Re: Martha A. Chamblee - Gwinnett Co. GA
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Re: Martha A. Chamblee - Gwinnett Co. GA
D'Ann Stoddard 4/09/11
Could have been a nick name? On every document I have found she goes by Rachel and on the ones that required her signiture, she signed Rachel C. she did not use an a in her name. There is a lot of mystery to her. Her husband left for Florida in the 1880's and married another woman and had three more children. Yet in the pension papers, Rachel says he just went down to Fl to work at a saw mill and that they lived as husband and wife until the day he died. That was a lie and I have much documentation to prove it but then was it a lie. Did she not know about his other family? Lake County has a great records online search that goes all the way back to the mid 1800's. I also have the obituary for Hugh Washington "Wig" Mills and in it no wife is mentioned, only his children and his brothers. A lot of mystery about ol Rachel....