Let me just say after chasing for years a man who I thought was my grandfather and having his true name. Has left me and my family bewildered. Because we thought his name was Ed Canada. It was, he was also, using the name Ed Kennedy. Which is actually his last name. We don't know why or when he decided to change his last name to Canada. I'm working those angles now to gain more insight to who he was and seem to be getting no where. He seems to have just disappeared after the 1920 census for Spalding County, Griffin, Georgia.
I find his wife Viola Canada(Parks) in the 1940 census for Hamilton County, Chattanooga, TN. With children: Herman Canada, Marvin Canada(Smith) & Betty Jean Canada(my mom). Says she's widowed at this time. But that still doesn't give me a death date, nor place of death or parent information for Ed Canada, if he is dead. So, I'm looking for help to bring this brick wall down and find out what, where and who Ed Kennedy really was.
Surnames: Kennedy/Canada/Oxford/Parks/Jones & Freeman