Persistence

Today I was gathering information on a 4th cousin 1x removed in the state of Washington.  I noticed his death record had a different name for a wife.  It was just a first name, but a clue that he may have been married twice.  If he was married twice, the first wife could very well be married twice.  So I looked at the SSDI with her birthdate.  No luck.  I took out the last name and searched just for her birthdate and first name.  Several choices came up for the area she lived in.  I had to look and look some more and I found a Viola with the same birthdate and in the same area.  However, the last name was not one I was familiar with for her.  A little more digging through marriage records and I found her second husband.  Then I found family trees from her second husband's family.  Now I have her date of death and place and feel comfortable that I have the correct information.  However, I will look up her obituary the next time I am in the area.

Her first husband, my actual cousin, well, I'm still working on finding out who is second wife is as I have not been able to locate them in the marriage records.  I may have to settle for listing his name on my obituary search for the next time I am in the area.