Harry Herman McElwain and Lovey May Pryor

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Husband Harry Herman McElwain

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           Born: 30 Jul 1888
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           Died: Nov 1975 - Everson, Whatcom Co, WA
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       Marriage: 17 Jun 1912

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Wife Lovey May Pryor

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           Born: 4 May 1883 - Richland Twp, Venango Co, PA
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           Died: 11 Oct 1963
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         Father: Peter Lovell Pryer (1844-1882) 1
         Mother: Ellen Burns Nickle (1848-1924) 1

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Children

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1 F Evelyn Irene McElwain

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           Born: 15 Mar 1913 - Conewango Valley, Chautauqua Co, NY
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         Spouse: Frank Lombardo (      -      )
           Marr: Abt 1932

         Spouse: Donald Smith (      -      )
           Marr: Abt 1944

         Spouse: Clarence Summerall (      -      )
           Marr: Abt 1953

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General Notes: Husband - Harry Herman McElwain

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SSDI: HARRY MCELWAIN 30 Jul 1888 Nov 1975 98247 (Everson, Whatcom, WA) (none specified) 095-07-8665 New York

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General Notes: Wife - Lovey May Pryor

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Residing in Conewango Valley, NY in Aug, 1924.

Lovey May received her common school education at Nickleville and later attended Clarion Normal School but did not finish the course. After the death of her grandfather she and her mother sold the farm and went to Conewango Valley, N.Y. to live. She worked in the hardware store of her brother-in-law, E. A. Bagg until her marriage. In 1916 they bought a farm containing 89 acres situated just north of the village of Conewango Valley. The farm house was quite large and her mother, Eleanor Burns Pryer lived in on part of the house.
They bought a herd of Jersey cows and specialized in poultry raising. During November and December of 1920 they received a record price for eggs which they shipped to New York City: one dollar and four cents per dozen.
Harry McElwain farmed in the summer and continued as a traveling salesman for the seed company during the winter months hiring a man to look after the farm while he was away but it was not a very satisfactory arrangement and in 1924 they sold the farm reserving a lot on one corner and here they built a very cozy little cottage and landscaped their lot with a beautiful rock garden and many beautiful trees and shrubs.
During Harry's summer vacation they traveled over the greater part of th U.S. Sometimes Lovey accompanied Harry on his winter trips for the seed company and looked at the sights in the city while he attended to the seed business.
They bought a trailer and for several years they parked their trailer in a trailer camp near Sarasota, Fla. And while Harry was on the road it was much easier for Lovey to live in the trailer in the south than shovel snow and keep up fires in the north. In the spring of 1950 or 51 they bought a home in Florida near Sarasota and in June 1953 Harry retired and as Lovey's health was not so good they came north in June 1954 and sold all their property and belongings and prepared to spend the remainder of their lives in the south.
Their daughter Evelyn won a beauty contest at the age of 17 which gave her a free trip to Hollywood where she received stage training and traveled with a vaudeville company for sometime. Tiring of this work she took a position as a model at Carnegie Tech University, later transferred to Albright Art School in Buffalo and from there to New York City where she posed for some of the world's greatest sculptors and artists. Among the art productions you will find her in mural decorations as St. Elizabeth in the Catholic Church in Toledo, Ohio and in the new Bronx Courthouse in N.Y.C. in sculptured panels representing the Spirit of the Wars, leading on to victory.
She married Donald Smith a Veteran of World War II and they have a daughter Donna Jean Smith. Later they separated and Evelyn lives with her parents and does shell work.

1 Mrs. Harold V. Linn, Daniel Smith - Pioneer Settler of Rockland Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania (Venango County, PA: Privately published, 1961), Pg 120.