Documentation for John Sanders Vining - Elizabeth Louiza Worthington



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John Sanders Vining:



Note

A newspaper obituary written by “a friend” said that John Sanders Vining and Elizabeth Louiza (Worthington) Vining has “fifteen children, six dying in infancy and six lived to be grown.” This leaves some question as to whether there were four or seven children not accounted for below.


Census Data

  1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920
John Sanders Vining 32 40 45 ? 72
[see note below]
82
[see note below]
dead
Elizabeth Louiza (Worthington) Vining 24 38 43 ? dead
    Mary Jane Vining 6 16 living in separate household
    John Wesley Vining 4 14 25 married and [living in separate household ?]
    James M. Vining 1 11 21 ? living in separate household
    Lou Vining living in separate household 18 ? 38
[see note below]
dead
    Sarah Vining living in separate household 16 dead
    Julius Cornelius Vining living in separate household 14 married [and living in separate household?] living in separate household
    Ida Vining living in separate household 12 ? [living? in separate household]
    Mittie Lee Vining 10 ? married and living in separate household 38
[see note below]


1860 Thomaston (post office), 537 District G. M., Upson County, Georgia - dwelling 222, family 201:



1870 Thomaston (post office), Upson County, Georgia - dwelling 857, family 857:



1880 Flint, Upson County, Georgia - dwelling 430, family 430:



1900 Reeves, Upson County, Georgia - dwelling 186, family 186. By 1900, Lou (Vining) Pasley was widowed, and her father was living with her and her family.



1910 Reeves, Upson County, Georgia - dwelling 77, family 78. By 1910, Mittie Lee Vining had been married for 20 years, to Robert Lee Smith, and her father was living with her and her family.





Death Data

Gravestone for Elizabeth Louiza Worthington, in Smith Cemetery, Upson County, Georgia (from Fina A Grave):