On the left is Jessie McGarry (or, McGearry) Dailey, born in born in September 1851 in New York State of immigrant Irish parents. I do not have dates, but Patrick McGarry married Ellen Shanley and had six children. One of them, Patrick 2nd. married Mary Kane, and had eleven children. One of these eleven was Jessie McGarry, who married William Dailey, and to that union was born ten children, nine of whom survived infancy. Jessie died in late 1921.
On the right is William Dailey, born in March 1845 in New York State of immigrant Irish parents, John and Mary Dailey. William was the fifth born of nine children of John and Mary. William married Jessie McGarry in 1875. In the Census of 1880, John, then 76, a "farmer" was living in the home of William (a "grain dealer") and Jessie, in the Town of Sweden, NY. Mary, John's wife, 70 years old in 1880 was with her husband John a member of this William Dailey household. In addition to the grandparents, the 1880 Census records children John F. 4 yrs., Bertha M. 3 yrs., William G. 1 yr., and James K., 2 mos. as living in the household. The Census of 1900 finds William and Jessie at 48 South Avenue, Brockport, NY and John and Mary had passed away so are no longer listed in the household. Their stone in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Rochester NY gives John a lifespan from 1805-1885 and Mary a span of 1810-1889. The household in 1900 records Bertha 23, William G. 21, James K. 20, George R. 15, Vincent 11, Archabold D. 9, Oswald A. 5, and Franklin E. 3, along with "Niece" Katherine McAniff ,17 and servant Josephine Kennedy, 16. John F. had left that household by 1900.. Age and occupancy inferences would date the living room photo which comes next at about 1895 or very early 1896. William died in 1919.
(A note regarding the photographs reproduced in this web story. All photos in this sequence will look better if you can use a screen format larger than 640x480 pixels. I use 1024x768 for viewing and have set each photo's pixel width at 550 pixels. My web editor software, in keeping with html, is limited in punctuation. If a paren set ( ) appears within a lady's name, it connotes the maiden name of a wife. Where brackets [] appear, the narrator of this first effort to bring the Dailey assemblies alive has no certain indentification of the person or his or her derivation. This photo chronicle is received its first update on March 20, 2000.)
I am Franklyn E. Dailey Jr., your first narrator and one of the cousins pictured in the 1936 reunion photo in Rochester, NY., yet to come. I would suggest that the web reader Block, and Print out the text paragraphs to better follow the photographs.
Herewith, the first assembly photo in my possession.
48 South Avenue, Brockport, NY: The Living Room, circa 1895 or 1896.
The living room photo below reveals an assembly of the William Dailey family. I recognize, despite the different furniture, the living room of the home in which I spent my first years, 1921-1935. My Sis, Alma Jessica Dailey, and I rattled around in a home obviously built for a large family. (Sis passed away on December 11, 1999.) This family living room was at the right front of the house at 48 South Avenue in Brockport, New York. The room was just behind a spacious front porch and was on the northeast corner of the lot which was on the south side of South Avenue. About 1930, the house number changed to 52 South Avenue for reasons never explained to me. Sis and I came to know most of the folks in this picture. Our Dad , Franklyn E., the youngest of the William Dailey sons, was not in the picture so I assume that he had not yet been born. Jessie could have been pregnant with him in the photo.
In the left forefront, with hand on the arm of her chair, is Jessie McGarry Dailey. She is the mother of the large William Dailey brood. Her tombstone at Holy Sepulchre in Rochester, NY indicates McGearry as the spelling of her maiden name. (That spelling is also used for her sister who is buried in the same plot.) Next from the left, standing, is son [George or William]. Standing behind him framed in the front window, with something white in hand, is son James K. and next to him is [a ladyfriend]. Directly in front of her, seated in a chair is son Vincent, and in front of him on the floor is Donald A. (in the Census of 1900 listed as Archabold D.). Then comes the master of the house, William with the dark mustache seated legs apart, and to his left, still in baby clothes, is Jesse Oswald, born in 1894 (listed in the 1900 Census as Oswald A., always known to my Dad as Oz.).
Behind Oswald , the baby in this photo, on the left (north) frame of the home's east side bay window (the dining room on the west side also had a bay window) is eldest son, John F., and to his left, Mary Bertha, the only daughter, whom my father always referred to as Bertha. She helped her mother raise this family. A critical assumption for this photo is that the third or fourth eldest son, either George R.or William G., is not in the picture. One of them could have been at school.
In the next picture, we see the William Dailey family posed on the front porch of 48 South Avenue in Brockport. I am guessing my Dad's (Franklyn's) age at 18, which would make the photo date about 1915. Dad is the youthful looking one dead center in the photo. Others put this photo as early as 1910.
Four and one half years separated George R. and James K., with James K. the older. George R. was married to Katherine Doyle Dailey and James K. was married to Mary P Dailey. Both brothers died in 1918. George and Katherine had an infant son George who was interred in Holy Sepulchre on 07/20/1917 along with ten others who were moved when this new plot was opened on that date.
George and Catherine (Doyle) Dailey lived in a home on Park Avenue in Brockport next to a home occupied for a time by Vincent and Corinne (McCoy) Dailey. These two abodes , at 191 Park Avenue and 195 Park Avenue were across Park Avenue from the Capen Hose Company, a fire station which had a dance hall on the second floor where I briefly took dancing lessons in a group. Now, the second assembly:
The Front Porch at 48 South Avenue, Brockport NY, circa 1910-1915.
In the front row, left to right are the John F. Dailey and Frances (Murray) Dailey children, namely Philip, Alan, John F. Jr., and W. Murray Dailey. In the second row are George R., William G., Franklyn E., Jesse Oswald, and Vincent Dailey, all sons of William and Jessie McGarry. (Franklin had changed his name to Franklyn and Oswald A. had changed his to Jesse Oswald, or perhaps their parents made these changes.) From the left, the third row begins with Donald A(rchibald), and just to the right and behind him is Attorney John Pallace, husband of the William and Jessie's only daughter Bertha, then comes James K., Jessie McGarry, William, Mary in the picture hat and the male row ends on the far right with John F. Dailey. The back (top) row of ladies begins on the left with Lizzie (wife of William G.), Corinne (wife of Vincent), Mary Bertha Dailey (wife or wife to be of John Pallace), Katherine T. Dailey(wife of George R.)[Wendy Bennett's legend with hercopy of this photo has the name spelled Catherine and indicates that she is the sister of picture-hatted Mary in front of her] and Fanny (Frances, wife of John F. Dailey). [paragraph modifications made 03/23/2000 by Frank Dailey Jr.]
Some explanations: Katherine T. Dailey is the name on the grave in Holy Sepulchre next to husband George R. Dailey. Katherine died in 1951. Next to them is an infant George who was reinterred in Holy Sepulchre with 11 others on 7/20/17 when the Dailey lot was opened. Mary L. Dailey and infant Mary Dailey were among the 11 who came to H.S. on 7/20/1917. Mary L. is shown as the wife of Donald A.Dailey and their infant Mary is shown in the H.S. records as the daughter of "Donald A. and Mary G.D." If as Wendy Bennett maintains, Katherine and Mary were the Doyle sisters, neither used Doyle as an initial after marriage. The record shows Katherine "Kitty" Dailey McNamara as another daughter of Donald A. and Mary. Kitty died in 1992. She attended the 1980 reunion. We hope to see some McNamara's at the Atlanta reunion. There is also uncertainty about the date of this photo. I had dated it 1915 because my Dad, Franklyn, looked to be about 18 at the time but the John F. Dailey Jr. family date their father's picture as earlier and the Vincent Dailey family marked their copy 1910. My Dad,. born in 1897, is surely more than 13 in the photo. So, let's leave it 1910-1915 and use some wedding dates if we can fnd them to help settle the question. The variations in the spelling of Catherine or Katherine and the fact that there are four Mary Daileys in the H.S. lot makes for some confusion. [Corrections in this and the preceding paragraph dated 03/23/2000 by Frank Dailey Jr.]
The house, by the way, comes up dark in the photo. I believe it was painted red at the time that this photo was taken. By the time my Dad brought me back here in late 1921 or early 1922 after his mother died and before I was yet one year old, or very shortly thereafter, it had been repainted a light green-gray. Later, when I would salvage lumber removed during some house modification to use in one of my own boyhood carpenter projects I could see the red paint underneath. In back of the house on an elevated crest of land, was a large barn with stables on the first floor and a large second floor in which they probably stored hay brought up through a large door over the center. By the time I lived there, it was a storeroom for barrel parts, staves, end pieces and straps and the front of the first floor had been converted to a three car garage. Between the house and the barn was a typical well with pump and pump handle. This was not used while I was growing up, certainly not after 1925.
Next we shall see the Daileys at a reunion held at the Rochester Club on East Avenue in Rochester, N.Y . Uncle Don (Donald Archibald) was a member of the Club. The photograph was taken in the Club ballroom. I believe Uncle Don and Aunt Frances (nee Frances McGuire) did most of the planning for this memorable affair. They were gracious hosts and there was never a mention of the effort they put into the planning. Uncle Vin and family came from New York City (they had left Grand Avenue and the McCoy household where I first encountered them) and their sons Bill and Vinny did not make this gathering but sister Mary Virginia did. She was pretty and I had a crush on her. The John F. Sr. group came from the west, Albion and Buffalo and were all present, including Murray and Mary Dailey's first children, those grandchildren sitting on the laps respectively of grandfather John and grandmother Fannie. Uncle Bill, who had lost all three of his dear children in their childhoods and had a bedridden wife (told to me as "melancholia" on the occasion of many visits to her bedside), also came from Albion. This is one photo where I can definitely establish the identities. John Pallace who had married Bertha was not present, nor was his daughter Mary Bertha. (In many records, their name is spelled Palace.) The third assembly:
The Rochester (New York) Club circa 1936: The Ballroom
My dad and mother, Franklyn E. and Isabel (Lasher) Dailey are seated from the left in front. Next to the left of my mother is Donald A. Dailey and kneeling in front of him is his daughter Georgianne. Next left is Frances (Maguire) Dailey, Donald's wife, and she has Robert, her son just in front of her to her left and Donald A. Jr. kneeling in front of his sister. Then comes William G. Dailey, no wife present and no living child. Next to him is seated Frances (Murray) Dailey and in front of her, possibly on her right knee is her grandchild, John, son of Murray Dailey. Then comes her husband, John F. Sr. and on his right knee is granddaughter Patricia, who became Pat Quarantello. Then comes Corinne (McCoy) Dailey and then her husband, Vincent Dailey. (The early records do not give my Uncle Vin a middle name but later in granddaughter Wendy Bennett's records, he is Vincent DePaul Dailey. A great choice if you have the freedom to acquire a middle name. Wendy is the daughter of William Dailey and Doris (Moffett) Dailey. As stated above, neither Bill nor Vinny, sons of Vin and Corinne, made this reunion. This picture was taken about seven years before Billy married Doris.) Next to the right in the front row in the picture, to the left of Vncent, is Florence (Cleveland) Dailey and her husband, Jesse Oswald (Oz) Dailey. Bringing this last family into the picture reminds me again of why I have some doubts that this photo was taken in 1937 as some recall, and might date from 1936. Uncle Oz died while I was at Niagara University. Tommy Dailey and Ozzie Dailey entered there with me in 1935, in the Class of 1939. It seems to me that in early 1936 Tommy Dailey was called home for the death of his father. I was sent for the next day and became a pall bearer. Tommy changed to the Rochester New York extension division of Niagara University his sophomore year which would have been 36-37 so I'd have to place the death of Oz in 1936 and the picture at least as early as 1936. We have now made our way through the front row of the "1936" reunion. Another missing person is Kitty Dailey, the daughter of Donald A. by his first wife and half sister to Donald A. Jr., Robert and Georgianne. Kitty married Paul McNamara, an Attorney who served in World War II.
The photographer did a wonderful job composing the Daileys for this picture and the Daileys themselves look remarkably composed. Starting at the top left of the second row, at the very left stands Alan Dailey, architect son of John F. Dailey and to his left my sister, Alma Jessica Dailey and to her left is Franklyn E. Jr. the narrator. To my left is Mary Ellen Dailey and to her left is Oswald Cleveland Dailey, daughter (third born child) and son (first born child) of Jesse Oswald and Florence respectively. To young Ozzie's left is Mary (Gorsline) Dailey, wife of Philip Dailey who is next on her left. Philip is the youngest son of John F. Dailey, just behind Alan. To Philip's left is Mary Virginia Dailey, daughter of Vincent and Corinne and next on her left is Thomas E. Dailey, the second son and second born child of Jesse Oswald and Florence. Then comes Mary ( ) Dailey, wife of Murray Dailey, the eldest child of John F. Dailey and Frances (Murray) Dailey. At the far right is the youngest of the four children, Betty Dailey, of Jesse Oswald and Florence Dailey. Missing from the John F. Dailey children in this photo is John F. Dailey Jr., second born of the union of John F. and Frances Murray. I believe John F. Jr. was living downstate or in New Jersey and may, by the time this photo was made, have already been married to Catherine (Conboy) Dailey. Aunt Florence lived to be 100 and died about 1994. I knew everyone in this photo personally and can pass on the happy memory that all of their descendants can be proud of each of these ancestors. These were all, without exception, warm, loving and generous people. I am one of the last four of the cousins in this picture still living as of 01/18/2000. I miss my parents, all my Uncles and Aunts, and all my Cousins, all without exception, and all very very much.
Next, the fourth assembly:
19 Brookside Circle, Wilbraham MA 01095: The Tennis Court, 1980
This is just a little too much photograph for this web medium. The original was taken with a Nikon SLR with a long barreled lens using a medium contrast Kodak 35mm b&w film. It was taken by skilled photographer John Plumadore who visited our reunion to demonstrate his Photon Chroma electrophotographic slide camera. Many reunionees copied archival family prints onto his 35mm electrophotographic slides. I have many that are preserved beautifully today, 20 years later. The photo above is a conventional silver print enlarged from the 35mm b&w negative that John Plumadore created on that summer day in 1980. Just to vary the approach, I will identify our family "patrons" from the right this time.
Standing on the extreme right, are Bill Varley and Betty (Dailey) Varley. Behind them, standing with Patrick Dailey (son of Dr. Michael Dailey now of Atlanta GA) on his shoulders, is Vincent C. "Vinny" Dailey (youngest of the Franklyn Jr. and Peggy Dailey family). To Vinny's immediate right is his brother John L. Dailey (the bearded one) and on John's right is his oldest brother Franklyn E. Dailey III. Directly in front of Franklyn is Alma Dailey Valentin (born Alma Jessica Dailey), my sister, and to her left, Thomas E. "Tommy" Dailey and to her right my mother, Isabel (Lasher) Dailey. Centered in this grouping just behind Tommy and to the right of Betty is [a mustachioed gentleman whom I recall well from that reunion and tend to identify with Philip my cousin. He could be John Philip Dailey, son of Philip and Mary (Gorsline) Dailey.]
Isabel is the one with the dark navy blue vest and bangs, with a little tie under her collar. Directly behind her is Maureen (Maher) Dailey wife of Dr. Michael Dailey, and even closer behind Isabel, with the long dark hair is Patricia (La Rochelle) Dailey wife of Franklyn E. III. Behind Patricia is Dr. Michael Dailey, second son of Franklyn Jr. and Marguerite (Parker) Dailey . (Marguerite is oft referred to here as Peggy.) So mentally carve off thirteen persons on the right using a knife that slices diagonally slightly to the left from Isabel's right shoulder to Patricia's right shoulder to Dr. Michael's right shoulder. We are done with them except for [the bracketed mustache] in the paragraph above.
(The ID challenge is now going to get tougher for me. I called for help on 02/12/2000 and Robert and Louise (Schaefer) Dailey have agreed to send me their copy of this photo complete with legend for ID.)
The mustachioed one crouched down to in front of and to Isabel's right is John Calderwood Weld Jr., son of my sister Alma (Dailey) Weld Valentin, and grandson of Isabel. Directly behind him is Martha (Leary) Dailey, in 1980 the wife of John L. Dailey. Martha stands tall with shoulder length hair and white blouse and body facing slightly to her right. Next to Martha is Paul McGary Dailey, fifth son and sixth child of Franklyn. E. Jr. and Marguerite P. Dailey. (It was my faulty memory that created the middle name, McGary for Paul. The paper records for Jessie's family used the spelling McGarry and the tombstone reveals McGearry. I compounded the enigma cited by Joan Dailey in the cover letter to her 1990 first attempt at computerizing the Dailey family.) Continuing the diagonal to the left going back are Dr. David Kvam and Steven Leary. To the right of David is Elizabeth (Dailey) Kvam with Steve Leary's mustachioed face in between. Directly in front of David Kvam is frizzy haired Marguerite (Parker) "Peggy" Dailey, hostess for this day. She is the mother of Elizabeth Kvam and wife of yours truly. Peggy has on a Navy short sleeve blouse with white name tag and shoulder to shoulder with her on her right is Gina Broderick, wife of Michael Patrick Broderick who is the son of Ed and Georgianne (Dailey) Broderick. Long blonde haired Elizabeth Kvam is directly behind Gina Broderick. Keep Gina in mind as she will be the opening pivot for paragraph after next. Before moving on to the standing center groups, I will tell what I know of the rest of the kneelers who join John Calderwood Weld Jr. already identified.
The three older sitter/kneelers in their teens, from the left, are Katherine McNamara, daughter of Katherine (Kitty Dailey) McNamara and Paul McNamara, and Sheila Dailey and Mary Bibiana Dailey respectively, daughters of Robert and Lou Dailey. Directly in front of Bibiana, who has the long dark hair, is yours truly, the only crossed hands sittee, in dark shirt, shorts and sneakers with tennis socks and dark rimmed glasses. The cowboy squatting just to my left is Franklyn E. Dailey IV, son and second child of Franklyn E. III and Patricia (LaRochelle) Dailey. Peering around the shoulder of the cowboy hat, with his head toward the camera and whose long left leg in striped sock is extended is Michael Parker Dailey Jr., son and second child of Dr. Michael and Maureen (Maher) Dailey. Just behind him, kneeling in striped blouse is blond Katie Dailey, eldest child of Mike and Maureen Dailey. To Katie's left is Sarah "Sissie" Dailey, with dark hair dropping on both sides of her head below the shoulders. Sarah is the eldest child of Franklyn E. III and Patricia. Directly behind Sarah is her sister, Malda Dailey, daughter and third child of Franklyn E. III and Patricia Dailey. In front of cowboy (hatted) Franklyn E. IV is Christopher Dailey, fourth child of Franklyn E. III and Patricia Dailey. Between cowboy hat and myself is a suntopped girl, Kathy O'Hagan, alongside Brian W. Dailey, youngest child of Robert and Louise (Schaefer) Dailey. Brian has the bangs and the chin that reminds me of my own early pictures. At the right, marking the row of the urchin class of crossed leg sitters, is blonde Emily Dailey, fifth and youngest of the Franklyn III/Patricia brood. The companion to her right with toy in front is Robert Dailey, youngest son of Michael and Maureen Dailey. The [two little crosslegged boys at the far left of the foreground sitters] still have to be identified.
The next group of standees is demarked on the right by Gina Broderick and on the left by Kitty McNamara in white coat, dark glasses pearl necklace and earrings. Kitty ran a lady's fine clothing store and always looked elegant. Starting with the Gina, in the front right of this center group, at her right is Ed Broderick, obviously tanned, and next on Ed's right is his wife Georgianne (Dailey) Broderick Between Ed Broderick and Gina Broderick and slightly behind them in white shirt with white collar and a broad dark stripe on the shoulders, is Michael Patrick Broderick, son of Ed and Georgianne and husband of Gina. Directly behind Ed Broderick, and behind the right shoulder of Michael Patrick Broderick, with head turned slightly left, in "style of the times" hairdo is Philip T. Dailey son of Franklyn E. Jr. and Marguerite (Parker) Dailey. Behind and to the left of Philip Dailey, with face that just barely made the camera is [a tall person, matching mustachioed Steve Leary in height]. Going back to that back row, on Philip's right is Mark S. Dailey, son of Robert and Louise Dailey and in front of him to his right is his brother Robert E. "Robbie" Dailey. Behind Robbie is Thomas A. Dailey, again in times-appropriate long hair. This Thomas is the son of Franklyn E. Jr. and Peggy Dailey. To his right in navy blue jacket is my cousin, Robert E., son of Donald A. and Frances (Maguire) Dailey and in front of him and to his right is his wife, Louise (Schaefer ) "Lou" Dailey. Kneeling in front of Lou is their son Thomas M. Dailey. In the center of this group in a dark dress, with bangs, is Jeanne Dailey, wife of Donald A. Dailey Jr. (Donald A. Jr. is not in the photo and was not present; nor was Don and Jeanne's son, Skip.)
On the far left of the fourth assembly photo in white sun dress with vest and sandals is Patricia (Dailey) Quarantella, daughter of W. Murray Dailey eldest of the John F. Dailey/Fannie Murray branch of the family (my Uncle John and Aunt Fannie) and Mary Dailey, first wife of Murray. Patricia married John Quarantella. Patricia has a brother John Murray Dailey who is married to Marie Dailey. They presently live in or near Albion, NY and have a son James H. who married Eileen M. Dailey in 1987. Patricia has a sister, Mary Susan. On Pat Quarantella's right is [her son] in dark shirt, white tennis pants, tennis shoes and striped socks. Between them is a [Dailey] that I believe is from the same original branch as Pat, the John F. Dailey and Fannie Murray Dailey union.
With the exception of the three just covered, the final standing group at the left are co-centered by William T. "Billy" Dailey, son of the Vincent shown in the assembly one, two and three photos, and Doris (Moffet) Dailey, Billy's wife. They married in 1940. I say "co-centered" because next to and just forward of Billy is his brother-in-law Kenneth Lavine and just forward and to Ken's left is his wife, Mary Virginia (Dailey) Lavine. Mary Virginia is the daughter of Vincent and Corinne (McCoy) Dailey. From the left, as we look at this picture, at ground level behind the standing children, is Doris (Moffitt) Dailey in dark outer jacket with gray hair (sorry, Doris) and moving back to the right is husband Billy in white shirt with white hair, with a youthful face between, and now coming just forward to the right is Ken Lavine and forward to the right again is Mary Virginia Lavine (with the gray hair, sorry Mary Virginia), with a dark haired face in between Ken and Mary Virginia. Doris, Billy, Ken and Mary Virginia in that order describe an inverted V. There are Bennett and Dailey descendants from Billy and Doris and Coogans, Lavines and Johnsons from the Ken and Mary Virginia union. Many are in this picture. All are attractive but I cannot pick them out soon enough to make my editorial deadline.Vincent T. Dailey, Billy's and Mary Virginia's brother, was not present.
Back to Kitty who punctuates the left group from the center group. Her son, Timmy Dailey, is way in the back with slightly balding forehead turned to the right, and with all but the eyes of his face obscured. There is a tall dark haired man directly in line with the fence post. Directly in front and to his left is William "Billy" Dailey, with white short, dark glasses and nearly white hair. I am going to be redundant with the previous paragraph to give the reader a second shot at the left group in the fourth assembly photo. Directly to Billy's left and slightly in front of him is Kenneth LaVine. Continuing that line of heads slanting down to Billy's left, after Ken LaVine is a [dark haired girl], and then Mary Virginia (Dailey) LaVine, followed by [a second dark haired girl]. She has a [standee girl child] in front of her. Directly to the left of the [second dark haired girl] is a [young man with muscles in the chest, a shirt with a stripe in the collar and name tag on right breast]. He stands just to the right of our anchor girl, Kitty NcNamara. With heads slanting now up behind his right shoulder, we see a [third dark haired girl, in sun top dress-behind her is Timmy McNamara] and continuing up from her right shoulder, a [horn rimmed glasses man who could be Ken LaVine's son], and continuing up a [frizzy haired man] and then [another man] opposite and almost as tall as [our original anchor man] in line with the post. Let me go back to that [first standee girl] child in this group. She has [girl, girl, girl, boy, boy, girl children] standing to her right.
Back to Billy Dailey. Front of and to his right is a [young lady] and in front and to her right is Doris (Moffett) Dailey, Billy's wife. Directly to Doris' left is another [young brunette lady] almost touching the tallest of the group of standee children in front. Directly to Doris' right is a [ young brunette lady with lots of hair]. Framed between them is [another young lady with a more mature hair style]. Finally going back to our tall man in back directly on the post line, and moving down to his right is [a man with nice combed hair which shines and he is smiling], then [another darker hair style of the times man] and finally [in a flowered blouse with dark pants, in a fits all time periods well ,wind blown hairdo, lady].
This exercise has so grown on me so that I appreciate more than ever the love I have for these, my brethren, even if they are my relatives. I have remarked of the five adult deaths the Dailey family experienced in Brockport in the years1918-21. In the last years of the 20th century, from 1995-1998, the Jesse Oswald branch lost Aunt Florence (J.O.'s wife, a widow for 6 decades), daughter Betty and her husband Bill Varley, daughter Mary Ellen and her husband Harry Long, and son Tommy, the husband of Madeline Dailey of West Los Angeles, CA. Ozzie Cleveland Dailey, the eldest son, husband of Ceil Dailey, also died just two years earlier. Seven of this family went to their Maker in the decade. I am also reminded, doing a sort of photo geneology, that I made use of the computer printouts generated by Joan C. Dailey, daughter of John F. Dailey Jr. and Catherine (Conboy) Dailey. Joan left us during this decade. She was preceded by just a few years by "Misty", daughter of Robert and Louise Dailey. My mother Isabel, and my Sister Alma, departed in the 90s.
It might be fitting to quote Joan C. Dailey's parting words to us on November 12, 1990, "Until then, Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas and Yes, There Still Is A Drexel Burnham!
By golly Joan, the spirit bubbling right out of that last family letter to us has convinced me that at least where you are, there still is a Drexel Burnham. Let us plan to read Joan's letter at our Atlanta Reunion 2000. We need to pick up the challenge she left us.
Frank Dailey Jr. January 18, 2000.
The fifth assembly occurred at the home of Robert and Louise (Schaefer) Dailey in the summer of 1990 in New Canaan, CT. A second narrator team, Bob and Lou Dailey, are taking over at this point. They are using a different methodology, numbering the heads in their group photo. Billy Dailey was the family patriarch for that occasion (I have an audio tape of his talk) and my mother Isabel, then 91, was the senior citizen on the distaff side. For potential door prizes or other worthy purposes at Dailey2000, I am donating two of the distinguished 1990 Dailey caps which Bob and Lou gave to us to commenorate the wonderful occasion on which they were our hosts on June 23, 1990. From Sis and Frankie Dailey, winners enjoy your caps!
I am going to reproduce below an office copy of the June 23, 1990 group photo followed by a copy with the heads replaced by numbers. Following this will be a list of names for the numbers. This would work far better if I could scan a photographic copy of the original. Those of you lucky enough to have one of those had best use it to relate to the number list.
[stand by for replacement of this photo copy with the original photo soon]
1.Bill Dailey (upper left, numeral has rubbed a bit) 2.Sheila Dailey Rohrer 3.Joan Dailey 4.Henry Rohrer 5.(numeral smear)Eileen(Mrs. Jim)Dailey 6...................... 7.John Dailey 8......................9.Billy Dailey 10......................11.John Dailey 12.Marie (Mrs. John)Dailey 13.Don McNamara 14.Patrick McNamara 15.Gina Broderick(Mrs.Mike) 16.Shirley Broderick(Mrs. Ed) 16A....................17....................18.Ed Broderick 19.Vincent Dailey 20.Peggy Dailey 21.Tom Dailey 22.Cindy Dailey 23. Ian Dailey 24.John Dailey 25.Philip Dailey 26.Sally Dailey(Mrs. Philip T. Dailey) 27. Elizabeth "Missy" Dailey Kvam 28................29.Tom Dailey 30................31.Alma Dailey Weld Valentin 32 Lisa Dailey(Mrs. Vincent) 33.Vincent Dailey 34.Lawrence Dailey 35.Diana Weld 36.Don Dailey(D.A.) 37.David Kvam 38............... 39.Isabel Dailey(Mrs. Frank) 40........... 41.James Dailey on shoulders of 42.(numeral smear)Jim Dailey 43.Louise Schaefer Dailey 44.David Schaefer Mundy 45.Mike(Michael Patrick) Broderick 46.Bill Dailey 47.Alice Dailey 48.Donald A. Dailey III(Skip) 49........... 50.Jessica Weld Lamb 51.Davey Lamb 52(numeral smear).Franklyn E. Dailey Jr. 53.Thomas Maguire Dailey 54.Jamie Cherry 55.Malissa Maguire Dailey 56.Sue Gay(now Mrs. Robert E. Dailey Jr.) 57.Patricia (Lowman) Dailey (Mrs. Mark Dailey) 58.Robert E. Dailey 59.Katharine Schaefer Dailey 60.Mark Schaefer Dailey 61.James Christian Dailey 62.Mary Bibiana Dailey 63.Robert Emmet Dailey Jr. 64.Ted Hill 65.Craig Hill 66.Edna McNamara (Mrs. Patrick McNamara) 67.Mark Hill 68.Cathy McNamara Hill 69.............. 70............ 71........... 72.Ingrid Kvam 73......... 74.Genevieve Kvam 75. Eileen Dailey 76.Rebecca Dailey 77.Wendy Dailey Bennet 78.Richard Bennet 79............ 80........... 81.....
There may be people who had left and missed the photo. I recall that Doris Moffitt Dailey was ill at the time and could not come. Aunt Florence was living with Betty (Dailey) Varley and husband Bill in Winchester VA but was about 95 at the time and not able to travel.
Up until this fifth assembly, unknowns are in brackets [ ]. In this assembly above, unknowns are numbered. The job of the webmaster from this point on is to fill in the brackets or put names with the numbers. Immediate foregoing courtesy of Bob and Lou Dailey. Frank Dailey did the scanning and typing or mistyping. On to Atlanta, May 2000.
Now for the Quiz.
Below (keep scrolling and you'll see them) are two color slides reproduced which date from 1948-1950. This is a teaser. I know all the folks in the two slides. (Sorry, now 03/23/2000 I am hung up on one of them.) The first person to name all the folks in these slides gets a free Continental breakfast from Frank and Peggy Dailey at our DaileyReunion2000 in Atlanta on May 28, 2000.
03/23/2000
Cecelia "Ceil" Dailey, wife of Oswald Cleveland Dailey has identified the lovely young lady in white blouse on the right in the LOWER photo as, get this, herself! In the scene she is holding Patricia, her infant daughter. In the UPPER photo, to the left is Ceil's husband, Oswald C. Dailey. He is sitting next to my mother, Isabel L. Dailey. In the babee tenda is Philip Dailey, then in the white blouse is his mother,Marguerite P. "Peggy" Dailey and holding Marguerite's two other boys, Franklyn E. III and Michael P. (perpetrator with his wife Maureen of our May 2000 reunion), is my sister Alma Dailey Valentin. Oswald, Isabel and Alma have left us.
Going back to Ceil in the LOWER photo, we find from the left, John C. Weld holding John C. Weld Jr.(John and my sister Alma were husband and wife and it is in their Bethesda, MD apartment that these pictures were taken. John was an attorney for the NLRB at the time.),then in the blue blouse, our UNKNOWN LADY, and then Mary Ellen Dailey, my cousin and Oswald C. Dailey's sister and Ceil's sister in law, and then we are back to Ceil and her baby Patricia. Patricia, husband Bill Aiton and Ceil are expected at the reunion. Mary Ellen had left us. The UNKOWN LADY could be Betty Dailey who became Betty Dailey Varley. She and her sister Mary Ellen had an apartment in Washington DC up on 16th Street NW during the postwar period. My uncertainty is that it does not quite remind me of Betty and by 1948 I felt Betty may have left Washington.
