February 15, 2009

DAVIS, Robert C

Dear ESOG,

I am looking for information on artist, ROBERT C. DAVIS, circa 1914. 

I received a painting from my mother who found it in the attic of the old farmhouse where she lived with her in-laws from 1945-1956 in Hatfield, MA.  My mother attached a note ten years ago on the back of the painting that said it was a picture of the Salem fire of 1914, and on the painting, the artist’s signature, Robert C Davis, and the date, 1914, appear.  The painting is small (2’ by 1’) with the fire in the background and water/sea in the foreground, which according to my grandmother in my mother’s description in the note was painted from Plymouth, MA harbor/sea.  The biggest mystery is how the painting ended up in the attic in their old farmhouse, undiscovered til my mother came to live there in 1945, but I would be happy to know more about the artist. 

 (My grandmother died over 50 years ago and my mother suffers from Alzheimer’s disease although in the my mother’s note, neither one knew how it ended up in Hatfield.)

Thank you for any help you can give me.

Gail 

gail.cruise@verizon.net

February 28, 2009

O'NEILL, Daniel J.

I'm looking for information on a Daniel J. O'neill who is listed in the 1930 census  for Lynn Essex, Mass. living with family , wife Lillian who died September,1969. Daniel was born in New York , March 1879.  Lillian , Daniel's wife last residence was Summerville Middlesex,Mass. which was taken from the SS death index. Daniel J. Oneills ws raised a Catholic.

 I'm looking for obituaries for either person, Lillians cemetery information might take me to the death date of her husband Daniel J. O'neill.

Jewel Brown 

irish126@comcast.net