Ida Viola Hugerford – victim

In my last two postings; (Tangled up in the branches and Paul J. Hungerford, father or son?), I talked about the Hungerford family tree. Here is the initial newspaper story that caught my eye and prompted me to create a family tree for Ida Viola Hungerford.

 

[Fredericksburg, Virginia newspaper]

 

I then found another account of the story.

[Reading, Pennsylvania newspaper]

Nov 2017 Undated the photo copy of newspaper death item. in Dec 28,  1885 issue but can be found in the Google News Archive file of Dec 27, 1885 as shown below.

Using the information contained in the two newspaper items I was able to create a tree for poor Ida Viola Hungerford.

 

After I did my initial build on the tree I contacted family tree owners who had Ida on their tree and sent them the links to the two newspaper item. One of the owners replied and commented “Now all we have to do is find Charlie.”

 

I had completed my mission; create a place to hold the stories, so I moved on to other tree.

 

From the last two blog posting you know that I revisited the tree while doing some cleanup work and have now found other obituaries and solved other mysteries in the family tree.

 

All family trees contain interesting family stories and some stories like this one are sad but they are the history of the family and should be recorded for future generations.

 

Thank You.

Jose from Clarkston, Michigan

 

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Tree Created to hold the screen prints of news items.

 

Ida Viola Hungerford Obit 1884 VA Family Tree

 

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/45968240/person/6455070946

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I found two (2) stories about her. Here are the links.

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Fredericksburg, Virginia

The Free Lance – Jan 1, 1885

 

“She Preferred Death to Disgrace”

Front Page Middle Bottom

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See four (4) columns to the right of this link:

 

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OHAoAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lI8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=1252%2C3602204

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Reading Eagle – Dec 27, 1885

Reading, Pennsylvania

 

“Out of the River”

 

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=18851227&id=mKohAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eJoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5256,965306

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