If you attended my presentation yesterday (Friday, 13 September) as part of Legacy Family Tree’s Webtember, you learned a little about a maternal Great Grandaunt Johanna (Walsh) Healy Griffin. My session was titled “The Neighbors Knew: Strategies for Finding YOUR Ancestral Details in THEIR Records.” A slide toward the end of the hour showed an 1881 newspaper article about a neighbor accusing her of “using indecent and improper language.” Johanna countersued her with the same charge. I already had done additional follow up on the family to see what else might be in the Winona, Minnesota newspapers. Then, I used the United States Newspapers from OldNews.com™ which is part of MyHeritage.com. Thank you MyHeritage! I learned several new but unhappy things about this part of the family. I’ve been fortunate that several Winona newspapers are digitized on other websites, but had not looked in the St. Charles, Minnesota newspapers. I already knew that several lawsuits involved Johanna, her second husband David Griffin, and a challenge to his will by David’s son, also named David Griffin. The clip below provides another unsettling detail.
St. Charles Union, (Winona County, Minnesota), 4 September 1878, third page, column 7, bottom of column. OldNews is definitely worthwhile.
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