My great grandmother Mardie was born in St Paul, Minnesota, the oldest of three children born to Ernest and Alice Bunce Schilling. Her mother passed away when she was 10 years old, and her father remarried to Selma Dahl the following year.
Mardie grew up in Cottonwood, Minnesota, surrounded by lots of family. She met and secretly married a boy named Elmer Thompson in 1913. Her father and stepmother weren't happy about the marriage or that Mardie was expecting a child, so they sent her to a Women's Christian Home in St Paul to give birth to her son, Kenneth. It seems that Mardie and Elmer's marriage was annulled but I haven't been able to find any documentation for this. Elmer did later marry a woman named Anna in 1915 and had two children, Alice and Louis. Mardie also later married a man named Roy Kean in 1925 and they had two children, Alice and Tom.
My grandpa Kenneth was adopted by his grandparents as a baby, and he grew up believing Mardie was his sister. It wasn't until Grandpa was in college that he discovered Mardie and a man named Elmer Thompson were his birth parents. This happened when Elmer's father Thomander Thompson passed away and provided for my grandpa in his will.
Mardie grew up in Cottonwood, Minnesota, surrounded by lots of family. She met and secretly married a boy named Elmer Thompson in 1913. Her father and stepmother weren't happy about the marriage or that Mardie was expecting a child, so they sent her to a Women's Christian Home in St Paul to give birth to her son, Kenneth. It seems that Mardie and Elmer's marriage was annulled but I haven't been able to find any documentation for this. Elmer did later marry a woman named Anna in 1915 and had two children, Alice and Louis. Mardie also later married a man named Roy Kean in 1925 and they had two children, Alice and Tom.
My grandpa Kenneth was adopted by his grandparents as a baby, and he grew up believing Mardie was his sister. It wasn't until Grandpa was in college that he discovered Mardie and a man named Elmer Thompson were his birth parents. This happened when Elmer's father Thomander Thompson passed away and provided for my grandpa in his will.
My great grandmother Mardie was born in St Paul, Minnesota, the oldest of three children born to Ernest and Alice Bunce Schilling. Her mother passed away when she was 10 years old, and her father remarried to Selma Dahl the following year.
Mardie grew up in Cottonwood, Minnesota, surrounded by lots of family. She met and secretly married a boy named Elmer Thompson in 1913. Her father and stepmother weren't happy about the marriage or that Mardie was expecting a child, so they sent her to a Women's Christian Home in St Paul to give birth to her son, Kenneth. It seems that Mardie and Elmer's marriage was annulled but I haven't been able to find any documentation for this. Elmer did later marry a woman named Anna in 1915 and had two children, Alice and Louis. Mardie also later married a man named Roy Kean in 1925 and they had two children, Alice and Tom.
My grandpa Kenneth was adopted by his grandparents as a baby, and he grew up believing Mardie was his sister. It wasn't until Grandpa was in college that he discovered Mardie and a man named Elmer Thompson were his birth parents. This happened when Elmer's father Thomander Thompson passed away and provided for my grandpa in his will.
Mardie grew up in Cottonwood, Minnesota, surrounded by lots of family. She met and secretly married a boy named Elmer Thompson in 1913. Her father and stepmother weren't happy about the marriage or that Mardie was expecting a child, so they sent her to a Women's Christian Home in St Paul to give birth to her son, Kenneth. It seems that Mardie and Elmer's marriage was annulled but I haven't been able to find any documentation for this. Elmer did later marry a woman named Anna in 1915 and had two children, Alice and Louis. Mardie also later married a man named Roy Kean in 1925 and they had two children, Alice and Tom.
My grandpa Kenneth was adopted by his grandparents as a baby, and he grew up believing Mardie was his sister. It wasn't until Grandpa was in college that he discovered Mardie and a man named Elmer Thompson were his birth parents. This happened when Elmer's father Thomander Thompson passed away and provided for my grandpa in his will.
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