Finding the parents of Lizzie Crowell (1887 - 1937)
Even though I've been at genealogy for many years, I occasionally find a new surprise. I come from a small town. A town where everybody knows everybody; or in most cases they are related to everyone. But I have one line on my mothers side that I'm still finding new ancestors to research. My mom and her sister were raised by their paternal grandparents. This, along with the fact that her mother died when she was 7 years old and her maternal grandmother had passed away before she was born, left us with limited information about her mother's maternal side. For years the only knowledge that I had on this line was that my grandmother was Mrytle Meshell and she was the daughter of Joe Meshell and Lizzie Crowell. The Meshells have been well researched in our neck of the woods; but, who was this Crowell family. Finding Lizzie's parents was somewhat difficult because Lizzie was born after the 1880 census and she married Joe Meshell in 1899. You know what that means, Lizzie ...