Today in my family history: Joyce Ann Journey and Catherine Gahm Gergens

Remembering today in my family history:

Joyce Ann Journey, my second cousin on my mother's side

on the date of her death, 73 years ago.  She would have been 73 years of age today. 

Born: 22 March 1936 in Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio

Died: 8 September 1936 in Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio at the age of 5 months

She suffered from spina bifida and hydrocephalus for which there was no significant treatment at the time. 

She was the fifth of six children of Cecil Wayne Journey and Virginia Moor. Cecil Journey was the son of my maternal Grandfather's (John S. Henderson) sister, Gertrude Henderson.  

Joyce Ann was buried on 10 September 1936 in Greenlawn Cemetery in Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio

Catherine Gahm my first cousin thrice removed on my father's side

Her 159th birthday

Catherine was the only child of Henry Gahm and my great, great grandfather's (Lewis Shy) sister, Caroline Shy.  Caroline died in 1850, the year of her daughters' birth and only a year after her marriage.  She had been "lost" to family recall until my recent research returning her to our memory. Caroline was born in Schneckenhausen, Rheinpfalz Bavaria in 1829 and came with her mother and brothers to the US in 1848 marrying her husband, Henry Gahm on 20 September 1849 in Jackson County, Ohio.  Her husband, Henry, remarried multiple times (three more) after her death and himself lived until 1908.  They are both buried in Salem German Cemetery in Jackson County Ohio. 

Catherine was born on 8 September, 1850 in Jackson County, Ohio and, as her mother died that same year (possibly related to childbirth), she never knew her mother.  Catherine married Martin Gergens 1849-1931) in about 1873.  She herself lived to the age of 94 and died on 23 December 1944 in Pickneyville, Perry County, IL