Doctor Kelly’s Husband Part 2
As I wrote in Part 1, Papa (my father) and Nana (his mother and my grandmother) were living with Nana's mother (my great-grandmother) in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania when Papa’s father/Nana’s husband committed suicide on December 22, 1916, in Wilmington, DE. Nana lived with Papa for the rest of her life. Even after he married and had children, Nana was a constant in his life and in ours. Given all of that drama, I always assumed that Nana and Papa had a challenging, difficult, perhaps even sad relationship. As I wrote in Part 1, my father never wanted to talk about his life before his marriage. From bits and pieces of household conversation, I gathered that things were not always rosy in the Trower/Kelly household. My great-grandmother was Mary K. Brown until she married Lee Trower in 1887. Something happened that resulted in Lee Trower moving out of the house. The 1930 Census data shows that he lived as a "lodger" with a woman named Dorothy Watson until his death