21 January 2000 The Heritage Society of Pacinc Grove ATTN: Adam Weiland, Research Director P.O. Box 1007 Pacinc Grove, CA 93950 Dear Mr. Weiland, Thank you so much foryour response to my letter about325 Eardley. Itgives me a much better idea of what may have happened in the early years of the century. As a point of information, Edward Amolsch was mystep-grandfather. The R.F. Dirk on 4th Stin 1907 was undoubtedly mygrandfather, ateamster for Mission Dairy at Lighthouse and Irving in New Monterey. The story I got from my father was that he was killed When the horses spooked on Carmel Hll, just north of the mouth of the valley, whereat was located one of the dairy farms from whom he gathered milk for processing in Monterey. I had the impression that it was somewhat later, but a reasonable scenario could be made with the facts you supplied. At the time of the San Francisco earthquake the Dirks were living in a rental on Fountain, which was damaged. (The family story is that my father and uncle were thrown out of their cribs.) They then moved into the rental on 4th. Sometime in 1910 or 1911 my grandfather was killed and, after a suitable time, my grandmother married Mr. Amotsch, who graciously also took on the 7 small children with which the Widow Dirk was encumbered. He very likely made some sort of lease-purchase agreement with the Bank of E.C. Smith, said bank adng as his agent in purchasing the house from Mr. Cummings. By 1914, sumcient payment had been made for Mr. Amolsch to have taken litle, while cor,Unuing to make mortgage payments to the bank until the house was paid for. In your letter, you say the house was occupied by the Amolsch family through at least 1926. I can tell you for certain that the house was occupied by the Amolsch family un01 my grandmothefs death in, 1 believe, the late 60s or early 70s. None of the surviving children (by this time down to 3) wanted to live in the house and pay the other siblings fortheir shares, and so the house was sold-perhaps to the current occupants. My father acted as 'agent¢?)0 for the sale, as he was the only sibling sillon the peninsula. Through the 40s and 50s the occupants of the house were my grandmother and Mr. Amolsch, and a widowed daughter, Winifred Graham nee Dirk, and her children. Other family stories are available if you're interested, butthey arent very date specific, at best being in the 'sometime around..." category. Thank you again for your letter. Sincerely, STEPHEN DIRK , OCR Text: 21 January 2000 The Heritage Society of Pacinc Grove ATTN: Adam Weiland, Research Director P.O. Box 1007 Pacinc Grove, CA 93950 Dear Mr. Weiland, Thank you so much foryour response to my letter about325 Eardley. Itgives me a much better idea of what may have happened in the early years of the century. As a point of information, Edward Amolsch was mystep-grandfather. The R.F. Dirk on 4th Stin 1907 was undoubtedly mygrandfather, ateamster for Mission Dairy at Lighthouse and Irving in New Monterey. The story I got from my father was that he was killed When the horses spooked on Carmel Hll, just north of the mouth of the valley, whereat was located one of the dairy farms from whom he gathered milk for processing in Monterey. I had the impression that it was somewhat later, but a reasonable scenario could be made with the facts you supplied. At the time of the San Francisco earthquake the Dirks were living in a rental on Fountain, which was damaged. (The family story is that my father and uncle were thrown out of their cribs.) They then moved into the rental on 4th. Sometime in 1910 or 1911 my grandfather was killed and, after a suitable time, my grandmother married Mr. Amotsch, who graciously also took on the 7 small children with which the Widow Dirk was encumbered. He very likely made some sort of lease-purchase agreement with the Bank of E.C. Smith, said bank adng as his agent in purchasing the house from Mr. Cummings. By 1914, sumcient payment had been made for Mr. Amolsch to have taken litle, while cor,Unuing to make mortgage payments to the bank until the house was paid for. In your letter, you say the house was occupied by the Amolsch family through at least 1926. I can tell you for certain that the house was occupied by the Amolsch family un01 my grandmothefs death in, 1 believe, the late 60s or early 70s. None of the surviving children (by this time down to 3) wanted to live in the house and pay the other siblings fortheir shares, and so the house was sold-perhaps to the current occupants. My father acted as 'agent¢?)0 for the sale, as he was the only sibling sillon the peninsula. Through the 40s and 50s the occupants of the house were my grandmother and Mr. Amolsch, and a widowed daughter, Winifred Graham nee Dirk, and her children. Other family stories are available if you're interested, butthey arent very date specific, at best being in the 'sometime around..." category. Thank you again for your letter. Sincerely, STEPHEN DIRK , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Buildings by alpha folder,Eardley,325 Eardley,EARDLEY_058.pdf,EARDLEY_058.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: EARDLEY_058.PDF, EARDLEY_058.pdf 1 Page 1