Re: Missouri/Tenn: John Dee, Ben, George, Curtis, Cara,Oma
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Missouri/Tenn: John Dee, Ben, George, Curtis, Cara,Oma
Bill Collins 9/05/08
In the 1930 Census, I found John D., age 56 in 1930, Donna V., age 44 in 1930 and family living in the town I was born in, Connersville, IN.
The 1930 Census says that Donna V. and her mother was both born in Tennessee and her father was born in South Carolina. The census says John D. was born in Tennessee, as was his mother and that his father was born in Missouri.
I now remember seeing a small grave marker with John Dee Richie on it in the Connersville, IN cemetery next to Donna's years ago when I was a child, but I had failed to make the connection that he was buried there, as I had never realized he ever lived in Connersville, IN as he must have died years before I was born.
Donna lived with my family in Connersville, IN until her death, probably during the early 1950's, when I must have been 7 or 8 or so, and I remember her sending me down to the corner family grocer a couple of times a week to pick up her plugs and twists of chewing tobacco that she chewed.
So, tomorrow morning, I'm going to the cemetery in nearby Connersville to get the date they died, then I'm off to the local library to look up their obits., to see if it lists more about who their parents are.
If I can get that info, then maybe I can get a start on tracing my roots.If I find out this info, I'll do a follow up post with that info, for anyone else that might be interested.
Further help from any other related Richie out there in Tennessee, South Carolina or Missouri is appreciated.
Bill
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Re: Missouri/Tenn: John Dee, Ben, George, Curtis, Cara,Oma
Bill Collins 9/17/08