[or-roots] Francis T Wade

[Darlene Casteel]

No parents there.  And I goofed on Francis' age -- he's 33, so that would 
make him possibley an older brother to Lester.  Haven't given up.........

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 8:29 AM
Subject: [or-roots] Francis T Wade


> Darlene;
>
> That name seems familiar, I don't know if I made the connection when I was
> doing my searching or not though. I find using ancestry.com censuses very
> frustrating and clunky, the only advantage is they are indexed on all
> individuals instead of just head of household like Heritage Quest.
>
> But yes I am fairly sure that is his brother, I can't remember if he
> mentioned more than one sibling though and the fact he is listed as born 
> abt
> 1902 might have made me think he didnt' fit, but they could have been 
> twins,
> Lester was pretty tight lipped about his family. I don't know if their was 
> a
> reason or he just didn't happen to talk about them when I was around.
>
> Cousing Phoebe says his parents were very nice people and one of Lester's
> favorite songs to sing goes "Oh! my Pa Pa, to me he was so wonderful!" Now
> that doesn't sound to me like someone who had issues with his parents.
>
> This whole family has been a thorn to get genealogy info out of, finally 
> an
> old friend of theirs who had been badgering them for information and had
> connected to one of the grandkids who was interested in genealogy too got
> ahold of me and he has filled me in pretty well on the descendants, but he
> too had no info on the parents.
>
> I need to badger the grandkids some more, I presented Lester's Oldest
> daughter a copy of "Letters to Grandma" several years ago and she was
> "supposed" to reciprocate with some genealogy info, but so far no luck.
>
> Thanks for the effort, I assume the parents aren't in the Francis T
> household?
>
> Les
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darlene Casteel
> Subject: Re: [or-roots] 1930 Census look up please
>
> Les,
> Do you know if Francis T Wade, age 28 in 1930, b. MN was a brother of your
> Lester?  He's on E 31st Street North.
> Darlene
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Darlene Casteel"
> Subject: Re: [or-roots] 1930 Census look up please
>
>
>> Okay, I'll give it a try.  No guarantee --
>>
>> Subject: RE: [or-roots] 1930 Census look up please
>>
>>> That's the rub Darlene, I don't have a first name, I am hoping someone
> who can navigate the 1930 Census better than I could can start with Lester
> Sherwood  and figure out how to go around the corner to 31st street. I
> have talked to the great grandchildren, and one of the grandchildren and
> Phoebe Cuz, and none of them knew his or her given name, the were just
> gramps or
> some such, if you asked most of the grandchildren what Lester's name was
> you would get blank looks and "bampa" for an answer.
>>>
>>> When I was looking at that census last, I couldn't find any Wade in that
>>> neighborhood but Lester.
>>>
>>> Les C
>>>
>
>
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