Went to all services. No League. We had Installation of Officers, used candle service at close of Sunday night sermon. The choir sang at the pew. After we got through Ernest & I left for Bloomfield Meeting of the different cabinets at Park M.E. Bloomfield. We all got ride home in flivver with fellow from Verona. Lovely Day, a little cloudy in the morning.
Started to Dentist – Farrington. Had 3 teeth filled. Ma & I went down to cemetery after I got back. Beautiful Day.
Choir Rehearsal. Ernest stayed to practice special song. I bought white wool crepe for skirt.
Beautiful Day. Me & Ernest at Methodist Book Concern at Noon. Out until 2:30. Lost fountain pen Carl gave me. Rehearsal for our play at night. Ernest & Roswell event to movies. Gertrude & Irene walked down with me. La Moss sent Geo’s rings & watch back. Mr Tillston took day off to go riding.
Today is a beautiful day, and it’s making me feel very productive. I’m sitting in the living room on my laptop and talking with Grandpa Moore. He’s already cleared up some Thorward things for me that I was unclear on. Today is devoted to the Mays family though. I’ve got to keep moving forward towards my summer goal.
I’m up to Millard Mays in my family file. I know he married Nora Barker. I was looking in the Kentucky Birth Index on Ancestry.com to verify some of her children on the census. I ended up having to go to some more extreme measures to find one of the children, because they just weren’t showing up for some reason. When I did that, I might have found out what happened to Millard’s sister Barbara.
It just so happens there was a Barbara Mays who was giving birth to Barker children. Knowing the Mays family like I do, this isn’t at all surprising for me. To be honest I’m finding that I look for these connections more then not. It’s just the marriage pattern of the family.
I was mainly looking for the younger children, but there are some things I really like about this 1930 census record. Barbara has a son named Millard! Lorene from the Birth Index is there, but Robert, the youngest is not. A quick check of the Kentucky Death Records gave me a big idea of what Robert and Barbara Barker went through with their children. They had three stillborn children and Kline who died at one month of meningitis.
Unfortunately, nothing I found actually gives me clues on whether this is my actual Barbara Mays. I haven’t fleshed out enough of the Mays family to know how many other Barbaras there might be. I’m going to add this family into my FTM file, without identification numbers but with sources. That way when I find out where this Barbara fits, it’ll be an easy merge.
The next task I might work on is linking Nora Barker, Robert Barker and Lela Barker (wife of Luther Mays).
