Talk:Arroyo Seco Fight

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Dates and Doppelgangers

Dates
All the historians I've read say the battle took place in 1839. But the newspaper cited as a source, giving us details about the battle, is dated 1838 all through the paper. If you're drunk enough not to know what year it is, how can you be sober enough to set the type for a newspaper legibly? (No Linotype back then, guys, it was all set by hand.) I'm not picking a fight, I'm just honestly confused. But I'm going with the newspaper for now because I've seen experts make mistakes.

Doppelgangers
There's a bit of confusion about Henry Karnes, too.
Henry Wax Karnes was born in Tennessee on September 8, 1812 and died in 1840.
But there's another Henry Karnes (of course there is).
His grave matches his great-granddaughter's information, but information on a grave isn't always correct. The wife and kids in the 1850 census (two pages) and the 1860 census show us this is the great-grandfather, but someone told the census taker he was born in Kentucky. Because he was. It was easy to double-check truthfulness in those small, tight-knit communities. Lying on a census was a crime and few did it.

Hopefully this saves you from the confusion that understandably afflicted her family. It threw me off for a few minutes, too. Oona Wikiwalker (talk) 06:40, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]