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X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Subject: [ROOTS-L] Obit/Census Needed Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com I am searching for obits or census information on the following 2 individuals: Lillian Maroth and John Boleslav/Boluslov, neither of which I have birth date or death dates for. There is some reason to believe they changed their name to Jones. I have been unsuccessful in locating anything on these individuals other than that they were living in Matagorda Tx in 1931. It would help tremendously if I could locate William Roscoe Whitehead's obit. Death Jan. 12, 1984 in Longview, Gregg Co. TX. I need a birthplace for him. Below gives background to the situation. ANY help would be appreciated. I am fairly new to genealogy yet have had success with many branches of my family; however, I have stumbled across an extremely confusing situation/person: my grandmother. I have struggled with this for over a year but have yet to ask for any help, but I am simply dead-ended. As a result, I thought the next logical step would be to ask for HELP :) Please forgive the cross-posting, but I wasn't completely sure where to send this. I have never had communication with my paternal side whatsoever. When my father, William Michael Whitehead passed away in 2004, I began to seek answers about my lineage on his side. The Whiteheads have proven elusive but probably not unworkable; however, my grandmother seems to be another story. Her name was Lillian Charline "Jones", or so I am told. She passed away in Texas, where she lived all of her life, in 2001. SSDI does produce records of a Lilly Charline Jones as does the Tx birth index (as mother of Wm M Whitehead), but that is it on records for her. She does not appear in one census in Texas. The curiosity rose when I received pictures of her. She was not 'white', but appeared to be Middle-Eastern or Italian, or so was my best guess. Then I learned through records that I now own that her son and husband operated business in Prague. My father lived there off and on for 20 + years and I have legal pads with his writing in Cesky. This led me to believe it was possible that she was Bohemian (I have photos of my father with elderly individuals in Prague - his mother's side of the family? I do not know...still guessing) I had been told by several of her friends that she had been married before marrying my grandfather. I assumed this to be where the name Jones came from. I still cannot locate records of anything pertaining to such however. These same friends tell me that Charline said she was "German". Finally, I stumbled across a record for a Lillian Charline Boluslov, born in Matagorda Tx. The birth date did not match: My grandmother was born in 1915...the Lillian Charline in this record was born in 1931. So I looked to the mother. Her name was Lillian Maroth; husband's name John Boluslov. There isn't anything here that matches up with the exception of the mother's name being "Lillian" as well, and apparently an immigrant possibly from Czech (judging by the name Boleslav - I am unsure of the origins of Maroth). This coupled with my father living both in Texas and Prague seemed very coincidental. My questions (that remain unanswered): Is Lillian Maroth possibly my grandmother, with John Boluslov being the 'other husband' so frequently mentioned by friends? If so, what happened to Lillian Charline Boluslav, b. 1931? She never shows up again - neither do Lillian Maroth or John Boluslov. I am not having much luck finding the name Boleslav/Boluslav/Boluslov either, whether in the US or Czech. I am running out of ways to tie this together because all the info I have is such a loose fit. My true question is; where would I go from here? I am unable to turn to other family members on my paternal side for most have passed on. William Michael Whitehead (my father, son of Charline "Jones") was an only child. In turn, he produced only one offspring, to my knowledge, which was me. I have 2 daughters so it is important to us to solve this - but we are stuck. Once again, ANY help would be appreciated. Sincerely, Michelle