Person:Joseph Bach (2)

BIOGRAPHY: "Uncle Joe left home at an early age, the same as Uncle Frank. And if my memory serves me right, for the same reason. He was a kind and gentle man. I remember he had a "lazy eye", as it is called. Sometimes one of his eyes would sort of go a little on the side. Mom used to worry a lot about Uncle Joe. We seldom heard from him. Mom use to say he was "windy", and she didn't know if and when he was telling her everything, as uncle Joe knew mom was concerned about him. The thanks before died, mom had cried and said "I wish Joe were here with us." She always felt bad because he was like a nomad. Never knew where he was at if he were well or sick, and never knew where he stayed. I sometimes think that he did tell mom stories just to pacify her. The week following the holiday, Uncle Paul got a call, that they had uncle Joe in the County Morgue. Aunt Florence called me while I was home for lunch. As mom and I were both working at Yardleys, when I lived on Belmont. So I went and got mom, and then she and Unlce Paul, and dad, went to the morgue to indentify the body. Somehow, they didn't know who he was until the day he would have been buried in Potter's Field, which was the next day. Isn't that sad? I think of how mom would have waited to see him, and he was never to return. I don't know exactly of what he died from, but he died in some greasy spoon, on Madison Ave. When that was a skidrow area. But don't get me wrong, he was not a drinker. Beer or anything. It was that he was a wanderer and had no special place to live. At the time of his death, he was living in some kind of rooming house in that district. Somewhere I have his war ration stamps, that were used by all of us dring the war. I'm not talking about the present day stamps, there were because certain edibles could not be bought with only money. He spent time in the navy too. But during peace time so he may have had an allotment of a sort. I have only good thoughts of tihim and wish that he would have seen mom a lot more, because we all really loved him but he wanted to be alone. By the way mom knew it was Uncle Joe, because as a child, he had pneumonia as a child. There was a large scar on his back, that they had to cut to get the water from his lungs. Doctoring was very primative in those days, and it was done at home."

BIOGRAPHY: - Copied from Thomas Korn's

1. ↑ 1900 Census
   Illinois, Cook Co., ED 784, Sheet 28B, Image 56, 29 May 0002.
2. ↑ Family Information.