Randy May relates that Holy Cross Cemetery records show she was 64 when she died and the grave stone places her birth in 1885. Her marriage record says she was 25 in August of 1912 and the 1920 and 1930 censuses all reflect she was born in 1887 while the 1900 census indicates 1885 and the 1940 census shows 1886. I am not finding her on the 1920 census.
The following are reflections of her niece Virginia who lived near her during her childhood. "I think Gertrude must have been almost a head taller (than Joe). Maybe I'm wrong about that, but she was a much larger woman than he was a man. She was from Napoleon, Ohio. She worked so hard on the farm, raising vegetables, canning, selling her strawberries and eggs. Always working. You might have thought they were poor, but they were not. I think it was just her nature to work like that. I also remember that she grew huge, gorgeous dahlias, the kind with heads as large as sunflowers. They had to be staked."
The following are reflections of her niece Virginia who lived near her during her childhood. "I think Gertrude must have been almost a head taller (than Joe). Maybe I'm wrong about that, but she was a much larger woman than he was a man. She was from Napoleon, Ohio. She worked so hard on the farm, raising vegetables, canning, selling her strawberries and eggs. Always working. You might have thought they were poor, but they were not. I think it was just her nature to work like that. I also remember that she grew huge, gorgeous dahlias, the kind with heads as large as sunflowers. They had to be staked."
Randy May relates that Holy Cross Cemetery records show she was 64 when she died and the grave stone places her birth in 1885. Her marriage record says she was 25 in August of 1912 and the 1920 and 1930 censuses all reflect she was born in 1887 while the 1900 census indicates 1885 and the 1940 census shows 1886. I am not finding her on the 1920 census.
The following are reflections of her niece Virginia who lived near her during her childhood. "I think Gertrude must have been almost a head taller (than Joe). Maybe I'm wrong about that, but she was a much larger woman than he was a man. She was from Napoleon, Ohio. She worked so hard on the farm, raising vegetables, canning, selling her strawberries and eggs. Always working. You might have thought they were poor, but they were not. I think it was just her nature to work like that. I also remember that she grew huge, gorgeous dahlias, the kind with heads as large as sunflowers. They had to be staked."
The following are reflections of her niece Virginia who lived near her during her childhood. "I think Gertrude must have been almost a head taller (than Joe). Maybe I'm wrong about that, but she was a much larger woman than he was a man. She was from Napoleon, Ohio. She worked so hard on the farm, raising vegetables, canning, selling her strawberries and eggs. Always working. You might have thought they were poor, but they were not. I think it was just her nature to work like that. I also remember that she grew huge, gorgeous dahlias, the kind with heads as large as sunflowers. They had to be staked."
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