Great Aunt: Arlene Blake (3rd Child of Frederick & Annie Blake)

Arlene Blake

Through my earlier research I had not come across Arlene Blake.  We found these newspaper clippings among my great-aunts scrap books.  I have found out that she was the 3rd born child of  Frederick & Annie Blake (b September 28, 1902 d January 16, 1906).  

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A search of Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906 found this following potential match:

Birth record:  September 28, 1902 in East Hartford, CT.
Father: Fred
Mother:  Annie Blihl

I was able to obtain her birth certificate from the East Hartford Town Clerk's Office:

I certify the following return to be correct from the best information which I can obtain:

Full Name of Child:         Blake
Place of Birth:                  Town of East Hartford No. Hartford Ave Street
Date of Birth:                   28 day of Sept 1902 Sex of Child F
Name of Father:               Fred Blake
Residence of Father:        Town of E. Hartford No Hftd Ave Street
Birthplace of Father:        Canada State or Country
Occupation:                      Clerk Age 25 Color W
Maiden Name of Mother:  Annie Blehl
Birthplace of Mother: New York, NY Color W
Age of Mother: 22 Number of Child 3 Number Now Living 2

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We found two newspaper clippings - both undated and unknown newspaper.  I lost my copy of the 2nd one so wrote up what I had printed off...  Olean is a typo of her name, Arlene...

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BLAKE C
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Injured in Trolley .......   October at............ ove.
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Olean (typo) Blake, the ... year old daughter of F.C. Blake of 330 Lighthouse Road, died Wednesday at the West Haven sanitarium. The girl was the deaf mute child who was injured last October by being hit by a trolley car. She has been in serious condition ever since. Jan. 11 she was taken to the West Haven sanitarium and an operation was performed last Saturday.
Funeral will be held Saturday morning at 11 o'clock. Services will be at the home and the internment will be in the East Haven cemetery. Friends of the family ... are especially sympathetic toward the bereaved parents on account of the ... and unfortunate incident.
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I looked on the East Haven Trolley Museum website and they document a handful of fatal trolley accidents but this one is not listed.   Likely because, based on the first article, it seemed she would have been able to recover from her injuries. 

Here is one of the newspaper clippings announcing the funeral:

Great Aunt: Adeline (Blake) Sanborn (5th Child of Frederick & Annie Blake)

Adeline (Blake) Sanborn

b. June 6, 1907 in New Haven, CT
d. January 18, 1999 in Orange, CT

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Age 3: 1910 Federal Census
     Living with family at #1 Frank St, New Haven, CT
Age 13: 1920 Federal Census
     Living with family at #559 Quinnipiac Ave, Dwelling #7, New Haven, CT
Age 17: 1924/1925 New Haven City Directory
     Cashier Depot Restaurant Union Depot h at E. Haven
Age 18: 1926/27 East Haven City Directory:
     Emp SNETel Co r 48 Prospect Pl
Age 18: 1926 New Haven City Directory:
     Clk 114 Court h. at E. Haven
Age 23: 1930 Federal Census
     Living with family at #14 Taylor Ave, New Haven, CT. Clerk at Telephone Company 
Age 33: 1940 Federal Census
     Adeline Ackerman - Widow - Living with family at #65 Foster St, New Haven, CT.  Notes in 1935 she was living in East Haven, CT.  Clerk at Telephone Company. 
Age 50: 1957 Bridgeport City Directory
     Sanborn, Walter G (Adeline M) asst supt 43 E Main h at Orange

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Her first marriage was to Chet (J. Chester) Ackerman from Branford.   I can see from newspaper clippings they were married on Jun 20th - but the year is not noted.... He died of some type of poisoning.  Rumor is that it was related to his work at Sergants.  Based on the 1940 census, she had been widowed by 1940. 

She remarried to Walter G. Sanborn.  Again, from undated newspaper clippings the wedding date was December 23rd.  He was the son of Mr & Mrs Jon Sanborn of New York and Boston.   She worked at the phone company and he worked at United Illuminating.  They lived in Orange, CT. 

She had no children from either marriage.

 

(Picture is courtesy of her neice, Jean)