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Lucretia Marshall - Confused Identities?
An 1850 census record shows Lucretia's age as 13. Assuming this is a correct report of Lucertia's age on the official census date of June 1, Lucretia would have turned 13 sometime before 2.Jun.1837 and after 1.Jun.1836. On Ancestry.com there are a number of family trees that show our Lucretia Marshall 1) as born in January 1837. This more specific information may be based confused identities as follows:
Some family trees include as a supporting document a 1900 census report for St. Joseph City in Washington Township, Buchanan County, Missouri which lists a Lucretia B. Marshall. age 63, born Jan 1837 in Ohio. This Lucretia is in the household of F.B. Williams and his wife Lizadora, and she is shown as having the relationship of mother-in-law to the head of household. 2)
Based on other census records and documents, I am pretty sure that F. B. Williams is Frank B. Williams, born 16.Mar.1861 in Illinois and died 11.Nov.1931 in Saint Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri. 3) His wife Lizadora isn't the right age to be a daughter of our Lucretia, but perhaps it was inferred (e.g. by Ancestry.com's algorithms) that Frank had been previously married to our Ida Blizzard, who died, and that it is her mother (our Lucretia) who is in the household of F. B. Williams in 1900.
But here's the problem with that: In 1895, Frank B. Williams married Lizzie D. Marshall 4) who was the daughter of Alfred Trimbal Marshall. Alfred had married Lucretia Belle Shreve in 1859, and she became known as Lucretia B. Marshall. 5) 6) So it seems in the census record is not our Lucretia but rather Lucretia Belle Shreve Marshall.