Mary Salina Zimmerman - Lost family

Hi David!

I would be happy to share any info I have on Mary or the Zimmerman family. Mary was my great-aunt. I looked and this is all the info I have on your Uncle Sherman:

When Sherman Leroy Snyder was born on June 2, 1920, his father, Frank, was 27 and his mother, Mary, was 17. He married Margaret I Cross in May 1944. He then married Daisy J Bancroft on September 9, 1985. He died on December 26, 2003, in Flint, Michigan, at the age of 83, and was buried there.

Here is what I have for Mary:
Mary Salina Zimmerman was born on April 15, 1903, in Jefferson, Pennsylvania, her father, John, was 29, and her mother, Ida, was 23. She had one son with Frank Edward Snyder in 1920. She died as a young mother on December 21, 1922, in DuBois, Pennsylvania due to Tubercular meningitis, Tuberculosis of the Brain (Cerebrum cerebellum), and Tuberculosis femur, at the age of 19, and was buried in her hometown.

I hope you have a great weekend!

thanks,
Angie

Angie, thanks for your reply. It was only in my recent research that I or anyone else in my family knew the story of my grandfathers first marriage and our Uncle Sherman. We did know Uncle Sherman and my sister is named Margaret, after his first wife. After my mom passed away I came into possession of over 100 postcards that my grandfather had, some are over 100 years old. There is card that is a painting of George Washington and on the back says , "From, Mary" I am curious how he met her,,perhaps at a church social as the postcards indicate that was a very popular thing to do.It's a story that probably will never be known, this unhappy story of Mary is now part of our family's heritage. Do you perhaps have an image of hyour great- great Aunt Mary that I could place in a booklet that I am making about the Snyder family?
David Snyder