Library trip this week

Ok, so I found a very helpful site at familysearch.org - highly recommended :)

Fruitful trip to the library, I may not have hunted for the things I was setting out for though. I am easily distracted! I printed the following records on this trip - my grandfather's(3) death certificate (John William Williamson), my great-grandfather's(4) death certificate (John Emory Brendle), the Brendle family on the 1930 census, including my great-grandfather John Emory (4) and my grandmother, Emily Brendle(3) at 13 years old :) I also pulled William Pleasant Brendle(5) on the 1870 census living in the household of George D Brendle.

So, just to refresh for my own sake -
Me (Emily Elizabeth Norwood McGill) - Mary Phyllis Williamson Norwood(2) - Mary Emiline Brendle(3) - John Emory Brendle(4) - William Pleasant Brendle (5) - George Brendle(6). Now all in written proof, well, assuming my mother has her birth certificate!

But.... guess what? My great-grandfather's death certificate has his mother listed as Martha Jane Brown. *head slap*. So, was there an Eliza Brown AND a Martha Brown who married William Pleasant Brendle? Seems a tad unbelievable right? So, more work on that later. For right now, I am leaving it alone as it is frustrating me.

Realized when I left I should have found the census record for John as a child in the household of William, just for completeness. I don't think I *need* it, since it is on his death certificate, but just to round out the collection....