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[vr_trakowski]

 

So I did a wee bit of family research today, since my parents were trying to nail down some dates.  I’m the family memory for years people died, but there are some gaps, and I went looking for a photo of my grandfather’s grave marker (found it, too).  

But then I started wondering.  My grandfather’s middle name was Morse, and my father didn’t know why.  I looked up Gramps’ parents, and hey, his mother’s middle initial was M!  Maybe it was a family name…?

But I couldn’t find an entry that listed her full name.  So I tried the same trick, looking up grave marker photos.  Findagrave.com is very helpful.

Well, I found the other set of great-grands, and an entry for Gramps’ dad.  No photo, but it does have his obituary from 1936.

But I can’t find his wife.  No obituary (and she died in 1968).  No grave marker. No middle name. No nothing.  The closest I can get is a couple of census entries and her Social Security death record.  

She must be buried somewhere--but there’s no mention online.  It’s as if she’s been erased. It’s eerie.

On the other hand, it appears my dad’s other grandfather collapsed under slightly suspicious circumstances at home, where he was apparently living alone.  Since his wife didn’t die until almost twenty years later...where was she? They weren’t living together, in 1956? I know they weren’t divorced. I gotta ask Dad about this one.