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Doris Quann

Doris Quann



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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Doris Quann (daughter of Samuel D Quann and Mary Anna Davis).

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Samuel D Quann was born on 23 Dec 1905 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA (son of Albert P Quann and Annie Robinson); died on 29 Nov 1943 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried in 201 South 30th street, Penbrook, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA.

    Other Events:

    • Alderman Defers Decicion in Primary Ballot Fraud Case: 8 Nov 1933, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; Alderman Defers Decision in Primary Ballot Fraud Case
    • Quann Acquitted of Carrying Firearms: 12 Jan 1934, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; Quann Acquitted of Carrying Firearms

    Notes:

    SAMUEL D. QUANN
    Samuel D. Quann, of 861 Briggs street, died Monday night at a hospital here. He was 37 years old. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Quann, a daughter, Doris, at home; a sister, Rosabelle Quann, Philadelphia; three brothers, Albert Jr., Harrisburg; Robert, of the United; States Navy, somewhere at sea; Sgt. William Quann, with the United States Army, stationed at Fort Lewis, Wash., and one nephew. Funeral services will be held to morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Hooper Memorial Home, 604 Foster street, with the Rev. R. T. Hunter, pastor of the Wesley A. M. E. Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Lincoln Cemetery, Penbrook. Friends may call at the memorial home this evening from 7 until 9 o'clock.

    Buried:
    Lincoln Cemetery

    Samuel married Mary Anna Davis on 27 Apr 1927 in Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA. Mary (daughter of Arthur Davis and Lucy Taylor Johnson) was born about 1911 in Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Mary Anna Davis was born about 1911 in Pennsylvania, USA (daughter of Arthur Davis and Lucy Taylor Johnson).

    Other Events:

    • Name: Mary Juann
    • Name: Mary Quann
    • Residence: 1930, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; Marital Status: Married
    • Residence: 1935, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA
    • Residence: 1940, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Daughter

    Children:
    1. 1. Doris Quann


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Albert P Quann was born in Aug 1879 in Stonycreek, Cambria, Pennsylvania, USA (son of Preston Quann, I and Martha A Patterson); died on 20 May 1932 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried in 201 South 30th street, Penbrook, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA.

    Other Events:

    • Race: Colored
    • Name: Albert P. Quann
    • Name: Albert Preston Quann
    • Name: Albert Quan
    • Name: Albert Quann
    • Name: Albert Quann
    • Residence: 1900, Ward 8, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head: Son
    • Albert P Quann Worried By Loss Of Life Savings Commits Suicide: 20 May 1932, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; Albert P Quann Worried By Loss Of Life Savings Commits Suicide
    • Albert P Quann Worried By Loss Of Life Savings Commits Suicide p: 20 May 1932, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; Albert P Quann Worried By Loss Of Life Savings Commits Suicide p2
    • Body is Found by City Water Authority-Quann Suicide Telegraph: 20 May 1932, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; Body is Found by City Water Authority-Quann Suicide Telegraph
    • Albert Quann Estate 1932: 28 May 1932, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; Albert Quann Estate 1932
    • Courthouse Janitor Who Ended Life Left 1,000: 28 May 1932, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; Courthouse Janitor Who Ended Life Left 1,000

    Notes:

    Buried:
    Lincoln Cemetery

    Died:
    55 Age: 55

    Albert married Annie Robinson on 12 May 1902 in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, USA. Annie (daughter of James Robinson and Annie Robinson) was born on 10 Mar 1884 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 25 Apr 1923 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried in 201 South 30th street, Penbrook, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Annie Robinson was born on 10 Mar 1884 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA (daughter of James Robinson and Annie Robinson); died on 25 Apr 1923 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried in 201 South 30th street, Penbrook, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA.

    Other Events:

    • Race: Negro
    • Name: Anna Quann
    • Name: Anna Robinson
    • Name: Annie Robison
    • Name: Annie Rolinson
    • Name: Annie S. Quanna
    • Name: Annie S. Robinson Quanna
    • Name: Mrs Anna Quann
    • Name: Mrs Anna Robinson

    Notes:

    When Annie Robison was born on March 10, 1884, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, her father, James, was 39, and her mother, Annie, was 34. She married Albert P Quann on May 12, 1902, in Syracuse, New York. They had six children in 16 years. She died on April 25, 1923, in her hometown at the age of 39, and was buried in Penbrook, Pennsylvania.

    Obituary for MRS. ANNA QUANN
    Burial for Mrs. Anna Quann, 39 years old, who died Wednesday in the Polyclinic Hospital, will be made tomorrow afternoon in the Lincoln Cemetery, following funeral services in the Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church, the Rev S. A. McNeil, officiating.
    Surviving her are her husband, Albert Quann; two daughters, June and Rosabelle; four sons, Samuel, Albert, Robert and William Quann, and a brother, Harry Robison, of Binghamton, NY.

    Buried:
    Lincoln Cemetery

    Died:
    39 Age: 39

    Children:
    1. Albert Quann, III was born in in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA.
    2. Robert Quann
    3. Rosabelle Helen Quann was born on 25 Apr 1901 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 17 Oct 1959 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried in 201 South 30th street, Penbrook, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA.
    4. 2. Samuel D Quann was born on 23 Dec 1905 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 29 Nov 1943 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried in 201 South 30th street, Penbrook, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA.
    5. June Martha Quann was born on 27 Jun 1907 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 7 Mar 1938 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried in 201 South 30th street, Penbrook, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA.
    6. William Edwin Quann was born in 1917.

  3. 6.  Arthur Davis

    Arthur married Lucy Taylor Johnson. Lucy (daughter of James Johnson and Anna Brown) was born on 8 Apr 1880 in Culpeper, Virginia, USA; died on 8 Aug 1942 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Lucy Taylor Johnson was born on 8 Apr 1880 in Culpeper, Virginia, USA (daughter of James Johnson and Anna Brown); died on 8 Aug 1942 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA.

    Other Events:

    • Name: Lucy Davis
    • Name: Lucy Davis
    • Residence: 1930, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; Marital Status: Widowed; Relation to Head: Head
    • Residence: 1935, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA
    • Residence: 1940, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; Marital Status: Widowed; Relation to Head: Head

    Notes:

    Buried:
    William Howard Day

    Children:
    1. 3. Mary Anna Davis was born about 1911 in Pennsylvania, USA.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Preston Quann, I was born on 25 Jan 1853 in Maryland, USA (son of John Quann, son of Mark Quann and Amanda Quann); died on 1 Aug 1915 in 431 South ave, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried in 201 South 30th street, Penbrook, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA.

    Other Events:

    • Race: Mulatto
    • Name: Preston Quan I
    • Name: Robert Quann
    • Residence: 1860, Shenandoah Iron Works, Page, Virginia, USA; 16 Age: 16
    • Residence: 1870, Shenandoah Iron Works, Page, Virginia, USA; Residence Post Office: Luray
    • Residence: 1880, South Middleton, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Self
    • Residence: 1888, 513 North ave, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA

    Notes:

    PRESTON QUANN.
    Following a short illness, Preston Quann died Sunday afternoon, at 1:25, at his home, at 431 South avenue. He is survived by a wife and sister and three daughters and one son. Funeral services will be held to - morrow afternoon, at 2 o'clock, from the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Burial will be made In the Lincoln Cemetery.

    Buried:
    Lincoln Cemetery

    Preston married Martha A Patterson. Martha (daughter of Soloman Paterson and Susannah Parrell) was born in Oct 1852 in Maryland, USA; died on 3 Jul 1931 in New York, New York, USA; was buried in 201 South 30th street, Penbrook, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Martha A Patterson was born in Oct 1852 in Maryland, USA (daughter of Soloman Paterson and Susannah Parrell); died on 3 Jul 1931 in New York, New York, USA; was buried in 201 South 30th street, Penbrook, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA.

    Other Events:

    • Name: Martha Paterson
    • Name: Martha Quan
    • Name: Martha Quan
    • Name: Martha Quann
    • Name: Martha Quann
    • Residence: 1860, Quincy, Franklin, Pennsylvania, USA; 11 Age: 11
    • Residence: 1880, South Middleton, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Wife
    • Residence: 1900, Ward 8, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; Marital Status: Widowed; Relation to Head: Head

    Notes:

    When Martha A Patterson was born in October 1852 in Maryland, her father, Soloman, was 52, and her mother, Susannah, was 45. She had two sons and four daughters with Preston Quann. She then married William Douglas Wicks on November 20, 1917, in Dauphin, Pennsylvania. She died on July 3, 1931, in New York, New York, at the age of 78, and was buried in Penbrook, Pennsylvania.

    MRS. MARTHA QUANN.
    Funeral services for Mrs. Martha Quann, a former resident of this city who died Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bertha Thompson, New York City were held this morning in the Wesley A. M. E. Church with the Rev. Daniel C. Pope officiating. Burial was in the Lincoln cemetery. She Is survived by four children, Mrs. Samuel Jackson, Washington; Mrs. Josphine Davis, Philadelphia: Mrs. Bertha Thomas, New York City, and Albert Quann, Harrisburg. There are also fourteen grandchildren surviving.

    Buried:
    Lincoln Cemetery

    Children:
    1. Ann V. Quann was born about 1874 in Pennsylvania, USA.
    2. Lulu May Quann was born in Mar 1876 in Pennsylvania, USA.
    3. Preston A. Quan, II was born about 1878 in Pennsylvania, USA.
    4. Bertha Thompson was born about 1879.
    5. 4. Albert P Quann was born in Aug 1879 in Stonycreek, Cambria, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 20 May 1932 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried in 201 South 30th street, Penbrook, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA.
    6. Josephine F. Quann was born in Apr 1881 in Pennsylvania, USA.

  3. 10.  James Robinson was born about 1845 in Pennsylvania, USA.

    James married Annie Robinson. Annie was born about 1850 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 11.  Annie Robinson was born about 1850 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA.
    Children:
    1. Harry Robinson
    2. 5. Annie Robinson was born on 10 Mar 1884 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 25 Apr 1923 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried in 201 South 30th street, Penbrook, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA.

  5. 14.  James Johnson was born in in Culpeper, Virginia, USA.

    James married Anna Brown. Anna was born in in Culpeper, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  6. 15.  Anna Brown was born in in Culpeper, Virginia, USA.
    Children:
    1. 7. Lucy Taylor Johnson was born on 8 Apr 1880 in Culpeper, Virginia, USA; died on 8 Aug 1942 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA.



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