The search

I got a phone call yesterday that totally blew me away for a few reasons.  It will take me a few minutes to get to the phone call.

When I was younger I spent a good deal of time with my maternal Grandparents Frank and Dorothy Jordan or as I knew them Pop-Pop and Grammy.  Grammy and I were very close, a good deal of my childhood memories include her.  We would sit together she would watch television with me or she would read and I would play.  She would talk to me about her childhood and her family in Boundbrook, New Jersey.  Grammy had a few issues, that she was dealing with, she was a bastard (her mother was not married to her father). That is not such a big deal these deays but in 1909 it was a scandal.

Most of the family belived that Grammy's mother Anna, had died from pneumonia.  I was told that Anna had been murdered.  That in 1922, Anna had been seeing a married man, and for some reason Anna had started seeing a second man.  The first man was not happy about it and shot Anna, the Second man, and then himself.  My sister also remembers this story.

I have tried to search the internet to find anythig that I can about the death of my great grandmother.  In June 2011, I emailed the Boundbrook, New Jersey library system, asking for some help.  I don't know much.  I know that her name was either Anne or Anna.  That her last name was either Krowman or Kroehner, She was living in Boundbrook, New Jersey.  My mother remembers the last name of Marlowe, but can't remember why.  I received an email back from Mary Nelson at the Library, ashe couldn't find much information.  But she did find info about a woman named Anna Knutter who died in 1921.  I didn't think that was anything, I thanked Mary and went about my life. Occassionaly typing  the words: Anna Krowman, Murder, 1922, Boundbrook, New Jersey, into the google search bar and not coming up with anything.

Now onto my phone call from yesterday. 

I received a phone call from Mary Nelson, she had found a series of articles about a girl named Josephine who had been stabbed 20-22 times in April of 1925.  Mary sent me some information through email.  I now know that this story has nothing to do with my Great Grandmother.  Josephine was 11 years old when she died. 

What really got me going though was that after a year, Mary was still searching on her own for me.  I was amazed.  I still am.

I will continue the search.  If anyone has any tips on how I can keep searching please let me know.