Angie was my Great Aunt. She and Theodore grew up together in Oakland, CA. They were said to be madly in love. She developed toxemia of pregnancy during her first pregnancy and died at the age of 23. It is said that Theodore never fully recovered from that loss. Name: Angie MARGIE-9710 Sex: Female Father: …
Category: Hawaii Genealogy
Margaret (Caetano) Mello’s Individual Summary
Margaret’s mother was a cousin to my great great grandmother, Maria da Conceicao (de Mello) de Braga. Her parents also came to Hawaii as contract laborers to work on the sugar plantations. (Note: This photo is the only one I have of Margaret. It comes from her application for a delayed birth certificate.) Name: Margaret…
Remembering Pearl Harbor: One Man’s Quest
We remember the attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941, every year. While many of us have looked over the official casualty lists from that horrific day, we may not be aware that some of the remains have never been identified. 25% of the 2,400 remains, to be exact. Ray Emory has made it his…
Education in the Islands circa 1911
I came across a really interesting article in the newspaper a few days ago. This article comes from the Garden Island newspaper of Kauai, 23 May 1911. The article is titled “Our Schools Are Criticized”. The article can be found at the Chronicling America website. The article hopes to defend Hawaii’s education system against critics…
Wedding Chapel Wednesday: Wedding Portraits Recovered
Copies of two beautiful pictures from the turn of the century came into my possession last year: If you look closely, you can see that they are from the same portrait. The man’s shoulder and a little smidgen of his hat appears in the woman’s half of the picture. The couple are my Great Aunt…