Two more children have been born in the last 10 years - a boy, Leslie, and a girl, Anna (who is my maternal grandmother). The eldest boy, Floyd, is not listed here, he's now 18 and has likely moved out.
William and Cornelia also have a boarder living with them: Clifford Hyna who is a Teamster.
The census lists them as living in Dryden, Tompkins County, New York. But when I looked at the map, the "Brookton" road that they are on is actually a road very near the Caroline Depot Road they lived on in 1915. So the official town is Dryden for the records, but in reality there are just a couple miles from where they lived before.
William is listed as being a Carpenter on this census - usually he is a farmer working the land the belongs to others. They moved very frequently to wherever the work was and my Great-Grandmother Cornelia kept lists of where they lived. For this time of June 1, 1925, she says they were living at the Miller's. They had moved there just 2 months before and would stay through the next year when Cornelia was surprised with another baby. I'm sure she thought my grandmother would be the last but oh no!
The oldest living at home, Spencer, was working as a Building Laborer. Laurance, Masie, Daisy and William E. were all at school. So only 7 year old Leslie and 5 year old Anna were at home with Cornelia.
I always think about Cornelia with all those kids because my grandmother Anna told me of a strong memory she had at the dinner table where her Dad, out of patience with the kids, said to his wife: "Nelia, can't you control these kids?".
Of course, all that might explain why they ended up getting divorced in 1935!
Below is a photo from 1923 of the twins, Masie and Daisy, and my grandmother Anna, so in this census, they are all now 2 years older.
What's really interesting is that today when I looked at that building, I realized I saw it yesterday when searching on Caroline Depot Road for yesterday's post. It is in fact, the Caroline Depot train station! It's now gone, but here it is in 1923.
There's another photo from 1923 that shows it as well (it also shows my cutie-pie Grandma!):
And here's a link to what I looked at yesterday: http://nytompki.org/PhotoAlbum/CarolineDepota.jpg
The link is from the Town of Caroline page which is part of the Tompkins County NYGenWeb site.
So now I know where these 2 photos were taken!
And finally, here is a photo of the oldest boy still living at home in this 1925 census, Spencer, taken the next year in 1926:
1933 is the year Spencer left the family and never returned. His whereabouts were a mystery to his parents and siblings until I started doing genealogy and found him in census records. He had passed away long before I started my research though. No one knew why he left the way he did.
So that's the state of William and Cornelia in 1925!
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