Joseph Gabara

Since I started researching my ancestry years ago, the data I collected on g-g Joseph Gabara painted such a difficult and often sad life that I became immersed in the story between the lines. From losing his new bride and mother in Slovakia in the same month to cholera; to leaving his home country after the death of his eldest daughter from smallpox and reuniting with his sons in Canada; to working in coal mines in middle age; then a drought-stricken homestead in Sask; and, finally ending up dying in a mental institution from the "exhaustion of senile dementia." He suffered far beyond human endurance and that makes me sad. And years after he had passed---.the final insult--they tossed his headstone without a thought of the great man that lay underneath or any attempt to notify ancestors. Much love to you G-G Joseph.