Harriet 'Hallie' Edwards

PROOF CLASS: MOTHER = DIRECT (6 Sep 2026) - the 1880 census states her DAUGHTER of the head, and the head is her WIDOWED MOTHER Hellen Edward, 46, b. Illinois. Read on the image. PROOF CLASS: FATHER = DIRECT (7 Sep 2026) - her own 1935 Nacogdoches death certificate, item 13, STATES 'Thomas Edwards'. Read on the image, file 58420. The 6 Sep browse errand is superseded: the record was attached to her all along. Audited 27 Jul 2026 - post-1850 spine, Phase 2 grading (ancestry/post-1850-plan.md). Parents were already attached here; this note records the record that EVIDENCES them, and ProofFather/ProofMother have been set to Proven. 1870 U.S. Census, RED RIVER, LAFAYETTE CO., ARKANSAS, dwelling 289 (Ancestry coll. 7163 rec. 491375; NARA M593_57 p. 184B). Household as indexed: Emma Edwards 15 - Louis Edwards 12 - HARRIET EDWARDS 10 - John Edwards 6 - Adams Ower 26 - Mary Steel 14 - Gabriel Steel 12 - T J Edwards 43 - Helen Edwards 33. Matches the attached parents Thomas Jefferson Edwards and Hellen Mar Cully. WEAKEST OF THE THREE - FLAGGED. This dwelling is MIXED: it contains three non-Edwards people (Adams Ower and the two Steel children), and the two adults are listed at the END of the dwelling rather than at its head. The four Edwards children group clearly on ages and surname, but if this link is ever challenged THIS is the one of the three pre-1880 gradings to re-read from the image first. ** EVIDENCE BASIS: the 1860 and 1870 censuses record NO relationship column. This grading rests on household composition, ages and dwelling number as indexed - not on a stated relationship. That is a weaker instrument than a post-1880 census and is recorded here so the basis is never overstated. ** *(was, 4 Sep 2026: BOTH PARENTS = UNDERDETERMINED - the 1870 census has no relationship column and this dwelling is mixed; upgrades on an 1880 census.)* REGRADED 6 Sep 2026, and the 1880 census answers ONE half of that, not both. 1880 U.S. CENSUS, Texarkana, Miller Co., Ark., ED 194, p.112C, dwelling 563 family 437 (Ancestry coll. 6742 rec. 5417196; image 4239812-00229), READ ON THE IMAGE: Edward, Hellen - W F 46 - [head, relationship cell blank] - Widowed - Keeping house - b. Ill. - father N.Y. - mother Ky.; J. C. - W M 16 - SON - RR Clerk - b. Arks - mother Ill.; Crouch, William - W M 23 - SON-LAW - RR Employe; HARRIET - W F 19 - DAUGHTER - b. Arks - mother Ill. * IDENTIFICATION OF THE HEAD AS [121], four agreements: age 46 = b. abt 1834 (tree abt 1833); BORN ILLINOIS (tree Illinois); widowed, and [120] died Jul 1877; and 'J. C.', 16, is [1246] John CULLEY Edwards b. Feb 1864 - carrying his mother's maiden surname as his middle name. Harriet's own mother's-birthplace cell reads Ill. as well. * THE FATHER HALF IS NOT REACHED BY THIS RECORD and the 4 Sep route was spent on it: [120] died Jul 1877 at Rondo, three years before the enumeration, and is simply absent. Nothing in hand STATES her paternity or FORECLOSES an alternative father, so that lane needs a DOCUMENT, not a summary (proof-standard 2c). * NAMED NEXT DOCUMENT, AND IT IS A BROWSE: her own Texas death certificate - she died 26 Dec 1935 at Nacogdoches, and items 17-18 name both parents. Her husband's 1936 Nacogdoches certificate was 'absent from the Ancestry name index - found by browse' (see [108]'s note), and a 1935+Nacogdoches search run 6 Sep FAILED TO BIND ITS FILTERS, returning 2,916 rows across Texas with the year ignored. That is an INSTRUMENT FAILURE, not evidence of absence. Browse Texas death certificates, Nacogdoches, 1935 Oct-Dec. Captures: sources/clusters-ab-2026-09-06/1880-census-texarkana-miller-ar-ED194-p112C-*.png. Register K479. *(was, 6 Sep 2026: FATHER = UNDERDETERMINED - he died Jul 1877, so the 1880 census cannot reach him; reopens on her 1935 Nacogdoches certificate, which must be BROWSED.)* RESOLVED 7 Sep 2026 - AND THE DOCUMENT WAS NEVER MISSING. Texas death certificate, Nacogdoches Co., file 58420, Registrar's No. 276, filed 2 Jan 1936: * item 2 'Mrs. Hallie Crouch'; item 5a WIFE of 'W. B. Crouch'; item 6 DOB 'Oct. 22. 1859'; item 7 age 76y 2m 4d; item 12 birthplace 'Arkansas'; item 21 died 'Dec. 26. 1935'; item 18 buried Oak Grove. * ITEM 13 FATHER: 'Thomas Edwards'. * ITEM 15 MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME: 'Hellen Mar. Culley' - which matches [121] Hellen Mar Cully including the middle element 'Mar.', a form that appears nowhere else in this tree. * Items 14 and 16 both read 'Unknown', so the informant (Mrs. Crouch Parmley of Nacogdoches) is recorded as reporting only what she knew - and she gave the mother's three-part maiden name correctly, checked against the 1880 census read on the image. That is why this grades DIRECT (the record STATES the relationship, proof-standard 2c shape A) rather than INFORMANT. * WHAT WOULD OVERTURN IT: a record naming a different father for a Hallie Edwards Crouch born 22 Oct 1859 in Arkansas, or a husband of Hellen Mar Culley before Thomas Edwards with a child born Oct 1859. * PROVENANCE OF THE IMAGE, AND THE LESSON: citations 838 (Birth event) and 841 (Death event) both carry media 40394_b062100-02639.jpg, on local disk since 24 Jul 2026. The 6 Sep session booked a browse for a certificate the tree already held. Register K488. INFORMANT: 'Mrs. Crouch Parmley of Nacogdoches' - relationship to the decedent UNSTATED on the certificate. * She left items 14 and 16 'Unknown' while giving the mother's three-part maiden name correctly, which is the mark of a reporter stating only what she knew rather than filling the form.