Month: August 2019
Annie’s Marriage Record to Thomas Adams Found
Miracle of miracles! Look what dropped into my lap the other day. There’s an image of the certificate I will post when I can find it again. This brings up a lot of questions about Annie’s name. Why was she using the name “Crawford?” It was nice of her to get married on my birthday. …
Annie is Still Missing in Action
Nothing has been found on any of the previously posted missing ancestors of mine. It has been a while since the last post, so I thought I’d better post something. I thought I’d post the photo I described before for Annie Taylor Wenzel. It was taken at the breakwater in Oxnard or Santa Barbara in …
Annie Sarah Taylor Wenzel Found! Hallelujah
A few years back, I had found an article that mentioned that Mr. & Mrs. T. W. Adams had visited in Santa Barbara with Mrs. Flora Lieb, who had been a former resident of Oxnard. In the article it said, “Mrs. Adams is Mrs. Lieb’s mother.” This was printed in the Oxnard Courier sometime in 1920. I never could find …
Annie is Missing from the 1910 US Census
Annie Sarah Taylor is Missing Again (from the 1910 US Census). She’s in the 1920 and 1900 US Census, but not 1910. After she divorced Peter Wenzel about 1892, they were living apart in the 1900 US New York Census in Poughkeepsie; Annie was listed as a widow, a seamstress, with four children: Florence 18, …