Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Week #68: Genealogy: Detective Work

I realize that detective work is not easy or fast. Sometimes it takes a long time, but I did hear Aaron Alejandro's story from the website Tejano Voices. His position in his career when he told his story was Executive Director of the Gateway Council on Substance Abuse. The interview was on 8/22/1997. The website tells about Mexican American Stories and multiple interviewees. It was cool, but the interview is about two hours. You get to hear there stories and their mistakes and varied experiences.

As for the second part of this exercise, I wasn't able to located the cemetery where my niece was buried, but did find an interesting person name Myra Murphy Baxter. Her information is...

Birth: Sep. 18, 1899
Newton County
Texas, USA

Death: Feb. 11, 1985
Harris County
Texas, USA

Family links:
Parents:
James Martin Murphy (1875 - 1955)
Cynthia Jane Harvill Murphy (1878 - 1958)

Children:
Ruby Lee Roberds Barrett (1924 - 1996)*

Spouses:
Luther Lewis Roberds (1894 - 1959)
Edmond Odell Baxter (1909 - 2001)

Burial:
Brookshire Cemetery
Harris County
Texas, USA

It even comes with a tombstone picture....

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