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  • ID: I27927
  • Name: Lizzie Paulina Rochelle
  • Sex: F
  • Change Date: 23 MAR 2011
  • Birth: 14 FEB 1875 in Centerville, TN
  • Death: 14 AUG 1961
  • Note: buried Rochelle Ceme., Hickman Co., TN
  • Note: received a letter which said, "Mrs. Lizzie Fortner if you want to know where your husband is I can sure tell you where he is. John Fortner is at Fairfield, Ala. he is making good money, he is making $ 10 dollars a day or more. I know as man that you are looking for him and he told me not to say anything about seeing him for he did not want his people to know where he was. But as a friend I want to tell you that he is there making $ 10.25 per day. So I will close as ever a friend. So it is up to you. To you and yours truly."



    Father: George Newton Rochelle b: 27 JUN 1851
    Mother: Virginia Catherine Batson b: 26 OCT 1854 in Clarksville, Montgomery Co., TN

    Marriage 1 John William "Ziggy" Fortner b: 04 SEP 1874 in TN
    • Married: 18 AUG 1895 in Centerville, TN
    • Census: 19 JUN 1900 in First Birch Dist., Dixon, Wilkinson Co., TN
    • Note: as John W. Fortner, Lizzie, Charles, Harvey, Eva, and John's foster mother Teresa, all TN-TN-TN
    • Note:
      a letter received, "Mrs. Lizzie Fortner, if you want to know where your husband is I can sure tell you where he is. John Fortner is at Fairfield, Ala. He is making good money, he is making $10 dollars a day or more. I know as man that you are looking for him and he told me not to say anything about seeing him for he did not want his people to know where he was. But as a friend I want to tell you that he is there making $10.25 per day. So I will close as ever a friend. So it is up to you. To you and yours truly.
      [Text of letter from Lee Fortner]
    Children
    1. Has Children John Wenton Charles Fortner b: 06 OCT 1896 in Centerville, TN
    2. Has No Children Harvey Leonadus Fortner b: 10 SEP 1898 in Centerville, TN
    3. Has No Children Elva Pauline Fortner b: 27 APR 1900 in TN
    4. Has No Children Mary Virginia Fortner b: 25 AUG 1901
    5. Has No Children Lizzie Ruth Fortner b: 23 AUG 1904
    6. Has No Children Bernard "Bud" Fortner b: 30 AUG 1906 in TN
    7. Has No Children Florence Fortner b: 11 AUG 1908 in TN
    8. Has No Children Lillian Louise Fortner b: 02 MAY 1910 in TN
    9. Has No Children Theresa Gladys Fortner b: 05 MAY 1913 in Joe Plunket Hollow, Hickman Co., TN
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