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Clora Smith b. 1903/04 - POSSIBLE ERROR

Brenda Taft Edwards Brenda Taft Edwards

posted on October 5, 2012

I need some assistance as locating my grandmother’s family has become extremely difficult. I obtained documents from the Choctaw Nation that show her parents as Rice Smith/Sarah Matthews. I found other documents that show Rice’s name as Reece. However, Reece Smith was married to Clara Smith and they had a daughter named Clara Smith, who is not my grandmother. It has become a very confusing project. I do know that my grandmother had a brother and he and she went to an orphanage in Stillwater, Payne, Oklahoma after their mother died. However, I am thinking the Choctaw Nation may have given me the wrong documents. My grandmother’s death certificate and headstone show this information:

Clora Smith
Place of birth: Atoka, OK
Date of birth: 11.09.1903

Now, I am really, really confused ….

suzanne hamlet shatto suzanne hamlet shatto

posted on October 5, 2012

you will have to talk to the enrollment department. i don’t think they read the messageboard.

there is no date or place of death in your post.

Brenda Taft Edwards Brenda Taft Edwards

posted on May 8

Suzanne … I believe you are the poster in my original message and told me that the Clora/Clorie Smith information I gave you showed she died earlier than the date of death I have on her.

Believe it or not … the family of my grandmother’s brother, Elmer Smith, found me through this message board!!!

This is how it became confusing … Elmer Smith searched for his sister, Clorie/Clara Smith for years. He never found her and had her declared dead. I wish I could find the original post so I could read it because it had other information in it that I could use now.

suzanne hamlet shatto suzanne hamlet shatto

posted on May 8

if you know about when you posted on this messageboard before, you can look around that date. the posts are sorted chronologically. do not forget that there are two messageboards.

let the documents tell you the story. i start from the death and work backwards. it is often helpful to collect documents about the children because that fixes the family to a date and location.

gl.

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