Jean Elizabeth VELSOR

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1920, Living with parents in Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
• Census: 1930, Living with parents in Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut

Notes:

Name:
Jean Elizabeth Velsor Griffth is the only child of Samuel Smith Velsor and Hazel Fancher. She was the Salutatorian of her Senior Class at Norwalk High School in the Class of 1933. She was unable to attend college because of the Great Depression. Jean worked as a clerk, and a legal secretary.

She married Robert Yates Griffith, Jr., on 16 Nov 1945, in South Norwalk, CT. Both Jean and her husband were active members of the United Congregational Church. They are survived by two sons, and two granddaughters.

Family/Spouse: Robert Yates GRIFFITH, Jr.. Robert was born on 5 May 1917 in Brooklyn, Kings Co., New York; died on 28 Aug 2002 in Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut; was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Son of Stephen W. Velsor and Mary Smith
• Census: 1920, Living in Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
• Census: 1930, Living in Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut

Notes:

Name:
Samuel Smith Velsor was born in New York in 1886 to Stephen W. Velsor and Mary Smith Velsor. The family lived in Brooklyn, NY., and moved to Norwalk CT when Samuel was three years old. He attended Norwalk public schools, and graduated from Norwalk High School in 1903. He joined City National Bank as a clerk, working up to the position of head bookkeeper. In 1920 he joined the staff of Peoples Trust Company as a teller. He was appointed Secretary and Treasurer of the bank in the same year. He ran for Treasurer for the City of Norwalk in 1935, where he was narrowly defeated. In 1932 he became associated with Oscar G. Soderstrom in the real estate business. He was a President of the Norwalk Board of Fire Underwriters, and treasurer of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Norwalk.

25 Nov 1914, he married Hazel Fancher at her family's home, 7 Quintard Avenue, in Norwalk. They are the parents of Jean Elizabeth Velsor Griffith.

Samuel married Hazel FANCHER. Hazel (daughter of Eugene FANCHER and Bessie Goodale MOSMAN) was born on 12 Sep 1885 in New Canaan, Fairfield Co., Connecticut ; died on 16 Sep 1955 in Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut; was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1900, Living with father and grandparents in New Canaan, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
• Census: 1910, Living with father in Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
• Census: 1920, Living with husband in Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
• Census: 1930, Living with husband in Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut

Notes:

Name:
Hazel Fancher was the daughter of Eugene Fancher and Bessie Goodale Mosman Fancher. She married Samuel Smith Velsor on 25 Nov 1914, at the age of 29. She was a Kindergarten teacher in the Norwalk Public Schools for decades. She and Samuel Smith Velsor had one daughter, Jean Elizabeth.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1860, Living with parents in Lewisboro, Westchester Co., New York
• Census: 1870, Living with parents in Lewisboro, Westchester Co., New York
• Census: 1880, Living in Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
• Occupation: 1880, Boot and Shoe Dealer
• Census: 1900, Living with parents in New Canaan, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
• Census: 1910, Living in Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
• Census: 1920, Living with daughter, Hazel Velsor, in Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
• Census: 1930, Living with daughter, Hazel Velsor, in Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut

Eugene married Bessie Goodale MOSMAN. Bessie was born on 1 Mar 1856; died on 24 Mar 1889; was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Waterbury, New Haven Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]