Re: BIOGRAPHICAL & GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF APPANOOSE & MONRO
ALL SURNAMES, GOODWIN AND TULL
Posted By: Lawrence Huffman (email) In Response To: BIOGRAPHICAL & GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF APPANOOSE & MONROE CO (Mary EllenLanigan)
Date: 9/20/2011 at 13:05:51
In doing geneology research about one Lawrence Tull I have hit a "brick wall" when trying to find his ancestry. He gave his date of birth as 26-Dec-1877 in or near Moulton, Appanoose County, Iowa and on documents found after his death he gave his birth surname as Goodwin. This document stated that, as of 1898, his mother had died from consumption but gave no date and that his father had died from unknown causes, also no date. He was raised, I am sure, by the John A. Tull family who, as far as I can determine, was the only white Tull family in that area at that time and he took the name Tull in his adult life.
1885 Iowa State census shows a 6 year old son, named Lawrence, as part of the John A. Tull family who was not part of this family in the 1880 federal census. His age does not fit his birth date but I have found census takers age calculations to be unreliable and I have no proof that his stated birth date is correct. I have eliminated his contemporary, the John Goodwin family, as possible parentage but in the 1870 federal census there is a Christa Goodwin, age 37, and a Mary Goodwin, age 20, who apparently run a boarding house in Moulton, either of whom could be his illigitimate mother, and the possibility exists that what I consider a boarding house could also be a house of ill repute.I cannot find any trace of either of these women after the 1870 census. I sent a letter similar to this to the Appanoose County clerk about a year ago but never recieved an answer. I would like to find if there are any records, and what they might be that would help me clear up this mystery. Any help that I can get from any source would be greatly appreciated.
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