Cornelia Cynthia Pamela Carter

CORRECTED 7 Sep 2026: BIRTH is 25 Apr 1848, MISSISSIPPI, from her own 1937 death certificate. It read 25 Apr 1853, ARKANSAS - a splice, day and month off that certificate, year and place off an 1880 census AGE column. Neither cited record states it. AUDITED 4 Aug 2026 - A FOURTH NAME FORM FROM A RECORD: her son Will Morgan's 1919 death certificate (L1, read on the image) gives 'MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER: Martha Carter', born TEXAS - the surname CARTER corroborated, but the forename Martha matches none of this person's three recorded names, and Texas conflicts with the Arkansas birth. One informant (the informant line reads '[J.?] T. Morgan', probably her husband). Recorded, not resolved - bears on the Junction #9 which-wife question (interleaved wives, Physinthia/Cornelia fusion). --- Audited 7 Sep 2026 - two records read, one fabricated fact removed, and her mother named for the first time. Registers K503 and K504. THE 1937 DEATH CERTIFICATE, READ IN FULL ON THE IMAGE. Texas certificate of death, file no. 47957, registrar's no. G378, Travis Co. (Ancestry coll. 2272, image 40394_b062135-00265), cit 6915. Field by field: 1 place of death Travis Co., Austin, 1519 West 5th Street; 4 full name 'Mrs. Cynthia Morgan'; 3 female; 4 white; 5 Widow, widow of 'John Morgan'; 6 date of birth 'April 25 1848'; 7 age 89 years 4 months 10 days; 12 birthplace 'Miss.'; 13 father's name 'Carter', a SURNAME ONLY with no forename; 14 father's birthplace 'Don't Know'; 15 mother's maiden name 'Gates'; 16 mother's birthplace 'Don't Know'; 17 informant 'John Morgan, Austin, Texas', their son [1167]; 21 date of death Sept 3 1937; 22 physician R. J. Murray; burial Boggy Cemetery, undertaker C. B. Cook. The stated age of 89 years 4 months 10 days counted back from 3 Sep 1937 reaches 23 April 1848, within two days of the stated 25 Apr 1848, so the certificate is internally consistent on the year 1848. WHY THE BIRTH FACT WAS CORRECTED. E1693 read '25 Apr 1853, Arkansas' and carried exactly two citations: cit 3112, the 1880 U.S. Census of Travis Co. (coll. 6742 rec. 7301735, image 4244801-00028), and cit 6915, the certificate above. NEITHER OF THEM STATES THAT DATE OR THAT PLACE. A census records an AGE, never a birth date, and the 1880 line gives 'wife, 27, b. Ark'; the certificate gives 25 Apr 1848 and Mississippi. The recorded fact was a composite - day and month taken from the certificate, year and place taken from the census - presented as one fact with both records cited beneath it. A CITATION LIST IS NOT A DERIVATION: two citations under one fact can each support a different half of it and neither support the whole. MISSISSIPPI IS CORROBORATED BY THE 1900 CENSUS BELOW AND BY A DIFFERENT INFORMANT. Her own birthplace column there reads Mississippi, and so does the mother's-birthplace column on each of the four sons enumerated with her. Arkansas now rests on the single 1880 line, which the 1900 census and the 1937 certificate both contradict. RECORDED NEGATIVE, so nobody re-hunts it: this certificate does NOT give her father's forename. Field 13 carries the surname 'Carter' alone. Under proof-standard.md section 2c a record that names a parent's SURNAME is not a record that names the parent. HER MOTHER IS NAMED, AND THE RECORD STATES THE RELATIONSHIP. 1900 U.S. Census, Justice Precinct 1, Travis Co., Texas, ED 0108, sheet 8, dwelling 127 family 134, roll 1673, image 4118572_00614, read on the image 7 Sep 2026 in ONE FRAME spanning the printed column headers through Mother's Birthplace. Line 21 of that page reads 'Carter, Martha', relation to head 'M in law', white female, born Oct 1820, aged 80, Widowed, 6 children born and 3 living, birthplace Georgia, father Georgia, mother Georgia. Mother-in-law of the head, in a household whose wife is this person, states that Martha Carter is this person's mother. Set beside field 15 of the 1937 certificate above, she is MARTHA (GATES) CARTER, born Oct 1820 in Georgia. NO PERSON HAS BEEN CREATED FOR HER AND NO LINK HAS BEEN MADE; that is a separate decision, and these are ring-5 collaterals. THIS ALSO ANSWERS THE 'MARTHA' PUZZLE RECORDED IN THE 4 AUG 2026 SECTION ABOVE. That section reports her son Will Morgan's 1919 death certificate giving 'MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER: Martha Carter' and observes that the forename Martha matches none of this person's three recorded names. It matches his GRANDMOTHER's. The 1919 informant gave the right surname and the wrong generation. A name that fits nobody in the tree may fit somebody in the household. HER OWN LINE IN THAT 1900 CENSUS, line 16: 'Cynthia C.', Wife, white female, born Apr 1856, aged 44, married 31 years, 6 children born and 5 living, birthplace Mississippi, father's birthplace Georgia, mother's birthplace Georgia. The head, line 15, is 'Morgan, John', born Jan 1853, aged 47, married 31 years, birthplace South Carolina. AGES REMAIN SOFT AND ARE NOT SMOOTHED HERE. She is 27 in the 1880 census, 44 in the 1900 census and 89 at death in 1937, implying 1853, 1856 and 1848. Only the certificate states a date rather than an age, and only the certificate is internally checkable against its own age field, which is why 1848 was taken. The same spread affects her husband; his own note records that it must be resolved as ONE question and not person by person.