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Surnames: Cage Stewart Cayce Grier
Classification: Query
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This particular Benjamin Cage is shown as having been married twice in all the sources I
have seen on the Internet (and in Moursund's "Blanco County Families'). These
sources show 2 children with his first wife and 4 with his second wife. Recently I was
doing the census workup and noticed that in 1900 his widow ("Nancy Elizabeth"
"Nancy Beth" "Betha") indicated that she had given birth to 2 children
and both were living. I went back and checked all the dates. His first wife is definitely
the mother of only the first 2 children. This means that he had another wife between Mary
Cayce Stewart and Betha Grier. Does anyone have any info on the missing wife? Or a DOD for
Mary and/or DOBs of children that would make her parentage of the first four children
feasible?