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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
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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 |
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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?"
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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)
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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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