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Author: dajada3
Surnames: Calvin
Classification: queries
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I've been looking over your Calvin problem today and I have a few comments to make.
First, in the 1930 census, it looks to me like the place of birth for the two children,
Sam and Anna Calvin, is shown as "Cherokee/mixed" and the race of the children
is shown as "Ind." So it would be their father who was of mixed race.
In the 1920 census of Yakima Co., WA, John, Grace [wife], M. Carry [dau] age 7 b. OR and
Sammie [son] age 5 b. OR, are all shown as "white" but I believe census takers
often made a judgment about race based on the skin coloring of persons. Since Grace was
John's wife in 1920, and in 1930, the remarried Grace [to Harold Walters] lists Sam
and Anna C. as Harold's stepson and stepdaughter, that must mean that it wasn't
Grace who was of mixed ancestry and if she's the mother of both Sam and Anna, then
John didn't have a previous wife of mixed ancestry. Also in 1930, Grace had a son by
her 2nd husband, Harold J. Walters, aged 1 yr. and some months and he's not shown as
Indian so it can't be Grace whose of mixed ancestry.
You seemed to indicate you found John Calvin in the 1930 census. Or am I mistaken! I
certainly couldn't find him in any census except the 1920 and that wasn't for lack
of trying!
Marilyn
lynden(a)goldrush.com
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