Title: US Treasury Department, Social Security Application: Laura Lillian Blood (24 Nov 1936)
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Title: Kenosha County Register of Deeds, Registration of Birth for Laura Blood (20 Dec 1890)
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Title: New York State Department of Health, Certificate of Death: Laura L. Blood (31 Mar 1975)
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Title: Unknown Kenoha, WI newspaper, Obiturary for Laura Blood
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Title: National Archives, 1900 Census for Kenosha, Kenosha, WI (11 Jun 1900)
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Title: National Archives, 1910 Census for Kenosha, Kenosha, WI (16 Apr 1910)
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Title: National Archives and Records Administration, 1920 Census for Schenectady, Schenectady, NY, ED 179, Sheet 8. (8 Jan 1920)
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Title: Bureau of the Census, 1930 Census for Schecectady, Schecectady, NY (1 Apr 1930) Page: 25A
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Note: l reason was that we had little in common. I visited infrequently. She was about 5' tall and occasionally drove this big old American car from the early 50s with huge wings and enormous heavy doors. When I was about 8 years old, she drove me someplace and when we got back to her place, she slammed my finger in one of those big doors. Laura was Grandpa Frank's only sister. She was nothing like him. He was a Unitarian humanist intellectual who believed in deductive reasoning and science. She was a Christian Scientist who believed in flying saucers. She never married. I doubt she was ever even close to it. For over 40 years, she lived on the top flat at 1627 Rugby Road in Schenectady, NY. My mother's parents lived in the flat below. Grandpa Frank was the landlord and rented 1627 to both his sister and son's mother-in-law. It is a nice part of Schenectady only a mile or two from my parent's house in Niskayuna. I would ride my bike down to the house and visit Sally and Abbe and maybe visit Laura too. She had a lot of books on flying saucers and alien abductions written by a guy name Anderson - David Anderson I think. His books were very informative because they showed detailed illustrations of the interior of the Venusian and Saturnian scout ships and mother ships which he knew having seen them first hand. I remember on Thanksgiving, about 1972, the whole family (Laura, my parents, their parents, and me) was eating at Laura's long dinner table. I was sitting across from Laura and she asked me something that required me to choose between two things, so I said, "Eeny meeny miny mo catch a rabbit by his toe..." And Laura cut me off and said, "Don't say nigger." She was over 80 and couldn't hear what I had really said. So Dad said, "He didn't say nigger Laura." Laura accepted that but I was completely dumfounded. I knew that Laura had heard me wrong and knew what a nigger was and did not like the word, but I was confused and could not understand how she got "nigger" from "rabbit." During the car ride home, dad told me that some people say "catch a nigger by his toe." I was appalled. Then I got angry. I wondered what kind of person was she to have 'heard' me say "nigger" so easily. The whole incident left me with bad impression of her because I began to suspect that SHE was the bigot - and I didn't know that word. She was a Christian Scientist and read the bible often. I remember once that she asked me if I knew much about the bible. I told her proudly that I had listened to Jesus Christ Superstar several times. She cringed. I guess that was the wrong answer. In her last few months of life, she got very sick. Laura needed to see a doctor, but she refused to see one because of her faith. As Grandma Sally, who lived downstairs and was close to 70 herself, took care of her daily for months. Sally must have been feeding her twice a day and cleaning up after her. Few of us truly appreciated her sacrifice. I'm sure Grampa Frank never thanked her because he was so quiet and unpracticed at social graces. Her health continued to fail until she got so sick that it became apparent to her that not only might she die, but Jesus might let it happen. She was admitted to a hospital, but was not there long. By then, one lung was completely collapsed and the other was only half-functional. She was in a lot pain and had difficulty breathing. She died before I even had a chance to visit. After she died, dad said that she had lost her faith near the end. What he meant was that it was too bad that she had not lost her faith much sooner. I never really understood or connect with Aunt Laura. She was so different from her brother Grandpa Frank. I was 15 years old when she died. It was the first funeral I ever attended. I thought it was the dumbest thing I ever saw. Some minister speaking to a room half full of Unitarians about Godly crap. Although he did a good job at finding out what kind of a person she was, the fact that he had not known her bothered me a lot. Who put him in charge of defining who she was? I swore I would never go to another funeral. I did not attend either Ethel or Abbe's funeral when they died a couple of years later, only a month apart. I did go to the simple service at the cemetery for Abbe. I believe the next funeral service that I attended was in 1999 in Maryland, 24 years later. I still really dislike the idea of the funeral service and only go because it is expected. Note: I don't remember my Aunt Laura well. She died when I was 15 but the rea
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Note: hronic lung disease associated with heart failure. She was cremated March 31 (39). Note: According to the DC, Laura died of respiratory acidosis due to severe c
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Note: ing as an electrical engineer at GE. Note: Her brother Frank had already moved to Schenectady in 1904 and was work
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Note: ther Frank. Note: Her mother was living with her. She was renting, I presume from her bro
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