52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: #46 ~ Birthdays

 Written for Amy Johnson Crow's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. (click here for details at Amy's blog)

 

Just the facts:

Ancestor name: Mary Ellen (Nellie) Auflick

Birth: 29 April 1864, Minersville, Meigs, Ohio

Marriage: 1 January 1884, Charleston, Kanawha, West Virginia

Death:27 September 1940, Meigs, Ohio

Relationship: Great-great-grandmother
I am descended through:
- her daughter, Nelle Eickelberg (1885 - 1970)
- her son, Jack H Quick (1913 - 1991)
- his daughter, my mother, Jacqulin Ann Quick  (1935 - 2020)

 

Story:

I am fortunate to have many pictures from my Grandpa Quick’s photo albums. The birthday theme reminded me that there was a picture of someone’s 75^th birthday but I couldn’t remember exactly who it was. When I found it, it was for HIS grandmother, Nellie (Auflick) Eickelberg.

 

In spite of the fact that the details above show that she was born and died in Ohio, she lived in Colorado from 1887, when her son (the baby in this picture) was born up until her death.  She was visiting friends in Ohio when she died in 1940, but she is buried in Fairmount Cemetery in Denver.

 

Here she is, (in Colorado) celebrating her 75^th birthday.