I already covered the second half of 1941 in my post 1941 - Millie's Stressful Year. Her father had died, her older brother, Peter, was a POW in the Philippines, her younger brother, Fred, was also in the army, and she was pregnant with her first child.
Their first child, Linda Lee (my mother) was born in May 1942. She was the first of 5 children.
Five you ask? Most of us may only know about four: Linda, Peter, Julia and Douglas. But they had another child, Phillip Michael Brown.
After my first post on the 1950 Census, I received some comments back from my aunt and uncle, Peter Brown and Julia Brown Herrin, about their childhood in Louisville.
Pete replied:
I had forgotten the projects were called "Clarksdale". At the north end was a barber college where I would get a haircut for 25 cents. We went to school at Nicholas Finzer School. There was a silo type fire escape with a circular metal slide inside. Once a year the students could pay a penny to slide down. It was for cleaning purposes.
We also frequented an amusement park called Fontaine Ferry.
The United States has the "72-Year Rule" concerning information about individuals collected during the decennial US Census. Thus the information from the 1950 US Census was released on 1 April 2022.
Recently, I found my mother's family in the census records.
