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From: vmiller <>
Subject: Laura (Lora) C. Young, PA,IL,IA,KS,NE.
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 10:05:39 -0500


Hello list members
I apolagize if some of the following seems longwinded and may be
redundant to some, but never the less I ask you to bear with me If you
will and read on.
Virgil D. Miller Kansas & Mississippi

I was looking back on notes I had made during extensive census
microfilm reviews,
and decided that I might as well but this info back on all the lists
hoping that someone may recognize the names or be relatives of Laura
(Lora) C. Young.

We have been looking for ways to locate the documentation of correct
place of birth and the place of death of my G Grandmother Lora (Laura)

C. (YOUNG) Holden for many years as well as indentifing her PARENTS.
We also do not know what Laura's middle name was, which could also bear
fruit with her mothers connection.
The death certificate of her daughter Elle Ide Holden Welsh indicates
that her mother Lora(Laura) C. (YOUNG) Holden was born in Elgin, Ill.
The only document found so far with her name was From the 1880 Kansas
Census, it indicates she was 21 and born in Ill.

This would have her being born in 1858/60.We have never found the names
of Lora(Laura) C. Youngs Parents. The Census also says that her parents
were
both born in Penn. So this indicates that the parents would possibly
have married either in PA or ILL during that time period when she was
born. Yet Laura (Lora) does not show up on any censuses 1860/65/70
counties surrounding Elgin, Ill,

The Youngs that were listed in Ill for 1860 have so far have not been
connected with her. Laura(Lora) was the wife of James F. Holden (Son of
Elijah Holden from
1830's PA) who was born in 1856 in Wisconsin, was in Whiteside Co.,
Ill 1860 & 65 Census with parents, Elijah & Eleanor Holden, in
Jefferson Co., Iowa 1870 census.
James F. Holden age 24 and Lora(Laura)
C. Holden age 21 were listed in The 1880 Census, Marshall Co. KS.,
Clear Fork twp, Two Children, Sidney F. age 4 and Daniel E..age 5/12,
Also Elijah & Eleanor was in Same County. They all seem to disappear
after that time.
Our grandmother Ella Ide Holden Welsh, the daughter of Lora(Laura) C.
(YOUNG) Holden, was the third child in the family to have been born in
1885, married our Grandfather John William Welsh in 1903,
Pottawatomie Co. Ks. We have a copy of this marriage record, but it
listed her name as Nellie Holden and being born in Randolph, Ks., which
we have been unable to document. Death records show Decatur Co. Ks as
place of birth, however neither places have been confirmed.
The next documented source for the Holden family is 1900 Census
Nebraska, Burnett Co. showing James F. Holden married 2 yrs, with four
additional Children next to last born in 1898 mother would have been
Lora(Laura) C. (YOUNG) Holden's, she was not listed in this census.
James
and Lauras other minor child Ella Ide Holden, showed up as enumerated
with a Minister in Norfolk, Nebr as a servent. Norfolk being just north
of Douglas County, Nebr. Sidney and Daniel were not listed in the
census.
Effie A., Wife, 18 yrs of age, married 2 yrs, mother of 1 child, 1 child

living and having been born in Iowa. The Child Stella L. was born Aug
1899 Born in Nebr. This would mean that Lora(Laura) C. Young Holden
would have died Shortly after Her last child (Lucy O.) was born in July
1898 in Kansas
I know that some of the above may sound confusing but that is what makes

a puzzel out of this Genealogy Search..
Virgil D. Miller

http://www.datasync.com/~vmille

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