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Ada A. <I>Risinger</I> Ferguson

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Ada A. Risinger Ferguson

Birth
Tenaha, Shelby County, Texas, USA
Death
1940 (aged 71–72)
Burial
Joaquin, Shelby County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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The death certificate for Mrs. Ada (Resigner) Ferguson gives her death date as June 1, 1941, Houston, Harris County, Texas.

A. A. Risinger married J. A. Ferguson on November 20, 1884. By 1900, she had had 8 children. Children from census records: Cassie (b. Dec. 1885); Jodie (b. Jan. 1888); May (b. 1890); Dovie (b. Sept. 1892); Bertie (b. Jan. 1895); Willie M. (b. Jan. 1897); twin daughters Jessie and Julia (b. Nov. 1899).

In 1940 the widowed Ada A Ferguson, age 72, and her son, William M. Ferguson, 43, were living in Houston, Texas, with her daughter, Bertie/Birdie C Shilling, 45, and Birdie's son, Raymond Mayfield Shilling, 21. Birdie's husband, Marcus Eugene Shilling, died April 12, 1936, in Houston, and son Mayfield Shilling died November 28, 1997.

Biography compiled by Sheron Smith-Savage.

Sources:

Marriage Records, Shelby Co, TX 1:114.
1900 federal census, Joaquin, Shelby Co, TX.
1910 federal census, Hunt Co, TX.
1940 federal census, Houston, Harris Co, TX.
Ada Ferguson, TX death certificate.
The death certificate for Mrs. Ada (Resigner) Ferguson gives her death date as June 1, 1941, Houston, Harris County, Texas.

A. A. Risinger married J. A. Ferguson on November 20, 1884. By 1900, she had had 8 children. Children from census records: Cassie (b. Dec. 1885); Jodie (b. Jan. 1888); May (b. 1890); Dovie (b. Sept. 1892); Bertie (b. Jan. 1895); Willie M. (b. Jan. 1897); twin daughters Jessie and Julia (b. Nov. 1899).

In 1940 the widowed Ada A Ferguson, age 72, and her son, William M. Ferguson, 43, were living in Houston, Texas, with her daughter, Bertie/Birdie C Shilling, 45, and Birdie's son, Raymond Mayfield Shilling, 21. Birdie's husband, Marcus Eugene Shilling, died April 12, 1936, in Houston, and son Mayfield Shilling died November 28, 1997.

Biography compiled by Sheron Smith-Savage.

Sources:

Marriage Records, Shelby Co, TX 1:114.
1900 federal census, Joaquin, Shelby Co, TX.
1910 federal census, Hunt Co, TX.
1940 federal census, Houston, Harris Co, TX.
Ada Ferguson, TX death certificate.

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