To choose one great grandmother, I'll choose the one I'm named after.
Eugenia Almeda Booth Miller (1873-1936). When she was 2 years old her mother died in childbirth..
If I hadn't had the medical care that is now available for new mothers, my second son or myself might not have survived his birth. Or actually my first son wouldn't have lived to be a year old. And my third son (by Cesarean Section) wouldn't have survived either. So many of my ancestresses died in childbirth.
Great grandmother Eugenia's father, Richard Booth, was an attorney who died in a gun violence outside a tavern when she was 6 years old. Since she had one older brother, and two older half brothers, it is likely that she had already gone to live with her father-in-law's family, the William Lewis Booths of Hillsboro, Texas.
There she grew until somehow meeting a German immigrant who worked as a passenger conductor on the railroad, Charles Herman Mueller (Miller) (1868-1946). They married in 1897.
Of their 4 daughters, the oldest became my grandmother.
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if only I new half as much about my ancestors as you do sadly I do not and no one left to ask
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