AQC Gen

My American ancestress was a victim of the Russian flu pandemic. Ellen Beech was born in 1804 in New Jersey.¹ She was widowed in 1874.² She died on 1 April 1890 in Michigan, and her death was due to influenza.¹ She was buried in Mich.³

Susan Ann was born in 1811 in New Jersey.¹ She married in 1838.² The 1880 census says her father was born in Ireland.¹ She died in 1895, and she was buried in Pennsylvania.³

Her daughter, Frances Leonore Martin, was born in 1841 in N.J.⁴ She married in 1858 in Pa.⁵ She was widowed in 1900.⁴ She died in 1928, and she was buried in Pa.⁶

I was indexing Roman birth records, for a genealogy class, when I found a mother named Maddalena Illuminati. Surnames don't get much better than that.

After last night's Iowa Democratic caucus fiasco, I thought it would be nice to revisit the praise my great-grandfather received for his election reporting by telephone.