Olive
(Minerd) Lashbrook
(1892- ? )
Olive (Minerd) Lashbrook was born in October 1892 in Dunbar, Fayette County, PA, the daughter of Andrew R. and Annie (Rhodes) Minerd.
Olive's parents separated when she was young. She and her mother and sisters moved to Pittsburgh, residing with her grandmother at 814 Aiken Avenue. Tragedy struck in 1913, when her father was killed falling down some steps at a hotel in Dunbar.
Olive worked as a clerk for the Frick & Lindsey Company in Pittsburgh, circa 1917, and lived at 747 Chislett Street.
On June 22, 1917, Olive married Loren W. Lashbrook (1894-1939), the son of James L. and Ada (Logan) Lashbrook of Oxford, NE and Kansas City, KS. Rev. Thomas Charlesworth, minister of the Smithfield Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh, performed the ceremony.
The Lashbrooks resided on Longvue Drive in Mt. Lebanon, a fashionable suburb of Pittsburgh. Loren was a sales manager with the Frick-Reed Supply Corporation.
Loren owned a Ford V8 sedan automobile. In September 1936, he was involved in an accident in which Grace Hastings, a passenger, suffered "serious personal injuries." Grace later sued the Lashbrooks, who hired the respected Pittsburgh firm of Dickie McCamey to represent their interests.
Sadly, Loren passed away on Jan. 23, 1939.
Later that year, Olive was residing in an apartment at 5460 Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh. Her fate after that is unknown.
Copyright © 2001 Mark A. Miner