Joseph and Bertha Paynter had two other children after Enos. Their third child, Nelson only lived to be about 7 months old. Their second child, was my Dad's half-sister Violet. After her mother died, she and Enos went to live with her mother's parents, as shown in the 1910 census. However, in the 1920 census she is found living with her father Joseph and his second wife, my grandmother, Carrie. Since Carrie was probably already very sick at this time and my father and his brother were 4 and 7, she was probably taking care of them to some extent. The photo to the right is the only photo I have of her. This was cropped from a photo of her pulling her two half-brothers in a sleigh, so I estimate her age as about 15 or 16.
My Dad always spoke of her with a great deal of love. One unusual and trivial comment sticks in my mind. Dad told me that Violet admired the "crescent moons" of his fingernails. Violet married Carletos Henry Doney on September 28, 1923, when she was 18 years old. Her marriage license shows that she was working in a factory at the time and he was a machinist. Carletos also had friends in the circus and may have worked in the circus himself for a time. The photo on the left is the only one I have of him, and it is labeled as being Carletos with his circus friends.
After their marriage, Violet and Carl lived in Washington, DC for a while. They had 2 children, Leroy born in 1924 and Marjorie born in 1927. By 1930 they had separated and Violet was working as a servant in Queens New York. She died on April 12, 1933 in a New York hospital, at the age of 28. Her cause of death is listed as "Chronic Endoceovicites. Post Quarter shock and hemorage." I have not been able to find a definition for the medical term "Endoceovicites." Violet is buried in Canaan Corners Cemetery, outside of Waymart, PA, in the Paynter family plot. Her two children went to live with her father Joseph and his 3rd wife, Adrude.
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