Cloud, Waldo Louis b. 4 Mar 1894 Pennsylvania, USA d. 15 Dec 1968 Genesee Twp, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA: WETZEL Extended Family & More

Cloud, Waldo Louis

1894 - 1968 (74 years)

Name	Cloud, Waldo Louis [1]
Birth	4 Mar 1894	Pennsylvania, USA [1]
Gender	Male
Residence	1900	Schroeppel, Oswego, New York, USA [1]
Residence	1910	Tioga County, Pennsylvania, USA [1]
Departure	29 May 1918	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA [1]
Residence	1920	Conewango, Warren, Pennsylvania, USA [1]
Residence	1930	Ulysses Twp, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [1]
Residence	1942	Potter County, Pennsylvania, USA [1]
Residence	1959	Genesee, Genesee, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [1, 2]
	his wife's death certificate. Robert Packer Hospital; Genesee (GNIS FID: 1192508) is a populated place located within the Township of Genesee, a minor civil division (MCD) of Potter County.
	20190318HAv- re-named from: Pennsylvania Death Certificates 19061944(27).jpg Media file empty; pasted from Source Notes: Maude Cloud in the Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963 Name: Maude Cloud [Maude Morley] Gender: Female Race: White Age: 64 Birth Date: 22 Mar 1895 Birth Place: Gold, Pennsylvania residence: RD2 Genesee, Allegany twp, Potter, Penna Death Date: 18 Aug 1959 Death Place: Sayre, Bradford, Pennsylvania, USA Robert Packer Hospital Cause of Death: Massive Pulmonary Collapse Lymphosarcoma of the stomach Other conditions: Metastatic Disease to Liver Interval: 2 min/3 mo Father Name: James J Morley Mother Name: Minnie Conable Spouse Name: Waldo Cloud Home: RD2, Genesee Allegany twp Potter Co, PA Certificate Number: 72964 burial: 8-21-1959 Ulysses Cemetery informant: Waldo Cloud Genesee, Penna Source Information: Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Pennsylvania (State). Death certificates, 1906-1963. Series 11.90 (1,905 cartons). Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Witness/inform/ref	18 Aug 1959	Sayre, Bradford, Pennsylvania, USA [2]
	his wife's death certificate. Robert Packer Hospital;
	20190318HAv- re-named from: Pennsylvania Death Certificates 19061944(27).jpg Media file empty; pasted from Source Notes: Maude Cloud in the Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963 Name: Maude Cloud [Maude Morley] Gender: Female Race: White Age: 64 Birth Date: 22 Mar 1895 Birth Place: Gold, Pennsylvania residence: RD2 Genesee, Allegany twp, Potter, Penna Death Date: 18 Aug 1959 Death Place: Sayre, Bradford, Pennsylvania, USA Robert Packer Hospital Cause of Death: Massive Pulmonary Collapse Lymphosarcoma of the stomach Other conditions: Metastatic Disease to Liver Interval: 2 min/3 mo Father Name: James J Morley Mother Name: Minnie Conable Spouse Name: Waldo Cloud Home: RD2, Genesee Allegany twp Potter Co, PA Certificate Number: 72964 burial: 8-21-1959 Ulysses Cemetery informant: Waldo Cloud Genesee, Penna Source Information: Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Pennsylvania (State). Death certificates, 1906-1963. Series 11.90 (1,905 cartons). Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Death	15 Dec 1968	Genesee Twp, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [1]
Burial	Aft 15 Dec 1968	Ulysses Twp, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [1]
Words of Gold	22 Jun 2016	Gold, Ulysses, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [3]
	There is no way to be absolutely certain who the woman in the small photograph is... I found it years ago, tumbled together with other pictures in a box that was stored on a backroom shelf in my Uncle Waldo Cloud’s house in Gold.
	20201106HAv- Words of Gold, Jeannette Morley Buck Favorites · June 22, 2016 · There is no way to be absolutely certain who the woman in the small photograph is. There is no label. It is the type of very early photo known as a daguerreotype. I found it years ago, tumbled together with other pictures in a box that was stored on a backroom shelf in my Uncle Waldo Cloud’s house in Gold. Uncle Waldo had died, and the house was to be sold. As the family cleared the nooks and crannies of the old home, treasures turned up in some strange places. The small photo was with others which were labeled “Ardrey.” Because the lady seems to bear a strong resemblance to later pictures which are labeled, I believe it to be Mary Brong Ardrey. She sits rigidly severe, holding a small child. I would be willing to bet that even though her hair had not yet gone gray, that she was essentially toothless. Her hands, wrapped lovingly around the baby, show the effect of years of hard work. Mary Brong was born August of 1772, apparently in the southwestern area of what would eventually be the state of Pennsylvania. She married William Ardrey, probably around 1800, and at some time, they pulled up stakes and moved away from their families to live in what is now Yates County, NY. And so her strenuous life began. It is beyond my imagination how difficult it must have been to make that trip over 200 years ago. Would it have been with oxen and covered wagon? Probably. She may have had a child or two by that time. If the dates recorded in a small family Bible are correct, Mary was still bearing children in her early 50s. Elizabeth, William and Mary’s first born, came into the world on May17th, 1804 and their youngest and eighth child, Mary, was born around 1825. Their third child, Sarah or “Sally” gave birth to a daughter out of wedlock. When she later married Sally and her husband left for the west, leaving the little girl for her grandmother to raise. Sometime after the older children began to marry and establish their own homes, Mary and William Ardrey loaded up the wagons and moved again; this time, to Potter County, PA. The photographs known as daguerreotypes first appeared in France around 1827, the invention claimed by a man named Jacques Daguerre. At about the same time a similar photographic process was announced in England by William Talbot. In 1839 Daguerre’s book of instructions appeared in the United States, according to a book titled Images of America which was published by Smithsonian Books. Although the process could be quite uncomfortable for the subject, most people considered the result to be worth the trouble. And it was relatively inexpensive. For the first time “likenesses” of family members could be shared and cherished. My healthy imagination kicks in around this point. Could this be a photo of Mary Ardrey and her grandchild, the daughter that Sally left behind? The woman appears to be in her mid-forties when the picture was made. Is it possible that Mary had the picture taken in the hope that at some point, she would be able to send it on to the little girl’s mother? If that is true, her hope was never realized. According to family letters written a couple of decades after Sally and her husband left for the west, it is revealed that the family never heard from them again. Mary Brong Ardrey outlived her husband and lived her final years with her daughter, Susannah Ardrey Morley, my great-great grandmother. She died in Gold on February 23, 1873, a few months past her 100th birthday. Her life was long and difficult. Her family was scattered from New York State to Michigan and back again. Although her children kept up a correspondence with each other as time went by, it is likely that Mary did not read or write. I can only wonder how badly her mother’s heart must have yearned for the babies she had once cuddled and loved. And then again, it is possible that this is not a picture of Mary Brong Ardrey at all. The woman who looks out at me from this mirrored image may have an entirely different story to tell. I’ll never know See Less Comments Beverly Kehs Beverly Kehs Isn't it wonderful how these mysteries keep popping up? I just found out last week that my paternal grandmother had 4 step-siblings! Now I have to try to figure out if there are a whole bunch of other 'cousins' out there somewhere! · Reply · 4y Author Words of Gold Yep. For every answer there are a dozen questions. · Reply · 4y
Name	Waldo Cloud [2]
Name	Maude Cloud in the Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963 Name: Maude Cloud [Maude Morley] Gender: Female Race: White Age: 64 Birth Date: 22 Mar 1895 Birth Place: Gold, Pennsylvania Death Date: 18 Aug 1959 Death Place: Sayre, Bradford, Pennsylvania, USA Robert Packer Hospital Cause of Death: Massive Pulmonary Collapse Lymphosarcoma of the stomach Other conditions: Metastatic Disease to Liver Interval: 2 min/3 mo Father Name: James J Morley Mother Name: Minnie Conable Spouse Name: Waldo Cloud Home: RD2, Genesee Allegany twp Potter Co, PA Certificate Number: 72964
Person ID	I36558	WETZEL-SPRING

Father	Cloud, Richard Michael Rev., b. 12 Mar 1857, Rockingham County, Virginia, USA d. 1 Apr 1921, Ulysses Twp, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 64 years)
Relationship	natural
Mother	Greeley, Sarah Priscilla, b. 26 Jun 1865, Maineville, Warren, Ohio, USA d. 22 Nov 1935, Ulysses Twp, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 70 years)
Relationship	natural
Family ID	F51566	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family	Morley, Maude Persis, b. 22 Mar 1895, Gold, Ulysses, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA d. 18 Aug 1959, Sayre, Bradford, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 64 years)
Marriage	Abt 1943
	Subject: This Week (20161109) ‘Tis the season to be thankful. We forget that, sometimes, in between the jack-o-lantern hooplah and the Santa Claus rush. And so, I’ve been making a list and checking it twice. It is lengthy and varied and in no particular order. Aside from my immediate family there are many people on the list for whom I am grateful. One of the first who comes to mind is Aunt Maude. My grandfather’s younger sister, Aunt Maude was really my great-aunt. She and Uncle Waldo Cloud married somewhat later than most; in their early forties. When I was a kid, they ran the Gold Store. Country stores back then were stocked with everything from milk, cheese and butter to vegetables, fruit, canned goods and a candy counter with so many varieties of chocolate delights it was almost impossible to make a choice. There were brooms and dust pans, fly swatters, milk pails as well as socks, cotton stockings and flannel shirts. I’m sure I have forgotten something. Aunt Maude’s house; the earliest house built in what would eventually become the village of Gold, was always spotless. The kitchen was fragrant with the aroma of freshly baked bread, both yeast and salt rising. She made wonderful fat sugar cookies, a spice cake that was not my favorite and I cannot recall ever seeing her without a starched apron over her housedress She played piano every Sunday at the Gold Union Church, keeping us all on time and on pitch. When I was about seven, her father, my great-grandfather died. The night after his funeral the family gathered in the Cloud’s living room to remember him and to sing away their sorrow. It is the first time that I can recall hearing the family harmony and I was entirely awestruck. When one of the cousins sat down to the piano to play, I climbed up beside her and tried my hands at those white shiny keys. It didn’t take me long to realize that it was no where near as easy as they made it look. “She ought to take lessons”, someone said. And, suddenly, I found myself signed up to take piano lessons from a lady in Ulysses and Aunt Maude had volunteered to make sure I got there. So, once a week, for at least two years I rode beside her in her 1936 Chevrolet sedan to piano lessons. If I did well, she stopped at the local ice cream stand and bought a raspberry revel ice cream cone for me as a reward. Sometimes, if I did poorly but looked sad enough about it, she would buy me an ice cream cone even though I didn’t deserve it. Once I was in school in Ulysses and could walk down Pleasant Street to the piano teacher’s house, I was on my own. When I was somewhere around fourteen, Aunt Maude decided she needed a break now and then and suggested, rather strongly, that I begin playing for church. There was no way I could argue and gradually, she retired and the church music became my job. I grew up. The January before my wedding Aunt Maude gave an old fashioned quilting party for me at her house. The ladies of the community brought their hand-sewn and signed quilt blocks and passed each one around for all to see. I was way too young to appreciate the amount of work and love that had gone into each block. They also brought their favorite recipe and Aunt Maude put each of them into a small three-ringed notebook for me. I still have remnants of the quilt which my grandmother finished. The recipe book, stained and tattered, still rests on a shelf in my kitchen. We knew that she wasn’t well when my husband and I were married that spring and before the summer was over she left this world for the next. At Uncle Waldo’s request, I played the piano for her funeral. And a year or so later, he gave me her piano. It still sits here today in my living room. I am so thankful for my Aunt Maude, who made herself such an important part of my life, as she did for a good many others. I can hear her laugh; I can see her large long-fingered hands gracefully lifting over the keys on the church piano and I can clearly see her smiling as she handed me my weekly raspberry revel ice cream cone, whether I deserved it or not. My grandfather’s younger sister, Aunt Maude was really my great-aunt. She and Uncle Waldo Cloud married somewhat later than most; in their early forties.
occupation,jt	Gold, Ulysses, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	When I was a kid, they ran the Gold Store. Country stores back then were stocked with everything from milk, cheese and butter to vegetables, fruit, canned goods and a candy counter with so many varieties of chocolate delights it was almost impossible to m
	Subject: This Week (20161109) ‘Tis the season to be thankful. We forget that, sometimes, in between the jack-o-lantern hooplah and the Santa Claus rush. And so, I’ve been making a list and checking it twice. It is lengthy and varied and in no particular order. Aside from my immediate family there are many people on the list for whom I am grateful. One of the first who comes to mind is Aunt Maude. My grandfather’s younger sister, Aunt Maude was really my great-aunt. She and Uncle Waldo Cloud married somewhat later than most; in their early forties. When I was a kid, they ran the Gold Store. Country stores back then were stocked with everything from milk, cheese and butter to vegetables, fruit, canned goods and a candy counter with so many varieties of chocolate delights it was almost impossible to make a choice. There were brooms and dust pans, fly swatters, milk pails as well as socks, cotton stockings and flannel shirts. I’m sure I have forgotten something. Aunt Maude’s house; the earliest house built in what would eventually become the village of Gold, was always spotless. The kitchen was fragrant with the aroma of freshly baked bread, both yeast and salt rising. She made wonderful fat sugar cookies, a spice cake that was not my favorite and I cannot recall ever seeing her without a starched apron over her housedress She played piano every Sunday at the Gold Union Church, keeping us all on time and on pitch. When I was about seven, her father, my great-grandfather died. The night after his funeral the family gathered in the Cloud’s living room to remember him and to sing away their sorrow. It is the first time that I can recall hearing the family harmony and I was entirely awestruck. When one of the cousins sat down to the piano to play, I climbed up beside her and tried my hands at those white shiny keys. It didn’t take me long to realize that it was no where near as easy as they made it look. “She ought to take lessons”, someone said. And, suddenly, I found myself signed up to take piano lessons from a lady in Ulysses and Aunt Maude had volunteered to make sure I got there. So, once a week, for at least two years I rode beside her in her 1936 Chevrolet sedan to piano lessons. If I did well, she stopped at the local ice cream stand and bought a raspberry revel ice cream cone for me as a reward. Sometimes, if I did poorly but looked sad enough about it, she would buy me an ice cream cone even though I didn’t deserve it. Once I was in school in Ulysses and could walk down Pleasant Street to the piano teacher’s house, I was on my own. When I was somewhere around fourteen, Aunt Maude decided she needed a break now and then and suggested, rather strongly, that I begin playing for church. There was no way I could argue and gradually, she retired and the church music became my job. I grew up. The January before my wedding Aunt Maude gave an old fashioned quilting party for me at her house. The ladies of the community brought their hand-sewn and signed quilt blocks and passed each one around for all to see. I was way too young to appreciate the amount of work and love that had gone into each block. They also brought their favorite recipe and Aunt Maude put each of them into a small three-ringed notebook for me. I still have remnants of the quilt which my grandmother finished. The recipe book, stained and tattered, still rests on a shelf in my kitchen. We knew that she wasn’t well when my husband and I were married that spring and before the summer was over she left this world for the next. At Uncle Waldo’s request, I played the piano for her funeral. And a year or so later, he gave me her piano. It still sits here today in my living room. I am so thankful for my Aunt Maude, who made herself such an important part of my life, as she did for a good many others. I can hear her laugh; I can see her large long-fingered hands gracefully lifting over the keys on the church piano and I can clearly see her smiling as she handed me my weekly raspberry revel ice cream cone, whether I deserved it or not.
Family ID	F10878	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

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	Birth - 4 Mar 1894 - Pennsylvania, USA
	Residence - 1900 - Schroeppel, Oswego, New York, USA
	Residence - 1910 - Tioga County, Pennsylvania, USA
	Departure - 29 May 1918 - Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
	Residence - 1920 - Conewango, Warren, Pennsylvania, USA
	Residence - 1930 - Ulysses Twp, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	Residence - 1942 - Potter County, Pennsylvania, USA
	Residence - his wife's death certificate. Robert Packer Hospital; Genesee (GNIS FID: 1192508) is a populated place located within the Township of Genesee, a minor civil division (MCD) of Potter County. - 1959 - Genesee, Genesee, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	Witness/inform/ref - his wife's death certificate. Robert Packer Hospital; - 18 Aug 1959 - Sayre, Bradford, Pennsylvania, USA
	Death - 15 Dec 1968 - Genesee Twp, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
	Burial - Aft 15 Dec 1968 - Ulysses Twp, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA

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There is no way to be absolutely certain who the woman in the small photograph is. There is no label. It is the type of very early photo known as a daguerreotype. I found it years ago, tumbled together with other pictures in a box that was stored on a backroom shelf in my Uncle Waldo Cloud’s house in…

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[S2325] Public Member Trees 2020, Myers/Jackson/Foxworth/McHolland Family Trees - Dave Myers / Waldo Louis Cloud (36) facts 20201106HAv-.
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Waldo Louis Cloud 1894-1968
BIRTH 4 MAR 1894 • Pennsylvania, USA
DEATH 15 DEC 1968 • Genesee, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA

Record for Waldo Louis Cloud (36) facts
20201106HAv- Myers/Jackson/Foxworth/McHolland Family Trees - Dave Myers / Waldo Louis Cloud
Waldo Louis Cloud 1894-1968
BIRTH 4 MAR 1894 • Pennsylvania, USA
DEATH 15 DEC 1968 • Genesee, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA

[S866] Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1944, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;), Mrs Maude Cloud in the Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963.
Record for Maude Cloud (8) facts
Maude Cloud in the Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963 Name: Maude Cloud [Maude Morley] Gender: Female Race: White Age: 64 Birth Date: 22 Mar 1895 Birth Place: Gold, Pennsylvania Death Date: 18 Aug 1959 Death Place: Sayre, Bradford, Pennsylvania, USA Robert Packer Hospital Cause of Death: Massive Pulmonary Collapse Lymphosarcoma of the stomach Other conditions: Metastatic Disease to Liver Interval: 2 min/3 mo Father Name: James J Morley Mother Name: Minnie Conable Spouse Name: Waldo Cloud Home: RD2, Genesee Allegany twp Potter Co, PA Certificate Number: 72964
20190318HAv- re-named from:
Pennsylvania Death Certificates 19061944(27).jpg

Media file empty; pasted from Source Notes:
Maude Cloud in the Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963
Name: Maude Cloud
[Maude Morley]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 64
Birth Date: 22 Mar 1895
Birth Place: Gold, Pennsylvania
residence: RD2 Genesee, Allegany twp, Potter, Penna
Death Date: 18 Aug 1959
Death Place: Sayre, Bradford, Pennsylvania, USA
Robert Packer Hospital
Cause of Death: Massive Pulmonary Collapse
Lymphosarcoma of the stomach
Other conditions: Metastatic Disease to Liver
Interval: 2 min/3 mo
Father Name: James J Morley
Mother Name: Minnie Conable
Spouse Name: Waldo Cloud
Home: RD2, Genesee
Allegany twp
Potter Co, PA
Certificate Number: 72964
burial: 8-21-1959
Ulysses Cemetery
informant: Waldo Cloud
Genesee, Penna

Source Information: Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Original data: Pennsylvania (State). Death certificates, 1906-1963. Series 11.90 (1,905 cartons). Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1944
20190318HAv- re-named from:
Pennsylvania Death Certificates 19061944(27).jpg

Media file empty; pasted from Source Notes:
Maude Cloud in the Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963
Name: Maude Cloud
[Maude Morley]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 64
Birth Date: 22 Mar 1895
Birth Place: Gold, Pennsylvania
residence: RD2 Genesee, Allegany…

[S2501] Jeannette Morley Buck, Words of Gold, June 22, 2016 · There is no way to be absolutely certain who the woman in the small photograph is.
Mary Brong Ardrey (1) fact
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Words of Gold, Jeannette Morley Buck
Favorites · June 22, 2016 ·
There is no way to be absolutely certain who the woman in the small photograph is. There is no label. It is the type of very early photo known as a daguerreotype. I found it years ago, tumbled together with other pictures in a box that was stored on a backroom shelf in my Uncle Waldo Cloud’s house in Gold. Uncle Waldo had died, and the house was to be sold. As the family cleared the nooks and crannies of the old home, treasures turned up in some strange places.
The small photo was with others which were labeled “Ardrey.” Because the lady seems to bear a strong resemblance to later pictures which are labeled, I believe it to be Mary Brong Ardrey. She sits rigidly severe, holding a small child. I would be willing to bet that even though her hair had not yet gone gray, that she was essentially toothless. Her hands, wrapped lovingly around the baby, show the effect of years of hard work.
Mary Brong was born August of 1772, apparently in the southwestern area of what would eventually be the state of Pennsylvania. She married William Ardrey, probably around 1800, and at some time, they pulled up stakes and moved away from their families to live in what is now Yates County, NY.
And so her strenuous life began. It is beyond my imagination how difficult it must have been to make that trip over 200 years ago. Would it have been with oxen and covered wagon? Probably. She may have had a child or two by that time. If the dates recorded in a small family Bible are correct, Mary was still bearing children in her early 50s. Elizabeth, William and Mary’s first born, came into the world on May17th, 1804 and their youngest and eighth child, Mary, was born around 1825. Their third child, Sarah or “Sally” gave birth to a daughter out of wedlock. When she later married Sally and her husband left for the west, leaving the little girl for her grandmother to raise.
Sometime after the older children began to marry and establish their own homes, Mary and William Ardrey loaded up the wagons and moved again; this time, to Potter County, PA.
The photographs known as daguerreotypes first appeared in France around 1827, the invention claimed by a man named Jacques Daguerre. At about the same time a similar photographic process was announced in England by William Talbot.
In 1839 Daguerre’s book of instructions appeared in the United States, according to a book titled Images of America which was published by Smithsonian Books. Although the process could be quite uncomfortable for the subject, most people considered the result to be worth the trouble. And it was relatively inexpensive. For the first time “likenesses” of family members could be shared and cherished.
My healthy imagination kicks in around this point. Could this be a photo of Mary Ardrey and her grandchild, the daughter that Sally left behind? The woman appears to be in her mid-forties when the picture was made. Is it possible that Mary had the picture taken in the hope that at some point, she would be able to send it on to the little girl’s mother? If that is true, her hope was never realized. According to family letters written a couple of decades after Sally and her husband left for the west, it is revealed that the family never heard from them again.
Mary Brong Ardrey outlived her husband and lived her final years with her daughter, Susannah Ardrey Morley, my great-great grandmother. She died in Gold on February 23, 1873, a few months past her 100th birthday.
Her life was long and difficult. Her family was scattered from New York State to Michigan and back again. Although her children kept up a correspondence with each other as time went by, it is likely that Mary did not read or write. I can only wonder how badly her mother’s heart must have yearned for the babies she had once cuddled and loved.
And then again, it is possible that this is not a picture of Mary Brong Ardrey at all. The woman who looks out at me from this mirrored image may have an entirely different story to tell. I’ll never know See Less

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Beverly Kehs
Beverly Kehs Isn't it wonderful how these mysteries keep popping up? I just found out last week that my paternal grandmother had 4 step-siblings! Now I have to try to figure out if there are a whole bunch of other 'cousins' out there somewhere!
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Yep. For every answer there are a dozen questions.
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