Amanda Williams ^{1 2 3 4 5}

  General Notes:

Probably the same person as "Mariah A. Williams".
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  Death Notes:

Name: Amanda Chord
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 20 Jun 1945
Event Place: Brainerd, Crow Wing, Minnesota, United States
Event Place (Original): Brainerd, Crow Wing, Minnesota, United States
Gender: Female
Age: 72
Birth Year (Estimated): 1873
Father's Name: Addison Williams
Mother's Name: Harriet Jones
Spouse's Name: Daniel Chord
Spouse's Gender: Male

Citing this Record
"Minnesota Deaths and Burials, 1835-1990", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDWF-QRK : 16 January 2020), Daniel Chord in entry for Amanda Chord, 1945.
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  Noted events in her life were:

1. 1900 US Census, 8 June 1900, Michigan City, LaPorte, Indiana, United States. ³ 1900 US Census
Sheet 11B, District 66, Household 246
Michigan City, LaPorte County, Indiana, United States
Home Rented
Manda Brown..Daughter..27..IN..Widowed..2/1

(Widowed and living with her daughter at home of her mother and step-father.)

2. 1920 US Census, 27 January 1920, Bay Lake Township, Crow Wing, Minnesota, United States. ¹ 1920 US Census
Sheet 6B, District 115, Family 44, Roll 829
Bay Lake Township, Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States
Home owned, with mortgage
Amanda M. Chord..Wife..36..IN

(Living with husband, daughter from previous marriage, and grandson.)

3. 1930 US Census, 8 April 1930, Brainerd, Crow Wing, Minnesota, United States. ² 1930 US Census
Sheet 9A, District 7, Family 201, Roll 1084
Brainerd, Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States
301 B Street; Home owned, $1800
Amanda Chord..Wife..57..IN..married 42 (???) years

(Living with husband.)

4. Cemetery: Evergreen Cemetery, After 20 June 1945, Brainerd, Crow Wing, Minnesota, United States. ⁵ PLOTBlock 14 Lot 91
Find A Grave Memorial 124705358

Amanda married Brown about 1898 in Indiana, United States. (Brown was born about 1868 and died about 1900.)

  Marriage Notes:

It is apparent that Amanda was either married to or had a relationship with a Brown about 1898 probably in Indiana prior to her marriage to Daniel Chord and had one daughter named Ethel as a result. No direct evidence of a marriage has yet surfaced.

The 1920 US Census shows the daughter Ethel living with Amanda and her husband with Ethel correctly listed as a stepdaughter to Amanda's husband, Daniel Chord.

In 1940 Amanda was living at the home of Ethel and her husband Fremont H. Mahle and Amanda was correctly listed as a mother-in-law to Fremont.

The short marriage of Amanda Williams to a Brown is further supported by the fact that on Amanda's 1930 US Census, she stated that she had been married for 42 years whereas he husband, Daniel Chord, stated that he had been married for 40 years.

But these numbers of 40 and 42 bring up a major problem or two. First, it would mean that each of them were married when they were only 15 and 16 years old. Second, this would mean that they were married sometime around 1890. A marriage at that date cannot be true because both Amanda and Daniel were living with their parents in 1900. In fact, the 1900 US Census for Amanda states that she was widowed.

I suspect that these numbers should be 30 and 32 instead of 40 and 42. This would mean that they were married about 1910 and that Amanda's previous marriage lasted only two additional years from 1898 to 1900.

Brian L. Lightfoot
14 Feb 2020
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Amanda next married Daniel Chord, son of Amos Smith Chord and Susannah Agnew, before 1920.^{1 2} (Daniel Chord was born in 1874 in Iowa, United States,^{1 2} died on 31 December 1932 in Brainerd, Crow Wing, Minnesota, United States and was buried after 31 December 1932.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

1. 1920 US Census, 27 January 1920, Bay Lake Township, Crow Wing, Minnesota, United States. ¹ 1920 US Census
Sheet 6B, District 115, Family 44, Roll 829
Bay Lake Township, Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States
Home owned, with mortgage
Daniel Chord..Head..45..IA..Farmer, General Farm
Amanda M. Chord..Wife..36..IN
Ethel L. Mable..Stepdaughter..21..IN
Kenneth F. Mable..Grandson..1..MN

2. 1930 US Census, 8 April 1930, Brainerd, Crow Wing, Minnesota, United States. ² 1930 US Census
Sheet 9A, District 7, Family 201, Roll 1084
Brainerd, Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States
301 B Street; Home owned, $1800
Dan Chord..Head..56..WI..married 40 (???) years..Shear operator, railroad shop
Amanda Chord..Wife..57..IN..married 42 (???) years