Family Bible Record

Deaths

 

When Grandma Fannie was asked why her sister Emily and her husband James Bradley and their two children, Ethel and Alva all died on the same day, July 21, 1896, she said that they all died in the Johnstown Flood. She said when they found Ethel she was in a tree still clutching a piece of her mothers apron.

The Johnstown Flood was actually May 31, 1889. I have not found yet where they lived but figured they lived on the Ohio River and that there was another small flood. I have researched this for their dates of death and have not come up with anything. I am going to try to obtain copies of their death certificates to verify the date of death to be sure the July 21st, 1896 date is correct and will go from there.

 

 

 



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