We are going through Cordelia’s children, as we did those of her sister Maria Ann, but you may have noticed that I skipped someone when I went directly from James Tasco Tapscott to Murray Selby Tapscott. Cordelia’s second child, William D. Tapscott is easily skipped since we know so little about him and he left no known descendants.
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| William grew up near Cedar Run. (Ctizens for Fauquier County) |
William, born c1860 to Cordelia and (it is said) Mark Russell, led a life difficult to unravel. A major problem is that the Fauquier County Tapscotts include another William D. Tapscott with a similar birth year, a child of Edmond A. Tapscott. (More on him later.) With careful investigation, however, records for the two William D.s can be separated. Doing so, one concludes that Cordelia’s son William appears in only two records that are contemporary with him—the 1870 and 1880 censuses for Cedar Run Distr, where he is found living in a household with his mother. William then disappears, apparently having died before the 1900 census and apparently without descendants.
Do you know anything about William, son of Cordelia? If so, contact me or leave a comment.
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