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Irene Edna Dean |
Irene Edna Dean was born in November 1888 or March 6, 1894 in or near Uniontown, Fayette County, PA, the daughter of Isaac N. and Mary "Belle" (Minerd) Dean.
She married Alec Ellis ( ? - ? ). Sadly, the marriage ended in divorce, and she took back her maiden name.
She bore one known son, William Ellis, later renamed William Dean.
In the fall of 1907, Irene and her mother and friend Miss Mary Belle Mitts of Lemont spent a day in Hopwood, Fayette County, visiting their cousin Maude Goff. The news was reported in the gossip column of a local newspaper, the Hopwood Chronicle, edited by Minerd cousins William A. Stone and Simeon T. Goff.
When Irene's father died in a coal mine accident in 1913, and when her mother passed away in 1921, Irene was unmarried, and resided in the family home in Lemont Furnace, near Uniontown, Fayette County.
In about 1924, she was appointed as federal postmistress at Lemont Furnace, an industrial community near Uniontown. She held the post for nine years, until her death.
She was afflicted with chronic pulmonary tuberculosis which she endured for nine years. But "complications," she went to reside in the household of an aunt, Minnie McCann, in Morgan Station, Fayette County. She died there at the age of 41 on Aug. 28, 1935.
The Uniontown Morning Herald reported that
she was age 41 at death, when in fact her age was closer to 47. The funeral was
held at the home of her son in Lemont Furnace, followed by services in the Lemont Methodist Episcopal
Church, led by Rev. Harry Humbert. Her remains were laid to rest in the Cove Run
Cemetery.
~ Son William Ellis a.k.a. Dean ~
Son William Ellis (1915- ? ) was born in late 1915. At the age of 4 years, 8 months, in 1920, he lived with his mother in the home of his widowed grandmother Mary Belle (Minerd) Dean.
Circa 1935, he dwelled in Lemont Furnace, in House 218.
A coal miner, William worked at the Lemont mine in the mid-1930s. On or about May 23,1935, he suffered a broken arm and injured back in a work-related accident. He was admitted to Uniontown Hospital, where the Uniontown Morning Herald said he would be recuperating "for some time."
Nothing more about him is known.
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