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Mine is a REAL PUZZLER.
I have my Maternal Great Granny to blame for this guy even being connected to my family at all.:-)
The story centers around folks who lived in Warrick, and Perry Counties, Indiana, between 1871 & 1900.
You see, between 1889, and 1915, Mary Hesson married 5 men from Indiana & Ky., and had children by at least 2 of them, though each child has a different last name. :-)
I know very, very little about any of the folks in this little drama.
Anyway, this story begins with Margaret Jewell, a woman who died in Owensboro, Ky. on 12/11/1938, of tuburculosis, at the age of 44.
Her Mother signed the death certificate as Mrs. Mary Fields (hubby #5).
Margaret (Maggie) was born to a John West and Mary on 12/18/1893, in Indiana.
Here's where things get intriguing, and messy.
First let me say that Mary died in 1957, at age 85, putting her birth at 1871/72.
As I said She was a horny ol'broad and Mr. West was hubby #2.
She married hubby #1, some guy last named CHENAULT in abt. 1889, and had a child named FLORENCE, who lived only maybe 3 years, but she must have married Mr. West by 1893 when Maggie was born.
She, ( and Maggie West ) seem to have left Mr. West sometime in the next few yrs. because she appears ( with Maggie West ) as a boarder in the household of hubby #4, My Great-Grandfather,the widower, John T. Wells, in the 1900 Indiana census, under the last name of Skelton (hubby #3).
This is interesting, in and of itself, because My Grandfather William Jennings Wells is on record as being born in 1897.:-)
Mystery? Is he truly a Skelton who was LEGALLY adopted by Wells AFTER 1900 when he and Mary must have got hitched?
Anyway, I have no clue of the fate of THE 1ST 3 HUBBYS.
I DO have a clue as to MR. CHENAULT'S ORIGIN, and the connections between Mary and her 1st 3 husbands.
A fellow researcher, last year, turned up an intriguing set of listings in the 1880 census CD for Indiana:
Pigeon, Warrick County, Indiana:
William West/Catherine West with, among others, a son named John, age 9, born 1871.
JUST DOWN THE STREET:
Joseph M. Skelton/Mary E. Skelton with a son named Anson, age 10, born 1870.
ALSO NEARBY:
Mary Hessons family.
MEANWHILE, in Cannelton, in Perry County:
Jos. CHENAULT/Martha CHENAULT, with sons John, age 11, and Arthur, age 8.
This is all very intriguing, and mysterious, and, now that I live so close to the National Archives I will be able to go look this all up and copy it for verification.
To bad the 1890 census is lost.
If there is ANYONE out there who can help me sort all of this out, and shed light on the CHENAULT side of things, I'd be grateful. :-)
Mr. Kiril Kundurazieff
Sneakeasy's Joint
Putting the ING in BLOGGING Since May 2002
http://sneakeasysjoint.com