New Random Selection - Joseph Willis

New Random Selection

Year – 3 (number 1-10 for 1850 to 1940) = 1870

State – 46 – Virginia

FIPS code – 106 = not found, second try = 199 York County

Township = 3, Nelson

Image = 38

Line = 13, Joseph Willis, age 15, born in Virginia

Ethel McCraney - 1900 Census

Searching again on ancestry.com I find an Ethel McCraney with father William McCraney on 296 W. 5th Street, in the city of Dubuque, Iowa on 5 Jun 1900.

William is engaged in clam fishing, 46 years old, born in Feb 1854, in Iowa.  He has been married to Laura V. McCraney, born in West Virginia for 24 years and they have 6 children all still living.  Children listed with the family are Ethel A., age 14, born in Apr 1886; Estella J., born Jan 1888; Cliford M., born Sep 1891; and Edward R., born Sep 1893.  All of the children were born in Iowa.  Boarders listed with the family are Philip Gress? a scrap moulder, and interestingly, Theodore Gabriel, age 20, a paper hanger and painter.

Also listed is a separate family in the same house, James W. McCraney, age 19, engaged in clam fishing.  He is married for 2 years to Mamie R. McCraney, age 20.  They have a daughter, Bessie V., born in Apr. 1899.

William's father is born in New York and mother born in Iowa.  Laura's father was born in Pennsylvania and mother was born in Virginia.

Edith McCraney birth information

So - Using the data collected from the 1925 census showing that Edith's maiden name was McCraney, I searched for birth information in Ancestry.com and it returned the following.

Iowa, Births and Christenings Index, 1857-1947 about Ethel Adele McCraney

Name: Ethel Adele McCraney

Birth Date:          5 Apr 1886

Birth Place:         Dubuque, Iowa

Father's Name:                 Will McCraney

Mother's name:               Lo Brickner

FHL Film Number:            1035304