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From: cindilia tackett <>
Subject: Re: [MOJASPER] Silk Stockings Brotts
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 05:30:47 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <MFMBM028JsOxhQDxN4v000034a4@mfmbm028.myfamilycorp.local>


Here they are in the 1930 census...Lorraine must have
left home by that time...and it appears that they did
change the children's last name...I could not find him
in 1920..

Ernest A Brotts 62 1867 Ohio Head White Marion,
Jasper, MO
Ella M Brotts 59 1870 Wife Marion, Jasper,
MO Arthur W Brotts 8 1921 Son Marion,
Jasper, MO


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> Surnames: Smith, Darter, Wolverton, Brotts, Dilcher,
> Taylor, Lackey, Carder
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> I am looking for information about my mothers
> maternal grandfather. His name was Ernest Albert
> Brotts (AKA Silk Stockings Brotts) He was a
> salesman for Modern Woodman from about 1920-1940 and
> owned a home "on the outskirts of town" on the road
> that now leads to the township courthouse and
> square. I understand that the road used to be part
> of Route 66. He remarried Ella May (Wolverton)
> Brotts sometime between 1925 and 1930. They were
> most likely married in or around Carthage. They
> cared for their two grandchildren (Arthur Wilbur
> Darter and Lorraine Eva Darter [my mother]) in
> Carthage for several years between 1925 and 1935.
> They may have adopted the children and changed their
> names to Brotts during that period. Ernest and Ella
> were divorced again before 1940, and Ernest died in
> a hospital in Springfield in 1940. I don't know
> where he is buried, but I imagine that arrangements
> were made through Modern Woodman for a burial in a
> Carthage cemetery. Any information would!
> be appreciated.
>


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