This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: algibbs129 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.jefferson/3186/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am trying to locate a possible obit. on Elvira (Gibbs) Braden, m. John Braden and had son Albert Harrison Braden. They lived in Jefferson County, Illinois and she died in 1896. I believe she was only 29 at the time. An uncle told me the story of her death. That she had been trying to get her husband to take a bag of feed to the barn and it wasn't done. They didn't have a regulur gate, sort of a ladder up up side of fence and down on the other. She put the bag of feed on her should and started up the ladder gate and died with a ruptured blood vessel to the brain. She was dau. of Albert and Elizabeth Jane Drew of Jefferson Co.,Ill. and her brother, my grandfather Albert b. Dec 25, 1872 Jefferson Co., Illinois related this story to his oldest son my uncle James Gibbs. I can't get any information on deaths of her parents-hoping an obituary might give a clue. Can anyone help? Thanks! Al Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.