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Pearl
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Pearl Nora (Stairs) Hence Sines Sonavec was born on Nov. 24, 1904 in Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland County, PA, the daughter of Lehman G. and Mattie (Minerd) Stairs. She and her brother Earl were twins, and their names rhymed.
Pearl apparently married as a teenager to a man named Hence (or "Hense"). They had one son, William Hence, born in 1919. By 1930, when she was age 25, Pearl was widowed, and living with her parents and 11-year-old son on Diamond Street in Mount Pleasant.
Pearl is thought to have had a son, Edward Stairs, though this needs to be confirmed. He could be the same person as son William.
In 1925, Pearl married Theodore Sines (1899- ? ). Nothing about him is known.
Later, on Dec. 10, 1942, at the age of 38, Pearl married 24-year-old Jacob Sonavec (1918-1974). He was a police officer, and some 14 years younger than his bride.
Seen
here is a rare old photographic postcard showing Main Street in Mt.
Pleasant, looking east.
In September 1931, Pearl is known to have attended a 25th wedding anniversary reception for her cousin Alvin P. Thurston in Mt. Pleasant. She was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church of Mt. Pleasant.
Jacob died in 1974, and was buried in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.
Pearl outlived him by three years, and passed away at Frick Community Hospital in Mt. Pleasant on Nov. 1, 1977.
Son Edward resided in Detroit and passed away in March 1985.
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