Re: Jabez Maurice Holder/ Need Help
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Re: Jabez Maurice Holder/ Need Help
Denise Simmons 9/27/13
John Ried with wife Mary B (nee Chandler) and children Mary E age 19, Catherine 12, George 9 and Robert D. 2 are in 1870 GA Haralson County, MD 1078 (Tallapossa P.O.). This should be the Mary E. Reid who married J.M. Holder in Haralson County Dec 1870. With using the name Beth Holder for grave stone (d. 1888), I would say her middle name was Elizabeth.
Also to be clear as far as I can see the John B Reed and Mary Chandler are not the parents of the Mary E that married Thomas Whitaker that are buried in Hillview Cemetery. They are the parents of the Mary E that married JM Holder.
The Mary E Reed married to Thomas Whitaker in Troup County 1875 is in the 1900 GA Troup County, La Grange Twsp census as M.E. Whitaker, widow age 50 b. Jul 1849 in GA, parents GA (she had 5 children, 3 living at time of census)with daughter Evie age 20 b. Aug 1879 and son Reid age 13, b. Sept 1886 in household.
So again knowing the child of Mary's your husband descended from will go a long way it finding out which Mary is the right one. Post it here and I will take a look.
The middle name on Find a Grave for Mary Whitaker could be wrong or your middle name of Ella could be mistaken. There is an Elmira Read age 19 (1851) in household of a Zachariah and Elizabeth Read in 1870 GA Troup County census. In same census there is also a J B Reid b. 1825 in GA with a daughter M B age 15 (1855) the wife is a A E b. 1835. This John B and Ann Elizabeth (nee Whitfield )Reid are buried in Hillview Cemetery in Troup Co. GA, also on Find A Grave.
Actually it looks to me that allot of the trees online are copy and paste from other trees with some citing "One World Tree" as a source which is Ancestry's software program that compiles so called "matches" by names and places only. It is to be used only to look up records (leafs?) not cite as a source or proof of kinship or accuracy.