Help with Gertrude's Father's name

Question

On Gertrude's death certificate it has her father's name as Eliceroe Summerell. Most everything else I have researched has her father's name as Elisha Summerall. I don't know which to believe or which to research.

Also I have seen Gertrude's first name as Ica and as Icy.  My mother knows her as Icy, but on some of the Census' they have her as Ica. So once again, which do I look under, I know that the Census' can be wrong.

Comments

Her name could have been Isabella and they called her Icy or something like that.  It looks like they were calling her Tey as in Ger"Tey" on the 1900 census.  Elisha is a name, I don't think Eliceroe is a name.

It's always helpful to add all the siblings from the census records and don't skip in a linear fashion (tracing just one individual) into the past.  Families are much easier to find than lone family members.

Also below are what is known as census citations.  This is what you want to paste on his profile instead of just 1880 census (because there are tens of millions of people on the 1880 census - same with other records, the citation and not the title of the record)

"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M69T-SPX : 13 July 2016), Elisha L Summerell, Pendleton, Anderson, South Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district ED 26, sheet 151D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1219; FHL microfilm 1,255,219.

"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3T6-T51 : accessed 18 June 2017), Tey G Summerell in household of Elisha F Summersell, Seneca Township (south, west part) Seneca town, Oconee, South Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 73, sheet 28B, family 535, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,537.

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Thanks for answering, but I am still a little confused about his name.  On Gertrude's death certificate it has his name as Eliceroe and not Elisha. Could this just be some kind of mistake? and I am making too much out of it? Thanks for your time. I really need to learn how to do the citations and I will start adding more people and not just the one.

Leigh

Answer 1

''Death''
Name:    Elisha L. Summerall
Death Date:    4 Nov 1934
County of Death:    Fulton
Certificate:    29614
Source Citation
Certificate Number: 29614
Source Information
State of Georgia. Indexes of Vital Records for Georgia: Deaths, 1919-1998. Georgia, USA: Georgia Health Department, Office of Vital Records, 1998.

Comments

Thank you so much for answering my questions and the help on the citations. I will be working harder and making sure that I put some citations in there. I think I deleted the tree and am going to start over and make sure that I have everything that I need and not depend so much on others information (not that their information isn't correct, I just  need to verify it too). I am so new to this and I am bound to make a lot of mistakes, but that is how we learn, trial and error.

Leigh