Cherokee Co., AL / Etowah Co., AL
Searching for the parents and siblings of FRANCES CHILDERS / CHILDRESS female.
Frances Childers / Childress b. 1833 in Perry Co., AL and married after 1850 in Cherokee Co., AL to THOMAS SIDNEY MCDUFFIE. They were in Etowah Co., AL in 1860 and 1870 census.
Some of the other Childers family in Cherokee Co., AL also came from Perry Co., AL. They moved to Dallas and Cleveland Co., AR.
Frances Childers McDuffie died before the 1880 census. She died in Cass Co., TX.
I spell the name Childers (instead of Childress) because that is the way it was spelled on the 1850 census of Cherokee Co., AL. That is the only document with her name on it. In 1850, she was not living with her family. She was living in the household of her future brother in law Norman McDuffie.
We know that census takers do not always spell the names correctly, so it could be either.
We have some family notes that list her as Frances Childers born Perry Co., AL.
Other Childress ended up in Cass County and still spell their name Childress.
I will be happy with any spelling. I just want to find Frances' parents.
Thanks for any help,
Wynell