Uncle W. Scott APPLEBACH in the newspapers

 Uncle W. Scott APPLEBACH in the newspapers

The below articles are ones that I have found for WS Applebach in the first quarter of the 1900's. 

Within the family, he was remembered by his peers as having a short fuse, possibly a drinker but a sometimes bouncer in Lancaster bars during the 1940s-1960s, a wife beater, childless, and prone to look for trouble to get into. 

In case you need a reminder, Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor, were contemporaries that were both heroes during the war we had with Mexico in the 1840's over Texas. They were known as "Fuss and Feathers". It is ironic that these twins were named that forty years later by a couple that rarely, if ever, left southeastern Penn - especially Lancaster County, PA.

In 1906, Scott married Mabel Overly. He would have been 19 or 20.

Scott and Mabel married in July and had a daughter on Dec. 29, 1906. Her name was Catherine. I have not done enough research yet to find out if she died, or just disappeared from sight after the divorce in 1911. 

But this proves that he had at least one child, but for whatever reason the older family I had contact with always said he was childless.

In 1908, Scott appeared in court for paying support to his wife. One says $3 a week and the other $2 a week.

In the 1910 census, Mabel and Cathrine are listed as living with Mabel's parents in Ephrata.

Finally in 1911, Mabel had enough and divorced Scott.

In September of 1912, he remarried. I do have vague memories of Aunt Eva. During an interview before she died, she told me that Scott and her never had children. She also stated that he would disappear for weeks or months at a time, and then show back up with no explanation of where he had been. She admitted he was violent and did "hit" her when he was around.

Here is the marriage notice that was in the newspaper.

By all accounts, Scott and his twin Taylor stayed in touch and did many activities together as adults.

The US got into the ongoing war in Europe in 1917. WWI took the lives of many US males, and permanently affected many more. Patriotism and "kill the Hun" was the feeling of the day for many folks in the US, and whether drafted or volunteered, the "boys" seemed to want to go.

Scott was sent to Camp (Ft.) Dix, NJ in Sept. 1918.

He apparently arrived there just in time to probably get the Spanish Flu. See the previous post for more info on this.

Scott must have been able to return to some duty in November - hence the promotion and new duty location.

At Christmas time 1918, he was in Lancaster for a visit. The newspaper notes he is at Camp Dix. Without access to his military record, it is impossible to know if he had a relapse in health, had cancelled orders to NY, or what exactly happened that he is still at Camp Dix and not in NY.

In Oct. 1920, he and Eva are listed as having attended a birthday party for his mom.

In 1922, Scott and Taylor were playing in a pinochle league.

In 1923, Scott is involved in the Eagles.

Both Gr-uncle Scott and Taylor (Pop) Applebach were cut from the same cloth. I remember them both as bullies, and very full of themselves. 

Per stories told by Aunt Fran, Grandma Jennie would not allow Scott in her house because he "drank so much" and was unkind to her. I would say that to some extent this is shown by the news articles and my notes of the memories of those who knew him much longer than I did.

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ALL PHOTOS AND WRITTEN CONTENT ARE MY OWN UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.