Clara Marion Graham
My Grandma Doris had lots of sisters. All of the sisters were older than her except for one, and they were pretty spread out age-wise. Despite that, and the fact that they had such different personalities, her sisters were her best friends. For a period of time during their adulthood, several of them lived only blocks apart in the same neighborhood - some even on the same street. Seven sisters who grew up together, and stayed close as adults. But there was an eighth Graham sister, too, who never got the chance to grow up. Her name is Clara Marion Graham.
My great-grandparents Thayer and Ida Viola Graham were already the parents of one son, Russell, when in early 1915 they welcomed their first daughter Clara Marion into the world. Sadly, little Clara died from cerebrospinal meningitis when she was only seven months and eight days old, on Friday, July 16, 1915. I recently tracked down Clara's obituary which was published in the Saginaw Courier-Herald on Saturday, July 17, 1915. From it, I learned that Clara's funeral took place at home on South Fourth Street in Saginaw on July 18, 1915. She was buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Saginaw. Thanks to the City of Saginaw Cemeteries Search, I know the exact plot she's buried in, and also that there's no marker for her.
It's been almost one hundred years since Clara passed, but I want to keep the memory of her alive, my great-aunt who I never knew. She lived, and she mattered. She was the beginning of the Graham sisterhood.
My great-grandparents Thayer and Ida Viola Graham were already the parents of one son, Russell, when in early 1915 they welcomed their first daughter Clara Marion into the world. Sadly, little Clara died from cerebrospinal meningitis when she was only seven months and eight days old, on Friday, July 16, 1915. I recently tracked down Clara's obituary which was published in the Saginaw Courier-Herald on Saturday, July 17, 1915. From it, I learned that Clara's funeral took place at home on South Fourth Street in Saginaw on July 18, 1915. She was buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Saginaw. Thanks to the City of Saginaw Cemeteries Search, I know the exact plot she's buried in, and also that there's no marker for her.
It's been almost one hundred years since Clara passed, but I want to keep the memory of her alive, my great-aunt who I never knew. She lived, and she mattered. She was the beginning of the Graham sisterhood.
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