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Amelia Franelich McDuffie

Amelia was Edward Thomas and Luella Franelich's daughter. (two years old) She married Henry Ivey McDuffie Jr. April 19, 1906, and moved to Rome, GA., after the wedding. The wedding was at St. Patrick's and the reception was at my great grandparents', Nicholas and Laura Franelich, house.
She was born July,1886, and died from Tuberculosis February 18,1910, just over a month after her father died from the same disease. The funeral service took place at 309 N. Hamilton St. and St. Patrick's. She is buried in Magnolia Cemetery. Henry McDuffie was born September 14, 1883, in Fayetteville, NC, and died September 29,1943, in Asheville, NC, of mouth cancer.

This cemetery picture is of Amelia's husband Henry and their two children, Aline and Ralph, at Amelia's grave site in Magnolia Cemetery. Amelia is buried in Square 27, Lot 24, but the exact location is unknown.

My great aunt, Laura Odelia Franelich (Donald) wrote Aline a letter in 1972.

Amelia and Henry had two children.
Ralph Fredrick McDuffie, born January 4, 1907, in Mobile, and died January 7,1992, in Asheville, NC., He is buried in Asheville's Garden of Memories. Aline Elizabeth McDuffie (Mason) was born April 4, 1908, in Mobile and died March 3, 1990, of complications from Diabetes and a stroke in Hobart, IN.

Ralph McDuffie later married Alice Nelon who was born on January 16, 1915, and died February 17, 2004. They had one son and two daughters. Ralph and Alice are buried together in Asheville NC.

Aline McDuffie married Ralph linzey Cavanaugh, Sr., March 15, 1927, in Charlotte, NC. Their marriage broke up, and later, Ralph died February 16, 1944, in Detroit, MI. Later, Aline married Aaron Sylvester Mason (1904-1992) in Valparaiso, IN. They were divorced in the early '50's and Aline married Floyd Good, divorced and remarried Aaron in the mid '60's. They are both buried together in Chapel Lawn Cemetery in Schereville, Indiana.

One lineage:

Thomas Franelich and Odelia Weinheimer
   Edward Franelich and Luella Turner
      Amelia Franelich and Henry Ivey McDuffie, Jr.
         Aline Elizabeth McDuffie and Ralph Linzey Cavanaugh, Sr.
             Ruth Louise Cavanaugh (now Terrell)