Featured Real Photo Postcards - Family Tragedy 1923

I haven't see too many RPPCs in numbered sets. Having info printed on the front identifying the location & detailing the events does happen although not particularly often -- perhaps signifying that this photographer who captured the events was a professional. Many RPPCs don't have any writing on the front or back making identifications difficult at times if a previous collector hadn't written any notes on the back. RPPCs could be produced by practically anybody with camera technology making significant strides in the early 20th century and many families created one off RPPCs for their own personal use.

 

Thank you so much for the info Joe, really appreciate it.

I've found (on eBay), over the years, copies of cards I already have, just keep hoping my 2 missing ones will show up.

 

What a terrible thing to have happened in your family, birddog. I hope you'll find the 2 missing cards.

 

A truly sad story.

As a willow weaver myself, I was very interested to see the photo of the wicker coffin. As the link you provided says, they have been revived with the current interest in "green" burials. Your historic example shows a rounded form, which is more traditional and easier to produce. The modern examples often try to replicate the rectangular shapes of wooden coffins, with which customers are more familiar nowadays.

https://www.somersetwillowcoffins.co.uk/

 

I heard back from my friend who lives in Bennington NE. She knows no one in Louisville. She said your best bet was the Cass County Historical Society.

 

Thank you for the info @2manybooks ! Really appreciate your comments.

And another TY to @KikoBlueEyes , I will definitely follow thru with Cass County in the next few days. Right now I've fallen down a rabbit hole with genealogy research. . .in the past I've always (and my father before me) run into a dead end under the name Lucinda. . .lo and behold today I bumped into finding her listed, at FamilySearch, as only Lou and now I have some research to do. Add this to the fact that we always thought Susie (nee Horton) McCarver (her sister) was her actual given name, but now I've proof that Susan is her proper name. So cross referencing nicknames with given names is my goal for today. Eventually I hope to untangle the mess. LOL

 

How exciting to get more leads. I did some research on potters field in Louisville and came up with this that has genealogical links, as well as lists of cemeteries with links.

Louisville (Cass County, NE) - Genealogy (roadsidethoughts.com)

 

Oh, more fun places to research @KikoBlueEyes !

I started this morning on the website "findagrave". Have always had such good luck finding pictures/info of headstones thru them. . .today I only found info on 3 of the 12 people who were killed that day. So wondering if perhaps some people were buried on private land & not in cemeteries?

Lucinda's sister, Susie, was killed the day before the storm (a freak accident of a stove exploding when she was lighting it) but buried the morning of the storm. The 3 headstones, I found pictures of, were her children/family but I didn't find one for her. . .seems kinda weird.

 

We live in such a safer world now. I used to visit cemeteries in notable places where history was written there like civil war battlefields, and I noticed the older stones\wood markers sometimes disintegrated away. Perhaps, there are no photos because there was nothing left.

 

That's possible... another possibility is that nobody has added a memorial to Find A Grave because either the cemetery has not been completely indexed, or there are no headstones extant for the people involved. Find A Grave entries are very "hit or miss," in my experience. Some people add memorials for people who are said to have been buried in a certain cemetery ... but the person who adds the memorial has only seen the name of the cemetery in paper or online. Nobody has visited to find the gravesite. I've even seen entries for which no cemetery is listed, but somebody added a memorial to indicate the date and location where a person died.

Still, I consult the site often, but with some caution and hope to verify in another source.

 

Thank you for the insights @Figtree3 .

I'm also finding a lot of misspelling, of names, in census reports and misidentifying places of birth (parents), from death certificates issued. The latter I think is that a surviving spouse simply didn't know where their in-laws were born.

 

The misspellings in the census are common. There are several reasons this might happen. One of the reasons to be flexible when doing genealogical research! It is fun, though. And the death certificate info can be given by various people. Sometimes the certificate will tell who the informant was. You're right, generally it's because whoever gave the information didn't really know.

 

I know this is an old thread, but the wicker coffin caught my eye as well. Seems like a great idea, honestly. Both decorative and lightweight.

Currently working in restoring a 1920’s wicker lamp!