buried on 25 Jun 1968 in Hillcrest Memorial Park, Hurffville, Gloucester, New Jersey, United States.^{5, 10} Orville was a Brakeman and a Conductor for the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines.¹¹

Last updated: 29 April 2017

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Citations

1. New Jersey, State Department of Health, birth certificate (1907), Orville Wilson Garrison; Division of Vital Statistics and Administration, Trenton.
2. Camden County, New Jersey, birth certificate (1907), Orville Wilson Garrison; Office of Registrar of Vital Statistics, Camden.
3. Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Kaighn Avenue Methodist Episcopal, Camden, NJ, Orville Wilson Garrison; digital images, Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, Historic Church and Town Records, 1708-1985 (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2451 : accessed 13 September 2012).
4. Cecil County, Maryland, marriage certificate (1937), Orville W. Garrison & Naomi E. Carman; Clerk of the Circuit Court, Elkton.
5. New Jersey, State Department of Health, death certificate 29959 (1968), Orville W. Garrison; Office of Vital Statistics and Registry, Trenton.
6. 1910 U.S. Census, Cumberland County, New Jersey, population schedule, Ward 4, Bridgeton, enumeration district (ED) 101, sheet 10B, line 83, dwelling 270, family 270, John Garrison; digital images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1727033 : accessed 5 November 2013).
7. 1920 U.S. Census, Cumberland County, New Jersey, population schedule, Ward 4, Bridgeton, enumeration district (ED) 138, sheet 12A, line 38, dwelling 326, family 338, John S. Garrison; digital images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1488411 : accessed 5 November 2013).
8. 1930 U.S. Census, King County, Washington, population schedule, Seattle, enumeration district (ED) 17-187, sheet 48A, line 30, family 482, Rooming house of Eugene H. Bowman; digital images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1810731 : accessed 5 November 2013).
9. 1940 U.S. Census, Gloucester County, New Jersey, population schedule, Pitman, enumeration district (ED) 8-42, sheet 7B, line 55, household 17, Mary Garrison; digital images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2000219 : accessed 7 June 2013).
10. Find A Grave, Find A Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com : accessed 9 November 2013), Orville W. Garrison, Memorial # 16195964.
11. Personal knowledge

Last night over at Geneamusings, Randy Seaver had for his Saturday Night Genealogy Fun a game of ancestor roulette. The ancestor he landed on was his great-grandmother about whom he had this to say:

I called her “Nana” – as did my mother. She was the earliest born person that I remember being with.

She was born in 1868, so I was impressed by that. The earliest born person I remember is my Great-Uncle Milt who was born in 1900. I had some great-uncles born in the 1890’s whom I probably met but don’t remember. My Uncle Milt had no other family living besides us. He never had children and his only brother, my grandfather, had only my mother. So, Uncle Milt would join us for Thanksgiving and other holidays. When he passed away, I went with my mom to his house and it was like stepping into another time. I came away with a penny from 1919, an old fountain pen and three old 78 records. None of those things have survived to present day, I am sad to report.

Compared to 1868, 1900 is not that long ago. My grandmothers were born in 1904 and 1905 and I knew them better than Uncle Milt. Through the stories of my grandmother Naomi Carman Garrison especially, the early twentieth century was not so far removed.

What about my grandmother? Who was the oldest person she knew? My mind went immediately to her grandmother Catherine Hornef Carman. This was not likely the oldest person in her family my grandmother ever met, but she is the only one my grandmother told me about. It is not much, but this may be all that is ever “remembered” about my 2nd great-grandmother. My grandmother told me she remembered her grandmother as a large, happy German woman and remembered her cooking in the kitchen. My grandmother was only seven years old when her grandmother passed away, so one can forgive the vagueness.

Some things I have learned about Catherine Hornef Carman since:

• She was born 1 July 1845 in Otterberg, Germany to Jacob Hornef and Katharina Faber.
• She was christened at the Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche in Otterberg shortly thereafter.
• They immigrated to Philadelphia when she was a baby and they left Germany “secretly.”
• She had two sisters Eva Amelia who married Andrew Mahla and settled in Marcus Hook and Mary who has proven elusive.
• Her sisters were both born in Pennsylvania.
• She was married in 1862 to Elon Carman at the First Independent Christian Church in Philadelphia.
• She died 9 April 1913 and is buried in Mt. Moriah cemetery in Philadelphia¹