Life History

Notes

• Some genealogies report Ira J Forsyth as a child of Thomas J Forsyth and Nipsie Stroud.  But they did not marry until some time in the year 1902.  The 1910 census reproted that Nipsie had had three children and all three are still iving, rep[oprted inthat census.  Ira was buried in Cedar Creek Cemetery, Red River County, with other Forsyths, with the same birth and death year of 1902.
  
  It is thought that Ira J Forsyth was the stillborn child of Thomas' father Jason Forsyth and hsi second wife Lavonia Reed.  Lavonia died sometime about 1902, because later that year Jason married Amanda White Moore a widow who lived nearby.  It is thought she died in childbirth, which would match this burial of Ira.
  
  Ira shares a gravestone put up later after two other chidlren died.  The girls Dessa and Nellie aer the chiudlren of Thomas and Nipsie.
  
  Forsyth Children
  Ira J  1902-1902
  Dessa  1908-1911
  Nellie  1914-1914
  Cedar Creek (Old Cedar) Cemetery, Red River County, Texas
  Photo by Granville & Patricia Murphy 9 April 2010, accessed on Find a Grave 14 March 2020
  
  Ira J Forsyth
  Birth 1902
  Death 1902 (aged less-than 1 year)
  Parents:
  Jason Forsyth 1860 - unknown
  Lavonia Reed Forsyth 1882-1902
  Siblings:
  Thomas J Forsyth 1881-1940
  John A Forsyth 1883-1965 (m. 1906)
  Burial Cedar Creek Cemetery, Red River County, Texas, USA
  Maintained by Lawrence & Sue Dale, Originally Created by Granville & Patricia Murphy 13 Apr 2010
  --  Find A Grave Memorial 51037464, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51037464/ira-j-forsyth

Sources

• 1. Find a Grave Memorial Registry