Asberry John SMITH & Alice Rose STRUBE

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Asberry John SMITH
Alice Rose STRUBE

WARNING: Although descendants insist Alice was the mother of all the children, it appears to me that our subject had to have had a prior wife who was the mother of Joseph. My position is based on Alice's youth (she was only eleven years old in 1889) and the fact that, in the 1900 census, she indicates she has been married only six years, not eleven.

Husband: Asberry John SMITH
Birth: Mar 1864, MS
Death (farm accident): 1916
Occupation: farmer
Father: born in NC

Marriage: 5 Jul 1889?

Wife-2: Alice Rose "Allie" STRUBE
Birth: May 1879, Choctaw Nation [now OK]
Death (of cancer): 1918
Occupation: homemaker
Father: Franklin STRUBE
Mother: Emily A. TURNBAUGH

Children:

1. Joseph Berry "Joe" SMITH, b. Aug 1891/2, Indian Territory — presumably now OK
2. Charles "Charlie" SMITH, b. Sep 1897, OK — presumably Bales Twp., Pottawatomie Co., OK
3. Vivian SMITH, b. 29 Apr 1902, Indiana Territory

Keywords for search engines: USA, US, United States, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma

Sources:

1. Marriage Record:

2. 1890 Census: the 1890 Census Population Schedules were destroyed.

3. 1900 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #11 of 64): Bales Twp., Pottawatomie Co., OK, Roll T623_1342 (Book 1), p. 33A, SN 6, SD 219, ED 192, enumerated 5 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

130 130 Smith A J Head W M Mar 1864 36 * * Missippi North Carlina Un Farmer 0 Y Y Y R F 15

_____ Allie Wife W F May 1879 21 M 6 2 Indian Ter Alabama Un Y Y Y

_____ Joe B Son W M Aug 1892 * S Indian Ter Missippi Indian Ter 2

_____ Charlie Son W M Sep 1897 2 S Oklahoma Missippi Indian Ter

*For A.J.'s marital status, something had been written, then "M" written over it. For A.J.'s marriage duration, it looks like someone wrote "11," then wrote "6" over it. For Joe's birth, it looks like "8" was written over "6." Is their marriage date really correct? It appears, for several reasons, that A.J. had a prior wife, who is the mother of Joseph.

4. 1910 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com): can't find, but said to be living on a farm outside McAlester, Pittsburgh Co., OK.

5. Messages posted to the STRUBE Surname Board (online at Ancestry.com). Despite Alice's youth, descendants insist she was Asberry's only wife and the mother of all three children. The say a family bible says they married 5 Jul 1889, but I wonder… was the 1889 marriage Alice's or Asberry's, to someone else?

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