George,
Your questions are perfectly legitimate ones to ask, as I certainly left out
a lot of details to prevent my original post from being any longer than it
already was. I wanted to show that William (the 3rd, son of William Jr (&
Elizabeth Fine), son of William Sr (and Elizabeth Nodding)) and Martha
(Mitchell) Calvert both lived and died in Carroll County, MO, and that
Martha died before 1867 and William died after that date, so that he could
be married to Mary Finch. O'Gorman states
(
http://www.code-co.com/rcf/ancestry/OGorman.htm#7127) that William and
Martha lived in Carroll County and that Martha died in Oct 1864 and William
in Jun 1880. So if you are willing to accept her book as fact, then you
probably do not even need to consider the cemetery stones in order to have a
plausible explanation for how a Calvert bible came to belong to the Finch
family. However, as I have found a number of errors in O'Gorman's book, I
wanted to supplement her work as much as possible with original source
information.
On the other hand, if you still consider the cemetery information critical,
what I wrote about the cemetery stones may have been confusing. There were
three relevant inscriptions of names:
"Wm Calvert"
"Martha A wife of W. Calvert"
"William M. son of W & M.A. Calvert"
There was no wife or any children buried next to William (the 4th) M.
Calvert. My assumption was that these were, in order: William (the 3rd)
Calvert, Martha (Mitchell) Calvert, and William (the 4th) Calvert. William
(the 3rd) went on to marry Mary Finch, and he died before she did. This was
the only place where I discussed William (the 4th) Calvert, but his name is
useful in that it matches the William, son of William and Martha, that
appears in the census records, and so helps to verify that these are the
same William, Martha, and William.
Or perhaps your concerns are because I may not have clearly enough stated
that it was William (the 3rd) who married Mary Finch, not William (the 4th).
I'm not sure if that answers your questions, but if you still have any
concerns or doubts, please post them. Over the weekend, when I have more
time, I would be happy to post a much more detailed message.
Steve
Steve,
After reading your message a couple of times, I noticed
that something didn't seem right. You state that:
The stones were eroded and difficult to read so I have no
exact date, but it is definitely the right Martha since the
stone says, "Martha A wife of W. Calvert" and is buried
next to William and "William M. son of W & M.A. Calvert"
(born 1846, unknown to O'Gorman but clearly listed in the
censuses with William and Martha).
Martha A. (Mitchell) Calvert died Oct. 1864 about 16 years
before her husband William who died June 2, 1880. Their
son William all most certainly died as a child. It is difficult
to envision a situation where a grown man with a wife and
children would be buried next to his mother and father with
a tombstone reading "William M. son of W & M.A.
Calvert".
"William" was a popular name among the descendants of
William Calvert who married Elizabeth Nodding. I certainly
believe you are in the correct branch of the family tree,
however it was probably another William, perhaps a
cousin not listed in O'Gorman. For example, Leonard
Calvert married Roxie Morley. Here is another chance for
a William with the middle initial "M".
The information shown in O'Gorman comes from
descendants of William Calvert and Elizabeth Nodding,
not from Ella Foy O'Gorman's personal research. For this
branch of the family, there were a number of descendants
born in the 1870's and 1880's who were still alive at the
time O'Gorman was researching the Calverts. When you
read the book, you find things like William Henry Calvert
(b. Dec. 25, 1863) was a blacksmith living at 7000 Agnes
Avenue , Kansas City, Mo. There is no death date given,
however the word "was" is used. This tells me we are
looking at research from the long, long ago.
George Calvert
cybercat(a)peoplepc.com
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