52 Ancestors 2023 Week 14: Starts with a Vowel

 As you can see, I've been neglecting this.  The end of the winter (ha!  Snow was in the forecast last week) brought a raft of medical appointments, some leftover from COVID, some from the arm break, some that had been delayed because of the aforementioned events.  There was sewing to do, books to read, streets to run through.  I haven't done much writing of any kind, including letters, for a few weeks, but I'm beginning to flex those mental muscles again.  

Part of the problem was a lack of instant ideas from the prompts but I realized as I was browsing the Generations Cafe Facebook page this afternoon that I really do have an ancestor whose name begins with a vowel:  Alonzo Bert Case (ABC!), my second great grandfather.  I don't know much about him:  he was born in New York City in about 1854, and died in Tenino, Washington in 1916.  Looking at the 1910 census, he was a farmer.  Tenino is a rural town in southwest Washington--I drove through there about a year ago and it is some distance, not a short one, from Interstate 5.

This was my beloved grandmother's grandfather, husband of Grandma Carrie (whose given name was Ida Caroline).  No one really talked about him which may say something about him.  His first name was used as a middle name for his grandson, Albert Alonzo McDuff (who, confusingly enough, was named for his father Albert Henry McDuff as well).  I kept thinking that Albert Alonzo was named after Alonzo Bert (couldn't that have been Albert?) but no, that came from the other side of the family.

Now that he's back at the surface so to speak, I may have to do a little more research on Alonzo and his origins.  Onward.