----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Felts<mailto:[email protected]> To: phall<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 3:45 PM Subject: Re: Elizabeth Catherine Smith Pat: Thanks for the note. I'll mull over that 1910 census info you sent and see if makes sense. I haven't found many widows return to their maiden names but I suppose it is possible. There is some confusion over where Elizabeth Catherine's parents were born but most of the available records (censuses) seem to point to Ohio for both mother and father. Here's what else I know about Elizabeth Catherine's family. She was one of 4 children. Her older sister, born in 1836, was Amanda Jane. She married Richard Smith Morris and they settled in Clay County, Illinois. (By the way, Clay County is on the eastern side of Illinois.) I have not been able to determine the relationship, if any, between Richard Smith Morris's family and the Morris family with whom Elizabeth Catherine was apparently living in the 1850 Monroe County census. Elizabeth Catherine had a younger brother, Thomas Alexander Smith, born in 1842 (but we can't figure out how his surname is Smith if his father died in 1840!). And there was a younger sister, Melvina, born in 1844. I have excellent records for three of the siblings (Amanda Jane, Thomas Alexander, and Melvina) but nothing for Elizabeth Catherine. She's the puzzle. Dick Felts Gainesville, GA ----- Original Message ----- From: phall<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 2:40 PM Subject: Elizabeth Catherine Smith There are several people researching the Morris family in Monroe Co. Oh., on this list. Perhaps one of them will contact you. I did a quick search on Ancestry, and only Elizabeth C. Smith I could find in Il. it was her married name. Or maybe she took her name back, but it showed that she was married 44 years and a widow. Anyway thing that drew her to me was that they lived in Mo. in the 1910 census, which is right across the border from IL. and that she was b. in Oh. Nodaway Co. Mo. 2-WD Hopkins Twp. The name is Clutter, Harry C. b. in Ks. his wife Deborah P. b. IL their son Halbert b. Mo. and then Elizabeth. Says she is 70 in that census, which would put it pretty close to her birth date. says her father was b. in Canada, and mother in Va. I also checked LDS records, and could find nothing in IL or OH. I also looked for Cunningham in IL, and found several but not in Clay Co. IL Do you know what the married name of her sister was? Pat Hall Genealogist and Historian for Hines, Rhea, Kincaid, Craig, Ward, Warren, Hall, Kelleher, Stitt [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>