tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13196976.post-91637388254547341372007-09-29T11:36:00.000-04:002007-09-29T11:36:00.000-04:002007-09-29T11:36:00.000-04:00Loretta Lynn (born Loretta Webb) was the daughter of coal miner Melvin "Ted" Webb (1906–1959). <BR/><BR/>In the 1910 census for Buffalo, Johnson County, Kentucky, we find 3-year-old Melvin with his parents, Alexander ("Alic") Webb and Mandy (born Mandy Butcher according to other sources). Mandy Butcher Webb would have been Loretta Lynn's paternal grandmother.<BR/><BR/>Mandy Butcher appears as "Manda" in the 1900 census, a daughter of Simon Butcher (born May 1848). <BR/><BR/>This means that Mandy Butcher's paternal grandmother (Simon's mother) would have died in 1911 as a Butcher (assuming that she didn't remarry), and may appear in the Kentucky Death Records in 1911. <BR/><BR/>5 women named Butcher died in 1911 in Kentucky, but only 1 in Johnson County: the widowed Mary Butcher, died 21 March 1911, born 14 March 1815 (in Virginia). Mary lived in Buffalo. Is she Simon's mother?<BR/><BR/>In 1860, 35-year-old Mary Butcher of Johnson County is living with husband William, and children including 12-year-old Simon.<BR/><BR/>So what did Mary Butcher (Simon's mother and Mandy's paternal grandmother) die from? According to the death certificate: Acute lobar pneumonia.Drew Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537180168534039546noreply@blogger.com