Life History
2nd May 1883 |
Born.1 |
21st Feb 1901 |
Married Ora Ethel HARVEY in Jefferson County, Illinois.1,2 |
24th Sep 1902 |
Birth of son Gale Homer POSTON.1 |
23rd Mar 1904 |
Birth of son Timothy Kermit POSTON in Shiloh Township, Jefferson, Illinois.3,4,5,3,6,1 |
16th Mar 1930 |
Notes
- Lewis Edward Poston
BIRTH 02 MAY 1883
DEATH 16 MAR 1930
Marriage 21 FEB 1901 Jefferson, Illinois, to
Ora Ethel Harvey
BIRTH 24 SEP 1884 Jefferson, Illinois, USA
DEATH 18 OCT 1963
Children:
Gale Homer Poston
BIRTH 24 SEP 1902
DEATH 31 JAN 1960
Tim Kermit Poston
BIRTH 23 MARCH 1904 Shiloh Twp., Jefferson County, Illinois
DEATH FEBRUARY 1969 Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas
-- Grimmett Genealogy, http://person.ancestry.com/tree/90014483/person/370044054816/facts
As the rimmett genealogy reports, Lewis Edward Poston married Ora Ethel Harvey on 21 February 1901 in Jefferson County, Illinois. She went by Ethel, and was reported with her parents in 1900 in Jefferson County, Illinois, as Ethel Harvey.Their two chlldren, Gale and Tim, were born there. Some time after Tim was born in 1904, they moved to Arkansas County, Arkansas, where some of the Poston clan had moved earlier. Oral Ethel's husband died in March 1930. In the 1930 census she was repreoted as Ethel Poston, creating some confusoin over identities with two other individiausl named Ethel Poston in this same family.
Sources
- 1. Ancestry Messaging
- 2. 1930 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
- 21 April, DeWitt, District 1-16, page 15A, Hse #333, Fam #351
- 3. 1930 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
- 11 April, DeWitt, District 1-16, page 12A-12B, Hse #290, Fam #288
- 4. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
- 5. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
- 6. Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957