Just a follow up on my previous post about the list of brothers and sisters that Louella Jo McGuire was kind enough to write down. The letter lists 14 kids in all. It just so happens that the 1910 census asks two question of all females; "Mother of how many children born" and "Number still living". She answered that she gave birth to 14 children and that 10 were still living. So we got them all. And that makes my list even more important since there is at least one child, Sarah Elizabeth McGuire who was born and died between the taking of two censuses and who also lived in a time when there were not well kept birth/death records in Arkansas. So without this list, I don't think there would have been any other way of knowing who this daughter was.
So thank you Grandma Josie for your letter.
p.s. I have managed to find records for all thirteen other children of James Monroe and Martha Ann McGurie, so if anyone knows anything about Sarah Elizabether, please let me know.
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