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Surnames: Cary, Kirksey
Classification: Query
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The 1910 US census of Carroll Co., TN (p 110A) lists Marshall Kirksey and wife Sarah.
Both have been married 38 years. Sarah had born 12 children of whom 8 were living. The
youngest child in their household was Ebern age 12. Obviously that Sarah was Sarah Cary,
Marshall’s only wife and Ebern’s mother. Ebern may have been joshing his granddaughter
about never knowing his real mother and being raised by a stepmother. His real mother,
Sarah Cary Kirksey didn’t die until Ebern was 26 years old. According to private
correspondence from another researcher, Sarah died on 8 May 1920. The 1920 census of
District 14, Carroll Co., TN where the Kirkseys lived was conducted in January; however,
they are not listed in the 1920 census.
I would greatly appreciate learning the names, dates, and places of Ebern’s children and
grandchildren to included in the record of Thomas Cary’s descendants. Sarah Elizabeth and
I are 8th cousins, 3 times removed. David Carey