Thomas Best

Abt 1878 - 1947  (~ 69 years)

• Name	Thomas Best  [1]
  Born	Abt 1878  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Parents	Thomas's death index names his parents as Elvin Best and Mary Bullock.  [2]
  Residence	When the marriage of his parents broke up, his father kept Thomas with him because he was "old enough to work."  [3]
  Died	9 Apr 1947	Wood River, Madison County, Illinois, USA   [2]
  Person ID	I5974	Full | ProgenitorWalker
  Last Modified	9 Feb 2015

  
  

  Father	Elvin Elliot Best,   b. 24 Jul 1850, Staunton, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA ,   d. 22 Nov 1935, Carlinville, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA  (Age 85 years)
  Mother	Mary Bullock,   b. 17 Sep 1858, Staunton, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA ,   d. 3 Nov 1921  (Age 63 years)
  Married	6 Aug 1874	Madison County, Illinois, USA   [1, 4]
  	Actually the license date--not necessarily the marriage date.
  Divorced	Between 1890-1897  [5, 6]
  Family ID	F2125	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S4327] Elmer Best (elb8652@yahoo.com) to Janis Walker Gilmore, email, 28 May 2014, subject “Best/Culbertson.” Detailing his line of descent from Susan M. Walker and Joseph Best of Macoupin County, Illinois. [S4713] "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 8 February 2015), entry for Thomas Best, Madison County, 9 April 1947; FHL film no. 1,991,771; citing Public Board of Health, State Archives, Springfield. URL: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7M7-MVF. [S4716] Elmer Best (elb8652@yahoo.com) to Janis Walker Gilmore, email, 9 February 2015, subject “Re: your ancestry”; discussing the marriage of Elvin Best and Mary Bullock. [S4709] Illinois Secretary of State, "Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900," database, Illinois State Archives (http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/archives.html : accessed 9 February 2015), entry for Elvin E. Best-Mary A. Bulluck, Madison County, 6 August 1874; citing vol. 7: 23, license no. 495, Edwardsville. [S4715] Illinois Secretary of State, "Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900," database, Illinois State Archives (http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/archives.html : accessed 9 February 2015), entry for Charles E. Walker-Mrs. Mary A. (Bullock) Best, Macoupin County (1897); citing Macoupin County marriages, Book 2: 258, license no. 5957. . [S4714] 1900 U.S. census, Morgan County, Illinois, population schedule, Township 14 Range 9, enumeration district (ED) 83, sheet 3B, p 65 (stamped, verso), dwelling 51, family 52, Thomas J. Wash household, for Elvin E. Best, servant; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : downloaded 9 February 2015); citing NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 331.