Naomi Faye Meinzen - 1898 Birth Record Finally Corrects a Birthdate

Naomi Meinzen is my grandfather, W. R. Robert Meinzen's youngest sister and the youngest daughter and last-born child of Henry and Elizabeth (Armitage) Meinzen.

There has been uncertainty about her birth year.  Was it 1898 or 1899?  This birth record answers that question and clarifies the uncertainty.

When I was a child the Steubenville aunts--Aunt Mina, Aunt Lula, and Aunt Naomi (and sometimes Aunt Belle)--came to visit my grandparents at least once every summer.  They travelled together with Uncle Charlie, Aunt Lula's husband, driving all of them, and sometimes Zerelda, too, another of their neices, until Uncle Charlie's death in 1960.  I can hardly think of one of these sisters without thinking of all three of them.

Now that FamilySearch has published the Jefferson County birth records, I'm looking forward to finding the birth records for all 15 siblings (though one or two may have been stillbirths and not recorded).  I'm so grateful to have these online because of many of my ancestral families are from Jefferson County.

The record below comes from FamilySearch's collection of Jefferson County Births, this record from Volume 3, page 104, image 193.  With a free FamilySearch account you can view the record here and the whole collection here.

Below is a transcription.

[Page] 104
Record of Births, Probate Court, Jefferson County, Ohio, 18[blank]
Date   May 13
Number   828
Name in Full   Meinzen, Nomi Faye
Date of Birth Year/Month/Day  1898 May 22
Place of Birth State/County/City  Ohio, Jefferson, Cross Creek
Sex  Female
Color  White
Name of Father  Henry Meizen [sic]
Name of Mother  Lizzie Armithe [sic]
Residence of Parents  Cross Creek  [indicated by ditto marks]
By Whom Reported  Father

Observations and Comments

• Misspelled names include Nomi, Meizen, and Armithe.  In the case of Naomi, perhaps the spelling reflects the pronunciation.
  
• From this record I learned that Elizabeth (Armitage) Meinzen, Naomi's mother, had the nickname Lizzie. 
• This record clarifies Naomi's birth date.  Another transcription recorded it as 1899 and family records were unclear.
• This also clarifies the location of her birth--Cross Creek Township--though the specific location in a township would be harder to determine.  Census records are vague.  Cross Creek Township borders the southwest side of the city of Steubenville.
  

-–Nancy.

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