I expect we all have our favorite ancestor.
Mine is Experience, though she went by "Spiddy", and she had eight children. Not an expecially high number, but varied. The first two were Mitchells, the next a Cox, and the last 5 Pierces. She apparently died with a year or two of her last child's birth, her husband remarrying when the boy was about 2 1/2.
Since she's my favorite ancestor, and has such a great name to boot, I've decided to call my genealogy website "Experience's Children".
It's currently going through a face-lift, thus the serious lack of posting here.
Sunday, October 24, 2004
Friday, October 15, 2004
Matilda Catherine
Matilda Catherine Pierce Brown
I found another one today.
Another girl named after Matilda Catherine "Tilda" Pierce Brown...
This is Tilda Evans, my Tilda's niece. I finally found the 1900 entry for Sarah Pierce Evans' family the old-fashioned way: I browsed for it. Fortunately her family was in the same township they'd been in in 1910 and 1920 or I'd have had a long, fruitless day. :)
I just found Sarah recently, married to Granville Evans in Greene Co., TN, and later living near Tilda and Sarah's brother Dan Pierce in White Rock Twp., McDonald Co., MO.
So, some girls named after her:
Nancy Matilda Ellen "Tildie" Pierce
Matilda "Tilda" Evans
Mary Katherine Brown
Mary Katherine Zeilinger
and me. :)
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Great Scott
Oh my, the Scotts.
I've been dealing with them a great deal, but haven't had the heart to mention them here (you might have noticed a lack of blogging).
Did you know that the name Scott is extremely, extremely common? Especially in Kentucky?
Well, it is.
I had started off with a slight handicap with the Scotts because all I had was a vague family tradition. There was my ancestor Alice and a list of siblings (in no particular order): Allen, Charlie, Lee and Anna. Their mother's name was Martha Harrietta McRae and their father Robert Lee Scott.
I was a bit hamstrung until I discovered the marriage record online and it said that his name was Robert N. Scott. As did the only census records I could find, the 1880:
A very close fit, though no "Allen", but since "Lee" was probably "Robert Lee", the first child could be "William Allen".
Nearby was a "Allen Scott" the right age to be Robert's father, but his birthplace didn't match Robert's reporting, and there was another Robert nearby whose did, so I thought he was probably Allen's son and my Robert a nephew or something. In any case, I needed to find Robert in 1850, where he would certainly be with his parents.
Yeah, no.
I found a couple likely fellows, and then quickly found them later with wives and children...it seemed my Robert was not in the 1850.
So I realized, "I should be working backward". That's the right way to do these things, step by step from the known to the unknown. So I needed to find Robert with is family in 1870.
Yeah, no.
Yeah, I'm frustrated.
So I start in on the 1860. Not finding much, not finding much...Roberts born in KY are surprisingly rare... give up on Robert and try finding this "Allen Scott" in the 1860.
Bingo:
The crowd roars.
There is Robert N., not born in Ky, but born in TN. That's the problem with having only one census reference. So many details can be wrong.
I've been dealing with them a great deal, but haven't had the heart to mention them here (you might have noticed a lack of blogging).
Did you know that the name Scott is extremely, extremely common? Especially in Kentucky?
Well, it is.
I had started off with a slight handicap with the Scotts because all I had was a vague family tradition. There was my ancestor Alice and a list of siblings (in no particular order): Allen, Charlie, Lee and Anna. Their mother's name was Martha Harrietta McRae and their father Robert Lee Scott.
I was a bit hamstrung until I discovered the marriage record online and it said that his name was Robert N. Scott. As did the only census records I could find, the 1880:
Jackson Township
S.D. 4, E.D. 64, Page No. 15/434A
11 June 1880 by WB McNeel
line 13, 125/125 SCOTT Robert N WM 37 M Farmer Kentucky NC NC
Martha WF 27 wife M Keeping house Missouri Geo MO
Willam WM 11 Son S At home attended school Missouri Ky MO
Charley WM 9 Son S Missouri Ky MO
Robert WM 7 Son S Missouri Ky MO
Alice WF 5 Daughter Missouri Ky MO
Anna WF 2 Daughter Missouri Ky MO
A very close fit, though no "Allen", but since "Lee" was probably "Robert Lee", the first child could be "William Allen".
Nearby was a "Allen Scott" the right age to be Robert's father, but his birthplace didn't match Robert's reporting, and there was another Robert nearby whose did, so I thought he was probably Allen's son and my Robert a nephew or something. In any case, I needed to find Robert in 1850, where he would certainly be with his parents.
Yeah, no.
I found a couple likely fellows, and then quickly found them later with wives and children...it seemed my Robert was not in the 1850.
So I realized, "I should be working backward". That's the right way to do these things, step by step from the known to the unknown. So I needed to find Robert with is family in 1870.
Yeah, no.
Yeah, I'm frustrated.
So I start in on the 1860. Not finding much, not finding much...Roberts born in KY are surprisingly rare... give up on Robert and try finding this "Allen Scott" in the 1860.
Bingo:
1860 Dade Co., MO Census
North Township
Page No. 110/113, 31st July 1860 by Thomas S. Coffee
P.O. Sons Creek
line 6, 734/734 Samuel LAWRENCE 26 M " [Farmer] /50 Illinois cannot r/w
Clarinda 21 f Tennessee cannot r/w
Allen SCOTT 48 M " [Farmer] 500/5700 Kentucky
Judith 40 F Tennessee
Philip WL. 21 M " [Farmer] /75 " [Tennessee]
Judith C 19 F " [Tennessee] attended school
Robert N. 17 M " [Farmer] " [Tennessee] attended school
Mary W. 4 F " [Tennessee]
Sarah F. 2 F " [Tennessee]
The crowd roars.
There is Robert N., not born in Ky, but born in TN. That's the problem with having only one census reference. So many details can be wrong.
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