Edith Wiss Sinon (1926 - 1959)

Born 28 Nov 1926 in Maplewood, NJ

Ancestors

Wife of Walter Merrigan — married Feb 1950 in New Jersey, United States

Wife of Thaddeus M Stepniak — married Jun 1957 in Mahwah Township, Bergen, New Jersey, United States

Died 22 Mar 1959 at age 32 in Plainfield, Union, New Jersey, United States

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Biography

Edith was quite a horsewoman. She married the brother of her sister, a Merrigan, they had no children, then she married Ted Stepniak. Edith died in childbirth, while Mary Louise, Shirley and Suzanne lived in Beaumont, Texas. Orelia, our "colored maid" took Shirley and Suzanne on a bus and she had to sit in the back row and the bus driver would not let Shirley and Suzanne join Orelia nor could she sit with us. Personal recollection by Suzanne 26 July 2017.

Sources

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4RM-69K : 11 January 2021), Edith Sinnon in household of Frederick Sinnon, Maplewood, Essex, New Jersey, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 7-213, sheet 2B, line 48, family 35, 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 2336.