[Swayze, Leida, Dailey………….] Cite at geni.com. Manage of site Susan Louise Darnell and researcher/biographer.
Jeanette [aka Nettie] Dailey b. 1886 October 12th
Nettie Rundle Dailey. Parents: Mother: Euphemia Carolina Swayze
Father: Goodward Adams Leida. Married around 1878-79 Mr. and Mrs. Leida
Husband: Franklin Benjamin Dailey. b. July 24, 1883. From inference, he only finished high school.
Married about 1905.
They both worked several years then Nettie become pregnant at 27. She only had one child in her life. Franklin Leida Dailey was born on a Sunday in a hospita August 21st, 1916, Scranton, Pennsylvania. He would become Nils Leida Dailey’s father. FLD was dearly loved by Nettie and she saw to it that he was well taken care of.
Euphemia C. Swayze’s parent information is incomplete. Nettie thinks her grandparents on her mother’s side were German. I have a Hannah Albert Swayze as Netties grandmother in my notes and Wilson Swayze as her grandfather. Nettie said Wilson lived in New Jersey then in Pennsylvania. Some of my notes are not very good. I have a sentence that suggests Euphemia’s mother died before her daughter married. It’s a very unclear sentence. I was probably sitting with Nannie in Kent, Ohio and didn’t know how to control the interview and just wrote without going carefully or re-reading the notes to her. At any rate, I write now to remember Nannie to all my future relations and for our ancestral history. I just adored Nannie. Euphemia had sisters. Grandpa Iassac Leida on her father’s side was born in America but both his parents came from Germany, as Nettie recalls. She’s not that sure. At one time her grandparents lived in Centerville, New Jersey. Iassac kept his own farm and hotel. He ran both. People use to come through with their cattle and stay at his hotel. People use to come to Centerville where Nettie said she was born at 6:00 o’clock. She recalls she was born in the same house as her grandfather Iassac Leida. The town changed names to Knowlton then back to Centerville? Notes are fuzzy on this. At some point, Iassac Leida was Senator of New Jersey.
Online info showing Leida’s in NJ; CensusYear 1850 Microfilm # M432-465 State NJCounty Warren
AGE
541A 9 Leida Alfred 14 N. J. pg0539a.txt
541A 7 Leida Armina 19 N. J. pg0539a.txt
541A 10 Leida Charles 11 N. J. pg0539a.txt
543A 19 Leida Charles G. 1 N. J. pg0539a.txt
543A 18 Leida Emile 3 N. J. pg0539a.txt
543A 17 Leida Hannah 31 N. J. pg0539a.txt
543A 16 Leida Isaac F. 30 N. J. pg0539a.txt
541A 8 Leida Percilla 17 N. J. pg0539a.txt
541A 5 Leida William 58 N. J. pg0539a.txt
545A 27 Leida William W. 26 N. J. pg0539a.txt
541A 6 Leida Zeporah 53 N. J
Historical notes found on internet: Centerville, or Knowlton, is mainly noted for possessing the old Knowlton Presbyterian Church, which was built in 1802. The Knowlton Presbyterian Church was originally organized as the "First English and German Congregation in Knowlton," the first records of which are of the year 1766. The church came under the care of the New Brunswick Presbytery in 1775.
Warrington, or Kill Mills, or Knowlton Mills, was once a thriving little place one mile from the Delaware River, on the Paulins Kill. Here were a mill run by John Titman, and later by H. H. Stires; a blacksmith shop, a public house, known as Foster's Hotel, or as Leida's Hotel, and a slate mill. None of these are now there. The Titman mill was moved by Mr. Stires to Cedar Grove, where it took the place of Mackey's mill, that had been destroyed by fire. The water power at Warrington was bought by the Eastern Pennsylvania Power Company, with the intention of utilizing it for producing electricity. The new line of the D., L. & W. railroad passes through the place.
Netties (whom we always called Nannie) spent her first eleven years of her young life in Warren County in the town of Knowlton, in the USA, in the state of New Jersey. Her family had three teams of horses. Transportation was two horse buggy. She had one brother, I met him too, his name was beautiful “Augustan.” I’ve seen it written Augustus Wildrick Leida. But his mother’s maiden name was Guilick so I wonder if there is an error. Eleanor, Nils and I traveled to Hope, New Jersey, where he lived. I had a lovely time meeting our Hope, New Jersey relatives. It must have been in the mid-seventies. Augustan was born twelve years after Nettie. Goodward, their dad, was employed as a carpenter as a young married man. Then he came to own and operate a grocery store with his brother-in-law. Then he also became or maybe left the grocery business and was Superintendent of the Warren County ALMS House for the poor and aged. He worked at the ALMS House for eighteen years.
Notes from the internet:
The County House, or Poor Farm, of Warren County was purchased in 1830 of [from] Nathan Sutton for $8,950. It contains 396 acres of the finest land in the county. Large buildings, steam heated, give every* comfort to the inmates. It is supplied with water piped from a reservoir fed by springs in the neighboring mountains. The stewards of the County House have been William McDonald, Samuel Lowder, T. H. Tunison, L. H. Martenis, J. R. Teal, Samuel Frome, H. R. Tunison, Mr. Raisley and Goodward Leida.
Nettie refers to this as the County Home where she would continue to live [maybe on and off depending on her age and stage of life]. She said at the county home the family got their first phone. And then a washing machine. Eventually, her dad lost his health and moved to one of their/or the family farms in Hope, New Jersey. Euphemia was nice. Everyone liked her. She was strict. Once she took a twig from a sprouting apple tree and hit Nettie over the back for not coming home. The family was Presbyterian and went to Church every Sunday.
Nettie was enrolled in school very early, at 5 or 6 years old and continued her education until the 12th grade. At 16 she had her first boyfriend. The school years ran from September to June. At 17 she enrolled in the Ridder {Rider or Ridler?} Moore Stewart Business School and left for the school. On location she lived with a private family. She attended the business school for one year. At the end of the year she stopped her education to take a job with Cooper Hewitt & Company. She was a secretary, book-keeper, typist and knew how to take shorthand. This company was in Pequest Furnace, New Jersey. While there her home was the County House. She worked for a few years and around 18 or 19 years old met Franklin B. Dailey at a dance in Washington, New Jersey. It was approx. 1905 and she married. In my notes it says she “went with Cook and Franklin, like there were two guys. Neither knew of the other. By the end of the second year of “Cook and Franklin” Cook found out about Franklin and confronted Nettie. Cook decided they better stop their relationship. My notes says “Cook decided they better stop this double duty.” Nettie chose Franklin. She recalls for me this was a choice because it was Franklin who took her to the dances. She says she took the wrong one.
Nettie married when she was 19 years old. She said it was “the worst mistake of my life.” This would be approx. 1905. Franklin was 20-21, she recalls. They lived in Easton, Pennsylvania. (Many years later, Nils Leida Dailey, would go to Easton to attend Lafayette College like his father. I was secretly flown there many times from 1968 – 1970.) Nettie kept working at Cooper Hewitt & Company. At this time Nettie is recalling Franklin, her husband, worked as an Interior Decorator and a storefront window decorator and mentions he finished high school. Franklin Leida Dailey was born August 21, 1916. When Nettie was pregnant, the couple moved from Easton, Pennsylvania to Scranton, Pennsylvania. Franklin had gotten a job at Packard Automobiles. When the baby boy was brought home Nettie recalls her husband peeking around the corner to view him. Nettie hired a nurse to stay with her and the baby for a few weeks. From one to five years old Franklin was in Netties care. Then he began to go to his grandmother’s Euphemia’s every summer until he was in high school. During high school he got various jobs. On Good Friday, 1931, Franklin Sr. went to the Masonic Temple. After the meeting he came home for lunch. He said, “Don’t fix me much. I only want poached egg on toast. After lunch, he leaned back and said, “Mother, I’m dying.” “Heart Failure.” He died April 3, 1931 age 47 in Scranton, PA of a heart attack. He and his wife and child were residents of 801 Mulberry St, Scranton, PA. Little did he know that his son Franklin Leida Dailey would also die at 47 years of age too, in 1964. Franklin Benjamin Dailey’s father, whose name is Wilson, died of heart failure in his seventies.
Franklin Leida Dailey was in 8th grade when his father died. Or high school? For the first few years, widowned Nettie took roomers, helped care for sick townspeople, had insurance. She wanted to make sure her son went to college. When he was of age, a family friend who was a lawyer oversaw that Franklin got into Lafayette College. He worked every summer in Scranton doing different jobs: 1. he worked in a B. L.& W railroad carrying water to the men. 2. He worked at BOSAC Banking as a chauffeur for Bosac.
3. During one or all Christmas Bosac saw to it that Franklin worked in the Department Store.
Franklin worked while in school and in the summer and helped put himself through college. Nettie continued working in Scranton. Her primary job for six years was carrying for her family and elderly people and the sick. After Franklin graduated from Lafayette College he went to World War II. Nettie was still in Scranton while Franklin went off to war. I know one place he went was Germany. I was given two large quartz stones from Germany. They are gone now. And I have a bracelet made of German coins and in silver. There was one detor in the geography of Nannie and her son. After college Franklin and a friend Warren Davies moved to Kent, Ohio, near the campus of Kent State Univ. In a while Nettie moved to Kent, Ohio. Then Franklin went to war. So Nettie moved back to Scranton to take care of a priest and his family. Then she moved back to Kent Ohio and took are of a couple, Mr and Mrs ?, and then four others and then Mono Fletcher also in Kent. I must have caught up with her in Kent when I went to Kent State in 1970ish as that’s when I recall seeing her in the high rise.
In the seventies when I visited Nannie, as I called her, she always gave me presents she had owned and stored in neatly packed boxes. In her eighties she was living in a high rise apartment for seniors. It was very very nice. She had her own apartment with a kitchenette. Just adorable. I remember this one gift all folded tidy in sheer paper in a box. It was a shoulder garment one would wear while in pajamas. It was pleated, sheer and pink, very feminine and beautiful. And best of all, it was Nannies. She came to Wallingford, Connecticut, must have been 1976, the year Alexander was born. I’ve also wished I knew it would have been possible to just have her stay with us for the rest of her life. She was that type of modern woman and we could have worked it out. Love, so much love to you Nannie.
Euphemia Carolina Swayze [married Leida]
Her four sister
Kutura Neuman
Mary Jane Wildrick
Susan
Ann
& brothers
Nettie’s mom aka Euphemia had parents:
Hannah Albert Swayze [mother]
Wilson Swayze [father] came to USA from Ireland.
On Netties side of the family there is a Wilson and on the Dailey side there is a Wilson so don’t get confused. And, all notes subject to more research and perfection, of course.
Netties father aka Goodward Adams Leida had parents:
Iassac Leida
Hannah Coal/Cole/Cool ? Leida. [At some point Hannah lived in Centerville.
Iassac and Hannah were Netties grandparents.
Franklin Leida Dailey’s mom and dad were
Wilson Dailey and Jane [or Mary Jane Guilick] Dailey. There were three sons, two of which might be from a first wife, if they married. Nettie says they all had curly hair. The three sons were
Franklin Dailey
Victor Dailey
Ed Dailey
They were the sons of Wilson and a Jane Dailey. Victor and Ed are buried in Long Island. Victor had one daughter “Frances.” Franklin Dailey is Nils Leida Dailey’s grandfather. Franklin Dailey would become Nils dads father. Nils grandpa’s name is written Franklin Dailey. Nils father has the same name but I’ve seen it written with Leida as a middle name. I’ve seen Franklin Leida Dailey for Nils dad......perhaps Nettie attached it on documents being very modern and smart.
Nettie reiterates the Wilson were Irish. Wilson and his brothers came to the USA from Ireland. Wilson and Jane Mary or Mary Jane had three sons Franklin (who married Nettie), Victor and Edward. However, the notes insinuate Victor and Edward were the sons of a first wife Jane so perhaps Franklin’s biological mother is Mary Jane.
