Never knew about Clara Geneva Parrish until my Dad's cousin showed this to me.
I couldn't believe it. I had never heard anything about her.
She lived 7 months and 9 days.
My great grandmother went on to have one more child after Clara.
My great grandmother (Louisa) would die from complications from that last birth just a week after great uncle Jimmy was born.
I feel as though there must have been a great sadness in this house.
Louisa's husband, James Parrish, was sent to prison in Durango, Mexico just before uncle Jimmy was born.
The children all went to live with their maternal grandparents.
When I found in the archives a baby brother for my grandmother who'd died young (with the same name as a younger brother) my father remembered his mother had once told him her mother had had a severely handicapped child and was crying a lot for she new the child would soom die, as it did. He didn't remember until I found it in the archivees.
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