From:
Ken and Laurie Huffman [[email protected]]
Sent:
Sunday, July 13, 2003 1:32 PM
Subject:
RE: Marriage Lookup
The
Eddy's appear to have left very little evidence of their living in Brown
County. I have checked all of my resources and found nothing on them. However,
a note of some interest is that Richard and Rebecca were married more than a
year after Maggie was born, when comparing the dates on the birth certificate
with the marriage date below.
EDDY,
RICHARD HEMPHILL, REBECCA 05/04/1867 C /55 693 BROWN
My
guess is that the date on the death certificate is two years off. 9 months
after their marriage is February. This
might indicate something. I would consider the marriage date more accurate of
the two, since it is a primary record and an official event record. The birth
date on the death certificate is less likely to be accurate.
There
is a river on one of the Brown County Boundaries that was used for shipping. It
is the Sangamon River and the Light House could have been there. I could not
find Maggie and George's marriage. My guess is that either they were married
out of state and came back to Brown County or they had a common law marriage. I
tend to lean toward the out of state marriage, since none of the Eddy family
are found in the Brown County Censuses. Iowa and Missouri are two nearby states
that appear as places to be from in the censuses.
Maggie's
birthplace in Cooperstown tells us that her family was there until that date
but they must have been gone before the 1870 Census. You might want to try to
locate them and the Eddy's in that and later censuses for clues where they may
have gone. A lot of Generalogy libraries have an index called the AIS that may
locate them for you. One of the reasons that you may not hear of it often is
because it has many errors but inspite of it's imperfections it is still a good
resource.
I found
this Richard in my copy of AIS in 1870:
Name:
Eddy, Richard T. Year: 1870
Gender:
Age:
County:
DUBUQUE CO. State: IA
Page:
338 Location: JULIEN TWP
Cause
of Death:
Occupation:
Here's
another but probably less likely the one:
Name:
Eddy, Richard Year: 1870
Gender:
Age:
County:
POPE CO. State: MN
Page:
920 Location: LEVAN TWP
Cause
of Death:
Occupation:
Comments:
I also
checked my National Index for the 1880 Census and found these:
EDDY,
Richard Self <1840> M W ENGL CA
EDDY,
Richd. Other <1844> M W ENGL CA
EDDY,
Richard H. Self <1849> M W ENGL KS
Hope
this helps.
Sincerely,
Ken
Huffman
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Message-----
From:
[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent:
Friday, July 11, 2003 1:17 AM
Subject:
Marriage Lookup
i am
trying to find any thing that has to do with the Eddy Family that you
might
have all i have is the death record of Maggie Riley that i sent to you and
a page
out of some book that her 2 brothers made the first light house "on
the
river" i am guessing the Mississippi River close to the Brown Co. part of
Ill i got the census records for the mother and
father Richard EDDY and his
wife
Rebecca Hemphill but i am trying to find the Eddy Family i got her death
pined
down to Rebecca Eddy died around march
of 1904 in Jessy Co. ill but i cant
find
where Richard death was can you help in any way