Howard Carlton Ameigh (1896-?) was born in Addison, Steuben County, New York on May 29, 1896. He was the son of George J. (1860-1897) and Sarah Agnes (Stewart, 1863-1932) Ameigh. The 1900 and 1910 censuses tell us Sarah lost one child. George having died in 1897, evidently before that year’s census was taken, his widowed wife and her two children, Howard and his older sister by some two years Agnes, were living at 43 Steuben Street in Addison according to that census. This makes one wonder how the death of a father when he was a baby affected his later emotional development. In 1904, Sarah remarried, her second husband being Albert R. Husted, a grocery store manager. In addition to his two stepchildren, a son from his first marriage, Lawrence, was living in their Steuben Street, Addison home. Howard “enrolled” in the United States Naval Reserve at a recruiting station in Washington, D. C. on April 23, 1918. His rating on the abstract of his military service was Hospital Apprentice Second Class. His first duty assignment, from May 14 to May 27, was “Operating Base Norfolk,” though it’s hard to know what that was. After that, he next went to the Washington, D.C. Naval Yard from May 27 until June 22, 1918. This duty station was followed by time spent at an operating base at Hampton Roads, Virginia, he being there from June 22 until June 25. This seems a very short time, so it might have been simply for processing. Still in Hampton Roads, from June 25 until October 31, he was at an air station. His last duty station was at a hospital at Fort Lyon, Colorado. It appears from some sources this was a sanitarium for convalescing sailors and Marines. A notation at the bottom of the abstract indicates Howard was promoted to Hospital Apprentice First Class at some point. He was transferred to inactive duty at Fort Lyon on August 18, 1919. According to the 1920 census, a still-single, twenty-three-year-old Howard Ameigh was working as a civilian clerk typist at a hospital which appears to have been mainly for military men in Bent County, Colorado. Still single in 1930, he was living on Putnam Street in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio working at some kind of government job which is almost indecipherable on the census form. By the time of the 1930 census, Howard had married, but because the form doesn’t list anything to indicate exactly when they married, we can’t be precise on the details. His wife’s name was Gladys, and she was born in Ohio around 1898, but nothing else gives us any more information on her. They were living on Gates Avenue in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey then, and Howard was working as an administrative officer in the United States Department of Agriculture. Given their ages, it goes without saying he and Gladys probably had no children. The census also tells us he had completed four years of college. Forty-five-year-old Howard signed up for the World War II draft, though, oddly, the form doesn’t have a date on which he did so. No indication has come up that he actually served in that war. According to his grave marker, Howard was ninety nine years of age when he died on September 7, 1995. Other sources, however, claim he died in 1972. Without a death certificate, we can’t know for sure. He is buried in Albany Rural Cemetery in Menards, Albany County, New York. Gladys isn’t there, and a search of find-a-grave.com doesn’t find her with any certainty.