HAYES, Hilda (Ogilvie)

Hilda Hayes-Ogilvie

MISS HILDA HAYES

Identification on photo: Miss Hilda Hayes, Portsmouth, NH
Photo taken: St. Clair Studio, Portsmouth, NH, circa 1910-1912
Purchased: Aug 2017 Madison Bouckville (NY) Antiques Week

This photo does not bear a year, but the lovely fashion worn by this woman indicates a time of between 1910 and 1912.

Hilda Hayes (22 Feb 1889 - 29 Jan 1950) was born in Portsmouth NH to parents John Paul Hayes (1864- ) and Lillian Taylor (1865- ).

1900 Census > Maine > York County > Kittery
HAYES, John, head, Aug 1864, 35, born in Maine of Maine parents, Machinist in Navy Yard
HAYES, Lillian, wife, May 1865, 34, born in Maryland of Maryland parents
HAYES, Beth, daughter, July 1887, 12, born in Maine, at school
HAYES, Hilda, daughter, Feb 1889, 11, born in New Hampshire, at school
HAYES, John Paul, son, June 1891, 8, born in Maine, at school
HAYES, Robert F., son, Oct 1894, 5, born in Maine
HAYES, Allen, son, Oct 1896, 3, born in Maine

On 11 June 1913, Hilda married George Edwin Ogilvie, who immigrated from Scotland as a boy. He grew up in Jeanette, PA. In 1913, he was working as a Mechanical Engineer in Springfield Massachusetts. This photo of him (at right) as a star on his school's track team was taken in 1908.

1920 Census > Pennsylvania > Westmoreland County > Penn
OGILVIE, George, head, 35, imm. 1888, born in Scotland, Asst. Supv at Foundry
OGILVIE, Hilda, wife, 30
OGILVIE, George, son, 3y9m, born in PA
OGILVIE, Mary E., daughter, 2y4m, born in PA

1930 Census > Pennsylvania > Westmoreland County > Penn
OGILVIE, George, head, 45, imm. 1888, born in Scotland, Mechanical Engineer at Mine Car Co.
OGILVIE, Hilda, wife, 41
OGILVIE, Mary E., daughter, 12, born in PA

George Edwin Ogilvie Jr. is missing from the 1930 census. He should be about 13 years old, so his absence is disconcerting. A bit of research finds that George Jr. died in 1929 at age 13. I have not yet found the reason.

In 1937 (see newspaper insert at left) Mary Elizabeth Ogilvie (1917-1987) married Herbert Franklin Pettigrew Jr. (1913-1988) and had two children. In 1962 their daughter Barbara Pettigrew married John D. Phillipe. They also had a son Frederick (born 1938).

Hilda's husband George Ogilvie died 20 Oct 1935 in Penn, PA. After her husband's death, Hilda moved back to Rye, NH.

Hilda's Obituary from the Portsmouth Herald (30 Jan 1950). She died in Rye NH, which is a southern suburb of Portsmouth. She is buried in Brush Creek Cemetery in Irwin, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, next to her husband and son.