MOUNT VERNON — Just a quick column this week, as your correspondent sliced the tip of his index finger at his day job and finds typing to be fairly excruciating.
I recently encountered this unsent postcard on eBay and was able to turn up a little information.
Charles Stace Hoy was born in Shawnee, in Perry County, in 1900. While most people would have favored a plain first name, Hoy seems to have preferred to go by his middle name, Stace, which was an old family name passed down through the generations.
He moved to Mount Vernon in the late 1930s and worked at the Timken Roller Bearing plant. He married Henrietta McLarnan from Lucas in 1941.
At some point in the 1940s, Stace and Henrietta opened up a pottery shop in Bangs. Around 1950, they moved to a location in Mount Vernon. They appear to have retired somewhere around 1960, possibly to Florida, though Stace was back in Ohio when he passed away in 1963.
The newspaper ad pictured above came from 1949. The postcard appears to be from slightly later, after the shop was moved to Mount Vernon.
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