I had suspected this also, but just confirmed. James Agnew, my great-grandfather in New Albany’s first wife was Jewish. Her name was Mary Caroline Gross. They had 3 girls, Annie, Ollith (also called Olive), and then Helen. Ollith married a “Joshua Sigmon” and later went to the Jewish hospital in Louisville at the time of her death. This Mary Caroline’s family belonged to a church on the Ohio river that was a stop on the Underground RR (at the time of the functioning of the underground RR). Today it is a black church.
The first wife died 3 yrs. after Helen’s birth. The kids of the first family all knew and associated with the kids of the 2nd family, the last ones being my grandfather, James Wesley & his twin, Gertrude. Fred, who is an older brother to my grandfather John Wesley, took Ollith (his step-sister) to the hospital in Louisville.
Her name on the death certificate is Olive Sigmon. Says she was buried in New Albany. She was already a widow at that time, 1943.
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