Klementyna Died 4 April 1918

My Grandpa’s first wife died 12 days after her 21st birthday from complications of childbirth. Klementyna (Golabiewoska) Raczkiewicz died 4 April, 1918 in Grand Rapids Michigan. She died 12 days after her 21rst birthday and three days after she gave birth to their daughter Bronislawa in Bay City, Michigan. Anthony and Klementyna had been married for four years. ********* The cause of death was puerperal sepsis (infection from childbirth.) Currently around three mothers die for every 100,000 births of this infection. It is the reason for about 11% of maternal deaths. In 1918, when Klementyna died, it was the reason for over 50% of childbirth related deaths. It wasn’t until 1935 that an effective treatment was found. ********** Klementyna’s parents were listed on the death certificate as Albert Solombeiski (actually Golabiowski) and Katherine Bucznick (actually Roczniak.) The discrepancies are from either handwriting or language challenges. (In the small world of Polish immigrants that I am learning about --Anna Dubiel (related to new found 2nd cousin Andrzej Dubiel) came with her husband Walenty Roczniak and settled in Emmet, Michigan.I haven’t quite connected these two Roczniak families yet.) ********* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postpartum_infections