1.GertrudeMatildaHitchings, born 01 August 1905 in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts; died 03 November 2001 in Pilgrim Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Peabody, Essex County, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of 2. ArthurTreadwellHitchings and 3. FlorenceEttaHoogerzeil. She married (1) StanleyElmerAllen 14 February 1925 in Hamilton, Essex County, Massachusetts. He was born 14 January 1904 in Cambridge, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, and died 06 March 1982 in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts. He was the son of Joseph Elmer Allen and Carrie Maude Batchelder.
More About Gertrude Matilda Hitchings:
Burial: 07 November 2001, Spring Street Cemetery, Essex, Essex County, Massachusetts
Cause of Death: pelvic cancer
Social Security Number: 030-36-5922
Notes for Stanley Elmer Allen:
Stanley Elmer Allen was born in Cambridge while his father was working for an uncle's plumbing business. He went to the Essex Falls Elementary School for eight years and began the ninth grade at Hamilton High School. He had to drop out to work and support his sister Lena after her husband's death in the flu epidemic of 1918. Stanley moved to Westborough at age fifteen to work in a leather factory, his sister helped support her three children by playing the player piano for silent movies. Later he returned home to work for the town of Hamilton and for the Charles Tainter estate, and the Palmer estate as a gardener. During WW1 he was asked to dig trenches along the river of the Tainter estate to protect against invading Germans. He began to work for the United Shoe August 7, 1927. Stanley worked for 41 years as a glazier at the United Shoe Manufacturing Company in Beverly, Massachusetts.
More About Stanley Elmer Allen:
Burial: Spring Street Cemetery, Essex, Essex County, Massachusetts
Occupation: Glazier
Residence: 10 Roosevelt Avenue, Hamilton, Massachusetts
Social Security Number: 010-01-0012
More About Stanley Allen and Gertrude Hitchings:
Marriage: 14 February 1925, Hamilton, Essex County, Massachusetts
