Lolah B. Cash

1883 -

• Name	Lolah B. Cash  [1, 2]
  Born	7 Mar 1883
  Gender	Female
  Biography	The 3 January 1884 edition of the Buffalo Express said: Judge Hammond yesterday granted an order of adoption authorizing Mr. and Mrs. Ira Ayer to adopt Lolah B. Cash. Mr. and Mrs. Ayer have no children and Lolah is motherless. The child will be hereafter known as Lolah B. Ayer. The Buffalo Courier on the same day said the child was 12 years old. I couldn’t find a Lolah B. Cash in the area, but I did find in the 1880 census Viola Cash of Evans, New York, age 10, the oldest of 6 children (the rest boys) and living with her parents Ashley and Sophia. Sophia died 9 March 1883, but Ashley lived until 1897. As the newspaper said, Lolah was motherless, not necessarily fatherless. But it couldn’t have been Viola because her 1913 obituary from Nebraska says: Viola Sophia Cash was born at Evans Center, NY, September 11, 1870, passing to her reward Monday, September 1, 1913. When but twelve years of age she lost her mother, and came to Nebraska in the year 1885 to make her home with the family of her uncle, Ambrose Cash, at Rising City. The confusing thing is that a 19 March 1885 issue of the Buffalo Courier lists heirs to the estate of William Thompson (likely Lolah’s maternal grandfather). It lists Lolah B Cash and four of her brothers (one had died) from Evans and Louise M. and Viola Sophia Cash of Rising City, Nebraska. So, maybe there was a Lolah B and a Viola Sophia. And it turns out there was. I found on the web a genealogy that said there was. There were 6 children in 1880, one died in 1882 and Lolah B. Cash was born on 7 March 1883, 2 days before her mother’s death. That makes the only conflict the fact that Lolah was listed as being 12 years old (the age of Viola) when she was actually almost 10 months old. This makes much more sense. Ira and Bessie probably took care of Lolah
  Person ID	I1052	Our Family
  Last Modified	27 Sep 2016

  
  

  Father	Ira Ayer, I,   b. 26 Dec 1802, Haverhill, Massachusetts ,   d. 28 Jul 1889, Evans Center, New York  (Age 86 years)
  Relationship	Adopted
  Mother	Bessie E Cronkite,   b. Jan 1841, New York ,   d. 1910  (Age ~ 68 years)
  Relationship	Adopted
  Married	14 Oct 1869	Evans Center, New York   [3]
  Family ID	F153	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S36] Oatman, LeRoy, Ayer Memorial (Reliability: 0). [S327] Ayer, Ira adoption of Lolah. [S224] Ayer, Ira and Chronkhite, Bessie Marriage (Reliability: 1).