Lucinda Jane Witt

Lucinda had a son, my grandfather, in 1895 by James E Daugherty. On the 1900 census, she is living with her father Joseph and her step mother, Susan Daugherty Smith. There is no record of Merida in that census. I haven't been able to find him anywhere until 1920.The 1900 census shows at that time, her family is living next door to James, Merida's father and her sister Rosa Belle and their family. She is 23 and listed as a farm laborer. Merida and his first wife Mallie and their daughter Leona living with a William Tald in Fincastle, Lee Co KY. This was the 1920 census. I also read that any children born that year were not counted. Their daughter Eva was born that March. They were listed as "step-son, step-daughter and grand daughter" of this man. It took some detective work to figure out the writing on the census and later a retelling of it in Jackson Co notes, was "Synda" not Sigulda as the census shows. The person connected to this Synda was Cynthia Ellen Todd Williams. This is Mallie's mother. There were also three other young men listed as Wiliam's sons. Elza Zola, Azcar Zola and Lester Zola. Also the census gave Williams last name as "Tald" often pronounced for "Todd." The typed record of the census has the spelling as "Told." The Robert Hatley she is purported to have married was the former husband of Susan Daugherty, her step mother. Abner Witt was the son of Selena Williams Witt Smith, her step grandmother's son. Certainly the branches get tangled here. Her younger sister Nancy Ellen married William Williams, the brother of Mallie and first wife of her son Merida. Any proof of the death certificate or where Lucinda is buried would be greatly appreciated. I spent an entire day at the McKee Library and went through every cemetery listed in Jackson County and couldn't find her. In speaking with a cousin, Linda Birch, she told me that her mother, Lucinda Smith Miller related to her that the 1920 census seemed confusing because Merida and his family lived in a boarding house. This wasn't made plain in the census. There was another daughter, Elllen who died in that boarding house at the age of three after choking on a piece of chewing gum. I have not been able to find a birth or death certificate for her but Merida did relate that story to me in 1968 shortly before his death.