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I'm looking for information on the family of Mary Alice Hunter, born about Feb 1882, died 12 Feb 1934. She's my great-great grandmother. She married Henry Ambers Payne around 1900. They had a number of children together and I have found some of the children's birth certificates online over at Ancestry. Those birth certificates list her maiden name as Hunter.
Here's the kicker though. Her death certificate lists only her mother, one Belle Hunter. Now that could mean a few things, that it's her married name but the informant didn't know her husband's name, or that she married another Hunter and it was her maiden name, or Mary Alice was illegitimate. Now, Mary Alice's husband was the informant so I find it hard to believe that he wouldn't have known her father's name, unless she herself didn't know. Unless the Registrar was just a lazy git and didn't bother putting down the information LOL
I found a Bell Hunter in the 1880 census, she was 18 years old and a domestic servant in the house of Jared Read. ED 123 Page 13, Marshall, Madison County, North Carolina. The girl is the right age to be Mary Alice's mother, and in the right place too. But I don't know if she is. I can't find her in any other census, and the lack of a census in 1890 doesn't help things. She is the only Bell Hunter I find in Madison County.
One of the trees at Ancestry lists Mary Alice's father as one George Fortner, but I don't think this is correct. The person had no sources, and I looked into George Fortner, but he was married to a woman named Elizabeth since about the time Mary Alice was born, in 1882. I don't suppose it's absolutely impossible, say for instance George married Belle and she died in childbirth leaving him with Mary Alice, and he remarried immediately. That could have happened. Unfortunately, the first census I have Mary Alice in is the 1900 census, and she's already married. There is no census where she would be listed with her own family.
Anyone know anything about Mary Alice or her mother Belle?
Thanks in advance!
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