Wedding Wednesday - Bowman & Weber

On October 26, 1871, Julia P. Bowman married John S. Weber in Boonville, Cooper county, Missouri. Julia was born November 13, 1852 in Lexington, Fayette county, Kentucky and sometime after the family moved to Covington, Kentucky, where her father died about 1866. She was the daughter of Robert Todd Bowman and Elizabeth Dickerson. 

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Making Progress

Between making a quick trip to Michigan and dealing with this nasty cold, I've managed - quite surprisingly - to get quite a bit of data entry done. Sometimes good things can happen when you are stuck at home feeling rotten! I've knocked 75 death certificates down!

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Misleading Information

Do you trust everything you read on a death certificate? I hope not. I can't say how many times I've come across a death certificate that the informant has given his/her parents' names and not the names of the decedent.

Take this death certificate for Addie (Adaline) Keas Mansur. It gives her birth date as October 26, 1841 and her death date as October 26, 1941. Wouldn't that make her exactly 100 years old? EXCEPT her age is given as 83 years 11 months and 7 days.  Her husband John Mansur was born in 1850.  By my figuring, she was born November 19, 1857. The 1900 census says July of 1857. It sure isn't 1841!

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