tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80405782024-03-06T22:11:25.538-08:00treelinesT.A.P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01837186280387666710noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040578.post-34691534170238820322013-03-10T19:07:00.000-07:002013-03-10T19:07:02.034-07:00Ongoing mystery of Richard Berry Keeney's first wife<br />
This was a genealogical problem that I didn't realize that I had until I read my ancestor <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I10059&tree=entire">Eva Keeney Smith Combs</a>'s obituary.<br />
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"She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband Oren; two sons, William A Smith and Clyde Willard Combs; two grandchildren, Mrs. Hugh (Marjorie) Gilliland and Kenneth Ray Combs; three great-grandchildren, Ronald Joseph Farrell, Mary Ann Patten and Connie Jean Rhinehart; eight brothers, Earnest, Elmer, Edgar, Clarence, Clyde, Claude, Roy and Fred Keeney; <b>and two half-brothers, Willie and Bert Keeney</b>"<br />
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I had never heard of there being two half-brothers - nor a first marriage at all.<br />
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<a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I10122&tree=entire">Richard Berry Keeney</a> married Eva's mother <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I10147&tree=entire">Anna Robison</a> on the 14th of October 1880 in Belton, Cass County, Missouri. <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I10148&tree=entire">Anna's family</a> lived in Johnson County, Kansas in the 1880 census. Her father Richard Keeney does not appear in the 1880 census that I can find. And believe me, I have looked aplenty. <br />
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I have yet to find marriage records for his first marriage or for his brother <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I10301&tree=entire">Elbert James Keeney</a>'s (well-documented otherwise) marriage to <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I10302&tree=entire">Annie McKown</a> in 1878, so I suspect lost marriage records from the place/time the marriages took place.<br />
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So, I began looking for Willie's and Bert's Keeney and pretty quickly came across:<br />
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State Washington<br />
County Chehalis<br />
City of Hoquiam, 3d Ward, S.D. 2? E.D. 29, Sheet No. 3A/49A<br />
16 April 1910 by Lee Carlton<br />
410 M Street<br />
line 45, 58/58 KEENEY Bert J head WM 33 M1 9 Missouri Missouri Missoura Teamster/Livery barn Rents House<br />
Emma L. wife WF 28 M1 9 2/2 Kansas Penn. Penn.<br />
Orvil R son MW 7 S Kansas Missoura Kansas<br />
Glenn J son MW 2 S Washington Missouri Kansas<br />
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and also:<br />
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<a href="http://www.carrollsweb.com/irenesksg/crawmarsK2M.html">Kansas Marriages</a><br />
KEENEY Bert J / McCRAY Emma 06-20-1900 Crawford Co., KS<br />
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So, a Bert born in Missouri and married in a part of Kansas where Richard and Anna Robison Keeney had lived. Their first son <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=keeney&GSfn=ernest&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=80414883&df=all&">Ernest Elzie Keeney</a> was born and died 1881-1885 in Crawford County, Kansas. So far, so good.<br />
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Then, something that didn't fit:<br />
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record title:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Washington Death Certificates, 1907-1960<br />
familysearch.org<br />
name:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bert J. Keeney<br />
death date:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>12 Sep 1933<br />
death place:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hoquiam, Grays Harbor, Washington<br />
gender:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Male<br />
age at death:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>57 years 1 month 25 days<br />
estimated birth year:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1876<br />
marital status:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Married<br />
spouse's name:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Emma Keeney<br />
father's name:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Joseph Keeney<br />
volume/page/certificate number:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>34<br />
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Sigh.<br />
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Then I went looking for this Bert son of Joseph. There is only one Joseph Keeney with a (nearly) appropriate 'Bert'. The Joseph and Miriam Evans Keeney family has a son in the 1880 census named Gilbert O. Keeney b. 1874. But I found Gilbert O. Keeney b. Jun 1873 in Missouri in the Phillipines in 1900 census with the Hospital Corps of the US Army. Not this 'Bert'. I cannot find a 'Bert' in 1880 that matches this one and is not otherwise documented.<br />
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Then I found this note from Roscoe Keeney's <a href="http://roscoe.k-f-g-online.info/KeeneyUpdate/KeeneyUpDateDecember20040001.pdf">Keeney Update</a>, Dec. 2004:<br />
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http://roscoe.k-f-g-online.info/KeeneyUpdate/KeeneyUpDateDecember20040001.pdf<br />
noted 9 Mar 2013<br />
Roscoe Keeney includes notes from the 1920 Washington State Census that state:<br />
“BERT J. KEENEY 42 Gray’s Harbor s/o Elbert James Keeney of Cass Co. MO; Emma 39 KS, Orval 17 KS and Glenn 11 b. WA”<br />
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Okay, now.<br />
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Elbert is well documented with lots of kids. His only (known) marriage was in 1878 and here he is in the 1880 census:<br />
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www.familysearch.org, 1880 United States Census,<br />
[Household: Couple houses down from his Uncle Isaac Keeney]<br />
Albert KEENEY Self M Male W 22 MO Farmer KY KY,<br />
Ann KEENEY Wife M Female W 19 MO Keeping House MO MO,<br />
Source Information: Census Place Washington, Jackson, Missouri, Family History Library Film: 1254694, NA Film Number: T9-0694, Page Number: 250B.<br />
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There is not one census in which <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I10427&tree=entire">Bert J. Keeney</a> appears with Elbert and family, and, in 1891 Elbert and Annie had a son and named him Elbert Earl Keeney - and they called him 'Bert'. So, I'm pretty sure that's wrong. But the near miss just makes me think I really am on the right track. This IS the son of Richard Berry Keeney and his unknown first wife.<br />
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But my real question is: who was she?<br />
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His death record as transcribed appears to have nothing (the index does not link to an image of the original document at this time).<br />
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His World War I Draft Registration form on ancestry.com shows his full name as Bert Jacob Keeney. Jacob was Richard B. Keeney's father's name.<br />
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I am utterly convinced this is Richard's son, am completely unable to prove it and am also unable to find out who his mother was.<br />
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There has been no sign of an appropriate "Willie" at all, though I wasn't terribly surprised at this as the nickname would seem to suggest a boy who died young.<br />
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And there it sits. Sigh.<br />
T.A.P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01837186280387666710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040578.post-18470087651538571942012-04-07T07:20:00.000-07:002012-04-07T07:20:13.876-07:00Another census puzzlerI've been browsing the 1940 census and finally found this family - but look how tricky they made it!<br />
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This is the family in 1930:<br />
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State Iowa<br />County Mahaska<br />Oskaloosa City, Fourth Ward<br />e.d. 62-18, s.d. 12, Sheet No. 21A/168A<br />April 23, 1930 by Elizabeth O'Rourke<br />524 North 4th Street<br />line 5, 538/569 MILLER Charles Head O $3000 R MW 43 M 23 no/yes Iowa Ohio Iowa machinist/R.R. Roundhouse<br />Roxy Wife-H FW 41 M 20 no/yes Iowa Iowa Iowa<br />Eugene Son MW 16 S yes/yes Iowa Iowa Iowa<br />Aletha Daughter FW 14 S yes/yes Iowa Iowa Iowa<br />Redonda Daughter FW 7 S yes/ Iowa Iowa Iowa<br />Dewayne Son MW 5 S yes/ Iowa Iowa Iowa</blockquote>
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State Iowa<br />County Mahaska County<br />Oskaloosa City, 4th Ward<br />Oskaloosa Twp.<br />Silent Rest Tourist Home<br />s.d. 5, e.d. 62-21, Sheet No. 81A/236A<br />April 8, 1940 by Thomas K. Farmer<br />The following persons were enumerated in the "Modern Rest Tourist Home" 409 High Ave East Oskaloosa Iowa<br />line 6 409 T O 4000 No WILLIAMS Charles E. Head MW 53 M No H2 Iowa Same Place 40hrs Machinist/Railway Shope 52wks 1740 yes<br />Roxie B. wife FW 51 M No H2 Iowa Same Place<br />Rhodanda Daughter FW 17 S yes H3 Iowa Same Place<br />Dewayne Son MW 15 S yes H2 Iowa Same Place<br />NEWTON Leo Head MW 37 M No 8 Iowa R Ogallala Nebraska 32hrs Drag line operator/Coal Mine 52wks 1800 No<br />Marie Wife FW 33 M No H2 Missouri R Ogallala Nebraska<br />Alice Daughter FW 16 S yes H2 Iowa R Ogallala Nebraska<br />Wayne Son MW 12 S yes 5 Iowa R Ogallala Nebraska<br />Leona May Daughter FW 4 S No 3 Nebraska</blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;">I mean, I think it's them...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;">Whoopsadaisy!</span></div>T.A.P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01837186280387666710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040578.post-14517960613309115672012-02-15T09:39:00.000-08:002012-02-15T11:42:21.928-08:00Nancy Missouri SlinkerThis is all I have had on <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I12333&tree=entire">Nancy Missouri Slinker</a> for some time:<br />
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County of Metcalfe, State of Kentucky,<br />
Page No. 58/[866],<br />
22 June 1860 by Dory Nell,<br />
P.O. Eastfork<br />
[near John (son of Frederick and Susannah) and Mary Grimes Slinker],<br />
line 7, 381/381 Missouri SLINKER 41 F House Keeper Ky,<br />
Narsette 19 F do [Ky],<br />
John N. 17 M Day Laborer do [Ky]<br />
Joseph 15 M do [Ky]<br />
Susannah 13 F do [Ky]<br />
Kindrick 10 M do [Ky]<br />
Alonzo D 7 M do [Ky]<br />
Samuel D 2 M do [Ky]</blockquote>
Then I found this:<br />
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Kentucky Death Records, 1852-1953, ancestry.com<br />
Name:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Narsetta Green Jewell<br />
Death Date:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>29 Dec 1914<br />
Death Location:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Muhlenberg<br />
Residence Location:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Muhlenberg<br />
Age:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>75<br />
Gender:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Female<br />
Ethnicity:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>White<br />
Birth Date:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>14 Mar 1839<br />
Birth Location:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hart, Kentucky<br />
Mother's Name:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Nancy Misoura Slinker<br />
Mother's Birth Location:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hart, Kentucky </blockquote>
I found <a href="http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=gene-perkins&id=I44601">someone online</a> who said that Missouri's son Samuel D. Slinker [later Sinclair] had parents noted on his death certificate as "Kixon Sin Clair" and "Nancy M. Smith".<br />
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So the question is, who was right?<br />
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I believe the answer is a qualified yes...<br />
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I found this record:<br />
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Kentucky Births and Christenings, 1839-1960<br />
noted 13 Feb 2012<br />
familysearch.org<br />
name:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Lewis V. Smith<br />
gender:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Male<br />
birth date:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 21 Mar 1858<br />
birthplace:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Barren, Kentucky<br />
father's name:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Thomas D. Smith<br />
mother's name:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Missouria Slinker<br />
indexing project (batch) number:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>C01993-6<br />
system origin:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Kentucky-EASy<br />
source film number:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>216816</blockquote>
I believe it is actually Samuel D. Slinker/Sinclair's birth record.<br />
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And it would make his parents not Kixon Sinclair and Nancy M. Smith, but Thomas Dixon Smith and Nancy Missouri Slinker.<br />
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These are close enough that I am comfortable making the leap in logic.<br />
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If I found that Samuel's birthdate was near 21 Mar 1858, I would be entirely convinced.<br />
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I am now adding Missouri as one of <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I11972&tree=entire">Lewis Slinker</a> and <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I11974&tree=entire">Cenia Slinker Slinkers</a>'s missing daughters, but only because no one else appears to be missing a daughter in the right age range.<br />
<br />T.A.P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01837186280387666710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040578.post-80823283198385520682011-10-31T06:27:00.000-07:002011-10-31T06:27:00.096-07:00Uncle Claude remembers stories<div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I4436&tree=entire">Claude Brown</a> of Noel, Mo “remembers stories”</div>
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<a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I4874&tree=entire">Old Joe Hendry</a> who was a brother of great grandma Sarah Hendry</div>
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Brown [actually a nephew, son of William and Nancy Carter Hendry],</div>
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was shot in Henry hollow (4) by his son-in-law then some</div>
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say the son-in-law then shot himself in the yard. the family waited</div>
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untill daylight and found him. Others say he was shot by the family</div>
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after he shot Joe Hendry. Joe Hendry had a son named Jim and he</div>
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and Joe fell out. Jim went to hunt his dad down to kill him and</div>
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when he fired the gun blew up and Jim Hendry lost his arm because</div>
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of it. Joe Hendry and Uncle Henry Brown ran around together during</div>
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the civil war and made moon shine whiskey untill Uncle Henry came</div>
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to Arkansas. I talked to one of Uncle Henrys nieces and she said her</div>
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dad Uncle Will Brown told her that he and Uncle Henry were scouting</div>
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during the civil war and heard some southern soldiers comming so</div>
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they hid in the brush and waited then Uncle Henry shot both of the</div>
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soldiers and cut their heads off and hung them on a sapling. Uncle</div>
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will was just a small boy and was almost scared to death. A year or</div>
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two later he past the place and the limbs had sprouted and grew</div>
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around the heads still hanging there. I visited Hendry hollow and</div>
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saw the Hendry place. Uncle henry later lived on Brown’s mountain</div>
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(6) untill he came to Arkansas.</div>
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Uncle Henry’s boy Will got in to some slight misunderstanding with</div>
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the law and hit out for Kentucky wher he lived for some time. While</div>
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there he had a disagreement with a fellow and when Will was talking</div>
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to a neighbor one day this fellow come along and being drunk he</div>
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had a notion he would just cut Will’s head off or his liver out</div>
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and feed it to the dogs. Will run around the house while the man</div>
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he was talking to keep telling him that the man would kill him.</div>
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Finally the man threw Wll a gun and he killed the fellow. The man</div>
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talking to Will was afraid to testifie and will went to the penin</div>
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[blank] for life and died there. Either some one went and got him or</div>
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he was shiped back and burried on Brown’s mountain. I talked to his</div>
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son in Greenville about July 4, 1974 and he had just put a tumbstone</div>
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up for his dad. The Grave is at the point of Brown’s mountain the</div>
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back toward Baileyton at the head of a hollow. This is where uncle</div>
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Henry lived along with Ramsey Harris when he came to Arkansas.</div>
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The old timers still tell how mean old Joe and Jim Hendry were.</div>
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One of the old timers told me he found one of the old pistols</div>
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where Joe and some of his folks were having a battle years after</div>
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but after he washed it and oiled it years later someone stold it.</div>
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I would like to have had it. It was the old musle loading type.</div>
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Grandma Mathilda Brown’s old home place has been bulldosed down</div>
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for the new interstate 81 which has been finished to Bullsgap.</div>
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We saw it before it was taken down but the old house was long</div>
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since gone with a few of the chimney bricks left. It was reported to</div>
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us by a niece, Uncle Matt Pierce’s granddaughter that Great grandpa</div>
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Jimmy Pierce was a law-in-forcement officer at that time. We were</div>
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unable to find his burial place but all the rest of the emediate</div>
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family were buried at Mt.Carmel where grandma Brown went to church.</div>
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The following is a list of Pierces buried at Mt. Carmel:</div>
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W.E (Willie) Pierce-1884-1965 -Nephew Grandma’s</div>
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Ova Jeffer Pierce-1893-1918-Willie’s wife- I had meet both of these.</div>
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Joel N. Pierce -1882-1918</div>
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H.M (Matt) Pierce -1854-1924-Grandma’s brother</div>
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Louise Hendry Pierce -1862-1913</div>
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Guy Pierce 1902-1966 - Teddy Pierce 1941-1965</div>
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Willie Pierce 1907-1957 Chas Pierce 1883-1959 wife Ida -1884-1952</div>
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Chas B Pierce 1887-1942</div>
T.A.P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01837186280387666710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040578.post-6188534513415598442011-10-20T11:18:00.000-07:002011-10-20T11:18:37.005-07:00cemetery limboHow is it possible that no one is responsible for fixing this <a href="http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20111019/NEWS/310190040/Graveyard-gives-up-bones-age-erosion-take-toll?odyssey=mod|mostcom">problem</a>? Really incredible:<br />
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<blockquote>
A concrete burial vault still protrudes from the bank near the top of the ravine. A 5-inch-high hole in the dirt shows where animals have been digging. A few yards down the steep slope, bits of rusty hardware, possibly from an old coffin, sit next to what appears to be the end of a human leg bone. A couple of pieces of other bones peek out from under fallen leaves. </blockquote>
<blockquote>
“It’s just a heck of a mess,” said Phil Berglund, a Yell Township trustee who oversees the cemetery’s maintenance. Berglund said his little township can’t afford to stabilize the ravine, and a proposal to move graves away from the edge is snarled in bureaucratic red tape. “This is a problem that is beyond us,” he said.</blockquote>T.A.P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01837186280387666710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040578.post-51117221746625427622011-10-07T18:25:00.000-07:002011-10-09T07:34:12.977-07:00Ahhhh, middle namesI'm not sure why they are so important to me (and not just me).<br />
<br />
As a way of confirming you have the <i>right</i> John A. Smith? Or in may case, the right <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I6388&tree=entire">Robert N. Scott</a>?<br />
<br />
But I'm still pleased as punch to have found that he is Robert Newton Scott. The only place he admitted it was an <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://hr-search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1865475">application to the Missouri Confederate Home</a> that specifically said you could not abbreviate names on the application.<br />
<br />
I also have the ancestor that we all thought was named Robert Walker Jackson, until a family bible turned up showing he was named <a href="http://www.spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I6384&tree=entire">Robert <i>William</i> Jackson</a>. I'm still not sure when the idea that <i>Walker</i> was his middle name crept in. He was a man who liked to use R.W. Jackson for most everything he signed.<br />
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And then there's <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I6126&tree=entire">Martha A. Davison</a>. One researcher's uncle said the middle name was Avarilla and she used it to mark her work (so she could see who was using her research unattributed) although she thought he was a pretty unreliable source. I had seen a family note that it was <i>Ann</i>, but now I can't find it again, so for now I leave it "A.".<br />
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Now, if only someone made my <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I6116&tree=entire">Elmer J. Gilbreath</a> admit what his middle name was, maybe I can relax.T.A.P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01837186280387666710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040578.post-47525343930748099362011-09-29T06:22:00.000-07:002011-09-29T06:22:40.062-07:00Finally found her: May Belle Green InmanAmongst the papers my grandmother shared with me about her family was this story written by her aunt:<br />
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<blockquote>
"Belle married a Mr. Green from Fulton, [Fulton Co.] Ky. (His family raised race horses). They came to near Lamar, [Barton Co.] Mo. She died in child birth. Mr. Green took the baby girl and went back to Kentucky." </blockquote>
<blockquote>
-Jessie Mae Jackson</blockquote>
Belle was <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I6503&tree=entire">Lucy M. Arabella R. B. "Belle" Jackson</a>. Her full name will surely never be known as the family bible contained nothing but initials. The other names that filled in the gaps are all from census records. A little digging and I found her marriage to "J.R. Green" MAY 28, 1873 by J.M. Spence, M.G., in Weakley County, Tennessee.<br />
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I'd always wanted to track down Mr. Green and the daughter and thanks to one of my favorite databases, the Tennessee Death Records at familysearch.org, I finally have:<br />
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<blockquote>
Tennessee, Death Records, 1914-1955<br />familysearch.org<br />noted 24 Sep 2011<br />name:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I6328&tree=entire">May Belle Inmann</a><br />event:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Death<br />event date:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>28 Apr 1943<br />event place:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Union City, Obion, Tennessee<br />gender:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Female<br />marital status:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Married<br />race or color:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>White<br />age:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>64<br />birth date:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>31 Aug 1878<br />birthplace:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Joplin, Mo<br />spouse:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>W J Inman<br />father:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jim Green<br />father's birthplace:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mo Or Ky<br />mother:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Belle Jackson<br />mother's birthplace:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mo Or Ky<br />occupation:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hw<br />street address:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>RFD #3<br />residence:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Obion Co, Tenn<br />cemetery:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Beulah<br />burial place:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Union City, Tenn<br />burial date:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>29 Apr 1943<br />additional relatives:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>X<br />digital folder number:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4184876<br />volume/page/certificate number:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>cn 8076</blockquote>
No question that it is her.<br />
<br />
So, no special skill this time. No unravelled puzzle. Just diligently looking and never giving up. These databases are so amazing. It's hard to remember that you had to know where to look before you could really get started...<br />
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I'm having trouble finding out very much about May or her husband. I have found them in only one census, with May's half-sister Dolly living with them:<br />
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<blockquote>
State Kentucky<br />County Hickman<br />McAlister Magistereal Dist<br />s.d. 1?, e.d. 50, Sheet No. 108?A/89A<br />20th? June 1900 James [smudged]<br />line 1, 196/200 INMAN W J head WM Dec 1875 24 M 1 Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Farmer Rents Farm<br />M B wife WF Aug 1879 20 M 1 0/0 Missouri Kentucky Missouri<br />GREEN Dolly Sister WF Mar 1885 15 S Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky attended school 5 months<br />WILLIAMS Dolphus laborer WM about 26 S Kentucky Tennessee Kentucky Farm laborer unemployed 4 months</blockquote>
But I'm sure I'll find more. I'm just excited that one of my oldest and biggest mysteries is solved. Now on to a few others...<br />
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T.A.P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01837186280387666710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040578.post-23067367767980760382011-09-18T15:21:00.000-07:002011-09-18T15:40:59.369-07:00Hannah Stockwell HamiltonA new maiden name!<br />
<br />
Such a rare discovery for me in my direct line at this point.<br />
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I've tried looking for the marriage record without luck, but I noticed a younger son with an unusual name and I thought I'd throw it in the <a href="https://familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.familysearch.org%2Frecords%2Fcollection%2F1675357">Michigan Deaths and Burials</a> index on familysearch.org.<br />
<br />
Bingo!<br />
<blockquote>
Michigan Deaths and Burials, 1800-1995<br />
familysearch.org<br />
noted 18 Sep 2011<br />
name:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I11181&tree=entire">Simeon Hamilton</a><br />
gender:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Male<br />
death date:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>14 Sep 1901<br />
death place:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bertrand Tp., Berrien, Michigan<br />
age:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>69<br />
birth date:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1832<br />
birthplace:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ohio<br />
occupation:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Retired Farmer<br />
race:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>White<br />
marital status:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Married<br />
father's name:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I11179&tree=entire">Nathaniel Hamilton</a><br />
mother's name:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I11180&tree=entire">Hannah Stockwell</a><br />
indexing project (batch) number:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>B51819-8<br />
system origin:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Michigan-EASy<br />
source film number:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>945406</blockquote>
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Yeay and whew.<br />
<br />
and then also his brother:<br />
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<blockquote>
Michigan Deaths and Burials, 1800-1995<br />familysearch.org<br />name:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I11183&tree=entire">Francis M. Hamilton</a><br />gender:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Male<br />death date:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>06 Jul 1915<br />death place:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bertrand, Berrien, Michigan<br />age:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>73<br />birth date:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1842<br />birthplace:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mich.<br />occupation:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Farmer<br />race:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>White<br />marital status:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Married<br />father's name:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Nathanial Hamilton<br />mother's name:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hanah Stockwell<br />indexing project (batch) number:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>B02571-0<br />system origin:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Michigan-EASy<br />source film number:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1954721</blockquote>
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T.A.P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01837186280387666710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040578.post-89340525841062879112011-06-03T19:32:00.000-07:002011-06-03T19:42:02.650-07:00Mary Palina Campbell Cox<a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I3291&tree=entire">Mary P. Campbell Cox</a> has been a funny little conundrum since I ran across her marriage to Anderson Cox many years ago when first working on my husband's genealogy.<br />
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Here was a Campbell clearly born in Georgia, but married and living in Greene County, Tennessee, and no other Georgia-born Campbells were in the area! Very odd...<br />
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So, with the vast new array of databases I started digging again. I found her death record that helpfully said her parents were Campbell and Campbell. No first names. Her listing was actually as "Mrs. A. Cox", so it had been awkward to find in the first place. But no matter. She married in 1872, so I threw a search into the 1870 census:<br />
<blockquote>United States Census, 1870 </blockquote><blockquote>Name: Mary Campbell, Event: Birth, Place: Georgia, Year: 1846-1848<br />
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Mary Campbell<br />
birth:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1847 —Georgia<br />
residence:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Georgia, United States<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Mary P Campbell<br />
birth:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1847 —Georgia<br />
residence:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Georgia, United States<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Mary Campbell<br />
birth:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1847 —Georgia<br />
residence:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tennessee, United States<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Mary Campbell<br />
birth:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1846 —Georgia<br />
residence:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Alabama, United States<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Mary Campbell<br />
birth:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1848 —Georgia<br />
residence:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Georgia, United States<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Mary Campbell<br />
birth:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1848 —Georgia<br />
residence:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Georgia, United States<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Mary F Campbell<br />
birth:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1846 —Georgia<br />
residence:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Georgia, United States<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Mary Campbell<br />
birth:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1846 —Georgia<br />
residence:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Texas, United States<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Mary J Campbell<br />
birth:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1846 —Georgia<br />
residence:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Florida, United States<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Mary Gamble<br />
birth:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1847 —Georgia<br />
residence:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Georgia, United States<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Mary Jane Gambol<br />
birth:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1848 —Georgia<br />
residence:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Georgia, United States<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Mary Gamble<br />
birth:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1846 —Georgia<br />
residence:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Georgia, United States </blockquote><blockquote>familysearch.org<br />
noted 3 June 2011</blockquote>The Mary P. and the Mary b. Georgia but living in Tennessee both sprang out at me.<br />
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As it turns out the Mary b. 1847 in Georgia but living in Lincoln County, Tennessee was not born in Georgia - but her husband was. So database transcription error there. And Lincoln Co., TN is not near Greene Co., TN, so off to check out the Mary P.<br />
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Pulled it up - Walker County, Georgia This was good! Walker County is not an uncommon place for my Tennessee folks to end up. Then I looked at the family. Blink, blink. I knew the family:<br />
<blockquote>1870 Walker Co., GA Census<br />
Page No. 12<br />
Subdivision No 128, County of Walker, State of Georgia<br />
17th June 1870 by Leander H Dickey<br />
P.O. Frick's Gap<br />
line 11, 80/77 CAMPBELL James 61 MW Farmer 1275/600 Tennessee<br />
Sarah 62 FW Keeping house Kentucky cannot r/w<br />
Mary P. 23 FW Keeping house Georgia<br />
Eliza M 21 FW Teaching School Georgia attended school<br />
Cardelia 18 FW At home Georgia<br />
James C 13 MW Farm laborer Georgia cannot r/w [appears to be son of James]<br />
William C 11 MW Farm laborer Georgia cannot r/w [appears to be son of James]<br />
Martha 13 FW At home Georgia attended school cannot write [appears to be daughter of William]<br />
Wiley W 10 ME Farm laborer Georgia cannot r/w [appears to be son of William]<br />
Dora B 6 FW Georgia [appears to be daughter of William]<br />
line 21, 81/78 CAMPBELL Andrew H 36 MW Farm laborer 1250/600 Tennessee<br />
Mary L 32 FW Keeping house Tennessee<br />
George F 7 MW Georgia attended school<br />
Robert I 4 MW Georgia<br />
Daniel W 3 MW Georgia<br />
Landon A 7/12 MW Georgia Oct</blockquote>That is <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I4867&tree=entire">Sarah Dodd Campbell</a>'s family. She and James were married in Greene County, Tennessee on 15 Oct 1828. She is the sister of my ancestor <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I3454&tree=entire">Massey Dodd Hendry</a>.<br />
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Also threw Sarah and her husband into Find-A-Grave and found <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=campbell&GSfn=sarah&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=12&GScnty=528&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=68097002&df=all&">the most fascinating cemetery photos I've ever seen</a>. There were only four grave (left?) and you had to know they were there to find them. They did a nice job of showing the whole layout. Well worth a look.<br />
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So, now we know. I did check a few more of the Mary's but it's pretty obvious how a Georgia girl ended up in Greene County, Tennessee: she had other family there.<br />
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And we have yet another case of my husband's cousin marrying mine.<br />
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Good grief. I should make a list some time.T.A.P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01837186280387666710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040578.post-75267226807683420092011-05-28T13:18:00.000-07:002011-05-28T13:36:09.377-07:00Poweshiek Co., Iowa marriages onlineHad some nice luck with the Poweshiek County, Iowa marriage records at familysearch.org and found <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I10451&tree=entire">Margaret H. Hall</a>, daughter of <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I10447&tree=entire">Elijah Hall</a> and <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I10448&tree=entire">Rosetta Hamilton Hall</a>, and <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I10368&tree=entire">Paulina J. Block</a>, daughter of <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I10131&tree=entire">Martin Block</a> and <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I10132&tree=entire">Anna Jeska Block</a>.<br />
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Margaret was the more awkward of the two - her marriage record did not mention her parent's names. But it sure looked like my gal:<br />
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<div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">familysearch.org</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">noted 26 May 2011</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">record title:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">groom's name:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hiram Strong</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">groom's birth date:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1845</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">groom's age:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>25</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">bride's name:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Margaret Hall</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">bride's birth date:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1846</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">bride's age:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>24</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">marriage date:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>13 Mar 1870</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">marriage place:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Brooklyn, Poweshiek, Iowa</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">bride's marital status:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Single</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">indexing project (batch) number:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>M02559-0</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">system origin:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Iowa-EASy</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">source film number:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1028402</div><br />
I strongly suspect Hiram is related to <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I10884&tree=entire">Daniel O. Strong</a>. They appear to both be from Niagara County, New York, though I've found no firm connection yet. Dan was married to Margaret's aunt <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I10490&tree=entire">Mary Hall Strong</a>. She and Hiram were right in Brooklyn in 1870:<br />
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<div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Page No. 14</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Town of Brooklyn, County of Poweshiek, State of Iowa</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">16 August 1870 by A.J. Wood</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">P.O. Brooklyn</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">line 9, 109/115 STRONG Hiram 30 MW Day Laborer /100 New York</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Margrett 24 FW Keepinghouse Michigan</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">line 11, /116 EARLEY Moses 34 MW Day Laborer Ohio</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Hanah 22 FW Keepinghouse Ohio</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Geo 1 MW Iowa</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
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And here she is with two of her children in the 1900 census:<br />
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<div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">State Iowa</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">County Tama</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Tama township, Tama city, Ward 1</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">s.d. 5, e.d. 146, sheet no. 22A/216A</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">15th June 1900 by Myrtle M. Mills</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">line 36, 493/514 STRONG, Charles Head WM Aug 1874 25 M 2 Iowa New York Michigan Coal bearer? Owns Mortgaged House</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Julia Wife WF Feb 1880 20 M 2 1/1 Iowa Germany Iowa</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Mildred Daughter WF June 1899 11/12 S Iowa Iowa Iowa</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">SHALLER Joseph F-in-law WM Apr 1828 72 D. Germany Germany German 1846/48/Na</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">B Franklin B-in-law WM Jan 1882 18 S Iowa Germany Germany Laborer unemployed 7 months</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">line 41, 494/515 STRONG Maggie Head WF Dec 1844 56 Wd. 5/4 Michigan Ohio Indiana Owns Mortgaged House</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Ina Daughter WF Aug 1884 15 S Iowa New York Michigan at school 9 months</div><br />
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The final bit of proof for Margaret was discovering she was born in Berrien County, Michigan from a birth record of one of her children in the Iowa Births and Christenings, 1830-1950, database also at familysearch.org.<br />
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Paulina's marriage record notes her father's name was Martin, so it was a firm connection from the start:<br />
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<div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">familysearch.org</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">noted 27 May 2011</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">record title:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">groom's name:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Add A J Myers</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">groom's birth date:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1861</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">groom's birthplace:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Michigan</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">groom's age:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>22</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">bride's name:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Paulina G Block</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">bride's birth date:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1867</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">bride's birthplace:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>West Prussia</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">bride's age:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>16</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">marriage date:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>18 Feb 1883</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">marriage place:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Malcom, Poweshiek, Iowa</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">groom's father's name:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Orlando Myers</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">groom's mother's name:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Lucilla Crill</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">bride's father's name:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Martin Block</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">indexing project (batch) number:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>M02559-1</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">system origin:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Iowa-EASy</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">source film number:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1028403</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"></div><br />
She passed away some time between 1896 and the 1900 census (a big part of the reason I'd been unable to track her down otherwise). Here is her family in the 1900 census:<br />
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<div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">State Iowa</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">County Hancock</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Crystal Township</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Crystal Lake</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">s.d. 10, e.d. 117, Sheet No. 1A/240A</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">1st June 1900 by James A. Johnson</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">line 14, 3/3 MYERS Add J Head WM Jan 1861 39 Wd Michigan New York New York</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Grain Buyer Owns House Free of mortgage</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Orlando Son WM Jan 1886 14 S South Dak Michigan Germany At School 7 months</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Willis S Son WM June 1887 12 S South Dak Michigan Germany At School 7 months</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Herold Son WM Feb 1889 11 S Iowa Michigan Germany At School 7 months</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Irena Daughter WF Jan 1892 8 S South Dak Michigan Germany At School 7 months</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Frank Son WM Oct 1896 3 S South Dak Michigan Germany</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"></span></div>I was very excited to track them both down!T.A.P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01837186280387666710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040578.post-12365576908114403632011-04-22T19:42:00.000-07:002011-04-22T19:49:23.794-07:00Robert N. ScottI finally tracked down and (essentially) verified my educated guesses about my <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I6388&tree=entire">Robert N. Scott</a>.<br />
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And, yep, it was Find-A-Grave that helped me pull it all together. (The love affair thrives...)<br />
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I had been trying to track a couple of other Scotts living near my ancestor <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I6955&tree=entire">Allen Scott</a> in the 1830 Overton Co., TN Census. My Allen had just gotten married, so one would imagine he might be near family.<br />
<blockquote>1830 Overton Co., TN<br />
[in margin] Overton County State of Tennessee<br />
Pg. 172, allotted to Robert Nevins, <br />
[line 10] SCOTT Martin 000001 110001 <br />
[1M 30-39 (b. 1791-1800) Martin, <br />
1F 30-39 (b. 1791-1800), <br />
1F 5-9 (b. 1821-1825), <br />
1F 0-4 (b. 1826-1830)<br />
[could be the Martin Scott in Hart Co., KY in 1850]<br />
pg. 174, allotted to Robert Nevins<br />
[line 7] ASHLOCK Jesse 000000001 0000000001<br />
[1M 60-69, 1F 70-79]<br />
[line 11] BUFORD John 10002 1001<br />
[line 13] Aggrippa CLARY 10001 0001<br />
[line 15] JENINGS Ezekiel 0112001 0010001<br />
[line 17] SCOTT Allen 001 0001<br />
[1M 10-15 (b. 1815-1820) Allen, <br />
1F 15-19(b. 1811-1815) Valeria]<br />
[line 27] SCOTT John 01001 10001 <br />
[1M 20-29 (b. 1801-1810) John, <br />
1F 20-29(b. 1801-1810), <br />
1M 5-9 (b. 1821-1825), <br />
1F 0-4 (b. 1826-1830)]<br />
pg. 175, allotted to Robert Nevins<br />
[line 1] SCOTT Samuel 212001 010001<br />
[1M 30-39 (b. 1791-1800) Samuel, <br />
1F 30-39 (b. 1791-1800), <br />
2M 10-15 (b. 1815-1820), <br />
1F 5-9 (b. 1821-1825), <br />
1M 5-9 (b. 1821-1825), <br />
2M 0-4 (b. 1826-1830)]]<br />
[line 2] GREEN William Jr 1101 01101</blockquote>It appears that the Samuel Scott nearby ends up in Lafayette County, Missouri in 1850. There was also a John Scott in Lafayette Co., MO in 1850 that could fit the bill for the 1830 Overton John Scott I am looking at. So, off I run to Find-A-Grave to see if any interesting Scotts pop up in Lafayette County.<br />
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But the first thing that pops out at me is <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=9124733&PIpi=2413572">R.N. Scott 1843-1919</a>.<br />
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Okay, pops out is an understatement. It screamed at me.<br />
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This was the final clue in Robert N. Scott's long, fairly sad tale.<br />
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He was born in 1843 in either Tennessee or Kentucky. His brother <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I7614&tree=entire">Washington Scott</a> said that the family lived in Overton Co., TN until he was 18 (abt. 1857), but Robert repeatedly (though not consistently) reports his birthplace as Kentucky.<br />
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Sometime between 1843 (his birth) and 1855 (when his father remarried the sister of is mother) his mother died.<br />
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As with most men of his generation, Robert N. Scott enlisted for the Civil War. His and his brothers Washington and John all joined the 11th Regiment Missouri Infantry (Confederate), Company K. It was his cemetery record that pointed me to the 11th Regiment and the fact that the three Scotts listed were himself and Washington and John that helped confirm that the Robert N. Scott buried in the Confederate Cemetery in Lafayette Co., MO was my ancestor.<br />
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In the 1880 census he is listed with the family I know:<br />
<blockquote>1880 Jasper Co., MO Census,<br />
State Missouri<br />
County Jasper<br />
Jackson Township, S.D. 4, E.D. 64, Page No. 15/434A<br />
[noted on previous census page: Village of Scotland]<br />
11 June 1880 by WB McNeel<br />
line 13, 125/125 SCOTT Robert N WM 37 M Farmer Kentucky NC NC<br />
Martha WF 27 wife M Keeping house Missouri Geo MO<br />
Willam WM 11 Son S At home attended school Missouri Ky MO<br />
Charley WM 9 Son S Missouri Ky MO<br />
Robert WM 7 Son S Missouri Ky MO<br />
Alice WF 5 Daughter Missouri Ky MO<br />
Anna WF 2 Daughter Missouri Ky MO<br />
[near father Allen Scott].</blockquote>But by 1900 I cannot find Martha McRae Scott and the best record I had for him was:<br />
<blockquote>State Arkansas, County Boone, Long Creek Township<br />
S.D. 3, E.D. 22, pg. 19B/98B,<br />
Sixth July 1900 by James S. Goodwin<br />
line 100, 350/350 HUFFMAN George? Head WM June 1865 34? M 3 Missouri Indiana Missouri Farmer [rest of entry illegible]<br />
Sheet No. 20A/98A<br />
line 1, HUFFMAN Mary E Wife WF Mar 1875 25 M ? 1/1 Missouri Kentucky Missouri<br />
Christene Daughter WF Dec 1897 2 S Arkansas Missouri Missouri<br />
line 3, 351/367 SCOTT Robert N. Head WM Sept 1844 55 M 11 Kentucky Un Un Farmer Owns Farm Free of mortgage<br />
Amanda Wife WF June 1849 50 M 11 9/8 Missouri Carolina Kentucky<br />
HUFFMAN John H step-Son WM May 1874 26 S Missouri Indiana Missouri Farm laborer<br />
PETTY Froney E step-Daughter WF Mar. 1879 21 S Missouri Missouri Missouri<br />
Isaac R step Son WM Apr 1882 18 S Missouri Missouri Missouri Farm laborer attended school 1 month<br />
SCOTT Alonzo V. Son WM Oct 1890 9 S Missouri Kentucky Missouri attended school 1 month</blockquote><a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I6532&tree=entire">Martha McRae Scott</a> died 17 Mar 1903 and was buried under her maiden name.<br />
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Martha Amanda Sisney Huffman Petty Scott died in 1906, after Robert <a href="http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2034927&id=I307">had apparently abandoned her</a>.<br />
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Further research on <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I8606&tree=entire">Alonzo V. Scott</a> revealed a young man who claimed on his WWI Draft Registration form that his father was dependent on him. At that time his father was already being housed at the charitable Confederate Veterans Home in Lafayette County, Missouri. Unfortunately, when Alonzo was drafted he died of Lobar Pneumonia 11 Oct 1918 before even being deployed to Europe, leaving a widow.<br />
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Robert N. Scott died 8 Jun 1919 at his dressing table, <a href="http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/Results.asp?type=basic&tLName=scott&tFName=robt.&sCounty=all&tYear=1919">probably of heart trouble</a>.T.A.P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01837186280387666710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040578.post-51265389203014261292011-03-16T15:18:00.000-07:002011-04-22T19:10:22.654-07:00In love with FInd-A-GraveWhile looking up the known gravesite of <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I6069&tree=entire">Margaret McRae Shuey McClelland</a> in Stone Cemetery near Diamond, Newton County, Missouri, I checked the search engine for other McRae's gravestones and was thrilled to find <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=6291815&PIpi=15041810">the missing stone</a> for her mother <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I6533&tree=entire">Catherine Gibson McRae</a>!<br />
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We had a family letter that said she was buried next to her daughter <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I6532&tree=entire">Martha McRae</a> in Carthage, Missouri.<br />
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Close, but not really...one of those little mistakes that crop up in oral tradition. But I should have guessed earlier - Catherine was living with Margaret and not Martha in her last census.<br />
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I also discovered the grave of <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I11743&tree=entire">Andrew Goas</a>'s wife <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I11969&tree=entire">Hannah Lewis Goas</a> way over in Longs Run Cemetery, Columbiana County, Ohio. The only reason I found her was the good luck that they could still read her unusual last name on the stone. They thought her first name was "Fannah", but if you know what you're looking for you can see it's an <i>H</i>. It's so neat to actually get to see <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=41278304&PIpi=20922438">her gravestone</a>.<br />
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So, it's official. <br />
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I'm totally in love with Find-A-Grave!!T.A.P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01837186280387666710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040578.post-58354405814598309902011-03-06T09:44:00.000-08:002011-04-22T19:12:36.575-07:00Wilda May Taylor HammI have finally tracked down <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I11845&tree=entire">Wilda May Taylor</a>, the daughter of <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I11720&tree=entire">William V. Taylor</a>.<br />
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What astonishes me is that my guess based on nothing but census browsing was absolutely correct. <br />
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I wouldn't have even known she existed except that a cousin of hers died without heirs and without a will so a document was produced that listed all of her potential heirs - in this case her first cousins. Wilda was listed in the document as the deceased daughter of William V. I'd known from his 1930 census record he'd been divorced, but knew nothing of and offspring.<br />
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Here are her census records that I gathered while in guess-mode:<br />
<blockquote><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">State Kansas</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">County Wyandotte</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Delaware Township</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Edwardsville City of 3rd Class Beginning Line 1</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">s.d. 2, e.d. 152, Sheet No. 16A/34A</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">4th February 1920 by Calvin L. David</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">line 30, 349/351 REEVES Albert Head OM MW 49 M /yes/yes Iowa Iowa IowaRock Road Patrolman</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Sarah wife FW 58 m /yes/yes Indiana Ohio Indiana</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Willis son MW 17 S yes/yes/yes Kansas Iowa Indiana Truck Driver/Rock Road</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">line 33, 350/352 TAYLOR Edna Lodger FW 37 M /yes/yes Kansas Kansas IowaServant/Housekeeper</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Wilda Lodger FW 6 S yes/ Missouri Missouri Kansas</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 13.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">1930 Dickinson Co KS</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">State Kansas</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">County Dickinson</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Herington city, Second Ward</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Lyons township</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">e.d. 21-18, s.d. 3, Sheet No. 9A/153A</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Apr. 30, 1930 by Mrs. Mildred Persinger</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">11 South 9 St.</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">line 41, 199/218 BERRY Edna Head H o $2000 R No FW 48 Wd no/yes KansasKansas Iowa</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Johnnie Step-son MW 22 S no/yes Ohio Missouri Ohio Attendant/FillingStation</div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">TAYLOR Wilda daughter FW 16 S yes/yes Missouri Missouri Kansas</div></blockquote>At the time of her death she was divorced from her husband so his name was not given. The informant was her mother Edna May Berry - who said her maiden name was Berry, which was also her name from her second marriage. So that may not be correct.<br />
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Oh! I forgot to mention how I found her - I went to the <a href="http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/#search">Missouri Death Records online</a> and looked at each of the death records for anyone named Wilda. Such a long shot! Glad I didn't have to do the whole 100, also glad I didn't start at the end of the alphabet!<br />
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And such a genealogy junkie thing to do...nice when it works out.T.A.P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01837186280387666710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040578.post-21657409171805438122011-02-28T07:40:00.000-08:002011-02-28T08:15:39.789-08:00Margaret Elizabeth Baker SmithAfter having found <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I11009&tree=entire">Simeon/Semyen Perry "Perry" Smith</a> and <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I11019&tree=entire">Margaret Elizabeth Baker</a>’s marriage record online at Sevier County, Tennessee Genealogy and History:<br />
<blockquote>Smith, Simeon P.-Baker, Margaret E.-1869 Sep 25-1869 Sep 29-Maples, P. W. - MG</blockquote>I decided to try to track her down again. I’d been hamstrung by not having a definitive 1870 census for her and Perry. This was my best guess:<br />
<blockquote>Page No. 16<br />
The 3rd District, County of Sevier, State of Tennessee<br />
15th August 1870 by N.M. Baker<br />
P.O. Fair Garden<br />
[near Andrew and Jane Dickey Smith - could this be Simeon P. Smith mis-enumerated?]<br />
line 39, 110/110 SMITH James P 21 MW Farm laborer /350 Tennessee<br />
Margaret E 16 FW Keeping house Tennessee</blockquote>But as Perry’s family was from Jefferson County, TN I hadn’t really been convinced. I did all my looking for Margaret there. This marriage record in Sevier Co., TN really opened things up. I found two possibles in 1860 for her and very quickly one became my favorite:<br />
<blockquote><a href="http://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/xtn/sevier/1860/pg120.txt">1860 Sevier Co., TN Census, pg. 120</a><br />
<br />
S034-26<br />
BAKER -Dist 3, PO Fair Garden, Sevier Co., Tenn., June 28, 1860- 217/ 217<br />
N. M. 40 M W Farmer 300 Tn<br />
Dicey 34 F W Tn<br />
Martha 11 F W Tn S<br />
Nancy 10 F W Tn S<br />
Margaret 9 F W Tn S<br />
William 4 M W Tn<br />
Melville 2 M W Tn<br />
<br />
S034-33<br />
MAPLES -Dist 3, PO Fair Garden, Sevier Co., Tenn., June 28, 1860- 218/ 218<br />
Preston 40 M W Farmer 3000 1300 Tn<br />
Cirena 25 F W Tn I<br />
William 20 M W Farm Laborer Tn S<br />
James 16 M W Tn S<br />
Gilbert 14 M W Tn S<br />
Martin 7 M W Tn S<br />
Rachel 5 F W Tn<br />
Preston BUCKHANNON 3M W Tn<br />
Albert G. W.BUCKHANNON 1M W Tn</blockquote>As you can see this Margaret Baker is enumerated next door to the man who performed my Margaret’s marriage.<br />
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So I began doing research on this Baker family and finally found this:<br />
<blockquote><a href="http://genforum.genealogy.com/baker/messages/4479.html">Bruce Baker, James Baker VA d bef 1742, desc TN, OH</a><br />
“Nathaniel kept a family Bible where he recorded his<br />
marriage and the birth of his children and the deaths of those<br />
who preceeded him in death. Bobby Kirk Hamonson of Oddessa,<br />
Texas had the Bible in November 1992 when I made photo copies<br />
of the information from the Bible.”<br />
170 iii. Margaret Elizabeth Baker was born in Sevier Co.,,<br />
TN 6 APR 1851. Margaret died 1 JAN 1873 at 21<br />
years of age. She married Smith.</blockquote>Found her. And proof that my guess about which children were hers and which children belonged to Perry’s second wife was correct. This was crucial for me as my ancestor ended up being the first child of the second marriage. And I am now confident that the 1870 enumeration for James P. and Margaret Smith are actually Simeon Perry and Margaret Baker Smith: notice that they, like Margaret’s family, are enumerated in “Fair Garden”. But one really weird problem. Do my eyes deceive me? Or was it Margaret's dad who enumerated the 1870 census?!T.A.P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01837186280387666710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040578.post-41928651771060712832011-02-27T18:27:00.000-08:002011-02-28T06:49:03.093-08:00Lucy [Maiden name unknown] Atchley SmithMaiden name known! Or at least a most probable guess...<br />
<br />
This was a fun one to track down.<br />
<br />
It was serendipitous as usual. I haven't done genealogy for a while, so when I noticed an ancestor missing a marriage record for (probably) Sevier County, Tennessee around 1870 I thought I'd see if anything new was available. And yes:<br />
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<a href="http://sevier.tngenealogy.net/">Sevier County, Tennessee Genealogy and History</a> has a lot of great information and some very usable databases, including marriages. I quickly found what I was looking for:<br />
<blockquote>Smith, Simeon P.-Baker, Margaret E.-1869 Sep 25-1869 Sep 29-Maples, P. W. - MG</blockquote>This is the first marriage of my ancestor <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I11009&tree=entire">Simeon/Semyen Perry "Perry" Smith</a>.<br />
<br />
While I was looking around, I checked the immediate family for some of my other undocumented marriages without much luck. Most of this Smith family did its marrying and living in Jefferson County, Tennessee, including Perry's father Gilbert C. Smith:<br />
<blockquote>1850 Jefferson Co., TN Census<br />
The 13th District<br />
26th October 1850 by James Baker<br />
line 18, 1013/1050 Gilbert SMITH 25 "[M] Laborer " [Tenn]<br />
Eliza 27 F " [Tenn]<br />
Andrew 3 M " [Tenn]<br />
Simeon 2 "[M] " [Tenn]<br />
line 22, L. THOMAS 51 "[M] Laborer " [Tenn]<br />
Nancy 17 F " [Tenn]<br />
James 15 M " [Tenn]<br />
George 13 "[M] " [Tenn]<br />
William 11 "[M] " [Tenn]<br />
Catharine 9 F " [Tenn]< John 7 M " [Tenn]</blockquote>Here he is 50 years later still in Jefferson County, TN in 1900 with a second wife:<br />
<blockquote>17 Cival District, S.D. 2, E.D. 55, Sheet No. 1B, 1st + 2nd June 1900 by Andrew J. Bush, [next door to his former son-in-law Martin Acton],<br />
line 71, 14/14 SMITH Gilbert C Head WM July 1924 75 M 3 Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Farmer Owns Farm Free of mortgage,<br />
Lucy Wife WF Mar 1849 51 M 3 3/1 Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee,<br />
ATCHLY Daniel B Stepson WM WM Dec 1888? 14? S Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Farm Laborer</blockquote>But when I got digging for this second marriage undocumented marriage for Gilbert and Lucy, I found this:<br />
<blockquote> Atchley, Isaac T. / Maples, Burlenda 1867 Apr 27 1867 Apr 28 Atchley, William D. - JP </blockquote><blockquote>Atchley, I. T. / Hodge, Lucy 1883 May 30 blank blank</blockquote>Nothing definitive there. The marriage is about the right time, Lucy having had a son <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I11111&tree=entire">Daniel B. Atchley</a> in 1886.<br />
<br />
But when I looked up this Isaac I found him married to Malinda Maples and among his children were Benjamin Ambrose and James P. Atchley. And in 1910 I had noted that Daniel had moved to Young County, Texas and was living near these two men and their families.<br />
<br />
Still nothing definitive, and those blanks on the marriage bond mean no marriage was reported from the bond, so possibly the marriage never happened. But there's many a slip, and I know of one man who refused to turn in his marriage license to the court house after the minister had signed it because he "had paid 7 dollars for it" and he meant to keep it...<br />
<br />
But for me, the coincidences have piled up way too high. I believe this is my Lucy Hodges Atchley Smith.<br />
<br />
Still more work to do, but here is her 1880 census record:<br />
<blockquote>1880 United States Census, www.familysearch.org<br />
Calvin M. HODGES <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Self <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> W <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Male <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> W <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 62 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> TN <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Farmer <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> TN <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> TN<br />
Lucy HODGES <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Dau <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> S <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Female <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> W <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 31 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> TN <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Keeping House TN TN<br />
Lina HODGES <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Dau <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> S <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Female <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> W <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 29 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> TN <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Keeping House TN TN </blockquote>T.A.P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01837186280387666710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040578.post-35677459704047891192009-08-17T05:46:00.000-07:002009-10-13T16:29:41.635-07:00Our Indulgent Father<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMACODWWHE42EZWIRBfvDTYRzrFNyZwurO-tM0cIt8VoeD-51_wmBCMXw8BMkU8_8RYUwqbO2dnBuBNCh51RZDDDFwqZU6Mu0gDaLvZI6FJGe6ixBj9N0bLNM_R3rlUQsprotB/s1600-h/Horace+P.+Anderson+tombstone.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370914666533424642" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMACODWWHE42EZWIRBfvDTYRzrFNyZwurO-tM0cIt8VoeD-51_wmBCMXw8BMkU8_8RYUwqbO2dnBuBNCh51RZDDDFwqZU6Mu0gDaLvZI6FJGe6ixBj9N0bLNM_R3rlUQsprotB/s320/Horace+P.+Anderson+tombstone.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a>After a good long trudge up and down the rows, I finally found <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I10175&tree=entire">Horace P. Anderson</a> and <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I10176&tree=entire">Louann Warder Anderson</a>'s tombstone in Riverton Cemetery, Riverton, Fremont County, Iowa.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEV8vjJvRs-8Nxlgf3As7XOigxYZpLjPKsfWgB7nP0Lp9N0FkfxhKbMkYpVryZDJNkmk1sBSY82D7N5xDTOlBwo2rTXu5oEPEVEXXK5cqzSl6Gf2CjPz3iKukFdoBFD8NAoINe/s1600-h/Louann+Warder+Anderson+tombstone.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEV8vjJvRs-8Nxlgf3As7XOigxYZpLjPKsfWgB7nP0Lp9N0FkfxhKbMkYpVryZDJNkmk1sBSY82D7N5xDTOlBwo2rTXu5oEPEVEXXK5cqzSl6Gf2CjPz3iKukFdoBFD8NAoINe/s320/Louann+Warder+Anderson+tombstone.JPG" /></a><br />
</div> It was next to a large plot that was empty except for a stone saying "Calfee", which was the name of their daughter Fannie's husband. It is probably the plot for <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I10522&tree=entire">Henry H. Calfee</a> and his first wife <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I10983&tree=entire">Annie</a>.T.A.P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01837186280387666710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040578.post-28132181526679466152009-07-29T10:38:00.001-07:002009-10-05T18:28:34.676-07:00Elvira Wooddy Capps and Hasty Cemetery<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkN0qZQDFIzh88aRYYFwGfoRI2ln-rnEzSR7NZvC7Xo-l4WdEnqVzSFku7yIAzrjBPySd0AfESj5u4iVtMzunz2n-8yXGG_ldjm4S5lZfG-aKHS-RbM7aP5OqA09_6QxM_h_YE/s1600-h/Elvira+Capps.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 186px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkN0qZQDFIzh88aRYYFwGfoRI2ln-rnEzSR7NZvC7Xo-l4WdEnqVzSFku7yIAzrjBPySd0AfESj5u4iVtMzunz2n-8yXGG_ldjm4S5lZfG-aKHS-RbM7aP5OqA09_6QxM_h_YE/s320/Elvira+Capps.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363938352236046066" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: georgia;font-family:courier new;font-size:100%;" >I was lucky enough to make it to the Capps family reunion in Carthage, Mo. last weekend and cousin Tom Capps shared this find: </span><span style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I2784&tree=entire">Elvira Wooddy Capps</a></span><span style="font-family: georgia;font-family:courier new;font-size:100%;" >' tombstone.</span><div style="font-family: georgia;font-family:courier new;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: georgia;font-family:courier new;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">Oddly enough, she is buried in the Agee or Hasty Cemetery near Hasty, Newton County, Arkansas.</span></div><div style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">I cannot find anyone else that she is related to buried in the cemetery, and it is well documented that she and her husband lived in the Bellefonte area of Boone County most of their adult lives.</span></div><div style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">Turnbo quotes William Eoff who places them among the "early residents on the left hand prong of Crooked Creek in Boone County Arkansas". A biography of her husband <a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I2846&tree=entire">Robert Capps</a> notes "Mr.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> Capps has been a resident of the section in which he now lives for nearly sixty years, has always tilled the soil, and besides the farm of fifty acres on which he resides, he is the owner of other valuable lands in Newton and Boone Counties." Possibly she died at another farm they owned and was buried near it.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: georgia;font-family:georgia;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">In any case, it seems like it requires some explanation, but also certainly explains why no one could find her tombstone! It was rather far afield...</span></div>T.A.P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01837186280387666710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040578.post-80833381378281999772007-08-13T06:15:00.000-07:002009-10-05T18:06:20.486-07:00Census records run in a circular motionWhat fun.<br /><br />I haven't had much of any time for genealogy but when I saw the 1935 Missouri Death Certificate images were now online I had to go check them out. I'd been guessing for some time that the "Lee Scott" and "R.L. Scott" living in McDonald, Jasper and Newton Counties, Missouri was my missing "Robert Lee 'Lee' Scott".<br /><blockquote>State Missouri<br />County McDonald<br />McMillen Township<br />s.d. 13th, e.d. 96, Sheet No. 5B<br />12 June 1900 by Dan Huckins<br />line 57, 90/90 SCOTT Lee. R. Head WM May 1873 27 M 3 Scotland Scotland Scotland 1887/13/Na Farmer Rents Farm Free of mortgage<br />Sarah. E wife WF April 1877 23 M 3 2/2 Missouri Missouri Missouri<br />Alick Son WM Feb 1897 3 S Missouri Scotland Missouri<br />George son WM Aug 1899 10/12 S Missouri Scotland Missouri<br /><br />State Missouri<br />County Jasper<br />Duenweg Precinct Joplin Township<br />s.d. 13th, e.d. 57, Sheet No. 12A/48A<br />22th 23th April 1910 by David L Sidman<br />West Duenweg<br />line 16, 228/228 SCOTT Robert L Head MW 34 M2 15 Missouri Tennessee Tennessee Shoveler/Zinc Mine Owns Mortgaged Farm<br />Sarah Wife FW 32 M1 15 3/3 Missouri Missouri Missouri<br />Alock Son MW 14 S Missouri Missouri Missouri<br />Georgie Son MW 12 S Missouri Missouri Missouri<br />Dixie daughter FW 9 S Missouri Missouri Missouri</blockquote><br />And his death certficate confirmed it:<br /><br /><blockquote><a href="http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/#search">Missouri Death Certificates online</a><br />Missouri State Board of Health<br />Bureau of Vital Statistics<br />Certificate of Death<br />Registration District No. 611<br />Primary Registration District No. 6258<br />File No. 40458<br />Registered No. 47<br /><br />Place of Death:<br />County Newton<br />Township Five Mile<br />City Seneca Mo RR2<br /><br />Full Name:<br />Robert Lee Scott<br />Seneca Mo RR2<br /><br />Male White Married<br />Date of Birth: 4 - 6 /1871<br />Age 64 Years 7 months 25 days<br />Occupation: Farmer<br />Birthplace: Scotland, Mo<br />Father: Robert N. Scott, Tenn<br />Mother: Not known<br />Informant: Elick Friend [name hard to read]<br />Seneca Mo RR2 box 99A<br />Burial: Forest Park at Joplin Date: 12/2/1935<br />Undertaker: Darnell, Pitcher Okla<br />Filed Dec 1, 1935, Merle Sparlin, Registrar<br /><br />Cause of Death: Natival Causes<br />Contributory: Chronic Interstial Nephritis<br />[signed] Ashely Bigham, Neosho Mo</blockquote><br />But the thing that caught my attention and sent me off on a tangent was the informant: Elick Friend.<br /><br />Lee had a son named, in census, Alick and Alock, so I thought it likely Elick Friend was a friend of the family or relative that he had named his son after. But it turned out to be more interesting than that.<br /><br />Looking around in various places for Ellick I wasn't having much luck, except for his Draft Registration form which gave me the correct spelling: Ellic Friend.<br /><blockquote>WWI Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, ancestry.com<br />Serial No. 110<br />Registration No. 75<br />Name: Ellic Friend<br />Address: 500 West 15th St Kansas City Mo<br />Date of Birth: February 10th 1897<br />Where born: McDonald Co, Missouri USA<br />Native of the United States<br />Citizen<br />Father's birthplace: Missouri, USA<br />Employer: Armour + Co, Kansas City, Kansas<br />Nearest Relative: Jaunita Friend (wife)<br />500 West 15th St Kansas City Mo<br />[signed} Ellic Friend<br /><br />REGISTRAR'S REPORT<br />Medium Height<br />Slender Build<br />Eyes: Gray<br />Hair: Black<br />Physical disability? No<br />[signed] B B Anderson<br />Local Board, Division No. 2<br />City of Kansas City<br />State of Missouri<br />315 Gumell Building<br />Kansas City, MO</blockquote><br />So then I did a general Google search and found this note:<br /><blockquote>http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/MONEWTON/2007-01/1168722699<br />noted 8 August 2007<br />MONEWTON-L Archives<br />Archiver > MONEWTON > 2007-01 > 1168722699<br /><br /> From: "Doug" <doug51215%comcast.net><br /> Subject: [MONEWTON] Friend Ellic - obit/information request<br /> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 13:11:39 -0800<br /> References: <bd5.7e749f6.32d8fa05%aol.com><br /><br /> Just wondering if you, or anyone on this list, has an Ellic FRIEND in their<br /> information? He has been reported to have been born in Sarcoxie MO (Jasper<br /> Co) 10 Feb 1897 and has been found in only the 1920 census in Ottawa Co OK<br /> as Ellis with wife Juanita. His parents were reported to be Joe and Dolly<br /> but I have no further info.<br /><br /> His wife, Juanita Lucille SCOTT was reported to have been born in Granby MO<br /> (Newton Co) on 4 Sep 1900. It is also reported that she later married a<br /> Robert Lee SCOTT.<br /><br /> They were married 4 Sep 1917 in Newton Co MO and had 8 children, 4 sons, 4<br /> daughters, between 1920 and about 1930. He died Jun 1978 and she Sep 1978,<br /> both in Salisaw OK (They may have lived in Muldrow).<br /><br /> I would be appreciative of any information received pertaining to this couple.<br /> Is there someone that looks up obits Salisaw OK?<br /> Can the birth records in MO be examined?<br /> Other suggestions?<br /><br /> Thanks,<br /><br /> Doug</bd5.7e749f6.32d8fa05%aol.com></doug51215%comcast.net></blockquote><br />Juanita Scott, Juanita Scott...familiar. Very, very familiar. Where had I seen a Juanita Scott before?<br /><br />Right!<br /><br />I'd been tracing a Charles M. "Charlie" Scott from Granby, Newton County, Missouri to Denver, Colorado as a possible for a missing brother of Lee's. I looked at my notes. Yup. He had a daughter named Juanita. And when you looked at her census record as Mrs. Ellic Friend she said her mother was born in Virginia. As this Juanita Scott's was.<br /><br />So, Ellic Friend was Lee's nephew-in-law? Usually someone closer (or just a nurse) is the informant. This seemed odd.<br /><br />But it also seemed odd that I could never find Lee's son Alec.<br /><br />And then I noticed that Ellic's draft registration form said he was born February 10th 1897. And Alec's 1900 census notation said he was born Feb 1897.<br /><br />Right.<br /><br />Then I looked more closely at the 1900 census record. Lee and Sarah were married 3 years. "Alick" was 3, born Feb 1897. Doesn't quite fit. So, now the question seemed to be was Ellic adopted? Or was Sarah his natural mother and Lee his step-father?<br /><br />I'd never had much luck tracking down Lee's son George, so I turned my attention to daughter Dixie. And after looking at all the women named "Dixie" in the Missouri Death Certificates database who died in McDonald and Jasper Counties, I found the right woman in Newton County: Dixie Irene Scott Reber.<br /><blockquote>Father: Lee Scott<br />Mother: Dollie Friend<br />Informant: Mr. Ed Reber, Ritchey, Mo [husband]</blockquote><br />And then I looked at Doug's note again. Ellic's mother was said to be "Dolly". And although every single census said Lee's wife was "Sarah", Dixie, too, said her mother was Dollie. Dollie Friend.<br /><br />Seems to me that Sarah E. Friend was nicknamed Dollie and was either married to a Friend cousin before she married Lee or Ellic was born out of wedlock. Since typically in those circumstances the child was adopted by his step-father, or at least took his name, my thought is that she was married before she married Lee. Although there is one oddity. The death record of Paul Joseph Friend:<br /><blockquote><a href="http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/#search">Missouri Death Certificates, 1910-1955</a><br />Paul Josephine Friend [sic: record says Paul Joseph Friend] October 26, 1926 Jasper Joplin 31982 view image<br />Date of Birth: Nov 29th 1925<br />Father: Alex Friend<br />Mother: Juanita Scott<br />[signed] Alex Scott, 1931 Indiana Ave Joplin<br />Burial Forest Park, Joplin Oct 28, 1926</blockquote><br />Is this Ellic Friend signing as Alex Scott? Or is this another cousin or the actual son of Lee and Sarah (who appears in no other record except census that I can find). Hard to say. Checking marriage records in McDonald Co., MO would probably settle the questions about Sarah E. "Dollie" Friend.<br /><br />One funny last note.<br /><br />Did you notice that Lee and his parents were noted as born in Scotland in the 1900 census? It even gave a date of naturalization. That threw me for a while, but it was so obviously the same family that I stuck with it. And it seems confirmed that this is the right family. So where did "birthplace Scotland" come from?<br /><br />Did you notice his death certificate? Birthplace: Scotland, Mo. His family is noted as living there in the 1880 census:<br /><blockquote>State Missouri<br />County Jasper<br />Jackson Township, S.D. 4, E.D. 64, Page No. 15/434A<br />[noted on previous census page: Village of Scotland]<br />11 June 1880 by WB McNeel<br />line 13, 125/125 SCOTT Robert N WM 37 M Farmer Kentucky NC NC<br />Martha WF 27 wife M Keeping house Missouri Geo MO<br />Willam WM 11 Son S At home attended school Missouri Ky MO<br />Charley WM 9 Son S Missouri Ky MO<br />Robert WM 7 Son S Missouri Ky MO<br />Alice WF 5 Daughter Missouri Ky MO<br />Anna WF 2 Daughter Missouri Ky MO<br />[near father Allen Scott]</blockquote><br />This was the community founded by his grandfather Allen Scott.<br /><br />Ah, census records. So helpful. And so misleading.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040578.post-1163646766410003362006-11-15T19:07:00.000-08:002012-02-15T10:09:04.948-08:00Henrietta A.F.L. Fluxton Goas<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4T9oMQhwVZh343eh1HkDo95sdhrbfqEraHQbyTOMFVtE_1Nk0pWY-OPf0aG1PouuSZeDGArRoogJTOsMTpK4dQw1iz5MtOcUzjzB4hDv8_i7E_2UoCxHXcBy8xWNqV1vY9pdb/s1600-h/GoasHenrietta.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5114146513866933906" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4T9oMQhwVZh343eh1HkDo95sdhrbfqEraHQbyTOMFVtE_1Nk0pWY-OPf0aG1PouuSZeDGArRoogJTOsMTpK4dQw1iz5MtOcUzjzB4hDv8_i7E_2UoCxHXcBy8xWNqV1vY9pdb/s200/GoasHenrietta.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" /></a><br />
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We have a lot of information handed down through the family concerning Henrietta Fluxton Goas.<br />
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Family tradition states that she was from "Huddleberg" where she lived with her wealthy grandparents. Her mother had married her father against her family's will, and when her husband died, they took in Henrietta but not her mother. When Henrietta was 14, her mother came for a final visit with her second husband before they were to come to the U.S. and Henrietta decided to go with them. So Henrietta came to the United States in 1852 with her mother and stepfather Weber on the ship Tennessee and landed in New Orleans before coming up the Mississippi to St. Louis.<br />
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Various maiden names have been given for her. It has been stated that her grandparents adopted her and their name was Boskey. Her husband gave her maiden name as "Puxton" on the death record of their daughter Mary Goas Hargett. Henrietta gave it as Fluxton for her marriage certificate, so that is what I use. That I have never heard of nor seen any name quite like Fluxton is a puzzler, but not one I can see how to resolve.<br />
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It is said that she was working as an interpreter at a hotel in St. Louis and met Lewis Goas there, who was working on the steamboats.<br />
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They were married on July 19, 1857 in Jefferson County, Missouri, just south of St. Louis. Since it is most usual for a young woman to get married in her own neighborhood, when I decided to try to find her family, Jefferson County is where I started.<br />
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There are several Weber/Webber/Weaver families in Jefferson County in 1860. One family is even in Meramec township with Henrietta and Lewis, but they were suspect because the census said they had had children born in Missouri before 1850. A check of the 1850 census confirmed they were there before 1852.<br />
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Another family had a wife old enough to be Henrietta's mother, and the birthplaces of the children generally fit the 1852 immigration.<br />
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Page No. 25/541<br />
Central Township, County of Jefferson, State of Missouri<br />
5th Sept 1860 by Albert G. Haile<br />
P.O. Hillsboro<br />
line 30, 183/184 Fr. A. WEBER 43 M Do[Farmer] 800/100 Prussia<br />
Amelia 38 F "[Prussia]<br />
Agnes 17 F "[Prussia]<br />
August 15 M "[Prussia]<br />
Alwena 11 F "[Prussia]<br />
Adolp 8 M "[Prussia]<br />
William 5 M Mo<br />
Christoph 2 M "[Mo]</blockquote>
They stated they were from Prussia, which did not appear to meet our criteria, but the complicated politics in Germany/Prussia at the time were a leading reason for Germans to come to the United States at that time. This didn't rule them out. I decided to investigate this family further.<br />
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In 1870 they stayed put:<br />
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Page No. 32<br />
Central Township, County of Jefferson, State of Missouri<br />
16 July 1870 by Sam A. Reppy<br />
P.O. Hillsboro<br />
line 6, 225/237 WEBBER Augustus 53 "[M]"[W] Farmer 1500/658 Prussia<br />
Amelia 45 F"[W] Keeps House do[Prussia]<br />
Augustus 23 M"[W] Works on farm do[Prussia]<br />
Elvina 20 F"[W] No Ocupation do[Prussia]<br />
Adolph 18 M"[W] Works on farm do[Prussia]<br />
Wilhelm 14"[M]"[W] do[Works on farm] Missouri attended school<br />
Christopher 12"[M]"[W] do[Works on farm] do[Missouri] attended school<br />
Sarah 9 F"[W] At home do[Missouri] attended school<br />
Emma 6"[F]"[W] do[At home] do[Missouri]<br />
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Agnes had married Charles Heller in Jefferson County in 1866. By 1868 he has remarried Johanna Kasten. We can assume Agnes passed away before December 1868.<br />
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In 1880 this Weber family moves to St. Louis:<br />
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Page No. 44<br />
S.D. 1<br />
E.D. 165<br />
St Louis, St Louis, State of Missouri<br />
23rd June 1880 by GH. Wesseling<br />
Watson Road<br />
line 23, 316/344 WEBER August WM 63 M Farmer Prusia Prusia Prusia<br />
Mollie WF 57 Wife M Keeping House Prusia Prusia Prusia<br />
August WM 35 Son S Farm laborer Paralized Missouri Prusia Prusia<br />
William WM 25 Son S Farm Laborer Missouri Prusia Prusia<br />
Gustave WM 23 Son S At Home Missouri Prusia Prusia<br />
Sarah WF 19 Daughter S At Home Missouri Prusia Prusia<br />
Emma WF 17 Daughter S At Home Missouri Prusia Prusia<br />
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Here, things get complicated. The missing 1890 census being one problem, and everyone running off and getting married another. I managed to track them all down except for August. Since he was noted as paralyzed in the 1880 census, I imagine he didn't live very much longer.<br />
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One thing I noticed was that starting in 1880, several of their children noted that they and their parents were born in "Saxony" or "Sachsen". Prussia was dropped entirely and Germany substituted in all other cases. We can assume this was because of the political changes wrought throughout this period in Prussia and Germany. For obvious reasons, I found the "Saxony" reference heartening. Henrietta put her birthplace as "Saxony", "Baden" and "Germany" in various censuses. The whole issue is complicated by the fact that there are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxony_%28disambiguation%29">multiple Sachsen provinces, principalities and regions</a> in Prussia and Germany. Heidelberg is found in Baden.<br />
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In 1900, I found August widowed and living with his daughter Alvina "Lena" Weber Horschmann in St. Louis:<br />
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State Missouri<br />
City of St. Louis, 2nd Ward<br />
s.d. 11, e.d. 20, Sheet No. 3B<br />
Fourth June 1900 by Geo H. Marquard<br />
1812 North Ninth Street<br />
line 74, 44/60 HORSCHMANN John Head WM June 1848 51 M 28 Illinois Germany Germany Cooper yes/yes/yes Owns House Free of mortgage<br />
Lena Wife WF Oct 1848 51 M 28 5/5 Germany Germany Germany unknown immigration no/no/yes<br />
CURRAN Mamie A Daughter WF Aug 1873 26 Wd 4 0/0 Missouri Illinois Germany yes/yes/yes<br />
HORSCHMANN Edward Son WM Sept 1875 24 S Missouri Illinois Germany Machinist yes/yes/yes<br />
Mathilda Daughter WF Dec 1878 21 S Missouri Illinois Germany Envelope Maker yes/yes/yes<br />
William Son WM Oct 1880 19 S Missouri Illinois Germany Stove Mounter yes/yes/yes<br />
Theresa D. Daughter WF Jan 1887 13 S Missouri Illinois Germany at School 9 months yes/yes/yes<br />
WEBER August Father in Law WM Oct 1817 82 Wd Germany Germany Germany 1852/47/Na yes/yes/no<br />
line 82, /61 TOWNSEND Arthur Head WM Mch 1879 21 M Missouri Ohio Missouri Clerk (Comm) Rents House<br />
Mamie Wife WF Mch 1881 19 M 0/0 Missouri Germany Illinois<br />
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Notice August's immigration imformation: arrived in 1852. The coincidences are now mounting.<br />
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Ancestry.com has recently augmented its immigration records, so I thought I would try to find them. I've tried to find our 14 year old Henrietta and the Tennessee many, many times, but with no luck. This time, I was looking for this Weber family and hoping Henrietta would be tucked in with them.<br />
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I tried several combination of searches before I tried: New Orleans / Weber / 1852. Simple, to the point, and effective:<br />
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List of all Passengers taken on board the Ship Elizabeth Dennison where of Carpenter is Master, at the Port of Antwerp + Bremen and bound for New-Orleans<br />
Printed and Sold by J.B. Steel, No. 60 Camp Street, New-Orleans<br />
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32. F. Aug. WEBER 35 1*** Heidg ----- [farmer] 4<br />
33. Amel. "[WEBER] 30 *1** do[Heidg]<br />
34. Emil. "[WEBER] 14 **1* do[Heidg]<br />
35. Agns. "[WEBER] 8 **1* do[Heidg]<br />
36. August. "[WEBER] 7 **1* do[Heidg]<br />
37. Ang. "[WEBER] 6 **1* do[Heidg]<br />
38. Albert "[WEBER] 3 **1* do[Heidg]<br />
39. Edwina "[WEBER] 1/4 ***1 do[Heidg]<br />
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Ship Elizabeth Dennison<br />
Carpenter<br />
Antwep, Brement<br />
23d October 1852<br />
pg. 404<br />
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AND THEY HAVE A 14 YEAR OLD.<br />
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For comparison, this is the family as they would have appeared in 1852:<br />
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F. August 35<br />
Amelia 30<br />
Henrietta A.F.L. 14<br />
Agnes 9<br />
August 7<br />
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Alvina 3<br />
Adolph 3/12<br />
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No genders are noted on the manifest for children, but an adult "Emil." was noted as a female. On their daughter's death certificate, Henrietta's husband noted her name as "Henrietta E. Puxton". The "E." still fits if her second name were Amelia, which can also be spelled Emilia, which I believe they did for the manifest.<br />
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There are now simply too many coincidences to ignore. The final one being that the family's residence was listed as "Heidg". Clearly this means "Heidelberg".<br />
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I believe this is our Henrietta, whose second name must be Amelia.<br />
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The ship is not the Tennessee, but there was also a steamboat on the Mississippi that was launched in the 1840s called the <a href="http://www.riverboatdaves.com/riverboats/t.html">Tennessee</a>. It's entirely possible that there was confusion as to which ship she was talking about - the one on which they crossed the ocean, or the one on which they arrived in St. Louis. Or, more simply, "Dennison" sounds a lot like "Tennessee".<br />
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So far, unfortunately, of the 3/6 available death records of Amelia's children that I have seen not one has even noted her first name, let alone her maiden name. Especially disappointing was that Lena Weber Horschmann's husband didn't know Amelia's name even though August came to live with them following Amelia's death. If John Horschmann didn't know it, I feel it's unlikely anyone else who would be reporting information for these death certificates would either.<br />
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I have also seen a tradition <a href="http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:571752&id=I26131616">noted by other descendants of Henrietta Fluxton Goas</a> that she traveled with "half-siblings Lena and August". That, too, fits this family. Alvina's name is given alternately as "Alvina/Alwina" and "Lena" on census records. There is obviously some confusion on the manifest with the youngest children. The ages are correct, but the names are wrong and imply the wrong gender. Mistakes of this nature are very common on census and other similar records. That the names of the parents and the eldest two Weber children are correct, as are the ages, strongly suggests that this is the same family.<br />
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To find Amelia's maiden name and have it match one of the names in the family tradition would be ideal, but I don't think we're going to get that lucky. And, frankly, even if it didn't match I'd probably still be convinced that Amelia Weber is Henrietta's mother. Henrietta's own death certificate was filled out by the local minister, C.E. Welch, and not a family member. He did not know her parent's names.<br />
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For me, it rests with that Ship Elizabeth Dennison manifest. August and Amelia Weber and family were in Jefferson Co., MO in 1860, as was Henrietta. They arrived in the U.S. in 1852 via the port at New Orleans, as did Henrietta. That they had with them the 14 year old child I had hoped for, and by the time I got to the record expected, was the final necessary coincidence to convince me this is the Weber family with which our Henrietta traveled and are her mother and step family.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040578.post-1163077124454277752006-11-09T04:42:00.000-08:002009-10-05T18:06:04.364-07:001850 Jackson Co., MO Census transcriptionSince we moved into our new life I have been too busy to do much genealogy, and since things look to get busier I decided I had to buckle down and get the <a href="http://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/mo/jackson/1850/">1850 Jackson Co., MO Census</a> transcription done. I had already done the overwhelming part (Blue Twp.) and it was really the easy bit left to go, the small townships of Ft. Osage, Sni-A-Bar (or Sni Bar as the enumerator wrote) and Van Buren.<br /><br />So I did. And I'm done. What a relief. It's kind of cool, seeing it all online. And such interesting people.<br /><br />Probably the most interesting recently was also sad:<br /><blockquote>Crawford Jeptha 39 M Farmer 1,200 Ky<br />Crawford Eliz 36 F V'a<br />Crawford Laura 17 F Mo<br />Crawford Susan 15 F Mo attended school<br />Crawford Ann E 14 F Mo attended school<br />Crawford Armena 12 F Mo attended school<br />Crawford W'm 11 M Mo attended school<br />Crawford Mary E 9 F Mo attended school<br />Crawford Marshal 7 M Mo attended school<br />Crawford Marion 5 M Mo attended school<br />Crawford Riley 3 M Mo<br />Crawford Lurana 2 F Mo</blockquote><br />In 1862, <a href="http://www.kansasheritage.org/research/quantrill.html">Jeptha Crawford</a> was taken from his home and shot by Jayhawkers. Elizabeth took her 14 year old son Riley to <a href="http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/i_r/quantrill.htm">William Quantrill</a> and asked him to make him a guerilla. He did, and Riley was eventually killed in Cooper County, Missouri in 1864.<br /><br />I got pretty good at guessing which families stayed in Missouri and which moved on to Oregon or California. Quite an interesting project, Kansas City being such a crossroads at the time.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040578.post-1147098523976713942006-04-13T07:16:00.000-07:002009-10-05T18:06:32.922-07:00Newton family, Pittsford, Monroe County, New YorkAmasa D. Newton and his family are a particularly difficult one to trace. They were from Pittsford, Monroe County, New York (right along the Eric Canal) and his parents were apparently both dead by 1860 as the children are scattered.<br /><br />The original family in 1850:<br /><blockquote>Pittsford, County of Monroe, State of Newyork<br />7th August 1850 by J. K. Buell<br />pg. 204A/407<br />line 32, 518/518 Alva NEWTON 32 M Laborer " [Newyork]<br />Sarah NEWTON 29 F England<br />Fanny E NEWTON 9 F Newyork<br />Nathan NEWTON 8 M " [Newyork]<br />Amasa NEWTON 4 M " [Newyork]<br />Sarat NEWTON 2 F " [Newyork]<br />Charles NEWTON 6/12 M " [Newyork]</blockquote><br />In 1860:<br /><blockquote>1860 Monroe Co., NY Census, the town of Pittsford, Page No. 45/225<br />27th Nov 1860 by Levi L. Fulton<br />P.O. North Chili NY<br />line 17, 1702/1781 William A. RAY 33 M Farmer 7000/6750 New York<br />Miranda 31 F " [New York]<br />Florence 2 F " [New York]<br />Betsey LAKE 54 F Vermont<br />Byron 28 M Farm Laborer " [New York]<br />Murray 24 M Teach Com. School " [New York]<br />/1782 Ann MILES 64 F Housekeeper " [New York]<br />Sarah NEWTON 12 F " [New York]<br />Nathan 17 M Farm Laborer " [New York]</blockquote><br />Interestingly, next door to the Newtons in 1850 is the John S. Agate family, including his sister Ann Agate, who is the Ann Miles listed above who apparently has my Sarah and Nathan living with her.<br /><br />My ancestor, Amasa, is in Indiana:<br /><blockquote>1860 St. Joseph Co., IN Census, Clay Tp., Page No. 55,<br />18 June 1860 by John Gallagher,<br />P.O. So. Bend,<br />line 13, 392/392 J FARRAN 30 M " [Farmer] /250 Mich,<br />Henry 32 "[M] " [Farmer] 1800/ Ohio,<br />WH SMITH 47 "[M] " [Ohio],<br />Catharine FARREN? 61 F Conn,<br />Amsey NEWTON 13 M NY.</blockquote><br />These Farrens and Amasa are in Berrien Co., MI in 1870. The Farrens, in fact, were in Berrien Co., MI in 1850. No idea how he ends up with them. They were in Ohio, then Berrien Co., MI, then St. Joseph Co., IN and then back to Berrien Co., MI. Some of them end up in Iowa, as does Amasa, though not in the same area.<br /><br />In 1870, there is no sign of Nathan Newton, but Ann Agate Miles's household looks like this:<br /><blockquote>Page No. 20<br />Pittsford, County of Monroe, State of New York<br />22 June 1870 by Daniel Kingsley<br />P.O. Pittsford NY<br />line 28, 175/175 MILES Ann 70 FW Farmer 5000/300 New York<br />WILDER William 23 MW Farm laborer New York<br />Sarah 21 FW Domestic serv't New York</blockquote><br />Of course, I think that this Sarah is my Sarah, but I couldn't pin her down until browsing the cemeteries at the <a href="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/monroe/index.html">Monroe Co., NY genealogy site</a>, where I found this:<br /><blockquote>Anah B. Yates from the <i>Honeoye Falls Times</i> 24 March 1921<br />Monroe Co., NY, <a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Enymonroe/cem/east-st.htm">East Street Cemetery</a><br />WILDER Sarah A. Newton, wife of W. W.; d May 29, 1871 æ 23.</blockquote><br />I can't believe they put her maiden name. So, my guess was correct! But unfortunately, she died quite young.<br /><br />But this reinforces my idea that Sarah and Ann Agate Miles were related: why would Sarah live with a stranger for that long? And in 1880 Ann has another relative, Miranda Lake Ray, her nephew's widow, and their children living with her. She seems to like taking people in.<br /><br />So far there has been no trace of Nathan or Charles Newton (after the 1850 census record), and Fanny could easily be disguised by marriage.<br /><br />I feel very lucky to have traced Sarah. I just hope I'm on the right track about their relationship with Ann Agate Miles.<br /><br />And I've had no luck trying to trace backward from Alva Newton.<br /><br />It's all very interestingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040578.post-1138032484658360292006-02-23T08:03:00.000-08:002009-10-05T18:07:09.897-07:00A Maiden Name Puzzler: Too Much EvidenceI started with this:<br /><blockquote>1870 Saline Co., MO Census, Saline County, MO<br />Grand Pass Township, Page No. 40, 26th Aug 1870 by G.W. Gilmore, P.O. Brownsville,<br />line 26, 291/306 EDWARDS M. 55 MW Farmer 4800/960 N Carolina,<br />M. 57 FW Keep House Tennessee,<br />H.R. 19 MW Farm work Missouri attended school,<br />R.B. 18 MW " " [Farm work] " [Missouri] attended school,<br />A.A. 16 MW " " [Farm work] " [Missouri] attended school,<br />L.M. 14 FW " [Missouri] attended school,<br />KESTERSON Wm 29 MW Farm Laborer " [Missouri],<br />line 33? 292/307 EDWARDS E.F. 35 MW Farmer 1000/493 " [Missouri],<br />M.M. 25 FW Keeps House " [Missouri],<br />G.A. 7 FW " [Missouri] attended school,<br />M.E. 2 FW " [Missouri]</blockquote><br /><br />I thought the "R.B." - who frustratingly appeared as "R.B" in the 1860 Johnson Co., MO Census as well - must be this fella:<br /><blockquote>Missouri Marriages, 1851-1900, ancestry.com, Name: Richard B. Edwards<br />Spouse: Matilda Jane Weddell<br />Marriage Date: 17 Jan 1878<br />Performed By: W. Purcell<br />Title: J. P.<br />Comment: Page 231<br />Marriage Records of Saline County, Missouri Volume IV Book D 1874-1881.</blockquote><br /><br />And the same guy here:<br /><blockquote>Grand Pass Township, S.D. 6, E.D. 59, Page No. 19/366A<br />tenth June 1880 by WL Purcell<br />line 11, 143/145 EDWARDS Richard B WM 28 M Laborer Mo N.C. Tenn<br />Angeline M WF 20 Wife M Keeping House Va Va Va</blockquote><br /><br />But the "Matilda Jane" and the "Angeline" didn't seem to match...<br /><br />I did manage to find this:<br /><blockquote>Saline Co., MO Cemetery Records, ancestry.com, (Cemetery Records of Saline County, Missouri Volume II), Name: R. B. Edwards<br />Birth Date: 11 Dec 1851<br />Death Date: 07 Dec 1889<br />Cemetery: Grand Pass.</blockquote><br />and in the same cemetery record this:<br /><blockquote>Name: Julina M. Edwards<br />Birth Date: 21 May 1860<br />Death Date: 02 Feb 1940<br />Cemetery: Grand Pass</blockquote><br />And I wasn't having any luck finding "Matilda Jane Weddell" anywhere, so I tried to find this Julina M. [Edwards].<br /><br />Found her in 1900:<br /><blockquote>State Missouri<br />County Saline<br />Grand Pass Township<br />s.d. 7, e.d. 127, Sheet No. 2B<br />4 June 1900 by John H. Hughes<br />line 62, 35/35 EDWARDS Julina Head WF May 1860 40 Wd 12/7 Virginia Virginia Virginia Owns Mortgaged Farm<br />Rosie P Daughter WF Oct 1886 13 S Missouri Missouri Virginia attended school 7 months<br />Myrtle? L Daughter WF Mar 1888 12 S Missouri Missouri Virginia attended school 9 months<br />Goldie A Daughter WF Mar 1890 10 S Missouri Missouri Virginia attended school 9 months<br />Addie C Daughter WF Feb 1892 8 S Missouri Missouri Virginia attended school 9 months<br />Gracie D Daughter WF Jan 1894 6 S Missouri Missouri Virginia attended school 9 months<br />James F Son WM Mar? 1896 4 S Missouri Missouri Virginia<br />Oscar T Son WM Dec 1897 2 S Missouri Missouri Virginia<br />EDWARDS Charles Brother WM Mar 1874 S Missouri Virginia Virginia R R Laborer unemployed 6 months</blockquote><br />And why oh <span style="font-style: italic;">why</span> couldn't they have gotten her brother's last name right?! It would have saved steps...but there still seemed to be a problem: Richard B. Edwards was dead by 1889.<br /><br />But throwing in Julina b. Virginia brought up this:<br /><blockquote>Page No. 48<br />Jacksonville Township, County of Floyd, State of Virginia<br />6 July 1870 by BP Elliott<br />P.O. Floyd CH Va<br />line 32, 363/345 WEDDLE Elijah 33 MW Farmer 200/180 Va<br />Mary J 28 FW House Keeping "[Va]<br />Julina M 10 FW "[Va]<br />Almodoris 5 FW "[Va]<br />Leveretta 3 FW "[Va]<br />Fulks 1 MW "[Va]<br />DICKERSON Amanda C 16 FW Domestic "[Va]<br />[next door Andrew and Barbara Weddle]</blockquote><br />and tracing Elijah brought up this:<br /><blockquote>www.familysearch.org, 1880 United States Census<br />Elijah WEDDELL Self M MW 43 VA Farmer VA VA<br />Mary J. WEDDELL Wife M FW 38 VA Keeping House VA VA<br />Amanda WEDDELL Dau S FW 15 VA No Occupation VA VA<br />Feagan WEDDELL Son S MW 9 MO At Home VA VA<br />Charles WEDDELL Son S MW 7 MO At Home VA VA<br />Lula W. WEDDELL Dau S FW 3 MO At Home VA VA<br />Source Information: Census Place: Grand Pass, Saline, Missouri, Family History Library Film: 1254716, NA Film Number: T9-0716, Page Number: 368D</blockquote><br />Bingo, it had to be our girl.<br /><br />Julina Matilda Weddle Edwards.<br /><br />And I believe the tombstone record is mistaken. Richard B. Edwards would have died in 1899.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040578.post-1138267594309620352006-01-26T01:17:00.000-08:002009-10-05T18:07:20.719-07:00No longer blue about BlueIt's finally done! My transcription of Blue Twp., <a href="http://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/mo/jackson/1850/">Jackson Co., MO 1850</a> Census, it's been proofread and is online.<br /><br />For "Blue" you can read Kansas City/Westport and environs. Quite populated. Quite interesting.<br /><br />It dragged on and on and on...it took me over a year. I got busy, and it was so long I couldn't get motivated. Once I got past the halfway mark it was much easier.<br /><br />Probably the most interesting household in this township was the Tubee family:<br /><br />1850 Jackson Co., MO Census<br />Blue Township<br /><a href="http://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/mo/jackson/1850/pg0286b.txt">Page 290A</a><br /><br />line 37, 833/833 Tubee Okah 39 M Physician Al'a<br />Tubee Lucele 32 F NY <br />Tubee Seraphine 13 F Mo<br />Tubee Celestine 12 F Mo<br />Tubee Mashola 1 M Mo<br /><br />Who I thought Okah might be French (looking at his daughters' names, thinking perhaps it was a mis-heard 'Duby') but it turns out he was <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0803228708/104-9942340-8823155?v=glance&n=283155">Choctaw</a> (though you will notice no race is mentioned here).<br /><br />I've finished Kaw, Washington and Blue, and have only three rather small townships left to go: Sni Bar, Van Buren and Ft. Osage.<br /><br />Won't it feel good to be done!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040578.post-1132239624175944542005-11-17T06:49:00.000-08:002009-10-13T15:56:03.664-07:00Wily TwylaWe don't really know much about <a href="http://www.spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I0054&tree=jackson">Twyla</a>.<br />
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Daughter of <a href="http://www.spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I0059&tree=jackson">Elmer</a> and <a href="http://www.spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I0060&tree=jackson">Alice Scott</a> Gilbreath, born April Fool's Day, 1893 in Jasper County, Missouri.<br />
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Most of what I do know I got from her daughter Charlotte, who was a wonderful person. Really funny and lively. I saw her take an umbrella out of her drink and put it in her hair, like it was the natural thing to do.<br />
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As she told the story, when Charlotte was 5 and Georgina was 3, Twyla divorced Everitt so she could run off (marry? that's unclear) with a man who was an acrobat in the circus. Circuses did (and still do) winter in the Newton/Jasper Counties area of Missouri.<br />
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She took Charlotte and left Georgina (to become Georga) behind. Georga lived at first with her father and later with her grandparents and <a href="http://www.spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I0062&tree=jackson">Aunt Jessie</a>.<br />
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Twyla and Charlotte headed to Europe, where she and Charlotte performed in the acrobatic act of the man they left with. Later, she left him for another man, leaving Charlotte with this step-father. Charlotte was in Paris during World War I.<br />
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Twyla apparently lived in California, but we know nothing about this period of her life.<br />
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She died in 1948 at the age of 55 and is buried in Carterville Cemetery in the same plot as her parents under the name "Twyla Blevins".<br />
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We have no idea who her last husband was.<br />
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I've tried to do some research on this, checking Ellis Island for their comings and goings (none that I could find). And no sign of them in the 1920 census.<br />
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I did manage to find Charlotte in 1930, when she was living with Everitt's second wife's twin sister<a href="http://www.spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I0510&tree=jackson">Jewel Innes Stipp</a> in Pittsburg, Kansas and "dancing" in a "Theatrical troup". This is probably why Georga wasn't allowed to speak to her, though this wasn't explained to Georga. Her aunt made it clear that Charlotte wasn't "good enough" to talk to, but Georga never understood why. She simply did as she was told.<br />
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But I finally got a proper breakthrough the other day when ancestry.com put the World War I Draft Registration Cards online.<br />
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Twyla had a brother named Levie Sutton Gilbreath (she had a Great-Uncle named Levi Sutton). Levie later went by "Leroy", but in 1917 he was living in Chicago and his form reads like this:<br />
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WWI Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, ancestry.com<br />
REGISTRATION CARD<br />
Serial Number: 3662, Order Number: 5082<br />
Name: Levie Sutton Gilbreath<br />
Address: 63 W. Shiller? Chicago Cook Ill<br />
Age: 20, Date of birth: Mar 10 1898<br />
White<br />
Native born [citizen]<br />
Occupation: Salesman, St. Clair Refinery Co<br />
Place of employment: 35th + South Park Av. Chicago<br />
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Cook Ill<br />
Nearest relative: sister Mrs. Twyla Cuby<br />
64 W. Schiller Chicago Cook Ill<br />
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[signed] Levie S. Gilbreath<br />
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REGISTRAR'S REPORT<br />
12-2-18-C<br />
Medium height<br />
Slender build<br />
Eyes: Blue<br />
Hair: brown<br />
Disability: no<br />
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[signed] Mathilde Jacqer<br />
Sept 12 1918<br />
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Chicago Local Board No. 46<br />
Newberry Library, Chicago.<br />
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The alert reader will notice "sister Mrs. Twyla Cuby" who lives in Chicago. I did. My eyes nearly bulged out of my head!<br />
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And in 1920, Twyla still did:<br />
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1920 Cook Co., IL Census<br />
State Illinois<br />
County Cook<br />
s.d. 1, e.d. 1153, Sheet No. 4B<br />
Chicago City, Ward 21<br />
January 1920 by Arthur Hanssen<br />
1357 North LaSalle Street<br />
line 88, 38/87 DUCKWORTH Hannah Head R FW 45 S 1912/Pa /yes/yes England/English England/English England/English Keeper/Rooming House<br />
[other roomers]<br />
line 93, /89 CUBY Clement Roomer R MW 30 M 1900/Na/1910 France/French France/French France/French Acrobat/theater<br />
Twyla Roomer FW 23 M 1904/Na/1910 /yes/yes England/English England/English England/English Acrobat/theater<br />
Georgenia Daughter FW 7 S yes/yes/yes Missouri France/French England/English<br />
Charlotte Daughter FW 5 S no/yes/yes Missouri France/French England/English<br />
[other roomers]<br />
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There they are. A slight mix up with the daughters ages, and Twyla claims (*cough*cough*) to have been born in England.<br />
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And just when you were convinced that the story was far to interesting to be true notice:<br />
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Occupation: acrobat/theater<br />
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Also of interest is Clement Seraphin Cuby's draft registration form that notes he is from Lausanne, Switzerland (not true - he's from the Haute Pyrenees in France, near Toulouse) and that he is single, claiming only his mother in Switzerland as a dependent (also untrue, she is actually working as a maid in New York City). It's not surprising Clement claimed to be from (neutral) Switzerland and not France while the war was raging. But I think we can assume he would have claimed Twyla, Charlotte and Georgina if he'd been married. Since he fills out his form on 5 June 1917, and Levie filled his out on 18 September 1918, that narrows down the marriage date signifcantly.<br />
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By 1930 Clement and Twyla are no longer married.<br />
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Clement is living in Nassau Co., NY:<br />
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State New York<br />
County Nassau<br />
Hempstead Township<br />
e.d. 30-102, s.d. 36, Sheet No. 9B<br />
Baldwin Village<br />
Apr 10, 11, 1930 by Bessie H Betts<br />
39 Ashland Avenue<br />
line 79, 208/220 CUBY Clement Head O 10000 R no MW 41 M 35 no/yes France France France French 1900/Pa/yes Actor/Theatrical<br />
Frances Wife FW 48 M 42 no/yes Scotland Scotland Scotland English 1903/Pa/yes Sales-lady/Real Estate<br />
Idalie Mother FW 70 Wd 28 no/yes France France France French 1900?/Na/yes<br />
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I'm not sure where Twyla is. There is a Twyla Shaw in California who is about the right age and born in Missouri, but there's no reason to assume it's her.<br />
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Wily Twyla.<br />
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So, Twyla really was an acrobat. I thought perhaps just Charlotte and her step-father were in the act (from what Charlotte said I wasn't sure).<br />
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Anyway, thought you'd find this of interest. Oh, and Georgina/Georgia is also listed in the 1920 census in Neosho:<br />
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1920 Newton Co., MO Census<br />
Neosho City<br />
S.D. 13, E.D. 148, Sheet #16A/165A<br />
13 January 1920 by J.S. Sutherland<br />
Cemetery Road<br />
384/409 JACKSON, George W. Head 60 TN TN TN Farmer<br />
Ida Wife 58 MO MO MO<br />
Jessie Mae Daughter Divorced 31 MO TN MO Needlework<br />
Everitt Son Divorced 29 MO TN MO Mail carrier<br />
Percy Son 22 MO TN MO Home Laborer<br />
Georgia Grand Daughter 4 9/12 MO MO MO<br />
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Since Clement fills out his Draft Registration Form in St. Louis, Missouri but it gives his home address as being in Chicago, we can assume there was a lot of traveling back and forth. It's the only explanation I can think of for her dual listings. He mentioned specifically on his Draft Form that he's with a traveling show and that their next stop is in Jacksonville, Illinois.<br />
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It's the best explanation I have for the dual listing.<br />
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One striking thing is that although they were raised apart and saw each other infrequenly as adults, Charlotte and Georga have many of the same mannerisms, speech pattern and the same joie de vie.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040578.post-1131519782015659232005-11-09T18:59:00.000-08:002009-10-05T18:16:27.110-07:00Today in Family History: The burning of the Potterstown Bridge<a href="http://spiddyskids.com/getperson.php?personID=I0587&tree=capps">Jonathan Morgan</a> of Greene County, Tennessee tells the story of his involvement in the burning of the bridge and the consequences of the brutal Confederate response.<br /><br />You can <a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Etngreene/pbb013.html">read his account</a>, transcribed by Donahue Bible, at the Greene County, Tennessee rootsweb website.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com