Birth Date: 1884
Birth Place: Junction City, Kansas
Death Date: 13 Sep 1968
Death Place: Camden, NJ ?
Spouse: Baird Mathias SMITH
Death Date: 23 Aug 1952
Children: Evelyn DeMar
1.2.9.2 Elizabeth (Bess) Catherine PICKERING
Birth Date: 6 Nov 1885
Birth Place: Junction City, Kansas
Death Date: 1967
Burial Place: Newtown Cemetary, Newtown, PA
Occupation: Nurse (during WW I)
Lived: 130 N. 60th St., West Philadelphia
Religion: (Never Married)
Medical: Elizabeth died of Pulmonary Edema
Notes: On April 1917 she opened the maternity ward at German Hospital - now Lankanau Hospital in Philadelphia. She went to England in October 1918 to join the war effort during WWI.
Description From her Passport: HT - 5'4", high forehead, grey eyes, straight nose, fair complexion, brown hair, round chin, mouth: regular. Bess visited the family home in England during WWI.
1.2.9.3 Arthur John PICKERING Sr. (My Grandfather)
Birth Date: 19 Jul 1889
Birth Place: Junction City, Kansas
Death Date: 19 Jun 1953
Death Place: Abington, Pennsylvania
Burial Date: 22 Jun 1953
Burial Place: Newtown Cemetary, Newtown, PA
Medical: died of Myocardial Infarction
Notes: Arthur John, Sr. was a railroad man and worked the "Green Tower" in Bristol, Pennsylvania. He worked the Pennsylvania Rail Raod all his life and looked forward to retirement. However, he died 15 minutes after he signed his retirement papers.
1st Spouse: Alice ?
Birth Place: Newark, NJ
Death Date: 27 Jul 1957
2nd Spouse: Mirriam Leah MEYERS
Birth Date: 24 Jun 1896
Birth Place: Lansdale, PA
Death Date: 1 Apr 1944
Death Place: Philadelphia, PA
Burial Place: Newtown Cemetary, Newtown, PA
Spouse Father: Edwin MEYERS (1876-1908)
Spouse Mother: Katie Ellen FLUCK (1875-1945)
Spouse Medical: Died of Carumoma of Rectum
Marriage Date: 12 Jun 1913
Marriage Place: Philadelphia, PA
Children: Ruth Naomi (1.2.9.3.1)
Arthur John , Jr. (1.2.9.3.2) [my father]
Elaine (1.2.9.3.3)
Anne Louise (1.2.9.3.4
1.2.9.4 William Harrison PICKERING
Birth Date: 15 Mar 1891
Birth Place: Junction City, Kansas
Death Date: 25 Nov 1963
Death Place: Sommerville, NJ
Burial Place: Riverview Cemetary, Trenton, NJ
Spouse: Clara Mary FIELD
Birth Date: 4 Jun 1886
Death Date: 5 Nov 1974
Death Place: Sommerville, NJ
Burial Place: Riverview Cemetary, Trenton, NJ
Spouse Father: Theodore C. FIELD
Spouse Mother: Mary BASSETT
Marriage Place: North Wales, PA
Children: William Harrison, Jr. (1.2.9.4.1)
Ethel Mary (1.2.9.4.2)
Elizabeth L. (1.2.9.4.3)
1.2.9.5 Emily Friederica PICKERING
Birth Date: 4 Mar 1893
Birth Place: Philadelphia, PA
Lived: Was Still Alive as of 4 Apr 1980
Spouse: Arthur W. DEIBERT
Birth Date: 25 Jan 1890
Birth Place: Camden, NJ
Children: Frances Pickering (1.2.9.5.1)
Edwin Irvin (1.2.9.5.2)
1.2.9.6 Frances Louisa PICKERING
Birth Date: 17 Aug 1897
Birth Place: Montgomery Square, Montgomery, PA
Death Date: Mar 1979
Death Place: Lycoming Nursing Home, PA
Burial Place: Newtown Cemetary, Newtown, PA
Occupation: Stenographer In Philadelphia
Lived: 149 New Street, Glenside, PA
Notes: Louisa's grandneices Constance & Pamela visited her at Lycoming House Nursing Home in Philadelphia on December 11, 1977. Just a few month's before the visit, Louisa was mugged and beaten and taken to the hospital with a broken pelvis and other injuries. She was in very good health just a few months later.
The following is information Louisa gave at that time on the Pickering family. She confirmed the history of the family ring and crest. She told about a second ring which was lost by Harry Pickering in a river out west while watering his horses. She talked about her brother, Arthur, and how kind and good he was. He called daily at 12 noon to his mother to check on how she was. If he couldn't get a ride, he would walk to see her every weekend. Louisa gave Constance and Pamela a bible that Emily Elizabeth German DeMar gave to her mother Margarette Sterling German on December 12, 1847.
She also gave them a book of poems that Emily German gave to her granddaughter Elizabeth Catherine Pickering in 1897.
