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Navy Blimp Over Hog Island, 1943
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Hog Island,
1942
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Motor Whale Boat
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Coast Guard men stationed on Hog
Island,
1950
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Coast Guard Station. 1920s |
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 |
Gerald Bowen and Yvonne Marshall (Widgeon) 1938 or
1939
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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
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John
L. Marshall and his cousin Pauline Lewis Phillips, 1942 |
Hog Island bathing beauties. Aunt
Hilda Tittermary,
Virginia Bell Carroll, Lily
Bradford Smith, Mable Bell Hamblin,
1932. |
Lillian
Doughty |
Ethel
Doughty Joynes, 1902
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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., 1955 |
Russell Bowen, Arthur Marsh, Ray Phillips, Fred Marsh,
Elmer Doughty, Harry Bowen, John Clark Higbee, Otto Phillips, Raymond Phillips,
Earl Doughty, 1919 |
Keepers Dwelling, Broadwater, 1920s |
"Sud" Bell, 1940
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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. |
"Sud" Bell, 1940
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Charles Doughty, 1918
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Old
Coast Guard Station and dock
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The Marsh Family, 1915
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The
store and P.O. as it looked in the 30s
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The
first Hog Island. Lighthouse, built in
1852
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Lighthouse. Construction 1892- 1896. After serving seamen
for 52 years, it was abandoned. Blown down by dynamite in
1948.
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Lighthouse |
House |
Aerial View
Two Houses |
Wharf, Hog Island |
Aerial View, Looking South, Broadwater, VA
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Aerial View |
School Photo, Teachers and Children, 1924
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Back
of School Photo with names |
Children at Broadwater, Hog Island, School in
1928 |
Members of Broadwater Methodist
Church, 1932 |
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. |
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?" 1918 |
Lottie Doughty
Simpson, Grandmother of Yvonne Marshall
Widgeon, 1932 |
James Vernon Simpson, Grandfather of Yvonne Marshall
Widgeon, 1950
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Hog
Island Reunion
September 25, 1969 (?), 1989 |
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. |
Miss Nancy Kelly
Great great great grandmother of
Yvonne Marshall Widgeon, 1860 |
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, 1927.
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Hilda S. Tittermary and Olive S. Bowen, 1930
(Aunts of Yvonne Marshall Widgeon)
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Grafton Bowen and Charles Simpson, 1930 |
George Edward Doughty and Mary Emma Lafferty Doughty,
Greatgrandparents of Yvonne Marshall Widgeon, 1927 |
"Hank" Marshall - Cook, 1950
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36' motor boat
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