Vita brevis; genealogia longa
Kohl, Nicholas & Bertha E. grave marker, St Johns Cemetery, Tipp City, Miami, USA; photograph by Luanne Shaw, 19 Jul 2009. Digital copy privately held by Jean Marie Diaz, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Linden, California. 2013.
Kohl, Bertha “Mother” grave marker, St Johns Cemetery, Tipp City, Miami, USA; photograph by Luanne Shaw, 19 Jul 2009. Digital copy privately held by Jean Marie Diaz, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Linden, California. 2013.
From left to right: Josephine Kelly, her older sister Sarah Anne Kelly, Jesse Cotter, and unknown best man. Thanks again to Jan Branham for generously sharing her family photos.
Kelly, Josephine; Kelly, Sarah Anne; Cotter, Jesse; Photograph ca. 1906. Digital image. Original privately held by Jan Branham, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Richmond, Indiana. 2012.
Kohl, Nicholas & Bertha E. grave marker, St Johns Cemetery, Tipp City, Miami, USA; photograph by Luanne Shaw, 19 Jul 2009. Digital copy privately held by Jean Marie Diaz, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Linden, California. 2012.
Kohl, Nicholas “Father” grave marker, St Johns Cemetery, Tipp City, Miami, USA; photograph by Luanne Shaw, 19 Jul 2009. Digital copy privately held by Jean Marie Diaz, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Linden, California. 2012.
…leaping, turning handsprings, and generally reveling. Remember Fiske’s Law of Genealogy? Well, cousin Jan Branham has come through magnificently with the only known photograph of my 2nd great-grandfather, John Kelly. I am absolutely thrilled and refuse to wait for the next Wordless Wednesday (besides which, this post appears to contain words), so here you go.
Kelly, John. Photograph ca. 1900. Digital image. Original privately held by Jan Branham, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Richmond, Indiana. 2012.
Seider, Frances G grave marker, St Bernard Cemetery, Springfield, Clark, Ohio, USA; photograph by Candy CG, 15 Sep 2009. Digital copy privately held by Jean Marie Diaz, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Linden, California. 2010.
Frances is a cousin through my maternal grandmother’s line.
Luis Guillermo DIAZ y SILVA, in the driveway of his home in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Date currently unknown, estimated as mid-fifties (those tail fins!)
Diaz y Silva, Luis Guillermo, Ponce, Puerto Rico; photographer unknown, date unknown. Photograph privately held by Marisol Ortiz; digital copy privately held by Jean Diaz, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Linden, California. 2009.
Kelly, Father R. E. grave marker, Mount Calvary Cemetery, Huntington, Huntington, Indiana, USA; photograph by Annis Jean Hite Patee, 1 Oct 2009. Digital copy privately held by Jean Marie Diaz, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Linden, California. 2009.
Fr. Robert was one of my great-grandmother’s brothers, the youngest in the family, and largely raised by her after their mother died.
Weyrich, Edna C. grave marker, David’s Cemetery, Kettering, Montgomery, Ohio, USA; photograph by Valita Robinson Randolph, 24 Dec 2009. Digital copy privately held by Jean Marie Diaz, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Linden, California. 2009.
Edna married into my maternal grandmother’s line.
Weyrich, Charles J and Marian V grave marker, David’s Cemetery, Kettering, Montgomery, Ohio, USA; photograph by Valita Robinson Randolph, 24 Dec 2009. Digital copy privately held by Jean Marie Diaz, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Linden, California. 2009.
Charles is a cousin via my maternal grandmother. His wife Marian apparently remarried after his death (per her death certificate), but was buried next to him (per the cemetery’s posted records).
They had an unnamed son in 1939 who died at eight days, of erythroblastosis (which we now know is caused by Rh factor incompatibility). I don’t know where he is buried, as I can’t make out what’s scrawled on his death certificate.
Ober, Marie R grave marker, Saint Bernard Cemetery, Springfield, Clark, Ohio, USA; photograph by Candy CG, 15 Sep 2009. Digital copy privately held by Jean Marie Diaz, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Linden, California. 2009.
Marie is a cousin through my KOHL line.
