What was the saddest death in your Tree ?

[Bitza 5]

There are a few sad deaths in my tree 
my grand father and great grand father collided with a bus in 1933 my great granddad was killed instantly. fracture to the skull but his son died the next day fracture to the base of the skull and internal bleeding. my mum was 9 at the time and her little brother was just a few months old.
the second is the lose of  my little sisters one was a still birth but this affected my mum for ages.  when she gave birth to my brother a year later she didn't want a son but her daughter.
 My other sister died of DVT 5 months after having her second child 12 years ago.

                  :(Bell

[MrsLizzy]

that's terrible, Bell, about your sister.  I'm sorry to hear that. 

[Elliebob]

My husband's uncle was beheaded by the Japanese in Burma in WW2.  My mother's sister died in 1939 from pernicious anaemia at the age of 26, leaving 2 small sons aged 3 & 4.

Ellen

[PrueM]

My husband's uncle was beheaded by the Japanese in Burma in WW2.  My mother's sister died in 1939 from pernicious anaemia at the age of 26, leaving 2 small sons aged 3 & 4.

Ellen

 

Oh Ellen, poor uncle! 

Every death, no matter how young or old the person is, or how they pass, is terribly tragic, but to die at the hands of another human being and in such a horrific way....it just breaks my heart 

Prue

[PamH]

My saddest death was that of my Grandmothers parents.  They both died four weeks apart and my Grandmother was only 16 yrs old.  They were seperated, but her Step-father made her go into service and sign her rights away to the family fortune.  I thought that was awful at that time in her life.

Then my own parents died within 12 weeks of one another.

I thought this very eiry, as my Grandmother and I both had/have 4 sons.  So much in common but worlds apart.

Pam

[AussieGenealogy]

I Have threee tragic endings for four of my family which one is sadder I'm not sure.

Theres mypaternal gr grand dad Albert along with his son Nigel (12) and daughter Vera (21) that were killed during a bombing blitz in 1944 or theres my paternal gr grand dad that died in the Australian outback without food water or shelter, and last but not least my maternal gr grandmother who died after a botched abortion that killed her with blood poisoning leaving my grand mother to grow up without her mum.

[Tees]

My aunt's grandad and great uncle died in same hospital within 3 days of each other. That was in 1918 Influenza epidemic.

My aunt was surprised because it explained why her gran was very poor and all.

I think it is even harder on her gran because she never recovered from the deaths of her husband and child. She never remarried. She remained a widow all of her life.

Sad, isn't it? 

[perilsofpauline1]

Mine would have to be the wife of my g.g.granduncle - My Margaretta was married at 19, had two little boys,  one of whom died at 2 years old, the following year she died, and the last son died when he was 9 years old. The husband/father seems to have vanished off the face of the planet after this, poor man.
Pauline in Oz

[aspin]

My great grandmother lost her little girl Eleanor Mckenzie  while sailing to New Zealand to make a new live with her husband Adam and buried her at sea only 23 months old .Then she lost her third child at 23 months a little boy William  buried in Dunedin and left New Zealand a widow  to come back to England ,She remarried and had a daughter Ormuz in 1895 only to lose her at the age of 15 in 1911

Elizabeth

Also lost two brothers one 27 yrs old and one killed in Australia aged 38