The 1910 census has two wonderful columns labeled “mother of how many children” and “number of those children still living.” My 2nd great grandmother, Mary (Koerbach) Kaechle, was a 52-year-old widow in 1900. In the census, she’s listed as having 4 children with 3 still living in 1910. I only had names for 3 of her children: all sons.
Yesterday, I came across the record that solved the identity of this missing child, another son. The record was a photo of Mary’s husband’s headstone, Reinhard Kaechle. There, on the bottom of the stone, it lists the name of another deceased. The deceased is Reinhard and Mary’s 3 1/2 year old son, Edmund.
Find a Grave memorial photo posted on Find a Grave by Debbie Bleger (thank you!)
I had found and saved this photo about 5 weeks ago, and I don’t know why I hadn’t look closer at the inscription. Sometimes, we need to slow down and really look at each document, and photo, we find. Otherwise, we are likely to overlook something important: perhaps even a missing child.
Do we share common ancestors? I’d love to talk! Please leave a comment and/or email me at drleeds@sbcglobal.net.
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