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From: "Charles H. Tieman" <>
Subject: Re: [FOOTE] Re: Lewis Foote (b. abt 1790) married Lois Wentworth; NY
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 13:07:08 -0800
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Here is my condensed version of what has been transcribed from the
1880 census:

1880 census (IA Lenox 127C Iowa) Charles O. POTTE 50PRUS, Farmer
PRUS PRUS, Ursula 42 MI kh NY NY Eda 21 IA Teaching School PRUS MI,
Belle 18 IA PRUS MI,
Arthur 16 IA, Victor, Charles E.14, Bertha A., Frank J.,Lorena WILKINS
MotherL 76 [1804] NY NY NY, David HILLS Other 32 WI Farm Lab NY OH
(CD)


>Locena's 7 children who lived to maturity included:
>Elizabeth b 1824 NYmar 1) Wm Taylor who d 1865, Benton co; 2) James
>[Porter] Johnson who she mar March 1880, Benton co.
>URSULA b 1837 MI mar CHARLES O VETTE, b Germany. mar abt 1857? Her third
>child:
>

It seems that the abstractor misread Potte for Vette,

You'd better read the original

In any case, Lorena believed that her parents were born in NY.
Interesting.


charlie

Prus means Prussia, kh is keeping house

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