Working on Wednesday: Tharold Conner (1903 - 1970)

I've noticed some interest in one of my earlier posts that included members of the Conner family so here's a page from Dad's photo album with pictures he took before his family left Oregon a year or two before 1920.

[From my personal collection]

Here's the Conner family in the 1920 U.S. Census, residents of the house located on Kentuck Slough across the bay from Marshfield (now Coos Bay). It appears that Tharold was a year or two younger than Dad.

[Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. ]

[Detail of Plate CXXVII. Coos Bay Quadrangle, Oregon, Land Classification and Density of Standing Timber. Twenty-first Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior. 1899-1900. Government Printing Office.

Source: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection]

I don't think I ever met Tharold who was living in Fresno, California, by 1930 but we visited the Conner family every year so the house was familiar to me. They still had dairy cows--I helped make butter in their kitchen one year.

[Curreys' truck and trailer in front of the Conner's house - 1948]

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