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Author: P_Smethurst
Surnames: O'Hara, Watson, Ahern, Borgeson
Classification: queries
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Edna Jane is a mystery. Raised in Grass Valley, California, married Charles Joseph Ahern
in 1920, lived in Oakland, CA with him long enough to have two children. The first died,
and after the birth of the second, a son, her husband disappeared. Before long Edna left
too, apparently returning to Grass Valley but without her son. He was raised by
Charles' parents and never saw his mother again. Around 1932 she married a man who
seems always to have lived in Nevada, Frank Borgeson. In 1942, while living in Goldfield,
Esmerelda County, Nevada, they drowned in an auto accident that happened near Lovelock,
Pershing County, Nevada.
According to a newspaper account of the accident, services were held in Lovelock, so they
might have moved to that area, from Goldfield.
We can find no marriage record for these two, no cemetery records nor death records.
I'm researching this for Edna's 89 year old son, who has asked me to see if I can
find records of her. (He asked Carson City for records, but none turned up.)
So if someone who has managed to get this far in my story can assist, we'd be very
very grateful.
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