The basics:
Frederick MOMINEE 2nd of 3 children born to Fabien Fred MOMNEY and Caroline BEAUREGARD.
b. 26 August 1866 Oregon Township, Lucas, Ohio
d. 22 September 1961 Oregon, Lucas, Ohio
m. 1 June 1889 to
Pearl VINCENT 2nd of 6 children born to Gideon VINCENT and Delima Laura ETEAU
b. 15 January 1871 Ohio.
d. 28 February 1962 Oregon, Lucas, Ohio.
b. 15 January 1871 Ohio.
d. 28 February 1962 Oregon, Lucas, Ohio.
There is a discrepancy with Pearl's birthdate. Her tombstone and her death record give 1969 as her birth year, but she is not in the 1870 census, in the 1880 census she is listed as being 9, in the 1900 census she is 29 and her birthdate is listed as January 1971, in the 1940 census she is 69 (and the record shows that she is the one who gave the info in the 1940 census).
She is listed as being 40 in the 1910 census, 50 in the 1920 census, 60 in 1930, and 80 in the 1950 census, but if she were born in 1869, they should have said 41, 51, 61, and 81.
So, I have used 15 January 1971 and not 15 January 1969 as her birth date.
I have had contact with 2 different cousins who knew Pearl. I have to say, I'm not sure the best way to spell her name, but I'm told she went by "Pearlie" for pronunciation. One cousin spelled it "Perle" but the other didn't. In Ted's birth record, her name is spelt Perley.
Pearl and Fred were of French Canadian descent and were Catholic. I have praised the Catholic records before, but here I am going to say that it's a bit frustrating to read Catholic records...because besides trying to decipher the handwriting, there's also the added difficulty of translating the Latinized names. They have not been Latinized according to the rules I found online (add -us or -ius to a boy's name and -a to a girl's name). To the best of my hand-writing decoding ability, their marriage record lists their names as Fredericuw Momenee and Purlinaui Vincent (the beginning letters are ok, but by the end of the name it just looks like a bunch of u's strung together...or w's--the italicized part is the part I'm not sure about).
They had 7 children:
1-Lucinda (Lucy) M. MOMINEE b. February 1890 d. October 1942 never married
2-Edward F. MOMINEE b. 23 August 1891 d. November 1986 m. Cecelia Celina DUSSEAU
3-Virginia (Jennie) Bernadine MOMINEE b. 27 June 1893 d. 26 February 1973 m. Anthony PERFILI
4-Frederick Paul MOMINEE b. 29 April 1895 d. November 1984 m. Loretta E. MOMENEE
5-Richard Omer MOMINEE b. September 1897 d. 1958 m. Elsie COUSINO
6- Theodore Gilbert MOMINEE b. 26 October 1906 d. 21 December 1995 m. 1st Helen Elvira RIDDLEBAUGH (my grandparents) m. 2nd Laura Velva MASON
7- Sylvester Albert MOMINEE b. 10 June 1909 d. 24 October 1987 m. Gertrude Elizabeth JOHNSON
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This article is from History of Oregon and Jerusalem (Ohio) Salt Lake Family History Library 977.112/H2f pp 247-248. Fred died about a year after this article was written.
MOMINEE, FRED
Fred Mominee was born in 1866 on a farm in Oregon Township. He worked on the farm with his father. He recalls helping cut and haul wood. They sold it on the market in Toledo and to the railroad companies for fuel.
He attended school at Eckville, a one room school at the corner of Corduroy and Norden Road. Later he attended school at Momeneetown. Much of the time was spent in working on the farm, hunting and fishing and helping cut wood which brought them some ready cash. This left little time for schooling. He recalled the teacher putting problems on the board for the class. He and other large boys read from a primer.
Sometimes he would go with his father hunting muskrats which they found in the ditches. A nest in which they found five or six muskrats was usually located under a bridge. They took the muskrats home. After skinning them the meat was used for food. The hides were stretched on sticks and hung up to dry after which they were sold to someone in the community who dealt in furs.
At the age of twenty-four Mr. Mominee married Pearl Vincent [he was 22, not 24]. He built a home on the old place where he continued farming, working in the woods and helping other farmers.
Mr. and Mrs. Mominee had a family of five boys and two girls.
Theodore married Laura Mason and lives on Corduroy Road. His father lives with him.
Sylvester married Gertrude Johnson. He lives at Williston.
Lucy died some years ago.
Edward married Celia Dusseau. Their home is on Stadium Road.
Jennie married Anthony Perfili. They live in Toledo.
Fred married Loretta Momenee.
Richard married Elsie Cousino. Richard is deceased.
Mr. Mominee is a member of St. Ignatius Church. He is a good citizen, and is interested in community affairs. At this writing Mr. Mominee is 94 years of age. [He passed away at the age of 95.]
Jennie and Tony PERFILI had a daughter Rita and a son Thomas. Rita's daughter, Mary Jo, had this to say about her Uncle Thomas PERFILI (who would be my mom's 1st cousin):
My mother's brother [Thomas Perfili] dropped out of school to join the service when he was a young man. He enlisted (I think falsified his age). He was probably born around 1925/26 so he could not have been very old during WWII. I don't know if he participated. But he did a couple tours of duty in Korea if I remember correctly. He was shot down and ejected, was picked up and decorated for bravery. He became an officer and eventually a major in the Air Force. He was in Germany for around 5 years teaching the German military how to fly supersonic mach 1 airplanes in the late 1950s and early 1960's. Then in around 1964 or 65 [it was 2 May 1964] he was about to be married and was performing in one more air show and the engine quit on the fighter. Because of the crowds he couldn't eject so ended flying the plane into a creek to avoid the crowd. He died two weeks before the wedding. My grandparents were never the same. He and I were also very close.
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This article is from History of Oregon and Jerusalem (Ohio) Salt Lake Family History Library 977.112/H2f pp 247-248. Fred died about a year after this article was written.
MOMINEE, FRED
Fred Mominee was born in 1866 on a farm in Oregon Township. He worked on the farm with his father. He recalls helping cut and haul wood. They sold it on the market in Toledo and to the railroad companies for fuel.
He attended school at Eckville, a one room school at the corner of Corduroy and Norden Road. Later he attended school at Momeneetown. Much of the time was spent in working on the farm, hunting and fishing and helping cut wood which brought them some ready cash. This left little time for schooling. He recalled the teacher putting problems on the board for the class. He and other large boys read from a primer.
When the family needed meat, he went into the woods with his father to bring home one or more of their hogs. They were able to tell the animals that belonged to them by a particular mark which had been assigned to them. This mark was usually placed on one of the ears of the hog. After taking the animals home, they fed them corn for a few weeks to give the meat a better flavor and remove the taste of acorns on which the hogs had been feeding.
Sometimes he would go with his father hunting muskrats which they found in the ditches. A nest in which they found five or six muskrats was usually located under a bridge. They took the muskrats home. After skinning them the meat was used for food. The hides were stretched on sticks and hung up to dry after which they were sold to someone in the community who dealt in furs.
At the age of twenty-four Mr. Mominee married Pearl Vincent [he was 22, not 24]. He built a home on the old place where he continued farming, working in the woods and helping other farmers.
Mr. and Mrs. Mominee had a family of five boys and two girls.
Theodore married Laura Mason and lives on Corduroy Road. His father lives with him.
Sylvester married Gertrude Johnson. He lives at Williston.
Lucy died some years ago.
Edward married Celia Dusseau. Their home is on Stadium Road.
Jennie married Anthony Perfili. They live in Toledo.
Fred married Loretta Momenee.
Richard married Elsie Cousino. Richard is deceased.
Mr. Mominee is a member of St. Ignatius Church. He is a good citizen, and is interested in community affairs. At this writing Mr. Mominee is 94 years of age. [He passed away at the age of 95.]
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The News Herald
Port Clinton, Ohio
27 October 1987, Tuesday Page 2
Sylvester A. Mominee
OREGON--Services for Sylvester A. Mominee, 78, Willison, were held at 10 a.m. today at St. Ignatius Church in Oregon. The services were conducted by Hoeflinger Funeral Home in Oregon.
He died Saturday at St. Charles Hospital, Oregon.
He was born to Fred and Pearl (Vincent) Mominee on June 10, 1909, in Mominee Town, Ohio. He married the former Gertrude Johnson.
A life-long farmer, he was the owner of the Mominee Coal Co. He was also a Lake Erie charter boat captain, and a member of the Allen Township Zoning Board.
Surviving are four sons, David of Alpine, Calif., Dennis of Martin, Jay of Elmore, and John Johnson of Taylor, S.C.; five daughters, Judy Disbennett of Oregon, Jeanne Dechovitz of Glen Coe, Ill., Janet Lagouranis of New York City, Jan Knowles of Lorain, and Frances Lind of Paoli, Pa.; a brother, Theodore of Oregon; 14 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren,.
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Jennie and Tony PERFILI had a daughter Rita and a son Thomas. Rita's daughter, Mary Jo, had this to say about her Uncle Thomas PERFILI (who would be my mom's 1st cousin):
My mother's brother [Thomas Perfili] dropped out of school to join the service when he was a young man. He enlisted (I think falsified his age). He was probably born around 1925/26 so he could not have been very old during WWII. I don't know if he participated. But he did a couple tours of duty in Korea if I remember correctly. He was shot down and ejected, was picked up and decorated for bravery. He became an officer and eventually a major in the Air Force. He was in Germany for around 5 years teaching the German military how to fly supersonic mach 1 airplanes in the late 1950s and early 1960's. Then in around 1964 or 65 [it was 2 May 1964] he was about to be married and was performing in one more air show and the engine quit on the fighter. Because of the crowds he couldn't eject so ended flying the plane into a creek to avoid the crowd. He died two weeks before the wedding. My grandparents were never the same. He and I were also very close.
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Corpus Christ Times
Corpus Christi, Texas
3 May 1964, Sunday Page 3
HUNDREDS SEE FATAL CRASH OF JET FIGHTER
BREMERHAVEN, Germany (AP) -- Hundreds of spectators watched a U.S. Air Force pilot crash to his death in a jet fighter Saturday while giving an Armed Forces Day flying exhibition. Witnesses said it appeared he purposedly did not bail out to avoid plunging into the crowd.
The American was an instructor attached to the West German Air Force, the Defense Ministry said. He was flying a Starfighter jet of the West German Air Force.
The Department of Defense in Washington identified the pilot as Maj. Thomas Eugene Perfili of Toledo, Ohio. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony D. Perfili of Toledo.
"The guy is a real hero," said Alex Kruso of Dayton, Ohio, a retired U.S. Army Sergeant who was a spectator at the show.
"The plane came down about 30 feet from a bungalow. There is not doubt in my mind that the pilot decided to stay with the plane.
"German spectators around me had tears in their eyes and cried 'It's terrible,'"Kruso said.
The plane was demonstrating rolls at the Weddewarden Air Field near here while the crowd waited for a parade to start. Troops from seven North Atlantic Alliance countries were lined up in formation on the field.
"He made two passes over the spectators," Kruso said. "On his third pass he appeared to slow Down. [sic] It looked like he was trying to land."
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The Daily Sentinel-Tribune
Bowling Green, Ohio
4 May 1964, Monday Page 1
Toledo: U. S. Air Force Maj. Thomas E. Perfili, 247 Willard St., Toledo, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony D. Perfili, an instructor attached to the West German Air Force, killed Saturday when his jet fighter crashed while giving an Armed Forces Day flying exhibition at Bremerhaven, Germany. Witnesses said it appeared the pilot purposedly did not bail out to avoid plunging into the crowd.
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Frederick MOMINEE and his wife Pearl VINCENT on their 50th wedding anniversary
They made it to 72 years of being married before Fred passed away. Pearl passed away 5 months later.
Another photo of Fred and Pearl. I did not know them, but I was told by a cousin that they were known as Mimi and Pippi, which is a typical variation of grandma and grandpa for French Canadians. (and yes, mimi and pippi are pronounced meemee and peepee)
Fred Jr, Fred Sr, Ed, and Richard MOMINEE with Anthony PERFILI (son-in-law to Fred Sr). My grandfather, Ted, is not in this photo...perhaps he is the one taking the picture? Ted's younger brother Sylvester, is also missing from this photo of the men in the family. (I did not realize until I typed this up that there were 2 Freds, an Ed, and a Ted living in the same house. Cracks me up).
And in no particular order, here we have several pictures of grandpa Ted with his younger brother Sylvester (aka Ves)
And here is grandpa Ted with his dog Uno
Here is a photo of the two sisters Lucy and Jennie--World War I nurses (don't they look like twins?)
Jennie Mominee Perfili about 1917
Tom and Rita Perfili (age 6) about 1930
Hi! My name is Jennifer Trefz. I am Fred and Loretta's great grand daughter. My Grandma, Virginia Hanus was their only daughter and my mom is Judy Bennett. What a great post to run across! I was just trying to do a search on Fred because I have the exact hat he is pictured in up above! I am having it put in a shadow box with a picture of him in his uniform. I was trying to do a search to see what his rank was so that I can put a plaque on it with his name & rank! If you have this info handy can you please tell me where I can find it. I'm really interested in our family ancestry as well and have been toying around on familysearch.org...I've never seen these pics so thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteHello Jennifer! It's always a great thrill to have someone contact me and tell me that they found something on my blog and that we are related (you and I are 2nd cousins once removed, in case you didn't calculate it). That is great that you have your great-grandfather's hat from the photo!
DeleteSo I accessed Ancestry.com through my familysearch.org account. If you are a member of the LDS church you can do that for free (once someone teaches you how to do it).
On Ancestry, I found the following info from the U.S., Adjutant General Military Records, 1631-1976
Ohio 1917-1918 The Official Roster of Ohio Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the World War Volume 12 database:
Mominee, Frederick, P 1971711 Aux Rmt Dep 318 to disch. Pvt 1cl Dec 1/17 Hon disch. Mch 3/19
There was a bit more info on the record, but it looks like he was a Private First Class. According to another database, he served from 2 October 1917-3 March 1919.
You can email me at glenbeth@gmail.com if you want to continue this thread. I'd love to communicate more.