"Disappeared in Mexico" in 1918; Papa's vaguely recalled brother, Charles

While in Mexico, I got to wondering about the b&w photo of a man in his 30s with a woman and child.  Hand-written on the back are the words "Charles V. Lawder with his wife and child in Mexico City.  Please return [the photo] to Mrs. Alice V.H. Lawder, Clark Street, Chicago".  And we know (see earlier post) that there was an article in a Chicago paper in 1919 about Charles' disappearance in Mexico.  And we now know that Charles was Papa's half-brother, Alice's son by her first marriage.  Anyway, I didn't do any Mexico-specific research, but just spent a couple of evenings on Ancestry.com.


Bingo:  I found Charles and his Swedish-born wife, Anna Maria Nylander, living in Savage Basin, Colorado in 1910.  He was a shift boss in the Tomboy gold mine at 12,000 ft. of altitude, just above Telluride.  Shortly after that, they moved to a gold mining community in El Oro, Mexico.  They had a daughter born in 1912, Alice Maria, presumably named after Charles' (and Papa's) mother Alice.  In 1918, Charles died at the age of 40, not killed by Pancho Villa or anything "romantic" like that, rather he took ill with pneumonia and died three weeks later in November 1918.  I saw the scanned copy of the death report filled out by the American Consulate in Mexico City.  And also the passport application that Anna Maria Lawder filled out just 3 months later in order to leave Mexico to return to the US.  (Mike and I were in the neighborhood where she was staying in Mexico City at 51 Calle Madrid).  On the application, she lists her maiden name as Nylander, her year of immigration from Sweden to Ellis Island as 1895, and indicated that she was heading to Chicago with her daughter.  She received her passport 6 months later.  


Then the record goes blank for 11 years.  Did she go to Chicago to meet Alice V.H. Lawder, her mother-in-law?  Did she see her brother-in-law, Don Lawder (Papa)?  Did Papa even know that his brother had been a real miner/foreman?  He must have.  I lose track of Anna and Alice until 1930, when Anna M. Lawder and her 17 yr. old daughter Alice M. Lawder turn up in East Orange, New Jersey in the federal census.  That's the last I have found, of Alice (cousin to Don Jr., Wally and Nancy) but I know that her mother died in 1978 at the age of 101, in East Orange, NJ---unbeknownst for nearly 50 years to her nearby Connecticut relatives (us!).