Harold Mackway Sr history in Sel

Mackway Sr Question:
Familycousin received an email 2/23/10 where someone who found some documents which mentioned Harold Mackway Sr. Two documents are from Chicago and one from Sellersville, Pa. The Sellersville document (October 1, 1940) is from missionary Niels Jacobsen from China. The Chicago pictures in these documents show perhaps his first wife Anna and their three children. The emailer father and step-mother lived in Sellersville. We are seeking more details. Question is how did these private documents get into the attic boxes of another family? When Harold Sr's wife Louise died in 1947 he would have been 72 years old and still in Sellersville. Could it be he was just a boarder or a friend that was staying with them? Did he just happen to leave the documents behind by mistake? Why would they be kept in boxes by the family? Just left behind and forgotten. Later, Harold went on to live in Indiana* with a daughter Ruth.

AnnMarie Mackway comments:3/2/10 You are welcome to publish my memories on your website.

									One small 
									factoid correction: in the late 1940's, 
									Harold Mackway Sr. went to live in 
									Indiana*(corrected above) with his 
									daughter Ruth, who was born from his first 
									marriage.

								
									About the elusive "how" the documents got to 
									the Weitz family; my best speculation is 
									that in the early 1940's, when Polly and 
									Harold Sr. lived in Sellersville, Polly was 
									in her early 20's.  Grandfather had a 
									longstanding tendency for sexual predation 
									for young women and girls.  Grandma was 
									becoming more ill from her nearly 30 years 
									of undertreated insulin requiring diabetes 
									mellitus, and hypothyroidism. Eunie told her 
									in this time period that "I'm not going to 
									take my medicines" when nurse Eunie tried to 
									help her mother.  Grandma was also slipping 
									into dementia.  It wouldn't be surprising 
									that, with the physical and mental 
									deterioration of our Grandma, that our 
									Grandfather went looking for a young woman.  
									Polly could have been available.Could the lack of documentation of 
											Grandfather's ministry training be 
											related to how physicians were 
											trained at that time?

											I do re-enacting in the 1775 period 
											at our local state park (Martin's 
											Station, on the web).  I'm a woman 
											physician, which kind of comes 
											naturally.  My "story" is based on 
											the fact that at that time, over 80% 
											of all physicians didn't go to 
											Medical School; they were 
											apprenticed to a practicing 
											physician (rather like our current 
											internship and residency training 
											after our four years of medical 
											school).  My "story" is that "Dr. 
											AnnMarie Mackway" was born in 
											Philadelphia to a family from 
											Scotland and Ireland (all true).  I 
											apprenticed with my godfather, a 
											physician who had no sons (also 
											true).  Because of the prejudice 
											against women physicians, I 
											travelled to the Cumberland Gap 
											area, and was accepted as a 
											physician since I could deliver 
											babies, set bones, use medicines, 
											and stitch up wounds.  (In modern 
											times, this Philadelphia born 
											physician with a great grandfather 
											who served in the Illinois 57th in 
											the War Between the States was 
											accepted and welcomed by my 
											Appalachian Baptists and snake 
											handlers, some of whom still fly the 
											South's battle flag. My advantages 
											also include that I "look like their 
											mother did", and am active in my 
											church.)

											   SO...if physicians apprenticed 
											and were accepted, why not a 
											minister?  There might be no 
											recoverable record of Grandfather's 
											training.

											AnnMarie

 
												That 
												was my exact conclusion from the 
												dates and circumstances in his 
												family. 

												 

												
												Sellersville is such a small 
												town 2500 or less people you 
												would run into contacts just 
												walking through. 

												 

												It 
												also may have begun with a 
												church contact he was good 
												speaker and may have lectured in 
												the St Michaels Lutheran church 
												(mother I think was attending 
												this church) or he may have 
												helped with bible training of 
												young people. He could then use 
												the missionary story to his 
												advantage in the affair. Polly's 
												exposure to people like him 
												there was unique. I don't know 
												about the reason for the 
												pictures. His history all points 
												to your conclusion. I would 
												guess Louise at that time was 
												not able or interested in sex. 
												This could have been even 
												earlier than when Polly was 22 
												,1944.

												 

												Ralph
														
														

														Unfortunately for his 
														victims, Grandfather 
														used his ministry and 
														speaking facility to 
														find young women/girls 
														to add to his 
														conquests.  He was a 
														pedophile, and in a 
														position of trust as a 
														minister.  The innocent 
														ones never suspected his 
														motives.

														   I suspect that in 
														addition to his 
														advantages of trust and 
														facile speaking, he was 
														good at eliciting 
														pleasure in girls/women 
														who had no idea what was 
														possible.  They never 
														had a chance with his 
														exploitation.

														   I know Eunie said 
														that Grandfather met 
														Grandma as her 
														minister.  He probably 
														had used his position 
														before and after he 
														acquired her.  Grandma 
														told Eunie that she had 
														"female problems", and 
														thought they were a 
														sexually transmitted 
														disease she'd gotten 
														from her philandering 
														husband.  I think she 
														had the yeast vaginitis 
														that is common in women 
														with poorly controlled 
														diabetes.  Grandma 
														couldn't afford to buy 
														as much insulin as she 
														should have been taking 
														(this from Eunie). 
														Grandma willingly 
														exposed herself to 
														diseases from 
														a collection of possible 
														motives: a "wife's 
														duty"; to protect her 
														own daughters (who all 
														told me of their 
														father's pedophilia); to 
														protect young women in 
														the community; to avoid 
														the infamy 
														of Grandfather's 
														exposure for what he 
														was.

														   So it makes sense 
														that as Grandma failed 
														mentally and physically, 
														Grandfather went on the 
														hunt.  He could have 
														easily volunteered to 
														assist at St. Michael's 
														Church with ministry and 
														with religious education 
														classes.  According to 
														Eunie, Grandfather never 
														held a job or contibuted 
														financially to the 
														family in Sellersville.  
														Grandma ran a store and 
														sold her eggs and 
														rabbits for cash, 
														gardened their seven 
														acres, and raised 
														chickens and rabbits for 
														food for her family. Grandma 
														built the chicken coop 
														and rabbit hutches, per 
														Eunie and my 
														father. Polly could have 
														run astray 
														of Grandfather as a 
														teenager or younger.  He 
														may well have used 
														photos of his first 
														family and letters from 
														a reference in Chicago 
														and from a respectable 
														missionary to allay any 
														suspicions his victim 
														managed to muster.

														   An afterthought about 
														the financial support of 
														the family in 
														Sellersville: Eunie was 
														sent to nursing school 
														at the Grandview 
														Hospital School of 
														Nursing at age 14.  She 
														worked from her first 
														day: they sent this 
														child to the basement 
														morgue to wash a 
														recently deceased 
														patient.  The room was 
														dark.  The body lay on a 
														marble slab under the 
														light bulb.  Child Eunie 
														had to climb up on the 
														slab to screw in the 
														light bulb before she 
														undertook her 
														assignment.  Because of 
														the labor the students 
														supplied to the 
														hospital, they were not 
														charged tuition, but 
														actually were PAID a 
														small amount of money.  
														Eunie gave all of the 
														money to Grandma to help 
														feed the younger 
														children.

														AnnMarie

 

													
													His potential was to be much 
													more than he delivered with 
													his life, Grandfather has to 
													be evaluated based on his 
													mental self-esteem problems. 
													His sex drive for youth 
													shows his immaturity - by 
													our norms - since it was 
													driven from a feeling of 
													being superior but in some 
													areas unfulfilled thus 
													inferior. His wife Louise 
													was a saint compared to his 
													work ethic. She probably 
													felt the diabetes would take 
													her out of the mess she was 
													living with.  She had to be 
													a depressing person at the 
													end.

													 

													
													Harold never accomplished 
													anything of recognized 
													importance. thus he had to 
													be honest to conclude 
													this himself. He was not a 
													creator or inventor as was 
													your father- the engineer. 
													He never lived up to his 
													story of missionary leader. 
													He had no church flock 
													because he would not be 
													accepted by the rest of the 
													congregation. He had to seek 
													the youth idealistic 
													dreamers of the new 
													generation. Polly must not 
													have been to bright since 
													she first married a physical 
													abuser then remarried twice. 
													Never went to school and was 
													a hairdresser by trade.

													 

													
													He was only good at sperm 
													donations to willing women. 
													Wonder if Polly was 
													impregnated by him with her 
													first child and married to 
													cover and make the family?

													 

													Ever wonder if it was 
													Harold's: In 1924 a 
													girl May Knaf was included 
													in the 1930 Mackway census 
													family. We have no more 
													facts then these so far. We 
													speculate it was Eunies 
													child. We never knew of this 
													child until the census was 
													found and we have lost touch 
													with her name. She today 
													would be 2008-1924 or 84 
													years old. Ralph
															
															

															I think it is 
															possible that May 
															Knaf was Eunie's 
															child.  Since Eunie 
															had evaded 
															Grandfather as a 
															child, and was 21 
															years old when May 
															was born, I 
															seriously doubt that 
															May was 
															Grandfather's 
															child.  However, 
															Eunie was raped 
															after she married 
															her first husband.  
															I was told of this 
															by your mother, and 
															had wondered since 
															Eunie had told me 
															she married the 
															brother of one of 
															her nursing 
															classmates.  Naomi 
															told me that this 
															first husband left 
															Eunie after the 
															rape.  Legally any 
															child conceived 
															during this first 
															marriage would have 
															borne his last 
															name.  Was it Knaf?  
															As an abandoned 
															woman with a baby, 
															and able to earn 
															only a very limited 
															income as a nurse 
															(Eunie told me that 
															she could barely 
															afford a rented 
															room, food, and her 
															uniforms.  She was 
															amazed that nurses 
															today can afford a 
															house and a car.), 
															Eunie may well have 
															been forced to move 
															back with her 
															mother.  Of course 
															she would have been 
															very worried about 
															her daughter's 
															safety, living with 
															Grandfather.  What 
															became of May?  My 
															sister Catherine 
															found a woman living 
															in Florida who might 
															be our May, but she 
															didn't care to 
															correspond with 
															us. This May was 
															adopted at about age 
															5 or 6.  I could 
															imagine Eunie giving 
															her daughter up, 
															sooner than leaving 
															her at risk.

															In her old age, 
															Eunie said sadly 
															that none of her 
															husbands would allow 
															her to have a child.

															Just not fair, isn't 
															it. The guilty got 
															off and the innocent 
															suffered.

															AnnMarie
 

As I can remember, Grandfather Mackway lived in the house he had shared with Grandma after Grandma moved in with Aunt Eunie. Grandfather continued to keep his peddler's booth at the Reading Terminal Market in Phila. At some time after Grandma died, my father cleared out the booth at the Reading Terminal and brought Grandfather to live with us. It may be that Grandfather sold the old house and whatever remained of their seven acres, and moved into Sellersville for a while. This would fit with the idea that he was a boarder with Polly. I don't know of anyone still living who could help us with this timeline.

Trivia: my father had eaten enough chicken as a child that he didn't care for it as an adult. When my mother would bring chicken to the dinner table, the old sailor would often say "we're having sea gull again". Mother never seemed to enjoy this joke as much as we children did.

I think I may have a photo of Wallace Mackway at about age 8 years. He and his sisters visited with our grandfather and grandmother most summers, according to Aunt Eunie. Wallace's grandson, William Mackway, lives now in Florida but that part of the family doesn't care to keep in touch.

Both Grandma and Grandfather Mackway lived in Sellersville for many years. They moved there from Audubon, NJ when my father was very young (born March 1911) and either before or just after Louise was born. I remember visiting Grandma at their house in Sellersville. It wasn't big, and I was taken by the front door. You stepped from the grass lawn over a small THRESHOLD, it was a cool white stone, perhaps marble, not very wide even to a toddler, into the living room (this would have been about 1944 or 1945; I was born in 1943 and lived in a row house, with three sets of stairs from the sidewalk to the front door. And yes, I do remember some things from when I was 12 months old.) Eunie said that, as a child, she hated to be sent to the cellar spring to fetch milk or other "refrigerated" foods: there were rats down there. Outside, Grandma had wooden cages for the rabbits she still raised. My father and Eunie told me that Grandma built a chicken coop and rabbit cages. She used the chickens for eggs and meat; the rabbits for meat and to sell to a laboratory for spending money. The rabbits were white ones. After Grandma began to fail, she went to live with Aunt Eunie in Norristown. I thought Grandma died in 1946, but I could be wrong on that. I do remember spending time with Grandma at Aunt Eunie's house. Grandma loved playing with a small child, and I looked enough like her Phoebe, Naomi, and Harold that she was especially happy to have me as company. She stayed in Eunie's middle bedroom. The furniture there was Grandma's: dark wood, carved ornately at the headboard and top of the mirror that Eunie kept at the top of the stairs on Pine Street. Grandma knew what small children liked: she kept a box of crayons tucked below her silky nightdresses in the bottom drawer of her dresser. We'd open the drawer and poke around to find the treasure. She sang lullabies to me in German.

When Grandfather began to fail, my parents took him in for a little while. With his history with small girls, my parents didn't want him long term in our home. He looked a lot like my father did in his early 70's: stout, balding, similar facial features. He told me "to live as he said, not as he had done". That puzzled me at the time. Before very long, his daughter Ruth came from Indiana to fetch Grandfather. Aunt Ruth looked a lot like Aunt Naomi did as Naomi got older. He lived with her until he died.

Grandfather Harold Sr is buried next to Grandma at St. Michael's cemetery in Sellersville. Aunt Eunie wanted to be buried with her mother. There were no gravesites left in the old part of the cemetery, so I had her body cremated, and buried her at her mother's feet. There is a footstone above her ashes.

AnnMarie

Ralph found Harold Sr Chicago family tree: Robert B Mackway Sr 1525 Funston St Hollywood FL 33020. Marie W. Mackway, William Wallace Mackway 1928-1998 Broward FL

1 MyLife Profile found for Marie Mackway, age 84-94
Marie M Mackway
Age 89 Locations:
Markham, IL
Hollywood, FL
Relatives/Associates
Argentina Bokin Mackway
Scarlet Marisol Mackway
William W Mackway
Robert B Mackway
Robert Bruce Mackway

Marie Mackway, 89
Robert B Mackway, 60
Robert Mackway, 70

I don’t know when Louie Pasted away but it would be mid-1960s. There may have been some contact before Louie and after Polly's first marriage divorce.

Harold Sr left Sellersville after his wife died in 1947+ and he died in 1957.

Does it matter when did Polly marry Louie?

If Daryl is 60+ he would have been born 1950+ after Polly married Groves. .

This time 1946-50 before her marriage that Harold could have been a boarder -

but if he had a personal contact with Polly when his wife was sick it could be before 1944.

Ralph

I did not have contact with them
background history:

Harold Jessup Mackway, 23 JAN 1875 - 1 APR 1957

Burial:
     Date:   5 APR 1957
     Place:   St. Michael's Lutheran Church Cemetery, Sellersville, Bucks Co., PA

Individual Note:
     Apparently was a womanizer. Was a cashier in 1900. Was a proprietor of a general store in 1920. Was a Lutheran minister, apparently was dismissed for sexually abusing children; may have done similarly with his kids. Was Louise's minister, convinced her to run off with him to be missionaries. His divorce from his first wife was in the Chicago Sun Times. In the early 1950s, sold housewares at the Reading Terminal market after Louise died. Was also a cattle & grain farmer.
Lived in Lake View Twp., Cook Co., IL in 1880. Lived at 7134 Union Ave., Chicago, IL in 1900; rented. Lived at 23 South Sickel St., Philadelphia, PA in 1910. Owned a 55 acre farm in Sellersville at Rt 1 & H 70 in 1914; listed with Louise & 4 children. Lived on Hill Rd., Hilltown Twp., Bucks Co. in 1920. Lived at 5812 Penn St., Philadelphia, PA in 1947. Lived with son Harold briefly after Louise died. Lived with Ruth in Hanover, Indiana his last few years.

Anna W, ABT JUL 1875 -

Immigration:
     Date:   ABT 1885
     Place:   USA

Individual Note:
     Also known as Annie. Parents born in Scotland. Was a bookkeeper at a watch-works in 1910.
Lived at 7134 Union Ave., Chicago, IL in 1900. Lived at 461 Ashland St., Elgin, Kent Co., IL in 1910. Lived at 1305 Vincennes St., 32nd Ward, Chicago, IL in 1920.

Grace Mackway

Born: ABT DEC 1899 - IL
Died: -

2. Ruth Mackway

  Born: ABT 1901 - IL
  Marr: 1920 - Rupert Clark
  Died: AFT 1957 -

3. Wallace William Mackway

  Born: 27 AUG 1902 - IL
  Marr: 1928 - Rose
  Died: MAR 1983 -

Wallace William Mackway
  Born: 27 AUG 1902 - IL
  Marr: BEF 1928 -
  Died: MAR 1983 -
Father: Harold Jessup Mackway, Sr
Mother: Anna W
Other Spouses:
Wife

Rose

Born: 4 MAY 1909 -
Died: ABT SEP 1991 -
Father:
Mother:
Other Spouses:

Children

1. William Wallace Mackway

  Born: 18 JAN 1928 -
  Marr: - Marie
  Died: 16 JUL 1998 -