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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 9: Gone Too Soon I’m sure every family has someone special that has left this life before we were ready. My family is no exception. I couldn’t even whittle this list down to a trivial number of people from my family. In a short span, my husband and I lost 4 members of our immediate family. My children lost 3 grandparents and 1 uncle between 2014 and 2016.   The biggest loss for me from the “Gone Too Soon” category is my mother. Now I know when I say that she did live until she was 68 you might think that isn’t necessarily gone too soon, however, that still seems young by today’s standards. I know I wasn’t ready to live the rest of my life without her at the age of 42.   Just 11 weeks after my mother passed, my husband’s mother, Patsy, unexpectedly passed away at the age of 64.   Within 6 months of Patsy’s passing, my youngest brother in law, Daniel, was struck by an automobile where he suffered a severe traumatic brain injury. At the age of 2...

52 Ancestors 52 Weeks Week 8-I Can Identify It’s been a busy week at our household and now I’m playing catch up. Last week’s writing theme was “I Can Identify.” I have chosen to write about my 3x’s great grandmother Carrie F. Harding Currier. Carrie’s Sep 1868 marriage record (Boston, MA) to John F. Currier shows her name as Carrie F. Harding, daughter of Mary S. and Charles P. Harding. Further research on Carrie F. Harding revealed that Carrie was adopted by her mother’s second husband Charles P. Harding when she was 18 years old in Aug of 1868. The next record we find of Carrie Yallalee when she is 6 yrs old and living with her mother, Mary Yallalee, and her grandmother, Abigail Robinson, in the 1855 Massachusetts State Census in Boston, MA. Thorough genealogical research and correlation of genealogical information helps us identify that Caroline Frances Yallalee was born 05 Sep 1849 in NY to parents Charles H. Yallalee and Mary Stone Robinson and adopted by Charles P. Harding in Bos...