Week 14 - A Brick Wall Revisited - Sheridan
Sometimes brick walls just won't fall. Back in the early 2010's I found this newspaper article while researching my Sheridan family: In the Maple Rapids Dispatch newspaper Friday, 1 June 1888 Vol X #35 Pg8 Col2 - from the Perrinton Mirador: "Two sharp looking boys arrived on the noon train today, from Detroit, sent by the St. Anthony orphan asylum, to find homes with Michael Sheridan and Thos. Holland." So, I went to check out census records and with no 1890 census available, I expanded my searching and discovered the 1894 Michigan census. In that census, a 14-year-old boy named Frank Morrison is listed with the Patrick Sheridan family and relationship to head of household showed adopted boy. He was born in Michigan in 1888 based on his age in the census, but both parents were listed as unknown. 1894 Perrinton, Gratiot, Michigan State Census FamilySearch pg434 MF 915307 line17 Index N04005-0 Why Patrick and Margaret and not living with Michael and Elizabeth as s...