Etta May Knudson Salmon~~~ found!!

When I was living in the Middle East a few years ago, I finally had time to buckle down and really get serious about connecting the dots on my own family tree. I started with my grandparents and then branched out to their families to grow my then small tree. Over these past 3+ years, I have mostly centered my sleuthing skills on Grandma Annette's family, with other family trees mixed in. I became fascinated with the Knudson family; their tragedies, triumphs, tenacity, moving ( of which I know way too much about :) ) and trying to piece this lovely family into a nice little story. With the help of the Knudson relatives and others, I have solved many mysteries. Some parts of the tree are still a bit bare but I finally found an important link to a daughter of John and Julia Knudson. Their daughter, Etta's whereabouts after 1916 have been an elusive mystery~ she totally vanished! But with diligent souls working on Find a Grave, Family Search and Ancestry~ she's found~ in a graveyard in Lethbridge Canada.
Etta May was born in either Lake Elizabeth or Litchfield, Minnesota in January 1885.  She must have been such a comfort to her sweet mother Julia, after losing three children to influenza in 1883. She also shares the same name as Grandma Annette who changed her name from Etta but first cousins with the same name is very sweet! She grew up mostly in Latah, Idaho on a farm there. She finished high school and then worked as a clerk in a drug store for a few years along with other various retail jobs in Idaho and Spokane, Washington where her sister Ida and husband were living. When her father moved to a new farm in Lethbridge, Canada in 1915 and her mother followed in 1916, she must have decided to go along. In 1916, she was working in Kootenai, Idaho, not married and at age 31, considered an old spinster! So not true today as more women are career minded and many are marrying by choice much later. Maybe she was hoping for a new adventure and a new opportunity for romance. She was given both as she met and married a man named Henry J. Salmon who was about 5 years younger~ ah, a younger man. He had made the voyage some years prior with his family from England. They had joined other Latter Day Saints in Utah and then moved north to Lethbridge, Canada where there was quite a large Mormon community. I don't know that she converted to his faith but I hope the marriage was a good one, albeit much too short. They were married about 1920 in Lethbridge, and had a child that was stillborn in 1923 and she most likely died during or shortly after this childbirth too.A terribly sad tale.  I can't find any pictures that exist of this lovely young woman so the story would be more complete. It's made me wonder, what happens to all the pictures taken by families over the years after they pass away? I guess like mine they are stored in boxes and some get ruined and thrown out. Others find their way into albums or dvd's or cd's or hard drives. Just so much stuff! To my distant cousin Etta May~ yippee! I'm doing a happy dance~I found you!!