Re: Priscilla of Wm Simpson Beall
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Re: Priscilla of Wm Simpson Beall
Fredric Saunders 12/23/04
Rick -- You have sagely attached the caveat to this comment "if that is correct."The censustaker's marital status listing may be accurate, or it may be the product of an assumption he made.Normally, of course, if a man's sister has the same surname as he does and is living under the same roof as he is at a somewhat advanced age, chances are good that she's a spinster.But there are enough Beall - Beall marriages that in Maryland with this name one can't be sure.
If I had a dime for every census error, I could afford one of those census subscriptions and pull the Eden entries for 1850 and 1860 right now.