my genealogy brick wall

Dollie Mae Jordan was my great grandmother. I am lucky enough to have memories of her from my childhood and lots of photographs to cherish that document her adult life, but nothing about her childhood or family.

One of the only things Dollie could remember about her childhood is that she was born on 07 September 1911. Her parents were killed in a train accident sometime between 1911 and 1920. She unsuccessfully tried to find more about her parents, and her brothers and sisters, before she died 5 nov 1998.

Dollie was the youngest of 13 children, probably only a couple of years old at the time of the wreck. Her brothers and sisters were seperated after the wreck, and probably adopted. We don't know anything else about the brothers and sisters.

Dollie lived with William Marcus Morrison of Calhoun County, Alabama after her parent's death and people began to complain that a man should not have a young girl in his home. Fearing that she would be taken away from him, they married in 1927 when Dollie was 16 years old.

We have searched on census records, but since Dollie was born in 1911, she wouldn't be on one as a child with her parents. She is on the 1920 census, living with William Morrison. We have searched for families with a lot of children on the 1910 census that are missing from the 1920 census, but not knowing which county to look in has made that almost impossible.

I figure it is a longshot, but she's got to have brothers and sisters out there somewhere who remember their parents, not to mention nieces and nephews who have heard the story.