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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. <BR>
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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. <BR>
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Thanks again.<BR>
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Marilyn Schwartz<BR>
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