Hard time find heritage of grandfather?

Question

know my grandfathers name was gordon madison weaver born may 1895 in anderson county tennessee his fathers name supposedly was j. bradford weaver and mothers name eliza can't seem to find any information to verify these facts except a census from 1910 please help find heritage

Answer 1

ancestry.com has his marriage record but you need to join to see the information.Gordon Weaver name surname date Anderson County Tennessee ,wish I could have been of more help

Answer 2

US "work" between 1880 to 1900 is tricky, since (for one thing), there is no 1890 census, and 2nd, AROUND 1900 is a broad cutoff, where many places didn't have birth certificicates. Kids born in that gap time can be hard to locate.

Assuming that you are following the norm, and documenting your work.. when did grandpa Gordon die, and do you HAVE his death certificate? That should name the parents. An obituary sometimes will include the names. Do you know his burial place (often you'll find him buried in a family plot). Do you have ALL available census records? No guarantee.. but you always have the chance to find old parents, living with a son/ daughter in 1920 or 1930.  How about SIBLINGS of Gordon? those might be located in his obit or other family records.  I've had to come from the "side" on many occasions.. meaning, I know who the brother was, and used HIS OBIT or death certificate, etc. Of course, you need the names and dates first to find their dates/ info.. but once you do have the parents and death date, you may find a probate file or THEIR death notice, that names THEIR children. Yes, catch 22, but a part of the game.

I hate having only one item to prove a fact..since you never are sure that the one item could be wrong (without alternate records, you may not even see a conflict).

Above all, don't forget it normally works, one level at a time. You'll do the same thinking for the parents to prove them, instead of make one link and find the whole heritage.  Shifting into the 1800s means giving up birth and death certificates, in most cases.  On the other hand.. every generation you go back, INCREASES the number of possible descendants.. thus upping the odds that someone related has "worked" the whole family back.

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looked at 1910, and find Eliza is age 63 with Gordon age 14, youngest child in the house. Also, says Eliza was mother to 14 children, 9 were still living. Interpretation..mom and dad were probably already married by 1880 census. If Gordon is youngest of 14.. not impossible that dad died before 1900, which may explain why he is hard to find in the census. I did not see him..but didn't do exhaustive search.

Answer 3

What I found:

Census of 1920  Saybrook, McLean Cty, Illinois

Gordon L. Weaver, b. 1897

Wife:  Celia (Lucille Cecile Hale) b. 1899

Occupation:  General Farmer

On this census he a Celia appear to be living with or directly next door to another Weaver family - perhaps an uncle and grandfather so please check this census out as it may be giving you a lot of information.

1930 Census of Ashbum, Iroquous, Illinois

Gordon L. Weaver, b. 1897 in Tennessee

Wife is Lucille

Occupation is Farmer

Children are:  Edgar E., born 1921; Joseph T., born 1924; Nella M., born 1927; and Donald M., born 1929.

Census 1910 of Anderson, Tennessee shows Mrs. Eliza Weaver, age 63.  She is a widow in 1910.  The children listed are Annie age 22; Albert age 16 and Gordon age 14.

Census also shows she had 14 children but only 9 survived.

Census of 1880, Dist. 7, Knox County, Tennessee show the following:

Jesse Bradford Weaver, age 35

Eliza E., age 37

Children:  Margaret E., age 15

Cordelia, age 10

Thomas Z., age 5

Frances (female), age 3

Marriage records show Eliza and Jesse B. Weaver were married 8/7/1864 in Knox County, Tennessee.

I think you would be more successful looking for Jesse B. Weaver and Eliza instead of J. Bradford Weaver.

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

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