2012 Queries

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Sept. 7, 2012

 I'm trying to track down the history of my great-grandmother's marriages, which is a bit onerous because she was a serial monogamist. Her maiden name was Ida Cebell (or Ceabell or Cebelle or Ceabelle, etc.) Rodgers or Rogers, and she was born in 1863 in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. Her family (father was Whitten Rogers/Rodgers) moved to Limestone County when she was young, and she got married at age 15 or so to my great-grandfather, Frank Milton Webster (born Sept. 8, 1855), who came to Limestone County from North Carolina. They married May 8, 1878, in Kosse and had a lot of kids, one of them my grandfather, Lacy Whitten Webster. My grandparents lived in Marlin by the time I was born, but all my Webster family members were born and raised around Kosse or Groesbeck. I don't know anything about the Rogers/Rodgers side other than that my grandmother and mother said that Ida
married five or six times after F.M. Webster died about 1894.

Soon after Webster's death, Ida married the man she had been in love with before she married (her parents had opposed the match). His name, I think, was Robertson or Robinson or something similar; I'm basing that on what my grandmother said. It was a fairly short union, I think. He got killed in a poker game somewhere in Limestone (he was shot over the table by "a friend"). After he died, Ida married a Hurst, but he may not have been local; some of these grooms she met by letter via newspaper personals. She had a son by him, Raymon(d) Leo Hurst, in 1899. Raymond did not list a father's name on any documents I've been able to find, and I have a feeling the union was short-lived. Much later (early 1920s), she married a man by the name of Oscar Twaddle and lived in Wichita Falls. She died there in 1929 under the name Ida Twaddle, but she and Twaddle had different addresses before then; she seems to list herself as "head of household" on quite a few documents at times when she was legally married. But I assume that Twaddle was her last husband, though they didn't live together after 1924 or 1925, judging from city directories.

I assume there were other husbands between Hurst and Twaddle.

I'm interested in any of Ida's marriages subsequent to the one with Webster. But I'm especially interested in the marriage to Robertson/Robinson/Robison. He apparently was a local. Thanks very much. Norma McLemore


May 23, 2012

I need help me with a brick wall. I'm looking for ANY information regarding the below family who I know lived in Limestone County, TX as of 1910, according to the 1910 Federal Census. Note that the head of household in 1910 was Minnie B. Odell, as the husband had died in 1906. More specific, I can trace all family members after 1910 except for Carrie B. Odell (1896 - ?). In 1910 she would have been 14 years old and attending school. She may have passed away while living in Limestone County, TX or gotten married shortly after the 1910 census; however, I've search all of ancestry.com and done many Google searches and came up empty. If you have any information on Carrie B. Odell, it would be greatly appreciated Rodney O'Dell

May 15, 2012

I am trying to identify Lucy Daly 1848-1912 wife of W. J Daly 1847-1930 both are buried in Kosse Cemetery Limestone Co I would like to know who her parents were?? Any help appreciated Shirley in Tennessee

Feb 25, 2012

Am trying to find any info on Robert Bryan Crocker and Elizabeth Baughan who are shown in the 1880 US census as living in Limestone Co. He was my ggrandfather and she was my gggrandmother. Any assistance would be appreciated. Robert Donnell

Feb 21, 2012

I am searching for a Judge Swann who married a distant relative of mine named Annie Samantha Matthews who was listed in the 1880 census as living with her brother E. H. Matthews. In the 1900 census she was listed as Annie Swann living back in her home in Oak Bowery Alabama. She was listed as a widow. Several trees just list the name of her husband as Judge Swann without any other particulars. I noticed that the name Swann was listed in your gen web site under you Sur Name column.
Thanks for your help. William P. Perrin.

Feb 29, 2012

I'm looking for any information you might have on the Haley family that lived in the Kosse area until about 1905.

Three generations of Haleys lived in or near Kosse and the farm was known as "The Haley Place" and I'm interested in knowing what the location might have been and if the house might still exist.

Family names were (my Great Grandparents) Charles Quillan Haley and Icy Minerval Haley who lived and died in Kosse and are buried in the city cemetery. Their son (my Grandparents) Charles Q. Haley lived there with his wife Mittie (Lloyd) Haley (they were married in Limestone County in 1895) and left the area in about 1905. Their son (my father) Beve Franklin Haley was born there in 1896 and would have moved with his parents in about 1905.

I was in Kosse a few years ago and visited with the gentleman at the local hardware store and he knew of the family, also had the burial records for the cemetery and could tell me where the Haley burials were, but did not know of the house. I also rode around town with a Constable and we never could identify a house that looked like a picture I had from about 1975.

If you know anybody that might have information on this place, I'd love to have any information they might have.

Thank you! Chuck Haley

Feb 7, 2012

I am looking for an Obituary ...of Fannette Fishburn. She died in 1963 in Texas. Evidently she died in Limestone County -- or she is buried there.

I have tried to find an obituary -- and so far I am unable to do so. I have some more information about the lady -- if that would help.

Thank you for any help and any information. Earl Sigoloff