A Distant Admiration

The Irish Matriarch's youngest, William Edward, continued his marble cutting career wherever it took him. I am trying to figure out who he talked into photographing him while on the job in a cemetery, but here he is. When this blog began, all I knew was that he had worked for the Baltimore firm Hilgartner & Sons (http://www.hilgartner.com/), but I have learned that he traveled to jobs more than I knew. Despite his terrible loss in New Orleans, William supported his family through hard work in other places as well. The Draft Registration of 1918 shows him as working at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. I cannot quite read the name of the firm that employed him there, but it wasn't Hilgartner (thanks to Melanie, my classmate, for sending this to me via http://www.ancestry.com/. His interests seemed to include photography and dapper clothing throughout his lifetime.

As his older brother did to a degree, he left the daily care for his daughter Vi to his mother Agnes and his sister Annie Jane. Nonetheless, his daughter thought of him very fondly, and just might have looked for a similar guy that she could call her own.

William would die in 1927, just three years after his mother. His older brother would survive him by ten years, and Annie Jane, eight years his senior, would live for 29 years more.