Ida Laura Gerow

My mother on the left and Ida Laura

Two years after Grandpa and Grandma and agreed to keep my mother little Ida Laura came into their lives.  Can you imagine their happiness to have their own baby daughter.  She was born April 14, 1914.  She was named after her two grandmothers.  At the time my grandparents were living in Troups Creek near Knoxville, PA.

The  story I was told, by my grandmother-the two little girls were playing in the orchard in August and ate some green apples and Ida became ill; she died twenty hours after becoming ill.  She was two years, three months and twenty days of age at the time of her death. 

Her little body was laid to rest in the Riverside Cemetery in Knoxville, PA.