A puzzle sorting Celia
Sherrod/Brooks/Carroll-Cal
Celia is my 2nd
great grandmother, born in Alabama during October 1864. According to family verbal history her
parents are Silas and Lucy (Shackleford) Sherrod. This researcher has found no records to
verify them as her parents. Questions occurred
while researching Celia for her surname is all over the place in documents as listed
below.
Sherrod
1870 US Census, Township
4, Range 8, Lawrence County, Alabama
Household #296, Lewis Brooks was head of
household with his wife Salina, age 30, female, mulatto, born in Alabama. Living with them are Lydia 15, Danielle 11,
Rebecca 6, Celia 4 (recorded as Delia) and Amanda 2 all born in Alabama. No relationship is indicated. Believe this is my second great grandmother,
Celia.
Brooks
1880 US Census,
Township 4, Range 8, Lawrence County, Alabama
In 1880, Celia is
listed as Celia Brooks age 16, living with Salina Brooks, age 38 a widow head
of household. Also living in the house
is Mandy Brooks 12, Henry Sherard 4 and Dee Suggs 20. Salina is listed as a mulatto who is
farming. Silas spelled Cyrus in the 1880
census is living in Lawrence HH#19 is 50 years old farming and black smith having
been born in AL and both parents born in Georgia, along with his wife Luisa,
age 42 and son, Earens, 19.
Brooks
1882 Celia married
Henry Carroll/Cal on March 13, according to family records. The Lawrence County Records show this couples
name as Henry Cole and Celia Brooks. Since there are no other bride and groom with
these first names in the Lawrence or Colbert County Records and we could not
find anyone in the Lawrence or Colbert County Census by these names this is
more than likely our Henry and Celia.
Land Henry own in Town Creek is on the borders of these two counties.
Carroll
1900 Celia and Henry
Carroll are living in HH 218 Leighton Beat, Colbert County Alabama with their
children. Now we are getting somewhere
for the Carroll and in some cases, Cal name are the surnames passed to the
current generations.
Celia and Henry have
ten children, nine sons and one daughter.
Celia’s blessings are having ten children and ten living along with a
successful husband that own land.
Cal
1908 Celia and Henry’s
son, Cyrus (record spelling) Silas Sherrod died on 13 November at age 21 and
was single. Alabama Death Record
recorded his parent’s surname as CAL.
Corral
1910 Celia was
preparing Christmas dinner and wasn’t feeing very well and like most housewives
and mothers of the time kept going, so the family history goes. On the day after Christmas she took to her
bed and died. Alabama Death Index
1881-1974 recorded her as Celia Corral, birth about 1868 with a death date of
26 December 1910.
Celia is buried in the
Cal Family Cemetery in Colbert County, Alabama.
This is a cemetery started by her husband, Henry Carroll/Cal on his land
that was set aside for the family. www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~alcolber/cem-aa-cal-1.htm
SUMMARY
The focus in this post
is recorded surnames of Celia, my second great grandmother. What a puzzle it has been sorting out and
filtering out documented pieces of her life.
While this is a shorten version of the search, there is much more to the
story that supports how I came to the conclusion that these records belong to
Celia. What is in a name and how to find
family comes to mind as the love of a Family Historian moves forward.
