Comments on: Sunday’s Obituary: Frederick Sanchez, 1918

By: Jen

Jen — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:44:44 +0000

Thanks Shaz! I’ll do that. I just became a volunteer for Find a Grave recently.

By: shaz

shaz — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:19:53 +0000

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=sanchez&GSiman=1&GScid=95556&GRid=74848997&

The above url is from the Find a Grave
site. There is a photo of Frederick’s tombstone. You have dates from the obit that don’t appear on the memorial.
You can click on Edit and supply the dates (or the entire obit) to the person who created it last year. You can also supply the names of his parents, wife and children. This could be helpful to others researching the family.

If you’d rather — I could make the contact as I’m a contributor to Find a Grave. shaz17634@gmail.com

Cheers! Shaz in Surprise, AZ

By: Cherie Cayemberg

Cherie Cayemberg — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:59:41 +0000

How sad! I agree, those obituaries always get to me too. They make me want to find out why. Joan makes a great point. It could have been from the pandemic. If you get back to the area and can check the newspapers, some of them announced who contracted the flu and even who died from it. They generally (at least the ones I’ve seen) weren’t with the obituaries. I guess the obituary was for how the family wanted to remember them in life and not how they died, although we genealogists would like the extra information! It’s not certain that he died of flu though. I still have yet to find an ancestor that succumbed to the pandemic. I thought I had one. He died right in the middle of it. Turns out he was electrocuted at the coal mine he worked in. You never know. I wonder how the family faired.

By: Joan

Joan — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:44:49 +0000

It’s just a possibility, of course, but there was a worldwide flu pandemic (aka Spanish Flu) in 1918.