Thompson

James (Jim) Shaw and Lula Shaw with two of their children in 1910 (Mary had moved out)
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=DUV576&_phst...

Thank you so much, but I have all of these census records and grave markers. I did some work on the Mann family that Jim lived with after Lula died (which is after the date on his grave marker...) and found that his sister married into them, so I am trying to see if that leads to anything. One census record has Lula C Shaw, which would match with Mary being M A C, but I can't find any records of another marriage for Lula to find out what the C is.

Jim Shaw's parents appear to be W J and M Shaw from the 1870/1880 census.

Jim and Lula never lived outside Mississippi, so this Pennsylvania record is not them.

This is my tree on Ancestry, I have not added Jim or Lula Shaw because I have not positively made that connection yet. The Mann tree that I created to get to Jim Shaw from his niece, Myrtle, I have marked private.

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/119133316/family

The grave marker is damaged, so it is hard to read the death date and census records say he was alive after 1905, but this is Jim Shaw's grave:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33428634/jim-shaw

And Lula:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33428646/lula-shaw

And yes, Linda, Howard went to live with Jim and Lula since he was only a baby when his mother died. I am just confused by how Mary could have been living with Jim and Lula for the 1910 census and also married for 9 years and living with WIll on a different page of the same census?

;) Those links are actually more for me than for you. I like to get to know the family before trying to move further back. It also gives me something to refer to as I research.

BTW, Deanna, I happened upon your Ancestry site as I was looking around. I didn't look at it too close because I didn't want it to influence what I saw when following the records.

Do you know if Ella G. Shaw ever married?

I think that there are occasions when people can be listed on 2 census. It isn't really common, but I'm thinking that it is due to the fact that the census arn't done in one day. She could have been there for a visit on that day.

I was thinking the same thong on the marker for Jim Shaw. My other thought was that the marker could be Jim Shaws father If his father was also a Jim. Just another possible theory.

Thanks. I have been so frustrated by not being able to get any further and its driving me nuts! Not that people don't sometimes think you are nuts for running around to different grave sites. :) That is just what happens when you are the youngest of an older family since everyone is already gone.

I called myself checking the dates on the census to see when it was done to make sure since I thought that was a possibility, but I would have to go back and find my notes.

I have not been able to find anything else about Ella, so I am not sure about that.

I am trying to do some research. If i could find Mary Shaw (Thompson)'s birth, baptism, or other church records, it would list her parents, so that would be proof of her parents. Here are some websites i think you should check. I will list them below.

So they are from Mississippi, here are some record databases.

https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=61048

https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=60524

https://publicrecords.onlinesearches.com/Mississippi-Birth-Records.htm

I got Mary's death certificate. It says Mary Limbrick Thompson. I was able to find a marriage record from Choctaw County for 1901 for Mary Limbrick and W.R. Thompson. Her death certificate says that her parents were Jim Limbrick and Lula Limbrick (no maiden name for Lula) from Kemper County, MS and that Mary was born in Kemper County. I was also able to find a record where a Louiza Limrick married J. H. Shaw (Jim). Louiza and J.H. were married in 1894, so this marriage was after both Mary and Ella were born. One of the census records with Jim and Lula on it says they married in 1882, so I wonder if that is when she was originally married? I have been unable to find any records for that so far.