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Jade posted a query to the Shawano
Message Board, asking for help in identifying these two houses... now,
seeing that our Shawano researchers are pretty resourceful, I'm hoping
one of you will remember seeing these older homes... it just takes 1
person with a keen eye to detail to solve this puzzle!! Thanks,
Jade, for sharing this with us.
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"I believe the houses would have belonged
to Colin Mayville and his wife Clorie Angie Greeley Mayville. One of
the houses has those two standing in front with their three children
(Howard Ray, Velma Belle and Reynolds Sylvester). I've just always
wondered where the houses are and if they are still standing today.
The house with them standing in front might have been taken around
Liberty in Outagamie Co. because that's where they were living in
1900. Either that or it was their house in 1910- they were living on
First St. in Shawano. In 1920 they were living on Franklin St, and
then by 1930 Colin and daughter Velma Belle had died so Clorie moved
to Madison where Howard had gotten a house, and Reynolds had come as
well. The house with the ornate decor all around the outside, and the
swing on the porch, has always intrigued me and I think this is where
they would have been living in the late 1910s to the 1920s--- there
are copious amounts of pictures from this time period at this house
most involving Velma who was very social and died in 1921 during a
surgery.
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated! I know my grandfather
(Reynolds's son) would love to see those houses if they were still
around and I would love to know if that beautiful decorated house is
still there, for sure.
Thanks,
Jade Schmitt"
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