Goldie Elizabeth DONHAM, born 1 September 1886 in Jackson Township, Clay County, IN, was the younger sister of Melvin Roy DONHAM. She was about 13 or 14 years old when her father and brother left for Alaska. On the 1900 Census she was living with her maternal grandparents Enoch Mabury and Elizabeth (DONHAM) RECTOR.24
Goldie left Indiana around 1915 during San Francisco's Panama-Pacific Exposition and lived with a Mrs. R.L. LANGFORD in San Jose. She was a nurse at Stanford University Hospital and, during World War I, she joined the Red Cross and was sent overseas to work as an Army nurse in England, returning in February 1919.
The 21 April 1918 issue of the Terre Haute Tribune has a front page picture and article about Goldie in World War I. The article was a transcript of a letter that she wrote to her aunt, describing what she had seen. The 19 January 1919 issue has another letter from Goldie printed on page 24, column 2. Residents of Clay County were very proud of their hometown girl helping soldiers on the front. Goldie's brother Melvin was also especially proud of his sister. He wanted to name his oldest daughter after Goldie, but his wife Rose preferred the name Virginia.
The Clay County historical publication, The Cory Story reprinted some portions of these newspaper columns.25 It quotes some of the passages from Goldie's letters and also has an excerpt from her aunt Melissa JAMES' diary:
Goldie Elizabeth DONHAM, granddaughter of Enoch RECTOR and a member of the Stanford University Hospital Unit, wrote to her aunt, Melissa JAMES: "I must assure you, before going any farther, that any facts that I give you, is to impress on your minds, not criticism, but honor and reverence for the English people. Don't fail to appreciate the wonderful privilege of living in our beloved United States. Pray, love, work, sacrifice anything to save our country.
"He who said 'America is God's last chance to win this war' knew what he was predicting. Since arriving less than a week ago, I have come in direct contact with the results of the war. I never knew so many sad faces could exist. I never saw so many poor, ragged children. I never saw women so heroically doing such hard, degrading work. If only the American people could see for themselves what poor England is doing.
"I have visited five military hospitals since arriving here, and such pitiful sights as men without legs, arms, eyes, scarred faces, terrible wounds, everything terrible to make one hate the Germans, if possible, even more".
Later, after the Armistice was signed, she wrote again: "It looks as if peace has come at last. I have been in more or less of a dazed condition ever since the word came to us that hostilities had stopped. I never dreamed that the end was so near, and when it came I was quite unprepared for it. The only thought that came to me is, Thank God, no more mothers will have to give up their boys. Really the mothers are the ones that have made the heaviest sacrifices to win the war".
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, 1918. "The war to end wars" was over.
Mrs. JAMES wrote in her diary: "November 11, 1918. Ideal day. Temperature, 35 degrees. A message came this morning that the Kaiser had surrendered. The whistles commenced to blow at 4 a.m. and at 10 a.m. the anvil at Cory began to boom. Bells and whistles made the old town of Cory lively. They rang the bell at the M.E. Church for one hour this forenoon. Nearly everybody from Cory went to Terre Haute tonight. At 8:30, Riley people came and gave us a demonstration. The people all around and about Cory met here, about 1,000 people. There were three drum corps and plenty of noise. Autos were draped, young and old were in the parade. They sang patriotic songs and then they left to go to Riley".
In San Jose, Santa Clara County, CA, on 19 September 1919, Goldie married Lot Dean LOCKWOOD, son of Thomas J. LOCKWOOD and Albertina BROWN.26 They moved to Manila, Philippines, where their daughter Martha Elizabeth LOCKWOOD was born, about June 1920. Goldie died within the month, due to blood poisoning from childbirth.27
The following obituary appeared in the Terre Haute Tribune on 27 February 1921:
Word has been received in Terre Haute describing the funeral services of Mrs. L. Dean LOCKWOOD, which were held in San Jose, Cal., several days ago following the death of Mrs. LOCKWOOD in Manila, P.I., over seven months ago. She was survived by several relatives in Terre Haute, and the letters tell of her military funeral which was given her in honor of her service as a Red Cross nurse overseas.
Mrs. LOCKWOOD was formerly Miss Elizabeth DONHAM, and her native city was Terre Haute. She was a registered nurse and a graduate from the Union hospital. She moved to California during the exposition [in 1915], making her home with Mrs. R.L. LANGFORD at San Jose. When America entered into the world war she became a Red Cross worker, and was sent overseas, returning in February 1919.
She married Mr. LOCKWOOD in San Jose in 1919, and they moved to Manila, where he was connected with a prominent law firm. She leaves besides her husband, an infant daughter, Martha Elizabeth. The funeral services were conducted Rev. L.O. RICHMOND, formerly of this city, who was a personal friend of the decedent.
Among the Terre Haute relatives are Sherman RECTOR, an uncle; Mrs. Wilmer BABCOCK, Oscar DONHAM, Mrs. David SCHMIDT, an aunt; Mrs. Dr. JAMES, of Cory, Ind., and Mrs. Edward KIEFNER, of Evansville, a cousin.
Lot Dean LOCKWOOD was born in California on 20 February 1879. He was a prominent attorney for a large bank in Manila, Philippines. He was known as "Judge Lockwood", though this might be just a friendly title since he was a lawyer. He and his family lived on Naushon Road, Pasay, near Manila, Philippines. In my three-year search for Elizabeth LOCKWOOD, I found several friends and acquaintances who knew her in Manila.28 Naushon Road was a small, beachfront road, with only a few houses on it, and lots of land. The LOCKWOODs' next-door neighbors were the BALDWINs. By an amazing coincidence Nancy BALDWIN later married a Hank N. LOCKWOOD (not related to Dean) and lived in San Mateo, CA. I never would have found this neighbor if she hadn't married someone with the same name as Elizabeth and lived in an area I might have expected to find Elizabeth. I finally spoke with a Lindsay FLETCHER who remembered that Elizabeth, or "Lizzie" as he said everyone called her, and her family were back in California, in Atherton, San Mateo County, between 1940 and 1943.
Sometime after Goldie died, but before he returned to the United States, Dean married Bertha "Bert" GARDNER, born 23 June 1890 in CA, daughter of Charles GARDNER. She had several marriages, one of them being to a WILCOX by whom she had a daughter named Alice. Alice WILCOX, who married Frederick MARQUARDT, was the mother of Phillip W. MARQUARDT.29
Through Bertha LOCKWOOD's Social Security records, I found this Phil MARQUARDT. He remembers his grandmother Bertha very well. He says that she was "very strong-willed, used to money and authority, and was a radical libertine of her time." She had about four marriages, but he was not sure of who, besides WILCOX and LOCKWOOD. Dean LOCKWOOD, he said, was very wealthy. He was a lawyer who also had a successful bus company in the Philippines. He and Bertha were also very big in raising horses. Lindsay FLETCHER said they had lots of horses in the Philippines, which is one of the ways that he became acquainted with the family. Phil MARQUARDT said that they had a huge estate in Palo Alto and raced horses all over the area. He says that the heart of the famous horse Farlap was buried at this estate.
Bertha (GARDNER) LOCKWOOD died 4 February 1978 in Cupertino, Santa Clara County, CA. She is buried at Sunset Mausoleum in El Cerrito, Alameda County, CA, with her husband Lot Dean LOCKWOOD.30 The mausoleum records showed that Dean bought the crypt in 1943, at which time he was living at 901 California Street, Stanford Court Apartments, San Francisco, CA.
Dean LOCKWOOD had died on 26 September 1960 in Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, CA. The informant on his death certificate was an Elizabeth LAEDERICH. On the same day that I received this in the mail, I got an answering machine message from Phil MARQUARDT who had found a scrap of paper with the names Elwood & Elizabeth LAEDERICH who live in San Jose. Checking my phone CD-ROM, I found their address and phone number.
So on 15 May 1995, after three years of searching, I finally got to speak to my cousin Elizabeth LOCKWOOD, the "missing" daughter of Lot Dean LOCKWOOD and Goldie Elizabeth DONHAM. She is living in San Jose and is married to Norman Elwood LAEDERICH. They have two sons and five grandchildren.
Norman LAEDERICH filled me in on some missing facts about Elizabeth's life, "Elizabeth's mother [Goldie] died of euremic poisoning shortly after she was born. [Elizabeth] continued to live in the Philippines until she was six years old. She then went to live with Marcia CATHER in San Jose, Calif. Marcia was Goldie's best friend in San Jose. She continued to live with Marcia until Dean remarried. She then went back to live in the Philippines with Bert and Dean where she lived until 1939 when she moved back to live with Marcia again. We were married in 1940 and moved to Los Angeles until 1946 when we moved back to San Jose.... Dean LOCKWOOD originally went to the Philippines as a school teacher, then returned to Stanford to get his law degree. Eventually he went into business and became corporate attorney for several transportation companies. He returned to the States in 1940 and lived in Atherton until his death."31
DESCENDENTS OF GOLDIE ELIZABETH DONHAM & LOT DEAN LOCKWOOD
1 - Goldie Elizabeth DONHAM
BORN: 1 Sep 1886 Jackson Twp, Clay County, IN
DIED: Abt Jul 1920 Manilla, PHIL
BUR.: Abt 15 Feb 1921 San Jose, Santa Clara County, CA
sp- Lot Dean LOCKWOOD
BORN: 20 Feb 1879 CA
MARR: 19 Sep 1919 San Jose, Santa Clara County, CA
DIED: 26 Sep 1960 Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, CA
BUR.: 28 Sep 1960 Sunset Mausoleum, Alameda County, CA
Son of Thomas D. LOCKWOOD & Albertina BROWN
2 - Martha Elizabeth LOCKWOOD
BORN: 18 Jun 1920 Manilla, PHIL
sp- Norman Elwood LAEDERICH
BORN: 28 Aug 1917 Gilroy, Santa Clara County, CA
MARR: 19 May 1940 Reno, Washoe County, NV
3 - Thomas Dean LAEDERICH
BORN: 28 Dec 1944 Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA
OCC.: Director of manufacturing at high-tech electronic firm
sp- Neva AKER
BORN: 31 Mar 1945 Terre Haute, Vigo County, IN
MARR: 2 Mar 1968 Reno, Washoe County, NV, divorced
4 - Elizabeth Marie LAEDERICH
BORN: 11 May 1970 Loring, Aroostook County, ME
OCC.: Graduated from San Jose State College, in nutrition.
Working for Western Financial Bank Company.
4 - Amelia Louise LAEDERICH
BORN: 2 Aug 1976 San Jose, Santa Clara County, CA
OCC.: Studying music at San Jose State College
3 - Robert David LAEDERICH
BORN: 7 Nov 1948 San Jose, Santa Clara County, CA
OCC.: Social worker
sp- Alison SCHWINGE
BORN: 10 Jul 1950 Dorking, County Surrey, ENGL
MARR: 8 Oct 1977 Reno, Washoe County, NV
OCC.: Real estate broker and librarian
Dau of Gilbert Burley SCHWINGE & Brenda Phyllis SMITH
4 - Melanie Brenda LAEDERICH
BORN: 11 Apr 1978 Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, CA
4 - Luke Norman LAEDERICH
BORN: 28 Aug 1979 Portland, Multnomah County, OR
4 - Heather Mary LAEDERICH
BORN: 28 Oct 1982 Clear Lake, Lake County, CA
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