An exploration of the impact of family trauma associated with an ancestor’s senseless act that led to separation and dysfunction in the family’s structures.

Lloyd D. Bockstruck was a distinguished genealogical scholar, librarian, writer, educator, and lecturer. He was on staff in the genealogy section of the Central Dallas Public Library for thirty years, much of that time as the supervisor.

The Faculty and Graduating Class of Baylor University request the honor of your presence during the Commencement Exercises, 1942.

“While going through a metal box of items belonging to my great grandmother and great aunt,” writes Barbara Ware, “I found several items including items related to the Farmersville Rebekah Lodge.”

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In 1934, not long after Martha Nasch (1890-1970) returned home on parole from a seven-year sentencing at Minnesota’s Saint Peter State Hospital for the Insane, her husband called the press.