Etta or Rosetta Mae Tharp IN,IA,MO,WA
I have an Etta Mae Tharp who married Melvin James Williams.She died in Olympia WA and was around 90 at the time of her death,around WWII.They lived in Clinton Co.IN(Frankfort)and Wapello Co.IA.Etta,who people say could have been Rosetta,was raised by her aunt after her mom died a few months after she was born,then that aunt died and another aunt raised her.One I know that one of these women was named Anna,one was Ella,and there was a Margaret.One of these was a step-sister.Her father's name was unknown but may have been Sidney.He fought in the civil war.They lived somewhere in west Texas then moved back up to Wapello co.IA. She and her husband Melvin raised their 3 children in MO and when she became a widow she lived in WA with her daughter Gladys (Williams) Taggart.
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