My grandmother's father, Rude Fisher, lost his first wife Marinda to flu-related pneumonia in May of 1919.
He married her younger sister the next February.
I don't know if that was the primary reason that my grandmother didn't care for her Aunt Maude, who became her step-mother so soon after the death of her mother.
By all accounts, Aunt Maude was... well... perspicity!
She believed in a clean house, but didn't particular tolerate (or trust) children all that well.
She and Rude Fisher had a daughter of their own, Ina Fisher Shilling.
Ina's premature death was at first believed to be a suicide. It was later determined (at least to the satisfaction of family members and most folks in the area) that Ina had been murdered by her husband. She might not have been his first victim.
I'll have to dig up the newspaper coverage of the trial on my next trip to Albion!
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