Homer Poole
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Homer David Poole (1905 - 1968)

Homer David Poole aka Pool
Born in Bells Ridge, Grandview, Washington, OHmap
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Husband of — married 24 Dec 1927 (to 1968) in Williamstown, Wood County, West Virginiamap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 62 in Reno, Marietta Twp. Washington, OHmap
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Biography

Homer was born on Oct. 29, 1905 on the hills of Bell's Ridge three miles above New Matamoras, Ohio over looking the beautiful Ohio River valley of Grandview Twp. Washington County, Ohio. Homer was the fourth of six children of Frank and Susan Jane Ruble.

The first Richard Pool moved to Grandview in 1801. He came from Truro Parish, Fairfax County, Virginia on the Potomac River next to Mount Vernon and the port of Alexandria. Homer was a descendant of some German, English and the fighting Scot-Irish of Northern Ireland and Scottish Plantation Clans or surnames like Linn, Williamson, Woods, McKnight, Drake, Steed, McBride, Stewart and German ones like Cline, Tice etc.

Others were Quakers or just individuals believing their own instincts, followed the ancient Indian trails and animal migration paths to Philadelphia, south down the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and North Carolina.

Homer's first life changing experience came at age 8, playing on an oil well pumping station and an accident resulted with the amputation of his three fingers and half an index on his left hand. Surgery required a 30 mile horse and wagon trip to Marietta.

Homer's father and five uncles benefited from the Oil and Gas Boom, "1890 to 1910" of the Upper Ohio Valley Tri-state. Frank after 1915 moved the family to Reno, Ohio employed as a maintenance mechanic at Government Dam 17, on June 29, 1925 using a row boat inspecting the locks, Frank fell in and drowned. The accident left Susan Jane a widow with a small government pension.

Public school was eight years of study at Sand Hill Middle school, homer graduated and worked on local truck farms at harvest time. Just like his brothers and uncles he learned the building trade skills of carpentry, plumbing and electrical. 1927 he married Genevieve Wiggins of Williamstown, WV. Five children were born Rose Marie, Donald, Betty Lou, Patricia and Richard Lee.

The Great Depression 1929 to 1939, started with the October, 1929 Stock Market crash that was caused by human greed. How did it effect my grandfathers? Both were neighbors having no idea their children would be married some day. Both were unemployed no longer than twelve months for the longest period.

Nobody received unemployment checks or food stamps because they didn't exist. Both raised large gardens and chickens. Extra jobs like milking the neighbors cow for making butter and cottage cheese. Hundreds of glass jars of canned vegetables were stored on the shelves in the basements of both houses. Families on Saturday traveled 5 miles to Marietta for shopping and children payed 10 cents watching cartoons and movies like Hop Along Cassidy and Betty Boops.

Bill and Minnie Poole of Reno, 1939 constructed a new home and hired Raymond Abicht and Homer as the builders. Oak lumber required drilling holes for nails.

During the Depression, the Pioneer Monument of Marietta was completed and dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the 150 Year Anniversary. Homer was hired as security guard on the job site for about a year. The River City was named in honor of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, she and husband King Louis XVI declared war on England 1778-1783 as allies of the new United States.

Homer loved the new technology of radio entertainment like Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Sports included listening to the fights of Joe Louis and Max Baer.

Homer's solution for workplace environmental health issues. He worked as a spry painter for a local manufacturer and noticed a daily shortest of breath and lung pain. Management refused a request for a job transfer, so he found a new job, 1958. Working with Forest that included maintenance on gas plumbs and one day driving down the highway, Homer noticed one of the front wheels moving ahead of the truck, which he was able to slow down without flipping it.

One Saturday day in the summer of 1959, I was enjoying my grandmother's cookies on the front porch. Voices from the garage turned out to be Cousin Don, Uncle Dick and Homer enjoying a shot of whiskey without the coke. Homer laughing,explained that whiskey was a special treat like cookies or pie for older men and being a man required a secret code of silence or no snitching for Genevieve's ears.

Genevieve and Homer operated and owned a Sandwich and Ice-cream business on Dudley Ave, Parkersburg, WV. for several years. Everyone called me, " little Dick" but Homer called me, "Khrushchev" like a fox in the chicken house eating ice-cream.

When I was age 7, Homer took me across the highway in Reno to see the State Historical Rock in memorial for General George Washington who surveyed for Lord Fairfax and camped along the Ohio River. The sign stated George started a World War and was the Father of our county. Homer explained that George stayed with his friends and neighbors the Pools many times, because George loved the good company, food, whisky, laughter and jokes.

During the early 1960's Homer and Jen traveled to Washington DC and Homer would have been happy to know that his ggg-grandfather William Daniel Pool owned 20 acres of land next to Mount Vernon and was employed as the Miller and an Overseer together with Humphrey Knight 1758. George fired William who used the excuse of Global Warming or no water in the creek.

One sad day for Homer would have been the death of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on Nov. 22, 1963. Homer would have been happy to know that Jack Kennedy and the "Tomb of the Unknown Soldier", both were buried next to the church (Old Presbyterian Church), were his great-great-grandfather John Henry Pool married his first wife, Catherine Stone in 1794, by the Rev. James Muir a close friend of George Washington.

I remember this day, because I was in Miss Boswell's third grade class being a third generational student, Forest called her "Old Bos" I was observing across Sand Hill Rd. I had full view of the Reno Christian Church watching the local men uprooting trees with a tractor that included my two grandfather's.

Homer died of cancer in 1968 and was buried beside Genevieve Elizabeth (Wiggins) Poole, his beloved wife, in East Lawn Memorial Cemetery, Reno, Ohio on the Ohio River were he loved to swim and helped to prevent many people from drowning.

Another Homer Pool born Iowa, moved to Columbiana Co. Ohio after his mother died 1876, Homer was the g-grandson of Peter Pool and second paternal cousins to Joseph, Alexander and Lemual Pool who moved to East Liverpool after 1900, maybe they had knowledge of each other.


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Similar Historical Records - 1905 Ohio Births

Homer Pool Sex Male Birth Date 29 Oct 1905 Birthplace Grandview Township, Washington, Ohio, United States Birthplace (Original) Grandview Tp., Washington, Ohio, United States Father's Name Frank Pool Father's Sex Male Mother's Name Susie Rupple (Rubel)

Similar Historical Records - 1920 US Census

Name Homer Pool Age 13 Birth Year 1907 Birthplace Ohio Home in 1920 Grandview, Washington, Ohio Residence Date 1920 Race White Gender Male Relation to Head of House Son Marital Status Single Father's Name Frank Pool Father's Birthplace Ohio Mother's Name Susie Pool Mother's Birthplace Ohio Frank Pool 45 Susie Pool 45 Evert Pool 22 Ethel M Pool 20 Homer Pool 13 Ada M Pool 8








Similar Historical Records - 1927 West Virginia Marriages

  • "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FRVY-PPN : 4 December 2014), Homer Poole and Genevieve Virginia Wiggins, 1927; citing Wood, West Virginia, United States, , county clerks, West Virginia; FHL microfilm 580,560.

Similar Historical Records - 1940 US Census

  • "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWGP-721 : 30 November 2019), Homer D Poole, Marietta Township, Washington, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 84-33, sheet 1A, line 7, family 4, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3166.

Similar Historical Records - 1968 Ohio Burials

  • Find A Grave: Memorial #91147939 for Homer D Poole (29 Oct 1905–20 Mar 1968), citing East Lawn Memorial Park, Reno, Washington County, Ohio, USA ; Maintained by William Taylor (contributor 47761144).

Similar Historical Records - 1968 Ohio Deaths





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