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Hello Rob, and yes.. that is one reason I indicated it was undocumented material.
Back when I was first searching for information concerning Zachariah and Celia Griffis
Chancey..some Griffis or Bohannon researcher forwarded that to me. I entered it into my
data base with notes that it was questionable.
That being said.. I have seen some huge age and year discrepancies in some censuses...
My own great great grandmother Rebecca Kennedy Chancey was born about 1795...according to
several census averages. But, when she died...February 1880..the medical person listed her
age as 95!...and that was not the first time her age was way up..
Bottom line... I do take notice of ages found in any census, but do not ever say it is
100% correct.