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Research in Other Countries => United States of America => Topic started by: Ratty2 on Friday 10 October 25 21:50 BST (UK)
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Harry Merwin Jnr Shedd born 13 Dec 1912 at Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, died 23 Jan 1996 Running Springs, San Bernardino, California. He married Betty Doris Heiskell 27 Jan 1961 at Dallas Texas, but he also (I think) married Montine P Park (b29 Jan 1914 - d27 Jul 1958).
My puzzle is that in the 1930 Census he is living at 548 West Fourth Str, Reno, Washoe, Nevada and his relationship to the head of the household is stepson. His step-father is Cliff De Bock Kennard (1886-1957).
Who,then is his birth father?
With thanks
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Harry M Shedd
Date of Birth 13 Dec. 1912
Fayette, Kentucky, USA
Mother's Name Florence Miller
His father was also named Harry Merwin Shedd.
1920 census. He is with his parents.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHL4-HXH?lang=en
The 1940 census for his father, records him as divorced.
His mother Florence married Clifford Kennard in 1924, Lexington.
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Many thanks for that.
This is where I am getting tangled. Florence Miller, born 1891 in Pennsylvania, married 1911 to someone.
Now in 1924 she is married to Clifford K(de Bock) Kennard.
Help!
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Florence Miller married Harry M Shedd in 1911
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2QD-JX82?lang=en
They divorced, and she married Clifford Kennard in 1924.
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Okay thanks
Did she marry anyone else?
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Doesn't look like it to me.
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She died with the surname Kennard. So, no, she didn't marry a third time.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKC9-ZN3M?lang=en
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Thank you.
The other puzzle I have concerns Harry Merwin Jnr Shedd's wife (wives)
He married Montine Park 5 Sep 1940. Then Betty Doris Heiskell 27 Jan 1961.
Betty had married Jerry Alvin Cox three times in Texas!
20 Feb 1948, 5 Mar 1952, 16 April 1957; before her marriage on 27 Jan 1961 to Harry Merwin Shedd Jnr.
Where do I find the Texas Divorce records, please?
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Where do I find the Texas Divorce records, please?
https://www.dshs.texas.gov/vital-statistics/marriage-divorce-records
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Why do you think Betty married the same man 3 times?
Betty had married Jerry Alvin Cox three times in Texas!
20 Feb 1948, 5 Mar 1952, 16 April 1957; before her marriage on 27 Jan 1961 to Harry Merwin Shedd Jnr.
Betty Doris Heiskell Born 5 Dec 1928, Dallas. Parents:- Samuel Heiskell and Myrtice Lillard
Miss Betty Doris Heiskell married Jerry Alvin Cox
9 Feb. 1948 Dallas
Mrs Betty Doris Cox married Mr Jerry Alvin Cox
9 March 1952 Dallas
Mrs Betty Doris Cox married Harry Merwin Shedd
27 Jan. 1961 Dallas, Texas
Betty Doris Shedd died 28 Apr. 1996 San Bernardino
(b. 5 Dec 1928, mother -Lillard, father - Heiskell)
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MMMmm
I'll have to check my data.
I think I found the third marriage on Ancestry. That'll mean next week.
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On his death certificate - Jerry Alvin Cox died 1966 has wife named Maureen.
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On her Social Security Claim
Betty Doris Heiskell in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
the note at the bottom includes all her various names:
Jun 1947: Name Listed As Betty Doris Heiskell; Nov 1954: Name Listed As Betty Doris Cox; Dec 1961: Name Listed As Betty Doris Shedd; Mar 1963: Name Listed As Doris Heiskell Cox; Mar 1963: Name Listed As Betty Dor Shedd; 31 May 1996: Name Listed As Betty D Shedd.
So I must have got the 1957 date from somewhere else and its wrong.
So who was Maureen in 1966?
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There we are:
in the Texas, U.S., Select County Marriage Records, 1837-1965 (Ancestry)
Jerry Alvin Cox married Betty Doris Heiskell
20 Feb 1948 at Dallas, Cert 82280.
9 Mar 1952 at Dallas, Cert 112153.
19 Apr 1957 at Texas, Cert 149740.
Montine Park married Jerry Cox 5 Sep 1940; then to Harry Shedd 26 Dec 1941, at Jacksonville Fla. She died 27 Jul 1958 at Dallas Tx.
Maureen Cox remains a mystery.
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My mistake, he couldn't marry Montine as a youth of ten or eleven. Deleter that
Sorry