This is my twenty-first of 52 blog posts for the 2015 edition of the 52 Ancestors challenge. I have been blogging my family history for the #52Ancestors challenge since it began in 2014.
#52Ancestors asks bloggers to "have one blog post each week devoted to a specific ancestor. It could be a story, a biography, a photograph, an outline of a research problem — anything that focuses on one ancestor.
This week's blog post is about Gretta Marie Coughlin was born the 15th of July 1910 in Wallaceburg, Ontario the fifth daughter of William Henry Coughlin and Elizabeth (Annal) Coughlin. In 1935 she married Alex Langlois. Alex died three months later and Gretta never married again.
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Alex' death certificate indicates that he underwent surgery for appendicitis on the 15th of January 1936 and an embolism developed and caused his death six days later on the 21st of January.
#52Ancestors asks bloggers to "have one blog post each week devoted to a specific ancestor. It could be a story, a biography, a photograph, an outline of a research problem — anything that focuses on one ancestor.
This week's blog post is about Gretta Marie Coughlin was born the 15th of July 1910 in Wallaceburg, Ontario the fifth daughter of William Henry Coughlin and Elizabeth (Annal) Coughlin. In 1935 she married Alex Langlois. Alex died three months later and Gretta never married again.
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| The Coughlin Family (circa 1917) Wallaceburg, Ontario |
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| Gretta Marie (Coughlin) Langlois |
The 1920s: Coughlin Sisters Employed at Parke Davis
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| In the 1920s, three Coughlin sisters worked at Parke Davis in Detroit Rhea, Gretta and Eileen |
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| Women workers at Parke Davis (circa 1920) |
1929 Bridesmaid for Sister Rhea
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| In 1929 Miss Gretta Coughlin (19 years of age) was a bridesmaid for her sister Rhea (Coughlin) Moynahan |
1935 Wedding
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| 1935 Wedding Photo |
Tragedy Strikes the Happy Couple Three Months After Wedding
Alexander Langlois 1911-1936
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| Alex Langlois' Death Certificate |
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| Death notice - Windsor Star |
1936 Burial - St Alphonsus
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| Headstone: St Alphonsus Cemetery, Windsor, Ontario |
1949 The Coughlin Family
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| The Coughlin Family 1949 at their parents Golden Anniversary |
1958 Gretta Is Living in Brockville, Ontario
1958 Gretta Is Living in Brockville, Ontario
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| Marguerite (Coughlin) Schofield, Viola (Coughlin )Lefaive, Sr. St. Paul, Bessie (Coughlin) Harrison and Rhea (Coughlin) Moynahan (Taken in front of Gretta Langlois' apartment in Brockville, Ontario 1958) |