Re: Hillsborough / Pasco Co, FL Gillett(e)s
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Hillsborough / Pasco Co, FL Gillett(e)s
April Moore 10/31/07
You have to take the names in the census records with a grain of salt. Like all jobs, some census takers were more conscientious than others. Some apparently didn't bother to ask how to spell names, but just put down their best guess. Then the people who index the census records take their turn. Between the two, I've seen my mother's family name Licht rendered as Lieb, Fick, Lichdt, Lidlet, Sicht, and that's not even counting what has been done to the given names.
I haven't done any research personally, but a majority of the public trees on Ancestry.com list her as Lela Mae Gillett, (1890-1961), marrying Loden Oliver Ellerbee. Her childre included Mary C (1910-), Oliver Loden (1912-1983),
Oscar Roscoe (1916-1994), Wilbert (1922-1923), plus unnamed possibly living children. One even has a picture of Miss Lela Mae.