My Uncle Frank was a pretty cool guy. He was my great grandmother, Leone's oldest brother, and they were extremely close, as Leone's mother died when she was 7 and Frank was barely 18. I remember that Uncle Frank used to walk the Mackinac Bridge every year. He died when I was somewhat young, and not yet interested in family history. I always assumed that my great great grandmother (his mother) was married to a step sibling or something similar, since her step fathers last name was Miller and the year of his birth (Leone's maiden name was Rohrer). It all made sense. Frank's mother had been married 2 other times, so a third marriage in those days made sense. So, I never gave it a second thought.
Until:
I took a trip up to Alanson where the family plot is and happened to find out a distant cousin lived down the road. I learned that my great great grandmother while living with her mother and stepfather in a logging town in Ontario, Canada; a man named "Tig" "forced himself on her", Uncle Frank was the product of this event. Soon after his birth, the family moved to Alanson, MI and he was given the last name Miller, not Odykirk like his mother. Uncle Frank was close enough in age to some of his mothers half siblings, so they just let people believe that Frank was his mothers brother.
Until:
I took a trip up to Alanson where the family plot is and happened to find out a distant cousin lived down the road. I learned that my great great grandmother while living with her mother and stepfather in a logging town in Ontario, Canada; a man named "Tig" "forced himself on her", Uncle Frank was the product of this event. Soon after his birth, the family moved to Alanson, MI and he was given the last name Miller, not Odykirk like his mother. Uncle Frank was close enough in age to some of his mothers half siblings, so they just let people believe that Frank was his mothers brother.
My Uncle Frank was a pretty cool guy. He was my great grandmother, Leone's oldest brother, and they were extremely close, as Leone's mother died when she was 7 and Frank was barely 18. I remember that Uncle Frank used to walk the Mackinac Bridge every year. He died when I was somewhat young, and not yet interested in family history. I always assumed that my great great grandmother (his mother) was married to a step sibling or something similar, since her step fathers last name was Miller and the year of his birth (Leone's maiden name was Rohrer). It all made sense. Frank's mother had been married 2 other times, so a third marriage in those days made sense. So, I never gave it a second thought.
Until:
I took a trip up to Alanson where the family plot is and happened to find out a distant cousin lived down the road. I learned that my great great grandmother while living with her mother and stepfather in a logging town in Ontario, Canada; a man named "Tig" "forced himself on her", Uncle Frank was the product of this event. Soon after his birth, the family moved to Alanson, MI and he was given the last name Miller, not Odykirk like his mother. Uncle Frank was close enough in age to some of his mothers half siblings, so they just let people believe that Frank was his mothers brother.
Until:
I took a trip up to Alanson where the family plot is and happened to find out a distant cousin lived down the road. I learned that my great great grandmother while living with her mother and stepfather in a logging town in Ontario, Canada; a man named "Tig" "forced himself on her", Uncle Frank was the product of this event. Soon after his birth, the family moved to Alanson, MI and he was given the last name Miller, not Odykirk like his mother. Uncle Frank was close enough in age to some of his mothers half siblings, so they just let people believe that Frank was his mothers brother.
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