My great-grandfather Louis Walford died at a tragically early age, just before his fiftieth birthday in 1895. He left a grieving widow, Lois, and young children… or maybe they never married… After his death Lois was supported by the charity of Louis’s very wealthy Jewish family; however, because she was a Gentile their support did not extend beyond the financial.
We know very little of Louis, but I have been fortunate enough to inherit two of his personal possessions:
My grandmother was a small child when her father, Louis, died. If she told her children about him, which I doubt, they never mentioned it. How sad, that I’ll never know anything about him, except he must have loved his ‘wife’ and children.
Lois Elsden 
It is very special that you have the match case from your great grandfather. It is a really cool thing, perhaps museum quality.
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Wow that’s so cool to have some of you great-grandfather’s possessions. I don’t even know the first thing about mine. Lovely items.
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Thanks… he must have had such an interesting life and yet I know so little about him!
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Wow Lois, real history
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