Records of St. Mary's church in Fulda, OH show the subject's name as Joseph, but family members referred to him as Reinhart.
In 1900, 13 year old Joseph Singer lived with his parents and siblings in the family's rented home at 18 Hickory Street, North Braddock. Joe worked as a day laborer. He did not attend school that year.
Joe left for St. Louis, MO as a young adult and later had limited contact with the rest of the family. It is said that he did not get along with his father.
Alternate spelling of surname: Camelot, Camelat, Calmelet. Year of birth on gravestone is 1882.
In 1910, unmarried Harold Calmalet (29) lived as a boarder with the family of William Strathern (58) at 430 Camp Ave. in Braddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Harold was a printer who owned his own printing shop. His business partner John Leberman lived a few doors away. There were three other boarders in the Strathern home, all of them natives of Switzerland.
Harold Camelat's obituary appeared on pg 1 of The Louisville [OH] Herald on 22 Oct 1914:
Harold Camelat died at his home in Braddock, Pa., Sunday afternoon, having
been sick for some time with typhoid-pneumonia. Harold was the only son of Frank
Camelat of Louisville, and spent most of his life in this vicinity. He was a trust-
worthy employee of the Herald office for a number of years and about eight years
ago went to Braddock, where he and John K. Leberman started a printing establish-
ment. He was recently married to a young lady from Braddock and they were living
happily in a new home. Funeral services were held at Braddock Tuesday morning,
where interment was also made.
In 1910, Agnes lived with her parents and younger siblings on Seddon Ave. in North Braddock, PA. At that time, she worked as a clerk in a grocery store. Agnes did not have any children who survived infancy.
Records conflict on year of birth:
1) Delores Snider indicates that records of St. Mary in Fulda OH give 1889.
2) Gravestone says 1888.Buried next to first husband Harold Calmelat. Alternate spellings of surname: Camelot, Camelat.
Alternate spelling of surname: Camelot, Camelat.
Enlisted Aug 28 1917. Discharged 30 Apr 1919. Corporal 646th aero. squadron ASA. Percy and Agnes lived in Mississippi before moving back to Allegheny County.
In 1910, Agnes lived with her parents and younger siblings on Seddon Ave. in North Braddock, PA. At that time, she worked as a clerk in a grocery store. Agnes did not have any children who survived infancy.
Records conflict on year of birth:
1) Delores Snider indicates that records of St. Mary in Fulda OH give 1889.
2) Gravestone says 1888.Buried next to first husband Harold Calmelat. Alternate spellings of surname: Camelot, Camelat.
Singer was known as "E." In 1920, 29 year old Emanuel Singer lived in a house that he owned at 428 Seddon Ave. in North Braddock, PA with his 26 year old wife Marie and infant son John. E was employed as a laborer in an electric plant.
Occupation: "Instructor, Transformer" (death certificate). SS# 177-09-2505. Address at time of death: 1027 Myrtle Place, Sharon, PA. Resided there for 32 years.
Obituary 11 Dec 1957, Sharon PA
Emanuel G. Singer, 67, an employee of Westinghouse Electric Corp. for 47 years and a
former resident of North Braddock, died yesterday of a heart attack.
Mr. Singer started with Westinghouse in 1910 in the East Pittsburgh Plant and moved to
Sharon when the corporation started a transformer division here in 1925. He retired two
years ago as transformer instructor.
He was a member of the Westinghouse Veteran's Assn. and a life member of the North
Braddock Volunteer Fire Department.
His survivors include his widow, Mrs. Marie Meyers Singer; two sons, John F., employee
of Prudential Life Insurance Co., of Pittsburgh, and Edward F., a Pennsylvania State Trooper
of Jeanette; three brothers: George and William of North Braddock, and Raymond of
Wilkinsburg; three sisters: Mrs. Laura Schweinberg of North Braddock, Mrs. Louise Muth
of Pittsburgh, and Mrs. P.L. Green of Yazoo City, MS., and six grandchildren.
Friends will be received until tomorrow evening in the Cyril T. Reinsel Funeral Home here.
Solemn requiem high mass will be sung at 10 a.m. Friday in St. Joseph's Church. The body
will be take to the Elkins Funeral Home in North Braddock, where friends will be received
this Friday evening. Burial will be in Monogahela Cemetery in Braddock Saturday.E's tombstone is inscribed with the words "North Braddock VFD # 3"
According to the 1920 census, Marie and her parents were born in Pennsylvania.
Had lunch problems from USS Steel.
Called Mary in the 1930 census.
Carl Bunt served as a corporal in the US Army in World War I.
In 1930, 35 year old Carl G. Bunt owned a home worth $4000 at 572 Stokes Ave. in North Braddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. He lived there with his wife Selma (33) and son Carl Jr. (7), who attended school. Carl was employed as a laborer in a steel mill. His parents were born in Germany.
Called Mary in the 1930 census.
In 1910, George (24) and Katherine Kettering lived in Braddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The name of the street is not clear, but George's nephew Edward L. Schweinberg believes they lived on First Ave. near Lundine. Living with them was their newborn daughter, Geraldine. George was employed as a machine hand in the electric works. Nearby in the census was George's uncle, John Hartman.
At the the 1930 census, George (34) and Catherine (33) Singer owned a home worth $3000 at 423 Seddon Ave. in North Braddock. Living with them were their children, Geraldine (10) and George (7), both of whom attended school. George Sr. worked as a machinist in an electric plant.
Occupation: Machinist. SS#: 174-05-837? Address at time of death: 1514 Brinton Rd., Braddock Hills, PA.
Records conflict on year of birth:
1897 -- tombstone
Jan 1896 -- 1900 census (age is written as "3", then crossed out and "4" is written above it)
In 1920, unmarried William A. Singer (21) lived with his mother, grandmother, and younger siblings in the family home at 415 Seddon Ave. in North Braddock, Allegheny County, PA. Bill was employed as a laborer in a blast furnace.
The names of William and Anna Singer are inscribed on the back of the William Fluhme monument in Section I of Braddock Catholic Cemetery.
Anna Augusta Mary Winona Fluhme
Anna Fluhme Singer was in a nursing home in SW PA for several years before her death.
As a young boy at St. Joseph's School in Braddock, Ray thought the Sisters were being too hard on him, so on his own, he left St. Joseph and began going to the public school in Braddock. His son Larry is not sure how long this went o,, but when Ray's mother found out he got his behind beat and was promptly sent back to St. Joseph.
During the first World War, Ray’s brother’s thought he should enlist in the Navy, so they took him to Pittsburgh. They ran into several problems. First of all, Ray was a year too young, so he lied about his age. Secondly, he didn’t pass the physical because he wasn’t heavy enough. Ray’s brothers took him down to the “Market House” on Diamond Street in Pittsburgh (just down the street from the recruiting station) and fed him bananas and water. Then they took him back to the Old Post Office Building (the recruiting station) where he passed his physical and was enlisted.
It was around this time that Ray met his future wife, Mildred Smith. Enlisted men left the North Braddock area by train at the East Pittsburgh station near the Westinghouse Electric plant. It was a treat for the young girls working at Westinghouse to wave to the young men as the crossed a footbridge to board the train. Mildred Smith, while doing just this, caught Ray’s eye. When he was home on leave, they were introduced and she began writing to him.
In the Navy, Ray Singer trained pigeons. He was good doing this, as he and his brothers trained and raced pigeons from the loft in North Braddock on Sylvan Avenue. (His son Larry still owns the lot that the pigeon loft was on.) He had been raising and racing pigeons from around age 12, so he was probably quite skilled when he enlisted in the Navy four or five years later.
Ray was stationed first at Anacostia Naval Air Station near Washington, D.C. Later he was sent to Key West Naval Station in Florida.
After his discharge from the service, Ray lived with his mother, grandmother, and several siblings in the family home at 415 Seddon Ave. in North Braddock. At the time of the 1920 census, Ray was employed as a machine hand in a machine shop.
After Ray and Mildred Smith were married, Ray’s brothers wanted him to live at home and take care of his mother (Lena). Ray said, “OK, but when she dies, I get the house.” The brothers didn’t like that, so Ray moved to a farm he bought in Braddock Township (now Braddock Hills). He raised dairy cattle, and began a milk route through Braddock Hills and North Braddock. He also had one or two horses. A little later, Ray took up the trade of bricklaying and when he wasn’t farming, he contracted out to house builders and made extra money as a bricklayer.
When the Depression hit, the construction business dried up, as did the milk route. Ray nearly lost the farm. He heard that the mill was hiring, so in late 1929 he went down to apply for a job and was hired as a bricklayer, lining the kilns with bricks. Ray spent the remainder of his working life working in the United States Steel Corp. mill until his retirement in 1961.
Ray’s love for pigeons and chickens was his hobby all through his life. He even build a brick chicken coop on the farm for his birds. Ray raised Rhode Island Reds all his adult life. He showed his birds all over the United States, and his eggs were in demand by breeders throughout North America.
Ray’s other two great loves were hunting and fishing. He build a cottage at Lake Edinboro (about 18 miles south of Lake Erie) in 1950. He always invited his brothers and their wives for a fishing week during the summers. They would spend hours out on the lake bass fishing. There would also be card playing and, of course, drinking. Ray’s favorite whiskey was Gibson 8.
Ray was a member of the “Munhall Bucktails” hunting club. They bought a camp in Potter County in north central Pennsylvania between Wharton and Cherry Springs. Ray shot many a whitetail deer with his 35 Remington Gamemaster over the 25 to 30 years he hunted. Once in the mid-1930s, he and his buddies went up to the cabin for their annual hunt, but got snowed in and didn’t come home for three weeks.
Ray’s son Larry still has his dad’s Navy uniform and “sea bag” along with some of the paraphernalia he used while in the Navy. He also has some of the cards and letters exchanged between Ray and Mildred. Larry also has one of his father’s milk bottles (Singer’s Grade A Milk) from when he sold milk from the farm, as well as some of the trophies he won showing his Rhode Island Reds. In addition, Larry has his father’s rifle and some of the deer horn mounted on keystone plaques from Ray’s hunting expeditions.
The Veterans marker on Ray Singer’s grave illustrates the discrepancy caused by lying about his age to enlist in the Navy. The marker gives his year of birth as 1900, while the gravestone shows the correct year of birth, 1901.
Worked Westinghouse until she became pregnant. Mildred was a smart, quiet woman.
Drove a truck for McBride Lumber Company in Braddock, Pa. EtOH
Madeline's nephew Ed Schweinberg (son of her oldest sister, Laura) was the best man and Madeline and Jimmy's wedding. (Ed was only about five years younger than his aunt.) Madeline worked for a long time before she and Jimmy had children.
Never married.