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more is known about her.
It seems likely that there is some connection between Jay Soothill and Henry Soothill. Four years earlier than Jay, Henry Soothill is recorded in the New Orleans Passenger Lists, 1820-1945, as arriving in New Orleans on 13 October 1914 in the ship, Abangarez, coming from Puerto Limon, Costa Rica. Henry’s last residence is shown on these lists as Nebraska.
In the records of Winnebego Co. Illinois, Fred H. Soothill, aged 50, is recorded as marrying Harriett Soothill, aged 46, on 31 December 1918. Fred Holroyd Soothill is recorded as dying on 24 December 1954. In fact, Harriet(t) seems to be Harriet Dell (1873-1939) who was born in Wisconsin and died in McHenry, Illinois. Harriet’s parents are shown from another source as Edward Alonzo Learned and Rachel Hill, so presumably ‘Dell’ is Harriet’s name from an earlier marriage. Perhaps she is shown as Soothill in this record as they were cohabiting prior to the marriage.
Jerome J Soothill whose parents are James and Emma (née Taub) Soothill was born on 24 February 1909 in Wisconsin. His name appears on ‘The circus Edition of the Kipikawi’ which was published by the Class of 1926 of Racine High School. It comes under a series of ‘SLAMS AND EPITAPHS’ presumably written by the pupils. Jerome’s entry reads, “I cawn’t [sic] be bothered with the same one for more than a week”. To what this refers is not clear. If it is girlfriends, then this does not augur well for his marriage! In fact, Jerome married Marie L. Corbrille three years later on 13 July 1929 at the young age of 20 years. In the 1930 census he was shown to be still in Racine, Wisconsin. He died in the same town on 8 June 1994.
Jerome’s father, James, was born in about 1888 and his mother, Emma, was born in Missouri in about 1883. Jerome had a sister, Lilian, who was born about 1916, but nothing more is currently known about this family.
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