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Entries are normalized across all 68 historical records in the research ledger. Under Jason's settled lineage policy, public claims are strictly bounded to the Waldrip lineage (68 entries for Richard Michael Waldrop, his descendants, and direct records). Corrections for collateral or spouse lines (0 entries) are retained as mixed research evidence and clearly labeled, never treated as Waldrip ancestry.
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- wasAn agent reported the 1790 entries citing two different archive.org identifiers for one page.nowVerified independently in the printed volume, including its own index, which gives the page for each name. The entries are real. The household column figures are OCR-flattened and one digit reads 9 where 1 is almost certain, recorded as a caveat rather than smoothed over.unknown support
- wasMichael of Laurens appeared from nowhere in an 1807 deed, with no earlier context of any kind.now1790 federal census, Ninety Six District, South Carolina: six households of the name, Luke, James, James, John, Joseph and Michael, pages 72 to 75 of the 1908 GPO volume. Michael heads one on page 73 with two free white males sixteen and upward. Michael III was sixteen to twenty that year.unknown support
- wasAn agent reported full verbatim deed text with no URL attached, on the most load-bearing claim in the project.nowThe text was real and the agent under-cited it. Source located and opened independently: ingramroots.casa, a TNG compilation carrying transcriptions credited to Nobel Acker, Carol Wells and Jill Garrett. Graded `partly` because a transcription is not the record.unknown support
- wasNothing above Michael was recorded at all.nowMaury County TN court minutes, May 1816, record Michael Waldrup Sr. on p. 202 and Michael Waldrup Junior on p. 199 in the same court. Two men of one name, elder and younger, in one place. The pair is established; the relationship is not stated by the record.unknown support
- wasMichael to Anderson was `claimed`, resting on a Find a Grave memorial.nowUpgraded to `partly`. Wayne County TN Deed Book G pp. 115 to 117, 3 Sep 1850, names Anderson M. Waldrop among the heirs of Michael Waldrop deceased, selling the 80 acres Michael bought in 1833. Read as a published transcription with a named transcriber, not the original.unknown support
- wasThe map marked York County, Virginia, 1672.nowThe mark is New Kent County, 1682. It stays off the route and unjoined, because nothing connects that man to Michael of Laurens.unknown support
- wasThe prologue prose led with the 1672 levy and made the 1682 patent its sequel.nowIt leads with the patent, the record actually read, and states what he is in it: not a party but the consideration.unknown support
- wasThe prologue was dated 1672 to 1713 at York County.nowDated 1682 to 1713 at New Kent County, where the opened record puts him: Virginia Patent Book 7 folio 154, 20 April 1682, the fork of the Chickahominy.unknown support
- wasThe site masthead read 'from a tobacco levy in York County, Virginia, 1672'.nowIt now reads 'from a name at the foot of a Virginia land patent, 1682'. The 1672 tithable is a WikiTree assertion behind a bot challenge that this project never opened. The most prominent sentence on the site was carrying its weakest claim.unknown support
Sherman Emil Waldripspouse
wasUnrecorded in treenowMarried Guinola Robinson, daughter of Mr and Mrs Monroe RobinsonNot in the family's tree export.
Evidence:Nogales International, 2 December 1939: "Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Waldrip were guests of Mrs. Waldrip's parents Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Robinson"; NAU alumni magazine, May 1961 (remote) (college yearbooks and student paper, opened)Sherman Emil WaldripDEAT.DATE
was5 January 2002now5 January 2003The family's tree export is a year early.
Evidence:NAU alumni records and the Social Security Death Index; he moved to Sedona in 1979 and died there (college yearbooks and student paper, opened)Sherman Emil Waldrip
wasUnrecorded in treenowCalled Sam from his second college year; Arizona State Teachers College recorded him as Sherman Waldrip in 1932 and Sam Waldrip of Pleasant Valley in 1933 and 1934Closes the identification. Pleasant Valley is Young.
Evidence:La Cuesta yearbooks 1932, 1933, 1934, NAU Cline Library digital collections; The Pine, 12 November 1935, p. 3: "According to reports from Sam Waldrip, Hiking club president" (college yearbooks and student paper, opened)Diana DeenNAME.SURN
wasDeannowDeenThe page had spelled the speaker Diana Dean throughout. She is Janice's daughter, so she is a Deen; the tree carries her under the married name Thompson. This closes the open question about which Diana reads the service: not Diana Sue Watson of the Smith side.
Evidence:Memorial card: 'Janice Ray Waldrip Deen'. Her daughter is a Deen by birth. Confirmed by Jason 2026-09-08. (family memorial card plus the family)George Thomas Waldripoccupation
wasUnrecorded in treenowOrchardist: named among the growers of the best apples at the 1909 New Mexico Territorial FairNew. No record in this project had established him as a fruit grower.
Evidence:The Alamogordo News, 21 Oct 1909, p. 1, 'CARRIED OFF SECOND PRIZE AT FAIR' (verification pass 2026-09-08, source opened)Waldrip, McCulloch County, Texasnaming
wasUnrecorded in treenowThe Handbook of Texas entry names no individual; attributing the place to Anderson is an inference from census and land recordsThe page must stop asserting the attribution as if the Handbook made it.
Evidence:Handbook of Texas Online, "Waldrip, TX": "The site was part of Waldrip's Ranch when the county was organized in 1876. A post office opened in 1879." (verification pass 2026-09-08, source opened)Anderson Marion Waldripheadstone inscription
wasFather has gone to mansions of restnowRetractedThe inscription is unattested. Find a Grave carries a portrait, not a stone.
Evidence:Coke County Cemeteries Epitaphs and Dates (Copeland and Smith, 1990), Robert Lee Cemetery, complete A to Y: no Waldrip and no Graham (verification pass 2026-09-08, source opened)John Franklin Waldriphomestead patent
was9382250now938250A digit too many in the number an earlier pass recorded.
Evidence:BLM GLO patent record, Gila County, 159.94 acres, 1924 (verification pass 2026-09-08, source opened)1682 Claiborne headrightcitation
wasVirginia Patent Book 7, p. 236nowVirginia Patent Book 7, p. 154, abstracted in Nugent, Cavaliers and Pioneers, vol. 2, p. 236Retracts a correction Main made earlier the same day, which conflated the abstract's page with the record's.
Evidence:Nugent vol. 2 p. 236: "545 acs., New Kent Co. 20 Apr 1682, p. 154... Micha. Wardrope" (verification pass 2026-09-08, source opened)Rebecca Ann Waldrip1840 census citation
wasTishomingo Co. MS p. 228nowp. 229Also on that page: son Thomas Waldrip, and the Merchant households as neighbours.
Evidence:1840 U.S. Census, M704 roll 219, opened at archive.org populationsc18400219unit; p. 228 holds the Dilworth households (verification pass 2026-09-08, source opened)Anderson Marion Waldrip1850 census citation
wasSmith Co. TX p. 42A, family 188, laborernowp. 42B, dwelling and family 8, Farmer, surname written WaldrupThree errors in one citation.
Evidence:1850 U.S. Census, Smith Co., TX, opened at archive.org populationschedu0915unix: "line 12: Anderson M. Waldrup 23 M Farmer Tennessee"; family 188 is John Welch (verification pass 2026-09-08, source opened)Michael Waldrip1820 census citation
wasNARA M33 Roll 125nowNARA M33 Reel 122Wrong roll carried in the research files.
Evidence:Roll 125 covers Robertson, Smith and Williamson counties; Wayne County is Reel 122 (archive.org populationsc18200122unit) (verification pass 2026-09-08, source opened)Sherman Emil Waldrip
wasUnrecorded in treenowKnown as Sam Waldrip; b 10 Mar 1912, d 5 Jan 2002; John Franklin's second son, Floyd's brother; teacher at Roosevelt School, Nogales, and Patagonia HighAnswers Jason's question about 'Sam's Musings and Mutterings'. The man is real; no printed work of that name exists in any corpus searched.
Evidence:Waldrip working brandbrand
wasUnrecorded in treenowRick judges a three-element brand implausible for working cattle and points to the simple L-V on the Young page as the family's markRelayed by Jason 2026-09-08. A registration and a working iron are not the same object; the 1919 Arizona law voided prior brands and forced re-filing, so 1921 records one filing moment. On what the family actually burned, Rick is the better source and the register cannot answer.
Evidence:Arizona brand register, entry 7261, reading checkbrand
wasUnrecorded in treenowJ-rafter-W confirmed as a single cell: neighbours Getzwiller (FJF) and Wakefield (L over J-F) show three and four element brands are ordinary on the same pageTested because Rick judged the mark too complex to be real. The reading survives; the objection redirects to a better question.
Evidence:Waldrip family brand, Young, Arizonabrand
wasUnrecorded in treenowA second, different mark: an L-form with a V in its angle, labelled WALDRIPS in a Young local history bookThis is NOT the 1921 state register brand. Entry 7261 registers J F Waldrip's mark as a J and a W joined under a bar. This one is plural, WALDRIPS, and a different shape entirely. Both are real and they are not the same mark. Which came first, whether the L-V was ever registered, and what book this page is from are all open.
Evidence:Page headed BRANDS, Young / Pleasant Valley local history book, photographed by Jason's father, supplied 2026-09-08; data/records/young-brands-page-waldrips.webp (local history book, photographed)John Franklin Waldripbrand.placement
wasleft shoulder and thigh for cattle and horsesnowc ls-rh h ls-t (verbatim; the book's legend page has not been read, so the expansion is not asserted)The earlier expansion was a guess at abbreviations nobody checked.
Evidence:Brand book of the state of Arizona, Live Stock Sanitary Board of Arizona, 1921, printed p. 50, scan leaf 56, entry 7261: "J F Waldrip / Young / c ls-rh h ls-t", the brand printed as a glyph. Opened 2026-09-08 at archive.org/details/brandbookofstate00liverich; crop in data/records/ (remote) (state brand register, opened)John Franklin Waldripbrand
wasUnrecorded in treenowArizona brand 7261, registered to J F Waldrip of Young; glyph J-rafter-WEntry number recovered. The glyph is only reproducible as the scan.
Evidence:Brand book of the state of Arizona, Live Stock Sanitary Board of Arizona, 1921, printed p. 50, scan leaf 56, entry 7261: "J F Waldrip / Young / c ls-rh h ls-t", the brand printed as a glyph. Opened 2026-09-08 at archive.org/details/brandbookofstate00liverich; crop in data/records/ (remote) (state brand register, opened)John Franklin Waldripbrand
wasWXnowRetractedThe register does not contain the string "WX". The brand is printed as a picture and reads as a J, a rafter and a W, joined. "WX" was a delegated research agent's rendering of an image, in a source I never opened, and it was carried into the page as a drawn W and X.
Evidence:Brand book of the state of Arizona, Live Stock Sanitary Board of Arizona, 1921, printed p. 50, scan leaf 56, entry 7261: "J F Waldrip / Young / c ls-rh h ls-t", the brand printed as a glyph. Opened 2026-09-08 at archive.org/details/brandbookofstate00liverich; crop in data/records/ (remote) (state brand register, opened)Waldrip Mesa Road, Gila County, Arizona
wasUnrecorded in treenowPhotographed: a signed Arizona road, with Melvin and Marvin standing at the signAbsent from the federal GNIS and from Barnes and Granger, which the research file records as a documented negative. The sign is real and now has a photograph; the gap is in the gazetteers, not on the ground.
Evidence:In Loving Memory of John Melvin Waldrip, YouTube 5-_6mQ2-81U, channel Mike Waldrip, uploaded 2026-01-05, archived 2026-09-08; frames in data/video/plates, sha256 in data/video/manifest.json (remote) (family-published memorial video, archived locally)1938 four-generation photograph
wasUnrecorded in treenowTwo copies exist and they are mirror images of each other; the video's scan is wider and sharperWhich one is reversed is not determinable from either image. Identification is by clothing, not by position, so it is unaffected. Ask Mike.
Evidence:In Loving Memory of John Melvin Waldrip, YouTube 5-_6mQ2-81U, channel Mike Waldrip, uploaded 2026-01-05, archived 2026-09-08; frames in data/video/plates, sha256 in data/video/manifest.json (remote) (family-published memorial video, archived locally)John Melvin Waldrip
wasUnrecorded in treenowA memorial video of 77 photographs was published by the family on 2026-01-05, two days after the serviceArchived in full. The plates are overwhelmingly not in the Geni export.
Evidence:In Loving Memory of John Melvin Waldrip, YouTube 5-_6mQ2-81U, channel Mike Waldrip, uploaded 2026-01-05, archived 2026-09-08; frames in data/video/plates, sha256 in data/video/manifest.json (remote) (family-published memorial video, archived locally)Michael Fitzgerald Waldrip
wasUnrecorded in treenowWrote the song 'It's a Lonelier World' for his uncle Melvin; credited in the video description as Michael WaldripMarvin's son. That the credited songwriter is this Michael, rather than another, is the obvious reading and is not stated anywhere.
Evidence:In Loving Memory of John Melvin Waldrip, YouTube 5-_6mQ2-81U, channel Mike Waldrip, uploaded 2026-01-05, archived 2026-09-08; frames in data/video/plates, sha256 in data/video/manifest.json (remote) (family-published memorial video, archived locally)Charles Gawinn Deen
wasUnrecorded in treenowCharles Gawinn Deen, b 17 JUL 1933, d 7 SEP 2020, husband of Janice Ray Waldrip DeenNot present in the export at all. Their son Brian Deen and grandson Drake Deen are, so the tree has the children without the father.
Evidence:Memorial card supplied by Jason 2026-09-08: "Please Join Us for the Celebration of Life and Burial of Chuck and Janice Deen, Saturday, April 25th, 2026 ... Charles Gawinn Deen, July 17, 1933 - September 7, 2020. Janice Ray Waldrip Deen, April 17, 1935 - February 26, 2026. Celebration of Life 11:00 am, Monte Vista Baptist Church, 2409 N. 36th Street, Phoenix, Arizona 85008. Burial 2:00 pm, Resthaven Memorial Gardens, 4310 East Southern Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85042." (memorial card image published on Facebook, pulled by Jason and read 2026-09-08; not a document handed over by the family and not a civil record)Janice Ray Waldrip DeenNAME.SURN
wasDeennowDeen (born Waldrip)The card gives her full name as Janice Ray Waldrip Deen. The export carries only Deen, which loses the maiden name on a woman whose birth family is the subject of this project.
Evidence:Memorial card supplied by Jason 2026-09-08: "Please Join Us for the Celebration of Life and Burial of Chuck and Janice Deen, Saturday, April 25th, 2026 ... Charles Gawinn Deen, July 17, 1933 - September 7, 2020. Janice Ray Waldrip Deen, April 17, 1935 - February 26, 2026. Celebration of Life 11:00 am, Monte Vista Baptist Church, 2409 N. 36th Street, Phoenix, Arizona 85008. Burial 2:00 pm, Resthaven Memorial Gardens, 4310 East Southern Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85042." (memorial card image published on Facebook, pulled by Jason and read 2026-09-08; not a document handed over by the family and not a civil record)Janice Ray Waldrip DeenBURI.PLAC
wasUnrecorded in treenowResthaven Memorial Gardens, 4310 East Southern Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona, United StatesBuried 25 April 2026 at 2:00 pm, in the same service as her husband.
Evidence:Memorial card supplied by Jason 2026-09-08: "Please Join Us for the Celebration of Life and Burial of Chuck and Janice Deen, Saturday, April 25th, 2026 ... Charles Gawinn Deen, July 17, 1933 - September 7, 2020. Janice Ray Waldrip Deen, April 17, 1935 - February 26, 2026. Celebration of Life 11:00 am, Monte Vista Baptist Church, 2409 N. 36th Street, Phoenix, Arizona 85008. Burial 2:00 pm, Resthaven Memorial Gardens, 4310 East Southern Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85042." (memorial card image published on Facebook, pulled by Jason and read 2026-09-08; not a document handed over by the family and not a civil record)Janice Ray Waldrip DeenDEAT.DATE
wasUnrecorded in treenow26 FEB 2026The tree records her as living. She was in the room at Melvin's service on 3 January 2026 and died seven weeks later.
Evidence:Memorial card supplied by Jason 2026-09-08: "Please Join Us for the Celebration of Life and Burial of Chuck and Janice Deen, Saturday, April 25th, 2026 ... Charles Gawinn Deen, July 17, 1933 - September 7, 2020. Janice Ray Waldrip Deen, April 17, 1935 - February 26, 2026. Celebration of Life 11:00 am, Monte Vista Baptist Church, 2409 N. 36th Street, Phoenix, Arizona 85008. Burial 2:00 pm, Resthaven Memorial Gardens, 4310 East Southern Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85042." (memorial card image published on Facebook, pulled by Jason and read 2026-09-08; not a document handed over by the family and not a civil record)John Melvin WaldripOCCU
wasUnrecorded in treenowTelephone company, fifteen years; founder, Telephone Warehouse, 1982From the published obituary, opened 2026-09-08. The tree currently records him as living.
John Melvin WaldripBIRT.PLAC
wasUnrecorded in treenowGlobe, Gila County, Arizona, United StatesFrom the published obituary, opened 2026-09-08. The tree currently records him as living.
John Melvin WaldripDEAT.PLAC
wasUnrecorded in treenowPhoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, United StatesFrom the published obituary, opened 2026-09-08. The tree currently records him as living.
Evidence:John Melvin WaldripDEAT.DATE
wasUnrecorded in treenow5 DEC 2025From the published obituary, opened 2026-09-08. The tree currently records him as living.
Floyd Raymond WaldripBURI.PLAC
wasUnrecorded in treenowYoung Cemetery, Young, Gila County, Arizona, United StatesRecord has ADDR city/state (Young, AZ) but no cemetery name; separate GRAD-tagged data alternating Globe/Young in the export is unrelated graduation metadata, not conflicting burial tags.
Evidence:APCRP and Find a Grave Memorial 18930056 confirm interment at Young Cemetery in Pleasant Valley. (headstone)Floyd Raymond WaldripBIRT.PLAC
wasMountain Park, New Mexico, United StatesnowMountain Park, Otero County, New Mexico TerritoryAdds the county and correct territorial status (New Mexico was a Territory, not a state, until January 1912).
Evidence:Born Feb 24, 1909 during Sacramento Mountain lumber boom. (other)John Franklin WaldripOCCU
wasCattle Ranch OwnernowLogger, Cattle Rancher, Ranch ForemanAdds his documented logging-camp years and the WX brand cattle ranching career before he owned the ranch.
Evidence:1905 logging camp; 1920 Arizona Live Stock Board brand "WX" owner; Young cattle spread. (other)John Franklin WaldripBURI.PLAC
wasTempe, Arizona, United StatesnowDouble Butte Cemetery, Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona, United StatesAdds the specific cemetery name; the town (Tempe) was already correct.
Evidence:Died March 29, 1956 in Phoenix, funeral services in Salt River Valley. (other)John Franklin WaldripBIRT.PLAC
wasTexasnowColeman, Coleman County, Texas, United StatesNarrows the flat 'Texas' birthplace to the specific town and county.
Evidence:WWI draft card and family records confirm Coleman, TX birth on Feb 26, 1882. (other)George Thomas WaldripNOTE
wasServed in Texas Rangers during Indian WarsnowRetractedGeorge Thomas Waldrip was NOT a commissioned Texas Ranger. Texas State Library and Archives Commission Ranger rolls hold no enlistment or commission for him; family lore reflects informal 1870s frontier posse riding, not state-recognized military service. migration-spine.md's Occupations row proposed affirming 'Texas Ranger' as fact; this correction follows military-service.md's dedicated review instead.
Evidence:Born in 1858; was a child during Civil War. No permanent Texas Ranger state commission found on TSLAC rolls. (other)George Thomas WaldripBURI.PLAC
wasMountain View Cemetary, Winkelman, Arizona, United StatesnowMountain View Cemetery, Hayden/Winkelman, Gila County, Arizona, United StatesFixes the spelling 'Cemetary' and clarifies the cemetery straddles Hayden and Winkelman on the Gila County line; it is not in Globe.
Evidence:Cemetery sits on AZ-177 (Mountain View Ave) serving twin towns Hayden and Winkelman (Find a Grave 93100190). (headstone)George Thomas WaldripBIRT.PLAC
wasTexasnowHenderson County, Texas, United StatesNarrows the flat 'Texas' to the county where his parents were enumerated at the time of his birth.
Evidence:1860 census places parents in Henderson County, Athens P.O. (census)Anderson Marion WaldripNOTE
wasHe is suspected to be 1/4 Cherokee Indian.nowRetractedSix consecutive federal censuses (1830-1880) enumerate the family as White; the lore has no documentary support.
Evidence:In the 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 federal censuses, Anderson and his parents were consistently enumerated as "White" ("W"). His father, Michael Waldrop, served in the Tennessee militia during the War of 1812/Creek War, and his ancestry traces directly to English Waldrop/Waldrip immigrants in Virginia and South Carolina. (census)Anderson Marion WaldripNOTE
wasUnrecorded in treenowNo documented Confederate or Union military enlistment in Texas or Tennessee muster rolls (NARA M323, M380); active civilian frontier stockman and founding McCulloch County Commissioner (1876).Documents the researched absence of Civil War service, distinct from the OCCU correction.
Evidence:A comprehensive search of Confederate and Union compiled military service records (National Archives Microcopy M323 for Confederate Texas soldiers and M380 for Union Texas soldiers) and the Texas State Archives Confederate Pension Application Index reveals no record of formal military enlistment for Anderson Marion Waldrip. (other)Anderson Marion WaldripOCCU
wasFarmernowCattle Raiser, Founding County Commissioner, Sheep RancherReplaces the generic 'Farmer' with his documented occupations across the Coleman/McCulloch cattle range and later Nolan County sheep venture.
Evidence:McCulloch County organization (1876); namesake of Waldrip, TX; Nolan County sheep litigation (1885). (other)Anderson Marion WaldripBURI.PLAC
wasUnrecorded in treenowRobert Lee Cemetery, Robert Lee, Coke County, Texas, United StatesCurrent record has ADDR city/state (Robert Lee, Texas) but no cemetery name.
Evidence:Anderson Marion WaldripBURI.DATE
wasABT 12 MAR 1887now12 MAR 18971887 is a ten-year transcription error; his DEAT.DATE is already recorded as 10 MAR 1897, two days before this burial date.
Evidence:Died March 10, 1897; 1887 was an erroneous transcription in the baseline database. (other)Anderson Marion WaldripBIRT.PLAC
wasTennesseenowLawrence County, Tennessee, United Statesrichard-michael-waldrip.md places the birth specifically during the family's Shoal Creek residence in Lawrence County (1822-1832); migration-spine.md hedges 'Wayne or Lawrence'. Using the more specific claim.
Evidence:Born Jan 5, 1827; parents resided on Shoal Creek (Lawrence) / Indian Creek (Wayne). (other)Mahulda Jane Swain (born Merchant)NAME.SURN
wasMerchantnowWaldripShe is FAMC-linked as a child of Michael Waldrip and Rebecca Ann Brown, confirming her birth surname is Waldrip, not her sister's married name.
Evidence:Geni erroneously recorded her as "born Merchant", which was the married surname of her sister Prudence Waldrip Merchant. (other)Rebecca Ann BrownSOUR
was9 empty SOUR nodes (Geni edit-audit stamps, Apr 2021)nowRetractedPrune and replace with real citations: 1810 marriage bond, 1836 tax list, 1839 estate deed, 1850 census.
Evidence:The 9 existing nodes are internal Geni edit audit stamps from April 2021 with no evidentiary content. (other)Rebecca Ann BrownNOTE
wasSuspected to be 1/2 Cherokee Indian.nowRetractedUnattributed Geni about_me lore with no known speaker. Zero historical documentation exists in federal Indian records (Dawes Commission, Guion Miller rolls) or contemporary records for her or her children.
unknown supportRebecca Ann BrownDEAT.PLAC
wasProbably Henderson County, TexasnowHenderson County, Texas, United StatesRemoves the hedge 'Probably' now that her September 1850 residence there is documented.
Evidence:Living in Henderson County with son William in September 1850; family remained in Henderson and Smith Counties. (census)Rebecca Ann BrownDEAT.DATE
was1850nowAFT 09 SEP 1850Flat 1850 death year is contradicted by her own enumeration in the September 1850 census; no later death record has been found.
Evidence:Living on 9 September 1850 when enumerated in the 1850 census. (census)Rebecca Ann BrownBIRT.PLAC
wasSouth Carolina or GeorgianowSouth CarolinaEliminates the speculative 'or Georgia' alternative.
Evidence:The 1850 federal census of Henderson County, Texas (dwelling 280) explicitly records her birthplace as South Carolina. (census)Rebecca Ann BrownBIRT.DATE
was1785nowBET 1784 AND 17851850 census age places her birth a year earlier than the flat 1785 estimate.
Evidence:Recorded as age 65 on 9 September 1850 in Henderson County, Texas. (census)Richard Michael WaldripRESI
wasUnrecorded in treenow19 JUN 1809, Maury County, Tennessee, United StatesAdds a documented residence a year before the 1810 Rebecca Brown marriage bond, currently the record's earliest fact. Personally verified against the cited WikiTree page (see research/VERIFICATION.md); the surrounding narration names him 'Richard Michael Waldrip' as the modern page's own label, not a period usage, and does not reopen the name question resolved in corr for NAME.GIVN.
Richard Michael WaldripDEAT.PLAC
wasTennesseenowWayne County, Tennessee, United StatesSpecifies the county consistent with the Wayne County deed records naming him deceased.
Evidence:His 80-acre homestead on Indian Creek was in Wayne County, where he died possessed of the land. (other)Richard Michael WaldripDEAT.DATE
was1835nowBET 01 MAR 1833 AND 10 DEC 1839No single death record exists; bracket the death between the last deed he signed and the first document naming him deceased.
Evidence:Living 1 March 1833 (land deed); absent from 1836 Wayne County tax list where widow Rebecca was assessed for his 80 acres; deceased prior to 10 December 1839 estate partition deed. (other)Richard Michael WaldripBIRT.DATE
was1770nowBET 1770 AND 1774Narrows the flat 1770 estimate to the range the census age brackets actually support.
Evidence:No birth record exists. Census brackets in 1820 (age 45+) and 1830 (age 50-59) narrow his birth to 1770-1774. (census)Richard Michael WaldripNAME.GIVN
wasRichard MichaelnowMichaelA comprehensive search of Maury, Lawrence, and Wayne County records 1800-1840 found no individual named 'Richard Waldrip' or 'Richard Waldrop'; surname-origin-and-depth.md proposed keeping 'Richard Michael' but its only citation (WikiTree Waldrop-470) is a modern page's chosen name, not a period usage. Following the dedicated identity review.
Evidence:Every contemporary primary record (marriage bond, War of 1812 rolls, court dockets, land deeds, estate partitions) records him strictly as Michael Waldrip/Waldrop. The name "Richard" is a 20th-century genealogical error. (other)Thomas Abel WaldripDEAT.PLAC
wasLeesville, Texas, United StatesnowParker County, Texas, United StatesRelocated from Leesville (Gonzales Co.) to Parker County where he was enumerated in 1900.
Thomas Abel WaldripDEAT.DATE
was1925nowBET JUN 1900 AND APR 1910Death year 1925 in Leesville was an unsourced family tree error conflated with son Robert Lee T. Waldrip who died 12 Aug 1925; Thomas died between 1900 and 1910.