This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0V.2ADE/2343.2.2.1 Message Board Post: Oh those poor people to loose all those beautiful children and not to be able to help them even one bit. It took real courage to go on after that. Such a shame about your sister but in a true female way, she thought she would get better. My sympathies to the family. At least you and the rest of the family live in a time where the disease can be red flagged and perhaps dealt with. My mother's cousin was a beautiful red haired woman in the picture of health one minute and gone the next. She had inherited this beautiful auburn red hair from her red haired Irishman grandfather (who served with the Confederacy during the Civil War) so she was somewhat unique especially in the German community. I doubt her parents ever got over her loss. Linda