Chester Clay Eckenrod 1876-1918 USA need his father FULL name.

Question

I am an Eckenrod and I have hit a brick wall concerning my grandfather Chester Clay Eckenrod. 1910 census states father is Samuel.  MyHeritage Family Tree states: Henry Hubert Eckenrod 1881-1964 (Chester slibing) born to Silas J Eckenrod and Lucinda C Eckenrod (Rhodes). Need a birth certificate for Chester Clay Eckenrod in hopes his father FULL name is on there. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi Carolyn!  Welcome to WikiTree!  

You are very wise to question the conflicting info in other people's unsourced family tree projects, and to want to get a few actual sources to confirm.

Could i suggest that you could do one thing to help us help you - make a profile for Chester Clay Eckenrod, put everything you do actually know about him, and then edit your question to include his WikiTree ID in the field for that at the bottom of the question.

That will really help those of us who want to help you grow our tree!  It will also automatically put a link on Chester's profile to this question, so that the discussion which ensues will be available later to anyone looking at his profile.  

Hope i explained that clearly enough! Let me know whether it makes any sense to you...

Cheers

Shirlea

Comments

Is this your Chester? 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144987509  This one seems to be the son of Silas and Lucinda

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Is this your Chester? parents Lucinda and Silas in 1880

Name: Lucinda C Eckenrod
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: Elk, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States
Gender: Female
Age: 32
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Race: W
Occupation: Keeping House
Relationship to Head of Household: Wife
Relationship to Head of Household: Wife
Birth Year (Estimated): 1848
Birthplace: West Virginia, United States
Father's Birthplace: West Virginia, United States
Mother's Birthplace: West Virginia, United States
Sheet Letter: B
Sheet Number: 243
Person Number: 1
Volume: 1

 

Household	Role	Sex	Age	Birthplace
Silas Eckenrod	Self	M	37	Pennsylvania, United States
Lucinda C Eckenrod	Wife	F	32	West Virginia, United States
Minnie M Eckenrod	Daughter	F	6	West Virginia, United States
Chester C Eckenrod	Son	M	3	West Virginia, United States
Walter C Eckenrod	Son	M	1	West Virginia, United States

District: ED 50
Sheet Number and Letter: 243B
Household ID: 13054454
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: T9
Affiliate Film Number: 1405
GS Film Number: 1255405
Digital Folder Number: 005162817
Image Number: 00357
 

Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6RR-Q1H : 15 July 2017), Walter C Eckenrod in entry for Silas Eckenrod, 1880; citing enumeration district ED 50, sheet 243B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d), roll 1405; FHL microfilm 1,255,405.

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My grandfather Chester Clay Eckenrod married Ada May Richardson and they had several children, one of the sons is Chester Raymond.  I'm fairly new at this and need all the help I can get.  

One question is the ID# G2G   

Thanks

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probably this is your Chester re probate.  Th document lists the names and ages of his young children:

Name: C C Eckenrod
Event Type: Probate
Event Year: 1924
Event Place: Haywood County, North Carolina, United States
Number of Names with File: 1
File Name: C C Eckenrod
First Image Number: 00751
Last Image Number: 00753
Number of Images: 3

GS Film Number: 002315027
Digital Folder Number: 007067708
 

Citing this Record
"North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJDF-CL41 : 15 March 2018), C C Eckenrod, 1924; citing Haywood County, North Carolina, United States, State Archives, Raleigh; FHL microfilm 2,315,027.

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Yes I believe this is my Chester. I have all census records except 1890.  The conflict I am having is this: Is his father Samuel Silas Eckenroad or Silas J Eckenrod/Eckenroad.  This is why I'm trying to locate Chester Clay birth certificate.  Both of these men cannot father the same children.  :)  There are so many Silas Eckenrod's without a middle names.

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Hi Carolyn!  to get an ID number, you need to create a profile. Go to the top RH corner of your screen, where is says:

'My WikiTree'    'Add'    'Find'      'Help'

Click on 'Add' to get the dropdown. The items are in alphabetical order.

Then choose New Person

Just put what you do know so far.  Sometimes it is best to build a strong base with the generations we know before moving back in time.

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Silas J Eckenrod who married Annie Elizabeth and later a Susan is not yours--he and his family are in a different town for several censuses.

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That's why it is helpful to gather all the info you do know about the more recent generations.  Catch them on all the censuses that they should be on, and find the birth records of as many siblings as possible.  That way, when you run into another family with a similar name, you will know whether it is possible to be the right family or not.

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An even better way to make a profile for Chester is to first go to your own profile and add your father as your father.  After you have sketched out the profile for him, add his father, who is Chester.  That way you will not only have a profile for Chester, you will have the relationships established.

Of course you can always link the relationships afterwards, just by putting in the WikiTree ID.

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My intuition is telling me that the name Samuel connected to Silas Eckenrod is an anomaly -  a misunderstanding by the census taker (or the informant, who could have been a neighbour) in either the name or the relationship, or actually a different person with the relationship misunderstood. There are several sources indicating Silas as Chester's dad, but so far i don't see any other reference to a Samuel with this family.

The purpose of the census was not for our later family history efforts, so they didn't know we would be later poring over their output trying to recreate our family constellations. They were just trying to get backup data for aggregate stats collection.

So we need to get as many sources as possible and then draw our conclusions based on the preponderance of the evidence, and indicate how solid or otherwise our conclusions are.

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Looks like at the time of the WW1 draft, Chester was building ships in Wilmington, Delaware.

There is an image associated with his draft registration on FamilySearch:

Name: Chester Clay Eckenrod
Event Type: Draft Registration
Event Date: 1917-1918
Event Place: Haywood County, North Carolina, United States
Gender: Male
Nationality: United States
Birth Date: 20 Jul 1876
Birthplace: , , United States

Affiliate Publication Number: M1509
Affiliate Publication Title: World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards
GS Film Number: 1765651
Digital Folder Number: 005152126
Image Number: 00018
 

Citing this Record
"United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZD9-4T8 : 13 March 2018), Chester Clay Eckenrod, 1917-1918; citing Haywood County, North Carolina, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,765,651.

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And sadly, on Sept 10, 1918 just a month before WW1 ended, while still a young man of 43 with a growing family, he fell off a scaffold in that shipyard.

Here is his death certificate: https://www.ancestry.ca/interactive/1674/31297_212504-01079/65358?

His wife Ada is the informant, and she gives his parents as Silas and Lucinda.  I think she should know.

If you don't have an Ancestry.com subscription, send me a message using the WikiTree PM system (click on my name and then click on 'send private message') and i will email you a screenshot or download or something.