Thank you so much. Yep, that's the post where I saw it. I wonder what else we thought we knew and didn't, or haven't even thought to wonder about because it's something not known or not covered in the public domain, that might be relevant. I thought it was potentially relevant to know why his mother died when he was 12, only to learn......that she......DIDN'T.
Well, there was an article in the more recent batch that said his children were born in CA and they found the records on all of them, even printing the name of one whose name was unusual.
Maybe so, but they're not in the main files online - and I really doubt they were born in CA, because it was the lady at the courthouse in Hamilton (AL) who said all of his children were delivered at home, including the twins who died.
Whether or not they registered the births is a different matter, but they were born in approx. 1991, 1992, and 1993, when John Mark and Lara lived in AL. They didn't move to CA until 2000. Hence, I believe the report to be incorrect.