Enoch Bourne (1878 - 1948)

Born 26 Mar 1878 in East Liverpool, Columbiana County, OH

Ancestors

Husband of Catherine Frances (Ford) Bourne — married 19 Sep 1898 in East Liverpool, OH

Descendants

Died 17 Mar 1948 at age 69 in Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida

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Birth

Birth:

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Record ID Number: MH:IF332

Date: 26 MAR 1878

Place: East Liverpool, Columbiana County, OH

Death

Death:

User ID: 1E5DBED8-6135-4B4D-ADD1-4D50B04296DA

Record ID Number: MH:IF333

Date: 17 MAR 1948

Place: Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida

Record ID Number

Record ID Number: MH:I113

User ID

User ID: 089948B8-9F0D-4F0B-A84A-48853A74E2BB

UPD

UPD 25 NOV 2008 19:34:56 GMT-8

Occupation

Occupation: Potter

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Record ID Number: MH:IF604

Note

Note: #N3

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Notes

Note N3Enoch George Bourne, my maternal grandfather, was born in East Liverpool

Ohio on March 26, 1878. He was said by my mother to have been the only

child of a second marriage. As usual, my mother's memory was accurate.

Ann Moore was Enoch's mother, but she was a widow with her own son James

H. Moore, when she married Enoch Sr. on the 23rd of December 1876.

Enoch's half brothers and sisters appear with him on the 1880 Census for

East Liverpool. They were the children of Enoch's father and Ann

Eardley, whom he had probably married in England. Enoch and Ann Eardley

appear on the 1860 Census for Rahway NJ, living with Thomas and Lydia

Eardley. In January of 2003, I made contact with Betty Canright, a

descendant of Charles Louis Bourne, and she provided me with Ann

Eardley's name, along with the names of their other five children,

Elizabeth, Alfretta, Sarah, Thurza and Frederick. I was delighted to

hear from Betty and she has solved many mysteries!!

Like his father before him, "Knockie" was a potter by trade and followed

the industry from East Liverpool, to Wheeling WV where my mother was

born, back to East Liverpool, where my Uncle Ed was born, on to Trenton,

where Aunt Kay was born, and back to East Liverpool before joining the

faculty of the Ceramic Engineering Department at the University of

Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

Founded in 1799, East Liverpool, which now has a population of only

13,000, was once a leading producer of ceramics and crockery. This would

have been a likely destination for immigrants from Staffordshire,

England. In fact, because the area was rich in buff burning natural

clays and coal, about half of the nation's pottery was manufactured there

until the industry declined in the 1930s. Our guess is that Enoch and

family worked at Homer Laughlin. Mother mentioned that often. Barbara

and Jim Shuta visited the Museum of Ceramics at 400 E 5th Street which

traces the industry's effects on the town and its people, and they got

some interesting background on the town which has vigorously attempted to

restore its past.

It appears that Enoch and Catherine left Liverpool for Trenton after

Uncle Ed's birth in 1911 or 12 and remained there until 1918. My mother

said they lived on State Street across from a doctor and his family. At

Christmas, there was a magnificent tree in the doctor's front window,

turning on a revolving platform. Yet she was happy with her own tree and

thought it every bit as beautiful. She was ten at the time of their move

to Trenton, and Aunt Kay was born three years later. My mother often

spoke of her great adoration for Aunt Kay and Uncle Ed, who were a good

deal younger. She was so proud of them and loved to show them off,

taking them on walks dressed in outfits she had fashioned with her own

hands.

My mother skipped several grades in elementary school, which she

attributed to the fact that they moved around so much. Of course she was

also very brilliant and skipped at least one grade by winning a spelling

bee. Consequently, she started Rider Business College at a tender age

(possibly fourteen ) and finished probably at sixteen. One of her great

memories of Rider was a guest appearance by Madame Schumann-Heink.

Mother sang in the chorus which accompanied her in a production of "Il

Trovatore." She also used to tell a story about when she was working at

the State Office Building after she graduated from Rider. One Saturday,

when she was working overtime, one of her suitors brought his cornet to

the Rotunda of the building, near where her office was located....and

played "Love, I am Lonely." She had many happy memories of their family

life in Trenton.

They returned to East Liverpool around 1918. My mother was stricken ill

during the famous Spanish Influenza epidemic. Apparently, during the

summer of 1919, my father and mother met on the Interurban Trolley which

ran between East Liverpool and Midland PA. A cow was stuck on the tracks

and while the trolley stopped to let him pass, my father struck up a

conversation with my mother and invited her on the spot to go swimming at

a local park that afternoon.

(Cheeky) She declined his invitation, but did go to the same park that

day with a group of her own friends and met up with him. (Clever) That

Christmas, my father addressed a note to my mother at 933 Lisbon Street.

The Ohio Historical Society sent me a copy of the 1920 Census record and

they were still at 933 Lisbon and indicated that they were renting the

house. Grandma was listed as 39 years old, having been born in England.

She was naturalized and the year of her emigration is listed as 1888. (I

wonder what her port of entry was!) My mother was 18 at the time, Uncle

Ed, 9 and Aunt Kay, 6. Grandma was working at the pottery as a

finisher. My mother was listed as a stenographer. Enoch is listed as

being 41. He declared his occupation as University instructor. Perhaps

they were about to embark for the University of Illinois at

Champaign-Urbana in the fall of 1920. They lived at 1303 West Stoughton

Street.

My parents were married in Champaign in 1922, so the courtship had lasted

about three years. And both Uncle Ed (Edward George) and Aunt Kay went

to the University High School. Ed finished from the University. He was

only 9 in 1920, so Enoch must have worked at the University for a number

of years, perhaps until the mid thirties.

Louise T. Jones of the Ohio Historical Society found a death notice from

Monday, October 19th 1874 (Vol 8 #29 of the New Lisbon Journal - Vol 2 of

the Columbiana County Newspaper Abstracts) for Ann Bourne wife of Enoch

Bourne (We now know this was Ann Eardley Bourne. Her age was 37 y 2 m

and 8 days, placing her birth as December 27, 1837. The journal

indicates that her death occurred on October 3, 1874. With the birth

date, I might be able to trace her in England.

If Ann Moore's death records are correct, she would have been 47 at the

time of the marriage and 49 when she gave birth to Enoch! Ann Moore

Bourne lived to the ripe old age of 75 and died on the 10th of May, 1897

in East Liverpool. That would place her birth in England at about 1842.

We have to track her maiden name, as it is illegible on the original

birth record for Enoch Jr. and Moore was her first husband's name.

Betty mentioned Leigh as a last name??

The 1880 Census reveals that Enoch Sr. was 45 in 1880 and his wife Ann is

listed as being 49 at that point! Four children are on the chart,

Charles, age 17, Ettie (Alfretta) age 13, Lizzie, age 11 and Enoch G. (my

grandfather) age two. Enoch Sr., Charles, Ellie and Lizzie all worked at

the pottery!! Ann is listed as "keeping house." Charles was born in

Rahway New Jersey--Ettie, in Missouri, (Betty said that Ettie and

Thyrza--a clue to Thurza Bailey, mother of Enoch Sr.-- were twins but

that Thurza (sp?) died young). Lizzie and Enoch wer born in Ohio, so it

apears that they too travelled around probably following the pottery

trade, as Enoch Jr. and his family would in the next generation. Both

parents were born in England. The ages given were age at last birthday

prior to June 1, 1880. That would make the year of Enoch Sr.'s birth

1835, and 1831 the year of Ann's birth.

Suzie Johnston was a great help in clarifying the details on the second

wife.

My mother had mentioned that Enoch was one of fourteen, but that seems

not to have been the case. Ann Moore had Enoch, her own son James, and

was apparently caring for four of Enoch's six children from his first

marriage. Betty said that Frederick married and had a son who died

young, and that Sarah Louis (Beaumont) Bourne, married a man whose last

name was Spahr. My mother mentioned that name as a possibility for

Enoch's mother, but in actuality, Sarah was his half sister. On the

1880 Census for East Liverpool, a Sarah Bourne is listed as the

grandchild of Thomas Eardley and his wife Emma.

(Was Lydia his sister?) and she was 19 at the time, living with the

Eardleys and working in the pottery.

My mother recalled their years in Illinois as idyllic. Apparently, they

took in boarders, probably students, at their house at 1303 West

Stoughton Street in Urbana. (My mother once remarked that they all

relished Grandma's cooking, and that once Grampe said he didn't even mind

finding a hair in his food, as long as it was blonde).

George Will, in writing about his father who taught philosophy at U. of

I. wrote that the university had "opened in Champaign-Urbana in 1868, six

years after the federal government, during the presidency of a son of

downstate Illinois produced the Land Grant College Act, which began

democratizing access to higher education. The U. of I opened with three

professors and 50 students."

Uncle Ed graduated from the Ceramic Engineering program at U of I.

Enoch left there--perhaps after Uncle Ed's graduation to start his own

business in Factoryville, PA, where my parents had a farm--but it did not

succeed. My grandmother used to say she only regretted leaving Illinois

once "and that was ever since."

At one point, although I am not sure just when he and my grandmother

travelled with a carnival--he selling trinkets, and she, guessing the

weights of carnival goers. He had belonged to the Home Guard as a young

man and while he was living in Champaign, he was apparently master of

Lodge #____of the Free and Accepted Masons. My mother always said that

as a young man he travelled West by riding the rods--a feat of derring-do

if ever there were one.

Enoch was genuinely patriotic and keenly interested in travel and

history. When his children were young, he took them to museums,

monuments and battlefields. My mother remembered a trip to Chicago where

they visited the Field Museum and the planetarium, and she often

attributed her own interest in such things to this early cultivation by

her father.

Always a forward thinker, Enoch owned one of the first motor cars,

which--my mother recalled, had isinglass windows and a crank for the

motor. He took his entire family on trips in the car, much to the

chagrin of others who thought he was endangering the lives of his little

brood. He secured a position on the faculty of the University of

Illinois, although he never had any formal schooling, but that was in the

era of Progressive Education when colleges and universities hired master

artisans to teach in those areas where their expertise superceded any

degree credentials. I have a picture of him working at his potter's

wheel at U. of I. My mother always said that the Dean of the School of

Ceramic Engineering remarked that he was a brilliant man and that had he

had an education "there would have been no stopping him."

It was also an era when enterprising men and women were seeking to "build

a better mousetrap" and realize the American Dream of overnight

success. To that end, he always had an area in his home where he was

tinkering, inventing, and trying to perfect products. At one point, at

the house in Trenton, he was working on developing a better shoe

polish. At Factoryville, he was trying to start a chicken farm, another

popular get rich quick strategy of the day. My mother said he acquired

some old mail trucks (through Uncle Tony??...tee hee) and was using them

as chicken coops!!

Eventually, he and Grandma moved to Tampa where they spent their

retirement years. In my memory, he was charming and I remember being

quite enthralled when he would arrive at Palm Street with Grandma in a

trailer which he had built himself. It was quite a contraption and to

the grownups it was apparently an eyesore, but it got them where they

were going, and I was certainly impressed with anyone who--like the

chambered nautilus-- could carry his own stately mansion along with him.

I can still see it parked behind the gas station, and I recall the rings

and trinkets he brought along. They were on a large flocked display

board and he would let me select the ones I liked best. These were

supposedly the items he was selling at carnivals. So it appears that his

keen intellect was tempered with a bit of P.T. Barnum in his soul. We

had several beautiful lamps, lighting fixtures and vases at 335 Palm

Street which he had made. I think he worked for Homer Laughlin

Potteries, and several others that were well known at the time. We have

learned that there were over 200 potteries operating in East Liverpool

during these years. His parents--possibly also from Hanley which is the

name my mother mentioned in Staffordshire, a pottery center in England

supposedly had emigrated to East Liverpool because the industry was

thriving there along the Ohio River. Uncle Ed often commented that the

Japanese pottery imports after the war ruined the American pottery

industry.

Enoch was a good looking, stately man, and Uncle Ed resembled him.

Apparently he also liked to rule the roost, as many men did in his day.

Mary recalls that later on in life, he was quite difficult and that

Grandma willingly spent time away from him, especially by coming to

Scranton. He was immensely proud that Uncle Ed finished the University

of Illinois in Ceramic Engineering. It pleased him that Uncle Ed and

Aunt Kay had gone to University High School but he did not see the need

for his daughters to receive advanced education, much to their

disappointment. They both bemoaned that fact for their entire lives. Of

course that thinking was typical of the time, but my mother found it

ironical that Enoch--who was so forward in his thinking on so many other

subjects--bogged down on this issue. My mother said she really only had

the equivalent of a Fifth Grade education in elementary school. As for

advancing, it appeared that Stenography was to be the limit. She

apparently had to buck his opposition to Rider, as he was concerned about

her being so much younger than the other students. Nevertheless, she

prevailed and at least got her secretarial training--which stood by her

the rest of her days.

The three children seemed to be very very fond of their "Dad" as they

called him, and they often spoke of him lovingly and with profound

respect. When Uncle Ed reached the height of his success, he said "I

often think, as I am driving down the Los Angeles Freeway in my Cadillac,

how proud Dad would be of me, and I regret he never lived to enjoy my

success. I made the millions that he dreamed about."

On St. Patrick's Day, 1948, just a few days short of his 70th birthday,

Enoch died of a cerebral hemorrhage enroute to Tampa Municipal Hospital.

He was pronounced Dead on Arrival and time of death was estimated as

6:20 p.m. He and Grandma had been living 8th and Oregon Sts. in Tampa.

The informant for the death records was Julian D. Deal of 1902 Florida

Avenue. According to the Death Certificate, Enoch's body was removed

for burial on March 19, 1948 to Beaver, PA, according to the Death

certificate. However, Dawson Funeral Home in East Liverpool handled the

arrangements. My sister Kay and brother Al remember attending the

funeral in his native East Liverpool and in fact, he is buried at

Riverview Cemetery at 2026 St. Clair Avenue in East Liverpool. (in row 19

of section 17 east Lot # 1311) 10th from the left .

Record ID Number: MH:N4

PRIN MH:I113

1. ↑ Entered by Katherine Belden, Tuesday, July 30, 2013.

Acknowledgments

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