Do you ever wonder what our family would have looked like if Gus Linn hadn't made it back from the Civil War? If John Linn's first wife hadn't died in childbirth? If Olof Olofson and Maria Barquist had never met? If any of our ancestors hadn't left Sweden for the United States?
Today, I'm sharing an article recently found about my grandmother's brush with death.
Married to Peter Linn in 1920, Maude gave birth to 5 sons, who in turn produced over 20 grandchildren, and many great- and great-great grandchildren today.
Our ancestors survived many accidents, illnesses, wars, the 1918 flu, and more. I'm always mindful of the hardships they endured and the strength and courage they had. But today, I'm especially thankful that Grandma Linn survived a horrible accident and lived a full life with a large family who loved her and remember her.
A very interesting piece of Gma Maude Linn's history. So many things in our family history, given any of them with a different outcome, would have changed the Linn tree substantially. Thanks again Diane for telling us about an event in our ancestor's lives, and had a different outcome, none of us would have ever been born.
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