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Surnames: Hill/Nail
Classification: Query
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I put this together from information off census and marriage records that I found on
ancestry.com on Nail family..
First marriage of Rufina Gootee was to Alexander Cone June 2, 1888 in Daviess Co book 6 p
427 they had one daughter Vernice b March 1892 per census records of 1900 she is listed in
1900 home of John W Nail and Ruffina Nail)
Second marriage of Rheufina Gootee was Oct 13,1894 to John W Nail Daviess Co Bk 8 p 153
1900 census records of Daviess Co Ind Barr Twp June 19, 1900 has them married 7 yrs
23/238 John W Nail b Feb 1865 35, Ruffina b June 1868 32, (5 children b 5 living census
only shows 4 living) Vernis March 1892 age 8, Josephine March 1895 age 5, Henry age 2 b
Nov 1897, Martha 4 months b Feb 1900
1910 census Daviess Co Barr Twp Bethany Road
255/259 John W Nail 43 m 1, married 16 yrs, Rufina 41 m 2, married 16 yrs, 7 children born
6 living, Bessie 15, Henry C 11, Martha E 9, Evelyn 6, Vernice T Cone 18 step dau, all
born Indiana
1920 Daviess Co Ind Barr Twp
113/175 head of house is Vina C 51 widow, Evelyn 15 dau, Henry C 22 son, Ruby B 18 dau in
law
1930 Daviess Washington Twp Cosby Subdivision
296/301 Henry C Nail 33 m @ age 22yrs Truck driver for Dairy farm, Ruby B 25 m @ 18 yrs,
Helen E 10 dau, Thomas W 5
next door to them is
197 Sherman Potts 62 divorced, Toy factory laborer, Gladys P 26 dau, Erma Dodson dau 24,
son in law Charles W Dodson Dairy farm laborer, Thomas E Dodson grandson 6
Thomas W Nail who is son of Henry Nail and Ruby Potts later marries Florence Hill