My Trails into the Past

I am very interested in the family members who never had children. There is no one to remember them. Ida Marie Colmann, formerly Ida Marie Hork, lived in Los Angeles area for many years after the death of her husband Martin J. Colmann on 17 December 1908. She never remarried and lived alone most of her life. In November 1947, Ida spent the winter with her sister, Carrie Hork, at the Grube apartment, and with her brother, Anthony Hork and family. [1] She likely stayed as in March 1949, a newspaper article mentioned she had moved to Hamilton from Los Angeles a year and a half ago. That same month she was visiting Missoula at the Hotel Florence for an indefinite stay. [2] However, in October 1949, Carrie Hork left for Long Beach, California, to be with her sister, Ida Marie Colmann, who was ill. She was accompanied by her brother, Anthony and his wife. [3] She and Ida returned to Missoula later that month. [4] In March 1950, Ida recently moved to Missoula following a stay in Hamil...

Mary Martha Gleeson was born in Carleton County, Ontario, Canada on 8 July 1863 to John Gleeson and Margaret Tierney. [1] She was the second daughter and fourth child born to John and Margaret. She was baptized on 2 August 1863 at St. Phillip’s Catholic Church by Father O’Connell. James Douras and Susan Smith were the sponsors. [2] James Douras was John’s sister, Honora’s husband, or rather, Mary Martha’s uncle. At this time, I don’t know who Susan Smith was. Was she a relative of John or Margaret Gleeson, or was she an in-law like James Douras? [Note: Mary Martha’s brother, John, married a Susan Smith later in 1894, but this was not the same Susan.] She moved to Dakota  Territory with her parents around 1880 and married her husband, Warren Edmond Gilbert on 9 Sep 1886 in Mitchell, Davison Co, South Dakota. A newspaper article about the marriage: "Gilbert-Gleeson.  At the Catholic church in this city at 8:30 am Thursday, by Rev. Father Sheehan.  Mary Martha...