• Ada testified that she had earned and paid for the piano, partly by clerking in her father’s store.2061

• When May was Mrs. Amy she and Emily had written always to their cousins Ada and Lilly. So she wrote asking Aunt Lib and Ada to visit her in San Francisco. Aunt Lib and son Walter were with us in Vallejo most of the time; but Ada found a beautiful bedroom prepared for her - in blue - so she stayed on and on - she was engaged to Sam Putnam, a neighbor when she came. Mr. Redington, a lifelong friend of Mr. Amy's cut him out. Sam Putnam was so crushed, he volunteered to go on the boat sent to find the “Jeanette” - I believe it was the “Rogers.” Mr. Redington went back East to marry Ada - this was after the “break-up.”36, p 6, lines 235-242

• Aunt Ada settled a trust on the Hay boys, but did not give the money to her brother Walter, because he would blow it on patents, so sent it to Grandmother Hay. The trust paid for things like music lessons once a week at the Cleveland Conservatory, and is how Daddy went to Ohio Wesleyan University. Grandmother would drive the boys from Seville, Ohio to Cleveland for music lessons! Later, when the family moved to Sandusky, the trust bought Grandmother a Model A, and she tooled around in that. Once, when Dad was a boy, they set off from Seville, Ohio to Chillicothe, Missouri, and somewhere along the rutted road, they lost a wheel. A new wheel had to be sent for, so the family camped in the car for a week, parked in a schoolyard, until the new wheel arrived.  Mom thinks this was about 1915.2080

• I meant to tell you that in one of my emails to you awhile back, I said something to the effect that my father and his brothers went to college from a trust from Aunt Ada Hay Redington. You put it on your tree.  That is not exactly correct, as I have learned recently.  There was a trust which covered certain things.  But, Aunt Ada died in April of 1929, and each of the boys received a bequest from her, in addition to the trust. I found a ledger where my Dad would take funds from it to pay for his tuition.  Each time, his father carefully subtracted, and kept a running balance. The trust kept paying out money to my grandmother Hay for her whole life, per my mother.  My own recollection is that Grandmother, whatever her finances were, was tighter than a drum. My mother remembers  being invited for dinner during the six-week courtship with my Dad. Grandmother had a plate of chicken, and when Mom reached for a second piece, she got the cold fish-eye from Alice. Mom interpreted the stare that Mom was not to take a second piece. I wonder if the stare came because Mom had not been offered a second piece. Our family has always been long on good manners and protocol. I guess she also didn't approve of the pace of the courtship. My Dad was her favorite son!2076

• 1860 Census: Oneco, Stephenson, Illinois. Age 5, b IL.2066
• 1870 Census: Freeport, Stephenson, Illinois. Age 15, b IL.2067
• 1900 Census: San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Age 45, b Oct 1854, IL. Father b OH; mother b VT. Married 22 years. Mother of 1 living child.2168
• 1910 Census: San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Age 55, b IL. Father b OH; mother b VT. Mother of 1 child, living. Married 32 years.2169
• 1920 Census: San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Age 64, b IL. Head. Widow. Father b OH; mother b VT.2170

• Could not find in 1880 as Ada Redington; 18 Sep 2004 & 18 Mar 2008.