Dewey Leroy Mort, 1898–1968 (aged 70 years)
- Name
- Dewey Leroy /Mort/
- Surname
- Mort
- Given names
- Dewey Leroy
| father |
1869–1935
Birth: May 13, 1869
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24 Death: April 24, 1935 — Andersonburg, Perry Co, PA |
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| mother |
1865–1936
Birth: August 14, 1865
47
42 Death: February 9, 1936 — Couchtown, PA |
| elder brother | |
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8 years
elder sister |
1891–1983
Birth: June 11, 1891
22
25 Death: August 1983 — Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA |
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5 years
elder brother |
1895–1986
Birth: November 2, 1895
26
30 Death: February 9, 1986 — Blain, Perry County, PA |
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3 years
himself |
1898–1968
Birth: September 5, 1898
29
33 — Andersonburg, Perry Co, PA Death: November 4, 1968 — Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA |
| step-father | |
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| mother |
1865–1936
Birth: August 14, 1865
47
42 Death: February 9, 1936 — Couchtown, PA |
| elder brother |
| himself |
1898–1968
Birth: September 5, 1898
29
33 — Andersonburg, Perry Co, PA Death: November 4, 1968 — Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA |
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| wife |
1902–1982
Birth: October 5, 1902
19
18 — Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA Death: February 3, 1982 — Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA |
| Marriage | Marriage — April 10, 1926 — Lancaster, Lancaster County, PA |
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7 months
son |
1926–2020
Birth: November 13, 1926
28
24 — Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA Death: March 24, 2020 — King of Prussia, Montgomery Co, PA |
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10 years
daughter |
1936–2000
Birth: April 17, 1936
37
33 — Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA Death: September 27, 2000 — Chambersburg, Franklin County, PA |
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3 years
son |
| Burial | Cemetery Marker - Shoops Cemetery Cemetery marker Note: Shoop's Cemetery, Harrisburg, PA |
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| Note | History tells us all about the naval Battle of Manila Bay and the Spanish-American War of 1898. The defeat of the Spanish fleet by Admiral George Dewey with his flagship cruiser "Olympia" produced an excitement of celebration which spread all across the United States. It even reached into a little rural section of Perry County, Pa. known as Andersonburg where a newborn to the parents of Simon and Mailda Mort was given the name of Dewey. Dewey lived and grew up on this small farm with house and barn on Hidden Valley Rd. As of this writing (2007) the house is occupied and the barn is still standing. When a young man in his 20's Dewey moved to Harrisburg to find a life different from that of a farmer. Early in 1926 he met and married Mary Margaret Stephenson. At first they lived on Second St. in Wormleysburg and then in 1932, moved across the river to Cumberland Street in Harrisburg. His son Carson remembers, when 4 and 5 years old, traveling in a 1925 Ford Cp.model T to visit Dewey's parents and farm house on Hidden Valley Road where his grandfather Simon would sit him a-top his farm horse and walk down the road to a spring for water. The one room school house where Dewey was schooled through 8th grade is still standing nearby. Dewey left the country and even though he moved to a totally different lifestyle, he always looked forward to the many visits back to his roots--to his family relations in Perry County, (he kept in close touch with his brother Jim and family in Blain) and to the times when he and Carson would trek through the mountains during hunting season. The early 30's was a time of "recession". Dewey did not quickly find employment in Harrisburg, but in just a few years he was working at Stokes Millwork Company just a couple blocks from their home on Cumberland Street. At Stokes Millwork he developed a skill and found a career as a cabinet maker for the next 35 years. During world war II , Dewey served as an air-raid warden for his Cumberland Street community. In 1945 the Mort family, consisting of parents Dewey and Margaret and children Jane, and Dewey Jr. (at this time Carson was serving in the U.S. Army Air Force), moved from Cumberland Street in the city to Centerfield Road in the suburb of Susquehanna Township. Dewey L. is remembered by his family and friends as a good family man with good family values. |
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