When I check all of the documents that I have collected, I find that half of the time, I will find a name or a date that fits in with something else that I have been trying to figure out. I suddenly have a revelation or an "AHA!! moment". It is usually something that I have been trying to figure out for awhile - and I had the answer all along, I just didn't know it.
I bring this up now because I have been working on Dr. William Brady - as you know, if you read my last post. I said that he was the most documented Brady of that era. While writing about him, I realized that I do know a few things about him - thanks to a lengthy article in the Scranton Times on the day of his death. But there is one thing that I did not realize until I began to write this post. I don't know if you remember, but when my great grandmother (Madge Bradley) died in Sep 1892, I wrote that my grandfather (Thomas) may have lived with his uncle William and his wife and children. Now that I am writing this and looking at dates, I know that William did not marry Hannah Casey until 1 May 1893 and had no children until 1894 - he may not even have been back in the USA yet from his studies abroad. So that "Family Lore" has been debunked- as they say on "Myth Busters". Now that I think of it, that sounds like a good description of my family research - Myth Busters. I have had his marriage license application and his will since November 2006. So I have had this information for about 6 1/2 years and I never made the connection until I started blogging about William.
So as I said, William marries Hannah M. Casey, daughter of John Casey and Hannah Gorman, in May of 1893. The Caseys are a prominent family in Scranton, John is a grocer in Scranton, and the newlyweds live with her parents at 613 Adams St in Scranton. William practiced medicine on Wyoming Ave, and he and his wife had three children: Hannah Brady on 20 March 1894, Regina on 20 Sept 1895, and John on 18 Oct 1897. Like I said, the family lives with John and Hannah Casey at 613 Adams Ave, apparently it is more lucrative to be a grocer that a Doctor in the early 1900s. According to the 1920 Federal Census, Hannah and Regina both become school teachers in Scranton and John is in school for Civil engineering. I believe that both Hannah and Regina go on to become principals in the Scranton School District. Neither of them marries and both retire to Miami, Florida where both die, Hannah on 3 May 1990 (at age 94!!!) and Regina on 14 Dec 1971. John marries Irene O'Hara and they have at least two children: Noreen and John Casey Brady. John is widowed in 1963 when Irene dies, and he dies in Scranton in 1967. According to the 1940 Census, Hannah, Regina, John and his family all reside with their mother, Hannah Brady at 613 Adams St, in Scranton. John's education says that he is a high school graduate, and is employed as an insurance adjuster. Apparently the whole college thing did not work out. But you never know - we all know it took me much longer than that to graduate college.
A lot of this information I picked up as I prepared for this blog post. The last thing I found was by accident. I started with my Ancestry App, and started looking up stuff about William's children: Hannah, Regina, and John. The one thing I did find was Hannah, on 'Find A Grave'. She is buried in St. Catherine's Cemetery in Moscow PA (thank God it's in PA, cause I would have had the big one if it was Russia) As if turns out, all three of them are buried in a plot there, as well as John's wife Irene, children and some of his grandchildren. I never expected to find them all in Moscow, PA, After all Hannah and Regina died in Miami, so they had to be transported from sunny Florida back to Lackawanna County PA to spend eternity.
I know that William died of a heart attack 18 Sep 1917 in Scranton, but I don't know where he is buried. I can't find his wife Hannah or her parents either. I thought they would be in St. Catherine's in Moscow or in Cathedral in Scranton - but so far, no luck. I think if I find one of them, I will find them all. That's the other thing that I learned by looking through my stuff. The long article I found in the Scranton Times about Dr Brady and I thought was an obit, is not. It looks like a long article about him on the day of his death (still no picture), and I will have to return to the paper to find the obit, that should tell me about his burial place.
Here is a photo of the grave marker from 'Find A Grave' for the Brady's in St Catherine's Cemetery in Moscow, PA:
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