So I did a lot of digging on ancestry.com during my free trail and that is where I found the date. I will double check more on that. I do know that he was 35 years old when he initially married Caroline, (I guess this is oral history but only by a couple generations.) Irene met her father when she was little and I talked to her in person before she passed away. She was one to remember details and tell stories to anyone who listened. I only knew her the last 8 or so years of her life. I was very excited to see that the second marriage licence confirms parts of her story as true.
So it is likely oral history, as to Irene’s father’s first name. I think I might have found him on a census but I will have to look back at ancestory.com to check my sources again. I am trying to find Irene’s birth certificate. Irene did meet him when she was very little. (My mother in-law thinks her older sister may have this).
I did find the marriage licence for Caroline’s second marriage.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91S-4QR6-5?view=index&action=view&cc=1804888&lang=en
So we know for sure that Albert Staley was her second marriage because the licence has her name as Carrie R. Gasaway, and it is noted that she was divorced. Her parent’s names are correct and the date 1927 is after Irene was born but before Albert and Caroline had their 2 children.
I tried correcting her name on her profile to reflect these 3 different last names:
First name: Caroline
Nick name: Carrie
Middle name: Rose
Maiden name: Miller, sometimes being called Muller.
1st marriage last name: Gasaway
2nd marriage last name:Staley
