When I was researching Lillian Louise Shoemaker several days ago, I was looking at newspapers.com for any articles about her. I came across all the sensational articles about the shooting. Then I began to see some items that gave me a completely different view of her. Could this be her? Was she really the Executive Secretary of the Tuberculous Association of Berrien County?
I began to think that you can’t always draw conclusions about people’s lives based on the partial picture you get from records and a few stories.
There were a lot of items. Each one building an impressive new picture, considering what I thought I knew about my Lillian Louise Shoemaker’s life. It was when I read the article below that I realized I had the wrong person. Driving a car? A diamond ring?
Fri, Mar 23, 1928 · Page 1
I looked for a Louise Shoemaker on ancestry.com and sure enough, there was a white Mrs. Louise Shoemaker, formerly a nurse in a TB ward who became the secretary of the Tuberculosis Association. I wish I found out before adding all of those articles to my Lillian Louise Shoemaker’s life line, because I had to spend more time deleting them.
L- LILLIAN LOUISE Reed Shoemaker – for the other post with the shooting
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An easy error to make. Pleased you were able to rectify.
Me too. Wish it had been her.