Life on Hog Island
Days Gone By
from the Photographic Treasures of
Yvonne Marshall Widgeon
Willis Wharf

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Navy Blimp Over Hog Island, 1943

Hog Island, 1942

Motor Whale Boat Coast Guard men stationed on Hog
Island
Coast Guard Station
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  Coast Guard men stationed on Hog
Island
Mable Mercer, Teacher, on steps of Broadwater Academy, Hog Island Irving Bowen preparing to move his boat where it had washed up in the yard of the house Hilda was living in at the time of the 1936 Hurricane (Sept.) Gerald Bowen and Yvonne Marshall (now Widgeon), Cousins
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  Gerald Bowen and Yvonne Marshall (Widgeon) 1938 or 1939 Store and Post Office on Hog Island. Moved to Willis Wharf in 1943 by John L. Marshal (father of Yvonne Marshall) to become family home. Mildred Doughty Smith, 
Hog Island. teacher
John L. Marshall and his cousin Pauline Lewis Phillips
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  Hog Island bathing beauties. Aunt
Hilda Tittermary, Virginia Bell Carroll, Lily
Bradford Smith, Mable Bell Hamblin.
Lillian Doughty
Ethel Doughty Joynes, 1902 March 10, 1924
Ethel (Doughty) Joynes
(Sister to the Grandmother of Yvonne Marshall Widgeon)
Enjoying the warm sun by the high bank.
 
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  Ethel Doughty Joynes
taken on Dicky Ridge just before we got to Forest Royal 3360 ft.
Russell Bowen, Arthur Marsh, Ray Phillips, Fred Marsh, Elmer Doughty, Harry Bowen, John Higsby, Otto Phillips, Raymond Phillips, Earl Doughty Keepers Dwelling, Broadwater
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  "Sud" Bell "Sud" Bell Charles R. Doughty, son of George Edward and his wife Mary. Born Sept. 4, 1889; died June 5, 1936.
Charles was the brother of the Grandmother of Yvonne Marshall Widgeon. He served in World War I.
Charles Doughty
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  Old Coast Guard Station and dock The Marsh Family   The store and P.O. as it looked in the 30s The first Hog Island. Lighthouse, built in
1852
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  Lighthouse. Construction began in 1892/ Completed in 1896. After serving seamen for 52 years, it was abandoned. Blown down by dynamite in 1948. Lighthouse House Aerial View
Two Houses
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  Wharf, Hog Island Aerial View, Looking South, Broadwater, VA Aerial View School Photo, Teachers and Children Back of School Photo with names of teachers and children
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  Children at Broadwater, Hog Island, School in 1928 Members of Broadwater Methodist
Church.
Old Coast Guard Station, south End of Hog Island Hilda in front of house built by Vernon Simpson in 1915 on Hog Island from salvaged lumber from old hotel Same house after its move to Willis Wharf.. Home of Charles Simpson.
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  Yvonne Marshall Widgeon's Simpson Grandparents.

"Grandmommie met Grandpoppie when she came to Hog Island to work in the hotel. She was raised in Quinby by the Bradfords. But was she a Bradford?"

 
Lottie Doughty
Simpson, Grandmother of Yvonne Marshall Widgeon
James Vernon Simpson, Grandfather of Yvonne Marshall Widgeon Hog Island Reunion
September 25, 1969 (?)
 
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      James Waylon Simpson Born January 8, 1867; died July 30, 1935. Born and died on Hog Island. Waterman and Lighthouse keeper.
Mary Ellen Bradford Simpson. Born October 14, 1863 in Quinby, VA; Died on September 19, 1937, on Hog Island.
Photo taken at Old Point Comfort Lighthouse where he served as lighthouse keeper.
History of the Simpson family.
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  Miss Nancy Kelly
Great great great grandmother of Yvonne Marshall Widgeon
Mamie Shep Doughty Robbins,
Essie Lewis, Mary Ellen Simpson, Mary Riggen, Hallie Smith, Fannie Bell, Hilda Tittermary, child unknown.
In front of Aunt Fanny's house on Hog Island.
Hilda S. Tittermary and Olive S. Bown

(Aunts of Yvonne Marshall Widgeon)

Grafton Bowen and Charles Simpson
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George Edward Doughty and Mary Emma Lafferty Doughty, Greatgrandparents of Yvonne Marshall Widgeon

"Hank" Marshall - Cook 36' motor boat Hog Island Light
           
           





 

 

 



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