Fahyma Iris (Westfall) Hirsch (1890 - 1968)

Born 13 Sep 1890 in Weston, Lewis, West Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Daniel Allen — married about 1911 in Summit County, Ohio [uncertain]

Died 2 Sep 1968 at age 77 in Salem, Marion County, Oregon

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Biography

Fahyma died in the Damasch State Hospital in Salem, Oregon in 1968. After the death of her first husband Thomas D. Allen, she married Isaac D. Handy in 1931 and William Hirsch in 1933, but when the 1940 census was taken she is listed as a widow reassuming the name Allen.

Parents

Father: Nathaniel J Westfall Mother: Luvenia M Trowbridge

Sources

• Personal and family knowledge of my (Ronald N. Wall) grandmother, Osa (Westfall) Corbett, which she passed on to me in conversations and numerous letters between 1979 and 1981.

• West Virginia Archives, West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History; Births: 1890 Lewis County, Register of Births, pg. 119; Sept. 13, Westfall, Famie, Place of Birth, Lewis County, Father N.J. Westfall, resident of Lewis County, Mother Luvenia Westfall, informant N.J. Westfall, Father.

• Ancestry.com, 1910 US Census, Court House District, Cove Lick Precinct, ED46 Sheet 1B, Dwelling 16, Nathaniel J. Westfall household (all births in West Virginia): Nathaniel, Head, age 58, Married once 30 years, Farmer, Own Farm; Luvenia M., Wife, age 46, Married once, 30 years, mother of 7, 6 living; Famie, Daughter, age 19, Single, Music Teacher; Nina, Daughter, age 16, Single; Osa, Daughter, age 13; Loy, Son, age 12; Theodore R., Son, age 4

• Ancestry.com, U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995; 1912, Racine, Wisconsin; pg. 174, Thomas Allen, piano tuner, 316 5th (street); pg. 546, Music Teachers - Allen Fahyma, 316 5th (street).

• Ancestry.com, U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918; Summit County, OH Draft Registrations, Draft Board 4, roll 1819511: Thomas Daniel Allen, 630 Lakewood Blvd, Akron, Summit Co., Ohio, age 37, Date of Birth, Mar 25, 1881, Occupation Piano tunning and repairing, Employer The O'Neil Co., Main St., Akron, O., Nearest Relative Fahyma Allen, 630 Lakewood Blvd, Akron, O. Description - Tall, Medium Build, Blue eyes, Brown hair., Date of Registration Sept. 12, '18.

• Ancestry.com, Indiana, Birth Certificates, 1907-1940; Indiana State Board of Health Division of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Birth, Clark County, Jeffersonville, 132 High St., Christabell Allen, born 14 April 1927, Father Thomas D. Allen, Jeffersonville, Ind., age 46, Birthplace Pennsylvania, Occupation Piano Tuner; Mother Fahyma Westfall, Jeffersonville, Ind., age 35, Birthplace W. Virginia, Occupation Housewife, Number of children born to this mother - 9, Number of children now living - 5.

• 1928 spouse Thomas D. Allen Indiana, Birth Certificates, 1907-1940 Source Information: Ancestry.com. Indiana, Birth Certificates, 1907-1940 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.

• Ancestry.com, 1930 U.S. Census, Indiana, Clark County, Jeffersonville Township, ED10-16 Sheet 8B, Line 71, Dwelling 203, Thomas D. Allen Sr. household: Thomas, Head, Age 48, Married at age 29, born Pennsylvania, parents in Pennsylvania, Occupation Piano Tuner; Fahyma I., Wife, age 39, Married at age 20, born West Virginia, parents in West Virginia; Fahyma A., Daughter, age 17, Single, born in Wisconsin, father b. in Pennsylvania, mother b. in West Virginia; Virginia I., Daughter, age 13, b. in Ohio f-Pennsylvania, m-West Virginia; Kathryn L., Daughter, age 11, b. Ohio; Thomas D., Son, age 6, b. Tennessee; Christabel, Daughter, age 2 yrs 11 mos, b. Indiana; Charles T., Son, age 1 yr 10 mos, b. Indiana.

• 1931 married Isaac D Handy Indiana, Marriages, 1810-2001 Source Information: Ancestry.com. Indiana, Marriages, 1810-2001 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.

• 1933 married William Hirsch Indiana, Marriages, 1810-2001 Source Information: Ancestry.com. Indiana, Marriages, 1810-2001 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.

• Ancestry.com, 1940 U.S. Census, Indiana, Floyd County, Franklin Township, ED22-1 Sheet 9A, Line 13, Household 153, Fahyma I. Allen household: Fahyma, Head, Female, Widow, b. West Virginia, lived in same house in 1935, Occupation Seamstress for the W.P.A.; Thomas, Son, age 16, b. in Tennessee; Christabel, Daughter, age 13, b. Indiana; Charles, Son, age 12, b. Indiana.

• U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015

• Information on Fahyma's death from Robert "Bob" Lewis Oliverio, grandson of Fahyma I. Westfall and Thomas D. Allen and son of Lewis Oliverio and Kathryn Allen in personal correspondence to Ronald N. Wall dated 9 May 2007.

• Personal and family knowledge of my grandmother, Osa (Westfall) Corbett, which she passed on to me in conversations and numerous letters between 1979 and 1981.

West Virginia Archives, West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History; Births: 1890 Lewis County, Register of Births, pg. 119; Sept. 13, Westfall, Famie, Place of Birth, Lewis County, Father N.J. Westfall, resident of Lewis County, Mother Luvenia Westfall, informant N.J. Westfall, Father.

Ancestry.com, 1910 US Census, Court House District, Cove Lick Precinct, ED46 Sheet 1B, Dwelling 16, Nathaniel J. Westfall household (all births in West Virginia): Nathaniel, Head, age 58, Married once 30 years, Farmer, Own Farm; Luvenia M., Wife, age 46, Married once, 30 years, mother of 7, 6 living; Famie, Daughter, age 19, Single, Music Teacher; Nina, Daughter, age 16, Single; Osa, Daughter, age 13; Loy, Son, age 12; Theodore R., Son, age 4

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