excellent thanks Jenna Scott wrote: > Dennie, > > Am so happy that you are home and recovering. > > Are the two following census for your Nelson family? You didn't mention any > other children of Charles W. and Jennie/Ana Nelson. I could not find any of > them in 1910. > > Jenna > > 1920 United States Federal Census 1920 United States Federal Census > Name: Jessie Nelson > Home in 1920: Dow, Pittsburg, Oklahoma > Age: 15 years > Estimated Birth Year: abt 1905 > Birthplace: Oklahoma > Relation to Head of House: Daughter > Father's Name: C W > Father's Birth Place: Tennessee > Mother's Birth Place: Tennessee > Marital Status: Single > Race: White > Sex: Female > Able to read: Yes > Able to Write: Yes > Image: 105 > Neighbors: View others on page > Household Members: Name Age > C W Nelson 48/Hd/TN/TN/TN/laborer - farm > P W Nelson 18 /son/M/W/S/CO/TN/TN > Jessie Nelson 15 /dau/W/F/OK/TN/TN > Robert Nelson 13 /son/M/W/AL/TN/TN > Charley Nelson 7 /son/M/W/OK/TN/TN > > Source Citation: Year: 1920;Census Place: Dow, Pittsburg, Oklahoma; Roll: > T625_1484; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 187; Image: 105. > =================================== > 1930 United States Federal Census 1930 United States Federal Census > Name: Char M Nelson > Home in 1930: Davis, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma > Age: 17 > Estimated Birth Year: abt 1913 > Birthplace: Oklahoma > Relation to Head of House: Brother > Race: White > Occupation: > Education: > Military service: > Rent/home value: > Age at first marriage: > Parents' birthplace: View Image > Neighbors: View others on page > Household Members: Name Age > Philip W Nelson 29/Hd/Rent/$10/No/Male/White/29/Md-23/CO/US/US/Clerk, > Filling Station > Myrtle F Nelson 20 /Wife/F/W/20/Md-14/OK/US/US > Genwa J Nelson 27/dau/2 years 7 months/S/KS/CO/OK > Werley A Nelson 8/12/son/M/W/8 months/S/OK/CO/OK > Robert F Baker 34 /brother-in-law/M/w/34/Md-26/OK/US/OK > Willie J Baker 25/sister/F/W/25/Md-17/OK/US/US > Annita D Baker 6 /niece/F/W/6/S/OK/OK/OK > Janneta E Baker 5 /niece/F/W/5/S/OK/OK/OK > Char M Nelson 17 /Brother/M/W/17/S/OK/US/US/Bread Wrapper - Bakery > > Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Davis, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma; > Roll: 1928; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 56; Image: 264.0. > =================================== > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Eunice Kilgore > Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 1:16 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [KILGORE] Dennie's back and needs Oklahoma help > > Dennie wrote ..... Since the family was Chikamaka Cherokee I am a bit > surprised they were living in the center of the Choctaw Nation. > > ************************************ > > > > Dennie , > Remember my husband's John Benjamin Kilgore (1842 - 1915) was supposed to be > cherokee and he lived in the Choctaw Nation . > Glad to hear the good news . We are so glad that you are better . Eunice > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "D Rennow" <[email protected]> > To: "Kilgore" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 12:35 PM > Subject: [KILGORE] Dennie's back and needs Oklahoma help > > > >> First off I want to thank you for all your warm support and prayers. My >> survival was truly a miracle. You guys are the greatest. The doctors >> say it will take a year or so for me to get back to my old self but >> considering that all odds were against me living, I will gladly wait. I >> don't have higher level cognitive skills. My typing is slow and error >> prone. My endurance is well... pitiful. BUT I am not complaining! I >> am extremely grateful to be alive and functioning. >> >> Secondly, right after I got home I was contacted by a distant Kilgore >> cousin. She is really just getting started in her research. >> >> Our common ancestors are >> >> John B. Kilgore >> b.1855 Grundy Co. TN >> d.1903 (?? no death record in TN or AL) >> Mary E. Hart >> b. 18 Mar 1861 Tracy City, Grundy Co. TN >> d. 27 Oct 1932 Birmingham, AL >> >> Robin's ancestor was, their oldest child Jennie "Ana" Kilgore b. Feb 29 >> 1880 in TN >> She died 21 Oct 1918 in Craig County, Oklahoma >> >> Per her death certificate: >> >> The Cause of Death: Bronchial Pneumonia >> Duration: 6 days >> Contributory: Influenza >> Secondary: Pellagra >> >> Jennie died in a mental hospital. She had pellagra. Apparently she >> got influenza in the mental hospital and quickly died. >> >> The main results of pellagra can easily be remembered as "the four >> D's": diarrhea, dermatitis, dementia, and death. >> In the early 1900s <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900s>, pellagra >> reached epidemic proportions in the American South. There were 1,306 >> reported pellagra deaths in South Carolina during the first ten >> months of 1915. >> The traditional food preparation method of corn, nixtamalization >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization>, by native New World >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World> cultivators, who had >> domesticated corn, required treatment of the grain with lime >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_hydroxide>, an alkali >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkali>. It has now been shown that >> the lime treatment makes niacin nutritionally available and reduces >> the chance of developing pellagra. When corn cultivation was adopted >> worldwide, this preparation method was not accepted because the >> benefit was not understood. The original cultivators, often heavily >> dependent on corn, did not suffer from pellagra. Pellagra became >> common only when corn became a staple that was eaten without the >> traditional treatment. >> >> The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the >> Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 >> and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating >> epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in >> a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague >> from 1347 to 1351. Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the >> influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster. >> >> My direct ancestor was Mae Kilgore, Jennie's younger sister. >> >> Anyway, I have been trying to find Jennie on the 1900 and 1910 census >> records. No trace of her. All Robin has is the death certificate. I >> have not found a record of her marriage to Charles W. Nelson >> (1873-1922). I haven't found him in the 1920 census or their daughter >> Willie (Carol) Jessie Nelson born March 17, 1904 in McAlester, OK. >> >> Eventually the family moved to California, perhaps during the dust bowls. >> >> I had absolutely nothing but a name and year of birth for Jennie, so I >> am thrilled to have this new contact but frustrated! Any ideas? >> >> Since the family was Chikamaka Cherokee I am a bit surprised they were >> living in the center of the Choctaw Nation. >> >> Cousin Dennie >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >

I too am glad to see you up and about and at least trying to communicate with those of us who have been waiting for a positive word on your well being. How was that for trying to be polite and formal...????? Glad you are up and about and back with us again, Dennie!! ;-)) Gail