Yesterday I highlighted the memorial page for Emaline B Cook (1836-1891), wife of Joseph S Prosser (1832-1910). They were buried at Saint John's United Methodist Church Cemetery in Turnersville, Gloucester County, New Jersey.
Emaline was incorrectly linked as a daughter of my fourth great grandparents, Stephen H Cook (1797-1853) and Elizabeth Vanderhoof (1799-1878), who lived in Morris County, New Jersey. One of their sons, Henry or William Henry (1828-1902), married Emeline Young (1834-1906), likely the source of this mix-up.
I requested that this connection be removed. Overnight the memorial manager did just that.
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| Updated memorial page Emeline B Cook without parents |
Ancestry links memorials of Find A Grave in its search results. Multiple trees incorrectly attribute Emeline as a daughter of Stephen Cook and Elizabeth Vanderhoof. The initial evidence would be the (incorrect) link on Find A Grave and 16-year old Emeline Cook in Stephen's household in 1850 in Rockaway Township.
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| Sampling of trees at Ancestry that incorrectly attribute Emeline Cook, wife of Joseph Prosser, as a daughter of Stephen Cook and Elizabeth Vanderhoof |
Please use caution when copying from Find A Grave and Ancestry.
I will copy Emeline's death certificate from 1891 on my next trip to the New Jersey State Archives.
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