Barking Up the Wrong Tree: My Head Hurts: Part 2

31 January 2012

My Head Hurts: Part 2

Continued from last week. This week: The children

Comments after the jump.

CHILDREN of NANCY ORLENA BREWER & SAMPSON WILLIAMS
1870, 1880, 1900 censuses show the couple living in Tennessee

NAME BIRTH

MerteliaMertie Williams 13 Apr 1870

Martelia Williams abt 1870 in Tennessee

Martha Williams 25 Sep 1872 in Missouri

Martha Williams 30 Sep 1872 in Tennessee

Sidney Williams 17 Nov 1874 in Tennessee

Sydney Williams 17 Nov 1874 in Missouri

Sydna Williams abt 1875

Mary Williams 11 Jul 1877 in Missouri

Elizabeth Williams 1880

Nellie Williams 1 Apr 1881 in Missouri

Emaline Williams 1883

Tennessee Williams 1 Jun 1886 in Tennessee

Hugh Williams 10 Dec 1889 in Missouri

Joseph Williams 22 Dec 1891 in Missouri

CHILDREN of NANCY ORLENA BREWER & UNKNOWN

Bennie Williams Apr 1880 in Texas

Ludia Crim abt 1883 in Texas

O E Brewer 1890 in Tennessee

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Now we know that before the advent of birth control women could possibly give birth once a year. It's not unheard of. What IS unheard of is a woman giving birth 5 days apart in 2 different states or giving birth to twins with each child being born in a different state. And if the three children with an unknown father actually belonged to Orlena that would either make her a bigamist or make Sampson the most understanding guy in the world.

Initially I was going to do a third post on Sampson's profile but most of the errors have been covered in these two posts. One detail that I thought would be incorrect is actually fact so...

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Researching our family histories we are bound to make mistakes. Hopefully we are quick to correct them. Unfortunately some people refuse to read or think before adding information to their family trees. Some trees have been abandoned so the errors are there for eternity. Here we will laugh, mock and shake our heads at the carelessness, stupidity and/or ignorance of those errors.
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