Where to Begin? Cousin DeEtte and my dad were not only first cousins but good friends.  They often saw each other as children, and when each married, continued getting together.  Dee, as most of the family and close friends called her, remembered stories about the grandparents, aunts, and uncles that Dad forgot.  In 2008 when I first saw the wedding picture, Dad was 94 and Dee 88.  Sadly, both showed signs of dementia and stories became tangled in the telling.   Still, Dee was adamant that the Gladys was the black girl sitting in the front row of the wedding picture, but couldn’t remember her last name.  Dee thought she came from Iowa when her grandparents, Darwin and Hope, moved from Iowa around 1911, which I felt was highly unlikely.  So if not Iowa, where did the young girl previously live?  How old was Gladys then?  And how did she come to live with my great grandparents in a white community?  Where to begin…