Kate after 1900 - I poked around just about every conceivable way for 1910 and could not find Kate/Katherine/Catherine GOFF nee HAWKINS anywhere...SC or any other state so I assume she must have died in between the 1900 census & the 1910 census.

Remarriage is another possibility. She was fairly young in 1900, 45y & and her children were ready (or in Estelle's* case would be in a few years) to go off on their own so it's not without reason to consider a second marriage, too. However, my searches for Kate/ Katherine/ Catherine b. 1855 +/- 1 or 2 yrs turned up no one who would seem to be a good prospect.

*A note on Estelle...I think that the year for Estelle's birth is 1890 not 1897 as Ancestry indexed it. She is 29y on the 1920 census and 31y on her DC in 1921 which would be more consistant with a 1890 DOB.

Unfortunately, there's no way for me to narrow that time period down for a death/remarriage for Kate although I'm leaning more towards death.

Ancestry doesn't have any city directories for SC beyond Charleston, she's not showing up in the deaths database at Ancestry or the LDS Pilot site & there doesn't seem to be any database of SC marriages for that period.

Looks like I'll be sending for some certificates. I don't see any prohibitions on my getting a copy of Estelle's marriage certificate and the search fee is very reasonable so perhaps I'll go that route rather than Samuel's DC. Estelle is far more likely to have known her father's name than the informant on Samuel's DC. AND, the MC from Richland Co. will be less expensive than a GA DC, which in this economy, is a factor.

Thanks again.