My Great Grandparents in 1900: James Cornelius and Mary Addie
My great grandparents were, on my father's side: James Cornelius Spencer (1866-1928) and Mary Addie Winfrey (1870-1944) James Lawrence McDaniel (1873-1944) and Midia Belle Meeks (1876-1947) And on my mother's side: Clark E. Pittman (1851-1931) and Lucinda Greenlee (1864-1900) Enoch Franklin Morris (1877-1938) and Ella Mae Biddle (1872-1965) In the next few posts I intend to look at each of them in term, answering the simple question, where were they at the time of the 1900 census? In this post I am going to look at James and Mary Addie Spencer. James and his family were temporarily split up in 1900. James (who seems to have gone by his middle name, Cornelius, or Nealey for short) was at the time of the census a patient in the Western Kentucky Asylum for the Insane. Evidence from his 1928 death certificate would suggest that he might have been suffering from the ravages of venereal disease. Where were his wife and children at this time? Well, 4 of the 5 children were living with...