If you were an eagle-eyed reader of my last post, on how researching the potential siblings of my 2x great-grandfather (James) Steven Evans helped me to make stronger connections between him and the people I believe to be his parents, Daniel Evans and Jennette (aka Anna Jane) Welch, you may have noticed two things.
- First, in the snippet of the 1900 Census I shared, showing
the household of Daniel and Jennette, there are two numbers on the far right of
the image: 3 and 3. Though it’s not visible in the snippet, these numbers are
written into the columns headed “Mother of how many children” and “Number of
those children living.”
- Second, in the snippet of the 1910 Census I shared, illustrating Jennette (as Annah Evans) living with her daughter Sarah and son Nelson, there are again two numbers in the far right columns: 14 and 5. As before, these numbers represent the number of children she has given birth to and the number who are currently living.
