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| Image Courtesy John C. Anderson 5/27/2010 |
The image to the left was found at Find A Grave. It's a wonderful website.
Joshua and Sarah GRIFFITH are my paternal 3rd great grandparents.
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Showing posts with label Cottingham. Show all posts
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Joshua D. Griffith & Sarah Jane Cottingham
The image to the left was found at Find A Grave. It's a wonderful website.
Joshua and Sarah GRIFFITH are my paternal 3rd great grandparents.
James Griffith & Stella Sheets
James GRIFFITH and Stella SHEETS are my paternal 2nd great grandparents.
Speculations:
James is listed with wife Stella in the 1910 Census, but by the 1920 US Census, Stella is listed with Will OWENS as wife. I originally assumed that James had died. Apparently, my memory had forgotten that many years ago, I was contacted by a cousin related to me through my great father Harley's brothers - Lester GRIFFITH and Oley GRIFFITH. My great Aunt Mary Lou had told me the same thing many, many years ago. But James & Stella didn't have children named Lester and Oley. The only conclusion? James didn't die, he "ran off", got remarried, or something that produced, at the very least, those two boys AND someone stayed in touch because the older family members knew of them. Do I have written proof? Not a shred. But I do have a missing father on a 1920 Census, and the memory of a Great Aunt.
Speculations:
James is listed with wife Stella in the 1910 Census, but by the 1920 US Census, Stella is listed with Will OWENS as wife. I originally assumed that James had died. Apparently, my memory had forgotten that many years ago, I was contacted by a cousin related to me through my great father Harley's brothers - Lester GRIFFITH and Oley GRIFFITH. My great Aunt Mary Lou had told me the same thing many, many years ago. But James & Stella didn't have children named Lester and Oley. The only conclusion? James didn't die, he "ran off", got remarried, or something that produced, at the very least, those two boys AND someone stayed in touch because the older family members knew of them. Do I have written proof? Not a shred. But I do have a missing father on a 1920 Census, and the memory of a Great Aunt.
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