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Joseph Awbrey married to Mary Shoemaker or Mary Prewitt??

Joseph Awbrey married to Mary Shoemaker or Mary Prewitt??

Posted: 4 Feb 2012 1:33AM GMT
Classification: Query
When I got my genealogy from my cousin Carol Anne in 1979 [and she had done some very extensive research] she stated that Joseph Aubrey/Awberry married Mary Prewitt, 14 July 1823 in Hardin County, KY. And we have been going with this every since.
In about 1999 my mother and I went to Springfield, IL and since it was so close to Missouri and we were going to have to rent a car while we were there off to Linn Co., MO we went. This is where Joseph and Mary had settled and raised their family. We meet with Mae Couch [expert researcher for Linn and Chariton Counties in MO]. Mae has written quite a few books on the area and taken some excerpts from local information. In one book were excerpts from the local paper. In it was the obit for Joseph Aubrey and it stated that his wife was Mary Shoemaker, they had 13 children and he died on 30 June 1889 in Linneus, Linn Co., MO. As Mary Shoemaker was not the wife I had listed I wasn’t sure what to do and figured that the person who gave the information made a mistake [something we see all the time]. Mary died 12 Feb 1875, Linn Co., Missouri.
In about 2005 my cousins Jan and Bart McKee went to Lexington, KY for a work conference and of course being genealogists they did some research. I sent the Joseph and Mary Aubrey info with them in case they tired of doing their own research. They came back with copies of the marriage records for Joseph Awberry and Mary Prewitt. So again I dismissed the Mary Shoemaker and just miss information.
And everywhere you go on the internet there is a Joseph Awberry married to Mary Prewitt. So of course it is right. But there is still in the back of my mind that maybe there was a 2nd marriage and that is where the Shoemaker came from. I did a search on Ancestry.com for marriages in Missouri for a Shoemaker and found nothing. Since I am pretty sure that Joseph didn’t go out of state to have a 2nd marriage I again dismissed it as a mistake.
Come 2010 and on a trip to Salt Lake City and a visit to the Family history Library and I looked at the micro film for Hardin Co., KY marriages and I looked for something about a Shoemaker marrying anyone and found nothing but there was the records for Joseph and Mary Prewitt. So again I dismissed Mary Shoemaker.
During this time I connected with descendents of Roland Awbrey [they live about 5 miles away as the crow flies] and Kathy stated that she thought that Joseph was the son of Roland and not Samuel as we had. Something to think about.
In January 2012 I found out Fold3 had War 1812 pensions online. I knew that Joseph had applied or a pension and so went looking for it and found it. And there in black and white was Joseph stating that his wife was Mary Shoemaker and they had married in 1820 in Hardin Co., KY. I know this is my Joseph because he is in Linneus, Linn Co., Mo in the 1870’s.
I have looked in the census for another Joseph Aubrey and can’t find him. There is a rumor that there was a Joseph in St Louis MO and maybe his son in California.
My Joseph is married to Mary Shoemaker even though there is no record so far in Hardin Co. KY. But who is his father Samuel [like I have] or Roland?? Where did the other Joseph and Mary go?? Are there 2 Joseph’s married to 2 Mary’s? And how do I prove it.

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