![]() ![]() Nobody else knows the actual circumstances." A secret war hero S.P.: "There was a trolley accident that was pretty bad in the 1920s and a newspaper reported my grandfather was a witness to it. I had no idea my mom was such a badass!" Only witness to a horrific 1920s trolly crash In it, she said she was almost arrested in Russia for refusing to pay a bill for bad service. L.S.: "We found a travel journal that my mom kept from several decades ago. Turns out her and her twin were the first babies baptized at their church and so the church asked them to change their names to Mary and Joseph." Arrested in Russia Found out at the funeral that the name on her birth certificate was Ann. Grandmother changed name at church's behest I'll never know either because all her sisters are passed now too. Oh, to know what that little scandal was all about. On the rear of one of the pictures, it says "To the most luscious creature on God's earth. E.: In regards to my maternal grandmother.I've located 2 photographs and I have no clue who the gent is in the picture (certainly not my grandfather) but the envelope it was in says "Gertie's, don't show anybody". Sign up for the Just Kristi newsletter | Get Kristi's weekly take on what's trending in the Capital Region and beyond. Note: Because some of the stories shared here are quite personal, we have identified readers by their initials only. Some revelations were shocking and others were emotionally moving. We asked on Facebook for stories of people learning something shocking about their loved ones after their death and readers responded with a fascinating array of experiences. ![]()
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