Selected Person
Alice Waite is the selected person for this research page. She was reportedly born on 27 November 1840 in Lorain, Lorain County, Ohio, and died on 4 July 1914 in Gardena, Bottineau County, North Dakota, USA.
This page organizes working genealogy for the Waite, Bacon, Stafford, and Shapley lines. Alice Waite is listed as the child of Barton J. Waite and Susannah Clark Bacon, the spouse of William Mark Stafford, and the parent of Olive G. Stafford.
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Relationship Context
The working relationship path currently being studied is: Alice Waite → Olive G. Stafford → Percy W. Shapley → later private descendants → Jeremiah O’Neal.
This relationship path should be treated as working genealogy for public research display, except where DNA evidence, civil records, church records, census entries, probate records, cemetery records, or other source material directly supports a stated connection.
The Alice Waite line is considered especially important because DNA connections to her parent family are described as strongly established. This makes Alice Waite, Barton J. Waite, and Susannah Clark Bacon key research subjects for confirming the broader Stafford and Shapley ancestry path.
Related People
- Barton J. Waite — listed as father of Alice Waite.
- Susannah Clark Bacon — listed as mother of Alice Waite.
- William Mark Stafford — listed as spouse of Alice Waite.
- Olive G. Stafford — listed as child of Alice Waite.
- Percy W. Shapley — later descendant line connected through Olive G. Stafford.
Research Notes
Alice Waite appears in this research as a key ancestor connecting the Waite and Bacon families of Ohio with later Stafford and Shapley family history. Her reported birth in Lorain County, Ohio, places the early research focus in northeastern Ohio, where Waite and Bacon records may appear in census schedules, marriage records, local histories, probate files, land records, cemetery records, and church registers.
The reported death location of Gardena, Bottineau County, North Dakota, creates a second research focus in North Dakota. Researchers should look for death records, burial records, obituary notices, cemetery entries, local histories, and household records that may connect Alice Waite Stafford to her spouse, children, or extended family.
DNA evidence is reported to strongly support Alice Waite through connections to her parent family. This page preserves that claim as a major research direction while leaving room for exact match names, chromosome details, shared centimorgan values, tree comparisons, and documentary citations to be added later.
The major surnames for this page are Waite, Bacon, Stafford, and Shapley. Additional connected records may appear under spelling variants, initials, married names, county-level indexing errors, or migration-related record groups.
Evidence Placeholders
- DNA match cluster connecting descendants to Barton J. Waite and Susannah Clark Bacon.
- Record connecting Alice Waite to Barton J. Waite.
- Record connecting Alice Waite to Susannah Clark Bacon.
- Marriage or household record connecting Alice Waite to William Mark Stafford.
- Record connecting Alice Waite to Olive G. Stafford.
- Death, burial, obituary, or cemetery record for Alice Waite in or near Bottineau County, North Dakota.
- Census records showing household structure across Ohio, later migration, and family continuity.
Suggested Next Records
- Search Lorain County, Ohio birth, baptism, census, probate, and land records for Waite and Bacon households.
- Search marriage records for Alice Waite and William Mark Stafford.
- Search records naming Olive G. Stafford as child of Alice Waite and William Mark Stafford.
- Search Bottineau County, North Dakota death, cemetery, obituary, and local newspaper records for Alice Waite.
- Compare DNA match trees that point back to Barton J. Waite and Susannah Clark Bacon.
- Organize DNA evidence by match cluster, shared ancestor claim, documentary support, and confidence level.
- Check surname variants and indexing errors for Waite, Wait, Wayte, Bacon, Stafford, and Shapley.
Research Links
Public-Safe Research Status
This page is intended for genealogy research, DNA branch organization, and public-safe historical documentation. Recent or private descendants should remain protected unless a person has chosen to be publicly identified in a research context.
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