Editor’s notes: all pages
These notes were not part of Louise’s text. They flag possible slips of date, name or number, as best today’s AI tools can tell. They are not verified research, and the story above is left exactly as she wrote it.
High confidence
- Launcelot "was born in 1594-1998". Likely: 1594-1598.
Launcelot Davenport - Sue and Marshall's wedding is given as August 22, 1865 and Jan. 25, 1865 (Armenta page), Jan. 25, 1868 (First J.M. Gill Family) and January 26, 1868 (Launcelot Lineage). Likely: August 22, 1865.
Armenta Missouri Davenport, The First Joseph Mote Gill Family, Launcelot Lineage - Joseph Mote Gill and Louisa married "January 26, 1868" (Armenta page), though their son was born in 1841; the First J.M. Gill page says Jan 25, 1838. Likely: About January 25, 1838.
Armenta Missouri Davenport, The First Joseph Mote Gill Family - "March 6,1964 ... General Hospital, Selma". Likely: 1864.
Armenta Missouri Davenport - Mote and Julia "Married on December 18,1995". Likely: 1895.
Launcelot Lineage - George W. Davenport and Polly Weems married "November 12, 1921". Likely: 1821.
Launcelot Lineage - "Valley Forge, Feb. 3,1878". Likely: 1778.
Launcelot Davenport - George Hewlett "born May 1938". Likely: May 1838.
Missouri Armenta Davenport - George W. Davenport died "1863 or 1864" (Lineage), but was "paroled May 2, 1865" (Armenta page). Likely: He was alive in May 1865; the death date is uncertain.
Launcelot Lineage, Armenta Missouri Davenport - Louise's wedding is "December 28, 1941", and elsewhere "in 1940, when Thelmer Moore and I married". Likely: December 27, 1941 (per her obituary).
The Crazy Hotel - In December 1891: "Sudie 15, Jennie 11, Oaksie 6". Likely: About 18, 15 and 11.
Little Alex - Oaksie's wedding is 1894 (Aunt Oaksie) but 1896 (Etta Stories, Marshall Messer Gill Family). Likely: Unresolved. Two pages say 1896.
Aunt Oaksie, Etta Stories, The Marshall Messer Gill Family - John Daniel's father is "Lenox Russel Daniel" in one place and "Lemuel Daniel" in another. Likely: Lenox.
Aunt Oaksie, Etta Stories - "Little Mote" is George's son (Armenta page, Grandad Died 1919) but "Uncle Tom's son" (Grandad's Trips). Likely: Probably George's son (named in two of the three places).
Armenta Missouri Davenport, Grandad Died in 1919, Grandad's Trips - Cousin Alex Moore's wife is "Bettie" (Grandad Died 1919) but "Mattie" (J.M. Toon). Likely: Unresolved.
Grandad Died in 1919, J.M. Toon - The Armistice is dated "November 19,1918" and "November 18,1918". Likely: November 11, 1918.
Kids Going To School - "When Grandad was 40 ... He lived 28 more years." Likely: 38 more years.
Grandad Died in 1919 - "used the patrol to get him a Confederate tombstone". Likely: "parole".
Armenta Missouri Davenport
Medium confidence
- The Hittson ranch was bought in 1904 (Grandad's Trips), 1905 (Armenta page) and 1906 (Aunt Oaksie). Likely: About 1904-1906; the exact year is uncertain.
Grandad's Trips, Armenta Missouri Davenport, Aunt Oaksie - At John's drowning in 1877: "Mote 5, Sudie 4". Likely: Mote about 8, Sudie about 3.
Armenta Missouri Davenport - 1919 ages: JM "almost three", Ludie 7, Etta 12, Black 17. Likely: About 2, 6, 11 and 16.
Grandad Died in 1919 - On July 4, 1930, Louise was "8 years old". Likely: About 6.
Our Old Jack - Granmama raised Fred from "seven months" in one place and "eight months" in another. Likely: Unresolved.
Armenta Missouri Davenport, Five Years Old With Two Little Brothers - Mama's school with the Indians was "about 1886" in one place and "1883" in another. Likely: Unresolved.
Our Old Jack - Granmama was baptized "soon after 1875" in one place and "about 1885" in another. Likely: Unresolved.
Our Old Jack, The Brazos River - The school opened in 1901 (Five Years Old) but 1902 (Kids Going To School). Uncle Charlie is 13 vs. 12 years older, and the grade is 8th vs. 7th. Likely: Unresolved.
Five Years Old With Two Little Brothers, Kids Going To School - "Cam was eleven months younger". Likely: About 14 months.
Five Years Old With Two Little Brothers - "Mama Gill lived to be 99". Likely: 98.
About Etta - Jennie's children: a son who died is mentioned, but Tom is called "their only child". Likely: Probably "only surviving child".
Palo Pinto Schools, Our Barns - Stella is Sudie's daughter on some pages and Uncle George's on others. Likely: Unresolved.
Armenta Missouri Davenport, Queen Victoria, Milking in the Afternoon, Etta Stories, The Marshall Messer Gill Family - Davis is Launcelot's son in one place and Martin's son in another, and "Sarah Partloe" is placed in the wrong generation. Likely: Unresolved.
Launcelot Davenport, Launcelot Lineage - Captain John was "elected 1792 ... died in 1895". Likely: Probably 1795 or later in the 1700s/1800s.
Launcelot Davenport - William T.'s service dates are repeated and garbled. Likely: Unresolved.
Missouri Armenta Davenport - Bettie was born "Oct. 1889", but Lucy (1886) is called the last child. Likely: Unresolved.
Missouri Armenta Davenport - Julia Jean was born in Norman in one place and Oklahoma City in another. Cordell was born in 1947, before Ludie's 1952 marriage. Likely: Unresolved.
The Joseph Mote Gill Family of Texas - Slips of the speaker: Etta Stories, "This is Julia" (likely Anne); Mama Riding, "The day that I died" (likely "the day Mama died"); "Hess Hargets" vs. "Lynch Hargett". Likely: As shown.
Etta Stories, Mama Riding - "Grandad was going to have their marriage annulled", but Grandad died in 1919. Also, "50 years earlier" should be about 60. Likely: Probably a different relative; about 60 years.
The Crazy Hotel - "Rosemary". Likely: Rosamond.
Kids Going To School - Dock's middle name is "Raines", but he is said to be named after Doctor Rains. Likely: Unresolved spelling.
Our Old Jack - Place and name slips: Ten Mile Island (Island No. 10); Holly Clows (Holtzclaw's); Canden, N.C. (Camden, S.C.); Williamsbury (Williamsburg); Iuke (Iuka); Atlantic campaign (Atlanta); Walt Whitman orchestra (Paul Whiteman). Likely: The names in parentheses.
Missouri Armenta Davenport, Armenta Missouri Davenport, Launcelot Davenport, The Crazy Hotel - "876 was the first train to Mineral Wells". Likely: A digit is missing. Historically the railroad reached Mineral Wells in 1891.
Armenta Missouri Davenport - "Jefferson Co., Arkansas". Likely: Jefferson Co., Alabama.
Armenta Missouri Davenport - Etta's and Ludie's ages in 1916-17 are a year high. Likely: One year less.
Etta Stories, J.M. Toon - "Little Red Deer was their grandfather". Likely: Great-great-grandfather.
Armenta Missouri Davenport, Queen Victoria, The First Joseph Mote Gill Family
Low confidence
- Small slips: ages and numbers in Grandad's Trips, The Brazos River, Kids Going To School and Little Alex; 112 vs. 100 acres; the ferry was granted in 1878 but used in 1877; 1617 + 20 = 1637, not 1638; Ripley Arnold is called both General and Major; the list of Gill sons; women's vote in 1917; Anne Gill's birth year is missing. Likely: Minor; probably not worth changing.
Grandad's Trips, The Brazos River, Kids Going To School, Little Alex, Armenta Missouri Davenport, Launcelot Davenport, Our Old Jack, Granmama (Anne Gill Knight)
Spelling variants
- Spelling variants: Lucinda/Lucenda, Marshal/Marshall, Daniel/Daniels, Tyner/Tiner, Jennie/Jenny, Sudie/Sude, Partlow/Partloe, Spotsylvania variants, "August I, 1893", "!875", "10 tears old", "Gattling", "Jack Dempsy", "Sam Goldwin". Likely: Left as written. These are part of Louise's own style.
Armenta Missouri Davenport, Etta Stories, Launcelot Davenport, The Joseph Mote Gill Family of Texas, Missouri Armenta Davenport, J.M. Toon, The Crazy Hotel, Grandad's Trips, Our Old Jack