John E. Wilkinson Sr

John E. Wilkinson Sr.

Louise Marie Mackway married Cuyler Campbell Wilkinson Jr. in 1935 in Sellersville, Pa.
Their son John Edward Wilkinson Sr married Marie Siebodnick.

Mackway children, Harold, Phoebe, Naomi, Louise Mackway
at the Store Front (200 feet from living house) on Fairhill Road Hilltown, Pa shown below

Betty 10 and Jane Mairs 8 (Jack's children) with Louise Mackway age 15 in Atlantic City

Jack Mairs was married and widowed before he married Eunie, about 1926 to 28. Jack and his first wife had two daughters, Betty and Jane. They were about the ages of Naomi and Phoebe Mackway. Betty was about 10 and Jane about 8 years old when Jack and Eunie married. In the Atlantic City photo with Louise, Betty is on the left. I think that Eunie began to use her first name as her primary name at the time of her marriage in deference to Betty Mairs, whose legal name was Elizabeth Mairs. As a child, Eunie had been called Liz, as Aunt Louise called her lifelong. Eunie's name was Eunice Elizabeth, and consistent with Grandma's habit with her first three daughters, was called by her second name. The Jack Mairs family lived at 1424 Pine Street, Norristown. Jack's parents lived quite close, just down the alley a bit. Jack's parents were opposed to Eunie having her own child, who she might favor over their older granddaughters, and they encouraged Jack to forbid Eunie to have a child. He did, to Eunie's disappointment.
AnnMarie

AnnMarie hostin Eunie's Birthday party at her house in New Jersey

Unknown, Ralph and Fran Waite, Eunie and Naomi seated, Brian, Marilyn, Jason and Bill Colflesh, AnnMarie and Tony Girardi and Jonathan Wells

The photo was taken by John Wilkinson at Eunie's 88th birthday party, at our house in Collingswood, NJ. On the right is Bill Repenning, and moving to the left, Ralph Waite, Tony Girardi, Fran Waite, and Naomi Waite.
We all had a good time. Eunie said she'd never had a birthday party before. We did it again when she was in the nursing home, on her 90th.
AnnMarie 05/26/08

John Wilkinson

Louise Jessup Newton Mackway age 93

Tony Girardi

the family farm plot- Harold Mackway Jr