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Note: Harold completed two years at the University of Chattanooga, before being sent to Mexico in 1916 in a military intervention and then France in 1917 in WWI. Afterwards he got a job in a machine plant in Scottdale, Pa. where he worked with a young woman named Elsie Sisco. Through her he met her sister Irene whom he married in 1918. They moved to Georgia and lived near Harold's parents in Menlo. In Sept. 1920 their first child, Catherine, was born. He had his own car and was a postal carrier in Rome, Ga. for a few years. When Catherine was four, they moved back up to Pennsylvania, where he took a job as a coal mining engineer. They lived in Grindstone, a "company town" about 40 miles south of Pittsburgh. In 1929 their second daughter, Nell, was born. Harold worked in the coal mine until he retired in 1960. During the coal strikes in the mid-1930s, he was a foreman and was made a deputy sheriff to help keep the peace. They moved to Merritstown, Pa. in the mid �40s. When he wasn't at the mine he enjoyed gardening. They raised chickens and had a
large vegetable garden and raspberry patch.
Harold was about 6� tall with light blue eyes, and a mischievous grin and sense of humor.
In their later years, Harold and Irene did a lot of traveling. They would entertain anyone that would sit long enough with slides of their trips. He is fondly remembered as often having his Polaroid Camera up to his face. He died of complications from a bleeding ulcer in September 1969.
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