Jesse
A. Conn
(1905-1968)
Jesse
A. Conn was born in 1905 in Jersey
Hollow near Confluence, Somerset County, PA, the son of Alexander
Wilson and Susannah (Harbaugh) Conn.
Jesse married Zelda M. Snyder (1907-2000), the daughter of Augustus and Lizzie (Bittinger) Snyder. They had two children -- A. Paul Conn and Kenneth A. Conn.
The Conns occasionally attended the annual Harbaugh Reunions, including the first one in 1926 and which were a tradition in the family. In an August 1954 letter to a relative, Jesse's mother wrote: "We was at the reunion last Sunday. My 2 girls was their and Jess and Clint, Nora youngest boy Wilson and his wife and children..."
Zelda was a nurses aid at McKeesport
Hospital near Pittsburgh. A rare old postcard photograph of the hospital is seen
here.
In an October 1955 letter from Jesse's mother to a relative, she wrote this update on family visits:
... yesterday Clint and his wife and family was here for dinner. Iva still lives at Kingwood and Gertrude still lives at Confluence and Lester still at bible school and Jess still at McKeesport... One of Nora's boys and his little girls was here the other Sunday to see us. Well we was glad to see them come.
In a Jan. 22, 1956 letter by Jesse's step-father, Jesse O. Strickler, he wrote about the death of a niece, and said "Jess Conn came up and took us to the funeral."
Little else is known of their lives.
Jesse died in 1968, at the age of 63.
Zelda outlived her husband by 32 years. She passed away in 2000 at age 93 in the White Oak Borough of McKeesport. She is buried at Jersey Cemetery.
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