I continued the search for the missing children of George Madison Canter with little luck. So I decided to take a step back generation-wise and focus on finding all birth records of George Madison's second daughter, Catharine Rebecca. Fortunately, I found that her first child, William Russel, was most likely illegitimate. The IGI lists an approximate marriage date Andrew Miller that I have yet to find proof of, but William Russel in life and on his birth record goes by the name of Canter. I am comfortable with the assumption that they were not married. Catharine married Thomas Eblin a couple of years after the birth of her first son, and with that husband she had 10 children (according to the 1910 census). I have found 9 so far, and in my most recent search, I uncovered a missing daughter, Elizabeth, who though born in 1897, died before the 1900 census. I have yet to find the birth records of most of the other children of Catharine and Thomas, as they seem to have been floating around three counties during that time.
This week I have been working on the George Madison Canter/Elizabeth Hannah Gilliland family in Jackson County, Ohio. According to the 1900 census, Elizabeth gave birth to 12 children, but only 8 were living at the time of the census. I have determined that Lydia Eunice, born 1872, was one of the deceased children. I have yet to determine the other three deceased children. Ancestral File lists the couple with 17 children, and I have also been sorting out which children belong and which do not. Through census, I have verified 11. I am currently working on finding birth records for all of these children, however, I have run into two problems: the first is that from 1877 to 1884 the family moved to Stafford County, Kansas, and I have limited access to birth records there. The second is that Ohio did not register births until 1867. Although the first two children were born in 1867 and 1868, thier births have not been registered in the Ohio birth records. I hope to overcome these two dilemas. If you have suggestions, please leave a comment.
This blog is a journal of my genealogy research. Currently, I am working on the John and Barbara Canter family in Ohio, circa 1800.
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