March 31, 1891 was the birthdate of my husband's 1st cousin, 1x removed: Charles Francis Elton
Wood (1891-1951). Charles's birthdate is on both of his wartime draft records and on his death cert.
The son of a painter, Charles was a farmer originally. Then he went to work as a baker for the Jersey Bread Company in Toledo, Ohio. He continued to work as a baker until he died, suddenly and tragically, in the fall of 1951, as a result of a traffic accident in Salt Lake City.
But Charles has a second family connection on the tree. His mother-in-law, Carolina "Carey"
Foltz Cragg (1871-?), became my husband's
step-grandma for nearly a decade by marrying James Edgar
Wood (1871-1939) in 1928. The marriage was arranged by the families to put widowed Carey together with widowed/divorced James in Jackson, MI. By the time Grandpa James died in 1939, however, he was living in Cleveland, OH, and Carey was not with him. Did she die first? Still searching for her death info. Not April fooling, either.
This post was inspired by Randy Seaver's prompt of "which ancestors were born on this date" for his
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun.
Gotta love those match-makers. My great-grandmother's first husband died young. His sister hooked my great-grandmother up with the man who became her second husband and my great-grandfather.
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