[or-roots] Census Records, Marks family

[MMDSchwartz at cs.com]

Kevin,

Thanks again for the census lookups for the Marks families.  Do you have a CD 
with all this info on it?  How do you look it up so quickly?  I don't know 
all the ins and outs of genealogy yet.  I haven't been a really serious 
"genealogist," but mainly I just have been trying to find out who my family was 
because we knew so little until we started this search 3-4 years ago.  

My grandfather, George Alfred Marks, was born, as I said earlier, "in the 
Willamette Valley" of Oregon.  But, the family moved on to eastern Oregon then 
Wyoming/Montana when he was a child.  Grandfather George Marks died at age 30 or 
31, in 1906, on the day my father Maurice was born.  George's widow, Edith, 
remarried twice, as you noted from your census lookups.  Mr. Marks left her 
with an apparently profitable horse ranch in Montana, but her second husband, Mr. 
Chadwick, was a scoundrel who sold her property out from under her and ran 
off with another woman, leaving her destitute with 4 children.  Her third 
husband, Mr. Davis, was a good man, but they struggled to support the continually 
growing family. They moved to Washington, the children all took the Davis name, 
and I believe at that time all contact with the Marks family was lost.  
Contact with the Noble family in Oregon had probably been lost years earlier when 
George was only a year old and his mother, Charity Noble Marks, died in 1875.  
Mr. Davis also died young, and there wasn't much family history passed down.  

Thanks again.

Marilyn Schwartz

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