Headstone Surprise: What I’d Overlooked
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.
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.
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I see how you could easily overlook this, the lettering is small and seems at first glance insignificant. Nice catch !
Thanks. It was definitely a great reminder to me to pay more attention to the records I already have!
Isn't it interesting, how often we overlook things? I only recently discovered those columns in the census, and it led me to the fact that my grandfather was one of 12, though only 9 survived. Good reminder!