Gertrude Myrtle Celeste Agnew Worley

This was the name of the twin sister of my Grandpa John Wesley Agnew, both born Aug.17, 1892. Looked at some of her records on ancestry today and found that she & her husband had FIVE children, the YOUNGEST being Norma M. who came to live w/ my Grandma & Grandpa after their parents both died, Gertrude in 1935 and Burl in 1938. I never thought about it before but now wonder, what happened to the other kids?? Also never knew her name of Celeste, very pretty name.

Myrtle died at the age of 43. I knew she had died young (I don’t know what of), and that her daughter Norma came to live with my grandparents, John & Mary Agnew. Norma was 8 yrs old when her mother died, & then her father died 3 years later. That’s another story– what happened with Norma. Why did only Norma come to John & Mary? The Agnews are just something else.

Also, this WED the 27th will be the 107th anniversary of James Agnew’s death, from a fall off a ladder, while painting a house with one of his sons. He died June 27, 1906 at the age of 65. His WIFE, Carrie, lived 10 more years but was only 56 when she died, in an insane asylum in southern Indiana. Myrtle and John, being the youngest children of James & Carrie, were only 14 years old when their father died in the fall off a ladder. Reading about the Agnews is just a lot of loss, at young ages, of many loved ones.

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