[or-roots] Mystery Falk and wrong Thaxton

Leslie Chapman opera_70 at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 23 16:13:48 PST 2017


Been working on Uncle Ernie's siblings again, just because I guess and have a couple of mysteries.
First the Falk thing; according to her Aunt Grace's obit 
Miriam Lynn Conant                                                            1928 -1956Birth:                            May 10 1928                                        Eugene, Lane, Oregon, USAResidence 1930:   Eugene,Lane, Oregon, USA                Marital Status: Single;                                     Relation to Head of House:             Daughter,Residence 1940:   SantaClara, Lane, Oregon, USA             MaritalStatus: Single;                                     Relation to Head of House:             Daughter,Death:                          18 Nov 1956                                        Carterton, Oxfordshire, England

married a Falk which the following seems to bear out, but I haven't been able to find who he is as he doesn't turn up in Family search and isn't in Washington Digital archives either. I just realized Miriam is Uncle Ernie's niece and not his sister so I have even less reason to pursue this but I have her in my family file so there it is.
Name                                       MiriamL FalkEvent Type                               DeathRegistration Quarter                        Oct-Nov-DecRegistration Year                 1956Registration District             WitneyCounty                                     OxfordshireEvent Place                              Witney,Oxfordshire, EnglandAge (available after 1866)            28Birth Year (Estimated)            1928Volume                                    6BPage                                         978Line Number                            14

Now the Thaxton thing is weirder; My Heritage gave me 
Marvin Car Thaxton

Birth:                            June 10 1919                                        Palmyra, Macoupin, IllinoisMarriage:                      Yvonne L. Conant                                 July 3 1940                                                                                                Vancouver,Clark, Washington 

Residence 1940:   SantaClara Election Precinct, Lane, OregonDeath:                          Apr 12 1982                                        Lane, Oregon, United States

Which would be great and I could just wrap that pair up
Yvonne L. Thaxton (born Conant)Birth:                            Feb 23 1922                                        Eugene, Lane, Oregon, United StatesMarriage:                      July 3 1940                                        Vancouver, Clark, WashingtonDeath:                          Aug 21 2014                                        Eugene, Lane, Oregon, United States

Except when I look in WA digital archives her spouse for that date is Melvin L. ??
Marvin is definitely married to an Yvonne when he passes away as I find in his obit, and a woman starting out with one brother and ending up with the other is not unheard of in my family so maybe some one added three and three and got four.
IF I could get archives.com up and running I might find these answers but have a bad cold and too lazy to figure it out.
Happy New Year everybody.
Les Chapman
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