We are Byrd, along with pilot Bernt Balchen co-pilot / radioman Harold June and photographer Ashley McKinley flew the Floyd Bennet to the South Pole and back in 18 hours, 41 minutes. You just sort of, you just sat on the fuselage rather and Dad was up for five minutes and was just thrilled and he decided then and there that he was going to learn to fly. After a further summer of exploration, the expedition returned to America on June 18, 1930. Photographic expeditions and geological surveys were undertaken for the duration of that summer, and constant radio communications were maintained with the outside world. Evelyn Bolling Byrd WithX Clarke with. BBC: My parents were, I think very much in love, from the first day that they met in Winchester, Virginia. He belonged really to the world. Charles Murphy, the CBS correspondent who accompanied Byrd on his second Antarctic expedition played a major role in crafting the public persona of Richard Byrd. 'https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js'); 157 32
BBC: Dad was adulated by the public. But, the part of the Navy Yard where we were, it was a great big square and Roosevelt and the big VIP's and the bands and flags were in the center and all around the perimeter were the crowds behind ropes and I can remember mother putting a restraining hand on my shoulder feeling that I wanted to run out there and to see Dad and I stopped and Dad went up and shook the President's hand. You are here:main page > 565 > Byrd Family of Virginia Richard Evelyn Byrd, Harry F. Byrd, William Byrd Ii, Byrd Organization, Charles Willing Byrd, Harry F. Byrd, Jr. mupid / June 27th, 2020/ Posted in 565 / … var googletag = googletag || {}; Sign up for the American Experience newsletter! What was your sense of your household that you grew up in? BBC: When he was home in the summer time, of course we did all kinds of things. Mount Byrd on Ross Island, Antarctica, and the lunar crater Byrd were also named in his honor. What was your kind of understanding about why he was away and why that was important? /* fbq('track', 'PageView'); */ Q: Do you know about what your father did?
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He had a marvelous imagination, told fabulous stories, one of which I remember was about the "Wiffle Wolf", which was made up of the different parts of animals, including dragons and giant bats and I can remember my youngest sister having nightmares and wasn't allowed to listen. Richard was born on October 25 1888, in Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, United States. Were they in love? In 1928, Byrd began his first expedition to the Antarctic involving two ships and three airplanes. Q: Can you describe your mother and tell us what she was like? BBC: After all the speeches were over, the crowds broke through the ropes and I can remember that I just rushed right through and up to Dad and he turned to me and he said, not here dear, later when we're alone and I was crushed. 3000 GeneaStars. Evelyn Byrd Clarke: Birthdate: estimated between 1930 and 1988: Death: Immediate Family: Daughter of William Anderson Clarke and Evelyn Bolling Clarke Sister of Marie Ames Clarke; Eleanor Clarke and Richard Byrd Clarke. 0000002429 00000 n
thousands of pictures and over a thousand GeneaStars. She wanted to spare us that worry and it wasn't until he finally was rescued that she told us. Well, it was still in coals but he hid there and of course nobody thought of looking there. I remember mother trying to soothe my fears and not to worry things would turn out okay. Catherine Agnes Breyer (Byrd) Birthdate: 1924: Death: Immediate Family: Daughter of Rear Adm. Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr./USN and Marie Donaldson Byrd Mother of Robert Byrd Breyer and Katherine Ames Breyer Sister of Richard Evelyn Byrd, III; Evelyn Bolling Clarke and … Q: Tell me about, there are many pictures of your father with his dog, Igloo. BBC: 9 Brimmer Street was a very quiet house when my father wasn't there. BBC: I remember one time going to my father and saying, Dad please tell us a little bit about some of your adventures and he turned to me and said, Bolling read my books, like all the other school children. Q: How would people on the street respond to your father and how did it make you feel? Can you tell me about Igloo and was he your family pet? Was he playful, didn't he turn pennies into candy and hide in the dark. All I wanted to do was to see to see my Dad and finally we went to the White House, had tea with the President and Eleanor and even then I couldn't see my Dad because he was in conversation with Roosevelt. I imagine she was taking care of the family business and helping Dad indirectly from a distance. %PDF-1.4
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Can you imagine what it would have been like to live to be the wife of this man, who was constantly undertaking hazardous trips and flights and planes that at a time were very very dangerous. Le Dowling arbre généalogique avec les parents We so seldom saw our Dad anyway, I kept thinking well leave him alone, let us have our father for a change. !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) Something was wrong. 0000020765 00000 n
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Bolling Byrd Clarke, daughter of Richard E. Byrd, was interviewed in 1998 for the documentary Alone on the Ice. We went on wonderful hikes, we went on trips out on our motor boat. document.documentElement.className += 'js'; So, when he was home, we saw very little of him and he fit us in, as best he could in his very hectic schedule. Byrd also commanded Operation Deep Freeze, which established permanent Antarctic bases at McMurdo Sound, the Bay of Whales and the South Pole in 1955, accompanied by Andrew Mincey, for whom Mincey Glacier is named. Byrd undertook three more expeditions to the south pole from 1933?35 and 1939?41, culminating in Operation Highjump from 1946?47, the largest Antarctic expedition to date. It was much too hazardous but Dad felt that the plane would some day become a real benefit to mankind and he set out to prove that. However, the flight was successful, and entered Byrd into the history books. 0000092449 00000 n
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One of the things that we did was to play games and Dad loved to play poker. As well he earned the Medal of Honor, the Congressional Life Saving Medal, the Distinguished Service Medal, the Flying Cross, the Navy Cross and three ticker-tape parades. BBC: That's right. BBC: Dad was such a public figure. !���5G�ʑ�lo�fG�����}/E~�[9_� *�Fj���%�q��ߛ������MM I�(�ݒ#��R�Pe��P,:�x�j'��T��LUl�8�M��j�;�Z��}�aװ�����w�q���ݢఔ'vN�����5�՜�J^\f����-�iL"g��J���N�i?�E�y���3��a�F. He belonged to the public, at least I think that's the way the public felt about it. The Charles F. Adams-class guided missile destroyer, USS Richard E. Byrd (DDG 23), served in the fleet from 1964 to 1990. BBC: I like to tell children that Igloo was Dad's best friend. } 0000018735 00000 n
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rootsweb: Click Here Q: How did the household operate with your father away. Major children and living persons must directly contact the, Relationship with Timothy Michael Dowling (Sosa/Ahnentafel #1), Relationship with Marie Donaldson (spouse), Sources: Dowling Family Tree - Tim Dowling - rootsweb, 2001-2015 - - electronic - I83592, Burial - Arlington National Cem., Arlington, VA, List of all individuals in the family tree, Born 25 October 1888 - Winchester, Frederick Co., VA, Deceased 11 March 1957 - Boston, Suffolk Co., MA, And, I remember when Dad was piped down the ship when it finally arrived and here was a man whom I had last seen straight-backed black haired man and here he was, coming down the gang plank, being whistled down, holding on to both sides of it, with some of his hair having turned gray and all I wanted to do was to just run out to him and just through my arms around him and tell him how much I loved him and how happy I was to see him. We finally, we were alone in the hotel room and I can remember Dad sitting in his chair and all of us were crowding around him and wanting to hug him and sit on his lap talking and just sharing feelings. Q: So, what was it like when you finally did get a chance to see him alone, what happened. BBC: Oh, my mother gave just tremendous support to my father. It was a wonderful boat. Q: What do you remember about that and how concerned were you? Deceased persons do not fall within the scope of these legal provisions. However, Byrd was reportedly very modest about these achievements, preferring to dwell on the substance of his adventures, and the stories of those that had gone awry. David Stabler; Ann Blanchard Stabler Siblings. 157 0 obj
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Q: Didn't he like to play games with Marie? He loved to take us out on trips in our motor boat, down the coast of Maine exploring deserted islands and we'd stop and he'd tell ghost stories or we'd go fishing. Was it kind of a busy, active, noisy place or quiet? Linked to: Timothy Michael Dowling, 13th cousin 2x removed It gave wonderful lift. He'd take us fishing and exploring deserted islands up, off the coast the Maine. The mother was I guess the age of 7 or 9 and was very close ever since. But, when my father returned from his expeditions, it was just the opposite. Dad of course just adored her and said you know, children I want you to be sure to follow in your mother's footsteps, not in mine. 0000006932 00000 n
In fact, she always did this on her own, so that Dad felt free to pursue his work on his flying and expeditions. I can remember in our camps up in Maine and the public kind of felt that they owned him and they would come into our camps, even though we were miles away from the main road and had private signs all along the dirt road, that we'd find them wandering around and looking into, breaking, some of them even broke into the house and looked into closets and bureau drawers, like it's perfectly okay to do this, you know. Between the first two Antarctic expeditions, he spent a great deal of time making the money to pay back his debts for the previous expedition and preparing for the next expedition, as well as taking lecture tours across the country, in order to make money to pay for those expeditions. Her Father's First Flight. BBC: I was very concerned about this. My mother, I'm sure knew that something was wrong, as they did at Little America because of the weakness of his signals coming through when he used the hand generator. We had a great big green poker table and I think we used match sticks or something, as poker chips and he also enjoyed playing backgammon with mother. 0000002514 00000 n
Evelyn had 3 siblings: Richard Evelyn Byrd and 2 other siblings.