Posted on 06/26/2020 9:36:26 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
I just discovered my first cousin 3 times removed was tragically hanged in a noose in a bizarre accident. This happened in 1899.
("I thawt I thaw a Frozen Thames")
Doing research on my family tree, I found out the 5th great grandfather of my son in law was the last white man executed by hanging in Johnston county NC in 1879....
No, it goes both ways.
What else would you call the old person, then?
If cousin 2x removed is the young part of the relationship, what is the elder part called?
Answer: same thing. Doesn’t matter which gen you discuss.
Great-grandfather’s wife? Do you mean YOUR great-grandmother? Because if not, then the child is only related by marriage.
And he’s not an ancestor of anyone! Just elder gen.
that would be the 1st cousin of the authors great grandparent...
or something...
Please say I’m not seeing all this hand-wringing about safety on FR!
Though I never understood the inconsistency, I have never heard the term “Grand Aunt” used. They were always “Great Aunt”. Always understood that to mean my grandparents’ sibling, not cousin!
It was probably written about Kolyma.
In the gulags they had a poem about Kolyma...
Kolyma, Kolyma, amazing planet
12 months of winter,
the rest is summer...
Here is a sad story from years ago. I have been to this home and museum in Pawnee OK.
https://oklahoman.com/article/2672328/a-tale-of-tragedy-for-pawnee-bill
The Thames would thaw but there might have been areas where much smaller bodies of water could stay rather frozen. Skating on thin ice so to speak...
When I first saw that news item from 1899, i was reading the rather garbled OCR text and it looked like some bad guy in the family had been hanged. Then I found the image of the paper and saw it was the little 3 year old boy.
Any idea why your SIL’s ancestor was hanged?
Good point. Definitely related by marriage (see #14): My Gr-Grandfather’s wife was the the sister of the little boy’s father.
wonder if he’d done all that if he would have seen how things turned out today
So not a direct relation.
An old neighbor in her 80s (back in 1975 or so) told me every time I came over not to play with ropes or nooses as her 12 year old son accidentally hanged himself with one. Must have been about 1930.
It’s funny, I completely overlooked the “Grand Aunt” usage. It’s always been Great Aunt and Great Uncle to me as well. I suppose “Grand” makes sense because all the “Grands” would be in a common generation and the “Greats” in the generations older than the “Grands.”
But, like you, I’ve never heard it before.
These are simple, almost no-cost things that can save a kid’s life. I don’t see anything wrong with them.
My Dad had a couple of good buddies lose sons due to stupid accidents. In one the kid was digging a deep hole for fun (who hasn’t done that?) and the sides collapsed, smothering him.
In the other, a teenager went out in a blizzard to walk to a girlfriend’s house nearby. He got snagged on a barbed wire fence and froze to death.
You can’t regulate either of those things out of existence, but more safety training and awareness could have saved them.
Do you want to give up seat/shoulder belts, collapsible steering columns, side-impact beams in car doors and disc brakes?
Nope, not a direct relation. I loosely call anybody on the family tree a “relation.”
So sad. She must have still felt a heavy burden.
1st Cousin 3 times removed means that the child was the 1st cousin of a great-great-great grandparent. Your cousin’s children are your 1st cousins once removed. etc.
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