u/secretwasiank

I’ve found these articles on ancestry but don’t have access to actually read them, and they’re too blurry for AI to make out.

They’re on my great grandpa Albert Earl Schwab - I know one of the articles is in the crime section. He was based in Ironton, Ohio and these articles are form 1953 and 1962.

My grandma (his daughter) was raised by her grandparents and not him or her mother, but I never really knew why. I know he was married to my great grandma Berniece for a bit, and my grandma has a full sister, and we recently discovered she has other sisters through Albert we didn’t know about. Hoping someone can give me a screenshot or transcript of these articles, maybe for better insight as to why my grandma wasn’t raised by her parents! Thanks in advance!

I’m looking for a screenshot of this article on my 2nd great grandfather William Preston Botkins (also Botkin/Bodkin) from Portsmouth Ohio but originally from Kentucky. The article title he’s tagged in says “Jealous Man Bobs Up” which is definitely giving Lady Whistledown vibes, and given a previous newspaper article I’ve found on the same man the is pretty scandalous for the time and shows him to be a serial woman chaser. Crazy thing is 6 years after the article of him seeking a third wife, he’s a minister! He seems like an interesting character and I’m curious to see more of his drama.

On the other hand, this line of my family is full of traumatized and alcoholic men. My grandpa from this size has adhd (me too) and is an alcoholic (not me) and I’m almost certain up to William (my gpas gpa) is where the alcoholism and potentially the adhd. Researching this line is also helping me understand all the generational trauma that’s been passed down, especially from the men. This started more than a hundred years ago and even though all these men are dead, their trauma lives on.

So anyways, if you have access to newspapers.com or another way to see this article and have free time and want to dig into this tea, I would be super grateful! Thanks 🙏🏻