Ms. Warner's posting of the article below intrigued me so I decided to check Ancestry.com to see if I could come up with any possibility's for "Red" Thurman. I made the assumption that the lady would have possibly been in Jefferson Co., Mo. in 1910 based on the information in the 1917 newspaper article. I checked the 1910 census for Jefferson Co. and found a Lucy Thurman, age 21, single, white or Caucasian, employed as a laborer in a lead smelter, and boarding with a young couple who had been married within the year and had no children. In Ancestry.com the couple is listed as: Luis A. Elroy and Marguerite A. Elroy. Viewing the image shows that the census enumerator had extremely poor handwriting (very common) and I believe the names might be "Luis or Lewis A. EMIG and Marguerite A. EMIG. Mr. "Elroy or Emig" is listed as a foreman in a lead smelter. The male is 24, his wife is 20 and the young lady boarding with them is 21. I have no proof that this is the female in question but after doing amateur genealogical research for a number of years this to me looks like a possibility. Of course my proposal is speculative at best. I welcome anyone to verify the information or refute it. I just submit it as a "strawman" proposal to start with. ----- Original Message ----- From: B. Warner To: mostfran@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 7:54 AM Subject: [MOSTFRAN] "Red" Thurman In Jail at Hillsboro (1917) THE LEAD BELT NEWS, Flat River, Missouri, Friday, Nov. 30, 1917. "RED" THURMAN IS IN JAIL AT HILLSBORO. Assistant City Marshal Livingston caused the arrest of a woman known as "Red" Thurman, at DeSoto last Thursday night and thereby won the fifty dollar reward that had been offered for her return to the authorities of Jefferson County. She is under indictment in that county for the crime of miscegenation*, having married a negro named Cantrell there a year or so ago. She was arrested after the indictment was found along with her negro husband, but being released under bond, skipped her bail and hid out at Joplin, Mo., where Marshal Livingston located her and got her to come back to this sectin. She is now in jail at Hillsboro. Cantrell has already served his time for this offense. -- Potosi Journal. "Red" has been a cancer on society in the Lead Belt for many years and recently was driven from this county by the prosecuting attorney. She has already served one term in the penitentiary. Her late escapade should result in her being confined where her evil influence and allround degeneracy will not further menace society. [Anyone know what Red's real first name was?] *Miscegenation laws, were laws that banned interracial marriage and sometimes interracial sex between whites and members of other races.