Here's her page on findagrave.com:
http://tinyurl.com/637djg
Loran
From allena...@aol.com Sun Apr 13 09:01:41 2008
From: allena...@aol.com (allena...@aol.com)
Date: Sun Apr 13 09:01:58 2008
Subject: [Phono-L] Marr Cert # 16264
Message-ID: <bb8.25436d7f.35338...@aol.com>
Flaherty Hugh Aug 9 1904 Manhattan 16264 F463
married:
Jones Ada Aug 9 1904 Manhattan 16264 J520
FYI - the cert will have exact birth dates of all concerned and names of
their parents.
Allen
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From edisonphonowo...@hotmail.com Sun Apr 13 09:14:15 2008
From: edisonphonowo...@hotmail.com (Thomas Edison)
Date: Sun Apr 13 09:14:18 2008
Subject: [Phono-L] 19th century birth dates ect.
Message-ID: <blu105-w56222cc4ec2b60ff12eadfd1...@phx.gbl>
The Un-certainty of birth dates is easy to explain. In these days of eveyone
having numbers so your every move is tracked Was not the old way. In the 19th
century it was common for the only birth record to be kept in the family Bible.
Many people were born at home, and people did not have social security numbers
either. The problem with all of us we go at research with 21st century
thought, put yourself in a 19th and early 20th century mindset when you do
research and come to conclusions, makes things much eiser to understand.
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From lo...@oldcrank.com Sun Apr 13 10:05:03 2008
From: lo...@oldcrank.com (Loran T. Hughes)
Date: Sun Apr 13 10:05:05 2008
Subject: [Phono-L] 19th century birth dates ect.
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Well said. My mom was born in a cabin in South Dakota in 1924. The
country doc filed the birth certificate a few days later and recorded
the wrong birth date. There was no double checking the facts - it was
just the way things were done. The doc just went from memory. It was
never corrected - it's just not that important to my mom.
I'm sure it was the same with Ada Jones' death certificate. It was
filled out with the best knowledge of the available witnesses. If her
husband even received a copy, he may not have bothered to read it in
his time of grief. And if he did catch the mistake, would he really
bother contacting the state of N.C. to get it corrected? Their would
have been nothing to gain for the trouble.
As far as getting all the proper paperwork together, who's to say that
the rails weren't greased (no pun intended) to get a famous singer's
body back to her family for burial. It was, after all, 1922, not 2008.
We know when & where Ada was born and died. We know where she's
buried. We know her true age. Is it really necessary to legally change
a death certificate of someone who's been gone nigh on 90 years? Shall
we next demand a correction from the NY Times for getting her age
wrong in the obituary?
Personally, I think these quirky paperwork glitches add a bit of color
to the history and are a testament of the times in which she lived.
Loran
On Apr 13, 2008, at 9:14 AM, Thomas Edison wrote:
> <snip> The problem with all of us we go at research with 21st
> century thought, put yourself in a 19th and early 20th century
> mindset when you do research and come to conclusions, makes things
> much eiser to understand.
