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I need help in locating the parents of Le Etta Mae Ford hoping it'll resolve some mysteries with my GGGrandfather Joshua Ford. Here's what I know. In 8/1/1901 Le Etta Mae Ford marriaged Edmund Gullage and filed in the towns of Natick & Melrose in Massachusetts. Both copies from the Mass. State Achives reports her parents to be Joshua Ford & Ellen Young. The records also state she was living at the time in Melrose Heights, Mass. and was born in Maine. She was 26 at the time. My Joshua was born in Sumner, ME to Howland B. Ford and was living in Melrose Heights at the time of Le Etta's marriage. Furthermore, his 2nd wife was Ellen R. Churchill, widow of William N. Wheeler, and her mother Lydia remarried to a George Young.
The mystery is that at the time of Le Etta's birth ca. 1875, some say in Ft. Fairfield, Joshua filed for divorce from his 1st wife Eunice Decker 2/1872 in Aroostook Co. It is quite possible that Eunice had already died by 1875. Joshua probably moved to Mass. by 1879 and remarried Ellen R. in 1881. Censuses report she never had any children. Also the first census I'm able to find Le Etta Mae is after she married Edmund.
If Joshua is truly her father, who's the mother? Joshua had the habit of abandoning "his" children. He only "acknowledged" his 1st son Elbridge Gerry b.3/6/1869. My GGrandfather Edward Everett Ford b. 10/3/1870, never lived with Joshua. I have been unable to find any birth records of them also. Only Edward cited his parents as Joshua and Eunice in records. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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