1940. Northumberland. Harry Cahn, age 39, lives with Wilma 36 and Jean 15, Jack 13, Jane 10, Robert 7, Richard 3 and Radie Ann 8 months.

The spelling of his last name as well as his first name and middle initial and birth/death dates come from Meiser's guide to Riverview Cemetery.

I have done a little bit of research on the Harry Cahn family and can provide this brief sketch:

He married Wilma about 1924 according to the 1930 Census which is where I obtained the names of their three children at that time. There may, of course, have been other children.

In 1920, Harry M lived with his step-father John L Wilson and his remarried mother Florence. But Harry’s father was Edward Cahn, I believe, because though Harry wasn’t yet born, that is who I find Florence married to in 1910. All of these households in 1910 and 1920 were in Tioga County, Pennsylvania (north of Williamsport on the NY State border). So that is where I assume Harry was born and raised.

His World War I draft registration card lists his middle name as Mainard and confirms his birth date as known from his tombstone in Riverview. He registered from Tioga County and his contact was his mother, Mrs. John L Wilson. Everything seems to lock together and paint a consistent picture of this man.

Dick Mertz has filled me in on the younger Cahn children, born after the 1930 Census. They were Robert who became a minister, Richard who became Superintendent of the Reading School District and Radie Ann who married Lear Smith.

Jamie (Mertz) Kieffer added: “I noticed you had Aunt Wilma having 3 children. I had remembered stopping by Aunt Wima's house. (She lived on 3rd Street in Northumberland, so did we). We stopped because Grandma's car was there. I was introduced to "Radie Ann" one of Aunt Wilma's daughters. I called Mom & Dad to verify this. Dad said Aunt Wilma had 6 children (3 boys, 3 girls). Dad remembered ~ Robert or Bob, thought he was much older. He became a minister. Dad thought Bob went to Ohio. Jean also went to Ohio. Jack (I assume that is John) who drowned in the Susquehanna River at the 3rd pier. Jane (Helen) who never married. Dick went to the Reading area and was a Principal or became a school Superintendent and Radie Ann. I believe Dad said she married a Smith (She had a daughter Vicky that was my sister Lisa's age-53ish).

And all of this is now totally confirmed by Radie A Smith’s obituary. She was pre-deceased by her brother John E “Jack” and two sister, Jane Oberdorff-Cahn and Jean Lee. She was survived by two brothers, Rev. Robert of Uniontown and Dr. Richard of Allentown.

I must have known Wilma as she outlived Grandma by a few months, but my recollection is pretty vague. I know the Cahn kids would come to Grandma’s for lunch when I was there but I can’t figure out which ones. Based on the 1930 Census, Wilma had one son and two daughters (there may have been more children later, of course). John died in 1947 at age 20. Did Wilma have younger kids who came to lunch? Were they grandkids? I can’t figure it out.