Mary Bryson: February 9, 1892 January 2, 1971

Mother and her brother John and sister Margaret were orphaned in New York city. Mom and her sister Margaret went to one orphanage and her brother John was in a different one. One day mom & Margaret were watching a parade when Margaret yelled "hey, that's our brother"., John was in the parade, So that's how they got back  together.

 

We have no idea what happened to the parents. The father came from Scotland the mother from Ireland. We figure they were orphaned about 1897 -1900. The two girls went to one orphanage and John went to a different one where he was apprenticed to a glass blower. The orphanages were operated by the Catholic church.

 

Mother sort of reminded me (Bryson) of Lucy (I Love Lucy) in that she was smart, pretty and a little scatter brained. Her favorite toast, “here’s dirt in your face” should have been, “here’s mud in your eye”. When she got excited and tried to yell at me she called me all of her kids…. Grace-Wayne-George-Margaret-Eunice…Damn-it BRYSON.

I remember I had this pet goat, we also had a Cow. Well for some reason mom picked up the goat, the stupid cow started chasing us because it thought the goat was it's calf.  Mom with goat and me ran around this tree, the stupid cow chasing us.  A cow can't actually run around a tree, but she tried, hanging her ass well out. Well after about two or three laps I got tired and bailed.  Mom and the cow and goat kept going until Mother finally got exhausted and dropped the goat. It was quite a sight.

  

Then there's the time she got a-hold of a book on "improving your memory by word association" That is probably not the title but it was something like that. Shortly after reading it she called Mrs. Winterhauter, our landlady, Mrs. Horses Collar and our neighbor Mrs. Lovelace. Her name wasn't Lovelace but for the life of me I can't remember what it really was, because after that she was known to us as Mrs. Lovelace 

I think the depression affected her too but not like her husband it seemed to make her grittier than ever. Way late in her life when she was done raising kids she went back to school and became an R.N. 

Mary and Wayne separated in ____ I’m (Bryson) guessing 1949) Mother lived in Toledo as a live in housekeeper until she could afford to go to school. Mother suffered a heart attack in 1971

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mom's birth certificate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Are those apples?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is beginning to look like a farm she's on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mom’s sister Margaret with her husband Chauncey  Fodge and son Carl. I never met Margaret as she died before I was born (1932) from cancer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is mom with her brother John Bryson.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This looks like something she sent to her sister Margaret

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mom and Ida George's wife. Wonder what they're smiling about.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mom is the one by the baby carriage. She sure looks more ladylike than her in laws 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This looks like Arizona. I think she was visiting Wayne. probably about 1950sh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yep! Arizona. That's cousin Carl, Mary's sister  Margaret's kid

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mom wrote that on the back

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was her trip  to New York

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another of when she was in N.Y.C.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once a geek always a geek.