Velma Ruth Tripp^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23]}

1910 - 2009  (99 years)

• Name	Velma Ruth Tripp  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21]
  Birth	19 Mar 1910	Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20]
  	[She was raised by her aunt after her mother's death at her birth.]
  Gender	Female
  Residence	Apr 1910	Cleveland Ward 1, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA   [17, 18]
  	Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter; on 15 Apr she appeared as unnamed one month old baby daughter of Byron A Tripp; on 28 Apr she appeared with Bessie (Pease) Eiler and her 2nd husband, Oscar Eiler as their daughter Velma R Eiler.
  Residence	Jan 1920	East Cleveland Ward 3, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA   [13]
  	Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head: Daughter; appeared as Velma R Drechsel, 10 year old daughter of Bessie (Pease) Drechsel & her 3rd spouse.
  Residence	1927	Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA   [2]
  Residence	1928	Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA   [1]
  Residence	10 Apr 1930	Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA   [14, 15]
  	Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head: Stepdaughter of Theodore Drechsel, Bessie's 3rd husband.
  Residence	1935	Willoughby, Lake, Ohio   [7, 8]
  Residence	1940	Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA   [7, 8]
  	Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Wife
  Residence	1950	Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA   [23]
  Residence	1983	Cleveland, OH   [3]
  Residence	1993	Shaker Heights, OH   [3]
  Web Link	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39929340/velma-ruth-smith
  Death	15 May 2009	Shaker Heights, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA   [10, 11, 12, 16, 19]
  Burial	21 May 2009	Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA   [16, 19]
  	Lake View Cemetery; Velma's obituary gives her maiden name as "Eiler Drechsel."
  		Velma Ruth (Tripp Eiler Drechsel) Smith stone
  Person ID	I342223127001	Tripp Family Genealogical Website | Peleg Tripp 2, Mayflower - Priscilla Mullins, Mayflower-John Alden

  
  

  Father	Byron Arthur Tripp,   b. 19 Jan 1882, Toledo, Lucas, Ohio, USA d. 8 Jun 1966, Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 84 years)
  Mother	Annette Merle Pease,   b. 16 Mar 1881, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 14 Apr 1910, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA (Age 29 years)
  Marriage	24 Sep 1900	Monroe, Monroe, Michigan, USA   [24, 25]
  Family ID	F1602	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Roland George Smith,   b. 12 Nov 1907, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA d. 13 Mar 1983, Mayfield Heights, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	24 Apr 1930	Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA   [4, 20]
  	Velma gave her surname as Drechsel, but gave her parents' names as Oscar Eiler and Bessie Pease.
  Children	1. Ida May Smith,   b. 24 May 1926, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA d. 26 Jul 2018, Alabaster, Shelby, Alabama, USA (Age 92 years)   2. Living   3. Living   4. Living
  Family ID	F18949	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Velma Ruth (Tripp Eiler Drechsel) Smith stone
  		Velma Dating
  		Marriage license

  
  

• Notes

  2022-CD: Her maternal aunt Bessie Lenore Pease raised Velma from the age of one month after her mother Annette's death. Bessie married three times. Velma took the surname of the second husband in the 1910 census [Velma R Eiler] and of the third husband in the 1920 census [Velma R Drechsel]. #254445 Cuyahoga Co., OH Velma married using the Drechsel surname. [says "(adopt" in top rt. corner, Drechsel=stepdad, 3rd husband of Bessie] She gave her parents as Oscar Eiler and Bessie Pease--mixing names! Her obituary gave her maiden name as Eiler Drechsel. Her biological father, Byron A Tripp listed her as a daughter in his obit. [See obit on findagrave] One paragraph about her "adoption": "Annette died when Velma was 3 weeks old and Annette's sister, Bessie, and her husband, Oscar Eiler, raised Velma as their child. The rest of the family was sworn to secrecy and Velma didn't find out that she was adopted until she was 47 years old, when she applied for a Social Security card and needed to produce her birth certificate. She had thought her sisters were her cousins."

  
  

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