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Thanks to Brian Eachus, I have posted what we both believe is the only piece of written evidence that Rufus' wife's name was Mary Crinkleton/Crunkleton. However, it is not an official paper, but a genealogist's correspondence that has errors in it.
I have posted the index card on my website at http://lindatrent.homestead.com/rufus___mary.jpg
The first obvious error is that it states that Rufus married Mary in 1834, at least 12 years after the birth of Rufus' son George W. Eachus. I'm using George because his birth is well documented in census records, his death record, and his Civil War discharge. They all say he was born in 1822. Family history is that Rufus married his wife in 1815, and his first child Mariah was born in 1818, and Joseph in 1820, so either Mary Crinkleton was a second wife of Rufus, or was never married to Rufus.
Another error is that she names Rufus' sons as "George, David Virgil, prob others all moved to Ohio." She misses Joseph C, and adds a David (or gives Virgil's name as David Virgil, I can't quite tell). This seems to lead me to conclude that she didn't know the family well, even when they were living in Pennsylvania.
The only lead that I see on the card is that it bears the name of Miss Martha Lou Houston Washington. There is a Martha Lou Houston who was an active genealogist in the early to mid 20th century who transcribed numerous records including "Tennessee Census Reports, No. 1, Rutherford County, 1810, ed. Martha Lou Houston (Washington, D.C., 1933)" Is this the Martha Lou Houston who left that index card? Is her last name Houston indicitive of her relationship to the Eachus family (i.e. Virgil Houston Eachus, Rufus Houston Eachus...)
I've been in touch with Gordon Crooks who is a noted Crunkleton researcher and author, and well versed in the Antrim, Franklin County area. And he and his fellow researchers have not found any Mary Crinkleton/Crunkletons who would fit with our Rufus.
As much as it pains me to say this, I've been chasing Mary Crinkleton for the last 40 years, and now seeing the evidence we were basing this on, I don't see any evidence that Mary Crinkleton was the wife of Rufus. Can anyone else come up with any documentation?
Thanks,
Linda Trent
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