Eleanor Barbara (Smith) Murdock (1901-1929) (age 28)
Eleanor graduated from Monticello College, Alton, IL on June 7, 1921 and was engaged to Joseph "Joe" Murdock (1898-1985) one month later on July 11, 1921. They were married at her parents home at 73rd Street and Princeton Avenue in the South Shore area of Chicago on October 15, 1922 which was near where Joe lived.
Five years later they moved to a new house they built at 8814 South Hamilton Avenue in the Beverly Hills area of Chicago. Her father, Percy "Dad Smith" loaned them much of the money for the house and didn't make them pay much back. It was the first house built on the street.
Eleanor died of a strep throat on July 29, 1929 at age 28 while she and her family were visiting her parents' summer cottage at Indian Lake, near Dowagiac, Michigan. Her children, Joellen and Margot were only age 5 and 2. Tragically, penicillin had only been discovered in 1928 and was not widely known and available in 1929.
Initially Joellen and Margot were cared for by Eleanor's parents, Percy and Edith "Gompy and Nanny" Smith, but later her husband Joe's mother Helen "Mocco" Wright Murdock, moved in. Mocco raised Joellen and Margot until Joe remarried to Virginia Sherwood in 1933.
Eleanor, "Mocco", and other Murdocks and Keplers are buried in the Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago.
Home-movies of Eleanor in 1929, shortly before she died:
Jacob "Clarence" Hershey (1882-1954) took a home-movie of himself and his wife Helen Forrest with Joe Murdock, his wife Eleanor Smith, and their young children, Joellen and Margot, while visiting Joe at his cottage at Indian Lake, Michigan, in spring 1929. A short time later, 7-29-1929, Eleanor tragically died of strep throat at Indian Lake just one year after penicillin was discovered but not yet widely available.
This is very rare footage of Eleanor and the movie is available from Lucius Donkle III, Joe's grandson, upon request.
"Uncle Clarence" Relationship to Joesph Murdock:
"Clarence" was a good friend of Joseph Murdock (1898-1985) for whom "Clarence" and Helen Forrest were his uncle and aunt. Helen Forrest, was the granddaughter of Maria Forrest (1810-1852) who married Israel Kepler (1807-1886) who was Joe's great-grandmother, hence the relation. From the Clarence obituary, he started his career in Chicago about 1920, when Joe was 22. It seems reasonable that, as somewhat distant relatives, they were friends with Joe's parents, Forrest Murdock and Helen "Mocco" Wright, and thus became friends with Joe.
Joe believed that Clarence was related to the Hershey Chocolate family, but did not known how. Supposedly he retired in Hershey, PA (Joe has movies of a trip to Gettysburg, near Hershey, that may show Clarence?). He was quite a friend of Joe Murdock's from at least 1929-1946 when he may be intermittently in Joe's home movies (is the old guy in the movies Clarence Hershey-Tweedy's guess, or Dad Smith, Elanor's father-Margot's guess?).
Eleanor graduated from Monticello College, Alton, IL on June 7, 1921 and was engaged to Joseph "Joe" Murdock (1898-1985) one month later on July 11, 1921. They were married at her parents home at 73rd Street and Princeton Avenue in the South Shore area of Chicago on October 15, 1922 which was near where Joe lived.
Five years later they moved to a new house they built at 8814 South Hamilton Avenue in the Beverly Hills area of Chicago. Her father, Percy "Dad Smith" loaned them much of the money for the house and didn't make them pay much back. It was the first house built on the street.
Eleanor died of a strep throat on July 29, 1929 at age 28 while she and her family were visiting her parents' summer cottage at Indian Lake, near Dowagiac, Michigan. Her children, Joellen and Margot were only age 5 and 2. Tragically, penicillin had only been discovered in 1928 and was not widely known and available in 1929.
Initially Joellen and Margot were cared for by Eleanor's parents, Percy and Edith "Gompy and Nanny" Smith, but later her husband Joe's mother Helen "Mocco" Wright Murdock, moved in. Mocco raised Joellen and Margot until Joe remarried to Virginia Sherwood in 1933.
Eleanor, "Mocco", and other Murdocks and Keplers are buried in the Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago.
Home-movies of Eleanor in 1929, shortly before she died:
Jacob "Clarence" Hershey (1882-1954) took a home-movie of himself and his wife Helen Forrest with Joe Murdock, his wife Eleanor Smith, and their young children, Joellen and Margot, while visiting Joe at his cottage at Indian Lake, Michigan, in spring 1929. A short time later, 7-29-1929, Eleanor tragically died of strep throat at Indian Lake just one year after penicillin was discovered but not yet widely available.
This is very rare footage of Eleanor and the movie is available from Lucius Donkle III, Joe's grandson, upon request.
"Uncle Clarence" Relationship to Joesph Murdock:
"Clarence" was a good friend of Joseph Murdock (1898-1985) for whom "Clarence" and Helen Forrest were his uncle and aunt. Helen Forrest, was the granddaughter of Maria Forrest (1810-1852) who married Israel Kepler (1807-1886) who was Joe's great-grandmother, hence the relation. From the Clarence obituary, he started his career in Chicago about 1920, when Joe was 22. It seems reasonable that, as somewhat distant relatives, they were friends with Joe's parents, Forrest Murdock and Helen "Mocco" Wright, and thus became friends with Joe.
Joe believed that Clarence was related to the Hershey Chocolate family, but did not known how. Supposedly he retired in Hershey, PA (Joe has movies of a trip to Gettysburg, near Hershey, that may show Clarence?). He was quite a friend of Joe Murdock's from at least 1929-1946 when he may be intermittently in Joe's home movies (is the old guy in the movies Clarence Hershey-Tweedy's guess, or Dad Smith, Elanor's father-Margot's guess?).
Eleanor Barbara (Smith) Murdock (1901-1929) (age 28)
Eleanor graduated from Monticello College, Alton, IL on June 7, 1921 and was engaged to Joseph "Joe" Murdock (1898-1985) one month later on July 11, 1921. They were married at her parents home at 73rd Street and Princeton Avenue in the South Shore area of Chicago on October 15, 1922 which was near where Joe lived.
Five years later they moved to a new house they built at 8814 South Hamilton Avenue in the Beverly Hills area of Chicago. Her father, Percy "Dad Smith" loaned them much of the money for the house and didn't make them pay much back. It was the first house built on the street.
Eleanor died of a strep throat on July 29, 1929 at age 28 while she and her family were visiting her parents' summer cottage at Indian Lake, near Dowagiac, Michigan. Her children, Joellen and Margot were only age 5 and 2. Tragically, penicillin had only been discovered in 1928 and was not widely known and available in 1929.
Initially Joellen and Margot were cared for by Eleanor's parents, Percy and Edith "Gompy and Nanny" Smith, but later her husband Joe's mother Helen "Mocco" Wright Murdock, moved in. Mocco raised Joellen and Margot until Joe remarried to Virginia Sherwood in 1933.
Eleanor, "Mocco", and other Murdocks and Keplers are buried in the Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago.
Home-movies of Eleanor in 1929, shortly before she died:
Jacob "Clarence" Hershey (1882-1954) took a home-movie of himself and his wife Helen Forrest with Joe Murdock, his wife Eleanor Smith, and their young children, Joellen and Margot, while visiting Joe at his cottage at Indian Lake, Michigan, in spring 1929. A short time later, 7-29-1929, Eleanor tragically died of strep throat at Indian Lake just one year after penicillin was discovered but not yet widely available.
This is very rare footage of Eleanor and the movie is available from Lucius Donkle III, Joe's grandson, upon request.
"Uncle Clarence" Relationship to Joesph Murdock:
"Clarence" was a good friend of Joseph Murdock (1898-1985) for whom "Clarence" and Helen Forrest were his uncle and aunt. Helen Forrest, was the granddaughter of Maria Forrest (1810-1852) who married Israel Kepler (1807-1886) who was Joe's great-grandmother, hence the relation. From the Clarence obituary, he started his career in Chicago about 1920, when Joe was 22. It seems reasonable that, as somewhat distant relatives, they were friends with Joe's parents, Forrest Murdock and Helen "Mocco" Wright, and thus became friends with Joe.
Joe believed that Clarence was related to the Hershey Chocolate family, but did not known how. Supposedly he retired in Hershey, PA (Joe has movies of a trip to Gettysburg, near Hershey, that may show Clarence?). He was quite a friend of Joe Murdock's from at least 1929-1946 when he may be intermittently in Joe's home movies (is the old guy in the movies Clarence Hershey-Tweedy's guess, or Dad Smith, Elanor's father-Margot's guess?).
Eleanor graduated from Monticello College, Alton, IL on June 7, 1921 and was engaged to Joseph "Joe" Murdock (1898-1985) one month later on July 11, 1921. They were married at her parents home at 73rd Street and Princeton Avenue in the South Shore area of Chicago on October 15, 1922 which was near where Joe lived.
Five years later they moved to a new house they built at 8814 South Hamilton Avenue in the Beverly Hills area of Chicago. Her father, Percy "Dad Smith" loaned them much of the money for the house and didn't make them pay much back. It was the first house built on the street.
Eleanor died of a strep throat on July 29, 1929 at age 28 while she and her family were visiting her parents' summer cottage at Indian Lake, near Dowagiac, Michigan. Her children, Joellen and Margot were only age 5 and 2. Tragically, penicillin had only been discovered in 1928 and was not widely known and available in 1929.
Initially Joellen and Margot were cared for by Eleanor's parents, Percy and Edith "Gompy and Nanny" Smith, but later her husband Joe's mother Helen "Mocco" Wright Murdock, moved in. Mocco raised Joellen and Margot until Joe remarried to Virginia Sherwood in 1933.
Eleanor, "Mocco", and other Murdocks and Keplers are buried in the Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago.
Home-movies of Eleanor in 1929, shortly before she died:
Jacob "Clarence" Hershey (1882-1954) took a home-movie of himself and his wife Helen Forrest with Joe Murdock, his wife Eleanor Smith, and their young children, Joellen and Margot, while visiting Joe at his cottage at Indian Lake, Michigan, in spring 1929. A short time later, 7-29-1929, Eleanor tragically died of strep throat at Indian Lake just one year after penicillin was discovered but not yet widely available.
This is very rare footage of Eleanor and the movie is available from Lucius Donkle III, Joe's grandson, upon request.
"Uncle Clarence" Relationship to Joesph Murdock:
"Clarence" was a good friend of Joseph Murdock (1898-1985) for whom "Clarence" and Helen Forrest were his uncle and aunt. Helen Forrest, was the granddaughter of Maria Forrest (1810-1852) who married Israel Kepler (1807-1886) who was Joe's great-grandmother, hence the relation. From the Clarence obituary, he started his career in Chicago about 1920, when Joe was 22. It seems reasonable that, as somewhat distant relatives, they were friends with Joe's parents, Forrest Murdock and Helen "Mocco" Wright, and thus became friends with Joe.
Joe believed that Clarence was related to the Hershey Chocolate family, but did not known how. Supposedly he retired in Hershey, PA (Joe has movies of a trip to Gettysburg, near Hershey, that may show Clarence?). He was quite a friend of Joe Murdock's from at least 1929-1946 when he may be intermittently in Joe's home movies (is the old guy in the movies Clarence Hershey-Tweedy's guess, or Dad Smith, Elanor's father-Margot's guess?).
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