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Gotts Surname Family History
131 - 7 Arvilla Shore, Lucy and Harry
Arvilla married Charles Shore in 1890
They married by licence in Sedan, Kansas, just over the border north of Bartlesville. This shows they are living in the Osage Nation in Indian Territory. It seems a long way to go to be married. We don’t know yet if Charles was also a Quaker. She married under her maiden name, which suggests she did not marry Henry Gotts, but lived with him.
We can see Arvilla and Charles Shore in the 1900 census living in Cherryvale, Kansas, about 50 miles East of Sedan. With them are Frank, Bertha, and Richard Rhae, now using the surname Shore. The children later use their Gotts surname when marrying.
So Arvilla joined the Quakers in June 1888 and left May 1890, six months before she remarried. One possibility is that Henry and Arvilla parted for whatever reason, and Arvilla turned to the Quakers for assistance in feeding her family. Leaving six months before her marriage may be because she now had Charles Shore to support her. We may never know.
Henry in Indian Territory
There is a 1900 census entry for Henry and Rosie Goods within the Creek Nation Indian Territory. There doesn’t appear to be a birth or marriage under this name, but taking the family as a whole there are some strong possibilities that this is Henry:
Ancestry lists their surname as GOOD, FS can’t make anything of it.
- Goods/Gottz quite possible, Ohio is where he came from, though not born there
- Maths not his strong point: 1865+45 = 1910! Age probably 55, with 10 years knocked off for vanity, also Harry was nearly 2, b Dec 1898
- Written as Rosie, but her real name is Losarlie so Losie vs Rosie?….
- Ages of Lucy and Harry match elsewhere, he was born in Dec
- Married 1896, is it likely there is a record?