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<p>[QUOTE="WilliamTK1974, post: 4253597, member: 20965"]If the information I have is correct, the sister who is believed to have owned the chest was the oldest, so it makes sense for her to have had one. What's a little dicey is knowing whether or not the chest is old enough for someone who would have been married in the 1880s or 1890s. The website familysearch.org doesn't show her as even being part of the family. The family patriarch appears to have had more than one wife, which wasn't altogether unusual in that time given that childbirth and disease could take their toll. So, the man appears to have had at least two daughters by one wife and then eight more children, my great-great grandfather included, by the second wife.</p><p><br /></p><p>I asked my mother about it again, and mentioned that the person who might have owned the chest has a death-date in 1922, and she said that doesn't seem right because her mother said the person didn't die 'til the early 30s and was alive within her memory. I found another sister who was four years younger that died in the late 40s. She had a name that also could have become "Mamie," but the dates don't seem quite right. Mama said she had no idea...</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as the second wife and all of those children go, one girl must have died in infancy. Another one died when she was around one year old when she got hold of a piece of flypaper and ate it during a moment of lax supervision, and then there was one last sister who was born in 1886 and died in 1961.</p><p><br /></p><p>All this to find out more about a cedar chest... This must be how it gets started for some people. A funny thing makes them think about family and then they're off on the life-long quest to find out all they can. Sort of like leaving the Shire to find the One Ring To Rule Them All... It's not that I didn't care before, but I thought those people telling the stories would be around forever, and that simply wasn't the case. It's an easy trap to fall into when several of them live into their 90s, but not all of them were all that interested in that sort of history, so they only knew so much.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: I have since found out that the daughter whom I thought died in infancy actually didn't She lived 'til 1934, which fits the narrative, though not perfectly. She was older than my g-g-grandfather, and 1934 would have been the year my grandmother turned 13, so that fits the part of the story about her being alive 'til my grandmother was in her teens[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="WilliamTK1974, post: 4253597, member: 20965"]If the information I have is correct, the sister who is believed to have owned the chest was the oldest, so it makes sense for her to have had one. What's a little dicey is knowing whether or not the chest is old enough for someone who would have been married in the 1880s or 1890s. The website familysearch.org doesn't show her as even being part of the family. The family patriarch appears to have had more than one wife, which wasn't altogether unusual in that time given that childbirth and disease could take their toll. So, the man appears to have had at least two daughters by one wife and then eight more children, my great-great grandfather included, by the second wife. I asked my mother about it again, and mentioned that the person who might have owned the chest has a death-date in 1922, and she said that doesn't seem right because her mother said the person didn't die 'til the early 30s and was alive within her memory. I found another sister who was four years younger that died in the late 40s. She had a name that also could have become "Mamie," but the dates don't seem quite right. Mama said she had no idea... As far as the second wife and all of those children go, one girl must have died in infancy. Another one died when she was around one year old when she got hold of a piece of flypaper and ate it during a moment of lax supervision, and then there was one last sister who was born in 1886 and died in 1961. All this to find out more about a cedar chest... This must be how it gets started for some people. A funny thing makes them think about family and then they're off on the life-long quest to find out all they can. Sort of like leaving the Shire to find the One Ring To Rule Them All... It's not that I didn't care before, but I thought those people telling the stories would be around forever, and that simply wasn't the case. It's an easy trap to fall into when several of them live into their 90s, but not all of them were all that interested in that sort of history, so they only knew so much. Edit: I have since found out that the daughter whom I thought died in infancy actually didn't She lived 'til 1934, which fits the narrative, though not perfectly. She was older than my g-g-grandfather, and 1934 would have been the year my grandmother turned 13, so that fits the part of the story about her being alive 'til my grandmother was in her teens[/QUOTE]
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