The relationship of relativity to relatives

wormhole

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"A hypothetical tunnel connecting two different points in spacetime in such a way that a trip through the wormhole could take much less time than a journey between the same starting and ending points in normal space. The ends of a wormhole could, in theory, be intra-universe (i.e. both exist in the same universe) or inter-universe (exist in different universes, and thus serve as a connecting passage between the two). Wormholes arise as solutions to the equations of Einstein's general theory of relativity. They crop up so readily in this context that some theorists think that real counterparts may eventually be found or fabricated and, perhaps, used for high-speed space travel and/or time travel."


Me here. All of the above lifted from The Encyclopedia of Science, if you can trust a source like that. Link provided but others sought. I want to get to the time and place and mental space of a particular young woman, surname Whaley, who at the age of 17-18 became impregnated by a local farmer, a married man old enough to be her father, and lived with him and his wife and three daughters (one of whom was her age) in a tiny house for over a decade, long enough to get pregnant three more times.

Lousy luck that there is no federal census for 1890. By 1900, I've found no trace of her.Yet her grand-daughter referred to her as Grandma Osborn.

Catharine Whaley's sons all grew to manhood. All but one had children of their own. Three went up to Rochester to make a living. Two went to work at Eastman Kodak. One became an insurance salesman (and my great-grandfather).

The boy who began life as Willie Whaley and become Will Osborne, aka Uncle Bill, remained in Livonia Center and became superintendent of the largest local graveyard, Union Cemetery. Bill knew where the bodies were buried.

But where was his mother?