Sympathy Saturday - Rev. Antoni Haremza

This is one of DH's line.  Father Haremza was a first cousin three times removed.

Dziennik dla Wszystkich [Everybody's Daily], Buffalo, New York, 1 November 1948.


Reverend Antoni Haremza

On Saturday, October 30, 1948 at 3:30 pm, the late Reverend Antoni F. Haremza son of the late Jozef and Jozefa (Siekierski).

The late Reverend Antoni was born in Poland and at the time of his death he was 63 years old.  He belonged to an Association of Polish Priests.

His body will be taken from home located at 31 Easton St. by Bailey Avenue on Tuesday at 3:30 pm to the Saint Jan Kanty Church at 4 pm.

The funeral will be held Wednesday, November 3, at 10 am at Saint Jan Kanty Church and then will proceed to the Saint Stanislaw BM Cemetery.

All relatives and friends are cordially invited to attend by the grieving family members.

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Cousins to the Nth Degree

Wednesday, Unmitigated (AKA one of my sisters) asked me to comment on what makes cousins beyond first and to explain the "removed" part. I will try my best.

John & Mary Percival have sons, we will call them John and Frank, get married and have children. John has 3 children and Frank has six. The children are first cousins or "cousins."

Frank's oldest daughter has a daughter; John's oldest daughter does too. These new additions to the family are second cousins to each other, but John's granddaughter is a first cousin once removed (a generation removed) to Frank's children. The same for Frank's new granddaughter, she is a first cousin once removed to John's children.

Skip ahead 20+ years and those grandchildren of John and Frank have children. They are third cousins to each other, but John's great grandchildren are 1st cousins twice removed from Frank's children and 1st cousins once removed from Frank's grandchildren.

To put it more succinctly, the original set of first cousins are 1st generation, their children are second cousins, their grandchildren are third cousins, etc. The removed part is the generation "removed" from the original generation of cousins. Click on the image to see a larger view.

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Thriller Thursday - The Drowning Deaths of Emma Roeschel Courtney and her Daughters

While these people aren't related to me, they are related to the Holt family of Ray county, Missouri. My great-great grandmother, Susan Davidson Percival took as her second husband, Thomas Holt. It is more convoluted than that, but there is a connection to his family. The incident happened on August 10, 1905.

DROWN AT BOONVILLE

MRS. WM. COURTNEY AND TWO DAUGHTERS AND YOUNG LADY VISITOR LOSE LIVES IN RIVER.

Four persons were drowned at 8:45 o'clock last night in the Missouri River at Boonville, Mo., through the overturning of a gasoline launch. Several others had narrow escapes. Mrs. Wm. Courtney of Sedalia, Mo., chaperones a party of nine young men and ladies on an outing to Chouteau Springs. It was while they were attempting to effect a landing that the boat was overturned in striking a pier of the Boonville bridge.

The launch was about six or seven feet from shore when it capsized. Mrs. Courtney, her two little daughters (author's note: Catherine & Helen ages 6 and 8 respectively) and Miss Nellie Varney, the latter of Boonville, Mo., were those drowned.

The others in the boat were Miss Mabel Roeschel, a niece of Mrs. Courtney's; Miss Kate Heighberger, Ernest Roeschel, Harry Miller, Richard Smith, and a Mr. Churchill. The young men in the boat succeeded in rescuing Misses Roeschel and Heighberger.

Mrs. Courtney was the daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. William Roeschel. A brother is a well-known druggist of Sedalia. Mrs. Courtney was about 32 years of age. She and her daughters had been in Boonville three days visiting her parents. She was the wife of a Sedalia shoe manufacturer.

(Moberly Evening Democrat, Moberly, Missouri, 11 August 1905.)


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