Saturday, March 18, 2017

Jean Harriet Schloss Welton




Born 1 July 1925 at Walton, Delaware County, New York
Died 25 October 1997 at Brewerton, Onondaga County, New York

Jean was the third of four children born to Horace Vandermark Schloss and Ellen Eusebia Smith Schloss. She was raised at Walton where her father was the owner and operator of a filling station. She was a 1944 graduate of Walton High School. Jean married to Ralph Winfield Welton on 29 June 1946 at Walton. Jean’s first born twin, June Helen Schloss, also married in the same ceremony, to Ralph’s brother, Allen Eugene Welton. The wedding date itself was the 25th wedding anniversary of her parents’ marriage. Jean and Ralph were employed at Kayser Silk Mill at Walton when they married and made their home at Walton, relocating to Brewerton before 1992. Jean and Ralph were the parents of two children, a daughter and a son.  Jean was John More Association Jean Line cousin #552323 and my fifth cousin once removed. She was buried with her husband in a Schloss/Welton family plot at Walton Cemetery.

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