When Margaret Mary Pike was born on 20 April 1908, in Monaca, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Charles Augusta Pike, was 26 and her mother, Ida May Kountz, was 23. She married Sidney Edward Martin on 15 December 1925. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. She lived in Bridgewater, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and North Rochester, Rochester Township, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States in 1950. She died on 1 December 1994, in Rochester, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 86.
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How Margaret Meets Sidney
How Margaret Meets Sidney
This story is a cleaned up version of a transcript of Sid Jr's recording of his mother Margaret telling how she & Sid Sr first met.
Margaret:
I went to work at Phoenix Glass when I was 14, and I worked there until we got married. That was 1922 when I started there. When I met Dad on April 12th, 1925, I was only 16, you see. Oh, and of course, we didn't start going together right away. I knew Dad from April to December before we got married. I just met him that day. It wasn’t until after the 1st of May that we had our first date. (Now 17, her birthday is April 20th, 1908.) I remember we went to Rochester's Breakfast Store.
Sidney:
I met Mom in April. Our first date was around Easter. Yeah, Easter. Well, we used to walk from Monaca down to Vanport on Sundays. We’d walk across the bridge, down Bridgewater, and all the way to Vanport.
Margaret:
At the time, I worked at the factory, and Audrey and Joel lived in Bridgewater. I had walked over to Audrey's to go for a walk with her.
So, Audrey took me, and we went up to Ida Frederick's, which was still in Bridgewater, up the road. And, of course, Sid and the fellas would be standing at the corner. That’s what the fellas always did, no matter where you went.
Sid knew Ida and her brother then, you know. So he and Joel and the others would come up to Ida's because there were always enough girls going in and out of Ida's place.
That’s where I met Sid—at Ida’s. Sid had a car back then, you see. And Bridgewater wasn’t paved; it was just dirt roads at the time.
I'm named after both grandmothers...
I'm named after both grandmothers...
Mom's mother's name was Mary (1840-1915 Mary Ann Martin) and Dad's mothers'w name was Margaret. (1862-1930 Sarah Margaret Hixenbaugh)
- Mary Margaret Pike
As I transcribe the audio into text documents I can then easily do a search and find things I recall. Looking for the story of the sled ride I search "sled" and although it is not the story I am searching ...where Margaret speaks of sledding off the end of Becthal street and Sid is amazed asking "How did you do that?".. This does nevertheless cite the long forgotten road from the end of Becthal down to the old Coal tipple on Broadhead. I have included an old 1904-1909 map showing the path.
M: You could have went up here and went down the hill that we used to sled ride. Yeah, that road would go right down to the coal tipple. Oh, okay.
S: When you talk about the road you used to sled ride in, there used to be one that went down on an angle then?
M: Uh-huh. It went down right down over the hill. Yeah, but it didn't go straight down then, huh? Huh?
S: It didn't go straight down.
M: And then we would go down that and then walk across the railroad bridge of the tracks to get into Monaca.
S: Okay.
M: And if you went on down, you went down what would be Hood's Hill, which is the broadhead now.
M: Yeah. Look at there. And that's where Legoullon's coal tipple was. And there was a road.
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