Thanks to Michael McAllister for reaching out to me, I was able to discover another sad story that befell our family and the resilience of that family. My Great Grandfather, Joseph Hillanbrand was born in Frackville, Pennsylvania, as well as his first cousin, Jacob Hildebrand (an aberration of Hillanbrand). Both families moved from Frackville to Philadelphia. Jacob Hildebrand later married Julia Gaffney in 1896. Through this happy marriage, they had four children: Francis James, born 1897; Joseph Andrew, born 1899; Mary, born 1903; and Elizabeth, born 1906. Unfortunately, Julia had contracted the terrible disease of Tuberculosis and succumbed to it, at the age of 36 in 1909. Jacob HIldebrand, soon thereinafter, contracted Typhoid Fever, and died at the age of 38. The four children were left with no parents and the oldest was just 12 years of age. Julia's brother Thomas Gaffney took in Francis, Mary and Elizabeth, while Julia's sister Hannah (nee Gaffney) McAllister took in Joseph. Just another tragic story of loss of family at a young age and the selfless adaptation that family takes to recover from such tragedy.