Henson A Shorter and Josephine C Mathews
I'm having a little trouble with the ancestry of Henson A Shorter .. it's showing that his parents were John Shorter, son of James B shorter and his mother martha ann daughter of henson humphreys in just about every place that I look but when comparing this with census images these findings don't seem to match at all. in 1849 john was supposed to have wed marth ann and reports state that they died in just a few years and had henson in 1854 but there is only one family of shorters that lived in indiana at this time and that was robert shorter and his wife and three kids. patience, hironimus and riley but by 1860 the kids are scattered and robert and his wife don't seem to exist any longer and also a kid of about the right age shows up living with henson humphreys that is also named henson when he's in his 60's and then in 1870 I can't find him any longer but then in 1880 henson a shorter shows up in erath county, texas married to josephine with some kids. what I'm wondering is if this single family of shorters that just so happened to be henson humphrey's neighbors where the head of the household was robert shorter is if robert's name wasn't robert john shorter ... also all the family trees I find on the humphries show that henson humphreys doesn't have a daughter named martha but his brother solomon does ... all this stuff seems to conflict with existing family trees on the internet. maybe someone could tell us where the information came from that made john and martha out as henson's parents and maybe clear this up for me as it's seeming to conflict with the census records some ... the points I"m wondering about the most is why only one family of shorters is in indiana at the proper time and that's robert shorter's family in 1850 and then they dissappear about the same time john and martha was supposed to have died and their kids scattered .... it almost seems like solomon's daughter (martha) had an affair with robert shorter and maybe that resulted in the death of robert and his wife and then the child of said affair ended up with henson humphreys in 1860 ... this of course is all just wild speculation on my part but it would make a lot more sense than the existing info comparing census reports against existing family tree info.
does anyone have any existing records that make henson's parents john and martha humphreys-shorter?
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Re: Henson A Shorter and Josephine C Mathews
JOHN R. DULIN 12/08/04
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Re: Henson A Shorter and Josephine C Mathews
Anne S. Anderson 1/08/07
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Re: Henson A Shorter and Josephine C Mathews