1920 Census, Rhea County, Tennessee

James Calvin (Calvin) Giles was the second husband of my third great grandmother Dica Ann (Dicy) Smith.  I am descended from Dicy and her first husband Jacob England.  Another way to provide some context is that the children Reba, Anna, and Isaac were all first cousins (albeit, "half first cousins") of my great grandfather John W. Williamson.

The above census entry has some apparent errors and internal inconsistencies.  It states that Nannie M. Miller's father was born in North Carolina, while at the same time her father Calvin Giles in the immediately preceding line was listed as having been born in Tennessee.  I believe that the error is that Nannie M. Miller's birth places switched the father's birth place and the mother's birth place and should have been listed as TN TN NC.  Listing it that way would be consistent with the fact that Dicy Smith was born in North Carolina.  Also, the children Reba, Anna, and Isaac were Nannie's children and should have been listed as grandchildren of Calvin Giles.

Nancy May (Nannie) Giles was the widow of Isaac L. Miller in 1920.  They were married in 1903 in Spring City, Rhea County, Tennessee.  So the children likely were all born in Rhea County.  Isaac L. Miller died 13 Dec 1913 in Spring City, Rhea County, Tennessee.

Sally age 70 was some sort of typo on the part of the census enumerator.  He must have had Sally on the brain because there was a daughter named Sally.  William's wife was Safrona C. (Froney) Cross.

Safrona C. (Froney) Cross was an heir of my fourth great grandfather William Cross the Revolutionary War drummer boy.  The exact relationship is not clear.  Froney was an heir of Mary (Polly) Cross, and Mary (Polly) Cross was a legatee of the real estate of William Cross after William died.  The most likely scenario seems to be that Froney was the daughter of Mary, that Mary was the daughter-in-law of William, and that Mary was widowed at the time of William's death.  But a number of other scenarios are quite possible with the evidence which is now available.

Froney was from Anderson County, Tennessee.  She and her husband William Scarbrough were married in Roane County in 1877 and were enumerated in the 1880 census in Roane County.  They moved to Rhea County sometime between the 1880 census and the 1900 census.

William Scarbrough was the son of Allen Albert Scarbrough and Mary Ervin.  Allen Albert Scarbrough in turn was apparently not of the Bucks County, Pennsylvania Scarbroughs who moved to Anderson County with my Peters family.