52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Week 15: Out Of Place – What Happened to Martha Jane Polly
This is my second year working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow . I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails Into the Past . I have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. Martha Jane Polly, the daughter of Nathan H.O. Polly, married George W. Lancaster on 25 October 1871 in Kaufman County, Texas. [1] George was nearly twenty years older than Martha. They were together in 1880 in Rockwall County, which had been carved out of Kaufman County in , with three children: William Carlton, Lonnie O, and Maggie R. [2] Then, Martha disappear. I assumed that she died, but there were no records of her death, nor records of her burial in Kaufman, Rockwall, or Erath county, where George W. ended up. [3] For many years, she was a mystery. The lack of the 1890 census made it difficult to discover what had happened to the children, except for William Carlton, who married Mart...