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Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Little Myra Busselberg

The second daughter of George and Alma Busselberg died in July 1923.[1]

2019-04-23. Busselberg, News, 7-26-1923
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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.

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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.