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Ancestry/Genealogy

IDemo

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2. It was at about that age that she lost her mother

Reply to lumberjack_jeff (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 9, 2015, 01:58 AM

Feb 2015

She was seeking help for a difficult childbirth during a snowstorm and didn't make it. Her father became basically crippled by grief and Grandma was responsible for the care of her other 5 brothers and sisters. Her father died in the year following.

Grandma had a remarkable life in her earlier years. She found work as a stand-in for silent film star Nell Shipman on a film she was doing in Northern Idaho. After marrying my grandfather, he sang in a Vaudeville quartet and they knew the Houdinis and Blackwell the magician. She became close friends with Bess Houdini.

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Believe it or not, I knew and loved two of the people in these pictures: [View all] IDemo Feb 2015 OP

My maternal grandmother was born about the same time as yours. lumberjack_jeff Feb 2015 #1

It was at about that age that she lost her mother IDemo Feb 2015 #2

where in saskatchewan? grasswire Feb 2015 #3

I don't know, but I'll investigate. n/t lumberjack_jeff Feb 2015 #4

wouldn't that be a coinkydink... grasswire Feb 2015 #5