Mystery Monday – or is it Madness Monday?

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This family mystery is about to drive me mad!!

           Kate (Myers) Kieron and Delia (Myers) Mitschke

First a little background. These two beautiful women are my great grandmother Catherine “Kate” (Myers) Kieron and her sister Bridget “Delia” (Myers) Mitschke. They were born in Ower Townland, County Galway, Ireland in the 1860s.

Both emigrated to the United States and lived in Montana – Bridget in about 1887 and Kate in the mid 1890s. Sadly, Kate died in Butte in 1902 and Delia in Helena in 1903. You can read more here about Kate’s story.

The mystery – and the madness – enters the story with their brothers, Denis, Thomas, Patrick and Michael. All four brothers also emigrated to Montana between about 1899 and 1901 and lived in Montana near their sisters.

And then after Delia died in 1903, all four brothers simply disappeared. Or so it seems. Continue reading →

Mystery Monday: The 1944 job application

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M father, Cid H. Dalin Jr., in 1944 at age 17

As part of my 2016 resolution to organize my small mountain of genealogy records once and for all, I am in the process of transcribing and analyzing all documents I have collected over the years. Yesterday, I worked on an interesting document I discovered only a few months ago. The document is a job application and comes from the personnel files of the Northern Pacific Railway Company. Apparently, my father applied for a job as a “yard clerk” on May 13, 1944 – when he was a junior in high school and only 17 years old. Continue reading →

Tombstone Tuesday: Gravestone of a Mother and Daughter

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Mary and Nora

Gravestone of Mary M. Williams and Nora M. Blacker

Transcription:

Mary W.                                                    Nora M.

WILLIAMS                                               BLACKER

1924 – 1952                                               1902 – 1937

Mary and Nora were my mother’s sister and mother, respectively. They both died very young. Mary was 28 and Nora was 371.

They are buried side by side at Forestvale Cemetery in Helena, Montana. John David Blacker, my grandfather, is buried just to the right of this gravestone.

NOTES

  1. Since the gravestone was laid, we learned that Nora was born in 1900 and not 1902. ↩