Family:Fred Viet and Caroline Butt (2)

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Fred Viet
b. 18 Mar 1874 Canada
d. 29 Dec 1951
Parents: Charles Butt and Mary Van Stone
Caroline Butt
b. 6 Jul 1887 Ontario, Canada
d. 3 Jul 1935 Bay City, Bay, Michigan
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Ernest Butt
21 Dec 1902 Bay City, Bay, Michigan
15 May 1983
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The Van Stone family had a history of Huntington's chorea (see The Van Stone Family Curse). Caroline's mother Mary was diagnosed choreic in 1893, at age 35. Mary's illness likely had an extremely negative effect on youngest daughter Caroline. This lead to family scandal as described in The Importance of Being Ernest. Father Charles did not come off as a sympathetic figure throughout this.

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