Andrew Wenkel Part 5 1940-1949

As Promised, here is the 1940 Census

1940, age 40, Census

1 April 1940, New Trier, Cook, Illinois.

Andrew  and Emily Wenkel, 1940 Census

This couple moved again, this time to 334 South Avenue in New Trier IL.  They are both 40 years old, married, not attending school.  Andrew completed 8th grade while Emily completed the first two years of High School.  According to this census, they lived there five years previously in 1935.  However, the census a year earlier shows a Madison Avenue address.  What gives?  He is a paid worker as an auto mechanic and has never been unemployed.

Well, we have to understand how the census was taken.  If, when the enumerator came around, and they were both gone, they asked at the neighbors house.  Neighbors don't always know where you lived five years earlier.  That's the only explanation for the discrepancy.

1946 Family Reunion

Andrew and Emily Wenkel with Anna
photo by Christi Adams, used with permission

Andrew and Emily Logan Wenkel, Anna Wenkel
August and Sophia Rohrsen Wenkel
1946 Reunion, Standish Michigan

1948, age 48

Death of mother Sophia Rohrsen, 2 August 1948, Standish, Arenac, Michigan

Mini Pedigree from Ancestry.com

Andrew Wenkel Part 4 1930-1939

1930 Lucky Strike Cigarette Ad
Marshfield News-Herald, Marshfield WI
from Newspapers.com

1930 Census

I cannot for the life of me find any 1930 census.  So here is some clip art that Andrew would have seen.

1935 age 35 Residence

334 South Avenue, New Trier, Cook, Illinois according to the 1940 Census, which we will describe in the next post.  The home that is in that spot now was built in 2001 according to Zillow.  Do you have a photo of the house as it was when Andrew lived there?

1936 age 36, North American Heat Wave

Historical Insight from Ancestry.com
How did this affect their dairy farm?  Did they lose out on milk production?

Credit: Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Throughout the summer of 1936, the United States experienced one of the most devastating heatwaves in the nation’s history.

Before 1939, Married

He married sometime between the 1920 census and the 1939 directory which includes his wife Emily. He married Emily M. Logan who lived from 1896-1989, the child of Thomas Burke and Jessie Eleanor Davenport Logan.  She died in Chicago, and is buried in Northbrook, Cook County IL

1939, age 39, Residence

Evanston, North Shore, Illinois.  Here, again he is listed as Andrew F. Wenkel.  He is a mechanich in the Village of Glencoe, and lives at 486 Madison Avenue, Evanston IL.

Andrew and Emily Wenkel 1939 Directory, Evanston IL

Let's see if we can find this address on Google Maps.

This residence on standard maps view
Google Maps 2017

This residence in Street View
Google Maps 2017

It almost looks like they lived really near the train tracks, or under neath them?

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