Amanda Butterfield Genealogy

I have been struggling for weeks on the problem of which of the 12 children of George Madison Canter and Elizabeth Hannah Gilliland were alive in the 1900 census. According to both the 1900 and 1910 census, Elizabeth gave birth to 12 children. 8 were still alive in those census years. I had been able to verify that two of the deceased children were Eliza Etta Canter and Lydia Eunice Canter. However, I have had no such luck verifying the other two. George M. and Louisa Jane were the most likely candidates, as I have found no other records for these two past the 1880 census in Kansas. However, I have not been able to find any information on Sarah L. after her marriage to Jesse Webb in 1896. She also could have been one of the deceased in 1900. I had ordered George Madison's civil war pension file (the shortened genealogical version), and one of the documents states that in 1898, George had 8 living children, listing them by name: Mary, Catharine, William, Della, Sarah, Stella, Chloe and Janey (Cora Jane). George M. and Louisa Jane must have died sometime before 1898.

I will continue to try to find the death records for these two, but at this point, I'm not sure they ever made it out of Kansas. Their family moved back to Ohio in 1882, and I have searched death records between 1882 and 1900 with no luck. Unfortunately, civil registration in Kansas did not occur until after 1900, so I have struggled to find replacements for birth and death records of these two children.