Dorothy Susan Reid

In the record Generation 3 — Earl's grandparents

1. S144Lucas County, Ohio marriage licence application and certificate no. 97864, 1932 — William H. Proeger and Dorothy Susan Reid. Ancestry collection 61378 (Ohio, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1774–1993), record 2472799, image TH-1-18858-23171-20, film 002169933, ledger page 288. Read from the image at full resolution — 4818 × 3802 px, 80/80 DeepZoom tiles, 21 September 2026. The entry has two halves. The licence application, sworn 27 February 1932, gives the groom as William H. Proeger, 21 years of age on the 26 day of June, residence 4823 Summit St in Lucas Co., Ohio, born Pa., occupation Machinist, father Wm. L. Proeger, mother's maiden name Anna B. Roberts, not previously married; and the bride as Dorothy Susan Reid, 18 years of age on the 4 day of March, residence 4823 Summit, born Indiana, occupation none, father Charles Reid, mother's maiden name Bessie Craighead, not previously married, consent signed Mrs. Bessie M. Reid. The certificate beneath it returns: “on the 4 day of March, A.D. 1932, I solemnized the marriage of Mr. Wm. H. Proeger with M. Dorothy Susan Reid”, signed R. O. Stevens. A first marriage this site did not know existed. The card had carried “Married (1) 4 March 1932, Lucas County, Ohio — spouse not identified” as Probable on the strength of an index [S12]; the ledger now names her and settles it. Both parties are recorded not previously married, which makes Aileane Marie Silva his second wife, not his first. His parentage is now on a document he personally swore to — father Wm. L. Proeger, mother Anna B. Roberts — rather than inferred from censuses and index entries [S12][S14]. And it is the first paper behind the family's memory of Ohio: Earl's own account has his grandfather coming back to California from Ohio around the August 1940 Utah wedding, and this ledger puts him at 4823 Summit Street, Toledo, working as a machinist, in February–March 1932. ⚠ The year digit on the groom's age line is smeared and is not legible. The line reads “21 years of age on the 26 day of June 19—”. The day and month are clear and corroborate 26 June; the year on that line is not readable, and the abt 1911 in Ancestry's index is derived from the age column, not read off the page. ⚠ What became of Dorothy Susan Reid is not on this page. Between 4 March 1932 and 13 August 1940 there was a divorce or a death; the ledger says neither, and no such record has been looked for. An open question, not a finding. ⚠ Groom and bride give the same address, 4823 Summit — stated twice, explained neither time. ⚠ The bride was a minor at application: she turned 18 on 4 March 1932, the wedding day itself, and her mother Mrs. Bessie M. Reid signed the consent line on 27 February. ⚠ The officiant's initials are not certain — the certificate signature reads R. O. Stevens and the application's expected-officiant line carries the same surname with initials that could be read either way. ⚠ The frame is film-flagged “Smeared Ink” by the filmer, and Ohio licence ledgers of this period carry age, not birth date, on both sides.
2. S366Indiana birth certificate no. 35542 — Dorothy Susan Boost, Indianapolis, 2 March 1914. Ancestry record 2237729. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Dorothy Susan Boost, born 2 March 1914 at 1120 East 13th Street, Indianapolis, daughter of Andy Boost, 28, of Logansport, a wagon cleaner, and Bessie Craighead, 27, of Peru, Indiana; the fourth of four living children. Her mother is the Bessie Craighead of the 1932 marriage licence (S144), where her father is given as Charles Reid. How she came to be a Reid is not yet known.
3. S367Toledo, Ohio, city directory, 1933, p. 729. Ancestry record 303061589. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed “Proeger Wm H (Dorothy S) appr Toledo Mould Co h2808 E” — William Harry Proeger and Dorothy S., still listed as a married couple. The marriage was intact at the 1933 canvass, so the divorce or death falls between mid-1933 and August 1940.
4. S1037Canadian Immigration Service, Port of Windsor (Ouellette Avenue Auto Landing), admissions and rejections, December 1932, vol. 9, p. 302, line 1. Ancestry record 2955555. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed 20 December 1932: Proeger, Dorothy, 18, married, housewife, last residence Toledo, born Indianapolis, Indiana; going to visit her husband William Proeger, 635 Duke St., Wallaceburg, Ont.; nearest relative her father Charles L. Reid. Rejected.
5. S10381930 United States Federal Census — Washington Township, Lucas County, Ohio, enumeration district 48-193, sheet 1B. Ancestry record 70850461. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed Summit Street, 10 April 1930: Charles L. Reid, 38, machinist, born Ohio; Bessie, 40, born Indiana; Dorothy, daughter, 16, in school, born Indiana.