An obituary from 1926 led me to update the branch of a family in Pennsylvania. The obituary all by itself causes my heart to ache for the family of the young man. He was 23, married, father of one, and died from burns on his body from an accident at work.
The mother of the young man, Ellen, lost her first son when he was six years old for reasons unknown to me. Her second child, a daughter, lived to be an adult and the mother of two children. Her third child, a daughter, died at the age of three months. Her fourth child is the above mentioned young man who died at the age of 23 in the horrific accident.
Child five lived to the ripe old age of 78. Ellen lost four babies at birth. I know one was the youngest of the brood, but I don't have years for the other three.
To sum it all up, Ellen was the mother of nine children. She lost six of them before they reached the age of seven. Then the 23 year old son....
Four years after losing her son, Ellen lost her husband.
I can only imagine the pain in her life.
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