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Hi Dave

I guess I didn't word my post right as what I need to know was the areas to search for info.  Not being from there I was at a lost as to locations to search for info.  Thats why I put what I knew about the family in the post.  Hoping that someone would say "Hey go here to look for info"  Which you kindly did.
It was the searching on internet to the right places and not running around in circles cause I was lost

Thankfully you were able to provide me some insight on where to look re names of locations. 
I now have a general idea of where to search. 

I know about the LDS Librarys as I use to use the one in the next town however I am sorta housebound at this time due to husbands health issues the last 2 yrs its not possible for me to get out as much as I use to  We go to hospital quite alot anymore and then back home.

So I thank you very much for taking the time to read my post and telling me of the places that I can start to look via the internet.

Have a good day there and enjoy your week

Am off to searching now Thank you

Sharon swtx

 

I want to thank everyone on this board that helped to contributed ideas and information found to Letitia's story. 

Without the help and new set of eyes and ideas it would have been harder to find things and end Letitia's story.

You guys have been a tremendous help and I think that Letitia had a big hand in this also.

 I am going to miss you guys   

Take care and God Bless

Sharon

James Green's widow Evelyn called me tonight... my phone call paid off and we talked for 2 hrs.... nice sweet lady.

Letitia wanted her story told and I think we now have it...

She was not murdered as Aunt Irene told me... I do have proof of that with my notes from the mid 1960s that I will scan and put on this message board to show that was what she told me...Why she said that I don't know ecept that maybe that was what she [Irene]  thought happen  when Letitia got the stroke and died from it at age 45 cause she was a single mother trying to raise 2 children and to her James Henry Green Sr was the murderer.  Who knows....

Letty died in 1934 in Pittsburgh she had a stroke and laid for 10 days before she died Evelyn told me. They don't know where she was buried as it was a public grave as there was no money.  She was a domestic in a private home and also baked pies for the big hotels in Pittsburgh to help keep the family togeather.  when James was 10 he was hit by a car and the fender cut his face really bad and he was weeks in hospital and had over 100 stitches in his face there was a settlement of over 10,000 dollars paid out to him but the money disappeared...

She divorced James Green because he drank and was an alcholic... When she died the kids were placed in the foster care system and lived with a Miss or Mrs Barbara Deedson [sp] for a yr till she got sick and couldn't care for them  She took foster kids in to her house and took care of them... She was a neighbor of the Steffys and she asked them to take care of them as James was good friends with their son Donald.  Donald and James remained friends for life... James also called Donald's mother Mother as he was very close to her.  

Evidently Letitia told her children something of the Ellards but she said that James knew the name but not how he knew it... Letitia is down on his birth certificate as Letitia Pye.   James Green sr died someime after 1945 as that was the last time they saw him  He really never came around after they divorced  He was an alcholic to the end  His home was the bars She did say they found him one time and gave him clothes and money and told him they would be back next week  When they came back next week he was gone  The bartender told them that the minute they left he was out the door to sell the clothes they gave him and drank all the money and that was the last time they ever saw him.  No idea when he died or where he was buried at.  He told them that he had a brother and a uncle only and when they went back to Butler one time they met some of his family and found out he had 11 other siblings... Guess he was the black sheep of the family.

Dorothy   Letitia's daughter   went into service when she turned 16 as that age back then 16 was considered being out of foster care and you took care of yourself  She worked for a Jewish family in Pittsburgh and met her first husband through them  He was Edwin Richardson.  They had a daughter and son  The son died in 1995 or 94 96 in Pittsburgh Pa  He was married and had 3 daughters.  He was a nurse and helped to take care of Donald Seffy when he was dying of stomach cancer.  Her   daughter Dorothy also is alive and lives in Pennsylvania    Edwin's mother was a Judge in Pennsylvania.   Dorothy married 2 more times the last time to Paul Gatto.  She died in Texas in  2006 at her granddaughters home in Plano Texas.  

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Yes that would be Peter wife [Dorothy]  If the husband is dead then it has the wifes name and widow of so and so in them at least the older ones do.   I wonder if that was her husbands name?  I am trying to find out where to get an obit for her in Texas... Texas I found out wants 20 dollars for a death certificate.... thats alot for one.

I found out where to get the obit for Donald  I need to go to

McKeesport Heritage Center http://www.mckeesportheritage.org/   They have the McKeesport Daily News from it's start

I wonder if they would have anything on Letitia  I will ask about her also...