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From: "Barbara Smith" <>
Subject: Lynn, Rouw, Waltermore
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 05:27:49 +0300

Hello Everyone,
John was so kind to find to find Claude Waltermore in ARK. which could be a
husband to Mattie Lynn that had Pauline Waltmore. He is working for a Hugh
Rouw family and takeing care of his elder mother which has no name. Dose
anyone know of this?
Can anyone tell me what the BTW below means please?


Barbara:
I have tried all of the search engines and so far all I have found is a
dusty trail.<g>

Then I thought that since you said Pauline was born about 1922 and then
you said she was 13 when she married William in 1938 that would push her
to 1925. Then you said she had a half sister named Betty Lynn that was
older. That means we are looking at two possible marriages for the
mother, Mattie Lynn.

Given the timeline involved I decided to check the WW! Draft
Registrations for Van Buren, Crawford Co AR and I tried a soundex search
for WALTERMORE / WALTMORE to see if they had a listing for your CLUDE CLOD
and I saw the following: WALTERMIER, Claude; age 22 born 04 MAR
1895. Natural born in Dora, AR USA. He was farming on the farm of Hugh
ROUW in Van Buren AR and he was supporting his mother [not listed by name].
He was medium height, slender build, brown eyes, dark brown hair, not bald.
He registered at Precinct 02 in Van Buren AR on 05 JUN 1917. He could not
write but made his mark (x).
BTW there are many of the WALTERMORE in MO and WALTERMIER as well in
1900. But none of them have a spouse listed as Mattie Lynn in any
combination thereof.

Bear in mind when looking for folks in the census for ages. You have to
remember the census taker has rules to follow about the period he has to
get the census in the field sheets to be transferred to the final census
sheets by the deadline mandated by the federal law pertaining to each
census year.
The you have to deal with the memory of the person who gave that data to
the census taker in the field who has to determine on the particular date
they arrived at the homestead. Even if the person had a birthday the day
after the census taker was at the household the birth age before the
birthday is the lawful age. Most of the time if th eperson was less thansix
months old then the census taker does list the birth month.
Something else to keep in mind during your research is that the surname is
written many times by tin-earred census takers who write the name as they
understood the pronuncialion. Then you have to consider trying to read poor
penmanship of family names looking like a doctor`s prescription or a dazed
chicken running from a chicken hawk.<g>
Barbara

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