Marion and Helen stayed with “Auntie Pearl” in LaGrange, Illinois where they attended and graduated from Lyons Township High School.
“Auntie Pearl” was Louise Pearl Burnside and daughter of Marcus Terry Burnside and Maude Taliaferro Cranston who was some 14 years older than her younger brother, Christopher “Doc” Cranston. Marcus and Maude married in 1883.when “Doc” was seven years old.
“Auntie Pearl” was born in 1886 when “Doc” was ten years old.
Marion, Helen, Bill and Tip were born after 1910 when “Auntie Pearl” was twenty four years old – thus considerably older than a “normal cousin.”
But “Auntie Pearl” was really Marion, Helen, Bill and Tip’s COUSIN – NOT AUNT.
~ CCJ
JPW
Just a note that (if I remember correctly from the family history I did in my twenties in the 90’s) we also have an ancestor “Maude Taleferro” who is my only claim to any Italian heritage, and that is how it was spelled in the family documents I combed through. I would offer to try to dig it up and verify except that, as an old confirmed bachelor, I intentionally passed all that material along to other family members who have kids In hopes of ensuring that stuff gets handed down properly
Charles C. Jett
Unfortunately, I have no memory of Maude Taleferro.