Category: Douglas County, NE
Families that lived in the county and research done there.
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Today’s main source is the kind of thing many of us put off writing – our own memories. They are an imperfect, but vital, source for getting to know our ancestors.
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Only a mid-century Midwesterner can pack such an unassuming biography with so many unique details. Here we go, Howie!
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A little late, and a little short – but a full biography of a full life, nonetheless!
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I only know the outlines of most of Merilyn’s story – fuzzy outlines, with a few small details. The one thing that looms largest was the worst thing that happened to her.
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Some relatives are so infamous within a family, that their story is unignorable. And yet, because they were unforgivable, you can’t ask about the details.
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Two brothers, both railroad men, led different lives In case you don’t recall from last year’s “Family Reunions” series, William F. Martin was the paternal grandfather of my wife’s maternal grandmother – he was one of Her Sixteen: That post did a quick overview of William and Hattie’s only son, Howard W. Martin, a successful…
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A Quick Overview of my work under this surname You might recall from this earlier post: Merilyn (Martin) Rossiter (1923 – 1997) was the daughter of Howard William Martin (1897–1970) and Aletha Frederick Putnam (1899–1981), born on 17 Aug 1923 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa. She married Arvid Wesley “Bud” Holmquist (1920–1996) in 1943 in…
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