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  1. Charles Sewell Weech: Birth: 18 MAR 1928 in Baltimore (city), Maryland, United States. Death: 3 APR 1990 in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States


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Notes
a. Note:   WWI (6/1917-4/1919) - Drove an ambulance for the American Field Service Member, Johns Hopkins Club
 Member, Engineering Society of Baltimore
 Member, Churchwardens Chess Club
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  Dear Ann [Ann McCord Weech] and Sewell [C. Sewell Weech, Jr.],
 I am terribly disappointed but see no way in which we can work out a visit to West Hartford until spring.
 I've talked and talked with Dad about the Churchwardens but he feels he cannot miss a meeting. From something he said recently I think I may understand and I only hope you will understand too. Dad, as you know, is 84 years old - an age at which he has seen several of his friends lose their grip on things. I think he uses chess as a gauge to test his mental prowess. As long as he can win, from time to time, over the best players he is reassured that he still possesses his intellectual powers. That is very important to him. I hope you understand what I am trying to say. You probably know that he has always tried to exercise his mind as well as his body and at 84 he would seem to have done a good job.
 The only other group he belongs to now is the Shakespeare Club and he goes to that because of me. I insist. It is not his idea!
  From a letter by Audrey Allen Weech to her son and daughter-in-law dated September 17, 1978. The Churchwardens Chess Club named its annual club trophy the C. Sewell Weech, Sr. trophy. CSW, Sr. won it several times while he was still in his eighties.
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  The following is an obituary that C. Sewell Weech, Sr. wrote for himself circa 1975 (about eleven years before his death):
  C. Sewell Weech, for many years an insurance company officer, died last night. He was the last president of the New Amsterdam Casualty Company while Baltimore interests were in control and retired in 1961, when a majority of the stock was acquired by Security Insurance Company of Connecticut.
 Born in Baltimore, the son and grandson of Methodist ministers who filled pastorates in Maryland and Virginia for ninety years, he served as treasurer and president of the trustees of Strawbridge Methodist Church until he reached seventy-five. He felt this to be a proper age to give way to a younger man, if available to take unpaid positions.
 He attended and graduated from Baltimore City College, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland. Graduation from the last and admission to the bar came after two years service in World War One.
 Refused for the First Officers Training Camp because of defective color vision, he was one of five members of his class who enlisted in the ambulance section arranged at Hopkins under the encouragement of the late Professor Hullier for service in Italy and France. James Boyd, author of Drums, was the lieutenant in command. Weech found marching in Liberty Loan parades very demanding as he was unable to keep in step except briefly. Later he recalled that he changed his first tire while transporting four wounded marines from the battlefield. The uncomplimentary observations of the wounded marines disturbed him more than the background music furnished by German artillery. On another occasion he assisted a deserter. This deserter, assigned to Bordeaux, was making his way to the front where in present day slang, he hoped to have a piece of the action. His was a generation , Mr. Weech recalled, with many members who felt that service in war was a privilege as well as a duty.
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  Things said by my father [Robert William Henry Weech] which did not impress me when he spoke have come back to me much later and been valued when my own experience was much greater:
  - A duffer can catch more fish in a stocked pond than Isaac Walton in the bathtub (fish where there are fish).
 - Often we can't see the trees for the woods. - Changing a 'no' to a 'yes' is generally permissible, but not a 'yes' to a 'no'. Therefore, when uncertain, start with 'no'.
 - A harsh confrontation with facts at the outset may avoid much suffering in the long run.
 - Not to allow emotion over an event which cannot be changed to inhibit useful action.
 - At 60 a man will closely resemble himself at 59. - Over 100% of the population is discriminated against. Women are over 50%. Women who are not pretty. Men who are not handsome. Negroes. Foreign born. Those over forty who seek jobs. The poor. The uneducated. Those who want to go to heaven but haven't lived right (many are called, but few are chosen).
 - Use your own bad judgment. - Always tell the truth, but don't always be telling it. - When my cup runneth over, the preacher can't get any more in. - Having done all in my powers, being certain this is a fact, to lose not energy in fretting over failure.
 - Remember: no human being is ever 100% satisfactory to any other human being.
 - Man's inhumanity to man is bad, but it isn't a patch on woman's inhumanity to woman.
 - When I hear something said or written of me which may sound unfriendly, examine carefully to determine whether there may not possibly be a different interpretation in certain contexts which is not unfriendly.
  From a scrap found in the papers of C. Sewell Weech, Sr. (date unknown). My grandfather was fond of such aphorisms, not all of which were or are clear to me [WAW]!
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  C. Sewell Weech, Sr. was the oldest of four boys born to a Methodist minister. Though small in stature, he made up for his physical weakness with the powers of his mind. He had a lifelong interest in intellectual pursuits such as chess, the Latin language, and all kinds of reading. He did his undergraduate studies at Johns Hopkins University and obtained a law degree from the University of Maryland. During his career he became President of the New Amsterdam Casualty Company, from which he retired in 1961.
 Like his father and grandfather, Sewell was a staunch Methodist. Over the years the congregation of the church which he attended in downtown Baltimore went from being all white to mostly black. In spite of his belief that blacks were genetically inferior to whites, Sewell served as the treasurer of the church for many years. In his later years he carried a walking stick nicknamed John to church, in case he might need a weapon in the deteriorating inner city neighborhood. His devoted wife Audrey finally reached the point where she refused to go to church with him.
 Although small and uninterested in sports other than table tennis, Sewell maintained a strict exercise regimen throughout his life. When after retirement Sewell and Audrey took cruise ships across the Atlantic to visit England, Sewell inevitably won a plaque or trophy in the shipboard ping-pong tournament. Even at age ninety Sewell preferred stairs to elevators and would skip steps on the way to his ninth floor apartment! He found overweight people appalling.
 When the Weech family held summer reunions at their cottage in Ocean Grove, New Jersey, Sewell Sr. would insist on tutoring his son in Latin verbs before allowing him to play with his cousins on the beach. Early on Sewell Jr. rejected his fathers love of chess (though much later grandson Bill acquired an interest in the game from Sewell Sr.). The two Sewells, father and son, remained somewhat distant from one another until Sewell Sr.s death.
 Sewell Sr.s complex personality was capable of either charming and alienating those who met him - sometimes both simultaneously. He could be an arrogant intellectual snob, yet he had a sense of humor. He was a famous tightwad in some areas (for example, he never threw away a piece of paper until he had written on both sides of it), yet he was often generous to those less fortunate than he. Although occasionally intolerant, he was never known to lose his temper. He could be verbose at times, yet there were many who enjoyed his stories, commentary, and aphorisms. Although Sewell was very successful financially, he lived modestly for the income he enjoyed and never owned real estate. He passed a sizable estate on to his son Sewell Jr. At the same time, he left several hundred dollars to the black waitresses who had served him over the years at the Johns Hopkins Club restaurant.
 When Audrey died, Sewell said at her grave side ceremony During my wildest dreams it never occurred to me that she would die first (Audrey was ten years his junior). Im glad that I was able to see her through her ordeal. And then this famous stoic wept in public. Indeed, when Audrey was confined to a nursing home with Alzheimers disease, Sewell visited her every day without fail, always bringing a thermos of hot tea with him. Some of the less alert members of the nursing home staff thought that Sewell himself, who was in his late eighties, was also a resident of the institution.
 At age 90 he gave up his apartment and moved into a retirement home so that his daughter-in-law wouldnt have to worry about him. Even in the retirement home, however, he had his own private quarters and maintained a high degree of autonomy and independence. At age 91 he acknowledged that he could no longer drive a car safely. Shortly after he turned his car keys over to his son, he died.
  Written by Ann McCord Weech and William Allen Weech, October, 1992
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 == Biography ==
 Charles was born in 1894. Charles was the child of [[Weech-143|Robert Weech]] and [[Ashley-2413|Clara Ashley]]. Charles passed away in 1986.&lt;ref&gt;A source for this information is needed.&lt;/ref&gt;
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