Thursday, September 29, 2011

Harold Stewart

And then there is the question of who is Harry V. Stewart and why is his photograph mixed in with our family's photo collection. Combing through the genealogical record we find a Harry V. Stewart, son of Louella Whetstone, who never really left Pennsylvania and died there at the ripe old age of 82. So although my great-grandmother was originally born in Pennsylvania, why would she be referring to the Harry Stewart who lives in California who is the son of her cousin May, or could be it be that her cousin's name was really Mary Smith, daughter of her uncle Parks B. Smith? And then there is the Harold Stewart who was born 1894 in Pennsylvania but died in Upland, California, in 1999. That Harry Stewart lived in Ontario most of his life and married Mabel Hardwick and had two children, Walter and Ruth. So this gets very confusing trying to figure out exactly who great-grandmother is talking about in her diary when she refers to Harry Stewart. Obviously someone has already done this genealogical research and I am just being called upon to copycat their steps which gets really annoying. Don't I have better things to do than this? Makes you wonder what is wrong with these people.