Louisiana’s Name Mystery
Names in Records
Louisiana’s daughter Mary Ann Badgley Macklin’s death certificate lists her parents as Louisiania Mattier and Matthew Badgley. This is only a slight variation on the spelling of Matteer. The source of the name Matthew is unclear as there are no references to a Matthew. It is possible that this was confusion between Louisiana’s first husband (James) and her father Mathias, as Matthew and Mathias have been found interchanged. The original records of these records are not available on Ancestry.com; therefore, the names listed here are someone else’s transcription. It is very possible that Mattier is actually Matteer in the record and was simply misinterpreted.
Louisiana and Lemuel’s son Lemuel Franklin/Francis McCracken’s death certificate lists his parents as Leousia McKoree and Lemiel L. McCracken. I suspect that the person providing the information simply didn’t know the correct name.