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Comments on: The Good Old Days? https://whynow.dumka.us/2014/09/03/the-good-old-days-4/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Thu, 04 Sep 2014 13:40:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2014/09/03/the-good-old-days-4/comment-page-1/#comment-70223 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 13:40:35 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=33787#comment-70223 In reply to Badtux.

Ruth Dumka, October – November 1900, my grandfather’s youngest sibling. The 1900 Census asked how many children a woman had and how many lived which was 5 and 4 for my great grandmother Dumka and Iknow it was 6 and 5 for my grandmother Dumka.

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By: Badtux https://whynow.dumka.us/2014/09/03/the-good-old-days-4/comment-page-1/#comment-70196 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 07:36:13 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=33787#comment-70196 The family graveyard where my father is buried has lots of gravestones in front of tiny graves that read only, “Baby LastName”. They didn’t name children at birth then, because so many died before they reached three months old. The pile of tiny gravestones didn’t start receding until after the invention of sulfa drugs in the 1930’s…

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