2. ALVRA CLARENCE PETTENGILL SENIOR
ALVRA ALSO WENT BY THE NAME "CLARENCE ALVRA" AND PART OF HIS CHILDREN HAVE THIS RECORDED AS THEIR FATHER'S NAME. HE SAID HE WAS BORN JANUARY 28,1900 BUT THE BIRTH IS RECORDED AS JANUARY 27, 1900
ALVRA WAS A CARPENTER BY TRADE.
BURIED GLENSIDE CEMETERY, WINTHROP, MAINE
DIED AT VETERAN'S HOSPITAL, TOGUS, MAINE AFTER SUFFERING FROM HEART ATTACK A COUPLE OF WEEKS BEFORE
ARMY VETERAN OF WORLD WAR I
ALSO A WOODSMAN
HE WAS TEN WHEN HIS MOTHER DIED. HE LATER WENT TO PORTLAND, MAINE TO WORK IN AN AMMUNITIONS FACTORY-THEN SAILED AS SECOND STEWART ON A BOAT FOR MEXICO-WHEN HE RETURNED HE WENT TO BOSTON AND WORKED IN A HAT FACTORY-WHEN THE US WENT TO WAR WITH GERMANY HE INLISTED IN THE CAVALRY-WAS IN G TROOP-AFTER THE ARMY, IN OCT. 1919 HE WENT TO SEA AGAIN ON A BOAT AS ABLE SEAMAN TO CUBA AND CAME BACK ON BOAT LOADED WITH RAW SUGAR-THEN CAME HOME-ALL THOSE YEARS HIS DAD DIDN'T KNOW WHERE HE WAS. HIS DAD WAS ON THE FARM IN MOUNT VERNON AT THAT TIME. THAT'S HOW HE MET MOM AND MARRIED HER APRIL 3, 1921BAPTIZED BY ELTON HENRY RECORD II
CONFIRMED BY VAIKKO PETER ALLEN II
RECENTLY WE HAVE FOUND SOMEONE THAT MAY BE A SON TO ALVRA. HE NEVER KNEW BUT HAS COME FORWARD RECENTLY TO SAY HIS MOTHER TOLD HIM JUST BEFORE SHE DIED.
HIS NAME IS JOE JOHNSON
WORKED IN WOOLEN MILL AS WEAVER
BURIED GLENSIDE CEMETERY, WINTHROP, MAINE
BAPTISM WAS BY JESSIE BLAKE
CONFIRMATION BY BECKY BLAKE
RICKY BLAKE OFFICIATED