The 1930 census of my family was really goofed up. Wrong names and a child that did not exist. But the census is an invaluable aid in genealogy research.
I discovered several years ago that David Rufus Ireton, the grandfather of my wife Jackie and the great grandfather of my children was in Leavenworth Prison in 1900 at the age of 19 for larceny. After that he was in the Albuquerque New Mexico County jail and the federal prison at MeNeil Island in Washington. I knew that he died in 1950 in Bakersfield, California. I looked him up in the 1940 census and he was an inmate at Folsom Prison in California. Poor guy. Four prisons in forty years. Jackie's father never mentioned him once. I would like to know more about him. Black sheep are more interesting. Below is a head shot of Rufus from Leavenworth in 1900 at age 19.
I am going to visit the town in the Oklahoma where Rufus was born and where his father is buried, It is the town of Alex.
This makes me so proud. :-)
ReplyDeleteVery few have a great grandfather like Rufus.
DeleteNot even you, but I do. So sorry we never met.
ReplyDeleteWe are related in a way. i do not believe that he was a violent criminal. He was in Leavenworth for "larceny". he was in McNeil Island for "conspiracy to use the mail to defraud". I wish I could learn more about him.
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