0-1-4-6-10 LeRoy Curtiss Plymale, left Gallipolis, Ohio after 1900 and went to Columbus looking for work. He began working for the Columbus Coffin Company in 1909 as a wood finisher. He eventually became a foreman and worked there for 44 years, retiring sometime around 1953.

 

Catherine Grady, was born in Paisley Scotland, to Irish immigrants from Westport, Mayo County Ireland. Beginning in 1907, her oldest brother, Michael began a chain immigration to the United States, first settling in Cleveland and then Columbus Ohio. Catherine and her sister Annie arrived in the United States on December 15, 1913 on the California. Catherine and Annie found work in Columbus at a shoe factory.

 

It is believed that Roy may have met Catherine at a dance. They both enjoyed going out on the town and they both liked to dance. They were married in Columbus on May 4, 1915. Sometime during the depression, they leased a very large house at 599 E. Rich St. The house was large enough to sub-lease some of the additional rooms as well as the upstairs. Catherine would prepare a boarding house supper every night. After dinner, Roy would walk across Main Street to the Family Grill and drink a couple of beers with the men.

 

Catherine and Roy had only one child, Ernest Leroy Plymale, in April of 1917. Family Evenings were spent gathered around the radio listening to popular radio programs and on weekends they could often be found at Franklin Park. Roy and Catherine loved to travel. As a family, they enjoyed traveling. They made trips to the World’s Fair and once vacationed at Niagra Falls.

 

Catherine died in her sleep on April 14, 1958. Roy died September 20, 1961 at Grant Hospital. They are both buried at St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio.