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a. Note:   Information from U.S. Census and Ancestry public tree http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/42563195/family/familygroup?fpid=19802059988
  Middle name Amelia B in Ancestry tree, Ann in online biographies of her daughter.
  Info from Herring Family Tree by Karen Rourk
  These are two quotes from the Herring Family Tree
  Elopement
 Elizabeth Herring Warren revealed that her parents Pauline Reed & Donald Jones Herring eloped because of tensions between their two families over her mother’s ancestry.
  Native American Heritage
 Elizabeth Herring Warren says, “In the 1930s, when my parents (Pauline Reed) got married, these were hard issues,’’ Warren said. “My father’s family so objected to my mother’s Native American heritage that my mother told me they had to elope.
  From elizabethwarrenwiki.org:
  The is no evidence of Warren telling that elopement story in public, even when she discussed her childhood in great detail,[49] prior to The Boston Herald report and subsequent disclosures that she reported herself as Native American for various law professor employment-related purposes.
  This story of elopement was cast into doubt[50] when research from Cherokee genealogists[51] uncovered that Warren’s parents were married in 1932 in a church not far from their home town by a respected and prominent pastor, who was unlikely to have performed ceremonies for runaways seeking to elope.  The witness on the marriage certificate[52] was a family friend.
  Additinally, records were recovered inticating that Warren’s parents then immediately returned home where their marriage was announced in the local paper in a celebratory fashion,[53] with extensive descriptions of the prominence of the two families in the local business community.  The announcement mentions that the marriage was a surprise to many of the young couple’s friends, but said nothing about it being a surprise to family.
  The marriage of Donald Herring and Miss Pauline Reed, two of Wetumka’s most popular young people, came as a surprise to many of their friend when they returned from Holdenville late Saturday afternoon and announced their marriage.
  Both of the young people were reared in Wetumka and are popular members of the younger set.
 Specifically as to Warren’s mother, the announcement detailed:
 Mrs. Herring is the daughter of H.G. Reed, building contractor of this city, and has always been prominent in the social and church activities of the younger people and being a gifted singer has identified herself with the music lovers of the community.
  Article mentions both young people were in and planning to return to college.


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