Talk:Earle Foxe

Half-sister, step-father

The statement that Earle Foxe had an elder half-sister was added in the first edit to this article after its initial creation back in 2006.

I have been able to confirm via genealogy research that an Ethel May Fox was born to Charles A. Fox and Katie Eldridge in Michigan in 1878, and that one of the witnesses to Fox and Eldgridge's marriage in 1874 had last name Aldrich. However, I have not been managed to link Charles A. Fox of Michigan in the 1870s to the Charles Aldrich Fox of Butler Co., Ohio in 1889-1891.

Further, Charles Aldrich Fox seems to have either died or been divorced from Eva May Herron within a few years. She re-married to I.N. Shields in 1896, and Earl is listed as a member of their household on census pages for 1900 and 1910 in Ohio, and 1920 (!?) in Colorado.

FWIW: Foxe is my second cousin, twice removed. — SelfCorrection (talk) 06:37, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

Military service

The BFMI website archive on the Wayback Machine calls him Major Earle Foxe, but there is no evidence of military service much less an officer's commission.

I have found a WWI draft registration dated June 1917, although it states a birth year of 1888. That registration also indicates that he had wife and stepchild at the time.

The 1928 Adams reference seems to be the only source that Foxe served in the military during WWI. — SelfCorrection (talk) 06:37, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

There appear to be a fair number of articles regarding Foxe's connection to the Black-Foxe Military Institute in the Los Angeles Times available via Newspapers.com. However, they are all paywalled so I have read none of them. - SelfCorrection (talk) 06:08, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

Marital status

Find a Grave indicates that Foxe married Marie Meeker in 1914, although without much/any evidence. Also, I am informed that citing Find a Grave in Wikipedia references is no good. - SelfCorrection (talk) 06:01, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

SelfCorrection, You were informed correctly about Find a Grave's being an unacceptable source for use in Wikipedia articles. WP:USERGENERATED contains some comments about the lack of reliability of Find a Grave and other sources that are user-generated. Eddie Blick (talk) 00:52, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

I found an entry in FamilySearch.org indicating that Foxe married May Meeker in Kansas in 1914. However, no image of the marriage record available. And the genealogy databases are very weak on divorce records. - SelfCorrection (talk) 01:39, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Unfortunately, FamilySearch.org is classified as "generally unreliable". Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources provides comments about it and other genealogical websites. Eddie Blick (talk) 02:30, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Yes, absent a photographic image of the source data, I won't post that particular info to Wikipedia as a reference.

And yes, I have much experience with data mistakes in FamilySearch. But I have also seen so many errors in newspaper articles cited by Wikipedia as "reputable" sources, so 🤷‍♂️. - SelfCorrection (talk) 07:54, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Replying yet again. Found two article in the Leavenworth (KS) Times in 1915 stating that May Meeker, aka the vaudeville star "Dainty Marie", had filed for and then been granted a divorce from Earle Foxe. — SelfCorrection (talk) 04:53, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Based on info from IMDB and FamilySearch.org, Foxe's second wife was previously married twice. She first married J.C. Tenison in Dallas TX and apparently had a son Edward by him. Thus, she is listed in movie credits as Gladys Tennyson. She was subsequently married to movie director Charles Bennett, by whom she had son Chester Jr, who was later adopted by Foxe. Source references are a bit flaky, as who knows where her IMDB profile came from, and all I have from FamilySearch is images of son Edward's birth certificate, the marriage certificate to Bennett, and a census page from 1920. - SelfCorrection (talk) 06:06, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

FWIW: I found a 1940 census page showing Foxe living with wife Gladys and son Chester, just a few doors down Sunset Boulevard from Humphrey Bogart. - SelfCorrection (talk) 05:57, 8 October 2022 (UTC)