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<p><blockquote><br><br><blockquote style="color: black;"><br>Ray, Edna, and Stella were known since childhood. 'Eddie Daugherty' is the shadowy 4th I learned of in '06.<br> &nbsp;  &nbsp; Possible common ancestor between him or Stella and Ray or Edna, there's some 23andMe info to support that. &nbsp;  &nbsp; <br>An image, the summary reasoning posted here once I've tracked him down.<br><br>The 1920 census shows an "Ed W Daugherty" <br>Actual name is 'William Edward Daugherty' (1879-1945), wife 'Sterling Stella Boyer' (1879-1961)<br>Daugherty is a very common name in the region so it's just a start since it's the right area, Morgan Co., IL.<br>
I had confabulated him being a light skinned black that decided to pass but being considered white from birth <br>and married but not to Stella Burns better fits available current evidence.<br>By 1920 he would have had 3 or 4 children by Stella (Burns)<br> and my father, (paternity uncertain) could still have been the 5th.<br>In any case the combination of archival and genetic info will ultimately reveal the truth.<br><br> </blockquote><br><br></blockquote></p>
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For purposes here, "white" means that a DNA ancestry report has assigned 95% european ancestry.<br><br>Skin color is a big part of this story. My father and one of his brothers were fairly dark skinned but his other siblings and mother were not.<br> I once met the Burns in the East St. Louis area (1965) and they were quite dark, darker than my father or uncle, more like Jimmy and Erlene in pic.<br>That pic shows Stella and her sister were lighter skinned which I didn realize till seeing a clearer pic of her in '06.<br>As genetic ancestry resolution improves and becomes more pervasive, more data points should tell the story. <br>Current info indicates that I have 3 white grandparents more or less but the error could move it one direction or the other which would affect the sleuthing.<br>If  surmise above correct and Stella was around &#188; european ancestry, then the figure for me should converge to significantly over &#190;.<br>OTOH, LaVerne's having &lt; &#8531; european ancestry would be closer to the &lt;&lt; &#x2154; for me  I presumed before getting the result indicating he in fact had 48%.<br>However, 'Eddie Daugherty' being white per the above definition requires Stella to have been near zero % european. <br> <br> &nbsp; Withal, at this point he appears to be a bigamist who passed for white from an early age, had a white family in addition to one with Stella Burns, <br>and/or considered himself white from birth but was closer to what I  am which has been called 'caucasoid' and definitely does not fit the definition above.<br> Nothing other than the genetic facts about him are clear yet though and these remain sparse.<br><br></center> </div>
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