Farabaugh Family History - Person Sheet
NameRegina Constance Smith 
Notes for Regina Constance Smith
Born in 1887 in Barton, MD, Regina was one of nine children. She attended University in Morgantown, WV, where she majored in music. After college, she worked in Staunton, VA as a corsettier, selling and personally fitting girdles in a door to door enterprise. This is where she met her husband while he worked for Winchester, Remington Arms and Ammunition.
She married William F Hall in 1919 in Morgantown. Living in the South, she had a black nanny to help care for her four children, all of whom were born at home. She was involved in her church and in choirs, and when her husband died in 9131, she and her children moved to IN to live with her mother, Mary Lavenia Smith, and two brothers, Charles and Robert. Unfortunately, both brothers were alcoholics, and though they worked in the steel mills, they would steal jewelry from their mother and aunt to pawn for liquor money. Those years were hard on Regina and her children until they moved to their own apartment in 1938. Sometime in 1952, Regina moved in with her daughter Louise and her family, and lived there until shortly before she died. She had a number of small strokes over the years and was in a nursing home for only a few months before she died in 1964.
She always said, "God never made anything better than tomatoes and watermelon." Buttermilk and shakes were also a favorite of hers, and every month when her $50 government pension check arrived, she'd send one of her grandchildren to the little restaurant on the highway, 12&20 known as Jack's, for shakes for the family. She was a southern lady who always wore a dress and had a real hanky in her pocket at all times. She enjoyed snapping beans, pitting cherries form the tree in the back yard, and baking - especially rum fruit cakes at Christmas. She wanted her grandchildren to call her "muddy", short for "grandmuddy". But when her oldest grandchild Marilyn said it, it came out as "money", and from that time on, she was known as Money to her grandchildren in Louise's house.
She married William F Hall in 1919 in Morgantown. Living in the South, she had a black nanny to help care for her four children, all of whom were born at home. She was involved in her church and in choirs, and when her husband died in 9131, she and her children moved to IN to live with her mother, Mary Lavenia Smith, and two brothers, Charles and Robert. Unfortunately, both brothers were alcoholics, and though they worked in the steel mills, they would steal jewelry from their mother and aunt to pawn for liquor money. Those years were hard on Regina and her children until they moved to their own apartment in 1938. Sometime in 1952, Regina moved in with her daughter Louise and her family, and lived there until shortly before she died. She had a number of small strokes over the years and was in a nursing home for only a few months before she died in 1964.
She always said, "God never made anything better than tomatoes and watermelon." Buttermilk and shakes were also a favorite of hers, and every month when her $50 government pension check arrived, she'd send one of her grandchildren to the little restaurant on the highway, 12&20 known as Jack's, for shakes for the family. She was a southern lady who always wore a dress and had a real hanky in her pocket at all times. She enjoyed snapping beans, pitting cherries form the tree in the back yard, and baking - especially rum fruit cakes at Christmas. She wanted her grandchildren to call her "muddy", short for "grandmuddy". But when her oldest grandchild Marilyn said it, it came out as "money", and from that time on, she was known as Money to her grandchildren in Louise's house.
Notes for William Franklin (Spouse 1)
William was born in 1887 in Fishersville, VA. He was one of six children of his father's second wife. William took after his father, who was an excellent marksman, and so became a professional sharp shooter and exhibitionist for Winchester, Remington Arms and Ammunition. He traveled the country, hosting shooting expositions for the company, and won many awards for his abilities. He shot with many well known people of the day, such as Buffalo Bill Cody and Annie Oakley. He kept hunting dogs, which he was careful not to let his children turn into pets. He also shot rabbits for supper, something that never pleased his children. When he wasn't on the road for his job, he would take his family to a friend's place which they called 'the farm' for a holiday.
He held the rank of corporal in France during WWI, but took a nasty fall down some stairs. The story, according to his words, went that during his time in France, he and a buddy "had supper with the gardener and his wife at Berle sur Serthe, and upon our return to our quarters, I took a mighty tumble to the floor of that old wine shop."
Near the end of his life, he spent two years in a V.A. Hospital in Atlanta GA, until his death on January 1, 1931. He died of cancer which developed as a result of injuries from the war.
He held the rank of corporal in France during WWI, but took a nasty fall down some stairs. The story, according to his words, went that during his time in France, he and a buddy "had supper with the gardener and his wife at Berle sur Serthe, and upon our return to our quarters, I took a mighty tumble to the floor of that old wine shop."
Near the end of his life, he spent two years in a V.A. Hospital in Atlanta GA, until his death on January 1, 1931. He died of cancer which developed as a result of injuries from the war.