I also found them in the 1900 Census. Estella had remarried. William Helcheth in
Kansas. In that census Nellie is 18 and
Estella 42. Just a few years later Nellie married my grandfather Robert
Carter and started using her middle name Jennie. Which is what I had been looking for until I found the 1920 census where she had gone back to using
Nell. I have some pictures somewhere of her as Jennie and
Nell both. Will post them as soon as I can find them.
I think you have the correct information. She named her oldest son Robert
Columbus Carter. My great uncle. I am going to follow up on the info you gave me. I think you may be correct.
Charlene Broadway-Brown
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