Much more recently than the example you’re dealing with here, my great-great-grandmother’s gravestone listed her death year as 1899 when…
I noticed a story describing an honor to Ralph Bethel Childs during his naval training, published in The Courier-Journal, Louisville,…
The earliest generations above were in Frankfort, which I had checked the 1850 and 1860 census slave schedules for Chiles…
Sue, indeed. Another reason why having the stone to look at would have been valuable.
Have you considered possible slave owners name Childs/Chiles That lived in the Louisville Kentucky area? Sometimes wills or other records…
Another cause of inaccurate dates on gravestones is the placement of the stone long after the death. There are 2…
No doubt gravestone dates and ages are what makes genealogists' hair turn grey faster than anything. "Written in stone" is…
Phil, I believe all legal documents used the "about" age so that it couldn't be disputed down to the day.…
Dates on gravestones are not always accurate. Case in point is the all-numeric d.o.d. for one of my gr-gfs who…
Howland, it is an assumption since "most" baptisms were for infants. The citation is “England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975,”, database,…