Cooking and Drinking
Cooking and Drinking
​Utilizing the monkey see monkey do approach
Cooking and Drinking
Cooking and Drinking
Cooking and Drinking
Cooking and Drinking
Frank Able Fay
Jan. 13th 1889 - Dec. 24th 1943 (53)
Wife: Carrie ??
Wife: 2 Ella Vergiels
1900
1900 Census - Town, address…...
Very interesting -Joel Fay and family lived right next door the the Wade family. Claude married Harriet Wade. Harriet will be born in 1901 (next year)
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​1910 census Frank single age 20 living in PA with family "No Ernest" shot by Frank? Is that why he left for NY
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1915 census married to Carrie and living in Buffalo
1917 WWi draft card June 5th says married and living in Buffalo
1925 census he is married to Carrie Buffalo
1934 city directory Frank is married to Carrie (so far married to Carrie 19 years) Living at 14 Kimmel Ave. Buff.
NO Record of a divorce from Carrie or new marriage with Frank
Still looking
1942 June 27th 1942 WW2 draft card says married Buffalo seeing that this is only one year before death and his draft card says he's married. I'm assuming he's with Ella V. at this point.
1943 December 24th Frank dies - married to Ella Vergill (sp?) Buffalo
1903
Frank Fay was the one who accidentally shot his younger brother during a hunting accident. Ernest died the next day from the result of the shooting.
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​See this newspaper clipping from the Buffalo news August 5th, 1903 Shooting took place in Corry, PA
Frank born 1890
Ernest Bourne 1903/4
Making him 10 and Frank about 13.
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I wonder if it was after the death of Ernest when Frank decided to move to New York. Look for hime moving sometime after 1904.
1910
1910 Census Ella's family
Making Ella's DOB 1891
I found Frank's 2nd Wife. Name is: Ella Vergiels or Vergill
I believe this is who he was married to when he died in 1943 as per newspaper clippings.
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Here is a 1910 census
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She is 19 and living at home:
225 Center Road Buffalo, NY 2.5 miles from where Claude built his home.
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​There is roughly a five or six year window where he could have divorced, Carrie and Married Ella between 1935 and 1941. I'll be looking for any kind of divorce or marriage records covering this time.
1915
1915 Census
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Frank and Carrie married here- no kids
1917
​His World War I handwritten draft card shows he was born January 13, 1889 but look below, his World War II draft card says he was born January 13, 1890 two years off on official documents. Actually, 1889 seems more credible because there is about six years between him and Claude and Claude was born 1895
BUT, then in the 1925 census again they write his DOB as 1890
Frank was working at the American car company foundry in April 27th 1942 as per this WW2 card. An Internet search reveals that this company was totally involved with the WW@ war effort.
1925
17 Melvin Pl. Buffalo, NY
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Frank 36
Carrie 38
Claude 29 Single
Anna Stewart- border
1928
All Frank Fay's items
Carrie is reportedly native American.
Frank, Marie held by Carrie (Franks wife) and Claud 1928
Carrie Fay (Franks wife) and Marie Fay: "Aunt Mick"
1929
1931
Frank and Carrie
Claude and Evelyn
Shirley (1)
and Marie (3)
Photo c 1930
Carrie with large
hail 1931
1943
Notice the name of Ella Vergill. Probably his 2nd wife.
No mention of her anywhere.
Frank Fay was living at this address when he had his car accident which killed him.
2109 Union Rd. West Seneca, NY
1950's
In the 1950 census - in this census Carrie is 60 years old. That would put her DOB at 1890- same as Frank. Several other census say she was 2 years old than Frank.
One bit of news that I didn't know before is Carrie was Born in West Virginia
Still living on Woodside Ave.
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1950 Census
Carrie Fay (Wid, "widowed" Frank) 1951, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1960 Buffalo city directory. Carrie is still alive and may not have re-married.
75 Woodside Ave is right there in my old area of South Buffalo. She was living in Kelsey testator
This accident took place only .7 miles away from Claude home at 383 Mineral Springs Rd. And about 2.2 miles from where Frank was living at the time.
Call St. Matthews see if there is a CARRIE near him Who bough the grave? Sec J Series 2 Line 3 Grave 1275
​Interesting note Frank Fay died while working for the war effort WW 2. He was working at the American car and foundry plant on Clinton and Babcock intersection in Buffalo less than .2 miles from where I was a supervisor at the old unit alloys and steel corporation. His company went in were literally about two blocks from each other.
I did a quick Internet search on the American car company and foundry and found out. They produced 1000 tanks and armor, pleading for cars and trucks for World War II. It also did production work for thermal nuclear weapons. Buffalo was shut down after the end of the war in 1945. They opened it replacement and then Albuquerque, New Mexico probably where they were doing the testing for the nuclear bomb.
​Although the plant did make tanks, bulletproof shielding, and 55 mm ordinance for World War I and two. One of the last rush orders they had in April 1943 were these cheap quarter inch bulletproof plating for jeeps. This could have been one of the things uncle Frank would have been working on when he died in a car accident in December 1943.
