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| The Taunton surname presented a real challenge. On the marriage record of Norval Shows to Emma Taunton the name was recorded three different ways. So the hunt began. By fluke I found Emma with her mother and younger sister on the 1870 census records. Her mother had remarried. I have not found when her father died, but I think he died during the civil war. I haven't been able to trace her sister either. Her mother had an unusual given name, Louisiana. From that I found marriage records, her dad's name. I found him as a boy by hunting through the Louisiana census records in 1850 and found his parents. There was a marriage record for them too. The neat thing is, that after all the hunting, I obtained the death certificate for Emma from Baton Rouge, LA archives. Her parents were listed as Louisiana Hawthorn and Asa Eli Taunton. They are the ones I had figured out with other records. Later note: I have found Emma's sister she married, lived, and died in Caldwell Parish, LA.
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