I did visit a couple more houses on Mary’s street, but I was too eager to look up the name Henry in the public records to do more than gather a few more names for later contact. I scribbled contact information in my notebook and then hoofed it back to my car, where I could just get enough Wi-Fi from the church to load the genealogy site.
A quick search of the name Henry with a birthdate around the time I expected and in Octonia yielded too many results to be useful. I tried adding in the search term “Alice” and got no results. So that meant a man named Henry who was approximately her age wasn’t affiliated with her in any official document that the site kept, and thus, it was unlikely they were legally connected at all.
That easy and quick resource exhausted, I turned to a newspaper searc
