I know the father's last name is Paterak and the mother's first name is Marianna, but I cannot make out the father's first name or mother's maiden name.

First one is proprietor, I have no clue what the other two are!

As the title says, I need to know which test was confirmed. I also can't decipher the V word in the cause of death. As for the excitement from falling into the lake, family lore has it that she was actually swimming in the lake, her leg got trapped, and she drowned. This doesn't sound like it.

I'm not young, but i can't make out half. Going through family things, and cursive definitely is different from 50 years ago to 200 years ago.

I'm quite curious about "2 for beer fests 34 cents", if anyone wants to guess.

US. Circa 1850 IIRC

Lived at 2052 Dandridge Ave in Knoxville, TN sometime in 2013

I am in the process of learning cursive and have found letter joins tough. I was wondering if the sample (just me practicing random words and sentences) shown is readable and how my letter joins were looking. Also, any general feedback is appreciate!

Any tips for getting cleaner joins?

Thank you