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I am trying to locate my great grandfather’s parents. Unfortunately, this was not something that was talked about in my family considering he died when my dad was 12. I decided to post because there are only 3 remaining of the my Great Grandfather’s children (out of 13). My dad passed in 2005 and I have no answers about my family.

My great Grandfathers name is James Henry Braxton born in Colesville Montgomery Maryland in Dec 22 1895 (per his WW1 registration card), he was listed on the 1900 census (age 4)in Montgomery County Maryland residing with an Aunt & Uncle (Marth Nelson & David T Nelson) and Edward Braxton listed as a nephew (age 7, perhaps a brother)then in 1910 (age 14) with an Aunt Sarah E. Lee. He went in the Army Drafted in 1917 and served from 1918-1919. He had 13 children (I can only name 5 to include my dad) with Cecelia L. Ford born April 8, 1907 in Baltimore, Maryland which I have no proof of marriage either which I assume was done since she’s entered with him at Arlington Cemetary. The address listed on his registration card is 1336 Cedar Street NW DC which no longer exhists in the 1300 block but maybe due to DC changing it’s boarder since there is a 1336 Cedar Street just above DC now considered Silver Spring, MD and Colesville is now Silver Spring, MD.

He died on Jan 1, 1956 and she in 1981 both he and Cecelia are buried in Arlington Cemetary. I would like to find his parents which according to the census were both born in Maryland.I also located two parental consent forms for his two eldest daughters to marry at 16 and the address as 717 Pleasent Court NW Washington, DC. I call the National Archives in Maryland and Vital Statistics and no record before 1914 is on file for him nor will Vital Statistis release that information to me since im not an immediate family member. His SSN is listed on the SS Death Index but there are occasions when looking for this information it was listed as 1896 and 1899 as his birth year which isn’t accurate since I saw his writting on his military registration card.

This is the only information I have but I did request his military file from St. Louis which may take considerable time and what if his parents aren’t listed on that. Please help, if you have any information or tips or anything to help me figure this information out please respond to the thread or email me at deborahjames1983@yahoo.com, thanks in advance.

I don’t know if you’ve seen it but someone on Ancestry has this family as being your James Henry Braxton and family. Not really sure what evidence they have for it apart from thinking that the Henry is James Henry?

1910 United States Federal Census about Henry Braxton
Name: Henry Braxton
Age in 1910: 14
Estimated Birth Year: 1896
Birthplace: Washington, DC
[Washington DC]
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father’s name: Nicolas Braxton
Father’s Birth Place: Virginia
Mother’s name: Fanny Braxton
Mother’s Birth Place: Virginia
Home in 1910: Precinct 3, Washington, District of Columbia
Marital Status: Single
Race: Black
Gender: Male
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Nicolas Braxton 39
Fanny Braxton 37
Henry Braxton 14

I was born in Mexicali, Baja California Mex. in 47 but got my US citizenship through my father. In 1967 I received a US ID from the American Consulate here in Mexicali. Now they no long make them so I just pass the border saying US CITIZEN have been doing so for the past 43 years of have been living here in Mexicali and cross to Calexico, Ca. Where I use to work, took care of my parents till their death. Now that I need a US PASSPORT the American Consulate in Tijuana says I have to prove my dad’s citizenship through my grandmother who was born in the 1880’s and died in the 1950’s. I never new her but I found out while searching Ancestry my dad’s WW1 DRAFT REGISTRATION CARD OF 1918 where it has that my grandmother was in the STATE HOSPITAL PHOENIX, MARICOPA ARIZONA IN 1918. I called the hospital but all those records are long gone. Mr Wallace there told me to check with the VITAL RECORDS in PHOENIX to find her birth and death certificate. It’s been 6 months and so far they have found out nothing yet. I’m am very worried because a custom officer said my ID from the American Consulate will not be accepted in January 2009. I don’t know what to do next year I’ll be able to get my social security check but in november on my 62nd birthday what will happen with the money I worked hard for my old age.??????
Please a friend told me Don Francisco knows a Lawyer that could inform me what to do. They say (US CUSTOM) "That it’s a privilege to get a passport to cross the border". But I think "It’s more an HONOR being a US CITIZEN and having a US passport to prove it:"I am 61 year old and I am fighting for my right’s as a citizen which I believe to be. So please if I may have Don Francisco’s address or E-mail I will greatly appreciate it. Sincerely yours, Cecilia Cisneros Davis

You have the necessary US ID issued by an embassy to prove your citizenship. Nothing is more acceptable than that. You have worked and paid taxes (I presume) through all those years. You have an ssn card. What else do they need? Get an immigration lawyer to help you out.

Or low costs?

Great grandfather Charles Lewis (also spelled Chas Louis) Whyte (b.17 Oct 1875 Princeton, IL? and d.5 Feb 1932 Mankato, MN) was adopted by Ananias and Sarah Whyte possibly in Bureau County, IL, date unknown. 1880 census shows them living in Iowa and that Chas was an adopted son. This is a complete dead end for me!

I have copies of some of the censuses from 1800 through 1930 for him, unable to find his whereabouts in 1890 & 1895, and I have a copy of his 1918 WW1 registration card. He worked as a switchman and/or conductor for the railroad in Mankato, MN, and his death certificate lists his parents as unknown and that the RR claimed his body for burial arrangements.

Any help greatly appreciated!!! We are having a family reunion in three months and I’d like to get past this obstacle before then!
I have census records from 1880, not 1800, LOL, he was supposedly born in 1875.

Thanks for any help!
More info: Charles’ dad Ananias died in 1886 in Creston IA, his mother Sarah (nee Penn) died in 1881 in IA. I do have a picture, not a good one, of Charles with one of his brothers and two sisters and all their families. There, to me, does not appear to be any family resemblances. My grandmother is in the picture as a small child.
My grandmother, now 94, recalled her uncle Daniel Whyte b.1860 in PA, d.1928 Denver CO, telling a story of how Ananias just brought Charles home one day like a puppy as a toddler. My Gram thinks she was about 7 when she heard that one. I have been unable to contact any other of the Whyte descendants. Charles was a child when his parents passed away, just 6 with his mother and 11 with his father. I can not find where he went after that, if with a sibling or back onto the streets of IA. The missing censuses are 1890, 1895 and 1900. I do believe I found Charles Whyte with his wife Ella b.1880 in WI (nee Garlick) residing in a Minneapolis boarding house in 1900 but my grandmother swears they never lived there, I do think it may have been them though.
I’m hopeful to make contact with Ananias’s descendants, as I believe the rest them had resided in CO do to the death records I have been able to locate and what family stories I’m able to dig up. I also live in Denver so there might be a chance…but I wonder how willing they would be to speak of this to a complete stranger!
Charles and his wife Ella, my great grandparents, were unable to have children early on and I did find evidence of them adopting at least their first child of 4 while living in MN.

Thanks for the links, I did check with the orphan train sites with no luck. It was doubtful that Charles was a grandson to Ananias and Sarah, as like I early mentioned, there appeared to me to be no family resemblance.
I just looked at the image of the 1880 census for Dodge Township, IA, it does show on it Charles listed as "adopted son" born in IL.

Records as we would know them didn’t exist back then. No court petitions, no severing of parental rights, no social service agencies doing home visits…nada.

He could have been a local child, but just as possibly he could have been one of the children from the orphan trains. See if this helps you…

http://www.orphantrainriders.com/