Great Grandmother Leta Jane Davis Fortune
I am searching for information on Leta Jane Davis Fortune who married James Clark Fortune ca 1861 in Montgomery County Kentucky.James Clark Fortune was born in 1827 to Thomas Francis Fortune and his first wife Nancy Becraft.Leta Jane Davis Fortune was born ca 1838.I have no further information on Leta Jane except that she died ca 1896.It is possible that she and James were divorced ca 1882, due to allegiations of his fathering two children by his father Lewis Fortune's second wife Nancy Williams Fortune.A law suit was settled in the Kentucky Courts in Montgomery County Kentucky.
Henry Thomas Fortune the son of Leta Jane Davis Fortune and James Clark Fortune was my grandfather.He was born ca 1864 in Montgomery County Kentucky and died January 5, 1935 in Buchanan County Missouri.He was first married to Mary Ann Ragan, they had Eunice, Emilee, Crawford and Gilbert.There were also 4 children who did not survive to adulthood.Ann died in 1911. She is buried at the Fortune Cemetery in Montgomery County, Kentucky. Eunice married a Sorrell, Emilee married a Jones, Crawford married Maggie, second Lillie Markland.Crawford and Maggie had daughters Margaret and Katherine, Lillie and Crawford had son Charles.Crawford was a railroad man.
Henry Thomas Fortune married second Mattie Callahan Gray Jolly the widow of Ollie Jolly.She had 6 children by her first marriage, Estil, Millard, Thomas, Johnny, William Dudley, and a daughter who did not survive.She and Henry Thomas Fortune were married ca 1912 and son Henry was born in 1913, son James in 1915.They came to Platte County Missouri ca 1916 bring with them children from both marriages.Emilee and Gilbert Fortune, Estil, Millard and Johnny Jolly, Henry and James Fortune from their marriage. Thomas Jolly had died by drowning by this time, Johnny died in 1917 of pneumonia.William Dudley stayed with a family by the name of Jackson. Henry Thomas and Mattie Gray Jolly Fortune had three more children in Missouri Leta born in 1919, Pearl born ca 1921, and Mayme in 1925 making a total of 19 children total between the different marriages.All all deceased but Leta who is 86 years old.
Any information on this family would be greatly appreciated.
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