Ann and her older sister were both born in the San Juan Islands of Washington State, and still infants at the time of their father's death there in 1890, so would have been very unlikely to have remembered him in later life. Her mother had moved the family afterwards to her childhood home in Ohio by 1891, then San Diego, CA by 1900, and to Los Angeles, CA by 1907.
She and her younger brother, John Jr. (born in Ohio after his father's death) were still living with their mother in Los Angeles at the time of her death in 1912, and by the following year, all three siblings were found in census records then living together there. She is noted as working for "Motor Car Maintenance" during this time frame, that appearing her future husband's employer, or a related business, and that appearing how they first met.
Her husband David (Eric, as he preferred) traveled frequently to the Far East in his business role, but why Ann was also in Manila when they married there on 1 Jan 1914 is unclear, perhaps job related and having traveled there with her future husband. As clearly already in a relationship, Ann may also simply have traveled with Eric but was no longer "employed". Ann was already pregnant with their daughter when they married, and would remain in Manila until that daughter's birth in May of 1914, only returning to the US with her husband and daughter, it appears, in 1920.
As the Hellen family is known to have corresponded frequently over decades, it may be that her mother was in touch with others of her late father's Hellen family, her uncles and aunt. Annie, however, if not previously in touch with them, did reconnect at some point in her life, and may have actually visited with one Hellen uncle, Charles Edmund Hellen, during a visit to first New York, then London in 1924. That is unconfirmed, but if correct, was possibly the only meeting with any of her father's brothers. This same trip "back east" in 1924 en route London, may have also included a visit to Washington, DC, where she may have met another uncle, some cousins, and her aunt, Carrie Elizabeth "Lillie" Hellen Faris. That they had remained in touch, or reconnected, can be verified by Annie's "Certificate of Birth - Delayed Registration" of 5 Nov 1947 (she then fifty-seven years old), to which Lillie provided a "supporting affidavit". Lillie's information could only have come from retained Hellen family correspondence going back to when she herself was but a young women. Her affidavit was notarized on May 16, 1947, and may have been mailed to Annie, but there is also some correspondence which suggests Lillie may have traveled to California to visit Annie, possibly in that year, just one year before Lillie's death.
The second supporting affidavit was provided by another aunt, Mary Estelle (Smith) Hughes, born in 1871, her "aunt" by marriage to her uncle, Thomas Richard Hughes (1866-1947), and Mary still living in Oct of 1947, per her affidavit, and passing in CA in 1955. This document may be Annie's only "official" birth certificate, no other found to date, and then assuming no document was created in Washington State upon her actual birth there.
Annie would outlive both her siblings, her husband, and sadly, her daughter, dying just one year short of one hundred years of age. She had lived in, or near, Los Angeles most all her life.
Allan Garner - Rev: 30 Aug 2023
She and her younger brother, John Jr. (born in Ohio after his father's death) were still living with their mother in Los Angeles at the time of her death in 1912, and by the following year, all three siblings were found in census records then living together there. She is noted as working for "Motor Car Maintenance" during this time frame, that appearing her future husband's employer, or a related business, and that appearing how they first met.
Her husband David (Eric, as he preferred) traveled frequently to the Far East in his business role, but why Ann was also in Manila when they married there on 1 Jan 1914 is unclear, perhaps job related and having traveled there with her future husband. As clearly already in a relationship, Ann may also simply have traveled with Eric but was no longer "employed". Ann was already pregnant with their daughter when they married, and would remain in Manila until that daughter's birth in May of 1914, only returning to the US with her husband and daughter, it appears, in 1920.
As the Hellen family is known to have corresponded frequently over decades, it may be that her mother was in touch with others of her late father's Hellen family, her uncles and aunt. Annie, however, if not previously in touch with them, did reconnect at some point in her life, and may have actually visited with one Hellen uncle, Charles Edmund Hellen, during a visit to first New York, then London in 1924. That is unconfirmed, but if correct, was possibly the only meeting with any of her father's brothers. This same trip "back east" in 1924 en route London, may have also included a visit to Washington, DC, where she may have met another uncle, some cousins, and her aunt, Carrie Elizabeth "Lillie" Hellen Faris. That they had remained in touch, or reconnected, can be verified by Annie's "Certificate of Birth - Delayed Registration" of 5 Nov 1947 (she then fifty-seven years old), to which Lillie provided a "supporting affidavit". Lillie's information could only have come from retained Hellen family correspondence going back to when she herself was but a young women. Her affidavit was notarized on May 16, 1947, and may have been mailed to Annie, but there is also some correspondence which suggests Lillie may have traveled to California to visit Annie, possibly in that year, just one year before Lillie's death.
The second supporting affidavit was provided by another aunt, Mary Estelle (Smith) Hughes, born in 1871, her "aunt" by marriage to her uncle, Thomas Richard Hughes (1866-1947), and Mary still living in Oct of 1947, per her affidavit, and passing in CA in 1955. This document may be Annie's only "official" birth certificate, no other found to date, and then assuming no document was created in Washington State upon her actual birth there.
Annie would outlive both her siblings, her husband, and sadly, her daughter, dying just one year short of one hundred years of age. She had lived in, or near, Los Angeles most all her life.
Allan Garner - Rev: 30 Aug 2023
Ann and her older sister were both born in the San Juan Islands of Washington State, and still infants at the time of their father's death there in 1890, so would have been very unlikely to have remembered him in later life. Her mother had moved the family afterwards to her childhood home in Ohio by 1891, then San Diego, CA by 1900, and to Los Angeles, CA by 1907.
She and her younger brother, John Jr. (born in Ohio after his father's death) were still living with their mother in Los Angeles at the time of her death in 1912, and by the following year, all three siblings were found in census records then living together there. She is noted as working for "Motor Car Maintenance" during this time frame, that appearing her future husband's employer, or a related business, and that appearing how they first met.
Her husband David (Eric, as he preferred) traveled frequently to the Far East in his business role, but why Ann was also in Manila when they married there on 1 Jan 1914 is unclear, perhaps job related and having traveled there with her future husband. As clearly already in a relationship, Ann may also simply have traveled with Eric but was no longer "employed". Ann was already pregnant with their daughter when they married, and would remain in Manila until that daughter's birth in May of 1914, only returning to the US with her husband and daughter, it appears, in 1920.
As the Hellen family is known to have corresponded frequently over decades, it may be that her mother was in touch with others of her late father's Hellen family, her uncles and aunt. Annie, however, if not previously in touch with them, did reconnect at some point in her life, and may have actually visited with one Hellen uncle, Charles Edmund Hellen, during a visit to first New York, then London in 1924. That is unconfirmed, but if correct, was possibly the only meeting with any of her father's brothers. This same trip "back east" in 1924 en route London, may have also included a visit to Washington, DC, where she may have met another uncle, some cousins, and her aunt, Carrie Elizabeth "Lillie" Hellen Faris. That they had remained in touch, or reconnected, can be verified by Annie's "Certificate of Birth - Delayed Registration" of 5 Nov 1947 (she then fifty-seven years old), to which Lillie provided a "supporting affidavit". Lillie's information could only have come from retained Hellen family correspondence going back to when she herself was but a young women. Her affidavit was notarized on May 16, 1947, and may have been mailed to Annie, but there is also some correspondence which suggests Lillie may have traveled to California to visit Annie, possibly in that year, just one year before Lillie's death.
The second supporting affidavit was provided by another aunt, Mary Estelle (Smith) Hughes, born in 1871, her "aunt" by marriage to her uncle, Thomas Richard Hughes (1866-1947), and Mary still living in Oct of 1947, per her affidavit, and passing in CA in 1955. This document may be Annie's only "official" birth certificate, no other found to date, and then assuming no document was created in Washington State upon her actual birth there.
Annie would outlive both her siblings, her husband, and sadly, her daughter, dying just one year short of one hundred years of age. She had lived in, or near, Los Angeles most all her life.
Allan Garner - Rev: 30 Aug 2023
She and her younger brother, John Jr. (born in Ohio after his father's death) were still living with their mother in Los Angeles at the time of her death in 1912, and by the following year, all three siblings were found in census records then living together there. She is noted as working for "Motor Car Maintenance" during this time frame, that appearing her future husband's employer, or a related business, and that appearing how they first met.
Her husband David (Eric, as he preferred) traveled frequently to the Far East in his business role, but why Ann was also in Manila when they married there on 1 Jan 1914 is unclear, perhaps job related and having traveled there with her future husband. As clearly already in a relationship, Ann may also simply have traveled with Eric but was no longer "employed". Ann was already pregnant with their daughter when they married, and would remain in Manila until that daughter's birth in May of 1914, only returning to the US with her husband and daughter, it appears, in 1920.
As the Hellen family is known to have corresponded frequently over decades, it may be that her mother was in touch with others of her late father's Hellen family, her uncles and aunt. Annie, however, if not previously in touch with them, did reconnect at some point in her life, and may have actually visited with one Hellen uncle, Charles Edmund Hellen, during a visit to first New York, then London in 1924. That is unconfirmed, but if correct, was possibly the only meeting with any of her father's brothers. This same trip "back east" in 1924 en route London, may have also included a visit to Washington, DC, where she may have met another uncle, some cousins, and her aunt, Carrie Elizabeth "Lillie" Hellen Faris. That they had remained in touch, or reconnected, can be verified by Annie's "Certificate of Birth - Delayed Registration" of 5 Nov 1947 (she then fifty-seven years old), to which Lillie provided a "supporting affidavit". Lillie's information could only have come from retained Hellen family correspondence going back to when she herself was but a young women. Her affidavit was notarized on May 16, 1947, and may have been mailed to Annie, but there is also some correspondence which suggests Lillie may have traveled to California to visit Annie, possibly in that year, just one year before Lillie's death.
The second supporting affidavit was provided by another aunt, Mary Estelle (Smith) Hughes, born in 1871, her "aunt" by marriage to her uncle, Thomas Richard Hughes (1866-1947), and Mary still living in Oct of 1947, per her affidavit, and passing in CA in 1955. This document may be Annie's only "official" birth certificate, no other found to date, and then assuming no document was created in Washington State upon her actual birth there.
Annie would outlive both her siblings, her husband, and sadly, her daughter, dying just one year short of one hundred years of age. She had lived in, or near, Los Angeles most all her life.
Allan Garner - Rev: 30 Aug 2023
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