Maude, Where Are You?

I don't have any record to prove her existence.  Maude B. Brasher is supposedly the daughter of Joseph and Mary (Mollie) Kester Brasher.  She has a sister, Lou, born in 1877.  I am assuming that Maude would have been born between 1880 and 1883, probably in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Did Joseph and Mary/Mollie have a daughter named Maude?

Family is Family

A very distant cousin caused confusion today until I figured out he married his second wife twice.  Altogether he had four marriages.  The first marriage produced a daughter, the second/third marriages produced three more daughters, and the final marriage produced two sons.  The fourth wife had a son from a previous marriage to bring into the family.

I found most of the kids out on Facebook today and discovered the kids from the last marriage are not FB friends with the sisters from the first marriages.  I find that sad.  I hope someday they put aside whatever differences they have and get to know each other.

Kate and Frank

I found where someone thought Kate had married Frank, but I found a marriage record for her with someone else.  I finally found a marriage record in another state for her and Frank. Then it was a dead end until I found a possible Find A Grave record for them in Minnesota. But, I just didn't have enough to connect the dots. Google, who is a really good friend of mine, came through. I found an old music critic document authored by someone who apparently loved some good gossip. Kate divorced her husband of less than ten years and ten days later married her vocal music teacher, Frank. Yes, that information was pretty much in the article.