Malea Veselnitskaya’s maternal grandmother Malea Mogilevskaya

This is my maternal grandmother Malea Mogilevskaya. This photo was taken in Kremenchug in the 1900s.

My grandmother Malea was born in a village in Lubny district, Poltava province in 1866. I don't know her maiden name. She married Ruvim Mogilevski and moved to Kremenchug to join her husband there.

They had four children. In summer of 1902 grandmother Malea and her children were riding an open wagon heading to Malea's mother in a village when a snowstorm began. She wrapped her children in her big checkered woolen shawl, but she herself got wet and cold. My great grandmother made her a hot bath when they arrived, but grandmother caught cold that resulted in pneumonia followed by galloping consumption. My grandmother died that same year.