This lock of hair is from my grandmother, Anna Pavloske Anderson. She died in 1937 and is buried in Rosehill Cemetery in Linden, New Jersey. At that time, wakes were held in homes. She lived at 13 Atlantic Street in Elizabeth, NJ. My mother was 14 years old when her mother died. She told me that she went downstairs during the night and held her dead mother’s hand until she was chased back...
Sketch of An Unknown Man
I don’t know who this man is, where or when the drawing was made, or why my mother kept it for many years. My sister found the sketch when she was going through Mother’s papers after she died in January 2011. It must have meant something to her, since she brought it with her to Florida after she discarded most things when she moved from Vermont in the early 90s. I vaguely remember her showing it...