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From: Mark Vernon <>
Subject: [COCLEARC] death of Albert N. Selak 1883
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:51:21 -0700 (PDT)


My great great grandfather, John Martin Selak, had a younger brother named Albert N. Selak, in the town of Georgetown. Their parents were Albert and Elizabeth Selak, Bohemian immigrants. The elder Albert had a Brewery in town from 1868 to sometime before the 1880 Census.

Sadly the younger Albert died tragically. Family traditions say he was killed in a card game. Some say he was shot, and others that he was stabbed. His tombstone in the Alvarado Georgetown Cemetery reads that he died on Dec. 6, 1883. Would there have been any notice of this in any of the Georgetown newspapers?

The Selak family suffered other tragedies. John's brothers Frank and Fred also died in awful ways. Frank committed suicide in 1913, in Grand Co. and Fred was murdered by his neighbors in about 1924, along the shores of Grand Lake. Poor Fred was taken out in the woods and hung. His killers were themselves executed by hanging. My great great grandfather moved up to Orillia in Ontario and died in bed.

The things we find in family history!

-Mark Vernon
Seattle, WA


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