"Smart"Copy Bites Again!

It was MY error not Smartcopy's error, which I've corrected.

I didn't know whodunnit, so I wasn't going to point any fingers. The problem is, just because something *can* be Smart-Copied doesn't mean it *should* be.

It's a tool that should only be used when one is *absolutely sure*, with at least some supporting evidence, that the items to be copied belong where they are to be copied to.

In short, *always* double-check and cross-check, just as if using any other reference.

I was "absolutely sure" at the time, but I was in error.

Thanks for pointing it out.

Cheers.

There's something decidedly wonky here, and I'm not sure that Pleasant and Joseph weren't two different men (brothers? cousins? unrelated?).

Pleasant has the 1865 gravestone, and is cited as the (first?) husband of Mary Lee Lee (she's a double Lee because her father was Uzal Lee Uzal L. Lee ). 1860 Census lists Pleasant, Mary, and son Jonathan W. in Henry County, Iowa.

None of them are found in the 1870 Census for Iowa, though.

Joseph Lee is found in the 1880 census with a wife named Mary, the first three children (including Jonathan W.) - and four more. None of them are noted as "stepchildren".

Levirate and sororate marriage were not that uncommon in small communities - not always on the frontier, either! (I ought to know - my g'g'gfather married two sisters, the oldest and youngest of a large family, and he lived in Maryland.)

Got it. Mary Lee Lee was married twice. First time in the late 1850s (which calls the "c. 1841" on her birth date into at least some question), second time c. 1866.

Pleasant was her first husband. Joseph was her second husband.

Next question: who is Joseph?

This is really fascinating since I'm a descendant of Mary Lee and I guess Pleasant Lee if Pleasant is the father is Perry David Lee.

I was given some geneology info from my aunt listing a Joseph Pleasant Lee as my 4th Great Grandfather, but after looking a census records I had too questioned whether Joseph Lee and Pleasant Lee were actually two different men. From what I see on Geni now it looks like the consensus is that Joseph and Pleasant Lee were brothers and that Mary was married to each of them - is that correct? But in any case Pleasant is the father of Perry David it appears. Thanks!

For the record, I recycled the old profiles I made into new ones. So, now you're seeing a list of "Ancona" surnames instead of Lee in the initial post Don't worry, they aren't attached to the Lee tree. *wink*

Mark: As far as I can tell, that appears to be the case - though it might yet turn out that Joseph was actually a cousin of one degree or another (there are some lines not yet fully accounted for). Shouldn't affect you, though.

Thanks Maven!