Family/Spouse: SHULOCK, Walter. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 8/4/1952

A resident of Lockport all his life though his duties with
the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service took him to
Niagara Falls as well as many other parts of the country. C.
Austin Foltz. 61. of 245 South Transit St.. died Sunday morning
at 1:45 at Lockport City Hospital shortly after suffering a heart
attack at his home. He had been ill for some time with a heart
condition.
Mr. Foltz, who had been in the
Immigration Service 33 years, had
been officer in charge at the Rainbow,
Whirlpool Rapids and Queenston-
Lewiston bridges and the Niagara
- On - The - Lake - t o - Lewiston
ferry since September, 1637. His
first assignment in June. 1919, was
on a temporary basis as stenographer
at the Niagara Falls office, ad-
Joining the Lower Arch bridge, now
the Whirlpool Rapids bridge. Later
he was a member of the U. S.
Border Patrol before his appointment
as an immigration Inspector.
Following two years' work
at the bridges ta the Falls
district. Mr. Foltz began a long
period of Investigation which
took him to Detroit. New York
City and other sections of the
Metropolitan New York area,
Buffalo and Scranton, P l y -
month and WiIkes-Barre, Pa.
There he worked on cases of
alien-smuggling, white-slave racketeering,
ship-Jumping and count-
less other immigration law viola-
tions. In subsequent years he was
senior officer at the former Falls
View bridge and in September 1931
was placed in charge of warrant
work and prosecutions at the serv-
ice's district headquarters, Buffalo.
A period as assistant officer in
charge at Niagara Falls and of-
ficer in charge of the Peace
Bridge, Black Rock and Ft. Erie-
to-Buffalo ferry followed before his
appointment to his last post.
Born in Lockport March 2, 1891,
Mr. Foltz was the son of the late
William M. and Anna Louise
O'Connell Foltz. His father was a
cigar manufacturer and a former
Lockport alderman.
Mr. Foltz attended the old High
Street and Intermediate Schools
and received his stenography cer-
tificate in 1904 from the former
Ryan Business Institute in Lock-
port. For a number ofo years he
worked as a stenographer at the
office of the Iroquois Gas Corpora-
tion at Buffalo and the Carbor-
undum Commpany, Niagara Falls.
Returning to Lockport, he was in
charge of the payroll department
at the Simonds Saw and Steel Com-
pany plant.
After a year's service during
World War I in the United
states Army at Camp Beaure-
gard, La., he returned to Si-
monds for a short time be-
fore entering the immigration
service.
He was a member of B. Leo
Dolan Post 410, American Legion,
and an honoraary member of the
Niagara Falls and Tonawanda Po-
lice and sheriff's Departments. He
was a member of the North End
Athletic club and during his youth
was a star football and baseball
player as well as a member of a
relay racing team.
Mr. Foltz is survived by his
wife, Mary E. Blackley Foltz; two
sons, Charles A. Jr., and Paul;
five daughters, Mrs. Norman H.
Bradley, Mrs. John Dodge, Mrs.
Harold Mosher, Miss Georgene M.
Foltz, all of Lockport and Mrs.
Walter F. Shulock, Vero Beach,
Fla.; also 11 grandchildren and a
brother, Roger H. Foltz of Lock-
port.
Services will be held Wednesday
at 9 o'clock at Kennedy Funeral
Home, 122 Walnut St., and 9:30
at St. Patrick's Church. Burial
will be in St. Patrick's Cemetery.

Charles married BLACKLEY, Mary E about 1917. Mary (daughter of BLACKLEY, George N and WESTERMAN, Mary G) was born on 2 Feb 1897 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY; died on 12 Nov 1956 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 1956 Oct/Nov

LOCKPORT - Mrs. Mary E.
Foltz, 59, of 154 S. Transit St..
a native of this city and widow
of C. Austin Foltz, who served
as officer in charge of immigration
and naturalization at Niagara
Falls for many years, died Monday
(Nov. 12, 1956) at her home
after a long illness.
Mrs. Foltz was born here Feb.
2, 1897, a daughter of George and
Mary Westerman Blackley.. She
attended St Patrick's School and
St. Joseph's Academy. Her husband
died in 1952.
Surviving her are two' sons and
five daughters, Charles A. Foltz,
Paul Fokz, Mrs. Norman Brady,
Mrs. John Dodge, Mrs. Harold
Mosher, Mrs. Robert Costcllo, all
of Lockport; Mrs. Walter Shulock,
Vero Beach, Fla.; her mother, Mrs.
Mary Blackley, Niagara Falls; a
sister and two brothers, Ma Matthew
Hanrahan and George F.
Blackley, both of Niagara Falls,
and Carl W. Blackley, Lockport.
There are 15 grandchildren.
A Requiem Mass will be celebrated
at 10 a.m. Thursday at SL
Patrick's Church after prayers at
9:30 a.m. at the Kennedy Funeral
Home, 122 Walnut St. Burial will
be in St. Patrick's Cemetery.

Notes:

Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 8/25/1945

SI for the past four months.
George M. Blackley. 70. of 1661
Ontario Ave., Niagara Palls, a
former resident of this city, died
today in Lockport City Hospital
where he had been a patient for
four days.
Son of the late Mr. and Mrs
George Blackley, he was employed
by the former Oliver Brothers
bedstead factory and the former
Fibre Corporation here. He was
a Republican in politics and had
worked at the Barge Canal locks
here before he went to Niagara
Palls 22 years ago. For 12 years
prior to his illness he was employed
at the Niagara Palls city
garage.
Surviving are his wife. Mary O.
Westerman Blackley; two sons,
Carl W. Blackley. of Lockport, and
George P. Blackley of Niagara
Palls; two daughters, Mrs. C. Austin
Polta, Lockport, and Mrs. Matthew
J.Hanrahanof Niagara Palls;
three brothers, John, Robert and
Charles Blackley: and one sister,
Mrs. Oscar Wyles all of Lockport
The funeral will be held Tuesday
at 6:30 at the Kennedy Funeral
Home, 122 Walnut St., and at
9 o'clock at St. Anthony's Church.
Burial will be in Glenwood Cemetery.

George married WESTERMAN, Mary G about 1896. Mary (daughter of WESTERMAN, William and Elizabeth) was born on 13 Jun 1877 in PA; died on 18 Oct 1963 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 10/18/1963

Mrs. Mary G. Blackley, 86,
formerly of 39 Harvey Ave.,
died this morning following a
long illness.
Mrs. Blackley was born June
13, 1877, in Pennsylvania, the
daughter of William and Elizabeth
Westerman. She came
to Lockport as a child and
lived here until 1923 when she
went to Niagara Falls. After
traveling for two or three
years, she returned to Lockport
in I960. She was the widow of
George Blackley, who died in
1845.
She is survived by two sons,
Carl W. of Lockport and George
F. of Niagara Falls, and one
daughter. Mrs. Matthew Hanrahan
of Niagara Falls, 16 grandchildren,
32 great - grandchildren
and two great - greatgrandchildren.
Friends will be received
at the Joseph M. Kennedy Funeral
Home, Inc., 122 Walnut St.,
where funeral services will be
held at 8:30 a.m. Monday and
9 a.m. at St. Mary's Church-.
Burial will be in Glenwood
Cemetery.

Notes:

Lockport NY Daily Journal - 3/6/1880

BLACKLEY-In this city, on Friday evening,
March 6th; 1880, at 8 o'clock, at his residence,
on William St., George Blackley, aged 38 years
Funeral at the 2d Ward Presbyterian church, at
1 P.M. tomorrow (Sunday).

George + WOODS, Ellen. Ellen was born about 1849 in New York; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William + Elizabeth. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]