Shaky Leaves : Daniel Adney 1840 Census Union County Indiana

Found the record of Eileen's maternal 5th-great grandfather, Daniel Adney (1777-1862) in the 1840 census of Union County, Indiana through Ancestry.com's hints.

1840 US Census, Union County, Indiana, population schedule, , ; digital images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 20 December 2015); National Archives, Washington, D.C..

Name:	Daniel Adney
Home in 1840 (City, County, State):	Union, Indiana
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29:	3
Free White Persons - Males - 60 thru 69:	1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5:	2
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14:	1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29:	1
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39:	1
Free White Persons - Females - 60 thru 69:	1
Persons Employed in Manufacture and Trade:	2
Free White Persons - Under 20:	3
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49:	5
Total Free White Persons:	10
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves:	10

The record shows a total of ten persons in the household.  Daniel and his wife Anna, had a total of 11 children.  By 1840, most of his children had married and had families of their own.  Likely this household was a multi-generational household.

Daniel (1777-1862) was born in Botetourt County, Virginia.  His wife, Anna Coger (1780-1844) was born in Virginia as well.   Both died in Union County, Indiana; Daniel in 1862 and Anna in 1844.

They were the parents of : Sarah "Sally", Mary "Polly", John, Anna, Daniel, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Jacob, Isaac, Miriam and Catherine Adney.  

If you have additional information or are related to this family, I would love to hear from you.

Obituary : Margaret (Pierce) Jones, Alexandria Times-Tribune, 1923

"Mrs. John W. Jones Dies At Home Near Florida," obituary, Alexandria Times-Tribune, 11 June 1923; online images, Newspapers.com (www.newspapers.com : accessed 18 January 2016), The Alexandria Times-Tribune.

Mrs. John W. Jones Dies At Home Near Florida

Mrs. John W. Jones, wife of the brother of Dee R. Jones, died at her home near Florida, southwest of Alexandria, this morning at 8:30 o'clock.  Deceased was the sister of Elias Pierce, a resident of this city.  Funeral arrangements had not yet been made when this was written.

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Was able to locate at Newspapers.com the obituary of my maternal 2nd-great grandaunt, Margaret (Pierce) Jones, daughter of Edmund G. & Catherine (Groenendyke) Pierce.  

Margaret was the wife of John W. Jones and the mother of at least three children: Herman, Lyman and Neal.

If you are related to this family or have any additional information, I would love to hear from you.

Cleaning Up My Database : Multiple Facts

One of my projects I'm working on right now is cleaning up my database, particularly the multiple facts.  This is an issue of my own creation, as what I was doing was creating a separate fact for each incident I discovered of a particular fact.

For instance, if I had a date of birth from a tombstone or family group sheet, I would enter that date "12 Oct 1818" in my database as a fact.  Then, when I found a census record that stated based on age that they were born "circa 1819", I would also enter that a separate fact.  

What this has done is created a real cluster of information in my database, and when I print out family narrative reports it really looks sloppy to state that someone was born multiple times.  Since I have done this for some time, there are plenty of items I need to correct.

In RootsMagic, you can find multiple fact reports by choosing the Lists>Fact List and then when you go to create the report, choose Create a list of people with more than one of this fact type.

What I am doing is updating the database to show the one "birth fact" and tying the multiple sources to the main fact.  Some of these facts might disagree with each other or compliment each other, but i will use the Research Notes and Comments section in RootsMagic to note discrepancies or why I think one place is better than another.  For instance, one fact might state someone was born in Indiana, the other might give the county such as Madison County, Indiana.  I will blend these together as the main birth fact and notate in each notated fact which fact gave which location.

This will be a slow, tedious project, as when I ran the report out of my RootsMagic database I ended up with over 100 pages of information on individuals who have duplicate birth facts.  I have even begun to look into those who might have duplicate death facts as well.