Victor Samuel Lee b1896 New York

[shellyesq]

Regarding the 1925 census, in case it's the right Victor, there is a Social Security application for Virginia Rita Lee, apparently born in the Bronx to Victor Lee and Mary Cummings.  Her birth date is given as 29 Sep. 1925 and death date of 26 Nov. 1993.  As of Jan. 1954, her name was listed as Virginia Stegmann.  This seems to be a match for her on the Social Security death index - https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JRQG-56F - but with a birth of 29 Mar. 1925.  The 1925 NY state census date is 1 June 1925, so a March birth date would seem to fit with being 62 days old as of then.

[ManU]

Thanks guys
some really good work being done I initially liked the Vandewarker one makes sense she was previously married may explain the daughter born 1925 then along came Mary Cummings wow need to digest this - maybe the Connecticut angle is a red herring and Mary Cummings maybe the one
You all have given me something to research cheers its a pity I am not subscribed to ancestry as that may solve a few issues but familysearch is not too bad
If anything else crops up please let me know
Cheers Manu

[shellyesq]

It would be unusual for someone to be taken from Long Island to Guilford, Connecticut to be buried if they didn't have some connection there.  It's a long trip, and there are many closer cemeteries to where he lived/died, including veterans' cemeteries. 

Both wives could fit.  It wouldn't be the first time I've seen a man who had two different wives named Mary.    

 

[ManU]

Hi Shellyesq
Quite agree with you and both Marys do fit
so far I have the following Victor b1896 New York father John R Lee - definite
1920 he was a nickel plater - Definite
1925 auto mechanic daug Virginia 2 months -?
1930 mechanic in auto industry - single (living with father)-definite
1935 lived in Bronx - answer on 1940 census
1940 Watchman in private house daug Lois 16 (same age as Virginia would have been) - ?
The grave stone at Guilford seems to be fairly conclusive but would need more evidence
He did live in the Bronx and am sure he lived in Islip Suffolk which would make 1940 census look good but if that's the case what happened to Virginia and was she born before or after Lois
Its so annoying not having access to ancestry familysearch misses out on some info a pity

[amondg]

Bronx Divorce and civil records case. (Index Only)
*20 February 1929 Victor Lee VS Mary Lee,
Vol 2 page 117 file number 1234.

[ShaunJ]

There are a couple of mentions of Mrs Victor Lee in the Islip bulletin

https://goo.gl/IA2OTn

[amondg]

Application for headstone from the military.
Victor Samuel Lee born 18 June 1896 died 1 July 1962.
Requested by Mary R Lee of 55 Columbia Street Islip.
Gives his service dated WWI and WWII
service number 180-92-36. VA pension number 19-697-368
Vermont Marble to be delivered to John Herbst, Alderbrook Guilford Connecticut.

1940 census his wife Mary is from Connecticut.

[ManU]

Thanks Shaunj appreciate the newspaper article

Hi Amondg well that is a big spanner in the works, so he has Virginia in 1925 but cant find any records other than a census, Lois 1925 from another census but Virginia no where to be seen and Robert E born around 1931-3 after the divorce (I have no access to review the record at the moment)
oh the joys of genealogy
cheers guys appreciate the assistance
ps just got your last post Amondg thanks will have to put the application record on my list to download when I next subscribe to ancestry cheers guys thanks for the info

[amondg]

Do you have the baptism records/ Emmanuel Mission Church New York
Theodora Fredricka Lee born 24 April 1895
Mary Ann Lee born 18 September 1897
Victor Samuel Lee born 18 June 1896
Sarah Helen Lee born 23 February 1904

All children of John R Lee and Sarah Coggan Lee.
Baptized the same day 23 October 1904.