About Time!

While digging around in the GRAHAMs I naturally ended up in the NANCEs as the two are quite interlinked through marriage and such. So I was looking up things to confirm bits I had and maybe get some new info on certain key relations - namely I was looking for a death certificate for Elizabeth (Nance) Griffin half-sister of Greeley and William Graham.

Well I didn't find what I wanted, but I did find three separate online obituaries for Elizabeth's daughter Mary Elizabeth (Griffin) Peloquin who died April 19, 2005 at age 95. She died in California and had an obit in two of my local newspapers (those things that occasionally land on your driveway between dawn and dusk if you remembered to pay the random children they send to the door every so often). Well according to the obituaries Mary Elizabeth (Griffin) Peloquin was a elementary school teacher in California not too far from myself in the same state.

Also she had a Catholic funeral service and burial which makes her the first Catholic blood relative I've found so far in my family. I'm surprised I haven't found any before but the Bradfords have been Baptists since time began just about and the Millers were Anabaptists, then Mennonites and Amish(the two intermixed or were confused for each other from what I've seen written by other relatives) before some of their descendants (namely my direct line) switched over to being Methodists and then Presbyterians.

Not much to say just an interesting find for me.

Edit: 

I have since ordered and received the death certificate of Elizabeth (Nance) Griffin. It did not give a name for her mother as I'd hoped it would but it did confirm the year I had for her birth, and date of her death, and give a reason for her death - Typhoid (which I already had been told beforehand by a distant cousin on a genealogy forum - I don't recall exactly which one at this time). A lot of information  - parents' names and place of birth, informant, day and month of birth, place of burial and undertaker's name were all left blank.