Hello,
Thank you for all the responses. I think I'll hold off on paying over $20
US for a birth certificate.
Shirley, that is one of my problems. I don't know anything about the
family of "Joe" and "Jessie" PACHECO in the village of Sao Roque. I only
know they were the parents of "Tony."
After thinking about this for several years, I've come to the thought that
Mrs. Elsie PACHECO was so angry with her husband from 1928 on that she
refused to talk about him. He was killed in a car accident in Raynham,
MA; I did recently see a report that said he might have been the driver.
There were 3 other men from Cambridge in the 1920-era car, and they might
have been coming from a job at the Pacheco Dairy Farm in that town.
Elsie was pregnant with twins when the accident happened, and she delivered
a month later. Both boys died before they were 2. The family believes
she lost several babies - possibly stillborns on miscarriages. She had 5
surviving children at the time of the accident, the youngest "1." She
had 2 married sisters in Cambridge and Somerville, and they also lost their
husbands before their time. (MEDEIROS, PERRY). The 3 sisters lived to
see Age 80, but as widows.
So, it is my opinion that Elsie just would not talk about her late husband -
or his relatives - or his family, etc. Even her surviving children (in
their 80's) don't know if their father had siblings. And, she went so
far as to tell their grandchildren that the other PACHECO families in
Cambridge and Somerville were .not. related to them.
I think it was a researcher, Linda, who told me that at least one of the
other families came from the same village.
We drove through Inman Square yesterday to get to Boston to attend a Support
Group. There were 2 things which were discussed which were interesting.
Most of the brain-aneurysm survivors agreed that they had been under a lot
of stress - just before. And, the nurse agreed that, when you have stress,
your blood-pressure goes up. One comment was made that a man had suffered
.boils. as a long-time truck-driver, and, after he survived the .brain
surgery, the boils stopped happening. I commented that in a manner of
speaking, an aneurysm is a type of a boil.
Yes, when I was in the .family room. at the hospital while my husband was
in the ICU for 2 weeks, I heard too many stories about people .not.
surviving - even women in their 40's. And over the year, more stories.
But, I also have heard about .miracles.
Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA)
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