Herbert Victor Spring (1886 - 1954)

Born 18 May 1886 in Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Pearl Elizabeth (Raymond) Spring — married 16 Oct 1906 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

Descendants

Died 24 Jun 1954 at age 68 in Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Birth and Early Life

Herbert was born in Orange Massachusetts, the fifth of ten children to Abbott and Catherine (Melvin) Spring.^[1][2]

In 1900 at the age of 14 he was living with his parents Abbott (43 yo) and mother Kate (42 yo) his sister and 8 brothers at 364 South Main St. in Orange MA. ^[3] Their home was in the same section of Orange of his future wife Pearl - about one half mile from one another. She was 10 years old at that time. It is possible that they knew each other as children.

Marriage and Family

He and Pearl were married, though, in Lynn, MA at the First Methodist Church.^[1][4] At the time of his marriage, in 1906, he was living at 17 Rogers Avenue in Lynn MA and was working as a waiter.^[5] It is unclear why he had moved to Lynn, MA. It seems that he would have needed a compelling reason to do so given that it is almost 90 miles from his Orange home.

By 1910 they were living back in Orange, MA on E. Main St., renting an apartment, with their two eldest children Lillian C (3 yo) and Edward B (1 yo), were living in Orange, MA. He was working as a laborer in a wood box shop at the time.^[6]. He later worked as a mechanic according to ^[7]. He briefly moved the family to Montague by 1912 (his son Glen was born there), finally ending up in Pittsfield, Massachusetts by 1916 (next son Earnest was born there) where he was a painter and paper hanger by trade.

He and Pearl ultimately had 7 children all of whose profiles are attached to this one.

Within this same time frame, Herbert signed up with the selective service administration on 12 Sep 1918. At the time he was living at 14 Powers Place, Pittsfield, MA. His SSA registration indicates that, in 1918, he was working as a clerk for the Eton Company, and was of medium height and build with blue eyes and brown hair.^[8]

Herbert took the kids to Dalton on Sundays. He was a congregant of St. Stephens Church in Pittsfield. In his later years, He worked as a night watchman for Eton Crane Paper Mill and in the Miller Building.^[9]

By 1920 he, Pearl and two of their then six children (Lillian and Earnest) had moved to 26 Fourth St. in Pittsfield where he worked as an order clerk for the Crane and Company, a local paper factory.^[10] The boys, Edward, Herby and Glen were in the Springfield Sanitorium (presumably for tuberculosis treatment). It is as yet unknown where they had placed little 2 year old Geraldine.

Life as a Single Parent

At age 44 in 1930 he and his brother George were living in a boarding house owned by Mrs Leona Vreeland at 36 W Housatonic St working as a self employed printer. It seems, since none of his children are listed as living with him at this time that the care of his underage children were farmed out to others. The eldest two, Lillian and Edward had married by this time. Young Herby was living with his youngest sisters, Eleanor and Geraldine in the Loomis household Brother Ernest was living with his older sister Lillian. It is unknown where 18 year old Glen was living at the time.^[11]

By 1935 he was living as a boarder with his long time friend Belle Louis ((fondly known as Belle to the family she functioned as a second mother to the Spring children- at Familysearch KN6T-LCQ) at 58 Burbank Street in Pittsfield, MA. Living in the same household, were her Mrs. Louis's daughter, Edrie Clark, and two of Herbert's children Herbert R and Eleanor. He was working as a painter.^[12]

In 1942, he once again signed up for selective service, still living at Burbank Street, he worked at the Wyndotte Worsted Mill in Pittsfield. His SSA card states that he was 5 ft 7 inches tall, weighed 150 lb, had hazel eyes and black hair, and the tip of his left hand middle finger was missing.^[13]

He bought a house on Orchard Street in December 1946 in which he lived with Belle. It is unknown if her daughter, Edrie, had moved on.^[14] In 1950, Herbert and Belle were living at 12 Orchard St with his divorced 37 year old son, Glenn (who worked in the Blending Department of a Woolen Company), her 11 year old granddaughter, Elaine Belle, and a lodger, 39 year old Marcelle Lavolette (who worked as a repairman for a typewriter supply company).^[15]

Death

Herbert died on his grandson Gary's birthday. He left his house on Orchard Street to Belle Lewis who sold it a year later in 1955, which as his Executrix and beneficiary sold the property for $17,000.^[16] He is buried in Pittsfield Cemetery.^[17]

Memories

His son Herby and daughter-in-law Gladys had fond memories of Herbert. He was a friend to Gladys in his later years.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Town of Orange, Massachusetts, Town Clerk
2. ↑ "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FXD2-HDJ : 11 March 2018), Henry Victor Spring, 18 May 1886, Orange, Franklin, Mass.; citing reference ID #P401-25, Frame 299, Massachusetts Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 1,428,209.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9RX-TMP : accessed 11 November 2019), Herbert V Spring in household of Abbott E Spring, Orange Town (south part), Franklin, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 493, sheet 16B, family 388, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,649.
4. ↑ Ancestry.com. New England, Select United Methodist Church Records, 1787-1922 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
5. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N483-XH3 : 25 May 2018), Herbert V Spring and Pearl Isabel Raymond, 16 Oct 1906; citing Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,315,297.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2J2-VFD : accessed 11 November 2019), Herbert V Spring, Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 512, sheet 7B, family 145, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 589; FHL microfilm 1,374,602.
7. ↑ City of Orange, Massachusetts, Vital Records
8. ↑ "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZNQ-JS5 : 24 August 2019), Herbert Victor Spring, 1917-1918.
9. ↑ Family recollections relayed to Gary Spring by his father Herby
10. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXTK-2X7 : accessed 11 November 2019), Herbert Spring, Pittsfield Ward 3, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States; citing ED 62, sheet 5A, line 33, family 89, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 680; FHL microfilm 1,820,680.
11. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQ2R-NW2 : accessed 11 November 2019), Herbert Spring in household of Mrs. Leona Vreeland, Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 58, sheet 6B, line 56, family 143, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 885; FHL microfilm 2,340,620.
12. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K46B-FN1 : 29 July 2019), Herbert V Spring in household of Hattiebelle Louis, Ward 2, Pittsfield, Pittsfield City, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 2-89, sheet 11B, line 65, family 264, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1569.
13. ↑ "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V12Z-SB3 : 9 March 2018), Herbert V Spring, 1942; citing NARA microfilm publication M1936, M1937, M1939, M1951, M1962, M1964, M1986, M2090, and M2097 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
14. ↑ Berkshire County Register of Deeds, Bk. 531, pp. 241 to 242
15. ↑ "United States Census, 1950.
16. ↑ Berkshire County Register of Deeds, Bk. 627, Pg. 362
17. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/227284212/herbert-v-spring