Dear Sharon, In response to your query -- No, Lula Jane Dover was not married more than once, at least not as far as I know. I'm sure the mixup came in trying to read Census takers handwriting. Script "I" and script "J", as you know, can be very hard to tell apart, especially since a lot of the census takers tried to be very "fancy" with their writing and embellished their capital letters with a lot of extra strokes. He was called I. C. a lot -- Cornelius by some -- and in one census he was listed as "Nelia". My assumption there is that possibly one of the children answered the door and couldn't pronounce "Cornelius." Or, of course, that COULD have been a nickname for him. Below is a copy of his Obit that a cousin had saved. Unfortunately, the name of the newspaper was not included. Also, In writing for his death certificate, they answered back that they could not find one -- even though I sent them the Obit and knew where he was buried. The date of his death can't be off more than a day or two since I was born Oct. 27, 1927 and my mother took me to his funeral (my first trip, according to my baby book!) TOMBSTONE -- Black Springs Cemetery, Black Springs, Arkansas -- Born: Feb. 8, 1850 (Year has to be an error. He was born Feb 8, 1857 or 1859). Death: Nov. 19, 1927 NEWSPAPER OBITUARY: "I. C. LINDSEY TAKES OWN LIFE" "Protracted Dissipation Given as inciting Cause for Desperate Deed." " The death of I.C. Lindsey respected citizen aged 69 Saturday night, by poison self-administered, aame as a distinct shock to his many friends who always regarded him as of cheerful, optimistic position. The only possible reason for the rash deed is thought to have been that Mr. Lindsey was crazed at the time from the effects of drinking heavily of vile bootleg beverages. He had been drinking excessively since Thursday, but had seemingly braced up and was lying across the bed with his shoes off Saturday night when Mrs. Lindsey and Loda left to attend church services. When they returned home about 9:30 Mr. Lindsey was nowhere in sight. An up-turned glass tumbler was found on a table on the front porch with a partially empty carton of rat poison beside it, and also an empty bottle labeled strychnine. On a dresser a note addressed to his baby daughter, Mrs. Loda Roland, read: "Goodbye, babe, I am gone." A general search was then instituted for the missing man in which neighbors joined. The body was found on the floor of the barn a short distance from the house, stretched out full length with several gunny sacks folded for a pillow beneath his head. The body was cold, so it is surmised the deed must have been committed very shortly after the family left the house. Dr. Plunket was immediately called and he at once summoned the county coroner, Dr. Freeman, from Mr. Ida. A jury was impanelled and a verdict rendered that deceased came to his death by poison, self administered. The children of deceased, Otis and Madison Lindsey of Mauldin, two sons in the West, and Dovie, Fannie and Thelma, daughters of Hot Springs were summoned and several arrived in time to attend the funeral which was held Sunday afternoon at the family home at 4:30. The only service was a prayer by Rev. John T. Barr, whose touching words left few dry eyes among the large gathering of friends and neighbors present. Burial was at Black Springs cemetary. Rev. Ferguson made a beautiful talk, but there was no music or flowers, deceased having often expressed the wish that no songs should be sung or flowers strewn at his funeral. It is hard to believe that I. C. Lindsey deliberately took his own life. Rather let us think that for the moment reason had flown and he knew not what he was doing. It is not hard to forgive a man possessing so many sterling qualities as did Mr. Lindsey for the weakness he yielded to at long intervals, a weakness God alone knows how manfully he may have fought against. Forgiving, let us remember only that Mr. Lindsey was a kind and indulgent husband and father, a generous friend, a man known to have paid his debts to the last penny and to have been upright and square with his fellowmen. Mr. Lindsey came here over 20 years ago and has lived all at Hot Springs. At the time of his death he was not engaged in business, but had at various times owned and operated grocery stores and restaurants. He leaves a wide circle of friends to mourn his death besides his family---a wife and eight children. While it is a sad and most deplorable deed to rush unbidden to face, the unfathomed mysteries of life after death, let us hope and believe that an all-seeing and ever merciful Judge may deal gently with the erring, and that facts and circumstances hidden to mortal eyes and understanding, may in that clearer vision serve to paliate and condone." "CARD OF THANKS" (also from the same newspaper) "We take this means of thanking our many friends and kind neighbors for their loving kindness and sympathy during the sad hours we experienced in the death and burial of our dearly beloved husband and father, I. C. Lindsey" Mrs. I. C. Lindsey and Children.