What was the saddest death in your Tree ?

[gjil]

Not finding much information on my grandmother, who I never met, but know that she is dead. Being searching for a few years without much luck!

[may]

Not in my tree, but I am transcribing some burial records and one entry states 'woman found dead in ditch' name unknown.  How sad that someone could end up like this, I wonder what her story was?

[garethnash]

I have an ALBERT BALL in my family tree.

Two of his brothers died in WW1 ( one 17yrs old!) and the only other one was crippled by shellshock and died a little while later.

This meant ALBERT was the only surviving boy in his family.

He went on to have two sons who both died in action in WW2.

So sad...

[Rebecca Steele]

Like mc8, these are not members of my family ...

In the churchyard where my greatgrandparents (on my dads side) are buried, are two sisters buried together.

The story is, one foggy evening these two sisters had attended a service at the church, which is right next to the river stour. They made their way across the churchyard to the river to where they believed the ferry was waiting to take them across the river. Unfortunately, they were mistaken and they both drowned I believe that this was in the mid 18th Centuary.

[~Rachel~]

Aside from the boys who died in the Wars, I think mine has to be my grandma's sister Jean Mary Nash.

The family lived in Bristol, and the family won some money illegally on a sweepstake or something similar. With the winnings they moved to much more upmarket house in Fulham.

Jean was out one day riding her bicycle when she got hit and killed by a motor car which was driven by an 'intoxicated' driver. She was 15 years old.

It was in the mid 1930's and deaths like that were not as common in those days. People wrote to her parents from as far afield as Australia and New Zealand to sympathise with their loss. My great uncle still has all the letters and cards, there is a whole suitcase full!

Her parents believed that they had been punished for the illeal gambling, sold up their big house and moved down to Portsmouth. They never actually told my grandmother that her sister had died, and never spoke about her. 

[runner]

My grandmothers oldest sister Agnes McMorran Oman died of burns aged 2 1/2 years. in Hawick. Because she was the first born her many sisters did not even know she had existed and it was never spoken about. At least if it is recorded the person is remembered!

Health & safety would have had hysterics back then  All open fires, oil lamps, spills and tapers, candles;  combined with full skirts and long hair styles - what a catastrophic combination.

By the way Guy I'm glad you survived your near death experience  - stay with us we need you!!!

Russell

[bitty_matriarch]

My Gt Grandfather's younger brother and most of his family perished in the Diptheria epidemic of 1894:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cawthorn/Palmer/Martha's_Inquest.html

Ann.

[big g]

My gt.grandparents were living in the Australian Goldfields - in 1866 a son Ellis was born, he died April 1867 of gastro enteritis, just 5 weeks later a 2nd son was born, also named Ellis.

ALSO

In 1874, my gt.gt.grandparents in Beddgelert, lost two (young adult)  children  within 2 weeks of each other to Typhoid.

[Man of Kent]

I have had problems answering this, for mine are to many to mention .
Mine would be from my own generation, those of my own brothers and sisters.

My eldest  and never known sister died when she was a Baby from phneumonia, buried in Loose Kent.
Brother Ronald died of Phnuemonia in Rochester 3 years later.
Brother Graham died after an Accident in the Home in 1959,aged 9 months.

My late Father lost a Brother aged 11, who drowned in The River Medway.
Too many to mention, my  family is cursed by such  events