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From: "Dotty Cole" <>
Subject: Re: [arclark] Garner Family of Antoine
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 04:58:53 -0400
References: <001301c67f50$fc4995f0$0401a8c0@GENEALOGYMOM> <002701c67f66$063bc550$6401a8c0@AprilTwo>


April,

I am sure you have found the birth record for Nadine Elizabeth. And I have
learned something about how to search in the Texas Birth Index. No amount
of searching with John Garner in the father's name field would have resulted
in this find. Thank you. This birth record is consistent with the family
stories and also with the SSDI record I had found for Nadine Fruit.

From the 1930 census Nadine was probably born Dorothy N(adine) and when she
was adopted her family may have changed her name. I just found out from my
niece that Nadine was the oldest of perhaps five children. There was also
an Ione who must have been born just after the 1930 census.

From the 1910 census below, I had found the Mertle Nix and filed it away for
future reference. I makes sense that Myrtle was from Red River County and
they met and married there and had a couple of kids there.

Thanks again and to everyone else who responded.

Dotty


----- Original Message -----
From: "April Hoover" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: [arclark] Garner Family of Antoine


> Dotty,
>
> Below are the census records for John and Myrtle. Still no sign of Nadine
> in the census. Hope this helps.
>
> April
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> 1930 - Valencia Co., NM - Precinct 17 - Manzano Nat'l Forest (21/23)
> ED 21 - Page 235A - Sheet 11A - April 21, 1930
>
> 143/143
> GARDNER, John, head, wm, 38, md @ 27, AR AR AR, laborer/odd jobs
> Myrtle, wife, wf, 28, md @ 17, TX AR TX
> Dorothy N., dau, wf, 8, TX AR TX
> James A., son, wm, 6, TX AR TX
> John Jr., son, wm, 1y 2 mo., OK AR TX
> JOHNSON, Frank (?), cousin, wm, 38, divorced, AR AR AR, laborer/odd jobs
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> 1920 - Red River Co., TX - Justice Precinct 5 (6/44)
> ED 153 - Page 224B - Sheet 4B - Jan. 30, 1920
>
> (indexed on Ancestry.com as GARNESS)
>
> 59/60
> GARNER, Kirkham J., wm, head, 28, AR AR AR, farmer/farm, own account
> Myrtle, wf, wife, 18, TX TN TX
> (no children)
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> 1910 - Red River Co., TX - Precinct 4 (26/42)
> ED 124 - Page 188B - Sheet 13B - April 30, 1910
>
> 264/265
> NIX, Newton, head, wm, 45, m2 - 9 yrs, TN TN TN , farmer/gen. farm, rents
> home
> Georgia, wife, wf, 35, m1 - 9 yrs, 4 children/2 living, TX GA GA
> Mertle, dau, wf, 8, TX TN TX
> Troy, son, wm, 2, TX TN TX
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> This may be Nadine's birth certificate:
>
> Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997 Record
> <baby's name blank>
> Date of Birth: 1 Jun 1921
> Birth County: Red River
> Mother's Name: John Kirkham Garner
> Certificate Number: 36957
> Roll Number: 1921_0006
> Source: Ancestry.com
>
> =================================
> [END]
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dotty Cole
> To:
> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 11:42 AM
> Subject: [arclark] Garner Family of Antoine
>
>
> I am sending this message to both the Clark County List and the Pike
> County
> List.
>
> I am trying to help my niece find her ancestry. Here is what we have from
> the family stories:
>
> "My Great Grandmother Myrtle "Pinkie" Nix Garner died of TB in a
> sanitarium
> in Denver in 1930 at about age 38. The children and their father, John
> Garner, were living in a "tent" city outside Monte Vista, Rio Grande,
> Colorado at the time of her death. John put the kids (including my
> grandmother, Nadine Elizabeth Garner) in an orphanage when Myrtle died.
> There were 5 children, I think."
>
> The family story has Nadine Elizabeth being born 01 June 1921 in
> Clarksville, Red River, TX (I cannot find this birth in the Texas Birth
> Index, however.).
>
> Nadine Elizabeth was adopted by a Ferretti family and may have died
> February 1986 in Estes Park, Larimore, CO after marrying Clive Eugene
> Fruit,
> Jr.
>
> Research in the available databases at ancestry.com has not given me much
> to
> go by. However there was a John and Myrtle Garner in the 1920 census in
> Delta County, TX. Delta County adjoins Red River County.
>
> Also, in the WW II Draft Registration cards I find three Garner men born
> in
> Pike County, AR or Antoine, AR. I know that Antoine straddles the line
> between Pike and Clark Counties. All three lived 5 miles south of
> Clarksville, TX when they completed their WW II Draft Registration cards.
> These men's names and birth dates are as follows:
>
> John Kirkham Garner born 21 Dec 1891 in Pike County AR has a father and
> sisters to support
> George Garner born 22 Nov 1893 in Pike County AR has a father and sisters
> to
> support
> Julien Garner born 18 Oct 1895 in Antoine AR has a father to support
>
> My problem is that I cannot find this family in either TX or AR in 1900 or
> later censuses.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Dotty Sprague Cole
> Lake Mary, FL
>
>
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