Abt 1889 - 1946 (~ 57 years)
-
Name |
Howard Best [1] |
Born |
Abt 1889 |
Illinois, USA [2] |
Gender |
Male |
Parents |
Death index names his parents as Elvin Best and Mary Bullock. [2] |
Residence |
When his parents' marriage broke up (year unknown), he was adopted by "the Overbys." [3] |
Died |
9 Jun 1946 |
Cook County, Illinois, USA [2] |
Person ID |
I5976 |
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.
- [S4710] "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 8 February 2015), entry for Howard Best, Cook County, 9 June 1946; FHL film no. 1,985,100; citing Public Board of Health, State Archives, Springfield. URL: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N3VF-C3G.
- [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.
|
|