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Where did they go?: Louisiana death certificates.

A new Ancestry.com database reveals these two women with Wilson County ties:

Minnie White died 16 February 1934 in Kinder, Allen Parish, Louisiana. Per her death certificate, she was born in 1893 in Douglass, Georgia, to Monroe Roundtree of New Bern, N.C., and Martha Jones of Wilson. She was a widow.

In the 1900 census of Douglas district, Coffee County, Georgia: Monroe Roundtree, 36, day laborer; wife Martha, 21; and daughter Minnie, 7. Both parents were listed as North Carolina-born.

In the 1910 census of Ward 7, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana: turpentine laborer Monroe Roundtree, 40, and wife Martha, 31.

In the 1920 census of Ward 3, Allen Parish, Louisiana: laborer Monroe Roundtree, 50; wife Martha, 44; and daughter Blanche, 12.

Louisiana Weekly (New Orleans, La.), 2 October 1926.

In the 1930 census of Kinder, Allen Parish, Louisiana: widow Martha Roundtree, 51; daughter Minnie White, 36, cook for private family; and grandson Charlie Ledd, 6.

In the 1940 census of Kinder, Allen Parish, Louisiana: widow Martha Roundtree, 61, laundry woman, and grandson Charlie Ladd, 17, farm laborer.

Louisiana Weekly (New Orleans, La.), 22 August 1942.

In the 1950 census of Kinder, Allen Parish, Louisiana: widow Martha Roundtree, 71, housework in private home.

Martha Jones Roundtree, age 83, died 25 May 1962 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Blanche Stewart died 27 January 1967 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Per her death certificate, she was born 31 May 1907 in Kinder, Louisiana, to Monroe Roundtree of South Carolina and Minnie White of Kinder, Louisiana. She was married to Sherman Stewart, age 69, and lived at 416 Flake Avenue, New Orleans.

Harriett Woodard died 20 March 1935 in Shreveport, Caddo County, Louisiana. Per his death certificate, she was about 65 years old; was born in Wilson, N.C., to Austin Bonds and Tilda Anderson, both of Wilson; was the was widow of Handy Woodard; and Sam Woodard was informant. Cause of death: “injury by animal arm bit by mule and gas gangrene & fracture”.

In the 1910 census of Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts: at Concord Place, Matilda Bonds, 60, widow, born in N.C., laundress at steam laundry, and daughter Harriet, 38, born in N.C., laundress in steam laundry.

Matilda Bonds died 5 June 1912 in City Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Per her death certificate, she lived at 5 Concord Place; was a widow; and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery.

Perhaps: in the 1920 census of Otter Creek township, Edgecombe County, N.C.: Auston Bonds, 69, widower, farmer.

Perhaps: Austin Barnes died 30 January 1925 in Township No. 9, Edgecombe County, N.C. Per his death certificate, he was 76 years old; was born in Wilson County to James Barnes and Elvi Barnes; was married; was a farmer and landowner; and was buried near Macclesfield.

Louisiana State Death Records, 1825-1974, http://www.ancestry.com.

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