What was this man's name?! Zero? Zers? ZOM or Z.O.M.? I have seen it all. One clue to authenticity is this: His sister Albina liked to name her boys for her brothers. One boy was named Thaddeus Zaro. I think then that clearly Mackton's middle name was Zaro. ZOM appears to be an additional middle name to which he also answered. Most of his family called him "Mack."
There was a rumor in this family that Mack disappeared. Not true. Yes, it is true that he and Rosetty stopped living together as man and wife somewhere between the last child born in 1893 and the census of 1900. In that year, both he and Rosetty listed themselves as widows. Not true. Mack was just twenty minutes away in Laneville, Texas.
I have a photo of Mack's son Lee and his wife Ella and their first-born Bina with some older gentleman standing with them. HIs eyes timidly shift to the right. He is dressed up in Sunday clothes with a long mustache and a big hat. My mother's cousin Allene years later gave me a copy of the same photo and remarked, I don't know who the old man is in the photo. But I did. I knew because someone took the time to record the names on the back of my copy, and that old man in the photo was Mack.
In 1900, Lee was 17 and living with his dad as "servants" in another family's home. In 1910, Lee was still living with his dad. They must have been close. Mack would die before Lee was murdered in 1923.
When Rosetty died in 1945, twenty-two years post Mack's death, her granddaughter Kitty listed her as "widowed" on the death certificate. Well by that time, Mack was truly dead, but Rosetty was no widow. A land grant of 1915 verifies that they were divorced.
(A Recollection--M.E. McWilliams, his great great granddaughter)
There was a rumor in this family that Mack disappeared. Not true. Yes, it is true that he and Rosetty stopped living together as man and wife somewhere between the last child born in 1893 and the census of 1900. In that year, both he and Rosetty listed themselves as widows. Not true. Mack was just twenty minutes away in Laneville, Texas.
I have a photo of Mack's son Lee and his wife Ella and their first-born Bina with some older gentleman standing with them. HIs eyes timidly shift to the right. He is dressed up in Sunday clothes with a long mustache and a big hat. My mother's cousin Allene years later gave me a copy of the same photo and remarked, I don't know who the old man is in the photo. But I did. I knew because someone took the time to record the names on the back of my copy, and that old man in the photo was Mack.
In 1900, Lee was 17 and living with his dad as "servants" in another family's home. In 1910, Lee was still living with his dad. They must have been close. Mack would die before Lee was murdered in 1923.
When Rosetty died in 1945, twenty-two years post Mack's death, her granddaughter Kitty listed her as "widowed" on the death certificate. Well by that time, Mack was truly dead, but Rosetty was no widow. A land grant of 1915 verifies that they were divorced.
(A Recollection--M.E. McWilliams, his great great granddaughter)
What was this man's name?! Zero? Zers? ZOM or Z.O.M.? I have seen it all. One clue to authenticity is this: His sister Albina liked to name her boys for her brothers. One boy was named Thaddeus Zaro. I think then that clearly Mackton's middle name was Zaro. ZOM appears to be an additional middle name to which he also answered. Most of his family called him "Mack."
There was a rumor in this family that Mack disappeared. Not true. Yes, it is true that he and Rosetty stopped living together as man and wife somewhere between the last child born in 1893 and the census of 1900. In that year, both he and Rosetty listed themselves as widows. Not true. Mack was just twenty minutes away in Laneville, Texas.
I have a photo of Mack's son Lee and his wife Ella and their first-born Bina with some older gentleman standing with them. HIs eyes timidly shift to the right. He is dressed up in Sunday clothes with a long mustache and a big hat. My mother's cousin Allene years later gave me a copy of the same photo and remarked, I don't know who the old man is in the photo. But I did. I knew because someone took the time to record the names on the back of my copy, and that old man in the photo was Mack.
In 1900, Lee was 17 and living with his dad as "servants" in another family's home. In 1910, Lee was still living with his dad. They must have been close. Mack would die before Lee was murdered in 1923.
When Rosetty died in 1945, twenty-two years post Mack's death, her granddaughter Kitty listed her as "widowed" on the death certificate. Well by that time, Mack was truly dead, but Rosetty was no widow. A land grant of 1915 verifies that they were divorced.
(A Recollection--M.E. McWilliams, his great great granddaughter)
There was a rumor in this family that Mack disappeared. Not true. Yes, it is true that he and Rosetty stopped living together as man and wife somewhere between the last child born in 1893 and the census of 1900. In that year, both he and Rosetty listed themselves as widows. Not true. Mack was just twenty minutes away in Laneville, Texas.
I have a photo of Mack's son Lee and his wife Ella and their first-born Bina with some older gentleman standing with them. HIs eyes timidly shift to the right. He is dressed up in Sunday clothes with a long mustache and a big hat. My mother's cousin Allene years later gave me a copy of the same photo and remarked, I don't know who the old man is in the photo. But I did. I knew because someone took the time to record the names on the back of my copy, and that old man in the photo was Mack.
In 1900, Lee was 17 and living with his dad as "servants" in another family's home. In 1910, Lee was still living with his dad. They must have been close. Mack would die before Lee was murdered in 1923.
When Rosetty died in 1945, twenty-two years post Mack's death, her granddaughter Kitty listed her as "widowed" on the death certificate. Well by that time, Mack was truly dead, but Rosetty was no widow. A land grant of 1915 verifies that they were divorced.
(A Recollection--M.E. McWilliams, his great great granddaughter)
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