Hi all, Remember the census reflected the information to a specific date not the date when the information was recorded. Thus in 1920 the official date of the census was 1 Jan 1920, not 27 Jan. Thus you might actually find someone who had died in the interim listed on the census. Of course, not everyone, including the enumerators, understood the finer points of collecting the information. Thus my gr-great aunt who died the day before they enumerated was not actually included, but a friend's dead grandfather was even though he died 2 Jan. HTH! Georgeanne > [Original Message] > From: Julie Cromwell <janncromwell@highland.net> > To: <TNMORGAN-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: 12/15/2003 2:53:53 AM > Subject: Re: [TNMORGAN] WARD again<G> > > <<< just added his name to the census???>>> > Milly > It's possible! I found my gr-ma listed with gr-pa in same house in 1920, but poor ole gr-ma wasn't anywhere near. She was many miles away "confined" in an institution. Found her also listed in her place of "confinement" in 1920. (now know where my "mental condition" came from!)<VVBG>> Wonder why they listed their rellies that way when they weren't really in the household?? By 1920, gr-pa already had another "wife" and was purchasing a home with her. Have documents to prove that one! Often wonder if a man could divorce his wife under those conditons. She was declared "insane" after losing a 2 year old daughter and then giving birth 3 months later to a son. Sounds like post-partum to me, but back then, they didn't know what that was... Poor ole granny! ;o( > > Julie > > > MPiros1120@aol.com wrote: > > >Another piece of the WARD puzzle..<G> > > > >1920 Dayton Ohio Montogmery Co 3-4 th day of January > >WARD FRELAND head 67 born in Tennessee > >_____Mahala wife 54 TN > >_____Dessie dau 21 Tn > >_____Edith dau TN > > > >Now the census was taken January 27 1920 in Anderson CO TN. Could my FRELAND > >have moved back to Tennessee in those few days. Well actually it was almost a > >month. Or could this be when Nellie told me Mahala was in Ohio, and maybe > >Mahala just added his name to the census???? I am perplexed<G> > > > > > > > >Milly WARD Piros > >Tis the Season with a Reason > > > >List Rootsweb Administrator for Anderson Co Tn~Campbell Co Tn and Fentress Co > >Tn > > > >http://www.geocities.com/millyella/listofpages.html > > > >Genealogists live in the PAST Lane > > > > > >==== TNMORGAN Mailing List ==== > > WHAT'S NEW on the Morgan County pages > >http://www.tngenweb.org/morgan/WHATSNEW.html > > > >============================== > >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== TNMORGAN Mailing List ==== > WHAT'S NEW on the Morgan County pages > http://www.tngenweb.org/morgan/WHATSNEW.html > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237