Strange Meets Stranger

A while back I wrote about George Vincent & Matilda Swallow and the story written by Marilyn Symons – together they had one child – Eldora Elizabeth Vincent who married Walter Trescott and relocated to Massachusetts.

Eldora & Walter 3 daughters but today I write about Annie who was born in 1883 at Massachusetts and she went on to marry a fella Herman Straub and had a boy Walter Jean Straub.

Here’s where it gets strange.  

I still can’t find a death entry for Herman but based on the SSN entry found on Ancestry and the city directories for Denver, CO, I am betting he died either late 1943 or early 1944.  Annie on the other hand, relocated to California with her son and died there.  

I discovered that purely by accident because of this article ~~ 30 years after the fact and after she died, the school received her request for her grades so she could apply to college!  It ran in several newspapers and in numerous states but this article is from the Marion Star in Ohio, published 9 Mar 1954

Then I stumbled across an article that gives new meaning to monsters-in-law - er, I mean, mother-in-laws.  

Daily Messenger, 7 Jun 1935No JokeDenver - Denver may have a mothers-in-law day, but it will be in court.  Mrs Katheryn V Straub filed a suit in District Court seeking $75,000 from her mother-in-law, Mrs Annie May Straub, Denver school teacher, charging she alienated the affections of her husband.  The husband, Walter J Straub, a packing house employee, followed this with a $100,000 suit against Mrs Catherine Hart, his mother-in-law, charging she alienated the affections of his wife by "subtle contrivances and coaxing".