RootsTech 2024 --Day 1 Online

Day 1 Highlights:  

FamilySearch Tech Forum

100 Million Records Searchable with Full Text Search

This is so exciting for me.  I had the opportunity to use the AI search prototype they had available in 2023.  In the few days I had it, it was mind-blowing how many new records I found.

US Land & Probate Records and Mexico Notary Records are currently the only available collections to browse.

Plantation Records records were also mentioned 

See Family Search Labs page for 

https://www.familysearch.org/labs/

Early Release of Family Group Trees

Check FamilySearch Labs for new products under development

MyHeritage has redesigned their profile page.  See their blog post about it at the following link.

https://blog.myheritage.com/2024/02/introducing-all-new-profile-pages-with-hints/

Also don't forget they are offering Access to All DNA Features with DNA uploaded thru March 4th, 2024.  This is the perfect time for those who have tested at AncestryDNA or other sites to upload and get tools for dna analysis for free.

My Virtual Attendee Session Schedule

• 9:00 AM Fixing Sticky Problems in FamilySearch Family Tree--Kathryn Grant  

            This was a great presentation and was very helpful in simplifying the process of making corrections that are due to bad merges and  incorrect relationships.  

Fixing Process

1. Fix Incorrect Merges
2. Fix Incorrect relationships
3. Fix incorrect info and sources.

Half the battle for me has always been trying to figure out the best procedure for correcting.  I've about got my pedigree corrected thru my 2nd Great Grandparents.

Check out the templates that Kathryn has on her website.  

Timeline Grid Information and Templates

Other Templates

• 10:30 AM Who is My Ancestor? Tracing Individuals with Similar Names--D. Joshua Taylor

Joshua's discussion of the 5 step strategy for identifying & tracing individuals with similar names is one we all as family history researchers can use.  

"The best way to know who your ancestor IS, is to know who your ancestor ISN'T"

He talked about using Timelines ,which is one of my favorite strategies for same name research.  The importance of writing and sharing your findings about those same named ancestors can not be stressed enough.

• 1:15 PM Genetic Genealogy Turns 25: DNA Experts Tell Their Stories--Diahan Southard

Happy Birthday, Genetic Genealogy!!  It was great to hear all the experts talk about their start in genetic genealogy research.

• 2:30 PM What’s New at Ancestry® in 2024 Crista Cowan
• Family Groups
• Memories--upload stories, audio, photos(you can organize in albums)
• Life and Times in the US Stories & Events --Newspapers.com   https://www.ancestry.com/c/newspapers
• Sideview Traits and Communities by parent
• DNA--Communities Updated.  We should expect an update about every 3-4 months for the communities although you can be added to a community at any time if there are enough testers with DNA in common showing they all belong to that specific community
• Pro Tools

• 4:00 PM Innovation and Tech Forum 2024 RootsTech

There were presentations by each of the following companies
about their latest projects and how they are harnessing the power of AI to use
in order to bring family history to life.

• Microsoft Copilot
• LivingHistory.AI 
• Storied
• EmulateMe

To be honest, this afterlife and dead relative talk kind of creeped me out.  I love AI as it pertains to indexing and gathering information.

These were just the classes that I viewed.  There are many more available.  For more in depth information on the days events check out any of the classes or online expo hall at

RootsTech website

WW2 Draft Registration Card of John Rainey Cook

WW2 Draft Registration for my Papaw Cooke's paternal 1st cousin.  At the time of his draft registration for WW1 John R Cook worked at the Chicago City Rail Yard but by 27 April of 1942 he was working for Chicago Surface Lines where his brother Jefferson Gideon also worked.

Registration Card--(Men born on or after April 28, 1877 and on or before February 16, 1897.

Serial Number 2887
Name: John Rainey Cook
Order Number: (BLANK)
Place of Residence: 5427 Maryland Ave Chicago Cook Ill.
Mailing Address: Same
Telephone: Chicago H.P 7815
Age in Years: 63
Date of Birth: Aug 28 1878
Place of Birth
Town or County: Eagleville
State or Country: Tenn.

Name and Address of Person who will always know your Address:
Jefferson G Cook 6842 Harper Ave

Employer's Name and Address:
Chicago Surface Lines
3822 Cottage Grove Ave Chicago Cook ILL

Signature: John Rainey Cook

Registrar's Report
Race: White
Height: 5 11in
Weight: 138
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Gray
Complexion: Light Brown

Other Obvious Physical Characteristics that will aid in identification: Upper Plate Glasses

Signature of registrar: Amy S Pollak
Registrar for Local Board 9 City of Chicago ILL
Date of registration: April 27-42

Stamped:
Local Board No. 9      61
Chicago City             731
                                  009
1525 East 53rd Street
Chicago 15 Illinois
(The Stamp of the Local Board in the jurisdiction of the registrant shall be placed in the above space)

Source:  

Both Ancestry and FamilySearch have a digitization of the card.

"U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942,"database with images, Ancestry(https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1002/images/30955_165749-01958?pId=9582132 : accessed  28 February 2024), imaged card for John Rainey Cook, Serial No. U2787, WWII Draft Cards(4th Registration) For the State of Illinois

Roll 54 Box 160, Chicago City Local Draft Board No. 9; citing World War II Draft Cards (Fourth Registration) for the State of Illinois. State Headquarters ca. 1942. Publication M2097.

"United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V1VP-XCC : 28 February 2024), Entry for John Rainey Cook, citing National Archives Chicago, Illinois, Selective Service System Registration Cards DSS Form 1, M2097 Roll No. 54. FHL Film No. 2139873  DGS 4134333.

WW1 Draft Registration Card of John Rainey Cook

World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918

of John Rainey Cook

He is my Papaw Cooke's paternal first cousin. He lived in Chicago as did his brother
Jefferson Gideon Cook and also was a  street car conductor.

(US, WWI Draft) Registration Card
Serial Number: 2872
Order Number: A1393
Name: John Rainey Cook
Permanent Home Address: 923 E 55th St Chicago Cook Co. Illinois
Age in years: 40
Date of Birth: Aug 28 1878
Race: White
U.S. Citizen: Native Born
Present Occupation: Street Car Conductor
Employer's Name: C C RY
Place of Employment or Business: 38th & Cottage Grove Chi Cook Ill
Nearest Relative Name: Florence Ethel Cook
Address: 923 E 55th St Chi Cook Ill

Signature John Rainey Cook

Registrar's Report
Description of Registrant
Height: Tall
Build: Slender
Color of Eyes: Brown
Color of Hair: Brown
Has person lost arm, leg, hand, eye or is he obviously physically disqualified? NO

Katherine Kane
9-12-18

Chicago Local board No. 14
1510 Hyde Park Bl., Chicago

Source:

I viewed the one at Ancestry.& the one at FamilySearch.  They are from the same film and are the same image  I have cited both so those without a subscription to Ancestry can also view the file

"U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/6482/ : accessed 27 February 2024), imaged card for John Rainey Cook, Serial # 2872, Order # A1393, Chicago Local Draft Board 14, citing World War I Selective Service Systems Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, National Archives microfilm publication M1509, imaged from Family History Library film roll 1439759.

"United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K68C-LSQ : accessed 27 February 2024), John Rainey Cook, 1917-1918.

Gideon Cook's Wives and Children

I've been working on the 1858-1888 timeline for my 2nd Great Grandparents(Wm C & Elizabeth Putman Cook) and their children to see the big picture of what was going on within the family.  It has really been a great experience.  I still have a lot of work to do but will focus on the timeline in an upcoming post. This post focuses on Wm C & Elizabeth's son, Jefferson Gideon Cook.

I believe I've finally sorted thru records and determined how many times Jefferson Gideon Cook was married and identified his children from each marriage.  It really wasn't very clear as there were two women name Mary listed as his wife with a Martha sandwiched in between.  Some trees had the two or all three combined and others had overlapping marriages or discrepancies in the surname of the last of his wives. So what do the records say as far as Gideon's marriages?

On 9th September 1866, Gideon  was married in Williamson Co. TN to Mary S. Hamer by Park Street.  Mary was the sister-in-law of Gideon's brother, James Polk Cook who had married Harriet Hamer  in October of the previous year.  When he made application and bond for the marriage on September the 8th, his brother James was his bondsman.  Mary Hamer Cook was the mother of Robert L. Cook,  Gideon's oldest child who was born on the 16th of May 1868.  The information on Robert's death certificate and in his obituary supports that.  Both Hamer sisters were gone by the 1870 census.  I have not found divorces for either from the Cook brothers and feel it is likely they both  left their marriages by death rather than divorce  If anyone that has researched this family knows I'd love to hear from you.

By the time of the 1870 census, there is a female named Martha Cook listed  in the household with Gideon and his young son.  While I have not found the marriage book  listing for Gideon and Martha, I did find their marriage in a Tennessee state compiled index at Ancestry from the Rutherford County Tennessee record books.  The date given is 30th of October 1869 and that would seem to add credence to my thinking that this is his wife and not a lady by that name living there to care for the young Robert.  I had considered both scenarios.  Further, Martha Ann Hale is listed as J. G. Cook Jr.'s mother as well as the mother of Gideon's youngest child Martha Ann Cook on each of their death certificates.  The fact that Gideon was the informant on his daughter Martha's death certificate while terribly sad, gives me confidence enough to conclude that Martha was the daughter of Gideon and Martha A Hale Cook.  Perhaps the elder Martha had died in childbirth or from complications soon after.  A number of times when that happens the surviving child is named after its mother and that might have been the case with Martha as well.  In total Gideon and Martha had 4 children:  Jefferson Gideon Cook Jr, John R. Cook , Cass B. Cook and Martha A. Cook.

Faced with the prospect of raising his young family alone,  on the 14th of October 1884, Gideon  married to Mary J. Elliot in Rutherford County, Tennessee.  Mary is enumerated with him in the 1900 US Federal Census in Rutherford Co TN and her entries say she has been married for 15 years and is the mother of one child who is alive at the time of the 1900 census date. That child was Ollie Mai Cook.  Ollie's year of birth varies over her lifetime but I believe that her actual year of birth was 1885.

Ollie's Birth Year

Source-----------Year

1900 Census    1885

1910 Census    1885

1920 Census    1888

1930 Census    1888

1940 Census    1886

1950 Census    1885

Soc. Sec. Rec.  1884

Gravestone       1886

Death Cert        1888

Mary J Elliot Cook died on the 23rd of March 1915 from pulmonary tuberculosis.  Gideon outlived her by almost 16 years, passing on the 18th of January 1931 from chronic fibroid tuberculosis

Sources:
1900 U.S. census, Davidson County, Tennessee, Nashville, Ward 4(part of), enumeration district (ED) 101, sheet 4-A, house 27, Family 30, J G Cook household; imaged, "United States Census, 1900," FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MS8W-XQH : accessed 20 February 2024).

"Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKHS-XP1N : accessed 10 February 2024), Entry for J G Cook and Miss Mary S Hamer, 08 Sep 1866(bond date).(notation on bond says marriage was solemnized on the 9th)

"Tennessee, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1851-1900," database, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com) Martha A Hale and J G Cook 30 Oct 1869 Rutherford Co. TN, citing Rutherford County, Tennessee Marriages, 1851-70. FHL Film #0379649.

"Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKHS-66RD : accessed 20 February 2024, Entry for Jefferson G Cook and Mary J Elliott, 14 Oct 1884.

"Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966," FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NSWT-VJF : accessed 20 February 2024), Entry for Jefferson Gideon Cook, 18 Jan 1931.

“Funeral for Confederate Veteran to Be Today,” The Tennessean, 20 Jan 1930, p. 5, col, 7; digital images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 20 Feb 2024).

"United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6KQB-1YTY : 10 February 2023), Ollie M Cook, 

"Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966", index only, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6JCS-JWHF : accessed index only 20 February 2024), Entry for Ollie Mai Cook, 10 Apr 1968. (Digital image forthcoming which will then change the range of years covered in the record set)

"Robert Lee Cook", Nashville Banner, 12 June 1954, p. 2, col. 7; digital images, Newspapers.com(https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 20 February 2024).

"Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NSV9-P79 : accessed 20 February 2024), Entry for Robert L. Cook 11 Jun 1954.

"Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014," online database, Ancestry.com; entry for Ollie M Cook 413-84-1422.

1910 U.S. census, Davidson County, Tennessee, Nashville, Civil District 6, ED 93, Sheet 2a, Dwelling 27 Family 27, Household of Jefferson G Cook; unaged "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9TXC-9SG : accessed 20 February 2024).

"Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N91N-Z68 : Fri Oct 13 18:15:23 UTC 2023), Mary Jane Cook, 23 Mar 1915.

1920 U.S. Census, Davidson County, Tennessee, Nashville, Civil District 6, ED 111, Sheet 7b, Dwelling 135, Family 147, Household of Jefferson G Cook; imaged "United States Census, 1920",database with images , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN51-8KR : accessed 20 February 2024),

1930 U.S. Census, Davidson County, Tennessee, Nashville, Civil District 6, ED 19-214, Sheet 15b, Dwelling 321, Family 337, Household of David Cook; imaged "United States Census, 1930", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SPWK-CXB : accessed 20 February 2024).

1940 U.S. Census, Davidson County, Tennessee, Woodbine, Civil District 6, ED 19-19, Sheet 9b, Household 195, Household of David S Cook; imaged "United States Census, 1940", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K44V-5YX : accessed 20 February 2024).

1950 U.S. Census, Davidson County, Tennessee, Woodbine, ED 19-37, Page 8, Dwelling 63, Household of Stahl D Cook; imaged "United States 1950 Census", database with images , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6NTM-JT2D : accessed 20 February 2024).

"Mrs. Mary J Cook", The Tennessean, 25 March 1915, p. 14, col. 6; digital images, Newspapers.com(https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 20 February 2024).(Death announcement for Mary who died on the 24 of March)

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/215649022/ollie_mai-cook: accessed February 21, 2024), memorial page with gravestone image for Ollie Mai Cook (1886–1968), Find a Grave Memorial ID 215649022, citing Triune Cemetery, Triune, Williamson County, Tennessee, USA; Maintained by Tammy Vermillion (contributor 49014485).

Worked on My Daughter's Paternal Ancestry--The German and English Immigrants

AncestryDNA has updated communities so I checked for my daughter Brittany's test results but was disappointed that they still do not show any communities for her Germans which settled in Franklin County Indiana abt 1839.  I do understand that there are not many German testers, but this was an area with a high amount of German settlers--among them Beckman, Braun, Weidekuehn, Gessell, Bossert, Ritter, Wirth,  Those lines are represented in Thrulines so I don't feel like it is a lack of testers.

I checked her matches at MyHeritage from her DNA upload and found a Gessell descendant among her DNA matches. Not one from Phillip Leonard Gessell the immigrant, but a generation further back with descendants still living in Germany who have tested.  This totally made our day.  Worked on adding more information to that portion of the tree and added the segment to DNA Painter for my daughter's chromosome painting.  The Gessell line is back thru the ancestry of Brittany's paternal grandfather.   I have attached a screenshot below showing how it appears in her chromosome painting at DNAPainter.  She is fortunate that 3 of her 4 grandparents have DNA tested and I am able to use that to do a visual phasing of her chromosomes to determine each of those grandparents contribution to her DNA.

Found some additional info for the Gessell line and then started working on her English lines at FamilySearch.  Her Folley line was the most recent of any of her ancestors to immigrate to the US. I like to work on that line at FamilySearch since I cannot justify getting a World Explorer subscription for just that one portion of my research, especially when I can find records for that area elsewhere for free.  

Worked on getting her ancestors linked in the FamilySearch tree so that her fan chart would fully display.  She was impressed and it really didn't take much work once I had the more recent generation linked.

WW1 Draft Registration Card of Jefferson Gideon Cook Jr.

World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
of Jefferson Gideon Cook Jr.

He is my Papaw Cooke's paternal first cousin.  He lived in Chicago and worked as a conductor on the street cars.  After retiring in 1949 he moved back to Tennessee.

(US, WWI Draft) Registration Card
Serial Number: 2418
Order Number: A1157
Name: Jefferson Gideon Cook
Permanent Home Address: 5427 Maryland Chicago Cook Co. Illinois
Age in years: 42
Date of Birth: Feb 23 1876
Race: White
U.S. Citizen: Native Born
Present Occupation: Conductor St Car
Employer's Name: Chi Surface Lines
Place of Employment or Business: Monroe & LaSalle Chi Cook Ill
Nearest Relative Name: Sarah Cook
Address: 5427 Maryland Chi Cook Ill

Signature Jefferson Gideon Cook

Registrar's Report
Description of Registrant
Height: Tall
Build: Slender
Color of Eyes: Blue
Color of Hair: Dark
Has person lost arm, leg, hand, eye or is he obviously physically disqualified? NO

Marguerite Johnson
Sept 12 18

Chicago Local board No. 14
1510 Hyde Park Bl., Chicago

Source:

“World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918,” digital image, Fold3 (https://www.fold3.com/file/560091574/cook-jefferson-gideon-us-wwi-draft-registration-cards-1917-1918 : accessed 13 February 2024), Jefferson Gideon Cook registration, serial number 2418, order number A1157, Draft Board 14, City of Chicago, Illinois; citing World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918, NARA microfilm publication M1509; no specific roll cited.

Links of Interest:

Chicago Surface Lines

5427 Maryland Chicago IL

Seeing Greater Chicago : a sightseeing and route guide / by the Chicago Surface Lines

Surface Service Magazine Vol 1 (1920s)

Nancy Harger Jakes Applies for Bounty Land

James Jakes 1788–1847
BIRTH 10 FEB 1788 • Franklin Co., Virginia, USA
DEATH 05 SEP 1847 • Bedford Co., Tennessee, USA
My 3rd great-grandfather, James Jakes married Nancy Harger on 29 MAY 1806 in Franklin Co., Virginia, USA  They have one unknown F under 10 in household during 1810 census In which they are in Franklin Co VA near John Jakes--James’ father. Their son George Jakes was my 2nd great Grandfather and was born in 1820 in Franklin Co VA. I do not have the census for them that year(1820.) The family was in Bedford Co TN by the time of son James Jakes’ birth in 1825 and the remainder of their children were born in TN. There are a good bit of descendants from John Jakes son of James & Nancy Harger Jakes so more work has been done on his line.

I had no idea that James served in the War of 1812. I just happened to do a search on the surname Jakes at the BLM site and found the listing below.  I would recommend checking the BLM GLO site to see if any of your ancestors applied for and received a warrant but opted to sell it.  

Looking at the individual entries it appears that James serviced under Capt Jones in the Virginia Militia during the War of 1812. Nancy filed for bounty land under the 1850 Act as well as the 1855 Act and sold the warrants as many did. I have copies of the Land Entry Case Files. I placed an order for Nancy's Bounty Land Applications but the Archives couldn't locate it and feel like it is either lost or misfiled. Many times the Bounty Land Applications are placed in with the pension files but with neither James nor Nancy applying for a pension that did not happen in this case.

Bounty Land under the 1850 Act:

Transcription From back of Warrant:

For Value Received I Nancy Jakes widow of James

Jakes to whom the within Warrant No(blank) was issued

do hereby sell and assign unto William C Davis & George Trumbull of

St Clair County Illinois to his heirs and assignees forever

the said warrant and authorise him to locate the same 

and receive a patent therefore.  Witness my hand

and seal this May 32st 1853.  Nancy (Her x Mark) Jakes Seal

Attest

Francis H Ragsdale

B. L. Chadwick

State of Tennessee Coffee County

On this 21st of May 1853 personally appeared Nancy

Jakes to me well known and acknowledged the foregoing

assignment to be her act and deed and I certify that the

said Nancy Jakes is the identical person to whom the

within issued and who executed the foregoing assignments thereof.

J A Brantley J P

State of Tennessee

Coffee County

I  A.M. Short Clerk of the County Court 

for said county certify that James A Brantley

Esqr whose genuine signature appears to the above certificate

is and was at the time of executing the same an acting Justice of

the peace in and for said county duly commissioned and

qualified and that full faith and credit is due to all his

official acts as such.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set

my hand and affixed my seal of office

at Manchester this 23rd day of May

1853     A M Short Clerk

Bounty Land Under the 1855 Act: 

Transcription from Back of Warrant

For Value Received I Nancy Jakes to whom the within Warrant

No 57991 was issued do hereby sell and assign unto Silas O Kellogg

of Steele County Minnesota Territory and to his heirs and assignees forever

the said warrant and authorise him to locate the same and

receive a patent therefor.

Witness my hand and seal this fifth day of Aprile 1856

Nancy (her x  mark) Jakes Seal

Attest

T. B. Martin

John Jakes

State of Tennessee County of Bedford

On this the fifth day of April in the year Eighteen

hundred and fifty six before me personally came Nancy

Jakes to me will known and acknowledge the foregoing assignment

to be her act and deed and I certify that the said Nancy Jakes

is the identical person to whom the within warrant issued and

who executed the foregoing assignment thereof 

Alexander Lee JP

State of Tennessee

County of Bedford

I J H. Thompson clerk of the county court

of the county and state aforesaid do hereby

certify that Alexander Lee Esq whose genuine signature appeared to the

foregoing certificate of acknowledgment is and was at the time of so

doing an acting justice of the peace within and for the county and

state aforesaid duly elected and commissioned and qualified and that full 

faith and credit is due all his acts as such.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed

the seal of my office as clerk aforesaid this eighth day of 

April AD Eighteen Hundred and fifty six   J H Thompson Clk

Sources:  

Nancy Jakes, widow of James Jakes(Priv., Capt Jones Company, Virginia Militia, War of 1812), bounty land Warrant file # 63701(Act of 1850 40 acres); Land Entry Case File; Record Group 49; Records of the Bureau of Land Management; National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Nancy Jakes, widow of James Jakes(Priv., Capt Jones Company, Virginia Militia, War of 1812), bounty land Warrant file # 57991(Act of 1855 120 acres); Land Entry Case File; Record Group 49; Records of the Bureau of Land Management; National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Jo Cook Purchases a Grey Mare at the Estate Sale of Charles Pope

A part of Charles Pope's Probate is recorded on p 718 of Rutherford Co TN Records for book 20 1858-1861.  It starts with an Inventory of Accts due the estate and cash on hand.  Immediately after that, the administrators Newton C Crick and Christopher Pope give a listing of Inventory of Sale.

on pg 721 at the very top of the page is a listing for
 Jo Cook ------1 grey mare --- 130.00

I believe this is a purchase by Joseph Knox Cook.  The Sale was recorded 11 Dec 1860 and while there is no date of sale mentioned, the accounts & cash on hand listed prior to the inventory sale listing give 30 Nov 1860 as the date those were gathered and witnessed.  It would follow that the sale occurred sometime between those two dates.

Sources:  
"Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L93F-MSH3?cc=1619127&wc=Q63S-1MS%3A1589264531%2C1589374078 : accessed 12 February 2024), Rutherford > Marriage records, 1804-1881 > image 16 of 733, "Cook, Joseph K & Emily C Lamb Sept 9, 1860 E W Hendrix"; citing Tennessee State Library and Archives, Rutherford county clerk.

"Rutherford Co TN Record books and index, 1804-1914," digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89G1-DLKX?i=366&cat=263162 : accessed 12 February 2024) image 366 of 411, Charles Pope dec'd Inventory of the Estate: citing Records for book 20 1858-1861, p 718-721.

When a Presumed 1st Marriage is Actually a 2nd Marriage--Henry F Hill

 I knew thru my earlier research of Tennie Ferguson HIll that she had been married prior to her marriage to Henry F Hill.  What I didn't know was that Henry had been previously married as well.  Today I finally found his 1880 Census entry.  While Henry Hill is a fairly common name, the Mother's birth place and his occupation give me a high degree of confidence that this is the Henry Hill who later married Tennie.

1880 U.S. Federal Census, Jasper County, Missouri, population schedule, Sarcoxie, enumeration district (ED) 62, p. 404B, dwelling 197, family 202; Henry Hill; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 February 2024); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 694.

And his wife Isabella is 12 years his senior(according to the census entry) has also been married before and has several adult children.  I was able to find their marriage record from Muskingum County, OH.  The marriage record giving his name as Henry F Hill offered further evidence for the argument that this is indeed the same Henry who later married Tennie.

"Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZCW-DJL : accessed 3 February 2024), Entry for Henry F. Hill and Isabelle Johnson, 26 Apr 1874.

Using her given name from the census & her childrens' surname, I went looking for Isabella's first marriage, I looked for an Isabella that married a Johnson male and was able to find her 1st husband Payton Johnson who was considerably older than Isabella.  Prior to her marriage. her name was Isabella Blake  I found Isabella and her 1st husband in the 1870 Census. So now that I have an idea of how those marriages map out, I'd like to find either a divorce or a an obituary or death record for Isabella Blake Johnson Hill some time between 1880 and 1884.  Jasper Co MO is about 150 miles north of Fort Smith Arkansas.  

I have been researching the children from Isabella's first marriage and where they ended up and believe that Isabella and Henry's marriage ended in divorce or at least separation since I found her buried in KS in the same cemetery as her daughter and under her previous surname.  So I've been compiling a list of what locations to check.  In Missouri that would be Jasper, Newton, Berry, and Lawrence Counties.  If Henry filed after he got to Arkansas then the counties to checkn are Madison, Newton, Franklin, Sebastian, and Logan Counties 

In the Henry F Hill investigation file, some of the documents in the case are dated 1883 and the information on those give the impression that Henry Hill has been in the Huntsville Madison Co. Arkansas area for a year or more.  That would narrow down the time of the end of Henry's first marriage to about a 2-3 year period--say between June 1st 1880 -1882. 

Things to consider:

• Either party could have filed for divorce.
• It's possible there was just a separation which would make Henry's marriage to Tennie problematic.
• It's also possible that the divorce could have been later up to about early1886.
• If Isabella did get her previous name back after the split rather than the children just burying her with that name or her going back to it once she and Henry were no longer together then it might follow that she likely initiated the divorce.

The search goes on....

Residence listings for George Solifelt

I contacted the office of the Register of Deeds at Iola Kansas and they were very helpful in letting me know the descriptions for the deed that was transfered from George to Tennie. The deed was written as a survivorship so that if either passed on it would pass to the other.

Warranty Deed, Iola Kansas, Register of Deeds pg 555(Book covering March 1932); Lot 12 Block 97 From Klaumanns to Geo & Tennie[Mailing Address is 421 South Buckeye, Iola, KS]

Residence listing for George Solifelt:

620 N 1st(1910)
628 N Kentucky (1912)

618 N 1st (1916)
616 N 1st (1920)
616 N 1st (1925)

Lot 6 Harmons Sub-Division Deeded to Arthur T Cundy (Oct 6, 1927)
711 S Jefferson Ave(1929)

505 N Washington (1930)

504 N 2nd (1931)

210 N Cottonwood(Mar 1931)
210 N Cottonwood(Sep 15 1931)

Lot 12 Block 97 From Klaumanns to Geo & Tennie(July 1932)
421 South Buckeye(Aug 1932)
421 South Buckeye(Jan 30 1935)
(alias: Lot 12 Block 97 City of Iola).

Tennie was living at same residence in 1946 at time of her death

Sources:

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