What are the chances?
So, a cousin has a photo of Ann Catherine Shoemaker Riddlebaugh Joy Norman with 3 children. On the back is written something like Ann Catherine with the Pierce boys. For years the conjecture was that when she married again (and family stories say that she had), she must have married someone by the last name of Pierce.
Later it was discovered that she married a John Joy and then a Mark Norman. Since her daughters hadn't married anyone whose last name was Pierce, I thought maybe one of her step-children had.
I took the names of Mark Norman's daughter by his first marriage (Louisa Jane, Rosa Belle, and Elizabeth Mary) and searched for them with Pierce as the last name. I found a Rosa Belle Pierce married to a Claremont Pierce. Thought I was onto something. I hunted until I finally discovered that Rosa Belle was the daughter of ... the wrong parents.
So, back to the drawing board.
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