My Trails into the Past

This is week 7 of the “52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge” by Amy Crow from No Story Too Small . Ida Marie Hork was an older sister of my grandfather, William Cyril Hork, who was the youngest of ten.  She was born 24 Jan 1875 in Aurora, Illinois, nearly 24 years before him. [1]   In fact, she was probably not living at home at the time of his birth. She was listed in the Spokane, Washington 1897 city directory. [2] 1897 Spokane, Washington City Directory She married Martin J. Colmann in Eagle, Alaska on 11 Oct 1903 at a Catholic church in the Diocese of Fairbanks. [3]   How she met Martin, I do not know. I don’t know if she met him in San Francisco where he was from or in Alaska. Many people went to Alaska during its Gold Rush. I cannot find Ida in the 1900 census, but I did find her future husband, Martin. He was living in Eagle in the Northern Supervisors District, Alaska.  According to the census, he had arrived in Alaska Feb 1898 and was workin...