100-year-old postcard finally gets delivered!
<p>A woman from Michigan ended up receiving a postcard in her mailbox which had been sent almost exactly 100 years ago.</p>
<p>Brittany Keech from Belding, east of Grand Rapids said the message took her by surprise and is now on the hunt of the relatives of the intended recipient.</p>
<p>The postcard had a stamp on it with George Washington’s face and was postmarked October 29th, 1920 having been sent right before Halloween of that year, from Jamestown, Michigan.</p>
<p>Keech is now hopeful that she’ll be able to track down the descendants of the people whom the message was intended.</p>
<p>“This might be something that their parents can say, 'yea I remember when your great-great grandma would tell me stories’.”</p>
<p>So far, she has posted it to a local Facebook group which features local stories where it has garnered over a hundred comments.</p>
<p>If the family is not found, she says she may donate it to the local museum in Belding.</p>
<p>One member of the community, Robby Peters, has begun the search to find relatives.</p>
<p>“I do some genealogy research as a hobby,' said Peters to the<a rel="noopener" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/09/12/with-1920-postmark-mail-is-delivered-michigan-home-100-years-late/" target="_blank"> Washington Post.</a> </p>
<p>“I started helping my own family, and I kind of caught the bug after that.”</p>
<p>Peters found a Roy McQueen in the 1920 census who lived at the same address where Keech is currently residing with her husband and two children.</p>
<p>McQueen was originally from Canada and moved to America in 1887.</p>
<p>He was married to a Nora Murdock and was the manager of a produce company.</p>
<p>The likely author of the postcard is Florence 'Flossie' Burgess, the daughter of Nora Murdock's sister, according to Peters.</p>
<p>“I found census records, death records and marriage records,” he explained. “The postcard contained a couple of names and it had a destination, so I had an idea of where to start searching.”</p>
<p>“I built a family tree,” Peters said. “It doesn't look like Roy and Nora had children, and Flossie seems to have remained unmarried, so there are no direct descendants.”</p>
