Great Grandma's Name Was Ella. After That It's Complicated --Part three
ELLLLLAAAAA!!! (said a la A Street Car Named Desire. ) That's what I feel like screaming every time I do research on my paternal great grandmother Ella Kerr/Smith/Hayes/Dixon or whatever other name she might have been going by at a particular time. If this is the first time you're reading about my Ella, you may want to go back and read part one and two. Here are the links: Great Grandma's Name Was Ella. After That It Gets Complicated. Great Grandma's Name Was Ella. After That It's Complicated --Part two It seems to me that my Ella did her darnedest to not be found in a record prior to 1920. She was born I believe in or around 1882 in Sampson County, NC, so no there's no 1880 census entry to refer to. I knew by 1911 she was living in Wilmington, NC because that is where my grandmother Ethel Smith Murrell was born. Where was she prior to 1911? Why and how did she come to the decision to move to Wilmington? On part two of this series, I mentioned th...