I spent November and December focused on researching my Kaski line, specifically my grandfather, his parents, and siblings. The matriarch of this line is Mariah Alvina Ecklund Kaski, my great-grandmother.
Her youngest daughter, Elaine, described Mariah as having dark brown eyes, auburn hair when young, then dark with a natural white wing; height of 5'4 with a 14.5 dress size. She loved to garden and had lots of house plants [just like her great-great granddaughters]; she also read a lot. She was a very hard worker, who was very close to her sisters. Illnesses included rheumatic arthritis.
Mariah and Peter had a total of 9 children: one child died at birth. By 1930, the eldest child, Earl, had already moved out of his parent's home; the US census record from 1930 (screenshot below) is likely the only official record showing the Peter & Mariah family. My grandfather, Elroy M., was 3 years and 5 months old.
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