N. Regina (Gruissy) Mark 1879 – 1959

N. Regina Victoria (Gruissy) Mark was born 31 January 1879 in Medina Co., Ohio. She was the daughter of Augustus Ceaser Gruissy and Esther Barbara Wolf.

She married Thomas Kenneth Mark on 28 January 1903 in Ohio. In 1910 Thomas & Regina were renting a farm in Westfield Twp., Medina, OH. They had three little girls: Isabell, Vera & Ivy.  In 1920 the Mark family was on Prospect Street, Guilford Twp., Seville Village, Medina Co., OH. Thomas was a carpenter and Regina was the mother of 7 children, ages from 16 to 11 months old. In 1930 Thomas & Regina were living in Guilford, OH.

Her granddaughters said Regina liked to crochet, make quilts and garden. She made quilts for her children. She sewed little dresses for her granddaughters.

She died 24 May 1959 in Ohio. They are buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Ohio.

1 Thomas Kenneth Mark b: 19 July 1879 Wooster, Wayne, OH, d: 12 Feb 1975 Wadsworth, Medina, OH
…… + Nancy Regina Victoria Gruissy b: 31 Jan 1879 in Sharon, Medina, OH, m: 28 Jan 1903 in Medina, OH, d: 24 May 1959 in Wadsworth, Medina, OH
…………2 Isabell Esther Mark b: 21 Dec 1903 OH, d: 09 March 1984 iOH
………… + Roy Edward Nee b: 9 April 1878  Tennessee, m: 5 Nov 1922  OH, d: 20 March 1963  OH
………………3 Harold Jay Nee b: 03 Feb 1924  OH, d: 26 Sept 2002 Lake, FL
……………… + Pauline H Beitzel b: 1929 , MD, m: 6 July 1948 MD, d:  1981  OH
………………3 Paul Kenneth Nee b: 16 April 1934 in Wadsworth, Medina, OH
……………… + Dorine Griesmer b: 18 Jan 1934 in Wadsworth, Medina, OH, m: 05 Sept 1953 in Decatur, Adams, Indiana, d: 1994
……………… + Virginia Burton b: 6 July 1935 in Kansas, m: 24 July 1976  CO
………… + William Ream b: 1909 Ohio, m: 29 Jan 1977  OH, d: 8 Nov 2001 in OH
…………2 Vera Victoria Mark b: 27 July 1905 OH, d: 08 June 1995 FL
………… + Robert E. Ballard b: 7 Sept 1891 Indiana, m: 26 May 1933 in OH
………………3 Vera Elizabeth Ballard b: 30 May 1940 Wadsworth, Medina, OH
……………… + Butch Bowling
…………2 Ivy Regina Mark b: 8 June 1908 OH, d: 18 Sept 2003  NY
………… + Roy Jesse Brown b: 08 March 1902 in Osyka, Pike, MS, m: 02 Aug 1927 in Seville, Medina, Ohio, d: 12 May 1956 in Magnolia, Pike, MS
………………3 Delbert Keith Brown b: 27 July 1928 in Rittman, Wayne, OH, d: 24 Oct 2000 in Hudson, Columbia, NY
……………… + Alberta Joy Gardner b: 26 March 1928 in Bronx, NY, m: 08 Aug 1948 in Germantown, Columbia, NY, d: 10 Aug 1992 in Albany, Albany, NY
………………3 Leo Dwight Brown
……………… + Barbara Jane Cottrell
………………3 Genevieve Audry Brown
……………… + Carlton John Wieland
……………… + Edward Schaperjahn
………………3 Jeanette Rose Brown b:  OH, d: 15 July 1986 NY
……………… + Elmer Sparks b: 1929, m: 05 March, d: 1984
……………… + Jerry Wager
………………3 Larry Lee Brown b: 16 Feb 1937 , OH, d: 29 April 2004  NY
……………… + Dorothy Grace Engel
………………3 Robert Allen Brown
………………3 William Lane Brown
…………2 Viola Cathern Mark b: 26 May 1913  OH, d: 26 July 2004  FL
………… + Raymond A Nothstein b: 17 Dec 1914 PA, m: 1935 OH, d: c 1987
………………3 Loyal David Nothstein
……………… + Patricia Arlene
………………3 Norbert Allen Nothstein
……………… + Patricia Ann Wright Nothstein b: 25 Feb 1943, d: Dec 1968
……………… + Rita Bittner
………………3 Benieta Elaine Nothstein
……………… + James Franklin Pierce II
………………3 Kenneth Howard Nothstein
……………… + Sharon J. Sadler Nothstein
……………… + Judy Bryant Nothstein
…………2 Owen Andrew Mark b: 24 May 1915 OH, d: 12 Oct 1993, OH
………… + Blanche Adele Bowers b: 3 Oct 1919 OH, m: 3 Aug 1942, d:  1997 CA
………………3 Danny A. Mark b: 16 Dec 1946 OH, d: 15 Sept 1974 CA
………………3 Denny B. Mark
……………… + Marie Elena Koett
…………2 Clarence William Mark b: 30 May 1917 OH, d: 1 Aug 2006  OH
………… + Lavon Eleanor Moyer b: 27 Sept 1924 OH, m: 23 Nov 1950 OH, d: 11 Sept 2007 in Greenville, Darke, Ohio
………………3 Teresa Ann Mark
……………… + James Darrell Fryman
………………3 Glenda Faye Jordan
……………… + Robert Walter Jordan
…………2 Wava Alice Mark b: 22 Jan 1919 OH, d: 15 April 2011 in OH
………… + Alvin H Braun b: 18 Aug 1915 OH, m: 11 Jan 1941  OH, d: 4 June 2000
………………3 Ann Irene Braun
……………… + John Warren Long
………………3 Alvina Jane Braun
……………… + John Kazar
……………… + Thomas Carl Smith
……………… + William Richard Perry
……………… + Robert Kennedy

Learn much more about this family in my book, ‘The Mark Family Story’.