May Edna Henderson was born 11 Jul 1895 in Phelps County, Missouri, USA. The 1910 US Federal Census shows her as living in Johnson, Texas.
On 27 August 1910 she married Edward 'Edd' Farris (aka Dutch) in Johnson, Texas, United States
Their only son Carl Wallace Farris was born 19 Aug 1912. The 1914 City Directory shows her as Mrs. Farris and them living at 303 W Bluff, Fort Worth, Texas, but it was known that there was an informal divorce around that time.
The 1915 record was not available but in the 1916 she was listed as 'Miss' Edna Farris. Though at same address as him, 3410 Crenshaw, it is worth mentioning her husband changed his spelling for the City Directory as Edwd Ferris a carpenter.
She re-married James Demumber Riley after 1920, as the 1920 Census showed him still married to his previous wife Mary E Barnett, and who at that time showed two children from that previous marriage. In the 1920 Census their daughter Estell was aged 2 years 7 months (Enumerated 6 Jan 1920) She was born 20 May 1918 and their second child James Demumber Riley Jr. was born in 7 Nov 1919.
By 1923, the city directory clearly shows her first husband Ed Farris was now married to May's sister Erie Ellen Henderson (now written Farris again by that time) who had lovingly taken over the responsibilities of raising Carl, May's child.
On a strange note, being specifically listed as a step sister to Carmen in many documents before her parent's death, May went out of her way some 5 years after the death of her Father, now known as May Riley, or Mrs JD Riley. Knowing her Father had passed and that her blind Mother would never read it, she falsely created a certificate of birth as Mrs JD Riley claiming that Carmen was a biological child of her now deceased Father and said blind Mother.
Sadly the person who took control of these memorials has erased the bios containing factual material trying to keep the this information from future generations. Claiming that she was a biological child of the above. It is thought by many other family members that Carmen who was adopted trough the Hope Cottage was in fact the child of this memorial, May who was not married at the time of conception and in between marriages, and whose parents adopted as their own child, a common practice in those years, and who else would have interest to create a birth document so many years later. This was never meant to be disrespectful but simply provide the truth by a very direct family descendant of May and other family members.
*Sincere thanks to Ruth for the creation of this and so many other memorials
On 27 August 1910 she married Edward 'Edd' Farris (aka Dutch) in Johnson, Texas, United States
Their only son Carl Wallace Farris was born 19 Aug 1912. The 1914 City Directory shows her as Mrs. Farris and them living at 303 W Bluff, Fort Worth, Texas, but it was known that there was an informal divorce around that time.
The 1915 record was not available but in the 1916 she was listed as 'Miss' Edna Farris. Though at same address as him, 3410 Crenshaw, it is worth mentioning her husband changed his spelling for the City Directory as Edwd Ferris a carpenter.
She re-married James Demumber Riley after 1920, as the 1920 Census showed him still married to his previous wife Mary E Barnett, and who at that time showed two children from that previous marriage. In the 1920 Census their daughter Estell was aged 2 years 7 months (Enumerated 6 Jan 1920) She was born 20 May 1918 and their second child James Demumber Riley Jr. was born in 7 Nov 1919.
By 1923, the city directory clearly shows her first husband Ed Farris was now married to May's sister Erie Ellen Henderson (now written Farris again by that time) who had lovingly taken over the responsibilities of raising Carl, May's child.
On a strange note, being specifically listed as a step sister to Carmen in many documents before her parent's death, May went out of her way some 5 years after the death of her Father, now known as May Riley, or Mrs JD Riley. Knowing her Father had passed and that her blind Mother would never read it, she falsely created a certificate of birth as Mrs JD Riley claiming that Carmen was a biological child of her now deceased Father and said blind Mother.
Sadly the person who took control of these memorials has erased the bios containing factual material trying to keep the this information from future generations. Claiming that she was a biological child of the above. It is thought by many other family members that Carmen who was adopted trough the Hope Cottage was in fact the child of this memorial, May who was not married at the time of conception and in between marriages, and whose parents adopted as their own child, a common practice in those years, and who else would have interest to create a birth document so many years later. This was never meant to be disrespectful but simply provide the truth by a very direct family descendant of May and other family members.
*Sincere thanks to Ruth for the creation of this and so many other memorials
May Edna Henderson was born 11 Jul 1895 in Phelps County, Missouri, USA. The 1910 US Federal Census shows her as living in Johnson, Texas.
On 27 August 1910 she married Edward 'Edd' Farris (aka Dutch) in Johnson, Texas, United States
Their only son Carl Wallace Farris was born 19 Aug 1912. The 1914 City Directory shows her as Mrs. Farris and them living at 303 W Bluff, Fort Worth, Texas, but it was known that there was an informal divorce around that time.
The 1915 record was not available but in the 1916 she was listed as 'Miss' Edna Farris. Though at same address as him, 3410 Crenshaw, it is worth mentioning her husband changed his spelling for the City Directory as Edwd Ferris a carpenter.
She re-married James Demumber Riley after 1920, as the 1920 Census showed him still married to his previous wife Mary E Barnett, and who at that time showed two children from that previous marriage. In the 1920 Census their daughter Estell was aged 2 years 7 months (Enumerated 6 Jan 1920) She was born 20 May 1918 and their second child James Demumber Riley Jr. was born in 7 Nov 1919.
By 1923, the city directory clearly shows her first husband Ed Farris was now married to May's sister Erie Ellen Henderson (now written Farris again by that time) who had lovingly taken over the responsibilities of raising Carl, May's child.
On a strange note, being specifically listed as a step sister to Carmen in many documents before her parent's death, May went out of her way some 5 years after the death of her Father, now known as May Riley, or Mrs JD Riley. Knowing her Father had passed and that her blind Mother would never read it, she falsely created a certificate of birth as Mrs JD Riley claiming that Carmen was a biological child of her now deceased Father and said blind Mother.
Sadly the person who took control of these memorials has erased the bios containing factual material trying to keep the this information from future generations. Claiming that she was a biological child of the above. It is thought by many other family members that Carmen who was adopted trough the Hope Cottage was in fact the child of this memorial, May who was not married at the time of conception and in between marriages, and whose parents adopted as their own child, a common practice in those years, and who else would have interest to create a birth document so many years later. This was never meant to be disrespectful but simply provide the truth by a very direct family descendant of May and other family members.
*Sincere thanks to Ruth for the creation of this and so many other memorials
On 27 August 1910 she married Edward 'Edd' Farris (aka Dutch) in Johnson, Texas, United States
Their only son Carl Wallace Farris was born 19 Aug 1912. The 1914 City Directory shows her as Mrs. Farris and them living at 303 W Bluff, Fort Worth, Texas, but it was known that there was an informal divorce around that time.
The 1915 record was not available but in the 1916 she was listed as 'Miss' Edna Farris. Though at same address as him, 3410 Crenshaw, it is worth mentioning her husband changed his spelling for the City Directory as Edwd Ferris a carpenter.
She re-married James Demumber Riley after 1920, as the 1920 Census showed him still married to his previous wife Mary E Barnett, and who at that time showed two children from that previous marriage. In the 1920 Census their daughter Estell was aged 2 years 7 months (Enumerated 6 Jan 1920) She was born 20 May 1918 and their second child James Demumber Riley Jr. was born in 7 Nov 1919.
By 1923, the city directory clearly shows her first husband Ed Farris was now married to May's sister Erie Ellen Henderson (now written Farris again by that time) who had lovingly taken over the responsibilities of raising Carl, May's child.
On a strange note, being specifically listed as a step sister to Carmen in many documents before her parent's death, May went out of her way some 5 years after the death of her Father, now known as May Riley, or Mrs JD Riley. Knowing her Father had passed and that her blind Mother would never read it, she falsely created a certificate of birth as Mrs JD Riley claiming that Carmen was a biological child of her now deceased Father and said blind Mother.
Sadly the person who took control of these memorials has erased the bios containing factual material trying to keep the this information from future generations. Claiming that she was a biological child of the above. It is thought by many other family members that Carmen who was adopted trough the Hope Cottage was in fact the child of this memorial, May who was not married at the time of conception and in between marriages, and whose parents adopted as their own child, a common practice in those years, and who else would have interest to create a birth document so many years later. This was never meant to be disrespectful but simply provide the truth by a very direct family descendant of May and other family members.
*Sincere thanks to Ruth for the creation of this and so many other memorials
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