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#OTD 29 March 1866 Isaac H Lake was born in or near Morgan County, Illinois, to Lindsay Lake and wife number 6, Elizabeth Witte Beagle. Elizabeth died sometime in the next 3 years. Lindsay remarried, but died when Isaac was 10. By age 14, Isaac was on his own, working as a farmhand. He later married in Arkansas and moved to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, where he became a stock dealer, dying without issue in 1943.
How much of that is true? US census records are very imperfect. In the census records between 1910 and 1940, his birthplace and that of his parents were terribly inconsistent. His death record has his parents as unknown. There may be two different men or it may reflect lack of family knowledge due to being orphaned.
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@bethroots You are so right about the inaccuracies in US Census records.
Even my own family has widely different dates and locations.
All depends on the memory of the person answering the questions, the handwriting of the census taker, and in recent years, AI.