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Grandmother’s Hair

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...