Still More Genealogy —
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Tombstone Tuesday: Bertha Elizabeth WEYRICH KOHL (1874-1947)
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Wordless Wednesday: The Wedding of Jesse Cotter and Sarah Anne Kelly, 1906
From left to right: Josephine Kelly, her older sister Sarah Anne Kelly, Jesse Cotter, and unknown best man. Thanks again to Jan Branham for generously sharing her family photos.
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Tombstone Tuesday: Nicholas John KOHL (1869-1949)
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Enter Singing…
…leaping, turning handsprings, and generally reveling. Remember Fiske’s Law of Genealogy? Well, cousin Jan Branham has come through magnificently with the only known photograph of my 2nd great-grandfather, John Kelly. I am absolutely thrilled and refuse to wait for the next Wordless Wednesday (besides which, this post appears to contain words), so here you go.
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Tombstone Tuesday: Frances G SEIDER (1895 – 1957)
Frances is a cousin through my maternal grandmother’s line.
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Wordless Wednesday: Luis Guillermo DIAZ y SILVA (1913 – 1990)
Luis Guillermo DIAZ y SILVA, in the driveway of his home in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Date currently unknown, estimated as mid-fifties (those tail fins!)
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Tombstone Tuesday: Fr. Robert Emmett KELLY (1885-1932)
Fr. Robert was one of my great-grandmother’s brothers, the youngest in the family, and largely raised by her after their mother died.
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Tombstone Tuesday: Edna C GRULICK WEYRICH (1890-1978)
Edna married into my maternal grandmother’s line.
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Tombstone Tuesday: Charles J WEYRICH (1909-1955) and Marian V NELSON WEYRICH SCHAEFER (1908-1994)
Charles is a cousin via my maternal grandmother. His wife Marian apparently remarried after his death (per her death certificate), but was buried next to him (per the cemetery’s posted records). They had an unnamed son in 1939 who died at eight days, of erythroblastosis (which we now know is caused by Rh factor incompatibility).…