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Hobart News, July 26, 1923.
Apparently George and Alma had moved to the village of Ainsworth sometime after the 1920 Census, when they were living on the farm of her brother, Henry Sitzenstock, in southern Ross Township.
Alma was already pregnant with their third daughter, Marian, who shares a grave marker in Crown Hill Cemetery with the sister she never met. Since the marker has Myra's age wrong, it was probably placed there when Marian died, and inscribed from (faulty) memory.
The story at the bottom of the left-hand column on the page above is the first I've heard of the Soverino family. The 1920 Census shows them in Union Township, Porter County. It's a fairly large family headed by two Italian immigrants, John and Kathryn (Giovanni and Caterina in the old country, I expect). John describes himself as a railroad worker, and owns his own home, but I can't find them on the 1921 Union Township plat map — although I can find some of their neighbors (e.g., Shinabarger, Hodsden, Maxwell, Riley, Keene) who owned land along the Lincoln Highway.
By the time of the 1930 Census, if I've found the right people, the family had moved to Chicago.
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[1] The article below gives the date of her death as July 22, but in her death certificate and in an item in the "Local Drifts," Hobart Gazette, July 27, 1923, it is given as July 23.
3 comments:
Wonder why there was such a big discrepancy in her age between the headstone and her obituary. Maybe no one around to ask?
Yes, that's my theory. If the headstone was being carved in 1989, whoever directed the carving (maybe Marian's children, if she had any) misremembered what she had once told them years ago about a sister who died very young. (Maybe Marian herself misunderstood the facts, since it happened before she was born.) And with no internet for easy reference, if they didn't know what year the little girl had died, it would be a huge task to go combing through years of microfilm trying to verify the information.
It's sad it got wrong. You would think that they would have had a death certificate or something like that. I added the obituary to her Find a Grave because that felt like a step towards correcting it. It's become a habit with me, I do these things all day lol.
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