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From: <>
Subject: Re: Charles W. Sutherlin
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:18:51 -0800
References: <005001c084f4$118cca20$38dab118@tucson1.az.home.com>


Let me also ad that there was a note in one of RMS's notes that Isham was
born NC, and there was a "?" behind the date. But, I am thinking that
Charles telling the census taker VA should carry some weight.

Mark

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From: "Robert J. Letson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 8:22 PM
Subject: Charles W. Sutherlin


> In a message I sent last December, I listed the following entry from the
> 1900 Census of Tulare Co., CA:
>
>
> 1900 Federal Census of Tulare County, California
>
> Sutherlin Charles W. farmer 66 MO VA IND 65-6-55
> Sutherlin Mary E. 59
> 65-6-55
> Sutherlin May 22
> 65-6-55
> Sutherlin Robert M. 19
65-6-55
> Gross Bert S. farm lab. 22 MO MO MO (with Charles W.
> Sutherlin). 65-6-59
>
> We find here Charles W. Sutherlin, age 66, farmer, born in MO, father born
> in VA, mother born in IN, with
> wife Mary E., daughter May, son Robert M. and farm laborer Bert Gross from
> MO.
>
> In going back in my file I find that this is most certainly Charles Wesley
> Sutherlin, son of Isham V. Sutherlin. His age, name of wife etc. fit but
> there are some conflicts with data in my file.
>
> This Census reports that his father was born in VA, but I have Isham's
birth
> place as Stokes Co., NC. Did Charles not know where his father was born
or
> do I have an error here.
>
> I have the daughter as Addie May b. 1877 which corresponds OK with the age
> listed as 22 in 1900.
> However, I have the son Robert Montgomery's birth date as being 15 Sep
1850,
> and by this census is should be 1880 or 1881 which is more realistic with
> the ages I have listed for his children - as well as for the age of
Charles
> W. at the time of his birth. I do not know where I got the 1850 date, but
> I intend to change his birth date to c. 1888.
>
> I don't know who descends from this line, but can anyone clear up these
> discrepancies?
>
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