I have often wondered how some of the Shains from Grayson County, Kentucky, ended up in Indiana. I have met (through email) one a first cousin of Kebbell Bratcher). When I asked her that question, she said this:
To begin with, there was no work in Grayson County when the kids grew up, Aunt Ora married Ed Duggins and he came to Logansport , Indiana, near here, I do not a reason, then he migrated to Kokomo, and worked on the street dept, then became a city policeman, as I remember him. Since Aunt Ora lived here in Kokomo, my mother, Beulah, came to stay with her, and got a job in a big dept store, that is where she met my dad, Frank Bishop, and fell in love and were married in 1924 or 1925, they always said they were married 10 yrs before I was born, I was born in 1934 and my brother John (Tommy) was born in 1936. Aunt Rhea also came to Aunt Ora`s I am guessing and met Mr Tinkle, dont remember his name, but he was from near Logansport. He passed away and left Aunt Rhea with 2 children, Lois and Dale. Aunt Rhea had tuberculosis, and was treated in Rhode Island sanatorium, dont know why she was out there. Lois is the Lowderback and 91 and Dale passed away a little over a yr ago.
I know that Rhea Tinkle was in the Indiana State Sanitorium (Parke County, Indiana, in the Adams Township) in 1930. (See 1930 US Census.) The address listed for her Rhode Island address in the 1935 Rhode Island Census is 76 Duncan Avenue, Providence, RI. That address appears to be (and to have been) a neighborhood, so I'm not sure if she was ever in a treatment facilty in Rhode Island.
Also, Dale Tinkle, Jr., was also a patient at the Indiana State Sanitorium. (See 1930 U.S. Census.)
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