Katie Elizabeth Watkins Howell Part 5 from 1940 to 1949

• 1940 Census, 733 North Herman Street, Goldsboro, Wayne NC
• 1944 -- 916 East Elm Street, Goldsboro, Wayne NC
• 1946 -- 211 East Beech Street, Goldsboro, Wayne NC
• 1948 -- death of brother Clarence

1940s

Katie Watkins Howell 1940s Howell, Roland, Blanche, Katie Watkins

1940, age 45  Census

733 North Herman Street, Goldsboro, Wayne NC.  Living with Fristus.

Fristus and Katie Howell 1940 Census

• This family starts on line 14, where they rent the home at 733 North Herman Street.  Fristus is 65 years old, and Katie is 44 years old.  
• This census says she was born in South Carolina, but I think that is an anomaly.  
• This indicates that Katie engages in working at home, while Fristus is unable to work.  What happened that he can no longer work?  Is it his age?  Is it his knees?
• At the bottom is some additional information.  Fristus' usual occupation is as labourer for the County Laundry
• Several of their kids live with them, including 20 year old Lois.  Lois works in the City Laundry.  Did her father get her that job?
• Interestingly, the last child, Alford is not actually a Howell child.  He is, instead, the child of Lois and Joseph Vidunas.  Joseph is in the Army, Lois lives with her parents and, I guess he went by the name "Alford?"

1940 Residence

Fristus and Katie Howell 1940
733 North Herman Street, Goldsboro NC
2017 Google Maps Standard

Notice some of the places the Howell's lived.  Fairly close by, actually

Fristus and Katie Howell 1940
733 North Herman Street, Goldsboro NC
2017 Google Maps Satellite View

Pretty little area as of 2017.  I don't think it would have looked that much differently in 1940.  Different trees, smaller trees perhaps.

Fristus and Katie Howell 1940
733 (almost) North Herman Street, Goldsboro NC
2012 Google Maps Street View

I can't find the exact street view spot for this address.  This is the closest I can get.  Nothing to see here, move along.

About 1942, USA.
Credit: Anthony Potter Collection/Archive Photos/Getty

1941, age 46 

Historical Insight -- The United States enters World War II

From coffee to panty hose to chicken wire fencing, most common foods and supplies were rationed during World War II. Each American family was issued a ration book that contained an allotted number of coupons to purchase staples at stores.  

1944, age 50 

Residence 916 East Elm Street, Goldsboro, Wayne NC, per draft registration for William Roland Howell.

1944 WWII Draft Registration William Roland Howell, age 18

I include, for your perusal, the Draft Registration for Roland.  While it isn't directly Katie, it does include her as a person who will always know where he is, and her address -- which is also his address.  I wonder why he mentioned his mother, Mrs. F.H. Howell, and not his father Fristus H. Howell?

Fristus and Katie Howell 1944
916 East Elm Street, Goldsboro NC
2017 Google Maps

Fristus and Katie Howell 1944
916 East Elm Street, Goldsboro NC
2017 Google Maps Satellite View

Fristus and Katie Howell 1944
916 East Elm Street, Goldsboro NC
2012 Google Maps Street View

I think this is the house in a certain photo.  My dad took a photo of his grandmother Katie in front of a house in 1950.  That photo will be in the next blog as tribute to her, but I include it in this blog to examine the house itself.

Close up of same photo

Katie Howell 1950s
photo by Bill Vidunas

This is the original photo, and the next one is the detail I want to point out. If I use my imagination, I can see the porch of the house looks similar.  I checked out Trulia, found out this house was built in 1900, so it could, indeed, be the same house.  The current street view looks like a brick wall and I don't see that on this house.  In this photograph, Dad also pointed out the new convienience store in the background.  Sort of a dichotomy, the old and the new.  The street view doesn't give me that same store.  Does anybody know what this house address may be?  If so, let me know and I will correct this blog.

1945-1953
Harry S. Truman
33rd President

1945, age 50 

Historical Insight -- V-J Day

Impromptu outdoor displays of patriotism took place in
cities and towns across the United States on V-J Day.
August 14, 1945, UnitStates.
Credit: Hulton Archive/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

1946, age 52 

Residence per draft registration for Henry Haywood Jethro Howell -- 211 East Beech Street, Goldsboro, Wayne NC.  Once again, we have extracted an address for Katie Howell from another son's Draft card.  Henry Haywood Howell registered when he turned 18.

Fristus and Katie Howell 1946 Residence

And, once again, we see his contact person is Mrs F.H. Howell, not Fristus Howell.  So, let's look at this address.

Fristus and Katie Howell 1946 Residence
211 Beech Street, Goldsboro NC
2017 Google Maps, Standard view

Fristus and Katie Howell 1946 Residence
211 Beech Street, Goldsboro NC
2017 Google Maps, Satellite View

Fristus and Katie Howell 1946 Residence
211 Beech Street, Goldsboro NC
2017 Google Maps, Almost Street View

Fristus and Katie Howell 1946 Residence
211 Beech Street, Goldsboro NC
2012 Google Maps, Street View

Whelp, nothing to see here, move along.  It's all industrial, now.  NEXT!

Government-sponsored posters encouraged Americans
to stay positive and reminded them that the ration system
supported the boys fighting abroad.
About 1942. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain

1946, age 52 

Historical Insight -- WWII Rationing in the United States.

1948, age 53 

death of brother Clarence Arthur Watkins, 30 January 1948

Katie Watkins Howell 3-gen Pedigree
from Ancestry.com

1. https://www.trulia.com/homes/North_Carolina/Goldsboro/sold/1000427041-916-E-Elm-St-Goldsboro-NC-27530
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Katie Elizabeth Watkins Howell Part 3 from 1910 to 1919

• 1910 Census -- Boon Hill, Johnston NC
• 1910  -- Historical Insight, The Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers Circus.
• 1912 -- Marriage with Fristus Haywood Howell, Johnston NC
• 1913 -- birth of sister Beeles Watkins, North Carolina, and daughter Arlie Virginia Howell. 
• 1914  -- birth of brother Clarence Arthur Watkins, and son Garland Arthur Howell
• 1916  -- birth of sister Blanche Mozelle Watkins, and birth of daughter Pauline Melissa Howell
• 1917 -- Historical Insight -- America Enters World War I.
• 1918 -- birth of daughter Letha Blanch Howell
• 1919 -- Historical Insight -- Women Gain the Constitutional Right to Vote.

1910  Census

 Boon Hill, Johnston, North Carolina.  Boon Hill Census

1910 Census, Lower Boon Hill Precinct, Johnston County NC
from Ancestry.com

Katie's family starts on line 54.  Her father is more formally listed as Henry B. Watkins, age 46, renting the farm.  He can read but is not able to write.  Ida is 34, has had a total of 8 children born, so far, with only 6 still living.  She is able to both read and write.

Jasper works on the farm and attends school.  Katie is 14 years old, also works on the farm and attends school.  Lelia, age 10, is also working on the farm, as well as attends school.  The other children, Marty age 8, Frank age 3, Louise age 4/12 are also listed.

A couple of points.  

1 -- Henry Blake Watkins, went by the name of Blake.  Sometimes the census is indexed as WADkins because the handwriting may seem like this.  He couldn't write, but he could read.  

2 -- it looks like two children died in the last 10 years. 

3 -- It is unusual for a girl of 14 to have an occupation listed like Katie does.

1910 age 16 

from Ancestry.com Historical Insight
30 March 1902.  Credit: The New York Times/Newspapers.com

Historical Insight, The Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers Circus.  "People flocked to the circus as wild and exuberant advertising announced the exciting acts that had come to town."

1912, age 18 

Marriage with Fristus Haywood Howell, Johnston NC.  I would love to have a photo of their wedding.  I wonder how they met?  Did they live close by?  Did they go to the same church?  Meet in the General Goods Mercantile?

Woodrow Wilson, President
from Wikipedia

1913, age 18 

birth of sister Beeles Watkins, North Carolina.
birth of daughter Arlie Virginia Howell. 2 October 1913, Johnston NC

both her sister Beeles and her daughter Arlie were born on this year.

Woodrow Wilson is elected President

1914, age 20 

1914 It's a Boy

birth of brother Clarence Arthur Watkins.  9 July 1914, North Carlina
birth of son Garland Arthur Howell, 22 December 1914, Johnston NC

Once again, her brother and her son are born the same year.  I wonder if they all visited frequently, and played together much?

1916, age 21 

birth of sister Blanche Mozelle Watkins, 1 April 1916, Johnston County NC
birth of daughter Pauline Melissa Howell, 4 October 1916, Johnston County NC

Third time, sibling and child are roughly the same age.

1917, age 22 

Historical Insight -- America Enters World War I.

1917.
Credit:  Underwood Archives/Archive Photos/Getty Images
from Ancestry.com Historical Insight

The American entrance into the First World War was a relief to the exhausted Allies.  Troops were inspected by foreign officers and trained by their British and French comrades in the trenches.

1918 advertisement
Salina Evening Journal, Salina Kansas
3 October 1918, page 8
downloaded March 2017 from Newspapers.com

1918, age 23 

birth of daughter Letha Blanch Howell, 23 May 1918, Princeton, Johnston County, North Carolina.

1919, age 24 

Historical Insight -- Women Gain the Constitutional Right to Vote.

September 1920
Credit:  Harris & Ewing, Inc/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain
from Ancestry.com Historical Insight

Alice Paul shifted from suffrage to general equal rights as she led the National Woman's Party for half a century.

Katie Watkins Howell 3-gen Pedigree
from Ancestry.com