• FIRST  John and Kate Corbett and family.
• SECOND  Four different families: Bill, Charles (Rooster), Bob and Catherine (Moser)
• THIRD  Five different descendants: Bob, Tom and John Corbett, Ann and John Moser

FIRST GENERATION

6408 Brockschmidt Place in 1915
John and Kate Corbett, ages 33 and 31 one respectively.
Three Children: John (Red), 5, Bill, 4, and Charles (Rooster), 3

In the next year, 1916, my father, Bob, would be born there on Brockschmidt. And before they moved up to 6410 Wade Ave., Ed (Spider) would be born in 1918.

MOVE TO 6410 WADE
1920 or 1921

The last child was born to John and Kate when they lived on Wade. That was Catherine Corbett Moser, born in 1923.

There actually are two more "children," but they weren't born to John and Kate. Kate was born Kate Dwyer. She and her sister Liz married Corbett brothers, John and Jerry (Jeremiah) respectively. Their brother, Bud Dwyer had died in 1916 and his wife in 1912. They left three children, Randall (of White House fame), his older brother Dennis and a sister, Mary.

In 1916 Kate had all boys and his sister Lizzy had girls. They just took in Bud's children, with Kate taking Randall and Bud Jr. as their sons, and Lizzy taking Mary. Bud Jr. took off on his own before long, but Randall lived with the Corbetts until adulthood, and then settled in Dogtown to run the White House tavern.

My Aunt Catherine Corbett Moser told me that as a young girl she just assumed Randall was her brother. When her mother, Kate, was upset with Rooster she would yell at him in his full name, Charles Dennis. Thus when she heard her mother and others address Randall as Randall Dwyer, she just assumed those were his first two names like Charles Dennis was Rooster's first names.

One day a visitor mentioned to Catherine in front of her mother, that it must be nice to have five brothers. Catherine corrected her to say she had six brothers. Her mother explained to her that Randall was not her brother, but her first cousin. Catherine said she was very angry with her mother and didn't even believe her, thought she was kidding her.

It's a tricky business. There certainly were no "legal" measures taken. Neither the John and Kate family, nor the Jerry and Lizzy family formally adopted their brother's children. But, the children became integral parts of their family. Were they children or not? I tend to think they were.

Even as late as the 1960s when I was doing family history for the first time, I wasn't all all sure how Randall fit into the family, and just assumed he was my "uncle," rather than a second cousin.

SECOND GENERATION -- FOUR PEOPLE

• BILL CORBETT.   (1911-1970) Bill spend much of his life on and off in Dogtown and died there.
  
• CHARLES (ROOSTER) CORBETT.   (1912-1984). Rooster lived for many years with his wife Kay on Art Hill Place.
  
  
• BOB CORBETT   (1916-1994). Bob and his wife Louise lived almost all their married lives in Dogtown. Married in 1937, by 1938 they were back in Dogtown, then from 1940-1949 they lived at 1223 Childress, and from 1949 until they died (1994 and 1993 respectively), they lived at 1419 Tamm Ave. Their son, Bob, now lives in the family home.
  
  
• CATHERINE CORBETT MOSER.   (1923 - living). Catherine and her husband Jack have lived almost all their married life in Dogtown. After living a short time with Jack's family after their marriage in 1947, about 1949 they moved back to 6410 Wade, the Corbett family home. They they purchased the Sudgen home at 6447 Wade, but then moved back in with the Corbetts in about 1952. In 1954 they purchased their current home at 6807 Nashville where they've lived these past 50 years.

THIRD GENERATION -- SIX PEOPLE

• THREE CHILDREN OF BOB AND LOUISE CORBETT
  
  
  • BOB CORBETT  Living back in Dogtown in the Corbett family home at 1419 Tamm Ave. since 1993.
    
    
  • TOM CORBETT  Lived most of his adult life next door to his parents at 1411 Tamm Ave. where he currently lives with his wife, Lucy.
    
    
  • JOHN CORBETT   Lived most of his adult life in Dogtown, first in the 6500 block of Lloyd, and current at 6314 west Park Ave. where he lives with his wife, Terri.
  
  
  
• TWO CHILDREN OF JACK AND CATHERINE
  
  
  
  • Ann Moser  has lived a large portion of her life in Dogtown and currently owns a home in the 1200 block of Kraft.
    
    
  • John Moser   has lived a significant portion of his life, as he does now, with his parents at 6807 Nashville Ave.

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