Long Past Album Photos and Memories from the 1940s and Earlier

For our family group, our more immediate ancestory.com photos. There exists a geneology relating back to Daniel Boone and there is a purported relation to John Adams-but that is all debatable-but the relatives below are a certainty.   To show more than just photos and to explain relationships, I am including family information written by Margaret Clark Reddick. Read below for details from original document she sent me to preserve the memories.   Basically, here are relations starting with more recent:     Charles A. Reddick was originally from Indiana. His father was Guy Author Reddick, a chemist and Guy's brother was  Donald (Don)  Reddick  who became a renown plant pathologist who developed several varieties of blight resistant potatoes. He was at Cornell and received his doctorate in 1909. Cleo Reddick was Guy Reddick's wife.    Charles Reddick's sister was named Ruth Reddick George and her child was Phyllis. His brother was Omar Reddick. Omar Reddick's wife was Thelma and they had two children, Gary and Gail.     Margaret Clark Reddick was the daughter of Rosa Ann Clark (Clarkie). Clarkie was first married to a Baum, Charlie Baum. -but then married Dr. Charles Ellis Clark, a physician. Charles Clark was Margaret Clark's father.   Margaret Clark's brother was Wilson Warren Clark who was married to Martha. They had no children.    The Baums: Alfie, Charlie Baum, Roy Baum, Neddie Baum Ewell, Frank Hume Clark (He took Clark as his last name), Cassie Baum Schochet.    Charles A. Reddick and Margaret Clark Reddick had 3 children: Carol, Clark and Lynn.        >>Click each photo to see enlarged photo. Click back arrow to go back to album. Original photo sizes vary.

Charles Clark Portrait	Charles Clark Portrait 2		Rosa Clark-Clarkie	Margaret Clark as Baby		The Baums
Chuck, Marge	Young Mr. Reddick		Lt. Charles Reddick	Lt. Charles Reddick 2		Lt. Charles Reddick 3
Clarkie2	Rosa Clark:Clarkie3		Charles Clark	Younger Clarkie		Marge as baby
Lt. Reddick	Chuck Reddick		Chuck Reddick 2	Chuck and Margaret		Marge at Ocean City
Marge	Charles R as boy		Martha at beach	Clarkie and Marge at Beach (Ocean City)
Charles standing next to his car			Chuck and Marge eating			Marge bathing suit
Wilson Clark		Marge in her riding outfit			Lt. Reddick and army group

RELATIVES written by Margaret Sarah Clark (with some modifications and omissions)   Margaret Sarah Clark Reddick:     My Father: Dr. Charles Ellis Clark      (Dad was from upper New York state-raised by his father's girlfirend on a farm.) Dad was in the Johnstown flood ith his mother but what happened to her, I never knew. His father foud him when he was being shipped to an orphanage.  Charles Clark was originally from Chicago where his father was the organist for the Shriners. My father's first wife was from Norfolk, Va. and my parents maintained a friendship with her family. His wife, Sarah, had died having a second son. Later he married Rosa Ann Clark (Clarkie).    My mother: Rosa Ann Clark (nickname "Clarkie") First husband was a Baum. Clarkie's mother's maiden name was Adams.    After having 4 children by Baum, she found out that he was already married when he married her (Yes, a bigamist). This realization occurred when she lived in Richmond and she immediately packed up her children and fled to Baltimore where she married my father, a widower who had recently graduated from medical school.     My brothers and sisters:        Wilson Warren Clark was my father's only other offspring. He was 14 years older than me and I dearly loved him. He was a very kind man. He married Martha. They had no children.   Clarkie's Children:     Alfie- She was 30 years older than me. She married a Virginia farmer and, sadly, she died before 35 years of age having her 12th or 13th child. Her ignorant husband felt that people should have all the children God sent to them. Nine of her children, I think, were girls and three were boys. Many of our relatives still live in and around Richmond, Virginia. One is named Nellie Lee who lives in an exlusive section of the suburbs of Richmond.    Charlie Baum  (nicknamed Bunk) about 29 years older than me. His father was my mother's first husband. Mom told me that her first husband was shot but didn't give a reason for that. Bunk was a wanderer and finally wandered off permanently after his wife, Florence Baum, finally had a son after 3 daughters. The son's name was Charles Baum. Bunk's daughters were Elizabeth, Florence and Eve. I remember that Elizabeth was entertaining boy friends when I was still a towheaded child. It was a big joke to tell her friends her aunt was coming over and then presenting me.   Roy Baum- In his youth, said to be very handsome and he won many dance contests. He married a very beautiful woman name Sue who I was very fond of when I was a very young child. This is Carol's middle name, Sue. Roy and Sue had one girl who was not that attractive. Roy seemed not to like his own child as a result. Her name was Francis Lillian Baum, and since she was just my age and her paren't had separated, she lived with my parents and me for a few years. Later, her mother's people claimed her and while I attended her Catholic wedding, I really never talked to her again. She became a nurse, married, and had 4 handsome children but nobody knew what happened to them. I understand my half-brother Roy once saw them, but at that point he was a total alcoholic(only interested in his next drink) and he could find nothing in them to interest him.   Neddie Baum Ewell- She married Walter Ewell at the age of 16. There marriage did eventually fail but after 5 years of marriage, Neddie gave birth to Walter Worthington Ewell ("Worth"). Worth was awarded a full scholarship to Johns Hopkins University and became a professor of civil enginneering there, and eventually formed his own engineering firm. Among various projects, he helped design the original Bay Bridge and the presidential bomb shelter, designed during WW II.    Frank Hume Clark - He was known for his contentiousness (to put it mildly).  His wife was Libby Shoop Clark. Frank was originally a Baum, but during World War II, he took the name of Clark as his last name since he really loved his stepfather Charles Clark (my father) and, at that time, people did not want a German last name. Frank Clark had 3 children: Charles Clark (named after his father), Frenk, Jr., Rose Ann and Charles (Charlie) Clark. A friend, Johnny Mike McCruden is the son of Libby Clark's sister. He was Libby's nephew and was only related to us by marriage.    Cassie Baum Schochet- She first married a fine young man named Lewis C. Daniels, when, at 28 (at that time), she was considered to be an "old maid." This marriage was never consummated and was annulled after a few years and much unhappiness. This first husband, Danny, left Cassie $30,000 which was considered a lot of money at the time (1930). Shortly after the annulment, she married Paul Schochet, a Glen Bernie pharmacist, and within a year, she had a child Harriet Schochet. Harriett had two sons.    Charles Albert Reddick-my husband.       Guy Reddick: His father was Guy Reddick. He was a chemist and a college professor in Indiana. Unfortunately, he got heavily into drinking and smoking and he spend his final years as a semi-invalid. Charles A. Reddick had to quit the Poly A course to go wot work to support his father and his mother, Cleo, who had little education worked in what was then called a 10 cent store.      His mother-Cleo Reddick- was also from Indiana. She was only 4 feet, 10 inches tall.      His sister- Ruth Reddick George (last name from her first husband) married again to a man named Roy. She had one child, Phyllis George, wo maried a man with hearing problems named Hedrick. Phyllis had 5 children.       His cousin in Indianapolis- Virginia Gilson was a very good-looking woman who married two wealthy men. Her first husband with whom she had a son and a daughter, died fairly young. I corresponded with her a lot. We once visited her home in Indianapolis. Charles Reddick had other relatives in Indianapolis but I only know Virginia. -------------------    My comments and memories-Carol Sue     I only knew a few of the relatives very well. I don't want to get involved with any possibly judgmental impressions too much (these are subjective, personal impressions however), but briefly, here are some of my memories:   I remember Clarkie very well. She was my grandmother and lived with us. My mother told me that she learned how to read by reading the bible daily. She wanted to read so much that she also daily prayed that she would learn to read. I remember her always having her bible with her.   Another memory I have is that she loved her bacon in the morning. She would fry the bacon and save the drippings in a bowl which she left on the counter. Then she would take bread and fry in those drippings.    I remember seeing Roy Baum only once when I was a teenager. I mainly remember his nose which looked like a W.C. Field's nose (red and bulbous) with what looked like pock marks. This kind of nose can result after years of heavy drinking or it might have been from Roseacea-or both. Roy was renown for his drinking.    I remember Frank Clark very well since I was over that house a lot as a teenager. He would often make some comment that could upset you since he definitely was not full of tact or sensitivity. However, there were times when he could be very pleasant and conversational.   I remember Cassie very well. I particularly remember one holiday dinner when she fought with Frank. They really didn't like each other. What one noted when seeing Cassie was her very white skin. My mother said she was almost an albino-but I doubt that.   I made some visits to Cassie's house in Glen Burnie in the past. I was fascinated with that house because Cassie was a collector and had so many interesting knick knacks around the house so that it would take time to look at all of them. I only once remember seeing Paul Schochet  a few times but he seemed to be a gem! He was one of the nicest men I have met in my life.   Harriet, Cassie's daughter, is a very pleasant and intelligent lady who has moved out of Maryland to North Carolina I believe.   I met Neddie a few times and I remembered her as a chain or very heavy smoker but I think she was under a lot of stress and this is how she treated that (not a good idea at all. Exercise or something more healthy would have been a much better treatment.) I heard tales of constant bickering between Cassie and Neddie but I never actually observed that.    On the Reddick side, I unfortunately, only remember Guy Reddick in his decline. He had his voice box removed because of cancer, but still smoked through a hole in his throat. I kept hearing stories of how he created his own bootleg liquor or some type of alcoholic beverage in his bathtub during Prohibition.      I always heard stories then of Donald Reddick and his accomplishments.      I remember Cleo, Guy's wife, from when I was a child, and she was also very pleasant to me. One could not help but notice her lack of height and later in life, she became somewhat rotund but my main impression of her was positive.    I last saw her daughter Phyliss at my mother's funeral and I enjoyed talking to her and she is quite nice. ---------------------   >>>Any comments or memories very welcome. Email to Carol Sue. Let me know if you want your memories posted or not.