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Subject: [NJHUNTER-L] Fw: Eliza Beers Helms & Ralph Beers
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 12:06:21 -0500

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Date: Thursday, December 10, 1998 11:35 AM
Subject: Eliza Beers Helms & Ralph Beers

>Thought I would submit this. My grandfather's (Robert Helms) mother died
when
>he was a baby. His father, Charles Vincent Helms, remarried a widow whose
>married name was Eliza Beers. Eliza was a midwife and quite stern. She
>raised my grandfather as her own and loved him dearly. She had one known
>child from her first marriage named Ralph Beers. She had no children
during
>her second marriage.
>
>Eliza's death certificate does not note her maiden name or parents' names.
>Her parents' place of birth is noted as "Inland" I believe. It is possible
it
>is Ireland. Eliza's place of birth is noted as Chinchilla, Lackawanna Co.,
>PA. Date of death is Aug. 7, 1927 and age is 75 years, 4 months, 28 days,
>making her DOB April 8, 1852.
>
>I have a letter from Ralph to his mother, dated April 20, 1901, written
from
>Baltimore, MD. He is working a job with a floating gang learning the pipe
>fitting trade. He had been hoping to go to a job in Scranton (near home).
He
>had just completed some work in Pittsburgh.
>
>My grandfather cared for his stepmother after his dad died. Don't know
what
>happened to Ralph but my mother seems to recall he attended his mother's
>funeral. My mom was only 5 or 6 at that time and terrified of the whole
>ordeal.
>
>If this sounds like your family, let me know. I would like to add Eliza's
>genealogy to my family tree, since she ws the only mother my grandfather
>really knew.
>
>Regards,
>Ann Brooks
>
>
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