Women, Cattle and Kids

Our one and only picture of Mary Catherine Evans Allison. 

Women, cattle and kids.  All invisible on the United States Census previous to 1850. It makes searching for the grandmothers, aunts and the cousins  a crazy making process.  Nameless, they are all reduced to a maddening tic in a box.  Americans of this era valued and noted their property on the census but not their girls. After 1850 everyone in a household gets a name.  Rejoice that we now live in a world where girls are worth some ink.

Mary Catherine Evans Allison was born around 1856. Our dad never met his Grandmother who lived in Hawkins, Texas nor his Grand dad John R. Allison.  He knew her last name. He met her sisters Amy "Babe" Evans and Jane Evans. He knew Mary Catherine was called Kate.  

Precious  few flimsy facts on which to begin our recovery of the life of Kate. The Search Sisters roll up their sleeves and begin the hunt.  So far we have recovered all her sisters and brothers…. we think. We have documented them on Ancestry.com: Mary Catherine Evans - Overview - Ancestry.com