Below is the Candee family I am working on... the notes under Jason and Anna Belle Candee
as well as Patrick George McCollam explain sources and expected findings.
Kindly,
Christine
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List administrator: Reel, Candee, VanCott
Descendants of Jason Candee
Generation No. 1
1. JASON1 CANDEE was born in abt 1850?. He married CAROLINE CANFIELD.
Notes for JASON CANDEE:
Postcard written April, 1943 from Rodney Candee Lyman to Patrick George McCollam:
Dear Mr. McCollam:
When you write to me will you please tell me how to contact the son of daughter of
Lafayette Candee, deceased, who located in Chicago? There is nobody named Candee in the
Chicago phone book, so the son may have left theree or live in a nearby town of apartment
house. The girl his sister, I mean, has probably another name now. Mrs. John writes me
that only four of Jason's (Candee) nine children lived to grow up. I know of three -
your wife (Anna Belle Candee), Lafayette and Nehemiah, but which one was the fourth and
did he or she marry and leave any children, please tell me about this? Sorry to bother you
so soon again but I don't like to do this job half way if I can do it right.
Sincerely yours,
Rodney Candee Lyman
(Mrs. Henry W. Lyman)
A letter dated 17 Apr 1943, from Rodney Candee Lyman to Patrick George McCollam:
Dear Mr. McCollam:
I am writing to you because your wife was a cousin of mine, as I too, was born a Candee,
making your children also my cousins. Your wife's brother, Nehemiah, who died one year
ago last July, was an intimate friend of my husband and myself as well as my cousin, as we
have a home near his old home in Norwalk where his widow lives when not with one of her
children - now all married. You may wonder how I got your address. It was sent to me by
your brother's daughter, Margaret, of Redding Ridge, Conn., in a very nice letter just
received.
Now to the exact reason why I am bothering you to ask if you will please ask one of your
children to answer this letter, in the event that you are too busy to do so in the near
future - because I am really waiting for your reply in order to complete my work on the
line of your wife's family for our big library here. I am not being paid for my work,
nor shall I have anything to sell to anyonw, nor do I ask a penny from anyone towards this
work, so you need fear no annoying results by sending me what I wish. Incidentally, we
have no children to be interested in my efforts - and I assure it is a very big job to
secure material from so many - but I am here in this city this winter where it is easier
to look up genealogical data, of course, than up in the country of Connecticut where we
live. Also the published book of the Candee Genealogy (CANDEE Baldwin, C.C. The Candee
Genealogy. Cleveland, 1882) is now out of date so that if something of the kind is not
done at once it will n!
ot be possible to do it with any first hand accurate information. Also the library here
has asked me to help them do this - which in plain English means do the entire job! I
have had a job here some years ago, on a daily newspaper, so they must think me capable of
doing this work, I guess.
Therefore from you, please, may I have the exact date of your marriage and place. Exact
date of your own birth and names of your parents.
Is this correct for cousin Annie (this would be Anna Belle Candee)? She was the youngest
child, was she not? Ann A. born March 2, 1877 in Easton Connecticut. Exact date of her
death, and place of burial? Exact birthday and year of each of your children including
full and complete names (not just initials)? Any children who may have died should be
included in their exact places.
Grandchildren als please list in the same exact way. Information cannot be too complete.
Sons-in-law and daughters-in-law shoud be listed with their full names, stating their
parents full names and places of residence. Marriage dates and places of present residence
if at all permanent. (Those in our fighting forces to be so listed).
Finally, if any member of your family is nown especially for any one outstanding thing, it
is always more interesting to include it - as minister, doctor, engineer, etc etc. These
records are only to be used for reference purposes by patrons of the libraries. If you
happen to own of have access to a copy of the Candee Genealogy, you may identify me as the
seventh child of number 413, John Myron Candee. (Only six children are mentioned, but
I'm the seventh and last, as I was not born in 1882 when the book was published.)
I shall type all the data myself for this Loose-leaf supplement bringing down to date as
many lines as possible to obtain data from and as long as I'm able to do the job. Of
course, many are lost thro marriage on the female sides. However, I have a fine
representative showing from, Canada, California, and middle West and will be very happy to
add yours as the first from the South!
You can easily see why the libraries are now asking for thes old pioneer American families
as of 1620 and 1640 (the latter date is our Zaccheus Candee's birth year) and
especially bringing down to date any genealogies already published now some long years ago
as our Candee book. I might also mention that whatever expense is incurre, as postage and
phones - no small sum - I am personally defraying AND I don't dare stop to add it up
and so think about whether I can afford it! It is my small contribution to the cause - my
work is the big contribution, obviously. I have done only three things this winter. They
are this job, a very hard one of trying to place a very worthy old lady, now destitute, in
an Episcopal home, and what a church mess that still is - it makes me almost glad I am
such a poor member of that especial church! Then my husband lost his only brother in
January, so these two other things took me from this job on the Candee family, making
delay I had not counted up!
on. Hence my especial reason for asking your as-soon-as-convenient attention to this
information I have asked you to kindly send me.
My husband has a first cousin living in Charleston, your state. Lucy Branch Gardner. We
have never been down there, but her sister and mother live in this city, her sister
teaching school here. This reminds me - did your wife not teach school also? It also
reminds me to phone thes Branchs now as they're both down with a virus pneumonia, a
new wartime disease, I believe. If one religious faith is outstanfing in your family or
political party, you might mention is, but not as various individuals. This would be too
personal and no better benefit for family-as-a-whole unit trends for what they call
break-down study reference work for our Candee generations to come!
Sincerely yours,
Rodney Candee Lyman
(Mrs. Henry W. Lyman)
P.S. My own good reason for doing this job is greatly augmented by a discovery I've
made while doing the work is the number of unmentionables who have changed their names to
Candee in this city. For example, our cousin, Robert C. Candee, Brig. General, Flying
Forces now in England, has a brother Allan H. Candee in Rochester. And an Allen H. Candee
has just appeared in our Brooklyn phone book. (I'm sure about this one, too.)
Do you know anyone named Candee down around your section of the country whose adress you
could send to me? Virginia must have some surely.
Children of JASON CANDEE and CAROLINE CANFIELD are:
2. i. ANNA BELLE2 CANDEE, b. March 02, 1877, Easton, Connecticut; d.
February 01, 1928.
3. ii. NEHEMIAH CANDEE, d. July 1942.
iii. FLETCHER? CANDEE.
iv. LAFAYETTE CANDEE, d. Bef. 1943.
Generation No. 2
2. ANNA BELLE2 CANDEE (JASON1)1 was born March 02, 1877 in Easton, Connecticut, and died
February 01, 1928. She married PATRICK GEORGE MCCOLLAM1 January 24, 1900 in Easton,
Fairfield Co, Connecticut, son of ALEXANDER MCCOLLAM and BRIDGET MCGILL. He was born
December 03, 1868 in St. Chrysostome Chateuquay Co, Que., Canada, and died December 18,
1946 in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
More About ANNA BELLE CANDEE:
Burial: Glendale Cemetery, Akron, Ohio
Notes for PATRICK GEORGE MCCOLLAM:
The Chateauguay River Valley, Ontario, Canada (Where Patrick was born), several miles to
the south-west of Montréal on the south shore of the St-Lawrence River, is an area rich in
the history of Québec. In the 1600's, the governor of New France granted the region to
Charles Lemoyne, already the owner of the Seigneurie of Longueuil. In 1673, Lemoyne built
a manor house and a chapel called Chasteau. The manager of Chasteau being named Gué, the
records of the time referred to the Chasteau de Gué, which evolved into Chateauguay. The
seigneurie changed hands several times after Lemoyne's death in 1685 and due to the
preoccupation with the war with England and the Iroquois, was not developed to any great
degree, although a second chapel was built on the western shore of the river in 1735.
In 1760, France lost Canada to the British. During the 1800's the area began to be
settled by the Scots and the old fur trade was replaced by logging as the most important
industry of the region.
In 1812, the United States declared war on England and the following year, the locally
formed regiment of about 300 known as the Voltigeurs, Indians, some militia and British
regulars successfully defended the area against 3000 American troops led by General
Hampton in the Battle of Chateauguay
During the following fifteen or so years, animosity built up between the French-Canadian
and English-Canadian settlers, largely due to an economic crisis and the Colonial
government's practice of granting the choice lands to the Scottish inhabitants. In
1838, after an aborted attempt to take over the region, the French 'Patriotes'
were arrested and imprisoned in Montréal. The British retaliated by destroying their
homes.
The County of Chateauguay was created in 1855 from a section of the old Beaharnois
District. Included within its boundaries were the parishes of Chateauguay, Ormstown,
St-Antoine Abbé, Ste-Martine, St-Joachim, St-Philomène, St-Jean Chrysostome, St-Malachie
and St-Urbain. The population at the time, consisting mainly of French and Scottish
families, was in the slightly more than 16,000. A description of the county written in
1880 reads as follows..." The agricultural excellence of this county is proverbial,
the valley of the Chateauguay River forming one of the most productive sections in the
Province. Grain growing and dairying form, in about equal parts, the staples of
agricultural pursuits, the county being well-adapted to either. The general surface ranges
from level to slightly undulating, but in the most southerly portions rather formidable
hills are frequent, while boulders are plentifully strewn."
It was in this setting that Patrick George McCollam (I have found several spelling
variations in Canada on the name) was born. He was a fascinating character... born in
Canada, he was a trader for the Hudson Bay Company in his youth, paddling around the
Canadian wilderness in a canoe, trading with the Indians. He emigrated to the U.S.,
settling in Connecticut, where he married Annabelle Candee, the granddaughter of a French
Count.
During the 1940's, Patrick lost a grandchild to polio, and was so driven by grief that
he developed and patented the first truly portable "iron lung" resuscitating
machine. The basic principle is still in use today.
In the depths of the Great Depression, Patrick gathered his family together and left Akron
for Beckley, West Virginia, where he and his then grown-up children built the first
drive-in restaurant in the state. It was built in the shape of a Chinese Pagoda, and
called The Pagoda Drive-in, and was a great success. His son, Maurice, and his wife ran
it, and his daughter Laura worked there as a waitress. Maurice's wife Sara and her
family still run the Pagoda and its successor motel.
OBITUARY: Patrick G. McCollam, 78, a native of Quebec, Canada, died today at his home,
1223 Collinwood Av. He suffered a stroke last July.
A contractor by trade, Mr. McCollam came to the United States 61 years ago. He had lived
here 21 years.
He leaves three daughters, Mrs. Laura Pence and Mrs. Ethel Klingensmith, both of Akron,
and Mrs. Ruth Jenkins of Huntington, W. Va.; a son, Maurice of Beckley, W. Va.; 11
grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Friends may call Thursday and Friday evenings at theMcGowan funeral home, Cuyahoga Falls,
where services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday. Burial will be in Glendale Cemetery.
More About PATRICK GEORGE MCCOLLAM:
Burial: December 21, 1946, Glendale Cemetery, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio2
Naturalization: September 24, 1904, Court of Common Pleas, Fairfield Co, CT3
Children of ANNA CANDEE and PATRICK MCCOLLAM are:
4. i. MARY ETHEL3 MCCOLLAM, b. September 20, 1901, Easton,
Connecticut; d. November 09, 1974, Akron, OH.
5. ii. ANNA RUTH MCCOLLAM, b. July 12, 1903, Easton, Connecticut.
iii. RALPH GEORGE MCCOLLAM, b. June 10, 1905, Easton, Connecticut;
d. December 28, 1940; m. BEAULAH BELLE MASSEY, April 1934.
iv. LAWRENCE CANDEE MCCOLLAM, b. August 31, 1907, Easton,
Connecticut; d. October 03, 1907, Easton, Connecticut.
More About LAWRENCE CANDEE MCCOLLAM:
Burial: Easton, Connecticut
6. v. MAURICE VINCENT MCCOLLAM, b. November 27, 1908, Easton,
Connecticut; d. September 11, 1981, Venice, Fla.
7. vi. LAURA CAROLINE MCCOLLAM, b. December 12, 1914, Accotink
(Dorsett), VA; d. August 1999, Venice, Fla.
vii. BERTHA GERTRUDE MCCOLLAM, b. December 08, 1915, Richmond, VA;
d. October 01, 1916.
More About BERTHA GERTRUDE MCCOLLAM:
Burial: Mercy Cemetery, near Richmond VA
3. NEHEMIAH2 CANDEE (JASON1) died July 1942.
Children of NEHEMIAH CANDEE are:
i. MARK3 CANDEE.
ii. MARJORIE CANDEE.
iii. FREDERICK CANDEE.
Generation No. 3
4. MARY ETHEL3 MCCOLLAM (ANNA BELLE2 CANDEE, JASON1) was born September 20, 1901 in
Easton, Connecticut, and died November 09, 1974 in Akron, OH. She married (1) CECIL
KINGENSMITH. She married (2) WILLARD E. BAILEY December 26, 1918.
Notes for MARY ETHEL MCCOLLAM:
Mary E. Kingensmith, 73, of 971 Victory St. died Saturday at her home.
Born in Bridgeport, Conn., she lived here since 1925 and was a custodian at Firestone for
37 years.
She leaves husband Cecil; daughter, Marjorie Longmire, Cleveland; sisters, Laura Pence,
Cuyahoga Falls, Ruth Jenkins, Virginia; brother, Maurice McCollam, Beckley, W. Va.; to
grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Services: 10 a.m. Wednesday, Dunn-Quiggley & Ciriello funeral home. Burial: Glendale
Cemetery.
Calling hours: 2-4, 7-9 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.
Child of MARY MCCOLLAM and WILLARD BAILEY is:
8. i. MARJORIE ETHEL4 BAILEY, b. December 21, 1921, Kanawaha City,
West Virginia.
5. ANNA RUTH3 MCCOLLAM (ANNA BELLE2 CANDEE, JASON1) was born July 12, 1903 in Easton,
Connecticut. She married PHILIP MERCER JENKINS July 30, 1925 in Charleston, West
Virginia.
Children of ANNA MCCOLLAM and PHILIP JENKINS are:
9. i. RUTH ANNE4 JENKINS, b. June 16, 1926, McKinny, Tx.
10. ii. DAVID BRUCE JENKINS, b. May 06, 1931, Charleston, West
Virginia.
11. iii. BARBARA JOAN JENKINS, b. October 02, 1934, Charleston, West
Virginia.
12. iv. PHILIP STUART JENKINS, b. February 22, 1943, Grand Rapids, MI.
v. MARCIA ELLEN JENKINS.
6. MAURICE VINCENT3 MCCOLLAM (ANNA BELLE2 CANDEE, JASON1) was born November 27, 1908 in
Easton, Connecticut, and died September 11, 1981 in Venice, Fla. He married (1) SARA
WILSON. He married (2) GAVAUGHN LOUISE GREEN June 28, 1925 in Charleston, West
Virginia, daughter of THOMAS GREEN and RACHEL HOLSTEIN. She was born February 28, 1906 in
Charleston, West Virginia, and died April 07, 1988.
Notes for MAURICE VINCENT MCCOLLAM:
Source Unkown:
Former Owner of Pagoda Dies
Maurice Vincent (Mac) McCollam, 72, of Beckley, Flat Top Lake and Venice Fla., died Friday
at 10 p.m. in a Charlottesville Va., hospital after a short illness.
Vorn Nov. 27, 1908, in Bridgeport, Conn., he was a son of the late Patrick George and Anna
Belle Condee McCollam.
Mr. McCollam, a resident of Raleigh County since 1931, was former owner and operator of
the Pagoda Shopping Center and the Pagoda Motel until his retirement seven years ago,
member of the Beckley First Christian Church, Beckley Lions Club, Beckley Elks Club,
Beckley Moose Lodge, pas president of West Virginia Retailers Grocery Association.
He was preceded in death by a sister, Ethel Klingsman, a brother, Ralph McCollam, and two
great grandchildren.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Sara Wilson McCollam; four sons, Charles McCollam of
Ashford, Robert and Ronnie McCollam, both of Beckley, and George McCollam of Lehigh Acres,
Fla.; a daughter, Mrs. Harold (Deloris) Ann Marks of Clarksburg; two sisters, Laura Pence
of Venice, Fla., and Ruth Jenkins of Richmons, Va.; 14 grandchildren and 13
greatgrandchildren.
Services will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Melton Mortuary Chapel with the Rev. Russell F.
Smith Jr. and Dr. W. H. Griswold officiating. Burial will be in Blue Ridge Memorial
Gardens Cemetery.
Friends may call today from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Grandsons and nephews will serve as pallbearers.
Contributions of sympathy may be made to the Cancer Society.
Notes for GAVAUGHN LOUISE GREEN:
GaVaughn L. Jarcy, 82, of Port Matilda RD 1, died of natural causes at Centre Community
Hospital Thursday (April 7, 1988) at 6:51 p.m.
Mrs. Jarcy, a Baptist, was a pember of the Port Matilda Grange, the Senior Citizens, the
Garden Club of Port Matilda and the Ladies Auxiliart of the Tyrone Neptune Fire Company.
She participated for many years in the Port Matilda July 4th parade with her Big Bird
"Reggie." She was co-owner of the Jarcy Hotel, Port Matilda, since 1952.
She established the Pogoda Restaurant in 1938 with Maurice V. McCollam, her first husband.
It was the first drive-in restaurant in Beckley, W.Va. She was a prominent caterer in
Beckley.
She was born Feb 28, 1906, in Charleston W. V., a daughter of Thomas and Rachel Holstein
Green. She was married first to McCollam, who died Nov 11, 1981. She was also married to
Alexander Joseph Jarcy, sho died Dec. 29, 1982.
She is survived by a daughter: Pat Marks of Port Matilda RD 1; three sons: Charles
McCollam of Ashford, W. Va., Robert McCollam of Beckley W. Va., and George McCollam of
Lehigh Acres, Fla.; a stepson: Edward of Frederick Md.; two half-brothers: Ara Weber of
Ronan Mont., and Roscoe Green of Seattle, Wash.; 22 grandchildren; 30 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at Derman Funeral Home Inc., Tyrone, Monday at 11 a.m., with the
Rev. David R. Spaugh officiating. Burial will be at St. Joseph's Cemetery, Osceola
Mills.
Friends will be received at the funeral home tomorrow from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.
Children of MAURICE MCCOLLAM and GAVAUGHN GREEN are:
i. CHARLES WALTER4 MCCOLLAM, b. July 12, 1926, Charleston, West
Virginia.
ii. ROBERT VINCENT MCCOLLAM, b. November 12, 1927, Charleston,
West Virginia.
iii. GEORGE WILLIAM MCCOLLAM, b. November 21, 1928, Charleston,
West Virginia.
iv. DELORIS ANN MCCOLLAM, b. April 06, 1930, Charleston, West
Virginia.
7. LAURA CAROLINE3 MCCOLLAM (ANNA BELLE2 CANDEE, JASON1)4 was born December 12, 1914 in
Accotink (Dorsett), VA, and died August 1999 in Venice, Fla. She married EARL LEE PENCE4
March 20, 1937 in Wellsburg, WV, son of WILLIAM PENCE and LAURA BOWERS. He was born
August 16, 1909 in Strasburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia4, and died May 01, 19924.
Notes for LAURA CAROLINE MCCOLLAM:
She was the youngest of six children of Patrick G. McCollam and Anna Belle Candee
McCollam. Laura had the unusual distinction of being born in an army tent. Her father,
Patrick, was a master carpenter, who was employed by the Army in an expansion of Fort
Belvior, near Washington DC, in 1914. Since the site was considered remote at the time,
workmen could bring their families. They lived in a tent city, where Laura was born.
Imagine giving birth in a tent, in December!
Laura grew up and attended school in Akron, Ohio, graduating from high school there in
1933. In the depths of the Great Depression, Laura's father gathered his family
together and left Akron for Beckley, West Virginia, where he and his now grown-up children
built the first drive-in restaurant in the state. It was built in the shape of a Chinese
Pagoda, and called The Pagoda Drive-in, and was a great success. While working there as a
waitress, Laura met her husband, Earl Pence, who came from Strasburg in the nearby
Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
Earl Pence married Laura in 1937 and stayed and worked at the Pagoda until the birth of
their only child, Lawrence, in January of 1939. This was still during the Depression, and
there was little work to be had in West Virginia. Roosevelt was gearing the country up for
war, and there was work at the rubber shops of Akron, Ohio. Earl brought his little family
there. He took a job building tires at Goodyear.
When war did come after Pearl Harbor, Laura also went to work at Goodyear Aircraft
Corporation, making machine gun clips. She worked there throughout the war years as
"Rosie the Riveter," putting her entire pay check into war bonds.
After the war, Laura and Earl sold their house in Akron and bought 4 acres of land along
the Cuyahoga River in Northampton Township, a semi-rural area near Akron. Earl loved the
nursery and landscaping business, and opened his own there, called "Old Portage
Nursery." The area was the site of a trail between rivers which Indians had used to
portage canoes since prehistoric times. This trail was by treaty with the Indian Tribes
the western boundary of the United States in the late 1700's. The "Old Portage
Nursery" is now a short distance from the site of the Cleveland Orchestra's world
famous Blossom Music Center.
While their nursery business prospered, Earl and Laura's marriage did not, and in 1953
they were divorced. Laura moved to Cuyahoga Falls with her son, Lawrence, and went to work
for the Kroger Grocery Co. She became manager of the Dairy Department at the Cuyahoga
Falls store, and retired in 1977 after 26 years with the company.
Laura first say Bay Indies, Venice, Florida, on a trip to visit her brother Maurice and
his wife Sara. It was love at first sight, and she bought a home there before returning to
Ohio. She spent 22 enjoyable years at Bay Indies, where everyone knew her as the
"bird lady" for her love of the local waterfowl, both wild and domestic. She had
a costume for every occasion, and enjoyed dressing up and entertaining everyone.
Laura's special cause was the handicapped children. She spent many hours making gifts
for them and bringing some joy to their lives.
More About LAURA CAROLINE MCCOLLAM:
Graduation: February 02, 1933, Acron High School
Social Security Number: 274014906
More About EARL LEE PENCE:
Burial: Crown Hill Mausoleum,Warren Co., Ohio4
Child of LAURA MCCOLLAM and EARL PENCE is:
13. i. LAWRENCE EARL4 PENCE, b. January 03, 1939, Beckley, WV.