Friday, December 25, 2020

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Merry Christmas. It's raining, and not too cold. Tried to take some pictures of Woodgie, but that's, as always, a lost cause.  These two are okay, but the tree doesn't show in either of them, so you have to take my word that it's Christmas. 

I can't really say it's a merry Christmas. I'm here in New Jersey, my brothers are both in Louisville still, there's no feast at John's, and my mother is under a blanket of snow in Bethany Cemetery in Valley Station, Kentucky, beside my father, who's been there for 23 years. 
Something oddly funny showed up in a search I did on Ancestry last night. It's kind of creepy, since a lot of the details are right, then it takes a wild swing into the weird. The facts in this collection were found using artificial intelligence technology and may contain errors. Seriously, Ancestry? May contain errors??? Wow. The truly weird part is how much of it is right, or close. He did live in Bloomington, IL, he died in 1997, his father's middle name was Dunbar, and his actual siblings were Milton Caress (his half brother) and Doris (Dottie) Johnson. The rest is just truly weird - born in 1905? Mother Sharon Malone? And where did those other siblings come from - and the extra child - Dreshawn M. Blaxton ??? A truly odd discovery.

William Scott Maddux in the U.S., Newspapers.com 
Obituary Index, 1800s-current 
Name: William Scott Maddux 
Gender: Male 
Death Age: 92 
Birth Date: abt 1905 
Residence Place: Bloomington, IL
Death Date: Abt 1997 
Burial Place: Green Meadows 
Obituary Date: 7 Oct 1997 
Obituary Place: Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America 
Father: Michael Dunbar 
Mother: Sharon Malone 
Spouse: Betty Roberts 
Child: Kathleen Pearlman 
John Maddux 
Gregory Maddux 
Dreshawn M. Blaxton 
Siblings: Milton Caress 
Doris Johnson 
Latanya McCoy 
Tiffany Malone 
Delisa Love 
Shenna Dunbar 
 The facts in this collection were found using artificial intelligence technology and may contain errors.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

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Updated Dec 25 at 1:04 PM local
Confirmed
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Deaths
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Recovered
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451,787
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