Reuben Allen CORBIN & Nancy A. __?__ & Martha HARVEY & Elizabeth __?_

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Reuben Allen CORBIN
Nancy A. __?__
Martha HARVEY
Elizabeth __?__
Rebecca GOODING

WARNING: This page has serious anomalies. Either we accept repeated errors in the censuses, or more than one Reuben CORBIN is represented here. We are greatly hampered by the lack of SC marriage records. I think it likely Martha and Elizabeth are the same woman. This is not my family, so I can't justify spending any more time on it than I already have. If you can resolve any of these discrepancies, please share. Either way, caveat emptor!

Husband: Reuben / Rubin Allen CORBEN / CORBIN
Birthdate (according to census): Oct 1854
Birthdate (according to tombstone): 16 Oct 1853
Birthplace: Prince Williams Parish, Peeples Twp., Beaufort Dist. [now Hampton Co.], SC
Death (æ 74): 23 Sep 1927, presumably in Peeples Twp., Hampton Co., SC
Disposition: buried Gooding Cemetery, Hampton Co., SC
Occupation: farm laborer, farmer, Superintendant of Poor Farm
Father: Edward CORBIN
Mother: Amanda SLOAN

Marriage-1: 1874/5

Wife-1: Nancy A. __?__
Birth: Oct 1851, SC
Occupation: homemaker
Parents: born in SC

Marriage-2: 1880-1888

Wife-2: Martha HARVEY
Birth: 1856/7, Fairfax, Barnwell Co., SC
Occupation: homemaker
(Adoptive?) Father: James M. HARVEY
(Adoptive?) Mother: Sarah C. __?__

Marriage-3:

Wife-3: Elizabeth __?__ — is she actually Martha Elizabeth HARVEY? Seems likely.
Birth: Oct 1857, SC
Occupation: homemaker
Parents: born in SC

Marriage-4:

Wife-4: Rebecca GOODING
Birth: 1857/8, SC
Occupation: homemaker
Parents: born in SC

Children with Nancy — born in Goethe Twp., Hampton Co., SC:

1. Nora Lue / Sue CORBIN, b. 1874/5
2. Holly Rebecca CORBIN, b. 1876/7
3. (Son) CORBIN, b. 1878/9

Child with Martha HARVEY:

4. Clarence Joseph CORBIN, b. 17 May 1889, Crocketville, Peeples Twp., Hampton Co, SC

Children with Martha HARVEY or Elizabeth:

5. Elizabeth CORBIN, b. Oct 1891

Children with Rebecca GOODING:

none

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Sources:

1. Marriage Record:

2. South Carolina Delayed Births (online at Ancestry.com; abstraction by DGM):

This is an application for a birth certificate, after the fact, by Clarence Joseph CORBIN for himself. It was applied for on 2 Nov 1950 in Hampton Co., SC.

Name: Clarence Joseph CORBIN
Present Address: 152 East Broad Street, Savannah, GA.
Date of Birth: 17 May 1889
Place of Birth: Crocketville, Peeples Twp., Hampton Co., SC

Father: Reuben Allen CORBIN; Age at Last Birthday: 74
Place of Birth: Hampton, Beaufort Co., SC
Present Address: Deceased

Mother: Martha HARVEY; Age at Last Birthday: __
Place of Birth: Fairfax, Barnwell Co., SC
Present Address: Deceased

For Reuben, "Age at Last Birthday" is his age at death, in 1927.

3. 1880 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #12 of 63): Goethe Twp., Hampton Co., SC, Roll T9_1231, p. 24D, PN 12, SD 2, ED 117, enumerated 5 Jun 1880, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1880 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

1880: for an explanation of the column headings, please see
What the Numbers in the Federal Census Mean (missing columns contained no data).

1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 13 22 23 24 25 26

119 122 Corbin R A W M 25 / Farm Laborer / / SC SC SC

______ Nancy A W F 27 Wife / Keeping House / / SC SC SC

______ Nora Lue/Sue W F 5 Dau / SC SC SC

______ Holly Rebecca W F 3 Dau / SC SC SC

______ Babe W M 1 Son / SC SC SC

4. 1890 Census: the 1890 Census Population Schedules were destroyed.

5. 1900 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #2 of 30 — indexed "Rubert Corban"): Goethe Twp., Hampton Co., SC, Roll T623_1531, p. 28B, SN 1, SD 1, ED 54, enumerated 1 Jun 1900, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1900 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

1900: for an explanation of the column headings, please see What the Numbers in the Federal Census Mean (missing columns contained no data).

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 27 28

11 11 Corben Ruben R Head W M Oct 1854 45 M 25 SC SC SC Farmer 0 Y Y Y R F 9

______ Elizabeth Wife W F Oct 1857 42 M 25 3 2 SC SC SC Y Y Y

______ Joseph Son W M May 1889 11 S SC SC SC Farm laborer 0 0 N N Y

______ Elizabeth Dau W F Oct 1891 8 S SC SC SC At School 1 N N Y

Smith Albert Boarder B M May 1883 17 S SC SC SC Farm laborer 0 N N Y

Reuben and Elizabeth cannot have been married 25 years, not unless Nancy A., Martha Harvey, and Elizabeth are all the same person. I do think there's a high probability that Martha and Elizabeth are the same person. Unless Joseph was mistaken about the identity of his own mother — which adopted or stepchildren can be — he is without doubt son of Martha HARVEY.

6. 1910 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #11 of 63): Goethe Twp., Hampton Co., SC, Roll T624_1462 (Book 2), p. 35B, SN 2B, SD 266, ED 96, enumerated 18 Apr 1910, official enumeration date 15 Apr 1910 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

1910: for an explanation of the column headings, please see What the Numbers in the Federal Census Mean (missing columns contained no data).

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 17 18 19 20 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

27 27 Corbin Ruben A Head M W 55 M2 18 SC SC SC Eng Farmer home farm Emp N N O M F 25

______ Rebecca Wife F W 53 M1 14 0 0 SC SC SC Eng None N N

Brown Kizzie Servent F W 16 S 1 1 SC SC SC Eng Servent privat family W Y Y N

_____ Forace F Son M W 8/12 S SC SC SC

The question asked in column 9 is, "Number of years of present marriage." Obviously, this number should be the same for both the husband and wife. It isn't, here, and it isn't on most of the households enumerated. I don't know what the enumerator thought he was supposed to be recording, but it wasn't correct. Also, if Rebecca has had no children, she can't be the same woman as the Elizabeth in 1900, so can't have been married to Reuben more than ten years.

7. 1920 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #11 of 28): Peeples Twp., Hampton Co., SC, Roll T625_1697 (Book 1), p. 99A, SN 6A, SD 2, ED 105, enumerated 13 Jan 1920, official enumeration date 1 Jan 1920 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

1920: for an explanation of the column headings, please see What the Numbers in the Federal Census Mean (missing columns contained no data).

2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 17 18 19 21 23 25 26 27 28 29

Fm 107 108 Corbin Rubin Allen Head R M W 65 M Y Y SC SC SC Y Supertended Poor Farm ?? 76

______ Rebecca Wife F W 62 M N N SC SC SC Y None

Gooding Sis-in-law F W 68 S N N SC SC SC Y None

Listed two households from Reuben's brother, Miles CORBIN.

8. Gooding Cemetery, Crocketville, [Hampton Co.], SC (online at the Hampton County SCGenWeb site; transcribed by Donna A. Hill & Connie H. Koonce, March 2002):

CORBIN
Rubin Allen Corbin
Oct 16, 1853-Sept 23, 1927
“Daddy”
James Lewis-Mary Louise Priester Corbin
Rueben Allen Corbin
Oct 16, 1853-Sept 23, 1927

I have no explanation for the format of this record. James Lewis CORBIN, who married Mary Louise PRIESTER, is Reuben's brother.

9. Public Member Trees (online at Ancestry.com).

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