The best I can figure out my great grandmother, Columbia Porter BRANHAM
b. July 1865 in MO d. Aug 23, 1924 in Sapulpa, Creek Co., OK d/o Charles
Porter and Ellen Burnetta FORREST was married three times.
The first was to Jefferson HARRIS b. abt 1865 in AR d. ? They wed on Jan
17, 1882 in Crawford Co. AR. They had five children:
Charles Porter, Albert Green twin to Alfred, Lula, William H., all of
which lived to adulthood, but with who?
That is a big question. Did Jefferson and Porter (which is what she
went by) divorce? Did he die? Either way who raised those five
children. What was the date for the end of the marriage?
On June 12, 1892 she married my great grandfather Chesterfield Monroe
CARNEY in Crawford Co., AR. The next year my grandmother Galeenah
CARNEY was born in OK IT, Five years later she's married to George W.
ARCHER and having a child, Homer, with him five years after that. The
thing is NONE of her children from her previous marriages are ever with
her in the census records. I know Grandpa Chesterfield kidnapped little
Lena from her mother and kept them somewhat apart most of her life. But
who had the HARRIS children?
Like I said they all grew up and moved to OK, but I can't find who
raised them. Why didn't Porter raise any of her older children? I know
she had a boarding house for awhile in the Sapulpa, OK area. She is
shown there with Homer ARCHER, no George ARCHER present in a census
record. Did he die or did she run him off?
Can you fill in any of these gaps? Jan who is really curious about her
great grandmother in OK