Person:Ethan Aday (5)

BIOGRAPHY: http://www.texanintexas.com/photosbydon/GenealogyOfAday/EthanNapoleonAday.html The Ethan Napoleon Aday family lived in Alabama and this is where their four older children were born. They moved from Decanter, Alabama to Texas to Williamson County while they were a young family. Later on, they moved on to Rosebud, Texas, where the rest of the family was born.

Bud was 10 years older than Virginia. Bud died in 1904 of a heart attack and a year later Virginia and 6 children moved by train to the Old Winter Farm near New Hope Baptist Church, South West of Duke, Oklahoma. They moved 2 mules, 2 buggy horses and tools. The next Christmas, Jim went back to Texas and married Maggie Brown and brought her back to Oklahoma. The boys built the first telephone system in Duke. Jim and Maggie run the switchboard and the 3 boys run the first telephone lines in Jackson County. Polk worked as a cook in a cafe in Duke. The girls, Gertie and May, married young at 16 and 17 and Harry at 21. The other children married late in life, Jess 24, Jim 32, Hill 25, Fannie 38 and Polk at 45. After Harry and Lillie (Alexander) were married, the mother broke up her home and lived with different children for 4 or 5 years. Then, Polk, who was still single, went to Melrose, New Mexico, rented a farm and sent for his mothers to come and life with him. When he finally married, he married Lillie's Aunt Hattie and his mother went to live with her daughter May and her husband, Cleve McQuire. Virginia Ferguson Aday was in Oklahoma, visiting Harry and Lillie . . . and Gertie and Frank when she died suddenly in the home of Gertie with a stroke. Harry was teased by Jim and Polk as a young child that he was going to be red headed. This made Harry so mad, he would say he would pull it all out if it was red. He was a solid citizen. Decent in church and a man of his word. Hill was a house painter & paper hanger in Dallas. After Jim quit the telephone business, he farmed. Jess farmed while living in Oklahoma and then moved to California. JESS was good at building things, if he need a plan, he build it. MAY was like her daddy, always happy and never worried about tomorrow. When her youngest child, Jean, started to school, May started to take art and wood working classes. She made a complete dining room suite and coffee table with wood from several states, and painted lots of paintings. FANNY was sweet and quiet, but thoughtful. Fanny's role on this earth was just to see how much work she could accomplish. GERTIE was a worker and fast as a fire engine going to a fire. An excellent housekeeper who thought you were being lazy if the floors weren't moped daily. She was also a hour ahead of the clock when it came to meals. She always had the noon meal on the table by 11:00 and the kitchen was cleaned up by 12;00, including mopping the kitchen floor and Gertie did enough talking for the whole family and never run down!

CENSUS: 1850 United States Federal Census Name: Eason W Aday Age: 6 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1844 Birth Place: Alabama Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Huntsville, Madison, Alabama Household Members: Name Age Eason W Aday 6 Francis M Aday 28 Lawson C Aday 2 Mary T Aday 26 Melissa E Aday 8 Nancy Manson 35 Sarah Manson 8 Jemima Pitts 60 Richard B Wyne 12 Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: Huntsville, Madison, Alabama; Roll: M432_9; Page: 470; Image: 560.

1870 United States Federal Census Name: Eathan N Aday Estimated Birth Year: abt 1846 Age in 1870: 24 Birthplace: Alabama Home in 1870: Subdivision 35, Morgan, Alabama Race: White Gender: Male Post Office: Decatur Source Citation: Year: 1870; Census Place: Subdivision 35, Morgan, Alabama; Roll: M593_32; Page: 85; Image: 536.

1880 United States Federal Census Name: E. N. Aday Home in 1880: Trinity, Morgan, Alabama Age: 35 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1845 Birthplace: Alabama Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head) Spouse's Name: Jane Father's birthplace: Alabama Mother's birthplace: South Carolina Occupation: Farm Hand Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age E. N. Aday 35 Jane Aday 26 Hillery Aday 9 Jesse Aday 6 James Aday 1 Fannie Aday 4 Carrie Pearsall 68 Source Citation: Year: 1880; Census Place: Trinity, Morgan, Alabama; Roll: T9_27; Family History Film: 1254027; Page: 3.1000; Enumeration District: 259; Image: 0305.

1900 United States Federal Census Name: E N Aday Home in 1900: Justice Precinct 1, Williamson, Texas Age: 54 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1846 Birthplace: Alabama Relationship to head-of-house: Head Spouse's Name: Virginia Race: White Occupation: Farmer Household Members: Name Age E N Aday 54 Virginia Aday 44 James Aday 21 Fannie Aday 24 Napoleon Aday 19 Harry Aday 13 Altie Aday 10 Gertie Aday 7 Source Citation: Year: 1900; Census Place: Justice Precinct 1, Williamson, Texas; Roll: T623 1679; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 121.