Clyde & Nora in 1910

In 1910, Clyde and Nora were living in Pine Glen.¹ Clyde, aged 23, was working as a woodsman, while Nora was taking care of their son Harold, aged 1. Nora’s sister Ann Houdeshell was also living with them.

The record indicates that both Clyde and Nora had been married once, for two years. Nora had had one child and that child was still living. Everyone in the household had been born in Pennsylvania, as had their parents. They were renting their home and Clyde had been out of work for 8 weeks in 1909. Clyde, Nora, and Ann could read and write English. Ann, aged 12, had been attending school since September 1, 1909.

Solomon Smith and his family were living next door. His daughter Genevieve married Clyde’s brother Ed. The Meeker family lived two houses up. Carrie Meeker was the daughter of Jefferson Force and Susan Mulhollan,² and the sister of Lovina (Force) Houdeshell, Nora’s mother. Will and Carrie Meeker’s daughter Edith married William Hoover, another of Clyde’s brothers.