More on Orson Rawlins
Yesterday (March 18, 2013) I went to the Family History
Library and looked in the Special Collections at film # 0184068.
I found the following record:
Orson Whetman (Rawlins)
Date of Birth 7 April 1883
Place of Birth Draper, Salt Lake, Utah
Parents George Whetman and Charlotte Dangerfield.
So now we have a primary source indicating that Orson was
not a child of Joseph Sharp and Mary Ellen Rawlins.
George married Charlotte
Housley on 7 August 1884 and Hannah Cox on 3 April 1922 three years before his
death 26 May 1926 in Salt Lake City.
We know that Orson was living in the home of Joseph and Mary
Rawlins in 1900 according to the census.
Apparently he was impressed with the Rawlins, because he took the name
of Rawlins and all his children went by that surname appellation.
As long as I was looking at the Whetman’s I did some
combining of records and added death certificates as sources to George Sr,
George Jr. and Zina. I will get back to
those records at some period, but since they are not my direct line, I will
forgo.
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