{"id":350,"date":"2006-07-11T14:00:42","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T21:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/11\/the-brief-life-of-john-kurpiel\/"},"modified":"2016-05-07T22:48:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T05:48:21","slug":"the-brief-life-of-john-kurpiel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/350","title":{"rendered":"The Brief Life of John Kurpiel"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Aunt Bronis\u0142awa was the second\u00c2\u00a0of three infants to be buried in\u00c2\u00a0an unmarked grave in Notre Dame Cemetery, Worcester .\u00a0 The first to be buried was John Kurpiel who died when he was only a month old .\u00a0 Like Bronis\u0142awa, he was from a Polish family and he died of broncho pneumonia .\u00a0 Finding his birth and death records was relatively easy, especially since Barb Poole looked up the volume and page numbers in the vital record indexes at the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS)\u00c2\u00a0in Boston .\u00a0 I didn’t have a chance to visit the NEHGS in my recent trip to Boston (although I did have dinner on Newbury Street, just a few blocks from the NEHGS on Saturday night).<\/p>\n

The Birth Record of John Kurpiel<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0is shown below .\u00a0 Like Bronis\u0142awa’s birth record, John’s record is included in a ledger and was recorded in January of the year following his birth .\u00a0 In John’s case, his birth was actually recorded after his death .\u00a0 As with Bronis\u0142awa’s birth record, I cropped the ledger page just below John Kurpiel’s entry, so John’s name appears to be at the bottom of the page .\u00a0 The original page contained many more entries below John’s.<\/p>\n

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Birth Record of John Kurpiel – 1912<\/p><\/div>\n

The entry states that:<\/p>\n