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Free Research > C > Couch > Family StoryUse the free genealogy search to quickly discover your family history or share your own! In the Nick of time
My Uncle Ed Doyle told me this at age 90--three years ago. When he was around 8 or 9 years old he was walking his grandmother. Alice Amanda COUCH Bogert to the "el" in Brooklyn. He kept stopping and looking in store windows.
"Stop dawdling, Edward," his grandmother complained, but he continued to drag his feet. "I'll miss my train," she warned. When they got to the station Grandma Alice did indeed miss her train but it saved her life. That train (a wooden train at the time) ran off the track near what is now the Brooklyn Museum. Many people were killed; bodies were everywhere. It was so devastating that the station name was changed. But Alice Amanda lived several years longer. I understand from another relative that Grandma Alice was very pretty, even when she was older. If you think you might be related please contact me at the e-mail above. Harriett Doyle Auger
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