Monday, December 10, 2012

Great Grandmother’s grave found

Grandma Theresa’s father was Edward Boyle according to information she gave to my brother Dave in her later years. I cannot find anything about him. Evidently he was not a very nice man. He and Theresa’s mother Ella were divorced after she had Theresa, Mamie, and Ruth. Ella married Warner (or Werner) Schatti in 1997. He was born in Switzerland. They had Olive, Clara, and Charles and stayed together until his death in 1917.

Many of Pop and Theresa’s relatives are buried at Riverside Cemetery in Moline, IL. I knew that Ella died in 1935 while living with Theresa. I suspected she might be at Riverside and I found her grave about 100 yards from the rest of the family. This is a picture of the headstone.
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I am certain that the date is incorrect. Ella was born October 11, 1862 in Tonganoxie, Kansas.

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