GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH ON MOTHER'S FAMILY
Scope and Content Note: Learned that grandmother Almond had daughter from earlier marriage who became an actress. Grandmother had worked in a circus at Chicago; at time of Chicago fire, saved her black stallion by riding him into Lake Michigan. Later worked for Janesville family, the Tallmans, who gave her cemetery lot where maternal parents and grandparents are buried. Genealogy interesting but time-consuming work.