Celia Cartrette's parents

Sometimes we know for certain who a person's parents are, and sometimes we draw conclusions from the evidence. For the connection from Celia Cartrette to her parents, the evidence strongly suggests they were Rueben Jolly and Elizabeth Harrison.

Celia and her husband Luke lived most of their lives in Columbus County, North Carolina. According to our Internet-cousin Marion, "Making the connection to Celia's parents was pretty easy. Her father was the only Jolly in the area. His children were born in Horry and Columbus Counties. They married other people from these two counties and states. I don't know how familiar you are with this area, but the Coumbus County, NC and Horry Co., SC adjoin each other."

I am not certain how others make the connection from Celia Cartrette to the last name Jolly, but my evidence supports it. I have a copy of her death certificate. While we must remember that death certificates are not certain evidence of birth parents or dates (after all the persons most likely to know that information have passed away) they do tell us the birth information that their closest family or friends believed to be true. For Celia, her death certificate lists her last name as "Dolly". It is rather easy to see how Jolly could have been either mistakenly recalled as Dolly, or mistakenly recorded as such.