What was the saddest death in your Tree ?

[kitchener]

My wife started a great idea for our kids.  All the little things they do that make you laugh we write down on small pieces of paper and put in a sealer jar.  Someday, when they are older, we will give them the jars so they can see first hand what they did and how much fun they were.  She calls them memory jars.  A great legacy to pass on to each of them.  God forbid but if anything should happen to either of us before they are old enough to really remember us, they will have photos and stories to draw from.

[dee-jay]

Great idea but add their written offerings too.  I've some treasured notes including 'Dear Dad, I am at the other end of my bed' in case he failed to notice when delivering her morning cuppa!

[icini]

HI: Some of these are not in my family tree but I think they were very sad. One in the 1800s  was a 6 month girl who was listed as "foundling". I find this disturbing because I thought back then you received a name at baptism. but she had no name so I don't think she was baptised. Didn't they believe an unbaptized child went to limbo? they didn't care I guess.  Another was for a brother and sister  last name of Devlin, both from typhoid days apart.   Two of my own were brothers, one at one year from pneumonia and the other months later age 6 weeks from malnutritioin.   I think on Sept 27 ( ancestor appreciation day) we should all remember those who made it and be grateful and those who did not make it.     Donna

[saddles]

My great grandparents lost two of their children ages 1 & 2
respectively, both registered in the march quarter of 1882.
Not certain if they died together and they are one page apart
in the index.
Mike.

[kerryb]

I had one set of great x 4 grandparents who had 16 children, every one of them bar one died under the age of 5.

I don't quite understand why they kept having children.

Kerry 

[MarieC]

 I think on Sept 27 ( ancestor appreciation day) we should all remember those who made it and be grateful and those who did not make it.     Donna

What is this ancestor appreciation day?  Sounds a good idea, but I've never heard of it before.

MarieC

[JAP]

Try:

Bizarre, Crazy, Silly, Unknown Holidays & Observances

at:
http://www.brownielocks.com/september.html

Some other days listed in September are:
5th - Be Late for Something Day (right up my alley!)
21st - Pause the World Day (yeah! - stop the world, I certainly want to get off!)
24th - Punctuation Day (fellow pedants of the world unite?)
30th - Pumpkin Day (why not ...)

And no wonder people who adhere to the Muslim faith worry about the 'West' when Islam's holy month of Ramadan is listed on the above site ...

JAP

[icini]

HI Kerry: One answer as to why they kept having children- only one method of  reliable birth control available- abstinence.  Can't you just imagine how worn  out a woman would become. I have a wedding picture of one set of GG grandparents, and then one taken about eight years and many babies( both living and dead) later; what a difference, and I can't even imagine  the heartache.

[kerryb]

I beginning to understand why my relatives in photos at my current age looks 30 or 40 years older!

I couldn't imagine the heartache either.

Kerry