March 11 — Did you have any female ancestors who died young or from tragic or unexpected circumstances? Describe and how did this affect the family.
[Note: This post originally ran during the Fearless Females series in March 2010]
My grand (great) Aunt Mary Fencsak Ceyba died in June of 1929 from tuberculosis. She was 38 years old and left behind five children John, Anna, George, Margaret and Helen. Right after her death her husband remarried a widowed neighbor woman who had five children of her own. Mary’s son, George, told me that life after his mother’s death was difficult.
I wrote about Mary in a case study for the January 2008 issue of Internet Genealogy.
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How sad that she died so young and left five children. I bet it was difficult for them.
I checked out the additional pieces on Anna as well as Mary. Interesting, but what struck me was the blond hair and the eyes — so similar.
What a beautiful young woman. So sad she passed away so young leaving young children.