I continued to work on the Baldwin family today. Some new information learned that sticks in my mind is a father committing suicide five months after his wife died. He was in his 60s. He seemed to have a full life as he was active in the community and with his children. Wonder why suicide?
Then I learned a distant cousin in this family died on the USS USS Bismark. The military headstone card said he was KIA (killed in action) and his body was non-recoverable. The Bismark was the last US Navy carrier destroyed in WWII. Two Japanese kamikazes hit the ship and 318 men were lost. Donald was 19. So sad.
Finally, a Baldwin mother of four boys gave birth to twin boys in 1923, but sadly she died. Her sister took the twins and raised them until her death in 1931. She had several children of her own, the twins were the youngest. After her death they returned to their father and several half-siblings as their father remarried. As I've worked on this all day, I need a break. I will learn more about the twins and siblings tomorrow.
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