Edward Scholl was a steel worker who lived with his sister (possibly, mother) in Bridgewater, Pennsylvania in 1911.
Bridgewater is an industrial town northwest of Pittsburgh on the Ohio River.
He had a girlfriend, Gertrude, about whom he was getting serious.
On February 13, Gertrude sent Edward a lovely Valentine post card. The card featured Cupid as a "music master".
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The card is well-made, with excellent color and detail - and it is still in very good condition (after ninety-eight years).
Gertrude did not write a message, but signed her initials, "G.F.McG."
In e-mail exchanged with the Amazing Kate, genealogist, we speculated that this was Edward's future wife.
The Amazing Kate found that Edward DID MARRY a Gertrude MacGee - who had mailed him this card for St. Valentine's Day.
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Here is the research of the Amazing Kate C.
Edward Scholl
1910 Census, Bridgewater, Beaver, Pennsylvania
Emma Shenderline 41, widow
Edward Scholl 23, brother, ? cutter, steel work
1920 Census, Bridgewater, Beaver, Pennsylvania
Edward Showel 45, laborer, driller works
Gertrude F Showel 41
Emma A Showel 5/12
Mary C Showel 4 1/12
Albert J Small 70, lodger
1930 census, Bridgewater, Beaver, Pennsylvania
Edward Scholl 43, vulcanizer, service station
F Gertrude Scholl 52
Emma A Scholl 16
Katherine M Scholl 14
1910 Census, Bridgewater, Beaver, PA
Albert Small 52, tool maker, own shop
Gertrude MacGee 30, housekeeper, housework
1880 Census, Wayne Township, Lawrence Co., PA
Adam McGee 30, ore miner
Mary E. McGee 28
John L. McGee 10
Francis G. McGee 2
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Comments: 13
I had a friend once who was a Mary McSomething-or-other who married a man named Jim McSomething-or-other. Thereafter she referred to herself as Mary Mc-squared or Double Mac.
That is a cute story, Marian.
I am glad that Edward and Gertrude married one another. It would be a shame to waste the card!
Probably cost a whole penny. That would have been a real bite in the budget.
The expenditure was probably not a casual one.
I'm glad that Gertrude picked a very well-made card.
If Edward lived to be 250, he could still enjoy the card.
If Edward lived to be 250, he'd be of interest to the medical community. :)
Indeed, Marian.
And, he could bore his great, great, great, great, great, grandchildren with tales of trudging through the snow to the one-room school house.
Hey, wait a minute! There was a time when I trudged through the snow to the one-room school house. It was two miles and up hill both ways. I took my kids to the ranch to prove it.
"It was two miles and up hill both ways."
Everybody has it tough, Marilee.
:-)
Gertrude must have been a modern day girl at heart to send her boyfriend a card with a naked cupid in 1911!
Kate's research is amazing as always.
"Gertrude must have been a modern day girl at heart to send her boyfriend a card with a naked cupid in 1911!"
Gertrude was rather "wild", from what I have heard (or made up), Wilma.
Kate IS amazing.
This is a beautiful card, Peter. It is nice to see the colors and the paper as well-preserved as they are.
I especially enjoy the reference to the "music master". Do you suppose that this was a reference to Singing Schools?
Interesting question, Honore.
I associated Singing Schools in the northern states with the 19th century.
The Wiki corrects me.
Edward and Gertrude would certainly be aware of Singing Schools which used the designation, "singing master".
This postcard has been accepted into the Postcard Group.