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Edna Inez Stratton (1877-1966)

Charts | Birth | Marriage | Death| Census

Daughter of Elias Andrew Stratton and Anna A Main √
Wife of Wilbur Lee Stephens √

Facts (with source information): Narrative Report

What's so great about these records?
Delaware County, Ohio had birth records as early as 1877. So, we have a primary record that names both her parents.

Charts:

1877 Birth

Delaware County, Ohio
7th entry
(film 004016689, image 201)

Marriage

She married twice. Both marriages ended in divorce.

1900 Marriage to Wilbur Lee Stephens

Clayton, St. Louis County, Missouri

1917 Marriage to McLain Morgan

Julesburg, Sedgwick County, Colorado

1966 Death

Amarillo, Potter County, Texas
Both her parents are named. The informant is her son, Frank McLain Morgan.

Census Records:

The 1900 census was lost to a fire.
I cannot find the 1910, and 1940 is the most recent census that is in the public domain.

1880 Census

Delaware County, Ohio
lines 38-40

1900 Census

St. Louis, Missouri
lines 77-81

1920 Census

She is married to McLain Morgan, and they have an infant daughter. Edna’s two sons named Stephens are in the household, but their surname is misspelled.
Laramie, Wyoming
lines 92-96

1930 Census

Her son Lee Andrew Stephens is no longer in the household. He went back to St. Louis and lived with his sister, Helen Stephens Kerner.
Hutchison County, Texas
lines 83-87

1940 Census

Amarillo, Texas
lines 78-79