Yesterday, I received a notice from FamilySearch that they might have found my great-grandmother in a record.
The record on which my Great-grandmother Fannie Hale Acuff was listed was the 2nd marriage of her daughter Oven Acuff to Owen Sharp. I'd had the date of her marriage but never entered it. She didn't have children with Owen so that was not a priority for me. Her name on their marriage record is wrong on two counts. She is listed as Lovena Hammonds. She should have been listed as Ovena Damrel. She had been married to Ben Damrel who had died about four years prior. At Ancestry, the record was buried in the hints for Ovena where it was indexed as it was written on the record and probably was only picked up as a hint because of the mention of her parents.
I'm used to names being indexed wrong but this was a case of it being wrong(on two counts) on the record. I submitted a correction on Ancestry and the record is attached correctly to Ovena at FamilySearch. I knew she was likely born in either White or Van Buren Co TN because her family lived there until just before the 1920 census when they moved to Madison Co AL for work in the cotton mills. If I can believe this record gives her place of birth as Doyle TN which is just over the Van Buren County line in White County.
Source: "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939V-Z7LC-P : accessed 16 September 2024), Marriage Record Entry for Owen Sharp and Ovena Damrel(listed incorrectly as Lovena Dammonds), 24 Aug 1936.
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