Email from April Hickman

From: April Hickman
To: Robert Jack
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 10:37 PM
Subject: Fannie Eardley

Jack, thought I would touch base and let you know that I did finally locate my father's father. Of course he is long deceased, but now I can track him and hopefully find more out. My father did grow up in Pittsburgh. Fannie did not raise my father. A lady by the name of Ada Hamilton lived with, or was married to Harry G. Walker, my grandfather. There was two Fannie Eardley's that lived in Pittsburgh in 1920, however. I found my grandfather in the Pittsburgh City Directory, or Polk directory, as well as the two Fannie Eardleys. They appeared only in the 1920 directory, however, and were not listed with any spouses or family members. They were both working. I did take note of them so that I can try and find out something more. The fact that Harry lived in Pittsburgh the entire year of 1920, that my father was born in Harlem, New York, and that Harry was married to or living with a Ada Hamilton, (who was listed as my father's mother on his social security application), seems to give more credence to my hunch that Fannie was probably white and did not want her pregnancy known.
The LDS library only has the Polk directories through 1935, so I will probably have to travel to Pittsburgh to inquire into the years following. We do not have access to the 1930 census as of yet. the geneological library is hoping to have it available about the end of the year.
On another note, I did find many Eardley's in Monongahela Pa around 1920, but for some reason they all seemed to disappear after that. Are you aware of these famillies?

Wish me luck,
April Hickman

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