The website shows Claude with one wife and one son.
The Ohio Divorce Index shows him divorced from a different wife in 1997, married in approximately 1974. Hmmm, apparently he was married twice.
The son's obituary shows his mother's maiden name as Cox instead of Lee. His father is listed as a survivor. There is no mention of a step-mother. Oh my, he has a SISTER!
As I enter data, Ancestry is finding possible matches for me. Now I have a couple of family trees to look at.
There is a third wife....and another daughter. Is this wife the mother of the sister mentioned in the obituary?
Claude's obituary lists another wife and says they've been married 37 years.
Something is not right here.
Later.....
Well, I'm still confused. I've been researching all of them trying to make sense of all of this. Now I've discovered the one daughter is NOT Claude's (unless the wife's second husband adopted her or she used his name). The Ohio Birth Index lists the other husband as her father. She is not listed in Claude's obituary. Her 'birth' father, Jerry, didn't marry her mother until four years after her birth.
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