Re: Garland Vick b 1890 ARK and descendants? wife Coy, sons Verl and James b 192

Larry,

Thanks.

Re "it said that Coy's name was Coy Touchstone" here is what I know, and what I believe can be inferred.

First, Touchstone was not Coy's married or maiden name.

Then what was it? Obviously it could be a middle name, and I haven't found any indication of Coy Vick's middle initial so don't have anything to disprove that.

But I think there is a different explanation.

I have found her sister Lottie also with the name Touchstone attached to online cemetery notes ("Lottie Touchstone Lord Collins"), and multiple census records say Lottie's middle name started with an E (it was Ella, per someone's unsourced family tree online).

My conclusion is that someone has looked at census records, or other records, which show the two girls living in the Touchstone household in the years between 190x and 1920, and from that have made the erroneous conclusion they must have been Touchstones. They have then spread the info in good faith, hoping to help.

Here's what happened. Their mother Lula Lord was born a Touchstone. She and her husband were neighbors with her brother, both owning farms. When Lula's husband died she lived for many years in a household farm with her bachelor brother who was named Columbus (or "Lum") Touchstone (was it one combined farm? did he buy her farm?). Theyalso had another widowed sister living with them, named (if my transcribing is accurate) Captola Barnes (who would also have been born a Touchstone).

So the 2 young girls lived for some amount of time in the Touchstone home. But I see no evidence that they actually used the name Touchstone.

David