tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6681636933577206972.post1838631770934487550..comments2024-03-29T07:29:10.462-07:00Comments on Papergreat: Witches, pickles and good fun at an 1893 party in Pittsburg, KansasChris Ottohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13435979081891289688noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6681636933577206972.post-87957682005282258152017-10-25T08:42:26.036-07:002017-10-25T08:42:26.036-07:00If you're on Facebook, check out the group Hi...If you're on Facebook, check out the group Historic Pittsburg Kansas where there's a c.1902 photo of the Greef house at 407 W Euclid. Kansas_Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04535342533974623409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6681636933577206972.post-21533685239554541712017-10-17T14:34:18.991-07:002017-10-17T14:34:18.991-07:00The second time I quote Fargo by the Coen brothers...The second time I quote <i>Fargo</i> by the Coen brothers: "I'm not sure I agree with you 100% on your police work."<br /><br />This site gives the date of your article as March <i>16</i> (not 23), 1893 -- or might the same blurb have been published twice, one week apart?: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/94684262<br /><br />"But" (or even "Bud") is <i>not</i> the first name of the individual in question, nor is "Byrt" his last name. Rather, "Byrt" is short for "Albert", just as "Bella" (Byrt's sister) is short for "Isabella", and both shared the last name "Maxwell" (before her marriage to Otto Greef) -- see: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=102674099<br /><br />Thus, Byrt and Bella (Albert and Isabella -- elsewhere "Isabelle") were brother and sister who hosted the "Witch Party".<br /><br />Byrt sold bicycles as of 1894: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/94670967<br /><br />Byrt's wife Estelle also died young (at age 38 in 1910), as did his sister Bella (as you stated above): https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=112597721<br /><br />Byrt and Estelle's son Donald fought in World War II, dying shortly thereafter: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7645180<br /><br />Donald's wife Thelma died in 1980 in Texas -- and there the clues stop for that particular branch of the family tree: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7645171<br /><br />A collateral descendant, Stephen E. Greef, is a genealogist, and presumably knows how to fit the remaining pieces of the puzzle together: https://www.geni.com/people/Stephen-Greef/6000000018434678569 and http://www.telephonereverse411.com/listing/815-544-3682<br /><br />-- Executive Vice President in Charge of Ephemera ReunionsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com