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Author: kariabi
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Message Board Post:
I have, since my original message, figured out some other things...
Mary Alice's mother, Mary Ann (Land) Cleghorn, was married to W.E. Cleghorn, then divorced him, then married a Louis (or Lewis?) Anthony Wilson, and had 6 sons. She is listed in 1900 as Mary Ann Wilson, widowed. Mary Alice is ALSO on the census in the same household, ALSO with the last name Wilson, ALSO widowed.
Following that census, Mary Ann (the mother) REmarried WE Cleghorn and had another son, John Melvin. (They are listed on the 1905 Kansas census with their kids and all of the Wilson boys)
In the 1910 census, Mary Alice was married to JL WIlson, and BOTH listed it as their first marriage, and married for FOURTEEN years. William was listed as his son.
So I'm trying to figure out why she said she was widowed in 1900, yet "married for 14 years" in 1910.
I'm trying to find record of her death, which supposedly occurred in 1914.
Oh, and the weirdest thing... JL lists William as his BROTHER in 1920. These are all definitely the same people... I've deduced that from all the peripheral details. I just don't get how the little details can change so much! Widowed to not widowed... son to brother... It's making me nuts!
Additionally, Mary Ann, who had remarried WE Cleghorn, was living with her son John Melvin in the 1930 census, and died a few months later. (Wichita.) Her husband died in Rusk County in 1939. He is not on any censuses after 1905. Weirdness.
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