Timeline of Jessie Pool VanGilder

Birth in Monongalia County, West Virginia

Oct 17, 1870

Parents: Sampson Frum Pool and Sarah Harner

Jessie signed George VanGilder autograph book

Mar 5, 1888

Was his student at Woodland School # 2 Morgantown, West Virginia

Marriage to George Ethelbert VanGilder

Oct 28, 1891

Monongalia County, West Virginia

Birth of daughter, Mary Louise VanGilder

Mar 9, 1894

Morgantown, West Virginia

Birth of daughter Anna Estelle VanGilder

Apr 8, 1896

Morgantown, West Virginia

Husband won election as City Recorder

Feb 20, 1898

Morgantown, West Virginia

Birth of daughter Sarah Margaret VanGilder

Mar 2, 1898

Morgantown, West Virginia

Husband was 1900 Census Enumerator

Jun 25, 1900

Morgantown, West Virginia

Husband won election as Assessor

Feb 20, 1902

Morgantown, West Virginia. George held the position until his death in 1904.

Birth of daughter Jessica Virginia VanGilder

Oct 28, 1903

Morgantown, West Virginia

Living at 54 University Driveway, Morgantown, West Virginia

May 24, 1904

Death of husband, George Ethelbert VanGilder

May 24, 1904

Death at home, Morgantown, West Virginia

Living in Sabraton, outside Morgantown, West Virginia

Dec 14, 1909

Death of father, Sampson Frum Pool

Dec 14, 1909

Sabraton, West Virginia

Proprietress of a hotel, Morgantown, West Virginia

May 9, 1910

Along with her four daughters, there were 26 boarders. The men were employees of a tin mill.

Death of mother, Sarah Harner Pool

Aug 5, 1911

at home of her daughter, Sarah Pinyerd, North Charleroi, Pennsylvania

Living in Woodlawn, Beaver County, Pennsylvania

Aug 7, 1911

Marriage of daughter Anna Estelle to Joseph Wallace

Feb 20, 1912

Only know it was 1912.

Cook on a Government Quarter Boat

1913

Birth of first grandchild, Catherine Wallace

Mar 8, 1913

Living in North Charleroi, Pennsylvania with sister

Feb 20, 1914

Living in North Charleroi, Pennsylvania with sister

Feb 20, 1915

Birth of granddaughter, Sarah Edna Wallace

Feb 18, 1916

Living in North Charleroi, Pennsylvania with sister

Feb 20, 1916

Living in Allenport, Pennsylvania

Feb 20, 1918

Keeping a rooming house, 242 Dithridge Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Jan 7, 1920

1920 Pennsylvania Census report

Daughter Anna Estelle married to Joseph Schenk

Feb 20, 1920

Second marriage sometime in the 1920's.

Marriage of daughter Sarah Margaret to George Henry Hughes

Jun 5, 1920

Fairmont, Marion County, West Virginia.

Marriage of daughter, Mary Louise to Robert G. Wotherspoon

Feb 20, 1921

Living at Rices Landing, Pennsylvania

Feb 20, 1921

Birth of grandson George VanGilder Hughes

Jul 1, 1921

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Marriage of daughter Jessica Virginia to Jack Barbour

Feb 20, 1923

Cook on Riverboat LaBelle

Feb 20, 1925

Jessie may have been the cook on Captain Faddis's boat during the mid 1920's

Daughter Anna Estelle marries Maurice Jacob Tyman

Feb 20, 1928

Third marriage in the late 1920's.

Goiter operation

Mar 30, 1928

St. Francis Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Birth of grandson John Aiden Hughes

Feb 7, 1929

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Stewardess on The Carbon

1930

Marriage of daughter to David Bowling Rootes

Feb 20, 1931

Second marriage.

Moved in with her married daughter, Jessica Virginia Rootes

Feb 20, 1932

Akron, Ohio and lived there until her death

Birth of grandson Robert David Rootes

May 27, 1932

Akron, Ohio

Birth of granddaughter Faith Carol Hughes

Sep 29, 1932

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Birth of grandson Richard Louis Rootes

Mar 9, 1935

Akron, Ohio

Death of daughter, Anna Estelle

Feb 20, 1940

Sometime during the 1940's in Florida

Death of grandson Robert David Rootes

May 27, 1942

Akron, Ohio

Birth of Great Granddaughter Linda Lee Hughes

May 1, 1947

Death of Jessica Pool VanGilder in Akron, Ohio

Nov 13, 1949

Burial at Mt. Union Cemetery, Morgantown, West Virginia

Nov 16, 1949

Funeral service held at Harner Chapel

Nov 16, 1949

Morgantown, West Virginia