Re: points - McElderry

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Posted By: Jim Stuber (email)
Date: 7/6/2012 at 14:15:54

In Response To: points - McElderry (janet pease)

There are lots of links in this. If they don't end up as clickable, just copy the entire URL into your browser.

Here's Kenneth Jr.'s obit in which he listed his mother as Helen:

http://www.tehachapinews.com/obituaries/x691461200/Kenneth-Eugene-McElderry

But you're right, the birth record listed his mother as Eden (sp) Points:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/V46C-JQ1

I found a document that lists her with her family and a spouse, last name not McElderry. Click the first link on this page to open a Word document:

http://iagenweb.org/history/IAfamilies/cfs.htm

But this post lists the same family in multiple censuses with a daughter of the right age named Edna and no Eden. I suspect Edna's name got listed or transcribed as Eden by mistake on the birth record:

http://genforum.genealogy.com/ia/pottawattamie/messages/495.html

Here they are in the 1920 census:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MDM8-MCL

She's not there in the 1930 census:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XMVP-ZSH

and she's back in the 1940 census listed as married but no husband or children in the house:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KMBK-S72

Here's Kenneth Sr.'s grave stone which lists his death and burial location, in case you don't have those:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=mcelderry&GSiman=1&GScid=1985953&GRid=37749767&

If Eden and Edna are the same person, here's her father George in the 1900 census living with his parents, David and Saphira Points:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M9L8-M48

This post gives Saphira/Sophia's last name as Allen:

http://boards.ancestry.com/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=58&p=surnames.points

And this user submitted genealogy has David Points back several generations:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/S5PL-DKZ

Here are cemetery records for many Points and Allen's:

http://iagenweb.org/pottawattamie/cem-allen.htm

I suspect Edna Points was his birth mother but that he was raised by Helen, whose identity I couldn't find.

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• points - McElderry (views: 4003)
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  janet pease -- 7/5/2012 at 17:29:54
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    Jim Stuber -- 7/6/2012 at 14:15:54
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    janet pease -- 7/7/2012 at 18:16:53
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