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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Walter Herrick Blood: Birth: 11 NOV 1872 in Kenosha, Kenosha, WI. Death: 1944

  2. William Almerin Blood: Birth: 1874. Death: 1876

  3. Horace DUNHAM Blood: Birth: 20 AUG 1877 in Kenosha, Kenosha, WI.

  4. Alvin Hamilton Blood: Birth: 2 FEB 1879 in Kenosha, Kenosha, WI. Death: 15 DEC 1926 in Aberdeen, Grays Harbor, WA

  5. Frank Herbert Blood: Birth: 1 FEB 1881 in Kenosha, Kenosha, WI. Death: 19 NOV 1983 in Niskayuna, Schenectady, NY

  6. Laura Lillian Blood: Birth: 21 SEP 1890 in Kenosha, Kenosha, WI. Death: 29 MAR 1975 in Schenectady, Schenectady, NY


Sources
1. Title:   New York State Department of Health, Certificate of Death for Josephine Blood (25 July 1941)
2. Title:   Edgar Blake, Sir William Herrick descendancy blueprint, compiled Revised 1932 (Chicago).
3. Title:   National Archives, 1860 Census for Darlington, Lafayette, WI (19 Jul 1860)
4. Title:   Bureau of the Census, 1930 Census for Schecectady, Schecectady, NY (1 Apr 1930)
Page:   25A
5. Title:   State of Illinois, Lake County, Marriage License for Charles H. BLOOD and Josephine A. HERRICK (27 Nov 1871)
6. Title:   Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service, 1 Jul 1944, Application for Social Security Account Number

Notes
a. Note:   tion to the coroner at the time of her death (17). Darlington was larger village about 7 miles south of Willow Springs. Josephine was great grandmother. I remember Grandpa Frank saying that he thought his mother Josephine had said that she was from Iowa. Perhaps he believed that because Darlington is located only 25 miles east of Iowa, and just south of Iowa County, WI.
  Should not be confused with another Josephine A. Herrick born in 1851: This other Josephine was born 16 Dec 1851 in VT, daughter of Josiah HERRICK and Lucia Wheeler (The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America, by Albert Gallatin Wheeler, Boston: American College of Genealogy, 1914).
Note:   This info was provided by her daughter Laura, who supplied this informa
b. Note:   aura being the informant). Josephine was 90 and living at 1627 Rugby Road in Schenectady, NY with my Aunt Laura. I assume Laura was taking care of her mother in her old age. At 4 a.m. that morning, Josephine fell out of a window, breaking her pelvis, leg and rupturing her internal organs. The coroner noted that Josephine suffered from "arteriosclerosis" and "mental." In the space on the death certificate where he could have listed the cause of death as an accident or suicide, the coroner simply wrote "?" She was buried in Kenosha, Wisconsin on 27 July 1941.
  I remember dad saying that the screen was found pushed out and laying on the ground near the body, and that his mother Ethel thought the event was a suicide but his father Frank thought it was an accident. There is a history of mental illness in Ethel's family (her sister ______________), but there is no history in Frank's family. Frank thought Josephine accidentally fell out of the window while trying to open or close it. It happened on a July night in house before the days of air conditioning, so Josephine may well have been trying to adjust the window. Moreover, Grampa Frank owned the house on Rugby Road where his sister Laura paid rent. Josephine had been living there ___ years before her death.
  OBIT:
  Obit:
  Mrs. Charles Blood dies in N.Y. at 90
  Former Kenosha Resident succumbs at Schenectady
  Mrs. Josphine A. Blood, aged 90 years, widow of the late Charles H. Blood and a former resident of Kenosha passed away at her home at 1627 Rugby Road, Schenectady, N.Y. Thursday Morning following a short illness.
  She was born in Darlington, Wis. on July 10, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Herrick. She spent her early life in Darlington, and as a young woman she came to Kenosha where she made her home for many years. She moved to Schenectady in 1916 and has made her home there since that time.
  Mrs. Blood was a devout christian, being a member and active of the Christian Science Church of which she was a member for many years.
  She is survived by two sons and one daughter: Walter H. Blood of Kenosha, Frank H. Blood and Laura Blood of Schenectady, N.Y., and by 2 grandchildren.
Note:   She died of "sudden death" according to the death certificate (my Aunt L
c. Note:   Plot: Lot 3, Block 56, North West Division
d. Note:   Living with her daughter Laura.
e. Note:   I cannot find her. Can't find her in the Wisconsin 1865 Census either.


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