52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks #28 Harry Freely Mackin

Harry Freely Mackin

My grandmother was a girl with a family of all brothers. Harry was the youngest. He was born October 29, 1877 in Philadelphia, PA. He joined the Army. In January of 1900 he was in Co. H of the 5^th Army Infantry in the Philippines. Then in June they went to Guantanamo, Cuba. After his two year enlistment was up he returned to the States and was living with his sister at 1209 Locust Ave. in Camden, NJ. On September 21, 1905 he married Mae Elizabeth Missimer. The 1910 Census lists him as living at 1825 Fillmore St., Camden, NJ. He was an iron worker on bridges. In 1912 he lived at 1725 S. 6^th St., Camden, NJ. In 1913 when he registered for the WWI draft he resided at 560 Ferry Ave., Camden, NJ. The document stated he was and engineer and was 5’10” tall. In 1920 he lived at 1755 S. 6^th St., in Camden and was a portable engineer. He continued to live in Camden throughout his life. His occupation changed over time. In 1930 he was a marine engineer. In 1931 he was a port engineer and later a construction engineer. He died on August 26, 1953 while living at 2525 Morgan Village, Camden, NJ. Paperwork lists his burial site as Beverly Cemetery but there is conflicting information that he was buried at the Veterans Cemetery in Honolulu, Hawaii according to the Find a Grave website.
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Sources

1.       National Cemetery Administration, U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006), www.ancestry.com, Database online.

2.       The National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; World War II Draft Cards (Fourth Registration) for the State of New Jersey; State Headquarters: New Jersey; Microfilm Series: M1986

3.       Database online. Year: 1880; Census Place: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1169; Family History Film: 1255169; Page: 21B; Enumeration District: 071; Image: 0044.

4.       Year: 1900; Census Place: Guantanamo, Cuba, Military and Naval Forces; Roll: T623_1838; Page: ; Enumeration District: 114; FHL microfilm: 1241838.

5.       Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original data - Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Was), Ancestry.com, Database online. Year: 1910; Census Place: Camden Ward 8, Camden, New Jersey; Roll: ; Page: ; Enumeration District: ; Image:.

6.       Database online. Year: 1920; Census Place: Camden Ward 8, Camden, New Jersey; Roll: T625_1023; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 52; Image: .

7.       Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626,), Ancestry.com, Database online. Year: 1930; Census Place: Camden, Camden, New Jersey; Roll: ; Page: ; Enumeration District: ; Image:.

8.       Year: 1940; Census Place: Camden, Camden, New Jersey; Roll: T627_2396; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 22-128

9.       Ancestry.com, U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914 (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.Original data - Register of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M233, 81 rolls); Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, 1780’s-1917, Rec), Ancestry.com, Record for Harry F Mackin. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=USArmyEnlistments&h=996954&indiv=try.

10.   Ancestry.com, U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005), Ancestry.com, Registration State: New Jersey; Registration County: Camden; Roll: 1711989; Draft Board: 3. Record for Harry F Mackin. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=WW1draft&h=32717524&indiv=try.

11.   Ancestry.com, Web: Hawaii, Find A Grave Index, 1779-2012 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012), Ancestry.com, Record for Harry F Mackin. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=WebSearch-3898&h=151298&indiv=try.

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks #26 Mary Hayes Mackin

Mary E. Hayes

            Mary Hayes was my great grandmother but she couldn’t be more distant to me than if we no relation to each other. Her parents, Patrick and Annabell Hayes were Irish immigrants and I haven’t discovered very much about them. She may not have even been Mary since there were times she used the name Bridget, her supposed sister’s name. She was born on June 29, 1853 in Philadelphia although there’s no birth certificate since neither Philadelphia nor Pennsylvania recorded births at that time. She was born on June 29, 1853. She married Charles A. McMechen on Oct. 18, 1870 in Philadelphia. As recorded in the Philadelphia City Archives in the 1870 volume on p. 143, they were married by George Moore of S. 4^th St. The records are not very clear but it appears to have been a Methodist ceremony. They used the surname Mackin.

            Their children were: Charles Mackin, born about 1870, William, born about 1872, Margaretta Virginia, born Aug. 10, 1874, Thomas H., born about 1875, and Harry Freely, born Oct. 29, 1877.

            Something about her character made her family disassociate with her. Whether that was before or after her husband’s death is unknown. . She must have done something so bad that they never spoke to her or allowed her grandchildren access to her after that. After his death in 1913, she applied for his military pension from his Civil War service.

            While living at 921 Somerset St. in Gloucester City, NJ she must have made friends with the Etherington family. Bill Etherington, of Etherington’s Funeral Home, told to Midge Moore that he thought she was his relative since she was associated with his family. While living at this address she fell in her bedroom and broke her hip. This condition eventually led to her death of endocarditic on Nov. 21, 1930. O.A. Saunders of 1700 Broadway, Camden, NJ, signed her death certificate. Her son, Thomas Mackin of 122 Crown Pt. Rd. in Westville, NJ supplied personal information for her death certificate. She was buried beside her husband in Greenwood Knights of Pithius Cemetery on Arrott St., in Phila., PA.

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