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My grandmother was born in 1899 in Ireland, and moved to the USA in 1920. In the early 1980s, she came clean: "I don't want to spend eternity with a lie on my g

My grandmother was born in 1899 in Ireland, and moved to the USA in 1920. In the early 1980s, she came clean: "I don't want to spend eternity with a lie on my gravestone. I was born in 1894."

Tade0 4y ago
I only learned the truth right after she passed away and my father was free to discuss this - the year was 1911, not 1917 - clouded by two wars' worth of lost records.
Y_Y 4y ago
It's not so bad, a headstone engraving will usually be gone after a couple of hundred years.