I finally found the correct record for my great-grandfather, but it wasn't a discovery to celebrate. My only thought was, "I hope this is all a mistake."
Four Mistakes and an Obituary
The Curious Case of Bob Bauman
Did J. C. choose to leave the stagecoach on that bitterly cold winter night, knowing that he faced certain death? Was he afraid of becoming another Bob Bauman?
His Shadow Self
What happens to an individual when the wrong things are nurtured? What if a certain hotheaded, domineering, smarmy ancestor of mine...was actually none of those things at all?
Baugh, Bass, and Beyond 