Hi…
I had contacted you once before about this family, and just read some of your comments on Portelia (“Tealie”).
My mother, Tealie’s niece, and the daughter of Tealie’s sister, Gladys, told me that Tealie died in childbirth, which coincides with the death-date that I have recently found (although no source) for her on ancestry.com: 16 Feb 1925. The last census of the family in Kentucky was in 1920, so either Tealie moved with the baby’s daddy to Ohio, where she reportedly died, or Ed and Nan had moved there during those years – which is likely since Gladys also turned up there by about 1931, about the time she got pregnant with my mother – she couldn’t have been following Tealie, as Tealie had died by then.
The only child that I show for Tealie is one son, David, born in 1921. That means that she died giving birth to another child, although I don’t know if that child survived the death.
None of Ed and Nan’s other girls lived to be old enough to give birth, confirming my mother’s story. Ura and Wanda both died as children. I’d like to know what happened to Wanda (or Wana as you call her).
In regard to their sister, Ura, the ‘Injury to her stomach’ was a gunshot wound. Her brother, Kearnie was cleaning his gun and it misfired, according to my mother.
As for Ed’s death place, my mother remembers visiting him in Ohio when he was an old man. My mother grew up in Pike County, Ohio, and says he lived very close to them, her and her little sister would walk over to visit him, says he was a joker. ;)
Hope that helps – or at least I hope its not as confusing at it appears in this email ;)
Linda