{"id":515,"date":"2012-03-13T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/fearless-females-gone-too-soon\/"},"modified":"2013-07-05T13:14:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T18:14:54","slug":"fearless-females-gone-too-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/fearless-females-gone-too-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Fearless Females \u2013 Gone Too Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2010, in honor of Women\u2019s History Month, Lisa Alzo created a list of writing prompts for each day during the month of March.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t participate in 2010, so I\u2019m going to take the opportunity to participate this year, since Lisa was kind enough to resurrect her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaccidentalgenealogist.com\/2012\/02\/back-for-third-year-fearless-females-31.html\">prompts for 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Did you have any female ancestors who died young or from tragic or unexpected circumstances? Describe and how did this affect the family?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nI have several female ancestors who passed on too early.\u00a0 Here are the stories for two of my great-grandmothers.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/-sqV7bhKHI6A\/T1_RnPg7IxI\/AAAAAAAAGJ0\/MKENx_2YLxo\/LEPPIN%25252C%252520Alma%252520Mary%252520LEPPIN%252520Photo%252520001%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"77\" height=\"116\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/> Alma (Leppin) Miller<\/strong> \u2013 Alma Leppin was born 1 September 1896 in Chicago, Illinois.\u00a0 At the age of 19 she married Emil Charles Miller 4 September 1915 in Chicago.\u00a0 Together, Emil and Alma had three children: Raymond, Harold, and Mildred.\u00a0 Alma died 15 December 1928, at the age of 32, due to heart trouble.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Catherine (Schwartz) Cahill<\/strong> \u2013 Catherine Schwartz was born 16 April 1894 in Aurora, Kane, Illinois.\u00a0 On 25 April 1916, she married John Cahill in Aurora.\u00a0 Just two-and-a-half years after their last child was born, Catherine reportedly committed suicide on 26 January 1925 in her home in Aurora.\u00a0 She was just 30 years of age.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Read all of my <a href=\"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/tag\/fearless-females\/\">Fearless Females posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2010, in honor of Women\u2019s History Month, Lisa Alzo created a list of writing prompts for each day during the month of March.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t participate in 2010, so I\u2019m going to take the opportunity to participate this year, since Lisa was kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,26],"tags":[311,320,325,334,355],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genblog","category-personal-research","tag-family-cahill","tag-family-leppin","tag-family-muller-miller-prussia","tag-family-schwartz","tag-fearless-females","cat-25-id","cat-26-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-8j","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3180,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/3180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}