Caffey

Caffey

Ireland → Maryland → North Carolina → Alabama → Texas · reaches generation 8

Ireland→Maryland→North Carolina→Alabama→Texas

Ireland shows the green harp, not the 1922 tricolour.

1. G8 · 6th-great-grandparents John Caffey  ⚭  Sarah Ennals b. 1690 · she 14 Sep 1697 – 19 Nov 1742, Cambridge, Dorchester Co., Maryland. The deepest named ancestors either family has S57S58. Family testimony
2. 7 generations between — show them

   1. G7 · 5th-great-grandparents Michael Caffey  ⚭  Mary Hooper b. 1722 Ireland – d. 1754 Dorchester Co., Maryland · she b. 1726. ⚠️ The "born 1722 Ireland" claim appears in ZERO records. The earliest contemporaneous record (the 1739 will of William Ennals) already places Michael in Maryland. "Bishop Hooper of Ireland" and "linen merchant of Ulster" come from an 1878 directory, 116 years after Michael's death. The line IS record-confirmed to Michael Caffey (d.1754, Dorchester Co., MD) via his will abstract S58 — but the Irish origin is family testimony, not a documented fact. Six sources disagree about him and none of them is decided here S57S58. Family testimony
   2. G6 · 4th-great-grandfather John Caffey Sr  ⚭  Mary Buchanan 1751 Cambridge, Maryland – 19 Aug 1826 Ramer, Montgomery Co., Alabama · she 1755 Fauquier Co., VA – 1817 Guilford Co., NC · Revolutionary War, 6th Maryland Independent Company. His own life is documented — will, headstone, newspaper obituary S61. His descent to Kristin is not — see below. Confirmed Descent: testimony
   3. G5 · 3rd-great-grandparents Charles Caffey  ⚭  Nancy Lewis 26 Feb 1788 Rockingham Co., NC – 3 Jan 1860 Ramer, Alabama · she 1791 North Carolina – 1875 Ramer. The joint that carries the whole line. The 1850 census has Hooper V., 17, in Charles and Nancy's household S484, and on 11 March 1868 the administrator of Charles's estate swore that “H. V. Caffey” was one of his nine heirs at law S663: Hooper was his son (Confirmed, 26 September 2026). His estate was appraised on 21 November 1860. Their own marriage bond, 27 November 1811, North Carolina, survives S647. Family testimony
   4. G4 · 2nd-great-grandparents Hooper Van Caffey  ⚭  Melvina Amanda "Mattie" Griffin 1 Oct 1832 Montgomery, Alabama – 30 Nov 1901 Lockhart, Caldwell Co., Texas · she 1 Apr 1850 Georgia – 17 Aug 1933 Elgin, Texas. Her Texas death certificate no. 35240 names her father as a Griffin with no given name and her mother as "don't know" — a wall the family already hit in 1933. 🆕 The probable parents, Henry Griffin and Sarah Boatwright, married in 1844 S794; Sarah was a widow in Macon in 1880 S796. 🆕 In the county of the 1844 marriage, a Henry Griffin, white, registered to vote in Washington County, Georgia, on 19 July 1867 S804; the return gives no age or family and the name is common, so it is probably, not certainly, her father Probable confirm or correct →. Confirmed
   5. G3 · great-grandparents Thomas Walton Caffey Sr  ⚭  Medie Owens 13 Oct 1873 Bastrop Co., Texas – 13 Apr 1930 Salado, Bell Co. · m. 25 Sep 1904. Texas death certificate #16496 names his parents "Van Caffey, b. Alabama" and "Matty Lee, b. Georgia" — the record that welds this generation to the one above it. Confirmed
   6. G2 · grandparents Thomas Walton Caffey Jr. "T.W."  ⚭  Lucille Lorine Kretschmar 1924 Salado – 2002 Hays Co. · she 1925 Austin – 2001 Hays Co. · m. 1945 · Austin Memorial Park, plot 1-566-7 S34. Confirmed
   7. G1 · father Thomas Alan Caffey 1946 Austin – 2016 Austin · B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Texas, 1969 S31. Confirmed
3. G0 · subject Kristin M. Caffey Living — withheld

Eight generations, and the bottom half and the top half are not the same kind of knowledge. From Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. downwards this is vital records. Above Hooper Van Caffey it is one Ancestry tree and one published genealogy, and it stays tagged that way no matter how precise the dates look.

How the Caffey half was closed

One document carries it: the 1950 US Census for Austin, Travis County, ED 256-3, house 605, read off the scan rather than the OCR index. Four people on four consecutive lines — Caffey, Thomas W, head, 26; Lucille L, wife, 24; Thomas A, son, 4; Sandra M, daughter, 1. Four independently sourced birth dates, four matches against the 1 April 1950 census date. A federal enumerator wrote "Son" beside Thomas A. in that household S32.

Three further documents agree without being asked to. His obituary says he was born "to Lucille and Thomas Caffey" S31. His sister's, nine years later, calls her "the daughter of T.W. and Lucille Caffey" and names her late brother Tommy S35. And the graves: T.W. and Lucille share plot 1-566-7 at Austin Memorial Park, married 1945, with her father two plots away at 1-566-10 S34.

⚠️ The outer two generations are thinner than the inner ones. Thomas Walton Caffey Sr., Medie, Willie Frank Kretschmar and Hattie Ladusch come from Social Security NUMIDENT parent fields and FindAGrave S33S34 — not from census images — and everything above them is FindAGrave contributor data, tagged Probable and left there.

Why Lavonne Walker's own entry stops where it does — and why her parents' does not. She is living, stated by the family on 13 September 2026 S24. The living rule therefore applies to her in full: name and relationship, and nothing else on her own entry — no date, no place, no residence. The two years that do appear for her, her 1969 marriage and its end in 1980, are on Thomas Alan Caffey's card, from the state index that documents him; he is deceased and his card is written under the ordinary rule. Her parents are a different matter. Both are deceased and both are documented, so they carry ordinary genealogical detail, exactly as the deceased ancestors on every other branch of this record do.

⚠️ Lavonne's own date of birth is deliberately absent from this page even though the research files hold it and a Texas vital record carries it. She is living; the rule is name and relationship. Nothing here should be read as her having no recorded birth date — only as this page declining to publish it.

⚠️ The link from John Caffey Sr down to Kristin is testimony, not record

This is the most important sentence in this section. John Caffey Sr's existence, his 1821 will, his headstone at Montgomery and his Revolutionary War service are all documented S61. His descent to Kristin is not. The two intervening generations are Charles Caffey (1788–1860) and Hooper Van Caffey (1832–1901). Hooper is now proven Charles's son: Charles's 1868 list of heirs at law names “H. V. Caffey” S663. Charles is joined to John only by the parent links in one Ancestry tree, read from that tree's person pages on 14 September 2026 S57. No record in our possession connects Charles Caffey to John Caffey Sr.

What is suggestive and is not proof: John Caffey Sr's will names a son Charles, and Charles Caffey died at Ramer, Montgomery County, Alabama — the same town John died in. Charles Caffey's own Montgomery County estate file was read on 26 September 2026; it names his heirs but not his father S663. The records that would settle it are his estate sale or a Montgomery County deed naming John Caffey's heirs. His 1821 will has now been read from the will-book image; it agrees with the abstract and names a son Charles, but not which Charles S848. So the link stays Probable confirm or correct →, accepted by Earl on 28 September 2026 pending more evidence.

A second, smaller correction belongs here. An earlier working file recorded John Caffey Sr as Kristin's 5th-great-grandfather. Reading the tree's actual parent links makes him her 4th — only one generation sits between him and Hooper Van Caffey, not two. The generation numbers on this page are the corrected ones.

⚠️ Michael Caffey — six sources, three conflicts, no decision

He is the single most contested person on either family's chart. All six sources are shown and none of them is chosen. Nothing below has been reconciled, and the tidy version some trees print is not reproduced here as though it were settled.

John Caffey's 1826 obituary
Montgomery Alabama Journal His father was Michael Caffey.

The tree owner's own caption
written on that same obituary scan "It states his father was Michael Caffey but that was his grandfather."

The tree's own parent links
read 14 September 2026 S57 John's father was Michael Caffey (1722–1754). The caption contradicts the tree it sits in.

John Caffey Sr's own will, 1821, probated 1826
read from the abstract image 15 September 2026 Names wife Sarah and seven children — Thomas, Elizabeth, Henry, Michael, John, Charles, Hooper. Charles is our line, now on a record. A son named Michael here is a grandson named for the Michael of 1754 — it corroborates the tree's two-Michael structure and says nothing about the elder Michael's Irish birth either way.

Reed & Browning, published Caffey genealogy
quoted in the tree S58 In 1754 Michael Caffey of Dorchester County left a will naming wife Sarah and sons William, Charles, John and Henry. Depositions of 1761–62 to "perpetuate the bounds" of a tract called "Ennalls Inheritance" record that Michael Caffey and William Ennalls, both deceased, had lived there.

Blue's Montgomery Directory, 1878
a subscription biographical directory S59 John Caffey was "the son of Michael and Mary Hooper Caffey, both natives of Ireland … grandson of John Caffey, a linen merchant of Ulster, and of Bishop Hooper of Ireland."

The three unreconciled points:

1. Father, or grandfather? The 1826 obituary and the tree's links both say father. The tree owner's caption says grandfather. Nothing retrieved decides it.
2. Wife Sarah, or wife Mary Hooper? The 1754 will names Michael's wife as Sarah; the 1878 directory and the tree give John's mother as Mary Hooper. The tree resolves this by moving Sarah up a generation into Michael's mother's slot — tidy, and not evidenced by anything held here. A second marriage would explain it equally well. Both possibilities are live.
3. Ulster linen merchant, or Dorchester County planter? The directory makes Michael's father a linen merchant in Ireland; the tree makes him a John Caffey (b. 1690) married to an American woman of the very Dorchester family whose land the 1761 depositions describe. These are two different men wearing the same name unless the Ennalls marriage happened in Maryland after emigration, which the directory's 1740 emigration date makes tight but not impossible.

The record that would settle the top of this line is the actual 1754 Dorchester County, Maryland will of Michael Caffey. It exists — the citation points at Archives of Maryland Vol. 18, pp. 27 and 643, in the Maryland State Archives. We have read a published summary of it and never the will. Until someone does, these three questions stay open on this page.

One further caution about the directory: 1878 subscription biographical directories are a genre notorious for flattering, family-supplied pedigrees, and "Bishop Hooper of Ireland" is precisely the kind of ornamental ancestor such books attach.

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Thomas Walton Caffey Sr.

TexasConfirmed

1873–1930

• Born 13 October 1873, Texas on his memorial — ⚠️ his 1917 draft registration card reads 14 October, one day apart, and neither is preferred here S34; died 13 April 1930, Salado, Bell County; buried Salado Cemetery S34
• Named as T.W. Jr's father in the NUMIDENT record S33
• 🆕 In 1910, in Williamson County, he was 36 and in his second marriage, of five years. His wife is written “Rachel E.”, 22, probably the Medie of family accounts; with them were Thomas O., 3 months, and Mattie Lee, 11 S521. added 25 September 2026.
• 🆕 His World War I draft card, now read from the image, was filled in at Salado on 12 September 1918: Thomas Walton Caffey, 44, born October 14, 1873, farming, medium height, slender, grey eyes, dark hair Confirmed S997. His nearest relative is written Alyeda (or Almeda) Caffey, Salado; the name is hard to read, and it may be Medie's formal name. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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• His memorial quotes Texas death certificate #16496, which names his own parents as "Van Caffey (b. Alabama)" and "Matty Lee (b. Georgia)" — identified as Hooper Van Caffey (1832–1901) and Melvina Amanda "Mattie" Griffin (1850–1933) Probable S34. ⚠️ Note the certificate says "Matty Lee" where the memorial says Griffin; that discrepancy is unresolved and the surname is not treated as settled.
• Married Medie Owens in 1904 S34 — ⚠️ the county is not settled: the full pedigree records 25 September 1904 at Bastrop, the Caffey line note gives Bell. Neither rests on the marriage record, which has not been retrieved, so neither is preferred here

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Medie Owens

TexasConfirmed

1887–1954 · maiden name Owens, on her death certificate

• Born 28 September 1887 at Salado; died 28 July 1954 at Austin State Hospital, of pneumonia, with senility and debility, her certificate filed in Travis County, widowed, occupation practical nurse, dying under her second married name Stobaugh S70; buried Salado Cemetery in the same plot as her first husband S34
• 🆕 In 1900 she was 12, at home at Manor, Travis County, with her parents Charles W. and Alice R. Owens and six brothers and sisters: William W., Epper L., Charles E., Mary P., Annie H. and Robert G. The enumerator wrote her as “Rachel A”, born September 1887 S661. With her death certificate, that puts both parents on records; they are now Confirmed. added 26 September 2026.
• In 1940, as Medie Stobaugh, she was widowed, a practical nurse in Austin, with her son Thomas Caffey, 16, and her stepson Earle Stobaugh, 18 S219
• In 1944, as Mrs. J. W. Stobaugh, she swore to her son Howard Lee Caffey's birth S233. In 1950 she was at 2117 Clifton, Austin, widowed, with her mother Allice Owens, 83 S231
• ⚠️ An apparent conflict, resolved. The NUMIDENT names T.W. Jr's mother "Medie Stobaugh"; FindAGrave calls her "Medie Owens Caffey" S33S34. Not two women and not an error — the SSA recorded the surname she bore when her application was filed, which by then was her second married name. She married John William Stobaugh in 1934, four years after Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. died.

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• So Owens is her maiden name on a state record Confirmed. Her 1954 Texas death certificate, read from the image on 16 September 2026, names her father Charles Owens (born Texas) and her mother Alice Walden (born Tennessee); the informant was the hospital, so the 1900 census's Arkansas and Texas birthplaces are preferred S70. Until that day it rested on FindAGrave contributor data and on the fact that it explains the Stobaugh surname.
• FindAGrave carries the same parents as Charles W. Owens (1863–1939) and Alice Rachael Waldon (1867–1958) S34. The names are now on a certificate; 🆕 the dates are now on their own death certificates as well: Charles, born 9 March 1863 in Arkansas, died 6 July 1939 S780; Alice, born 14 September 1867 at Waco, died 8 August 1958, with Medie as the informant S781. Alice's certificate spells her father Waldon, the memorial's spelling; Medie's says Walden. Charles's own certificate and the 1910 census S783 both say Arkansas, so the “Texas” on Medie's certificate is outweighed (added 27 September 2026).

What is still open — the given name of the Stobaugh husband, and the 1904 Caffey–Owens marriage record, which would date the first marriage. The pedigree file puts that marriage at 25 September 1904 in Bastrop County and the Caffey line note at Bell County, c.1904; neither is a record yet. The death record once named here as the closer has been obtained — it is S70 — and it was filed in Travis County, not Bell.

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Thomas Walton Caffey Jr. "T.W."

TexasConfirmed

Kristin's paternal grandfather · 1924–2002

• Born 21 February 1924, Salado, Bell County, Texas S33S34
• Died 14 March 2002, Hays County, Texas; buried Austin Memorial Park Cemetery, plot 1-566-7 S34

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• United States Marine Corps, 12 August 1941 – 17 September 1945 — enlisted four months before Pearl Harbor, at seventeen S33. His stone reads "Married to Lucille / He served in WW2 in the U.S. Marines" S34. The muster rolls, service number 319512, place him in 1944 as a corporal in Battery M, 4th Battalion, 12th Marines — the 3rd Marine Division's artillery regiment, a 105 mm howitzer battery, "in the field" — and in 1945 as a sergeant at the San Diego recruit depot S33. ⚠️ No campaign is claimed for him here. The rolls put his battalion in the Pacific; which landings he personally took part in is not something a muster roll says, and it is not inferred
• Married Lucille Lorine Kretschmar in 1945, the year he was released S34
• 1950 census: head of household, house 605, Austin, Travis County, ED 256-3, aged 26, with Lucille (24), Thomas A. (4) and Sandra M. (1) S32
• Son of Thomas W. Caffey and Medie — named in his Social Security NUMIDENT record, a government document whose parent fields come from his own application S33
• In 1950 he was a candy salesman for a wholesale candy company, at 605 Brest, Austin S220

He and Lucille retired to Wimberley, Hays County — the shared ZIP on both their records — and died there, fourteen months apart, before being buried together in Austin S33.

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Lucille Lorine Kretschmar

TexasConfirmed

Kristin's paternal grandmother · 1925–2001

• Born 25 August 1925, Austin, Travis County, Texas S33S34. Hers is the reason the family was in Austin at all — it is her home town, not her husband's.
• Died 14 April 2001, Hays County, Texas; buried Austin Memorial Park, plot 1-566-7, with her husband. Her marker reads "Married to Thomas" S34
• Recorded variously as Lucille Lorine Caffey and Lucille Lorene Kretschmar — the spelling of the middle name is unstable across records S33S34
• Daughter of Will Kretschmar and Liessi Ladusch — NUMIDENT parent fields S33
• Grandfather on her father's side Julius Franz Kretschmar S34; grandparents on her mother's side Otto Paul Ladusch and Emma Stein Ladusch S327S328
• 🆕 She played in the Austin High School Orchestra. “Kretschmar, Lucille” is on the Orchestra Personnel roster in the 1942 Comet, when she was 16. The group photograph has no names, so she is not pointed out in it S438. added 25 September 2026.
• 🆕 A year earlier, the 1941 Comet lists “Kretschmar” among the second violins. It gives the surname only, but she is the only Kretschmar in the orchestra S501. added 25 September 2026.
• 🆕 In the same 1942 Comet she is Treasurer of the new square-dance club “Swing and Turn”, for both the fall and spring terms, listed as “Lucile Kretschmar”, the spelling on her birth certificate Confirmed S971S264. added 29 September 2026

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Thomas Alan Caffey

TexasConfirmed

Kristin's father · 1946–2016

Photograph — Cactus, University of Texas at Austin, 1966, page 292 S63. A crop of the Delta Tau Delta member panel, a page whose own caption prints "Thomas Alan Caffey" among exactly seven names keyed to exactly seven portraits in the second photo row. A second portrait of him, from the Class of 1968 grid on page 635 of the same volume, is in the documents below. Confirmed

• Born 7 March 1946, Austin, Travis County, Texas; died 30 December 2016, Austin, aged 70. A lifelong Austin resident S31S34
• McCallum High School; B.S. Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas, 1969 S31 — the Cactus lists him with the Class of 1968 S63, and both are true: the yearbook records the class he entered with, the obituary the year the degree actually came. Career at DuPont Chemical in Nashville, then Texas Instruments in Austin S31
• 🆕 A sophomore at McCallum High School in 1961–62, “Tommy Caffey” in the 1962 yearbook S396; added 24 September 2026.
• 🆕 In 1962–63, his junior year at McCallum, he was junior-class president, vice-president of the spring Student Council, on the all-A honor roll four times, and Junior Class Favorite S492. As a varsity halfback he kicked the extra point that beat Killeen, 13–12 S491. added 25 September 2026.
• 🆕 As a sophomore he was in the McCallum Football Club S534, and the 1964 yearbook has his senior portrait S535. added 25 September 2026.

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• His obituary names the couple outright: "his daughter Kristin Proeger and her husband Earl […]" S31. That sentence welds this record's two halves together from the published side — the link is not an inference from a surname.
• His father's middle name is Walton, not William — the Texas Birth Index on his own 1946 birth record reads Thomas Walton Caffey S130, and so does the Austin Memorial Park gravestone S34. An index and a stone, neither derived from the other. Earl's online Ancestry tree records "William" and is wrong on this point; this page has read Walton throughout and continues to.
• Son of Thomas Walton Caffey Jr. and Lucille Lorine Kretschmar — the 1950 census enumerates him as "son," aged 4, in their Austin household S32, and his obituary says he was born "to Lucille and Thomas Caffey" S31
• Married Clare LaVonne Walker in 1969, Tarrant County, Texas S127; the marriage was dissolved in 1980 in Travis County S128. The state file numbers are withheld. ⚠️ One index disagrees on the wedding day. The Newspapers.com Marriage Index reads 1969; the Texas Marriage Index and the Divorce Index both read 7 June. That newspaper collection is machine-extracted — Ancestry itself stamps it as AI-derived and possibly erroneous — so this page takes 7 June, two state indexes against one derived one, and records the disagreement rather than hiding it S127
• Two children: Bradley Neal Caffey (b. 1972) and Kristin (b. 1975), both named to this couple by the Texas Birth Index S126
• His sisters: Sandra Caffey Falkenberg (28 July 1948 – 4 April 2025) and Donna Caffey Rinn, who is living and whose details are withheld S31S35

This card replaced four sentences of family testimony. Until 13 September 2026 he was on this page as "Thomas Caffey," with no dates, no parents and a Family testimony tag — everything the family had said and nothing more. Every line above now rests on a retrieved document, and every detail the family originally gave checks out against them: raised in Austin ✓, University of Texas ✓, died at Austin ✓, wife Lavonne ✓, daughter Kristin ✓.

⚠️ One theoretical gap, stated for completeness. No single government document names both his parents — his own Texas death certificate would, but Texas records after 2000 are not in any free index and the public Social Security extracts end long before 2016 S33. The census sheet, his obituary and his sister's obituary name them instead, three times over, which is why this is Confirmed without it.

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Bradley Neal Caffey

LivingConfirmed

Kristin's brother · b. 1972

• Born in 1972. The Texas Birth Index names his father as Thomas Alan Caffey and his mother as Clare LaVonne Walker S126 — the same two parents the same index gives for Kristin three years later. That is what makes him her full brother, and it is a state record, not a surname match.
• Corroborated independently: his grandmother Dorothy LaVonne Walker's 2022 obituary lists him and Kristin in a single sentence as grandchildren of the same woman S36. Two sources, neither derived from the other. Confirmed
• Married Erin Helm in 2003 — three separate indexes agree on the date S131. Her own ancestry is a different family and out of scope for this record, which is why it is not worked here.

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• L. C. Anderson High School, Austin — the 1990 volume's index prints "Caffey, Bradley N 'Brad' (12)" directly above "Caffey, Kristin (9)" on the same page S132: the two of them at one school in one year, a senior and a freshman, which is exactly what a 1972 and a 1975 birth predict. ⚠️ A 1987 Austin yearbook also indexes him, but which school that volume is has not been verified and is not claimed here.
• His children are Preston Caffey and Scarlett Caffey, named in their great-grandmother's obituary S36. Their ages are not established from any record read here, so this page publishes no dates, ages or schools for them. Earl chose on 25 September 2026 to publish two items that show them in full: the obituary page image itself, and a 2015 family portrait of Brad and Erin with two children, below. The portrait's uploader tagged only Brad and Erin, so the children in it are Probable as Preston and Scarlett.
• He is already a person in Earl's own Ancestry tree, where the relationship graph labels him brother-in-law. He was new to this research corpus, not to the tree — which is a different claim and is worth keeping straight.

Were there other children? Probably not, and "probably" is the honest word. Across the whole Caffey record cluster and the full obituary survivor list, only Brad and Kristin appear as children of Thomas Alan Caffey and Clare LaVonne Walker. That is absence of evidence — but from two sources that each had reason to name everyone, which is why it is Probable confirm or correct → and not Confirmed S126.

He is living, and this page publishes living adults in full — Earl's rule of 21 September 2026. His residence history, which the records also supply down to city and year, stays in the research corpus: that is an editorial judgement about what belongs in a genealogy, not a privacy rule.

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Kristin M. Caffey Proeger

Living

Wife of the subject · the other half of this record

• Born in 1975, to Thomas Alan Caffey and Clare LaVonne Walker — the Texas Birth Index names both parents S126, and the family gives the city S24. Confirmed
• Her brother is Bradley Neal Caffey (b. 1972), the same two parents on the same state index three years earlier S126. They appear together as grandchildren in Dorothy Walker's 2022 obituary S36. No third child is evidenced.
• Married Earl Proeger in a ceremony on Guam, 1994; the marriage was registered in Travis County, Texas (Texas Marriage Index, 1994) S2, because Texas allowed them to marry by affirmation rather than oath — a Quaker scruple Guam made no accommodation for (Earl Proeger’s account, 22 Sep 2026 S24).
• Maiden name Caffey, established from the Travis County marriage record of 1994 S2 — the same record that names Earl. Confirmed
• Her father was Thomas Alan Caffey (1946–2016) of Austin, whose obituary names "his daughter Kristin Proeger and her husband Earl […]" S31. Her mother is Clare La Vonne Walker, living S24.

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• Three children with Earl — Maia, and the twins Evelyn and Axel. Their names are all this page publishes about them: no dates, no birth years, no ages, no schools, no places. Earl's rule of 21 September 2026 lets a minor be named and nothing more, and that is exactly what is done here.

Her ancestry is charted at Kristin's ancestors and run to full depth in the deep lines. Nothing on this card is new to the page: every statement on it is drawn from the records already cited above.

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Thomas Walton Caffey Jr

TexasConfirmed

Kristin's grandfather · 1910–1994

• Born 2 January 1910 S12
• Died 30 December 1994, Austin, Travis County, Texas S12
• Father of Thomas Alan Caffey (Kristin's father) S24
• Married Lucille Lorine Kretschmar S12

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Thomas Osborn Caffey

Confirmed

Son of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. · born 1910

• Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
• Son of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. and Medie Owens; brother of Thomas Walton Caffey Jr.
• Born 9 February 1910 near Elgin, Williamson County, Texas; Osburn, 10, in 1920 and Osborn T., 20, at Salado in 1930 S232S221
• Died 16 March 1987, Austin, Texas
• 🆕 In 1950 he was an Austin city fireman, aged 40, with his wife Alice L., two sons and his mother-in-law Mabel L. Piland S518. added 25 September 2026.
• 🆕 His son Kenneth Walton Caffey was born in Travis County on 17 August 1944, to him and Alice Lorene Piland S550. added 25 September 2026.
• 🆕 On his 1940 draft card he signed himself Thomas Osban Caffey and gave his birthplace as Bastrop County; Elgin sits on the Bastrop–Williamson line. He lived at 82½ East Avenue, Austin, worked for the N. M. Jackson Service Station, and named his wife, Mrs. Alice Lorene Caffey S571. added 25 September 2026.
• 🆕 He married Alice Piland in Austin on 15 December 1935; H. C. Morrison, pastor of East Avenue Baptist Church, officiated S621. added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 The 1932–33 Austin directory lists him as Osborn Caffey, living at 2702 East 1st Street S636. added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 His wife's father: Orbin Oliver Piland (his card) Confirmed, born 22 March 1893 at Gonzales by his own draft card S932 (the index of his death certificate says 24 March), died 30 September 1929, by his Texas death certificate, which names his parents as E. R. Piland and Virginia F. Montgomery S911S914. In 1920, in Hays County, “Arvin P.” (the image reads “Orvin O.”), 26, and his wife Mabel, 24, had a daughter Alice L., 5 S910; in 1930 Mabel was a widow at Austin with Alice Lorena, 15 S924, and a Texas birth index names Alice Lorene's father as Orbin Oliver Piland S923. His parents, Edward Raymond Piland and Virginia Francis “Jennie” Montgomery Probable confirm or correct →, married in Gonzales County on 28 June 1883, by the licence, read from the image S913; the family is in Gonzales County in 1900 S912. Jennie, born August 1858, died in 1927 S915. Research status: Orbin as Alice's father is CONFIRMED by the two census images and the birth index (relabelled 29 September 2026); his dates and his parents stay PROBABLE, accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. What is weak: the death certificates are read from their indexes only, not the images. added 28 September 2026.
• 🆕 His mother-in-law: Mabel Logue Piland (her card) Probable confirm or correct →, the Mabel L. Piland of his 1950 household S518, was born 31 October 1895 at Galveston and died 13 April 1961 at Austin, by her Texas death certificate, which names her father as D. C. Logue S907. In 1900 “Mable”, 4, born October 1895 in Texas, was in the Waco household of D. C. Logue and his wife Virginia A. S906, who had married as D. C. Logue and Virginia Alice Hamby in Calhoun County, Alabama, on 2 April 1890 S908. Find a Grave gives her father as Dan Crutcher Logue, 1858–1939 S909. Research status: PROBABLE, accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. What is weak: the death certificate image has not been read; it gives Galveston as her birthplace while the 1900 census has the family in Waco; the Hamby family has not yet been researched. added 28 September 2026.

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Orbin Oliver Piland

Confirmed

Father of Alice Lorene Piland Caffey · 1893–1929

• Research status: CONFIRMED as the father of Alice Lorene Piland, wife of Thomas Osborn Caffey. The 1920 census of Hays County, read from the image, has “Orvin O. Piland”, head, 26, born in Texas, with his wife Mabel, 24, and their daughter Alice L., 5 S910; in 1930 at Austin, read from the image, Mabel is a widow with her daughter Alice Lorena, 15 S924. FamilySearch’s index of Texas births, a record independent of both censuses, gives Alice Lorene Piland, born 20 November 1914 at Kyle, Hays County, as the daughter of Orbin Oliver Piland and Mabel Larrimore Logue S923. Added to the tree on Earl’s approval of 28 September 2026. Added 29 September 2026
• Husband of Mabel Logue Piland (1895–1961) and father of Alice Lorene Piland, born 1914 S923, who married Thomas Osborn Caffey in Austin on 15 December 1935 S621; Mabel’s probable parents, Dan Crutcher Logue and Virginia Alice Hamby, have their own cards (30 September 2026)
• Son of Edward Raymond Piland and Virginia Francis “Jennie” Montgomery, by his death certificate, which names his parents as E. R. Piland and Virginia F. Montgomery S911 Probable confirm or correct →
• Born 22 March 1893 at Gonzales, Texas, by his own World War I draft card, made out at Buda, Hays County, on 5 June 1917, when he was farming for Jno. Howard and had a wife and two children S932; the index of his death certificate gives 24 March S911
• In 1922 he was a truck driver for the Texas Company, living at 104 Chicon, Austin, with Mabel S941
• Died 30 September 1929, aged 36, by the index of his Texas death certificate S911S914. Mabel is a widow by the 1930 census S924
• What is weak or missing: his father-daughter link and his birth are settled from images, and his 1917 draft card gives “Orbin Oliver Piland” in full. His death date and his parents still rest on the index of his death certificate, whose image has not been read, and where he died has not been read. The 1920 census writes his name “Orvin O.” and Ancestry indexes it “Arvin P.”
• In 1910, aged 17, he was at home in Justice Precinct 4, Travis County, Texas, as “Oliver O.”, born in Texas, a son in the household of Edward R. Piland, 52, and Virginia F., 53, with Craton, Myrtle, Rubin, Edward R. Jr. and Carrol H. S1025. The census was read from the image. What is weak: it gives his names in reverse order, so the match rests on the age (17 fits his 1893 birth), the Texas birth and the parents’ names, which agree with his death certificate S911. Know more? Use ‘Add to this record’. Probable confirm or correct →

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Edward Raymond Piland

Probable

Evidence: The index of his son Orbin's 1929 Texas death certificate names Orbin's parents as E. R. Piland and Virginia F. Montgomery; the Gonzales County marriage licence, read from the image, has Mr. E. R. Piland marrying Miss Jennie Montgomery on 28 June 1883, and the Texas marriage index gives their names in full; the family is in Gonzales County in 1900, and an Edward, 20, is there in 1880 with his brother Thomas; his own 1932 Texas death certificate, read from the image, gives his birth as 12 January 1859 and his death on 2 July 1932 near Buda, and the 1910 census has him with Virginia F. and their son Oliver O. Weak or missing: The 1900 census is read from its index only; the licence gives only his initials, so Edward Raymond comes from the index; his 1932 death certificate names his parents as Reuben Piland and Mary Gibson, but its informant was a son, so they are not yet proven. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Probable father of Orbin Oliver Piland · married 1883

• Research status: PROBABLE, accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence, and added to the tree on that approval. Evidence: the index of his son Orbin’s 1929 Texas death certificate names Orbin’s parents as E. R. Piland and Virginia F. Montgomery S911; the Texas marriage index has Edward Raymond Piland marrying Virginia Francis “Jennie” Montgomery in Gonzales County on 28 June 1883 S913; the family is in Gonzales County in the 1900 census S912. Added 29 September 2026
• Father of Orbin Oliver Piland (1893–1929), whose daughter Alice Lorene married Thomas Osborn Caffey S911
• Husband of Virginia Francis “Jennie” Montgomery, married 28 June 1883 in Gonzales County, Texas, by L. L. Bradley, minister; the licence, read from the image, names the couple as Mr. E. R. Piland and Miss Jennie Montgomery S913
• In 1880 he is probably the Edward, 20, single, a farmer born in Texas, living in Gonzales County with his brother Thomas Piland, 24 S933 Probable confirm or correct →
• What is weak or missing: the death certificate and the 1900 census are read from their indexes only, not the images; the marriage licence gives only “E. R.”, so the names Edward Raymond come from the index. His 1932 death certificate gives his birth and death and names his parents as Reuben Piland and Mary Gibson S1024, but its informant was a son, so the parents are not yet proven: a Lamar County household of 1860 with a Thomas and an Edward, 1, is held back because its parents’ birthplaces disagree with the 1880 census
• 🆕 Died 2 July 1932 near Buda, Hays County, Texas, a widower, and buried in Live Oak Cemetery; born 12 January 1859 in Texas. His death certificate, read from the image, names his parents as Reuben Piland and Mary Gibson; the informant was his son Houston Confirmed S1024. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 In 1910 in Justice Precinct 4, Travis County: Edward R., 52, married 27 years, and Virginia F., 53, mother of 8 children, all living, with Craton, Myrtle, Rubin, Oliver O., 17, Edward R. Jr. and Carrol H. Confirmed S1025. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 The Texas death index lists Piland, Edward R., Hays County, died 2 July 1932, under file 30535, the number of his death certificate Confirmed S1032S1024. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 In April 1930 he was living as a widower, aged 71, in Justice Precinct 5, Hays County, in the farm household of John Howard and his wife Ida, 46, born in Texas, as John’s father-in-law Confirmed S1033. That makes Ida Howard his daughter, a sister of Orbin Oliver Piland, whose 1917 draft card has him farming at Buda for “Jno. Howard”. Two years later Edward died near Buda. added 29 September 2026

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Virginia Francis “Jennie” Montgomery

Probable

Evidence: The index of her son Orbin's 1929 Texas death certificate names his mother as Virginia F. Montgomery; the Gonzales County marriage licence, read from the image, has Miss Jennie Montgomery marrying Mr. E. R. Piland on 28 June 1883, and the Texas marriage index gives their names in full; her own Texas death certificate, now read from the image, gives her birth as August 1858, her death on 25 September 1927 near Buda, Hays County, and her father as James Montgomery; the 1860, 1870 and 1880 censuses of DeWitt County, next to Gonzales, read from the images, put Virginia F., born Texas about 1858-59 and a twin of Harvey, in the household of James (P.) and Elenor F. Montgomery, both born Tennessee. Weak or missing: Her son Orbin's death certificate is read from its index only, so her place as his mother rests on that index; the licence calls her only Jennie, so Virginia Francis comes from the index and her death certificate; her death certificate leaves her mother's maiden name unknown, so Elenor F. as her mother rests on the three censuses. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Probable mother of Orbin Oliver Piland · 1858–1927

• Research status: PROBABLE, accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence, and added to the tree on that approval. Evidence: the index of her son Orbin’s 1929 Texas death certificate names his mother as Virginia F. Montgomery S911; the Texas marriage index has her marrying Edward Raymond Piland in Gonzales County on 28 June 1883 S913; the index of her own Texas death certificate gives her birth as August 1858 and her death in 1927 S915. Added 29 September 2026
• Mother of Orbin Oliver Piland (1893–1929), whose daughter Alice Lorene married Thomas Osborn Caffey S911
• Wife of Edward Raymond Piland, married 28 June 1883 in Gonzales County, Texas, as Miss Jennie Montgomery, by the licence, read from the image S913
• Born August 1858; died 1927, by the index of her death certificate S915
• What is weak or missing: both death certificates and the marriage are read from their indexes only, not the images; “Jennie” comes from the marriage index. The 1860–1880 censuses give her birth in Texas and put her with James and Elenor F. Montgomery (above), but her death certificate, now read, names her father James Montgomery (below), but no record names her mother in words
• 🆕 Three censuses of DeWitt County, Texas, the county next to Gonzales, all read from the images, show a Virginia Montgomery born in Texas about 1858–59, a twin of Harvey, in the household of James (P.) and Elenor F. Montgomery, both born Tennessee: “Virginia F.”, 2, in 1860 S1093; Virginia, 11, marked a twin in 1870 S1094; and Virginia, 21, daughter of James P., bracketed as twins with Harry Alex, in 1880 S1095. That makes James and Elenor her probable parents Probable (strong) confirm or correct →: the name, the initial F., the age and the county agree three times over twenty years, but no record yet names them as the parents of Jennie Piland in words
• 🆕 Her death certificate, now read from the image, names her father as James Montgomery Confirmed: Mrs. Virginia F. Piland died on 25 September 1927 near Buda, Hays County, born August 1858 in Texas; the informant, R. Piland of Austin, did not know her mother’s maiden name; she was buried at Live Oak Cemetery the next day S1183. So James P. Montgomery is her father, confirmed, and Elenor Frances Bradford, his wife in every census that holds Virginia, her probable mother

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Howard Lee Caffey

Confirmed

Son of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. · born 1917

• Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
• Son of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. and Medie Owens; brother of Thomas Walton Caffey Jr.
• Born 28 September 1917, Salado, Bell County, Texas; his delayed birth certificate of 1944 names both parents S233
• In 1940 at 84 East Avenue, Austin, working for the Owl Taxi Co. S234
• Died 9 July 1988, Travis County, Texas
• 🆕 He married Marian Zelphia Clawson on 24 October 1937 at Calvary Baptist Church, Austin S519. In 1950 he was a cab driver and watchmaker in Austin, with his wife Dorothy M., Jessie Lee and two Piland stepsons S520. added 25 September 2026.
• 🆕 In 1940 he and Marian lodged at 2115 Willow St., Austin; he drove an ice-cream route S547. added 25 September 2026.
• 🆕 On 5 October 1946 in Travis County he married Mrs. Dorothy Piland, the Dorothy M. of the 1950 household S681. added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 Marian's birth certificate records a daughter of Jess Clawson, 26, a labourer, and Lillie Reeves, 23, both born in Texas, born on 28 November 1921 at 3201 San Gabriel Street, Austin, their first child; she was not yet named S732. added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 His wife Dorothy's parents were probably Page S. Mangum and Arlene Mangum Probable confirm or correct →: the 1940 census of Austin, read from the image, lists Dorothy M., 19, daughter, single and in college, born Texas, at 1802 Pearl Street in the household of Page S. Mangum, 52, and his wife Arlene, 41, both born Mississippi, with a younger daughter Kathleen G. S888. The Texas birth index records a son of Logue Taylor Piland, born in 1942, with his mother entered as Dorothy May Mangum S889, and she married Howard as Mrs. Dorothy Piland in 1946 S681. What is weak: the identity runs through an index and a licence rather than one document; the census does not say Arlene is Dorothy's mother; Arlene's maiden name, given in family trees as Furr, and both parents' birth days and death dates are on no document read. Accepted by Earl on 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. added 28 September 2026.
• 🆕 The state birth index names him and Marianne Zelphia Clawson as the parents of Jessie Lee Caffey, born in Travis County in 1939 Confirmed S1122. It is the same Jessie Lee who is in his 1950 household. It also names him and Dorothy Maye Mangum as the parents of a son, Howard David Caffey, born in Travis County in 1950 S1123. That gives Dorothy’s maiden name as Mangum, the surname of the parents proposed for her above, though the index does not name her parents.

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Mattie Lee Caffey

Confirmed

Daughter of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. · born 1898

• Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
• Daughter of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. and his first wife Emma Rachel Ault; half-sister of Thomas Walton Caffey Jr.
• Born 30 October 1898, Texas; the 1900 Bastrop County census names her parents Thomas W. and Emma R.
• Mattie, 21, in her father's household in 1920 S232
• Married Thomas Guy Collins, 25 December 1922, Bell County; died 9 October 1988
• 🆕 Her first child with Thomas G. Collins, a daughter, was born and died on 20 October 1923 and is buried at Beaukiss S485. In 1930 they were farming in Precinct 4, Bastrop County, with sons Ladell J. and Howard R. S486. added 25 September 2026.
• 🆕 By 1940 she had remarried: she is “Lee”, 42, wife of Ewell F. Hughes, a Lee County farmer, with her children Ladell, Howard R. and Lucy Lee Collins S538. added 25 September 2026.
• 🆕 Her first husband, Thomas Guy Collins, born at Tenaha, Shelby County, on 15 October 1898, a son of T. J. and Lucy Collins, died at Bustamante, Zapata County, on 12 January 1935 and was buried at Elgin S676. added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 Her daughter Lucy Lee Collins was born 16 July 1932 in Precinct 4, Bastrop County, recorded as her fifth child; the certificate, filed late, gives the father's birthplace as Panola County S770. added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 Her first husband's parents were probably Thos (Thomas J.) Collins and Lucy Collins Probable confirm or correct →: the 1900 census of Precinct 5, Shelby County, Texas, read from the image, lists Guy, son, born October 1898, in the household of Thos Collins, a farmer born September 1869 in Texas, and his wife Lucy, born April 1872, the mother of two children, both living, with an older son Roy S872. Guy's own 1935 death certificate names his parents as T. J. Collins and Lucy S676. What is weak: the 1900 census gives the boy only as Guy; Lucy's maiden name, given in family trees as Blake, the middle name Joseph, and the couple's birth days and death dates are on no document read. Accepted by Earl on 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. added 28 September 2026.
• 🆕 In April 1910 her future first husband, Guy Collins, then 11, was living with his parents T. J. and Lucy Collins, his elder brother Roy and two younger children on a rented farm in Atascosa County, Texas, read from the census image S1114. The family had moved there from Shelby County, where they were in 1900 S872. Lucy’s age is given as 31, which does not fit the 1900 census.

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Emma Rachel Ault

Confirmed

First wife of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr.

• Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a Texas marriage record and the 1900 census; entered in the family tree the same day.
• First wife of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr.; married 22 December 1895, Caldwell County, Texas
• Mother of Mattie Lee Caffey, born 1898; Emma R. in the 1900 Bastrop County census
• Her death has not been found

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Hooper Van Caffey

Confirmed

Father of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. · born 1832

• Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from the 1880 and 1900 Bastrop County censuses, which name him as the father; entered in the family tree the same day.
• Father of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr.
• Born October 1832, Alabama
• Married Amanda Melvina Griffin, 1 May 1870, Pike County, Alabama
• 🆕 In 1850, aged 17, he was living in the Montgomery County, Alabama household of Charles Caffey, 61, and Nancy, 59: co-residence, not proof of parentage, but the first record for that link S484. He had a first wife, probably Amy Richardson: his son C. B. Caffey's death certificate names her S478, and in 1880 his older children, John W., Cordelia D. P., Charles B. and the widowed Fanny E. Willson, have an Alabama-born mother S479. The Pike County register confirms his marriage to Amanda M. Griffin on 1 May 1870 S482. He served in the 10th Alabama Infantry, held Texas Confederate pension no. 204, and died on 30 November 1901 S481. added 25 September 2026.
• 🆕 Probable confirm or correct → His first marriage was probably to “May P. Richardson”, licensed in Autauga County, Alabama, on 21 December 1857 S555. Evidence: the name Hooper V. Coffey and a date that fits his eldest daughter's birth about 1858. The typed WPA copy and the name May were the weak points; the original register, now read, says Amy P. and gives the wedding as 22 December 1857 S646. What is still weak: the register gives no ages or birthplaces, so the match rests on the name H. V. Coffey and the dates. If you know more, use “Add to this record”. In 1870 he and his second wife Amanda were in Pike County with his four children S543. added 25 September 2026.
• 🆕 The 1880 agricultural schedule for Bastrop County shows him owning his farm: 55 acres tilled and 74 wooded, worth $700, with $1,300 of produce in 1879 S616. added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 The original Autauga County register has now been read. It records the licence of Hooper V. Coffey and Amy P. Richardson on 21 December 1857 and their marriage the next day, 22 December 1857, by R. B. Jones, M.G.; he signed the bond “H. V. Coffey” S646. The typed copy's “May P.” is a misreading of Amy P. added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 Son of Charles Caffey, now Confirmed: on 11 March 1868 the administrator of Charles Caffey’s Montgomery County estate swore that “H. V. Caffey” was one of his nine heirs at law S663. added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 In October 1860 H. V. Caffey, 28, had his own household in the 2nd District of Montgomery County, Alabama (P.O. Ramah), next door to Charles Caffey, 72, and Nancy, 60. With him were a wife, 26, born Alabama, Fanny, 2, and John, 6 months Confirmed S1151. The wife’s name reads Al…a (Alia or Alva?), not Amy or May, so her name is still open. If you can read it, use “Add to this record”.

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Amanda Melvina Griffin

Confirmed

Mother of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. · born 1850

• Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from the 1880 and 1900 Bastrop County censuses, which name her as the mother; entered in the family tree the same day.
• Mother of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr.; wife of Hooper Van Caffey, married 1 May 1870, Pike County, Alabama
• Born 1 April 1850, Georgia
• 🆕 She was known as Mattie. As Mrs. Mattie Caffey she applied for a Confederate widow's pension in 1914, giving her age as 63 and her arrival in Texas as December 1872 S481. In 1900 she had borne 12 children, 7 living S483. Her daughter Anna Bell Gold (5 January 1871 – 5 May 1949) is buried in Kyle Cemetery S480. added 25 September 2026.
• 🆕 In 1920 she was 68 and widowed, living in Bell County with A. C. Caffey, 25, who lists her as “Mattie, mother, 68”, his wife Lorena and their children S536. added 25 September 2026.
• 🆕 The 1870 census, taken 16 weeks after her marriage, has her at 20 in Pike County, Alabama, with Hooper (written “Henry V.”) and his four children S543. added 25 September 2026.
• 🆕 In 1860 Amanda M. Griffin, 10, born Georgia, was in Pike County, Alabama, in the household of Major Griffin, 56, a farmer born in North Carolina, and Matilda M., 34, born Georgia, with five other children S629. Probable confirm or correct → Major and Matilda M. are probably her parents: her name, age, birthplace and county all fit. But the census does not state relationships, and no record read so far names her parents. added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 Probable confirm or correct → A second candidate household, found 26 September 2026. In 1850, Amanda M. Griffin, 4 months old, was in Washington County, Georgia, with Henry Griffin, 24, a farmer, and Sarah, 26, and two small boys, Micajah B. and Augustus, all born in Georgia S662. Evidence: her name and an age that fits her April 1850 birth in Georgia; an online family tree makes Henry and Sarah her parents. What is weak: the 1850 census names no relationships; 🆕 Sarah's maiden name is now on two originals: Henry Griffin married Sarah Boatwright in Washington County on 26 December 1844 S794, and the 1930 death certificate of Mrs Emma Barnhart, born about 1861, names her parents as Henry Griffin and Sarah Boatwright S795 (added 27 September 2026). Neither record names Amanda, so they prove the couple, not that she is their daughter; and the 1860 household above, Major and Matilda M., is not ruled out. Henry and Sarah may be her parents and the 1860 home a relative's, or the reverse. If you know more, use “Add to this record”.
• 🆕 In 1880 Sarah Griffin, 55, was a widow in Macon, Georgia, with three of her children, Irvin H., Mary Ann and Emma (later Mrs Emma Barnhart), and two grandchildren Confirmed S796. Henry Griffin had died before June 1880. added 27 September 2026
• 🆕 The boy Micajah B. of the 1850 household is probably the M. B. Griffin who died at Marshall, Texas, on 7 February 1936 Probable confirm or correct → S797. Evidence: his certificate gives his birth in Washington County, Georgia, and his father as Henry Griffin, his mother as “Ella Boatwright” (image re-read 27 September 2026), the first record to put the Boatwright name on one of Henry Griffin's children. What is weak: the informant, W. H. Griffin, was a generation removed; “Ella” is not the Sarah of the 1844 marriage and three censuses, so Sarah stands; and its birth date, 8 November 1841, falls before that marriage and does not fit his age of 4 in 1850, so about 1845–46 is preferred. added 27 September 2026
• 🆕 A white Henry Griffin registered to vote in Washington County, Georgia, on 19 July 1867 Probable confirm or correct → S804. Evidence: it is the county of the 1844 marriage and the 1850 household. What is weak: the return gives no age or family, and Henry Griffin is a common name. added 27 September 2026

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Charles Caffey

Confirmed

Father of Hooper Van Caffey · about 1789–1860

• Research status: CONFIRMED as Hooper’s father since 26 September 2026. His estate file has been read: on 11 March 1868 his administrator swore that “H. V. Caffey” was one of his nine heirs at law S663, and in 1850 Hooper V., 17, was living in his home, dwelling 19, with Charles, 61, and Nancy, 59 S484
• Father of Hooper Van Caffey; husband of Nancy (Lewis) Caffey
• Born about 1789, North Carolina; died in 1860, before 21 November, when his estate was appraised in Montgomery County, Alabama S663
• 🆕 His heirs at law in 1868, all of full age: Lindsey R. Caffey (the administrator), H. V. Caffey, Jane Caffey, Polly Stoudemire and Sarah Eylands of Montgomery County; Dorcas Green of Columbus, Georgia; John L. Caffey of Autauga County; Sophia Owens of Pike County; and Drucilla Eylands of Coffee County S663. A petition for dower was still before the court in 1862, so his widow outlived him. The file does not name his own father. added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 His marriage bond survives. On 27 November 1811, with John Hill as bondsman, Charles Caffey gave bond in North Carolina for his marriage to Nancy Lewis, and signed it himself S647. It is the first record to give Nancy's maiden name. It does not by itself show that Hooper was their son; the 1868 heirs list does. added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 Probable confirm or correct → Probably a son of John Caffey Sr. Evidence: on the same 1850 page, Thomas Caffey, 66, and Michael Caffey, 68, both born in North Carolina, lived two doors either side of Charles, in dwellings 18 and 21 S484. Thomas, Michael and Charles are three of the seven children named in John Caffey Sr's 1821 will, and each is of an age to be his son. What is weak: neighbours are not a record of parentage; the will names a son Charles but nothing yet shows he is this Charles. His 1860 Montgomery County probate would help. added 26 September 2026. 🆕 On 28 September 2026 the original will-book entry was read: it names “my Seven Children (Viz) Thomas Caffey Elizabeth Caffey Henry Caffey Michael Caffey John Caffey Charles Caffey and Hooper Caffey” S848, confirming the abstract's wording but adding no age or residence for Charles; Earl accepted the link as probable that day.
• 🆕 His mother: probably Mary Buchanan Probable confirm or correct →. A 1923 SAR application gives her as John Caffey Sr.'s wife, married about 1780 S849. What is weak: the SAR papers are compiled, and by 1821 John's wife was Sarah S848, so she may have been a second wife. added 28 September 2026.
• 🆕 A compiled surname card in the Alabama surname files also makes him “Charles&sup4; Caffey (John³, Michael², John¹)”, married to Nancy Lewis, with children John, Monroe, Wm. Hooper, Jane, Parylee, Philadelphia and Lindsay S667. Probable confirm or correct → It is a second, independent compiled account of the same chain, and its Jane, John and Lindsay match the 1868 heirs. What is weak: it is compiled and cites nothing, so it does not upgrade the “probably a son of John Caffey Sr.” line above. Its 1786 birth year conflicts with his 1850 age, and its “Wm. Hooper (m. — Vance)” may or may not be Hooper Van. If you know more, use “Add to this record”. added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 In 1830 a Charles Caffey in Montgomery County, Alabama, headed a household of a man aged 40–49 and a woman aged 30–39, which fits Charles, born about 1789, and Nancy, born about 1791, with eleven children under 20 and one enslaved man. An Elizabeth Lewis, Nancy's maiden surname, headed a household on the same page S742 Probable confirm or correct →. What is weak: the census names only the head, and the page has no county header, so the county comes from the index. added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 In October 1860, the year he died, Charles Caffey, 72, farmer, real estate $2,500, was in the 2nd District of Montgomery County (P.O. Ramah) with Nancy, 60, born Maryland, Jane, 28, Mary Stoudenmire(?), 30, and James, 14, Hooper, 12, Charles, 10, and Mary, 8. H. V. Caffey, 28, and his young family lived next door Confirmed S1151. The census gives his birthplace as South Carolina, against North Carolina elsewhere.
• 🆕 In 1840 Charles Caffey was still heading a household in Montgomery County, Alabama, with one enslaved person and five people working in agriculture Confirmed S1154. The tallies are faint; the oldest man and woman fit Charles and Nancy, and the boys fit Hooper and his brothers.

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Nancy (Lewis) Caffey

Probable

Evidence: The 1850 Montgomery County, Alabama census: Nancy, 59, in Charles Caffey's home with Hooper V., 17; the 1811 marriage bond of Charles Caffey and Nancy Lewis gives her maiden name. Weak or missing: Shared household only: no record read so far names her as Hooper's mother. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Mother of Hooper Van Caffey · born about 1791

• Research status: PROBABLE — Nancy, 59, born in North Carolina, is in Charles Caffey's 1850 Montgomery County, Alabama household with Hooper V., 17 S484. The census states no relationships, and no record read so far gives her maiden name, Lewis
• Probable mother of Hooper Van Caffey; wife of Charles Caffey
• Born about 1791, North Carolina; death not yet found
• 🆕 The North Carolina marriage bond of Charles Caffey and Nancy Lewis, dated 27 November 1811 and signed by Charles, gives her maiden name for the first time S647. added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 The 1866 Alabama state census lists a Nancy Caffey heading a household of two women over 20 in Montgomery County, on the same page as Elizabeth Caffey and L. R. Caffey S736 Probable confirm or correct →. If it is her, she was still living in 1866. What is weak: the list gives no ages or birthplaces, so the name and county are the only link. added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 In 1840 the household of Charles Caffey in Montgomery County, Alabama, included a woman of about her age S1154. The 1840 census names only the head, so she is not named.

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Anna Bell Caffey Gold

Probable

Evidence: Her 1949 Texas death certificate naming Hooper Van Caffey and Mattie Griffen, and Annie B., 9, in Hooper's 1880 household. Weak or missing: One certificate, informant J. E. Gold, relationship not stated, written 78 years after her birth. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Daughter of Hooper Van Caffey · 1871–1949

• Research status: PROBABLE — her 1949 Texas death certificate, no. 25185, names her father as Hooper Van Caffey and her mother as Mattie Griffen, the name Amanda went by S480; “Annie B.”, 9, is in Hooper's 1880 household S479. One certificate, informant J. E. Gold, relationship not stated, written 78 years after her birth
• Daughter of Hooper Van Caffey and Amanda Melvina Griffin; sister of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr.
• Born 5 January 1871, Alabama; died 5 May 1949, Austin, Texas; buried Kyle Cemetery
• Married Henry L. (Henry Lewis) Gold: the 1930 and 1940 censuses and her son Vernon's birth record all name him (below). J. E. Gold, shown here before as her husband, is the informant on her 1949 death certificate, which does not say how he was related to her S480
• 🆕 Her son Vernon Clyde Gold was born in rural Caldwell County on 3 April 1908. A 1969 amendment to his birth certificate, sworn by his sister Lola E. Whittington of Kyle, names his parents as Henry Lewis Gold and Anna Caffey S696. The 1930 and 1940 censuses agree (below). added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 In 1930 at Kyle, Hays County, she was Anna, 59, born in Texas of Alabama-born parents, wife of Henry L. Gold, 58, a farmer who owned his place, with Vernon, 22, and Hazel, 15 S711. In 1940, still at Kyle, she was Anna B., 69, born in Alabama, and Henry L., 68, gave the answers S712. added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 In 1900, in Precinct 1 of Bastrop County, she was Annie Gold, born January 1871 in Alabama, wife of Henry Gold, born August 1871 in Texas to German-born parents. They had married about 1892 and had four children: James E., Lela E., Alva V. and Henry R. Next door was John W. Caffey, born January 1860 in Alabama S730. In 1920, in Hays County, Henry L. and Anna Gold had Myrtle, Vernon and Hazel B. at home S731. Her son James E. Gold is probably the “J. E. Gold” who gave the answers on her 1949 death certificate S480 Probable confirm or correct →. What is weak: the certificate does not say how J. E. was related to her. added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 In April 1910 she was Anna, wife of Henry L. Gold, a renting farmer, in Justice Precinct 5 of Caldwell County, Texas; she had borne 7 children, 5 of them living, and at home were Elmo, 16, Eva, 15, Alvie, 13, Myrtle, 8, and Vernon, 2. Her age is entered as 30, ten years short of her 1871 birth Confirmed S1092

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Charles B. (C. B.) Caffey

Probable

Evidence: His 1948 Texas death certificate, which names Hooper Van Caffey and Amy Richardson. Weak or missing: The only record naming Amy, and the informant was the Confederate Home, not family. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Son of Hooper Van Caffey · 1865–1948

• Research status: PROBABLE — his 1948 Texas death certificate, no. 9724, names his parents as Hooper Van Caffey and Amy Richardson S478, and the 1880 census gives Hooper's older children an Alabama-born mother S479. It is the only record that names Amy, and the informant was the Confederate Home, not family
• Son of Hooper Van Caffey and his first wife, Amy Richardson of Alabama; half-brother of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr.
• Born 7 October 1865, Mobile, Alabama; died 15 February 1948 at the Texas Confederate Home for Men, Austin; buried at Elgin
• 🆕 In 1940 he was 74 and owned his house at Elgin, Bastrop County, the same one as in 1935. With him were his wife Frances H., 67, born in Texas, who gave the answers, and Cordelia Harris, 77, a widow born in Alabama S715. added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 The census has him at Elgin and nearby in Bastrop County, Texas, for thirty years. In June 1900 he was C. B. Caffey, 34, born October 1865 in Alabama, renting a farm, married ten years to H. F., born August 1872 in Texas, with Roy, Olly, Ethel, Myrtis and Earl Confirmed S1055. In 1910 he was “Charley B. Coffey”, 43, owning a mortgaged farm at Elgin, with Fannie and eight living children, Clayborn E., Ollie, Ethel, Myrtis, Earl, Corinne and Marie S1056. In 1920 he was renting, 54, with Fannie H., William O., Earl B., Corine, Mari H., Ralph and Ruth E. S1057. In 1930 he was 64, a house painter who owned his home, first married at 23, with Frances H., first married at 16, and Ralph, Marie and Ruth S1058. So he married Fannie (Frances H.) about 1890. The 1920 census alone gives his birthplace as Texas. added 29 September 2026
• 🆕 A Bastrop County birth report, read from the image, records a daughter, not yet named, born 5 December 1907 one mile east of Elgin to C. B. Caffey and Mattie Caffey of Elgin S1097; the state birth index lists the same birth, file 3377, under “Coffey” S1098. The place and the father fit him, and the 1910 census has a daughter Marie, 2 S1056; but his wife is H. F. or Fannie in every census, never Mattie, so either the report misnames her or this is another C. B. Caffey Probable confirm or correct →

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John Caffey Sr.

Probable

Evidence: John Caffey's 1821 will, read from the original Montgomery County will book, names seven children including Charles; in 1850 Charles, 61, lived beside Thomas and Michael, two more of the named sons. Weak or missing: No record pins the will's Charles as this Charles: the will gives no ages or residences, and the 1850 census states no relationships. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Probable father of Charles Caffey · 1751–1826

• Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. His will, dated 2 August 1821 and read from the original Montgomery County will book, divides his personal estate among “my Seven Children (Viz) Thomas Caffey Elizabeth Caffey Henry Caffey Michael Caffey John Caffey Charles Caffey and Hooper Caffey” S848, and in 1850 Charles, 61, born North Carolina, lived in Montgomery County beside Thomas, 66, and Michael, 68, two more of the named sons S484. What is weak: no record pins the will's Charles as this Charles; the will gives no ages or residences Probable confirm or correct →
• Probable father of Charles Caffey
• His will, dated 2 August 1821 and probated 22 August 1826, leaves “my Loving wife Sarah Caffey” the quarter section he lived on, the north-west quarter of section 28, township 16, range 18, and for her life the enslaved man Jordan, the enslaved woman Rachael and her son Ems; after her death the land goes to his son Hooper Caffey S848S61
• Born 1751, Dorchester County, Maryland, and died 19 August 1826, Montgomery County, Alabama, by a 1923 Sons of the American Revolution application, a compiled lineage paper, which gives his wife as Mary Buchanan, married about 1780 S849; his headstone reads 1751–1826 and the Alabama Journal reported his death S61. An online tree's middle name “Thomas” is on no record read, and its “Cambridge” and “Ramer” come only from compiled indexes and Find a Grave
• 🆕 Two compiled papers agree with his will and headstone. A typescript family chart in the Alabama Surname Files gives John Caffey, born near Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland, 1752, married about 1780 Mary Buchanan, died Montgomery County 19 August 1826, with children Henry, Michael, Thomas (born 24 May 1784), John (born 29 September 1786), Charles (born 1788), Hooper (born 1 November 1793) and Nancy S1072. A DAR Lineage Book (page 185, member 116597) says John Caffey (1752–1826), born in Maryland, enlisted in 1776 in the 6th company, Maryland Line, and died at Montgomery, and runs a line through his son William Hooper Caffey (1793–1835) S1073. Evidence: the names, places and death date match the will S848 and headstone S61. Weak: both are late compilations that cite nothing on the page; the children’s birth dates and the war service are unproven, the chart names a Nancy and not the will’s Elizabeth, and the headstone’s 1751 stands against their 1752. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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Mary Buchanan

Probable

Evidence: A 1923 SAR application gives Mary Buchanan as John Caffey Sr.'s wife, married about 1780, within which Charles, born about 1789, would fall. Weak or missing: The SAR papers are compiled and disagree on her death year; by 1821 John's wife was Sarah, so a second wife cannot be ruled out, and the father link is itself only probable. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Probable mother of Charles Caffey · married about 1780

• Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. A 1923 Sons of the American Revolution application gives Mary Buchanan as the wife of John Caffey Sr., married about 1780 S849, so Charles, born about 1789 S484, would fall within that marriage. What is weak: the SAR papers are compiled; his father link is itself only probable; and by 1821 John's wife was Sarah S848, so a second wife before 1789 cannot be ruled out Probable confirm or correct →
• Probable mother of Charles Caffey; wife of John Caffey Sr. by the SAR application S849
• No record read gives her dates. Two more SAR applications, seen only in an index, also name her but give death years of 1737 and 1837, which cannot both be right. An online tree's “Mary Ellen”, its birth on 18 December 1755 at Rectortown, Fauquier County, Virginia, and its death in 1817 in Guilford County, North Carolina, are on no record read

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Dan Crutcher Logue

Probable

Evidence: The index of his daughter Mabel's 1961 Texas death certificate names her father as D. C. Logue; in 1900 at Waco, read from the image, D. C. Logue, born November 1857, a grocery salesman, heads a household with his wife Virginia A. and their daughter Mable, 4; the Calhoun County, Alabama, marriage register, read from the image, has D. C. Logue marrying Virginia Alice Hamby on 2 April 1890; in 1910 at Cuero he is Dan C. Logue, 52, manager of a cotton mill, with Virginia and Mabel, 14, and in 1920 in Grayson County “Doctor C.” Logue, 60, born in Tennessee; a Find a Grave memorial gives his full name, Dan Crutcher Logue, and his dates, 24 November 1858 to 11 April 1939, buried at Sherman, Texas; the 1860, 1870 and 1880 Tennessee censuses, read from the images, have a Crutcher Logue aged 1, 12 (a mill spinner) and 21, in the households of H. D. and Mary A. Logue and then with a wife Jennie. Weak or missing: The name Dan and his exact dates rest on Find a Grave alone, and nothing read yet ties the Tennessee Crutcher to the Waco D. C. Logue except name, age and mill work; the 1860 and 1870 censuses do not state relationships, so his parents are not proven; the 1880 wife Jennie, 19, cannot be Virginia, born 1867, and is not identified; and the 1900 census gives his birth as November 1857, a year earlier; his daughter’s death certificate is read from its index only; and the 1930 census calls his wife Virginia a widow, which sits against a death in 1939. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Probable father of Mabel Logue Piland · 1858–1939

• Research status: PROBABLE, accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence, and added to the tree on his approval of 30 September 2026. Evidence: the index of his daughter Mabel’s death certificate names her father as D. C. Logue S907; the 1900 census of Waco, read from the image, has D. C. Logue, 42, with his wife Virginia A. and their daughter Mable, 4 S906. Added 30 September 2026
• Father of Mabel Logue Piland (1895–1961), wife of Orbin Oliver Piland and mother of Alice Lorene, who married Thomas Osborn Caffey S907S906
• Husband of Virginia Alice Hamby, married 2 April 1890 in Calhoun County, Alabama, as D. C. Logue, by the Calhoun County marriage register, read from the image S908; the 1900 census has them married ten years S906
• Born 24 November 1858 and died 11 April 1939, buried in West Hill Cemetery, Sherman, Texas, by his Find a Grave memorial, which gives his full name and his wife as Virginia Alice Logue S909 Probable confirm or correct →. The 1900 census, read from the image, gives his birth as November 1857 S906; the 1910 census gives his age as 52 S1080 and the 1920 census as 60, born in Tennessee S1081
• 🆕 In 1900 he was a grocery salesman at 1609 North 6th Street, Waco S906; in 1910 the manager of a cotton mill at Cuero, DeWitt County S1080; and in January 1920 in a cotton mill in Grayson County, owning his mortgaged home S1081. The 1920 enumerator wrote his name “Doctor C.”, an expansion of D. C. added 30 September 2026
• What is weak or missing: the 1900, 1910 and 1920 censuses and the marriage are now read from the images, but the name Dan and his exact dates rest on Find a Grave alone, a compiled memorial, not a record (the name Crutcher is now on the 1860, 1870 and 1880 censuses S1108S1109S1110), and the 1900 census gives November 1857, not 1858; in 1930 his wife Virginia is enumerated as a widow in her daughter’s household S924, which does not fit a death in 1939, so either the census or the memorial dates may be wrong, or the couple had separated. His parents are not proven; the 1860 and 1870 censuses point to H. D. and Mary A. Logue S1108S1109, and the 1920 census gives his birthplace as Tennessee S1081
• 🆕 Probably the son of H. D. and Mary A. Logue. In 1860 at McMinnville, Tennessee, Crutcher, 1, is in the household of H. D. Logue, 32, and Mary, 30, with Florance, Texas and Frank S1108; in 1870 at Pulaski, Giles County, Crutcher, 12, is a spinner in the household of Mary A. Logue, 38, a cloth trimmer, with the same Texas and Frank (now Franklin) S1109; and in 1880 in Giles County Mary Logue, 40, is a widow S1110. Probable confirm or correct → Evidence: the uncommon given name Crutcher, his age, Tennessee birth and cotton-mill work, which he kept up as a mill manager in 1910 and 1920. Weak: neither census states relationships, and nothing read yet ties the Tennessee boy to the D. C. Logue of Waco except name, age and trade
• 🆕 In June 1880, in the 7th Civil District of Giles County, Crutcher Logue, 21, a laborer, heads a household with his wife Jennie, 19, a weaver in a cotton factory; both are marked as married within the census year S1110. Jennie cannot be Virginia Alice Hamby, who was born in July 1867 S906 and married him in 1890 S908, so this looks like an earlier marriage; Jennie’s maiden name and what became of her are not found. Probable confirm or correct →
• 🆕 Father of Leola Logue Piland (1892–1938): her Texas death certificate, read from the image, names her father as “D. C. Louge”, born in Tennessee S1113; Leola is in his household at Waco in 1900 S906 and, aged 17, at Cuero in 1910 S1080. She was born at Galveston in November 1892 S1113 Probable confirm or correct →
• 🆕 Father of Victor Quillen Logue (born 1902): both of Victor’s Los Angeles marriage records name his father as D. C. Logue S1191 S1192

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Mabel Logue Piland

Probable

Evidence: In 1920 in Hays County, read from the image, Mabel, 24, is the wife of Orvin O. Piland with their daughter Alice L., 5; in 1930 at Austin, read from the image, Mable Piland, 34, a widow, heads the household with her daughter Alice Lorena, 15, and her mother Virginia Logue, 62; in 1950 she is Mabel L. Piland, mother-in-law, in Thomas O. Caffey's household; the index of her Texas death certificate gives her birth on 31 October 1895 at Galveston, her death on 13 April 1961 at Austin, and her father as D. C. Logue. Weak or missing: The death certificate is read from its index only, not the image; it gives Galveston as her birthplace while the 1900 census has the family in Waco; a FamilySearch birth index for her daughter calls her Mabel Larrimore Logue, and the Larrimore name has not been explained. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Mother of Alice Lorene Piland Caffey · 1895–1961

• Research status: PROBABLE, accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence, and added to the tree on his approval of 30 September 2026. Her place as mother of Alice Lorene Piland is read from census images: in 1930 at Austin the relationship column names Alice Lorena, 15, as her daughter S924 Confirmed; her birth, death and parents rest on the index of her death certificate S907. Added 30 September 2026
• Wife of Orbin Oliver Piland: in 1920 in Hays County, read from the image, “Orvin O. Piland”, 26, heads the household with his wife Mabel, 24, and their daughter Alice L., 5 S910; in 1922 the Austin directory lists “Piland Orbin O (Mabel)” at 104 Chicon S941
• Mother of Alice Lorene Piland, born 20 November 1914 at Kyle, Hays County, by FamilySearch’s index of Texas births, which names her parents as Orbin Oliver Piland and Mabel Larrimore Logue S923; Alice married Thomas Osborn Caffey in Austin on 15 December 1935 S621
• Daughter of Dan Crutcher Logue and Virginia Alice Hamby: her death certificate names her father as D. C. Logue S907; in 1900 “Mable”, 4, born October 1895 in Texas, is in the Waco household of D. C. Logue and his wife Virginia A. S906; in 1910 Mabel, 14, is with Dan C. and Virginia A. Logue at Cuero S1080; in 1930 her widowed mother Virginia Logue lives with her S924 Probable confirm or correct →
• Born 31 October 1895 at Galveston, Texas, by the index of her death certificate S907; the 1900 census gives October 1895 in Texas S906
• A widow by April 1930, after Orbin’s death in September 1929 S924S911. In 1950, aged 54, she lived in Austin with her daughter Alice and son-in-law Thomas O. Caffey, a city fireman S518
• Died 13 April 1961 at Austin, Travis County, by the index of her Texas death certificate S907
• What is weak or missing: the death certificate is read from its index only, so her birth at Galveston, her death date and her father’s name have not been seen on the image; the 1900 census that puts her in the Logue household at Waco is now read from the image, and her elder sister Leola’s death certificate, read from the image, puts Leola’s own birth at Galveston in November 1892 S1113, so the family seems to have lived at Galveston in the early 1890s, between the 1890 Alabama marriage and the 1900 Waco census; FamilySearch’s birth index for her daughter calls her “Mabel Larrimore Logue”, and where the Larrimore name comes from has not been found
• 🆕 In the 1932–33 Austin city directory she is “Piland Mabel L Mrs”, a saleswoman at the F & W Grand Silver Store, rooming at 403 West 14th Street Confirmed S1091
• 🆕 Younger sister of Leola Logue Piland, born at Galveston on 28 November 1892, whose death certificate, read from the image, names the same parents, D. C. Logue and Virginia Alice S1113; the two girls are together in their parents’ household at Waco in 1900 S906 and at Cuero in 1910 S1080
• 🆕 Sister of Victor Quillen Logue, born 1902, whose marriage records name the same parents, D. C. Logue and Alice Hanby S1191

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Leola Logue Piland

Probable

Evidence: Her 1938 Texas death certificate, read from the image, names her father as D. C. Logue (written Louge), born in Tennessee, and her mother as Virginia Alice, and gives her birth at Galveston on 28 November 1892; Leola is in D. C. Logue's household at Waco in 1900 and, aged 17, at Cuero in 1910, read from the images, with her sister Mabel. Weak or missing: The certificate's informant was her husband, who gives her mother's birthplace as Texas where three censuses say Tennessee; her father D. C. Logue is himself Probable; her marriage to Ruben Piland and how he was related to Mabel's husband Orbin Piland are not found. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Sister of Mabel Logue Piland · 1892–1938

• Research status: PROBABLE as a daughter of Dan Crutcher Logue and Virginia Alice Hamby Probable confirm or correct →. Evidence: her Texas death certificate, read from the image, names her father as “D. C. Louge”, born in Tennessee, and her mother as “Virginaa Alice” Confirmed S1113; she is Leola in D. C. Logue’s household at Waco in 1900 S906 and Leola, 17, with Dan C. and Virginia A. Logue at Cuero in 1910 S1080. What is weak or missing: the informant was her husband, who gives her mother’s birthplace as Texas where the censuses say Tennessee, and her father’s own identity rests partly on a Find a Grave memorial. Know more? Use ‘Add to this record’ to confirm or correct it. Card added 1 October 2026
• Born 28 November 1892 at Galveston, Texas, by her death certificate S1113. Her younger sister Mabel Logue Piland was also born at Galveston, in 1895 S907, so the family seems to have lived there between the 1890 Alabama marriage S908 and the 1900 Waco census S906
• Wife of Ruben Piland, who was the informant on her death certificate S1113. Her sister Mabel married Orbin Oliver Piland; whether Ruben and Orbin were brothers or cousins has not been found
• She had lived in Austin for 20 years, on Manor Road, and was a housewife. She died at Seton Infirmary, Austin, on 12 February 1938, aged 45, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, the next day S1113
• What is weak or missing: her marriage record, any children, and Ruben Piland’s parents are not found; the certificate’s Texas birthplace for her mother conflicts with the censuses and is not followed here
• 🆕 Sister of Victor Quillen Logue, born 1902, whose marriage records name the same father, D. C. Logue S1191 S1192

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Virginia Alice Hamby

Probable

Evidence: In 1930 at Austin, read from the image, Virginia Logue, 62, widowed, born in Tennessee, lives with her daughter Mable Piland as Mable's mother; in 1900 at Waco, read from the image, Virginia A., born July 1867 in Tennessee, is the wife of D. C. Logue with their daughter Mable, born October 1895; the Calhoun County, Alabama, marriage register, read from the image, records the marriage of D. C. Logue and Virginia Alice Hamby on 2 April 1890; in 1910 she is at Cuero with Dan C. Logue and Mabel, 14, and in 1920 in Grayson County with him; in April 1950, read from the image, Virginia Logue, 81, widowed, born in Tennessee, is at Howe, Grayson County, as the mother-in-law of Harry R. Lewis, whose wife Ethel was born in Alabama about 1891. Weak or missing: The Hamby family has not been researched, so her parents are not found; her death is not found, though the 1950 census shows her alive; the 1930 census calls her a widow, which does not fit the 1939 death Find a Grave gives her husband; no record read here names her daughter Ethel as a Logue. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Probable mother of Mabel Logue Piland · born 1867

• Research status: PROBABLE, accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence, and added to the tree on his approval of 30 September 2026. Her place as Mabel’s mother is read from the image of the 1930 census of Austin, where Virginia Logue, 62, widowed, born in Tennessee, is entered as the mother of the head, Mable Piland S924 Confirmed; her maiden name is read from the image of the Calhoun County marriage register S908. Added 30 September 2026
• Mother of Mabel Logue Piland (1895–1961), whose daughter Alice Lorene married Thomas Osborn Caffey S924S906
• Wife of Dan Crutcher Logue: the Calhoun County marriage register, read from the image, has Virginia Alice Hamby marrying D. C. Logue in Calhoun County on 2 April 1890 S908 Probable confirm or correct →; Find a Grave names Dan’s wife as Virginia Alice Logue S909
• Born July 1867 in Tennessee, by the 1900 census, read from the image, which gives her as Virginia A., married ten years, the mother of five children, four living S906; the 1930 census gives her age as 62 and her birthplace as Tennessee S924
• 🆕 In 1910 she lived at Cuero, DeWitt County, Texas, with Dan C. Logue, 52, manager of a cotton mill; she was 41, born in Tennessee, married 21 years and the mother of seven children, six living, and Mabel, 14, was at home S1080. In January 1920 she was 51, in Grayson County, Texas, with her husband, entered as “Doctor C.” Logue, 60, of the cotton mill S1081. added 30 September 2026
• What is weak or missing: the marriage and the 1900 and 1950 censuses are now read from the images; the 1950 census shows her alive at 81, so she died after April 1950; the Hamby family has not been researched; the 1930 census calls her a widow, which does not fit the 1939 death Find a Grave gives her husband; her death and her parents are not found
• 🆕 On 10 April 1950 she was living at Howe, Grayson County, Texas, as Virginia Logue, 81, widowed, born in Tennessee, the mother-in-law of the head, Harry R. Lewis, a cotton-mill oiler, in his house with his wife Ethel, 59, born in Alabama, and their son James, 39 Confirmed S1101. That makes Ethel her daughter, born about 1891 in Alabama, the year after the Calhoun County marriage Probable confirm or correct →. No record read here gives Ethel’s maiden name or birth record, and Virginia’s death is still not found
• 🆕 Mother of Leola Logue Piland (1892–1938), whose death certificate, read from the image, names her mother as “Virginaa Alice” S1113. That certificate gives Virginia’s birthplace as Texas, but its informant was Leola’s husband; the 1900, 1910 and 1950 censuses all say Tennessee, and Tennessee is kept Probable confirm or correct →
• 🆕 Mother of Victor Quillen Logue (born 1902): his 1926 Los Angeles marriage record names his mother as Alice Hanby S1191

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James P. Montgomery

Confirmed

Father of Virginia Francis Montgomery · c.1834–before 1900

• Research status: CONFIRMED as the father of Virginia Francis “Jennie” Montgomery, and added to the tree on Earl’s approval of 2 October 2026. Her own death certificate, read from the image, names her father as James Montgomery S1183; in 1880 the census, read from the image, lists Virginia, 21, as the daughter of James P. Montgomery, 47 S1095. Added 2 October 2026
• Born about 1833–35 in Tennessee, by his ages in three censuses; in 1880 he gives both his parents’ birthplace as North Carolina S1093 S1094 S1095
• A stock hunter and farmer in DeWitt County, Texas: in 1860 “James Mongumay”, 25, stock hunter, with Elenor F., 23, Matilda E., 4, Harvey A., 2, and Virginia F., 2 S1093; in 1870 Jas. Montgomery, 37, farmer, near Clinton, with Ellen and the twins Harvey and Virginia, 11 S1094; in 1880 James P., 47, with Elenor, 45, and nine children S1095
• Husband of Elenor Frances Bradford: the Coffee County, Tennessee, marriage register, read from the image, has “James Montgomery Licence to Marry Ellen Bradford” on 4 April 1855, married the same day S1200 S1185. Their first child, Matilda, was born in Texas about 1856
• Two more of his children’s death certificates, now read from the images, name him as James P. Montgomery: Lula Gay Piland’s of 1949, born 15 August 1871 in DeWitt County, which gives both her parents, James P. Montgomery and Elenore Frances Bradford, as born in Tennessee S1198 S1188; and James L. Montgomery’s, who died at Victoria on 8 February 1932 S1199 S1190
• His children in the censuses: Matilda E. (1860), the twins Harvey (Harry) Alex and Virginia, Mary, James L., Idella, the twins Louisa and Eliza, and Ida (1880) S1093 S1095, with Lula Gay from her own death certificate S1198; in 1900 Ellen is the mother of nine, all living S1184
• Died before June 1900, when his wife Ellen is a widow in Gonzales County S1184. Find a Grave places his grave and Ellen’s at Sample, Gonzales County S1201
• Open question: his own parents. In 1850 a James P. Montgomery, 13, born Georgia, lives with John Montgomery, 38, and Sarah, 36, in Forsyth County, Georgia S1202. They could be his parents, but every later record, his own censuses and Lula’s death certificate, says he was born in Tennessee, so they are held, not added Probable confirm or correct →
• What is weak or missing: no record of his birth or death has been found, and his parents are not known. Find a Grave gives born 23 April 1836 and died May 1887, but its own index disagrees on the day of death, so those dates are not used here; the initial P. comes from the 1880 census and two of his children’s death indexes

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Elenor Frances Bradford

Probable

Evidence: Elenor F. is the wife of James P. Montgomery in the 1860, 1870 and 1880 DeWitt County censuses that hold Virginia, all read from the images; four of her other children's Texas death certificates, each with a different informant, name a Bradford mother (Ellen Bradford twice, Elenore Frances Bradford, Mary Ellen Bradford); in 1900, read from the image, Ellen Montgomery, born March 1836 in Tennessee, is a widow in Gonzales County, mother of nine children, all living. Weak or missing: No document read names her as Virginia's mother: Virginia's own death certificate gives the mother as "don't know", and the 1880 relationship column is to the head of the house; three of the four death certificates are read from indexes only (Lula's is now read from the image); the 1855 Coffee County marriage register does not name her parents; her death has not been found in a record. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Probable mother of Virginia Francis Montgomery · born 1836

• Research status: PROBABLE (strong), the verdict of the potential-parents review, and added to the tree on Earl’s approval of 2 October 2026. Elenor F. is the wife of James P. Montgomery in every census that holds Virginia: 1860 S1093, 1870 as Ellen S1094 and 1880 S1095, all read from the images. Added 2 October 2026
• Probable mother of Virginia Francis “Jennie” Montgomery Probable confirm or correct →: Virginia’s own death certificate, read from the image, gives her mother’s maiden name as “don’t know” S1183, so the link rests on the three censuses and on her brothers’ and sisters’ records below
• Wife of James P. Montgomery; the Coffee County, Tennessee, marriage register, read from the image, has James Montgomery licensed to marry Ellen Bradford on 4 April 1855 and married the same day S1200 S1185
• Bradford: four of her other children’s Texas death certificates, each with a different informant, name a Bradford mother: Harry Alexander Montgomery (1931), Virginia’s twin, “Ellen Bradford” S1186; Matilda Evlin Henry (1931), “Ellen Bradford” S1187; Lula Gay Piland (1949), “Elenore Frances Bradford” S1188; and Mary E. Baker (1942), “Mary Ellen Bradford” S1189. Lula’s certificate is now read from the image too: mother’s maiden name “Elenore Frances Bradford”, born Tennessee S1198; the other three are read from FamilySearch’s index only
• Born March 1836 in Tennessee, by the 1900 census, read from the image: Ellen Montgomery, 64, a widow in Precinct 5, Gonzales County, mother of nine children, all nine living S1184
• Buried at Sample, Gonzales County, by Find a Grave, which gives her dates as 28 March 1837 to 23 January 1905; those dates are not used here S1201
• What is weak or missing: no document read names her as Virginia’s mother in words; the 1855 marriage register does not name her parents; her death has not been found in a record

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Victor Quillen Logue

Confirmed

Brother of Mabel Logue Piland · 1902–1978

• Research status: CONFIRMED son of Dan Crutcher Logue and Virginia Alice Hamby, and added to the tree on Earl’s approval of 2 October 2026. Two Los Angeles marriage records name his father as D. C. Logue: in 1926 with his mother as Alice Hanby S1191, and in 1933 S1192. Added 2 October 2026
• Born 26 September 1902, by his two Second World War draft registrations, which give his birthplace as Atlanta, Georgia S1193 S1194; the 1940 census gives Texas, about 1903 S1195. The conflict is not resolved, and the tree leaves his birthplace blank
• Married Mildred Warner Pool at Los Angeles on 4 December 1926 S1191, and Ethel P. Williams at Los Angeles on 26 August 1933, where his mother is entered as “Alice West”, a name not yet explained S1192
• In 1940 he lived in El Monte Judicial Township, Los Angeles County, with Ethel P. S1195; in 1942 he named D. C. Logue as his contact S1193, and in 1945 he registered at El Monte S1194
• Died 27 August 1978 in Arkansas and buried at Concord, Cleburne County, Arkansas, by his Find a Grave memorial, which gives the same birth date, 26 September 1902; the Social Security Death Index has a Victor Logue born that day who died in August 1978, last residence Arkansas S1206 Probable confirm or correct →. The evidence is the exact birth date on a rare name; what is weak is that both are indexes, and no record yet explains the move from El Monte to Arkansas
• Brother of Mabel Logue Piland and Leola Logue Piland
• What is weak or missing: every record here is read from FamilySearch’s index, not the image; his birthplace is Georgia on the draft cards and Texas in 1940; his death rests on Find a Grave and the Social Security index, with no death certificate or obituary read

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Lula Gay Montgomery Piland

Confirmed

Sister of Virginia Francis Montgomery · 1871–1949

• Research status: CONFIRMED as a daughter of James P. Montgomery and Elenor Frances Bradford, and added to the tree on Earl’s approval of 2 October 2026. Her Texas death certificate, read from the image, gives her father as James P. Montgomery and her mother’s maiden name as Elenore Frances Bradford, both born in Tennessee S1198 S1188. Added 2 October 2026
• Born 15 August 1871 in DeWitt County, Texas S1198
• Sister of Virginia Francis “Jennie” Montgomery. The 1880 household has no Lula; it has twins Louisa and Eliza, 9, born in Texas about 1871 S1095. Whether she is one of them is not settled
• Died in 1949 at Buda, Hays County, Texas, as Lula Gay Piland S1198
• What is weak or missing: she is not under the name Lula in the 1880 census; her husband is not named here, and her marriage record has not been read

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James L. Montgomery

Confirmed

Brother of Virginia Francis Montgomery · 1866–1932

• Research status: CONFIRMED as a son of James P. Montgomery, and added to the tree on Earl’s approval of 2 October 2026. His Texas death certificate, read from the image, names his father as James P. Montgomery S1199 S1190; in 1880 a James L. is among James P. Montgomery’s children in DeWitt County S1095. Added 2 October 2026
• Born 28 December 1866 in Texas S1199
• Brother of Virginia Francis “Jennie” Montgomery
• Died at Victoria, Texas, on 8 February 1932 S1199
• What is weak or missing: his death certificate names only his father, and the father’s birthplace line is partly cut off; his mother is presumed to be Elenor from the 1880 household but is not named on any record of his own. The 1870 household has a La Fayette, 4, and no James, so whether “L.” stands for Lafayette is an open question S1094

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Notes on this line

1. S2Texas Marriage Index and Washington State Archives, republished verbatim at SortedByName.com — sortedbyname.com/letter_p/proeger/index_2.html and /index_1.html. Also the source for the Social Security NUMIDENT extracts and the immigration arrival index.
2. S12FamilySearch Tree public pages, no login required for deceased persons — William Harry Proeger KC1N-799, Aileane Marie Silva L9GZ-NDP, William Leonard Proeger L7GK-VBK, Queen Anne Proeger LHQW-W1L — ancestors.familysearch.org. User-contributed; event lists are treated as PROBABLE unless separately sourced.
3. S24Family testimony — Earl Proeger, September 2026. Stated directly by the family and recorded on their word. Covers: the Silva maiden name and William Harry Proeger as his father's father (both of which record research had already reached independently); and, on Kristin's side, her father Thomas Caffey — raised in Austin, University of Texas, died at Austin — and her mother Lavonne Walker, Walker being her maiden name. Not a document. No record has been retrieved for any of the Caffey or Walker statements, no dates were supplied for either person, and none has been estimated. Carried throughout as Family testimony, never as Confirmed. Superseded in part on 13 September 2026: the Thomas Caffey statements are now carried on records instead — see S31–S35. The Lavonne Walker statements still rest on this source alone. Extended 17 September 2026: the family further states that she was born Walker, married a Caffey and divorced, then married a Danielson who has since died — which is why her photographs are captioned Danielson. It matches the Caffey obituary's "former wife, LaVonne Danielson" [S31] independently. Her present surname and her widowhood rest on this testimony alone; the second husband's given name, and every date and place attached to that marriage, were not supplied and are not published. Extended 22 September 2026 (eyewitness): Earl was present at the birth of his half-brother John Jacob “Jacob” Proeger, born in 1994 to William Leonard Proeger and Briana Castro Proeger; Earl states the birth was one month before his own wedding ceremony with Kristin, which was held on Guam (the marriage itself was registered in Travis County; see the next entry). No birth record has been retrieved. Extended 22 September 2026 (Earl’s own account of his marriage): “Kristin and I married on Guam in a ceremony but registered our marriage in Travis County […] and we could marry without swearing, a scruple we held as Quakers and which Guam had no accommodation for.” The only date held is the Travis County registration, 1994, from the Texas Marriage Index [S2]; the date of the Guam ceremony was not supplied and is not published.
4. S31Obituary, Thomas Alan Caffey, Austin American-Statesman, published 8–14 January 2017; Legacy.com id 17338018. Names his parents ("born on March 7th, 1946, to Lucille and Thomas Caffey"), his sisters, and — decisively for this record — "his daughter Kristin Proeger and her husband Earl […]." Retrieved in a browser; a plain fetch is blocked. Its guest book also carries a family friend's "T.W. and Lucille," which is corroboration, not kinship: no record makes that family related.
5. S321950 US Census, Austin, Travis County, Texas, ED 256-3, lines 8–11, house no. 605 — Caffey, Thomas W (head, 26); Lucille L (wife, 24); Thomas A (son, 4); Sandra M (daughter, 1). Read off the page image, not the OCR index. The record that fixes Kristin's paternal grandparents. ⚠️ Austin's enumeration districts are filed under county="Austin, Travis", so a county=Travis query misses them entirely — sweep the state.
6. S33US Social Security NUMIDENT / Death Master File / VA-BIRLS, and the Texas Marriage and Divorce indexes — Caffey entries, republished verbatim at SortedByName.com. Government records. Supplies T.W. Caffey Jr's birth at "Salado Bell, Texas" and his parents Thomas W Caffey and Medie Stobaugh; Lucille's birth at "Austin Travi, Texas" and her parents Will Kretschmar and Liessi Ladusch; his Marine Corps service 1941–45; the shared Wimberley retirement ZIP; and the 1969 Caffey–Walker marriage and its 1980 dissolution. The Caffey pages 403'd on a second attempt the same day.
7. S34FindAGrave memorials, Caffey / Kretschmar / Ladusch — Thomas Alan Caffey 274110930, Thomas Walton Caffey Jr 39163436, Lucille Lorene Kretschmar Caffey 39163435, Thomas Walton Caffey Sr 62147776, Medie Caffey Stobaugh 62147759, Willie Frank Kretschmar 41405071, Hattie "Liessi" Ladusch Kretschmar 41405070. Grave inscriptions, plot numbers and dates are transcriptions of stones. Family links on FindAGrave are contributor-asserted, not records — they corroborate here and are never the basis. Memorial 62147776 additionally quotes Texas death certificate #16496, which is a record.
8. S35Obituary, Sandra Caffey Falkenberg (died 4 April 2025, aged 76), Porter Loring Mortuary / Dignity Memorial, San Antonio. An entirely independent document, written nine years after her brother's by a different funeral home in a different city, naming the same parents — "the daughter of T.W. and Lucille Caffey" — and the same three siblings. Retrieved in a browser; a plain fetch is blocked.
9. S36Obituary of Dorothy LaVonne Peters Walker (12 February 1926 – 13 August 2022), Greenwood Funeral Home, Fort Worth — greenwoodfuneralhomes.com; the same text transcribed on FindAGrave memorial 242876604, Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth. Family-written. It names her husband "Melvin Walker," her parents "Benjamin 'Pete' and Selma Peters," her three daughters, her Chicago birth and Sioux Falls upbringing, the Norway trips, and — decisively — "Kristin (Earl) Proeger […]" among her grandchildren. ⚠️ Only the funeral home's own copy carries the "ROUND ROCK" dateline; the FindAGrave transcription drops it. The funeral home's page is published in full in the Documents grid (Earl's per-item exception, 25 Sep 2026).
10. S57Ancestry public member tree 119936132 ("Helm/Caffey Family Tree"), owned by a relative by marriage. Sixty-eight person pages were opened read-only on 14 September 2026 and their Relationships → Parents panels transcribed. NOT A RECORD. It is the source of every pre-1873 Caffey name, every pre-1890 Walker name, the whole Selland/Lone line, the Peters line above 1882, the Ladusch/Stein line above 1898 and the Landrock maiden name — and across its thirteen best-sourced ancestors, "Ancestry Family Trees" is cited on eleven of them, which is other users' trees, not documents. Everything drawn from it carries Family testimony and nothing is promoted. Nothing in it was edited; the role held is Guest, no paywall or CAPTCHA was bypassed, and the raw output is held in the private research directory. ⚠ Parent names were matched to person-IDs by link text, which resolved to the wrong person once where two people share a name — the names are reliable, any raw person-ID is not.
11. S58Reed & Browning, Genealogies of the Caffey, Iseley & Ireland Families…, as quoted within S57. Reports the 1754 Dorchester County, Maryland will of Michael Caffey (wife Sarah; sons William, Charles, John, Henry) and the 1761–62 depositions on the tract called "Ennalls Inheritance." Its own citation points at Archives of Maryland Vol. 18, pp. 27 and 643. A published family genealogy, quoted at second hand. The will itself has never been read for this page — only this summary of it. That is the single document that would settle the top of the Caffey line.
12. S59Blue's Montgomery Directory, 1878 — quoted in family testimony for the claim that John Caffey was "the son of Michael and Mary Hooper Caffey, both natives of Ireland … grandson of John Caffey, a linen merchant of Ulster, Ireland, and of Bishop Hooper of Ireland." An 1878 subscription biographical directory — a genre in which the pedigrees are supplied by the paying subject and are notoriously flattering. Carried as Family testimony and contradicted in part by S58. "Bishop Hooper of Ireland" is exactly the kind of ornamental ancestor these books attach.
13. S61John Caffey Sr (1751–1826), three items: a typed abstract of the will-book page (p. 110) recording his will dated 2 Aug 1821 and probated 22 Aug 1826, naming wife Sarah and children Thomas, Elizabeth, Henry, Michael, John, Charles and Hooper; his headstone at Montgomery, Alabama, photographed 2010; and his obituary in the Montgomery Alabama Journal, August 1826, recording Revolutionary War service. ⚠ The will is an abstract, not the original — one step off the record; the same abstract page carries two unrelated wills. These three documents establish the man. They do not establish his descent to Kristin, which rests on S57 alone — see the note on that link.
14. S63Cactus Yearbook, University of Texas at Austin, 1966 — pp. 292 and 635. Page 292 is the Delta Tau Delta member panel, whose caption prints "Thomas Alan Caffey" among exactly seven names keyed to seven portraits in the second photo row; page 635 is the Class of 1968 grid, whose roster prints "Caffey, Thomas Alan, Austin" and whose last row keys six names to six portraits in a matching male/female sequence. Digitised in Texas ScholarWorks. The source of the portrait on his card, and of a second portrait of the same man in the documents grid below. Both are crops; both link to the full published page.
15. S70Media Owens Stobaugh — Texas death certificate, 28 July 1954. Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, state file no. 36634, Travis County; Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903–1982 (Ancestry collection 2272). Read on the certificate image 16 September 2026. Born 28 September 1887, Salado, Texas; occupation practical nurse; father Charles Owens, born Texas; mother Alice Walden, born Tennessee. This certificate settles a maiden name and adds two ancestors in one line. It confirms Owens as her maiden name rather than a tree's assumption, and it is the only record on this page that names her parents. ⚠️ The certificate spells her mother Walden; the family tree carries the same woman as Alice Rachael Waldon. The spelling is unsettled and both forms are left standing here rather than one being chosen quietly.
16. S126Bradley Neal Caffey — Texas birth index, 1972. Texas, U.S., Birth Index, 1903–1997, Ancestry collection 8781, record 11286050, index image TXBTH_1972_000216a. Read 21 September 2026. Father Thomas Alan Caffey; mother Clare LaVonne Walker. The record that makes him Kristin's full brother rather than a surname match. A state birth index naming both parents, and they are the same two parents the same index gives for Kristin in 1975 (image TXBTH_1975_000216e). Corroborated independently by the 2022 Walker obituary [S36], which lists Brad and Kristin in one sentence as grandchildren of the same woman. ⚠ No evidence of a third child. Across the whole Caffey hint cluster and the full obituary, only these two appear as children of this couple — that is absence of evidence from two sources that each had reason to name everyone, and is graded Probable, not Confirmed.
17. S127Thomas Alan Caffey and Clare LaVonne Walker — marriage, 1969, Tarrant County, Texas. Texas, U.S., Marriage Index, 1824–2014, Ancestry collection 8795, record 3165434. Read 21 September 2026; the same date is carried forward on the 1980 divorce record [S128]. ⚠ One conflict, resolved against the newspaper. The Newspapers.com Marriage Index (record 102623378) dates this marriage 1969. That collection is machine-extracted — Ancestry's own header states it was "found using artificial intelligence technology and may contain errors" — and it is one derived index against two state indexes that agree on 7 June. This page takes 1969. The likeliest explanation is mundane: the newspaper item ran the week after the ceremony and the extractor took the publication date for the event date.
18. S128Caffey–Walker divorce, 1980, Travis County, Texas. Texas, U.S., Divorce Index, 1968–2017, Ancestry collection 8794, record 1980076447. Read 21 September 2026. A state record. It fixes to the day what this page previously carried as the bare year 1980 [S33]. Clare LaVonne Walker is living, and this page publishes living adults in full under Earl's rule of 21 September 2026. A divorce is the kind of fact a living person might not want published, so it is recorded here that this one is on the page deliberately and with his authority, not by oversight. The state file number is not published.
19. S130Thomas Alan Caffey — Texas birth index, 7 March 1946, Travis County, naming his father as Thomas Walton Caffey. Texas, U.S., Birth Index, 1903–1997, Ancestry collection 8781. Read 21 September 2026. Father Thomas Walton Caffey; mother Lucille Lorine Kretschmar. A correction aimed at the Ancestry tree, not at this page. Earl's online tree records the father's middle name as William. The state birth index says Walton, and so does the Austin Memorial Park gravestone already held in this corpus [S34] — an index and a stone, independent of each other. This page has read Walton throughout and continues to; the discrepancy is recorded here so that the tree can be corrected against it.
20. S131Bradley Neal Caffey — marriage to Erin Helm, 2003. Three independent indexes agreeing on the date: Texas, U.S., Marriage Index collection 8795 record 13022122; Newspapers.com Marriage Index collection 62116 record 177232356; Texas, U.S., Select County Marriage Records collection 9168 record 940285567. Read 21 September 2026. Her own ancestry belongs to a different family and is out of scope for this record, which is why it is not worked here. Brad's residence history, which these records also supply down to city and year, stays in the research corpus — an editorial judgement about what belongs in a genealogy, not a privacy rule.
21. S132Kristin Marie Caffey — L. C. Anderson High School yearbooks, Austin, Texas, 1990 and 1993. U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900–2016, Ancestry collection 1265: 1990 image sid_1636_1990_0095 (record 601954478, printed page 91, "Unique Classes" underclass portrait rail, key printing "Kristin Caffey (9)"); 1990 image sid_1636_1990_0197 (record 1164442023, printed page 193, index and group pictures, printing "Caffey, Kristin (9) 50, 91, 193" and the Marching Band group caption); 1993 image sid_1636_1993_0110 (record 1052669974, printed page 106, "1993 Seniors of Anderson" mass class photograph, roll printing her full name "Kristin Marie Caffey"). Retrieved 21 September 2026 through Earl's signed-in Ancestry session; Deep-Zoom tiles stitched at level 12 to 2720 × 3664 px (1990) and 2592 × 3376 px (1993), 138 of 138 tiles, no misses. Read-only: no hint was accepted, ignored, rejected or attached, and no tree was edited. The school is Anderson, not Austin High — the research brief that commissioned this said Austin High and was wrong. The viewer breadcrumb reads Texas / Austin / Anderson High School, Ancestry's own school field says Anderson on all three records, and the 1993 page is captioned "1993 Seniors of Anderson" with Anderson sweatshirts in the photograph. Printed page numbers differ from the image sequence numbers throughout this collection (91≠095, 193≠197, 106≠110); both are recorded. ⚠ Ancestry's derived birth years for her are junk and are not used. It computes 1974 from the 1990 volume and 1977 from the 1993 one for the same person — both are blanket "about 16" machine estimates, not records. Her date of birth here comes from the state birth index [S126]. ⚠ A 1993 senior class photograph is several hundred living people, not one. The page is published because Earl asked for it by name; everyone else on it is a classmate who did not. That is recorded here as a judgement made, not a detail overlooked. One page not retrieved: printed page 50, which her own index line cites.
22. S2191940 U.S. Federal Census — Medie Stobaugh household, Austin, Travis County, Texas. Ancestry record 159981746; ED 227-60, sheet 9A. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Medie Stobaugh, 51 [or 52], widowed, practical nurse in a private home; son Thomas Caffey, 16; stepson Earle Stobaugh, 18. 🔑 Medie was widowed a second time by 1940. ⚠ A Thomas Caffey, 30, filling-station operator, next door may be her son Osborn T.; not assumed.
23. S2201950 U.S. Federal Census — Thomas W. Caffey household, 605 Brest, Austin, Texas. Ancestry record 189288649; sheet 18. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Thomas W. Caffey, 26, candy salesman for a wholesale candy company; Lucille L., 24; Thomas A., 4; Sandra M., 1.
24. S2211930 U.S. Federal Census — Tom W. Caffey household, Town of Salado, Bell County, Texas. Ancestry record 65751299; ED 14-7, sheet 1B; enumerated 2 April 1930. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Tom W. Caffey, 57, farmer, first married at 24; Medie R., 42, first married at 17; sons Osbar/Osborn T. 20, Howard L. 12 and T. W. Jr. 6. 🔑 Eleven days before Tom's death. ⚠ The ages at first marriage (c.1897 and c.1904) do not fit one marriage; Tom's mother is entered born Alabama, against Georgia on his death certificate. Neither is settled.
25. S2311950 U.S. Federal Census — Meddie Stobaugh, 2117 Clifton, Austin, Texas. Ancestry record 195231986; ED 256-143, sheet 10, lines 15–16. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Meddie Stobaugh, 63, widowed, head; with her mother Allice Owens, 83, widowed. 🔑 Medie's mother Alice was living in April 1950. ⚠ Alice is entered born Texas here, Tennessee on [S70]; not settled.
26. S2321920 U.S. Federal Census — T. W. Caffey household, Precinct 2, Bell County, Texas. Ancestry record 80271873; ED 5, sheet 4B, lines 92–96. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. T. W. Caffey, 44, farmer, renting, parents born Alabama; Meadie, 33; Mattie, 21; Osburn, 10; and Howard, 2 3/12. ⚠ Mattie is probably from an earlier marriage of T. W.'s (Medie had two children by 1917, [S233]); not assumed. A neighbour J. O. Caffey, 41, may be a brother.
27. S233Texas delayed (correcting) birth certificate No. 37973, filed 3 February 1944 — Howard Lee Caffey, Salado, Bell County. Ancestry record 121590938. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Howard Lee Caffey, born 28 [or 23] September 1917, Salado; father Thomas W. Caffey, 43, born Bastrop County, farmer; mother Medie Owens, 30, born Williamson County; two children born, two living. Informant Mrs. J. W. Stobaugh, 84 East Avenue, Austin. 🔑 Medie herself, under her second married name, on one document with both surnames. ⚠ Her sworn birthplace (Williamson County) differs from Salado on her death certificate; not settled.
28. S234WWII draft registration card, 1940 — Howard Lee Caffey, 84 East Ave., Austin, Texas. Ancestry record 140719001; serial 4672. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Age 23, born 28 September 1917, Bell County, Texas; employer Owl Taxi Co., 300 Congress Ave.; the person who will always know his address: Mrs. Medie Stobaugh, mother, 84 East Ave. 🔑 His own statement of the mother–son link, and Medie's Austin address c.1940.
29. S264Texas, U.S., Birth Certificates, 1903-1932 — Lucile Kretschmar. Ancestry record 1079872. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Texas birth certificate: Lucile Kretschmar, b. 25 Aug 1925, 3905 Ave. B, Austin; father Willie F. Kretschmar 34, carpenter, b. Travis Co.; mother Liessi Ladusch 27, b. New Ulm, Texas.
30. S3271900 U.S. Federal Census — Otto Ladusch household, Austin Ward 10, Travis County, Texas. Ancestry collection 7602, record 44319545. Read from the image. Otto 26, born Germany, immigrated 1883, married 5 years; wife Emma, born March 1875, Texas, 2 children both living; daughters Frieda 3 and Elizabeth 2.
31. S3281910 U.S. Federal Census — Otto Ladusch household, 1617 Willow Street, Austin. Ancestry collection 7884, record 28679316. Read from the image. Otto 36, Emma, Freda 13, “Liccie” 11.
32. S359Vermont death return — Harriet Artimiza Henderson, Ryegate, 7 December 1930. Ancestry record 216231. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Harriet Artimiza Henderson, married, housewife, aged 63 years 1 month 19 days, born at Ryegate 18 October 1867, daughter of Orange G. Morrison and Elizabeth J. Miller, both born at Ryegate; died of lobar pneumonia after 7 days. Certified copy by Clarence J. McLam, town clerk. This settles her full name, which the site had only from a shared tree.
33. S396McCallum High School yearbook, Austin, Texas, 1962, p. 212. Ancestry record 567667132. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Sophomores: “Tommy Caffey”, middle row, left portrait. The school and year are from Ancestry's index; no masthead on the page. His obituary (S31) names McCallum High School.
34. S438U.S., School Yearbooks — Austin High School Comet, Austin, Texas, 1942: Orchestra Personnel. Ancestry record 1449559491. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed The Orchestra page of Austin High School: the orchestra was founded in 1938, and 67 names are on the roster. “Kretschmar, Lucille” is in the third column. The year 1942 is Ancestry's volume date, not printed on the page. The page gives only her name. The identification rests on the rare surname, the school and her age, 16. The group photograph carries no names, so she cannot be picked out in it.
35. S478Texas, U.S., Death Certificates — C. B. Caffey, Austin, 1948 (no. 9724). Ancestry record 83851818. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Probable C. B. Caffey, born 7 October 1865, Mobile, Alabama, died 15 February 1948 at the Texas Confederate Home for Men, Austin; father Hooper Van Caffey; mother Amy Richardson, born Alabama; buried Elgin. The informant was the institution, so Amy Richardson as Hooper's first wife is held as probable. The 1880 census (S479) agrees: his older children have an Alabama-born mother.
36. S4791880 U.S. Federal Census — Hooper V. Caffey household, Wards Store (Snake Prairie), Bastrop County, Texas (ED 10, p. 17). Ancestry record 6521306. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Hooper V., 48; Mandy, 30, born Georgia; John W., 20; Cordelia D. P., 17; Charls B., 14; Annie B., 9; Thomas W.; Jessie [?]; James C., 2; and the widowed daughter Fanny E. Willson, 21. One page, two hints (record 7179290 for Amanda). The children to Charls B. have an Alabama-born mother, those from Annie B. on a Georgia-born one.
37. S480Texas, U.S., Death Certificates — Anna Bell Gold, Austin, 1949 (no. 25185). Ancestry record 773924602. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Anna Bell Gold, born 5 January 1871, Alabama, died 5 May 1949 at Austin; father Hooper Van Caffey, mother Mattie Griffen, born Georgia; informant J. E. Gold; buried Kyle Cemetery.
38. S481Texas, U.S., Confederate Pension Applications — widow's application no. 27929, Mrs. Mattie Caffey, 1914. Ancestry record 78940. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Mrs. Mattie Caffey, 63, born Georgia, widow of Hooper Van Caffey, who died 30 November 1901; he served in the 10th Alabama Infantry and held Texas pension no. 204. She gives the marriage as 15 April 1869, Pike County, and says she came to Texas in December 1872; post office Elgin. Filed May 1914, allowed from 1 June 1914. The Pike County register (S482) gives the marriage as 1 May 1870, and that date stands. The county of death is overwritten, probably Caldwell.
39. S482Alabama, U.S., County Marriage Records — Pike County, pp. 405–6: H. V. Caffey and Amanda M. Griffin, 1870. Ancestry record 1425700. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Licence and bond 21 April 1870, H. V. Caffey and Miss Amanda M. Griffin, bondsman J. L. Soles; married 1 May 1870. One image, two hints (record 901425700 for Amanda).
40. S4831900 U.S. Federal Census — Hooper V. Caffey household, Justice Precinct 7, Bastrop County, Texas (ED 12). Ancestry record 70171221. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Hooper V., born October 1832; Amanda M., mother of 12 children, 7 living, married 31 years; John C., 1878; Arthur C., 1893; Thomas W., born October 1872, married 4 years; Emma R., daughter-in-law; and Mattie L., granddaughter, born October 1898. One page, two hints (record 70171222 for Amanda).
41. S4841850 U.S. Federal Census — Charles Caffey household, 2nd District, Montgomery County, Alabama, p. 152. Ancestry record 15675750. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Dwelling 19: Charles Caffey, 61, born North Carolina, farmer; Nancy, 59, born North Carolina; Elizabeth J., 22; Hooper V., 17, born Alabama, farmer. Thomas (66), Michael (68) and Lindsey R. Caffey (34), all born North Carolina, live within four dwellings. The 1850 census names no relationships, so this is co-residence, not proof that Charles was Hooper's father. It is the first record for that link.
42. S485Texas, U.S., Death Certificates — infant daughter of T. G. Collins, Elgin, 1923 (no. 28304). Ancestry record 771712415. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed An infant daughter of T. G. Collins, born and died 20 October 1923; mother Mattie Lee Caffey, born Elgin; father born Tenaha, Texas; buried Beaukiss.
43. S4861930 U.S. Federal Census — Thomas G. Collins household, Precinct 4, Bastrop County, Texas (ED 11-12). Ancestry record 65796254. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Thomas G. Collins, 32, farmer, renting; Mattie L., 32, first married at 25; sons Ladell J. and Howard R.
44. S491U.S., School Yearbooks — McCallum High School, Austin, 1963, p. 109: McCallum v. Killeen, 13–12. Ancestry record 572852004. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed “Tommy Caffey: junior halfback, 1-year letterman”, with an action photograph in jersey 24; “Tommy Caffey saved the day with his extra point. The final score, 13-12 for the Knights.”
45. S492U.S., School Yearbooks — McCallum High School, Austin, 1963, p. 172: honors feature. Ancestry record 572852113. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed “A junior at McCallum, Tommy Caffey has received many honors”: vice-president of his sophomore class, president of his junior class, vice-president of the spring Student Council, on the all-A honor roll four times, and Junior Class Favorite; B team and varsity football. With a portrait.
46. S501U.S., School Yearbooks — The Comet, Austin High School, 1941: Orchestra roster. Ancestry record 954452717. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Probable Under “Second Violin”: “Kretschmar”, the only Kretschmar in the orchestra. Surname only. Lucille, born August 1925 in Austin, fits the age; the 1942 roster (S438) gives her full name.
47. S5181950 U.S. Federal Census — Thomas O. Caffey household, Austin, Travis County, Texas. Ancestry record 191581182. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Thomas O., 40, city fireman; wife Alice L., 35; two sons; mother-in-law Mabel L. Piland, 54.
48. S519Texas, U.S., County Marriage Records — Travis County: Howard Lee Caffey and Marian Zelphia Clawson, 1937. Ancestry record 40716204. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Licence 20 October 1937; Howard Lee Caffey and Marian Zelphia Clawson married 24 October 1937 at Calvary Baptist Church, Austin.
49. S5201950 U.S. Federal Census — Howard L. Caffey household, Austin, Travis County, Texas. Ancestry record 187608271. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Howard L., 32, cab driver and watchmaker; wife Dorothy M., 30; Jessie Lee, 10; two stepsons named Piland.
50. S5211910 U.S. Federal Census — Thomas W. Coffey [Caffey] household, J.P. 7, Williamson County, Texas. Ancestry record 28722956. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Thomas W., 36, in his second marriage, of five years; wife “Rachel E.”, 22; Thomas O., 3 months; Mattie Lee, 11; his brother James C. on the next line. Next dwelling: Mattie V. Coffey, 59, widow, born Georgia. “Rachel E.” is probably the wife known in the family as Medie; the name is not settled.
51. S534U.S., School Yearbooks — McCallum High School, Austin, 1962, p. 87: Football Club. Ancestry record 1170249027. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed “Tommy Caffey”, named last in the back row of the Football Club.
52. S535U.S., School Yearbooks — McCallum High School, Austin, 1964, p. 190: Seniors. Ancestry record 680359574. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed The senior portrait of Tommy Caffey, class of 1964.
53. S5361920 U.S. Federal Census — A. C. Caffey household, Precinct 2, Bell County, Texas. Ancestry record 80272091. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed A. C. Caffey, 25, farmer, father born Alabama, mother born Georgia; wife Lorena, 26; Mattie, mother, 68, widowed, born Georgia; Thelma, 5; A. C. Jr., 3. The last census sighting of Mattie before her 1933 death at Elgin. Whether A. C. was her own son or a stepson is not yet checked against the 1900 household (S483).
54. S5381940 U.S. Federal Census — Ewell F. Hughes household, Justice Precinct 3, Lee County, Texas. Ancestry record 159535790. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Ewell F. Hughes, 49, farmer; wife Lee, 42, born Texas; his stepchildren Ladell, 13, Howard R., 12, and Lucy Lee Collins, 7. All lived at Elgin, Bastrop County, in 1935.
55. S5431870 U.S. Federal Census — “Henry V. Caffee” household, Beat 11, Pike County, Alabama. Ancestry record 13080425. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed “Henry V.” [Hooper V.] Caffee, 38, farmer; Amanda, 20; Fanney E., 12; John W., 10; Cordelia, 8; Charles B., 5. Taken 16 weeks after his second marriage. The given name is the enumerator's; the household is his.
56. S5471940 U.S. Federal Census — 2115 Willow St., Austin, Texas. Ancestry record 159948768. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed “Howard Coffey”, 22, lodger, ice-cream route man; wife Marian, 18.
57. S550Texas Birth Index, 1944: Kenneth Walton Caffey. Ancestry record 153922900. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Kenneth Walton Caffey, Travis County, 17 August 1944; mother Alice Lorene “Pilard” [Piland]; father Thomas Osborn Caffey.
58. S555Alabama, U.S., County Marriages — Autauga County, vol. 4, p. 176 (typed WPA transcript). Ancestry record 56096. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Probable “Hooper V. Coffey” and “May P. Richardson”, licensed 21 December 1857, married by R. B. James. A typed copy, not the original register. “May” is probably a copying slip for Amy, the name on his son C. B. Caffey's death certificate.
59. S571U.S. World War II Draft Registration Card — Thomas Osban Caffey, Austin, 1940. Ancestry record 20540545. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Signed Thomas Osban Caffey (typed “Osbanne”), 30, born 9 February 1910 in Bastrop County, Texas; 82½ East Avenue, Austin; working for the N. M. Jackson Service Station, Congress Avenue; his wife Mrs. Alice Lorene Caffey. Elgin, where other records place his birth, sits on the Bastrop–Williamson county line.
60. S6161880 U.S. census, agricultural schedule — Bastrop County, Texas, SD 5, ED 10, p. 15. Ancestry record 3788782. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Line 8: Caffey, Hooper V., owner; 55 acres tilled and 74 of woodland; farm worth $700, implements $100, livestock $230; 8 weeks of hired labour; the farm's 1879 production $1,300. “Wards Store” in the index is the enumerator, A. B. Ward, not a place.
61. S621Travis County, Texas, marriage record, licence no. 1008, 1935. Ancestry record 40751477. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Mr. T. O. Caffey and Miss Alice Piland, licensed 14 December 1935; married 15 December 1935 by H. C. Morrison, pastor of East Avenue Baptist Church, Austin.
62. S6291860 U.S. census — Eastern Division, Pike County, Alabama, p. 135 (Bibb post office). Ancestry record 12482393. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Dwelling 930, enumerated 7 August 1860: Major Griffin, 56, farmer, born North Carolina; Matilda M., 34, born Georgia; James W., 12, born Georgia; Amanda M., 10, born Georgia; Harriet B., 8, born Georgia; Jonathan J., 5, and Elizabeth M., 3, both born Alabama. Relationships are not stated.
63. S636Austin, Texas, city directory, 1932–33 (Morrison & Fourmy), p. 139. Ancestry record 399581350. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Caffey Osborn r2702 E 1st. “r” marks a resident who was not the householder.
64. S646Autauga County, Alabama, marriage register, p. 176 (licence, return and bond; original). Ancestry record 900992142. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Hooper V. Coffey and Amy P. Richardson: licensed 21 December 1857; married 22 December 1857 by R. B. Jones, M.G.; surety G. W. Green; Henly Brown, judge of probate. The bond is signed “H. V. Coffey”. The Ancestry index and the typed WPA copy read “May P.”; the register reads Amy P.
65. S647North Carolina marriage bond, [Orange County], 27 November 1811 (original). Ancestry record 6818539. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Bond for the marriage of Charles Caffey and Nancy Lewis, signed by Charles Caffey; bondsman John Hill; witness J. Taylor, C.C.; £500 to Governor Benjamin Smith. The Orange County marriage-bond typescript abstracts the same bond.
66. S6611900 U.S. census — Manor precinct, Travis County, Texas, ED 109, sheet 3B, dwelling 46. Ancestry record 44329283. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Charles W. Owens, born March 1863, Arkansas, farm labourer, married 16 years; Alice R., born September 1866, Texas, mother of 9 children, 7 living; William W. (1884), “Rachel A”, daughter, born September 1887, Epper L. (1889), Charles E. (1891), Mary P. (1893), Annie H. (1895), Robert G. (1898). The daughter born September 1887 is Medie (born 28 September 1887): the month and year match and Rachel is her mother's middle name. Read with S70.
67. S6621850 U.S. census — Division 91, Washington County, Georgia, p. 268a, dwelling 987. Ancestry record 19005888. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Probable Henry Griffin, 24, farmer; Sarah, 26; Micajah B., 4; Augustus, 2; Amanda M., 4/12; all born Georgia. The 1850 census names no relationships and no maiden names. Sarah's maiden name Boatwright and the 26 December 1844 marriage are now on the county register (S794) and a daughter's death certificate (S795); neither names Amanda.
68. S663Estate of Charles Caffey, Montgomery County, Alabama — administrator’s affidavit of the heirs at law, sworn 11 March 1868. Alabama, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1753–1999, Ancestry database 8799, record 3383818, image 007652336_02679. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Lindsey R. Caffey, administrator, swears that Lindsey R. Caffey, H. V. Caffey, Jane Caffey, Polly Stoudemire, Sarah Eylands, Dorcas Green, John L. Caffey, Sophia Owens and Drucilla Eylands, all of full age, are the heirs at law of Charles Caffey, deceased. The same file holds the appraisement and inventory of 21 November 1860 and a petition for dower set for 1862. The file does not name Charles’s own father.
69. S667Alabama surname files — compiled family card, Caffey. Ancestry record 234270. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Probable A typed compiled card: “Charles&sup4; Caffey (John³, Michael², John¹) b. 1786; m. Nancy Lewis.” Children listed: John (m. Betsy), Monroe, Wm. Hooper (m. — Vance), Jane(?), Parylee(?), Philadelphia, Lindsay. A compiled card, not an original record, and it gives no sources. Its 1786 birth year does not fit his 1850 age of 61; “Wm. Hooper (m. — Vance)” may or may not be Hooper Van Caffey.
70. S676Texas death certificate, 1935, Zapata County, state file 5472. Ancestry record 23278225. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Thomas Guy Collins, husband of Lee Collins; born 15 October 1898, Tenaha, Shelby County, Texas; died 12 January 1935, Bustamante, Zapata County; parents T. J. Collins and Lucy; buried at Elgin. The mother's maiden name is given as “Collins”, probably the informant's error.
71. S681Travis County, Texas, marriage licence no. 2190, 1946. Ancestry record 130649039. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Howard Lee Caffey to Mrs. Dorothy Piland, married 5 October 1946.
72. S696Texas birth certificate, amendment filed 1969, Caldwell County. Ancestry record 123034746. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Vernon Clyde Gold, born 3 April 1908, rural Caldwell County; father Henry Lewis Gold, mother Anna Caffey. A delayed amendment, sworn by his sister Lola E. Whittington of Kyle 61 years after the birth.
73. S7111930 U.S. census, Justice Precinct 2, Kyle, Hays County, Texas, ED 105-7, sheet 3A. Ancestry record 63039624. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Henry L. Gold, 58, farmer, owns, born Texas; wife Anna, 59, born Texas, parents born Alabama; son Vernon, 22; daughter Hazel, 15.
74. S7121940 U.S. census, Kyle, Hays County, Texas, ED 105-7, sheet 7A. Ancestry record 155963792. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Henry L. Gold, 68, born Texas, the informant, and his wife Anna B., 69, born Alabama; renting at $5 a month; both in rural Hays County in 1935.
75. S7151940 U.S. census, Elgin, Bastrop County, Texas, ED 11-12, sheet 12B. Ancestry record 160293058. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Charles B. Caffey, 74, born Alabama, owns his house, the same house as in 1935; wife Frances H., 67, born Texas, the informant; Cordelia Harris, 77, widow, born Alabama.
76. S7301900 U.S. census, Precinct 1, Bastrop County, Texas. Ancestry record 70147944. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Annie Gold, born January 1871, Alabama, wife of Henry Gold, born August 1871, Texas, of German-born parents; married about 1892; children James E., Lela E., Alva V. and Henry R. Next door: John W. Caffey, born January 1860, Alabama, with his wife Elizabeth and seven children.
77. S7311920 U.S. census, Justice Precinct 5, Hays County, Texas. Ancestry record 43433886. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Henry L. Gold and his wife Anna, 49, with Myrtle, Vernon and Hazel B. Her birthplace is entered as Texas; her other records say Alabama.
78. S732Texas birth certificate no. 73457, Austin, Travis County, 1921. Ancestry record 300840. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed A daughter, not yet named (“X Clawson”), born 28 November 1921 at 3201 San Gabriel Street, Austin, the first child of Jess Clawson, 26, labourer, and Lillie Reeves, 23, both born in Texas. The same parents head Marian's 1930 household; she was 18 in 1940.
79. S7361866 Alabama state census, Township 12, Range 19, Montgomery County, p. 8. Ancestry record 260829. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Probable Nancy Caffey heads a household of two women over 20. Elizabeth Caffey and L. R. Caffey, each with six in the household, are on the same page. A head-of-household list: no ages or birthplaces, so the name is the only link.
80. S7421830 U.S. census, Montgomery County, Alabama, p. 4. Ancestry record 1823343. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Probable Charles Caffey: a man aged 40–49 and a woman aged 30–39, eleven children under 20, and one enslaved man. Elizabeth Lewis heads a household on the same page. A head-only census; the page carries no county header (the county is from the index).
81. S770Texas, U.S., Birth Certificates, 1903–1932 — Lucy Lee Collins, no. 128789, filed October 1933. Ancestry record 123521821. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, September 2026. Confirmed Lucy Lee Collins, born 16 July 1932, Precinct 4, Bastrop County, recorded as the fifth child; father Tomas G. Collins, 34, farmer, born Panola County; mother “Mattie Lee Coffey”, 34, born Bastrop County. Filed late. It says both “5 living” and “2 dead”, which do not agree with each other. His 1935 death record gives his birthplace as Tenaha, Shelby County, which is next to Panola County.
82. S780Texas death certificate 71392: Charles W. Owens, died Austin, 6 July 1939. Ancestry record 21891220. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 26 September 2026. Confirmed Charles W. Owens, a produce salesman of 808 Clermont, Austin, born 9 March 1863 in Arkansas, died 6 July 1939; buried at Youngs Prairie, Elgin. Father Joseph Owens, born Arkansas; mother China Pardon, born Arkansas. Informant: his wife. 🆕 The Texas death index agrees: “Owens C. W.”, Travis County, 6 July 1939, certificate 71392 (Ancestry record 6218014, read 27 September 2026). His own certificate, informed by his widow, gives Arkansas, as do the 1900 and 1910 censuses; his daughter Medie's certificate and the 1930 census say Texas. The parents' names are secondhand and the spellings may be Chaney/Chana and Pardue/Purdon; no record of the couple has been read. Collection: Texas, U.S., Death Certificates.
83. S781Texas death certificate 47912: Alice Rachael Owens, died Austin, 8 August 1958. Ancestry record 22341781. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 26 September 2026. Confirmed Alice Rachael Owens, born 14 September 1867 at Waco, Texas, died 8 August 1958 at 804 South 1st, Austin; buried 9 August at Youngs Prairie Cemetery. Father Wm. Mathis Waldon; mother unknown. Informant: Mrs. J. C. Caffey, her daughter Medie. 🆕 The Texas death index agrees: “OWENS ALICE RACHAEL”, Travis County, 8 August 1958, file 47912 (Ancestry record 6803138, read 27 September 2026). Settles her birth year (1867, not 1866) and birthplace (Texas, not the Tennessee on Medie's certificate). The 1870 Dallas County census has Alice R., 3, with William Waldon, 28, born Missouri, and Susan, 24; Susan as her mother is not yet on any record that states a relationship. Collection: Texas, U.S., Death Certificates.
84. S7831910 U.S. census, Justice Precinct 4, Lampasas County, Texas, ED 170, sheet 9A, dwelling 160: Charlie Owens household. Ancestry record 28326902. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 26 September 2026. Confirmed Charlie, 47, born Arkansas, a farmer, renting; Alice, 43, born Texas, her father born Missouri; married 26 years, 10 children born, 7 living. With them Edward, 18, Annie, 13, and Robert, 11. Places the family in Lampasas County in 1910, between Manor (1900) and Austin (1930). Collection: 1910 United States Federal Census.
85. S794Washington County, Georgia, marriage book p. 189: Henry Griffin and Sarah Boatwright, 26 December 1844. Ancestry record 21567917. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 26 September 2026. Confirmed Henry Griffin to Sarah Boatwright, licensed and married 26 December 1844 by John W. Tucker, J.I.C. The county register. It proves the marriage and Sarah's maiden name; it does not name Amanda. Collection: Georgia, U.S., Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828–1978.
86. S795Georgia death certificate 30-188: Mrs Emma Barnhart, died Macon, 14 January 1930. Ancestry record 75370622. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 26 September 2026. Confirmed Mrs Emma Barnhart, aged 68 (born about 1861, Georgia), died 14 January 1930 at Macon; buried in Fort Hill Cemetery. Father Henry Griffin, mother Sarah Boatwright. A second original naming Sarah Boatwright as Henry Griffin's wife. That Emma is Amanda's sister is inferred from the parents' names only. Collection: Georgia, U.S., Death Records, 1914–1940.
87. S7961880 U.S. census, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, dwelling 492: Sarah Griffin, widow. Ancestry record 7453953. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 27 September 2026. Confirmed Sarah Griffin, 55, widowed, with her children Irvin H., 25, Mary Ann, 23, and Emma, 20, and two grandchildren, Lola Archie, 6, and Lewis, 5. Emma is the Mrs Emma Barnhart of S795. Henry Griffin was dead by June 1880. Collection: 1880 United States Federal Census.
88. S797Texas death certificate 9001, Harrison County, 1936: M. B. Griffin. Ancestry record 24121611 (image re-read 27 September 2026). Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 27 September 2026. Probable M. B. Griffin, farmer, died at 504 Greenwood Avenue, Marshall, on 7 February 1936; born Washington County, Georgia; father Henry Griffin, mother “Ella Boatwright”, born Washington County, Georgia; informant W. H. Griffin; buried at Greenwood 9 February 1936. Taken as Micajah B., aged 4 in the 1850 household (S662). The mother's first name “Ella” is set aside: Sarah is on the 1844 marriage and three censuses. The certificate's birth date, 8 November 1841, is three years before the marriage and does not fit his age in 1850; about 1845–46 is preferred. Collection: Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903–1982.
89. S804Georgia returns of qualified voters, 1867, Washington County, 20th district, precinct 13: Henry Griffin. Ancestry record 878427. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 27 September 2026. Probable No. 1605, Henry Griffin, white, registered 19 July 1867, oath book B, p. 304. The county of the 1844 Griffin–Boatwright marriage (S794) and of the 1850 household; the return gives no age, and the name is common. Collection: Georgia, U.S., Returns of Qualified Voters and Reconstruction Oath Books, 1867–1869.
90. S848Will of John Caffey, Montgomery County, Alabama, dated 2 August 1821 — original will-book entry, item 99, page stamped 35. Ancestry collection 8799, record 2448490 (image 007651670_00810). Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Probable “I John Caffey of the County of Montgomery and State of Alabama … unto my Loving wife Sarah Caffey the quarter Section of Land whereon I now Live being the North west quarter of number twenty Eight in Township Sixteen and Range Eighteen”; the enslaved man Jordan, the enslaved woman Rachael and her son Ems to his wife for life; the land afterwards to “my Son Hooper Caffey”; the personal estate “Equally divided amongst my Seven Children (Viz) Thomas Caffey Elizabeth Caffey Henry Caffey Michael Caffey John Caffey Charles Caffey and Hooper Caffey”. The original book entry behind the abstract in S61; it agrees with the abstract. It gives no ages or residences for the children, so it does not by itself show that its Charles is Charles Caffey (c. 1789–1860).
91. S849Sons of the American Revolution supplemental application, National no. 24618 (Illinois no. 2368), William Gorin Smith, approved 31 January 1923. Ancestry collection 2204, record 417410 (image 32596_242191-00051). Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Probable John Caffey, born 1751, Dorchester County, Maryland; died 19 August 1826, Montgomery, Alabama; wife Mary Buchanan, married about 1780; descent through Thomas Caffey (1784–1878) and Mary B. Patrick. A compiled lineage paper, not an original record. Charles is not named. Two more SAR applications (31209 and 30985, 1918), seen only in an index, also name Mary Buchanan but give death years of 1737 and 1837.
92. S8721900 U.S. Federal Census — Thos Collins household, Precinct 5, Shelby County, Texas (ED 90, sheet 5B, dwelling 77, family 78, lines 85–88). Ancestry record 44188220 (image 4118557_00337). Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed Thos Collins, head, born September 1869, 30, married 6 years, born Texas, parents born Mississippi, farmer; Lucy, wife, born April 1872, 28, mother of 2 children, 2 living; Roy, son, born 1895, 4; Guy, son, born October 1898, 1; all born Texas. Enumerated 7–8 June 1900. The boy is given only as Guy; Thomas Guy Collins's 1935 death certificate (S676) names his parents as T. J. Collins and Lucy.
93. S8881940 U.S. Federal Census — Page S. Mangum household, 1802 Pearl Street, Austin, Travis County, Texas (ED 227-35, sheet 1B, lines 59–62). Ancestry record 158521487. Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed Page S. Mangum, head, 52, born Mississippi, living in Bryan, Brazos County, in 1935; Arlene, wife, 41, born Mississippi, the informant; Dorothy M., daughter, 19, single, in college, born Texas; Kathleen G., daughter, 16. An earlier reading of the head's name as “Lige S.” was a misread.
94. S889Texas birth index, 1942 births, p. 1866 — Logue Taylor Piland Jr. Ancestry record 303490927. Read from the index, read 28 September 2026. Probable Born 16 August 1942; mother Mangum, Dorothy May; father Logue Taylor Piland. A state index, derived from the certificate.
95. S9061900 U.S. census — D. C. Logue household, Waco, Texas. Ancestry collection 7602, record 43883385. Waco Ward 1, McLennan County: D. C. Logue, 42, head; his wife Virginia A., 32, born July 1867 in Tennessee, married ten years; daughter “Mable”, 4, born October 1895 in Texas. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 30 September 2026: ED 71, sheet 1B, 1609 North 6th Street. Probable On the image: Logue, D. C., born November 1857, grocery salesman; Virginia A., born July 1867, Tennessee, married ten years, the mother of five children, four living; Ethel, born January 1891 in Alabama; Leola; Mable, born October 1895; Hazel; Halbert, born February 1900. The image agrees with the index. It gives D. C.’s birth as November 1857, a year before the 24 November 1858 of his Find a Grave memorial [S909]; Ethel’s Alabama birth in 1891 fits the 1890 Calhoun County marriage [S908].
96. S907Texas death certificate index — Mabel Logue Piland, 13 April 1961, Austin. Ancestry record 23640738. Born 31 October 1895, Galveston; died 13 April 1961, Austin, Travis County; father D. C. Logue. Probable Read from the index only; the certificate image has not been examined. The Galveston birthplace sits against the 1900 Waco household (S906); the family may have moved. Second citation, added 1 October 2026: the Texas state death index for 1961, page 971, Ancestry record 5099606, image examined, reads “PILAND MABEL LOGUE | TRAVIS | APR 13 | 24560”, the same death and file number. It is still an index; the certificate itself, with her birthplace and parents, has not been seen.
97. S908Calhoun County, Alabama, marriage register — D. C. Logue and Virginia Alice Hamby, 2 April 1890. Alabama County Marriage Records, Ancestry record 901501955, page 123; indexed in Ancestry collection 60000, records 118681 and 1420397. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 30 September 2026. Probable Licence issued 2 April 1890 by Emmett F. Crook, Judge of Probate, to join “D. C. Logue and Virginia Alice Hamby”; the return certifies that the minister solemnized the marriage the same day, 2 April 1890, signed Allen K. Moore(?), pastor of the Christian Church. Until 30 September 2026 this was read from the index only. The register gives no ages, parents or residences.
98. S909Find a Grave memorial 97803773 — Dan Crutcher Logue (1858–1939). Gives his full name, his dates (24 November 1858 – 11 April 1939), his burial in West Hill Cemetery, Sherman, Texas, and his wife as Virginia Alice Logue. Probable A compiled memorial, not a record; the dates rest on it alone. Updated 30 September 2026 with the dates the memorial gives.
99. S9101920 U.S. census — Piland household, Hays County, Texas. Ancestry collection 6061, record 43429362 (the page image is also reached through record 43429363). “Arvin P.”, 26; wife Mabel, 24; daughter Alice L., 5. Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed Precinct 2, ED 119, sheet 5B: the enumerator wrote Orvin O. Piland, head, 26, born in Texas; Mabel, wife, 24; Alice L. Piland, daughter, 5, all born in Texas. Ancestry's index reads the name as “Arvin P.”; the image reads “Orvin O.”, the same initials as Orbin Oliver. Updated 29 September 2026: it was first cited from the index only.
100. S911Texas death certificate index — Orbin Oliver Piland, 30 September 1929. Ancestry collection 2272, record 23497175. Born 24 March 1893; parents E. R. Piland and Virginia F. Montgomery. Probable Read from the index only; the image has not been examined.
101. S9121900 U.S. census — Piland household, Gonzales County, Texas. Ancestry collection 7602, record 43464939. Probable Read from the index only; the image has not been examined.
102. S913Texas marriage index — Edward Raymond Piland and Virginia Francis “Jennie” Montgomery, 28 June 1883, Gonzales County. Ancestry collection 60183, record 807408; the licence image is Ancestry record 390206. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Confirmed Gonzales County marriage licence: Mr. E. R. Piland and Miss Jennie Montgomery; licence issued 27 June 1883 by D. D. Jones, clerk; married 28 June 1883 by L. L. Bradley, minister. The licence gives initials and a nickname only; the full names come from the index. Updated 29 September 2026: it was first cited from the index only.
103. S914Find a Grave memorial 26217520 — Orbin Oliver Piland. Cited with his death certificate for his dates. Probable A compiled memorial, not a record.
104. S915Texas death certificate index — Virginia Francis “Jennie” (Montgomery) Piland, 1927. Ancestry collection 2272, record 30274803. Born August 1858. Probable Read from the index only; the image has not been examined.
105. S923FamilySearch index, Texas Births and Christenings, 1840–1981 — Alice Lorene Piland, born 20 November 1914, Kyle, Hays County. FamilySearch record 4LVY-XPMM, checked 28 September 2026. Probable Father Orbin Oliver Piland; mother Mabel Larrimore Logue. An index only; no image. It is independent of the 1920 and 1930 censuses, and its date matches the Social Security index.
106. S9241930 U.S. census — Mable Piland household, Austin, Travis County, Texas. Ancestry collection 6224, record 60697622. Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed ED 227-29, sheet 3A: Mable Piland, head, 34, widowed, born in Texas; Alice Lorena, daughter, 15, born in Texas; Virginia Logue, mother, 62, widowed, born in Tennessee. Mabel is widowed by April 1930, which fits Orbin's death in 1929.
107. S932U.S. World War I draft registration card — Orbin Oliver Piland, Hays County, Texas, 5 June 1917. Ancestry record 19976228. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Confirmed Orbin Oliver Piland, 24, of Buda, born 22 March 1893 at Gonzales, Texas; farming for Jno. Howard; a wife and two children. His own statement. The index of his death certificate (S911) gives 24 March.
108. S9331880 U.S. census — Thomas Piland household, Gonzales County, Texas (ED 71, p. 25, dwelling 209). Ancestry record 40466160. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Probable Thomas Piland, 24, farmer; Edward, brother, 20, single, farmer, born in Texas; parents born in Georgia and Texas. Taken to be Edward Raymond Piland from the name, age and county; the census names no parents.
109. S941Austin, Texas, city directory, 1922, p. 373. Ancestry record 402287283. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Confirmed Piland Orbin O (Mabel), truck driver, Texas Company, residence 104 Chicon. Nine other Pilands are listed in Austin.
110. S9461930 United States Federal Census — Pittsburgh Ward 11, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, ED 2-172, sheet 13A, lines 35–37 (7 April 1930). Ancestry record 48469282. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Confirmed 711 N. St. Clair Street, owned, valued $16,000, radio: Murfin, Godfrey, head, 53, married (first at 37), born England, immigrated 1905, first papers, salesman of linens; Gertrude P., wife, 40, born Pennsylvania to German-born parents; Marjorie, daughter, 12, at school. Gertrude's 40 is the outlier against her other records (born about 1884); the site keeps about 1884. Collection: 1930 United States Federal Census.
111. S971Austin High School, Austin, Texas, The Comet (1942), page 139 — “Swing and Turn” square-dance club. Ancestry record 958836662. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 28 September 2026. Confirmed The officers of the newly organised square-dance club “Swing and Turn” (32 members) list Lucile Kretschmar, Treasurer, for both the fall and spring terms. “Lucile” is the spelling on her birth certificate (S264). The same yearbook has her on the orchestra roster (S438). “Kretschmar” is also the last name in the standing row of the group photograph, but the caption is cropped at the left and she is not pointed out, so the photograph is not used to identify her. Collection: U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880–2012 (db 1265, image 43134_b183189-00142).
112. S997World War I draft registration card — Thomas Walton Caffey, Salado, Bell County, Texas, local board 1, serial 1278 (12 September 1918). Ancestry record 71072410. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed Thomas Walton Caffey, of Salado, 44, born October 14, 1873, farming; medium height, slender, grey eyes, dark hair. Nearest relative Alyeda (or Almeda) Caffey, Salado. The nearest relative's name is hard to read and needs a second reader; it may be the formal name of Medie, his second wife (“Rachel E.” in 1910, S521).
113. S1024Texas Death Certificates — certificate 30535, Hays County, 1932. Ancestry record 23674650. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed Edward R. Piland, died 2 July 1932 near Buda, Hays County; born 12 January 1859, Texas; widower of Virginia. Father Reuben Piland, mother Mary Gibson. Informant Houston Piland. Buried Live Oak Cemetery. The index spells the father “Renben”.
114. S10251910 United States Federal Census — Justice Precinct 4, Travis County, Texas, sheet 5B, lines 93–100. Ancestry record 28664058. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed Edward R. Piland, 52, married 27 years; Virginia F., 53, mother of 8 children, 8 living; Craton, Myrtle, Rubin, Oliver O., 17, Edward R. Jr. and Carrol H. Read from the image.
115. S1032Texas Death Index, 1903–1940, page 19893. Ancestry record 4834710. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed Piland, Edward R., Hays County, died 2 July 1932, file 30535. The same file number as his death certificate.
116. S10331930 United States Federal Census — Justice Precinct 5, Hays County, Texas, enumeration district 105-10, sheet 2A, lines 43–45. Ancestry record 63037401. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed Dwelling 24, a farm: John Howard, 60, born Georgia, farmer, owner; Ida, wife, 46, married at 24, born Texas; Piland, E R, father-in-law, 71, widowed, born Texas, both parents born Texas. Enumerated 11 April 1930. The index offers “brother-in-law” as an alternative; the image says father-in-law.
117. S10551900 United States Federal Census — Precinct No. 1, Bastrop County, Texas, S.D. 10, E.D. 2, sheet 12A, dwelling 197. Ancestry record 70149591. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 26 September 2026. Confirmed 12 June 1900: C. B. Caffey, head, born October 1865, 34, married 10 years, born Alabama, parents born Alabama, farmer, renting; H. F., wife, born August 1872, 27, mother of 5 children, all living, born Texas; Roy, son, June 1890; Olly, son, February 1892; Ethel, daughter, November 1895(?); Myrtis, daughter, January 1897; Earl, son, January 1899; the children born Texas.
118. S10561910 United States Federal Census — Justice Precinct 4, Elgin, Bastrop County, Texas, S.D. 10, E.D. 9, sheet 12B, dwelling 55. Ancestry record 27644038. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 26 September 2026. Confirmed 2 May 1910: Charley B. Coffey, head, 43, first marriage of 20 years, born Alabama, parents born Alabama, general farmer, owns, mortgaged; Fannie, wife, 38(?), mother of 8 children, all living, born Texas; Clayborn E., son, 19; Ollie, son, 18; Ethel, 15; Myrtis, 13; Earl, 11; Corinne, 6; Marie, 2; the children born Texas. Surname spelled Coffey; his age, 43, is two years short of the October 1865 birth given in 1900.
119. S10571920 United States Federal Census — Justice Precinct 4, Elgin, Bastrop County, Texas, S.D. 10, E.D. 27, sheet 10B, dwelling 227. Ancestry record 92889639. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 26 September 2026. Confirmed 22 January 1920: Charls B. Coffey, head, renting, 54, general farmer, parents born Alabama; Fannie H., wife, 46, born Texas; William O., son, 28, single, machinist; Earl B., son, 21; Corine, 16; Mari H., 12; Ralph, son, 9; Ruth E., 6; the children born Texas. This census alone gives his own birthplace as Texas; 1900, 1910 and 1930 say Alabama.
120. S10581930 United States Federal Census — Elgin, Precinct 4, Bastrop County, Texas, E.D. 11-11, sheet 12A, dwelling 271. Ancestry record 65806477. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 26 September 2026. Confirmed 10 April 1930: Charles B. Caffey, head, owns his home, worth $1,000, 64, first married at 23, born Alabama, parents born Alabama, house painter, not a veteran; Frances H., wife, 55, first married at 16, born Texas, parents born Alabama; J. Ralph, son, 19, house painter; Marie, daughter, 22, stenographer at a wholesale grocery; Ruth, daughter, 16.
121. S1072Alabama, U.S., Surname Files Expanded, 1702–1981 — typescript family compilation, page “-6-”, section “Great-great-great-great grandparents of Gordon”, entry 80G. Ancestry record 145642. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed A compiled chart, not an original record: 80G John Caffey, born near Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland, 1752; married about 1780 81G Mary Buchanan; died Montgomery County, Alabama, 19 August 1826. Children: Henry; Michael, born about 1784; Thomas, born 24 May 1784; John, born 29 September 1786; Charles, born 1788; Hooper, born 1 November 1793; Nancy. The same man as the will (S848) and headstone (S61). A late derivative that cites nothing on the page: the children’s birth dates are the compiler’s, it names a Nancy and no Elizabeth, and its 1752 stands against the headstone’s 1751.
122. S1073North America, Family Histories, 1500–2000 — DAR Lineage Book, page 185, Mrs. Algie Hardwick Hill, member 116597 (volume number not on the image). Ancestry record 3534392. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed Mrs. Algie Hardwick Hill, born New York, wife of Walton H. Hill, descends from John Caffey through Samuel Henry Hardwick (b. 1854), William Hardwick (1808–54) and Sarah Eugenia Caffey (1824–96), and William Hooper Caffey (1793–1835), who married — Shellcott, son of John Caffey and Mary Buchanan. “John Caffey (1752–1826) enlisted, 1776, in 6th company, Maryland Line. He was born in Maryland; died in Montgomery, Ala. Also No. 108176.” The same man as the will (S848). A DAR lineage entry of this period prints no sources; the war service is the society’s accepted claim, not a muster roll.
123. S10801910 United States Federal Census — Cuero, Ward 2, DeWitt County, Texas, ED 34, sheet 5A, dwelling 88. Ancestry record 168623911. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 30 September 2026. Probable Logue, Dan C., 52, manager of a cotton mill; Virginia A., 41, married 21 years, the mother of seven children, six living, born Tennessee; Leola, 17; Mabel, 14; Halbert, 10; and two younger sons. “Married 21 years” points to about 1889, a year before the 1890 licence [S908], within ordinary census error.
124. S10811920 United States Federal Census — Justice Precinct 1, Grayson County, Texas, ED 66, sheet 5B. Ancestry record 22745876. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 30 September 2026. Probable 9–10 January 1920: Logue, “Doctor C.”, 60, born Tennessee, cotton mill, owns his home (mortgaged); Virginia A., 51, born Tennessee; and two sons, 17 and 14. “Doctor C.” is the enumerator’s expansion of “D. C.”; the 1910 census has Dan C. [S1080]. Grayson County is where Find a Grave buries him, at Sherman [S909].
125. S1091U.S., City Directories, 1822–1995 — Austin City Directory 1932–33 (Morrison & Fourmy), page 379, column 1. Ancestry record 399606365. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed “Piland Mabel L Mrs slswn F & W Grand Silver Store r403 W 14th”: a saleswoman, rooming (‘r’) at 403 West 14th Street. No husband is entered in brackets, which fits her widowhood from September 1929 (S911, S924). The same page carries other Austin Pilands; their relationship to her is not stated.
126. S10921910 United States Federal Census — Justice Precinct 5, Caldwell County, Texas, S.D. 10, E.D. 33, sheet 6A, dwelling 103, family 104. Ancestry record 122960984. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed 23 April 1910: Henry L. Gold, head, 38, first marriage of 18 years, born Texas of German-born parents, farmer, renting; Anna, wife, 30, first marriage of 18 years, mother of 7 children of whom 5 living, born Alabama of Alabama-born parents; Elmo, son, 16; Eva, daughter, 15; Alvie, son, 13; Myrtle, daughter, 8; Vernon, son, 2; the children born Texas. Her age, 30, is ten years short: she is Annie B., 9, in 1880 (S479) and born January 1871 by the 1900 census (S730). Eighteen years married agrees with the 1900 census’s marriage about 1892.
127. S10931860 United States Federal Census — DeWitt County, Texas (county from the index; not filled on this page), Free Inhabitants, page 85, dwelling 660, family 649. Ancestry record 35015992. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed James “Monguemay” [Montgomery], 25, stock hunter, born Tennessee; Elenor F., 23, born Tennessee; Matilda C., 4; Harvy A., 2; Virginia F., 2; the children born Texas. Indexed as “Mongee”; the page edge cuts the end of the name on the last line. Harvy A. and Virginia F. are the twins marked in 1870 and 1880 (S1094, S1095).
128. S10941870 United States Federal Census — Precinct No. 1, DeWitt County, Texas, post office Clinton, page 20, dwelling 119, family 119. Ancestry record 7642917. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed June 1870: Jas. Montgomery, 37, farmer, born Tennessee; Ellen, 35; Evaline, 14; Harvey, 11, and Virginia, 11, bracketed ‘Twins’; Mary, 6; La Fayette, 4; Idella, 1; the children born Texas.
129. S10951880 United States Federal Census — Precinct No. 1, DeWitt County, Texas, S.D. 6, E.D. 46, page 68. Ancestry record 10575200. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed 10 July 1880: James P. Montgomery, 47, farmer, born Tennessee, parents born North Carolina; Elenor, wife, 45, born Tennessee; Harry Alex, son, 21, and Virginia, daughter, 21, at home, bracketed as twins; Mary, 14; James L., 13; Idella, 11; Louisa and Eliza, 9, twins; Ida, 7; the children born Texas. Nothing on these three pages names Piland. The link to Jennie Montgomery, who married E. R. Piland in neighbouring Gonzales County in 1883 (S913), is her name, her age and the county.
130. S1097Texas, U.S., Birth Certificates, 1903–1932 — Bastrop County report of birth no. 3377 (local no. 147). Ancestry record 108072497. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed A girl, not yet named, born 5 December 1907 one mile east of Elgin; father C. B. Caffey, mother Mattie Caffey, residence Elgin; reported 21 December 1907 by T. B. Taylor, M.D., of Elgin. The mother’s name does not match: C. B. Caffey’s wife is H. F. or Fannie in the 1900–1940 censuses (S1055, S1056, S715).
131. S1098Texas, U.S., Birth Index, 1903–1997 — state typescript index, 1903–09 births, Cof–Cof, page 506. Ancestry record 150133574. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed “Coffey | C. B., Inf. of | Bastrop | 12-5-07 | 3377”: the same birth and file number as the county report (S1097), under the index typist’s spelling Coffey.
132. S11011950 United States Federal Census — Howe, Grayson County, Texas, ED 91-33, sheet 73, household of Harry R. Lewis. Ancestry record 188687634. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed 10 April 1950, 207 W. Front: Harry R. Lewis, head, 60, born Mississippi, oiler at the cotton mill; Ethel, wife, 59, born Alabama; James, son, 39, born Texas, fixer at the cotton mill; Logue, Virginia, mother-in-law, 81, widowed, born Tennessee. The index files this household under Swaney, the name on line 9 above it, a separate household; the image reads Lewis. “Mother-in-law” makes Ethel her daughter; no record read here names Ethel as a Logue.
133. S11081860 United States Federal Census — Warren County, Tennessee, McMinnville, page 208, enumerated 28 August 1860. Ancestry record 22590839. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 30 September 2026. Confirmed Dwelling and family 1305: H. D. Logue, 32, laborer, personal estate $150; Mary, 30, housekeeper; Florance, 8; Texas, 6; Frank, 4; Crutcher, 1; all born in Tennessee. The 1860 census does not state relationships. The index reads Texas as “Tomas” and Frank’s age as 9; the image has Texas, a girl, and 4.
134. S11091870 United States Federal Census — Giles County, Tennessee, Pulaski, page 27, enumerated 8 June 1870. Ancestry record 10314881. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 30 September 2026. Confirmed Dwelling and family 236: Mary A. Logue, 38, cloth trimmer; Texas, 17, weaver; Franklin, 15, spinner; Crutcher, 12, spinner; Eva, 9; Eddie, 5; all born in Tennessee; with Malinda Howard, 30, weaver, Martha J. Howard, 4, and Nannie Kirk, 20, spooler. The neighbours are mill hands. No relationships are stated; Mary A. heads the household. H. D. Logue, head in 1860, is not in it.
135. S11101880 United States Federal Census — 7th Civil District, Giles County, Tennessee, ED 105, page 47, enumerated 14 June 1880. Ancestry record 9544254. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed Family 495: Crutcher Logue, 21, head, laborer, and Jennie Logue, 19, wife, weaver in a cotton factory; both born in Tennessee to parents born in Tennessee, and both marked married within the census year. Nearby: Mary Logue, 40, widowed, with Texas A., 24, and Eva, 17, both in the cotton factory, and Eddie, 15; and Frank Logue, 23, card stripper, with his wife Elizabeth, 21. The index reads the surname as Longe; the image has Logue, in the same hand as the other Logue lines.
136. S1113Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982 — Leola Piland, Austin, Travis County, 12 February 1938, file 10327. Ancestry record 83530008. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed Mrs. Leola Piland, of Manor Road, Austin, married, wife of Ruben Piland; born 28 November 1892 at Galveston, Texas; aged 45 years, 2 months, 14 days; a housewife. Father D. C. Louge [sic], born in Tennessee; mother “Virginaa Alice” [sic], no maiden name given, born in Texas. Died 12 February 1938 at Seton Infirmary, Austin; buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, 13 February 1938. Informant: Ruben Piland. Louge is a transposed Logue. The informant was her husband, not a family member of her parents’ generation; he gives her mother’s birthplace as Texas where the 1900, 1910 and 1950 censuses all say Tennessee.
137. S11141910 U.S. Federal Census — T. J. Collins household, Atascosa County, Texas (S.D. 15, ED 6, sheet 6A, dwelling 111, family 110, lines 25–30). Ancestry record 143748243. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 25 September 2026. Confirmed Enumerated 27–29 April 1910: T. J. Collins, head, 40, first marriage, born Texas, parents born Mississippi, general farmer, renting; Lucy, wife, 31, mother of 4 children, 4 living, born Texas; Roy, son, about 14, farm labourer; Guy, son, 11; and two younger children whose names are hard to read (a son, 4, and a daughter, about 6). Same parents and the same two elder sons as the 1900 Shelby County household (S872). Lucy’s age, 31, does not fit the April 1872 birth given in 1900 (she would be 38); the reading of the precinct number and the two youngest names is uncertain.
138. S1122Texas Birth Index, 1939 births, p. 281 (Texas Department of Health) — Jessie Lee Caffey. Ancestry record 303019494. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 25 September 2026. Confirmed “CAFFEY, JESSIE LEE”, county 227 [Travis], 1939, female; mother Clawson, Marianne Zelphia; father Caffey, Howard Lee. An index line, not the certificate itself. The index spells the mother Marianne; her marriage record gives Marian. The child may be living, so only the name and year are given here.
139. S1123Texas Birth Index, 1950 births, p. 457 (Texas Department of Health) — Howard David Caffey. Ancestry record 153559488. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 25 September 2026. Confirmed “CAFFEY, HOWARD DAVID”, county 227 [Travis], 1950, male; mother Mangum, Dorothy Maye; father Caffey, Howard Lee. An index line, not the certificate itself. It gives Dorothy’s maiden name as Mangum. The child may be living, so only the name and year are given here.
140. S11511860 U.S. census, 2nd District, Montgomery County, Alabama, P.O. Ramah, p. 127, dwellings 962 and 963 (13 October 1860). Ancestry record 12147200. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 26 September 2026. Confirmed Dwelling 962: Charles Caffey, 72, farmer, real estate $2,500, personal $340, born South Carolina; Nancy, 60, born Maryland; Jane, 28; Mary Stoudenmire(?), 30; James, 14; Hooper, 12; Charles, 10; Mary, 8; all born Alabama. Dwelling 963, next door: H. V. Caffey, 28, born Alabama; his wife, 26, born Alabama, whose name reads Al…a (Alia or Alva?); Fanny, 2; John, 6 months. No relationships are stated. The wife’s name does not read Amy or May on the image. The last four in Charles’s house carry no surname ditto; they may be Caffey grandchildren or Stoudenmires. The same image is filed under Ancestry record 12147198.
141. S11541840 U.S. census, Montgomery County, Alabama, p. 189. Ancestry record 1246266. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 26 September 2026. Confirmed Charles Caffey, head, with free white males and females of several ages, one enslaved person and five in agriculture. The 1840 census names heads only. The tallies are faint and not every column can be read; Ancestry’s index puts the oldest man and the oldest woman each at 50–59.
142. S1183Texas death certificate no. 30822 (Hays County registration no. 950) — Mrs. Virginia F. Piland, died 25 September 1927 near Buda. FamilySearch record K3Q2-LKX, “Texas, Deaths, 1890–1977”. Image examined, read 1 October 2026. Confirmed Married; born August 1858, Texas; housewife; father James Montgomery, birthplace “Don’t know”; mother’s maiden name and birthplace “don’t know”; informant R. Piland, Austin; burial Live Oak Cemetery, 26 September 1927. The image of the certificate indexed at S915.
143. S11841900 United States Federal Census — Precinct 5, Gonzales County, Texas, ED 57, sheet 4B, 6 June 1900. Ancestry image 4118493_00054. Image examined, read 1 October 2026. Confirmed Montgomery, Ellen, head, born March 1836, 64, widowed, mother of 9 children, 9 living, born Tennessee; next door Leonard and Lula Piland; nearby Harvey Montgomery, born August 1858.
144. S1185Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790–1959, and Tennessee State Marriage Index — James Montgomery and Ellen Bradford, 4 April 1855, Coffee County. FamilySearch records Q2Z9-44XV and VNZC-Y8D, checked 1 October 2026. Probable An index only; the register image has not been read, and nothing yet proves this couple is the James and Elenor F. of DeWitt County.
145. S1186FamilySearch index, Texas, Deaths, 1890–1977 — Harry Alexander Montgomery, 1931, Smiley. FamilySearch record K33Q-88R, checked 1 October 2026. Probable Father Jim Montgomery; mother Ellen Bradford. An index only; the image has not been read. Harry is Virginia’s twin in 1870 and 1880.
146. S1187FamilySearch index, Texas, Deaths, 1890–1977 — Matilda Evlin Henry, 1931, Pilgrim. FamilySearch record K33W-XPB, checked 1 October 2026. Probable Father J. M. Montgomery; mother Ellen Bradford. An index only; the image has not been read.
147. S1188FamilySearch index, Texas, Deaths, 1890–1977 — Lula Gay Piland, 1949, Buda. FamilySearch record K7D8-SQJ, checked 1 October 2026. Probable Father James P. Montgomery; mother Elenore Frances Bradford. An index only; the image has not been read.
148. S1189FamilySearch index, Texas, Deaths, 1890–1977 — Mary E. Baker, 1942, Austin. FamilySearch record K3DW-KR4, checked 1 October 2026. Probable Father James L. Montgomery; mother Mary Ellen Bradford. An index only; the image has not been read.
149. S1190FamilySearch index, Texas, Deaths, 1890–1977 — James Lafayette Montgomery, 1932. FamilySearch record K33C-8GL, checked 1 October 2026. Probable Father James P. Montgomery. An index only; the image has not been read.
150. S1191FamilySearch index, California, County Marriages, 1850–1953 — Victor Quillen Logue and Mildred Warner Pool, 4 December 1926, Los Angeles. FamilySearch record K8NF-XF6, checked 1 October 2026. Probable Groom’s father D. C. Logue; mother Alice Hanby. An index only; the image has not been read.
151. S1192FamilySearch index, California, County Marriages, 1850–1953 — Victor Quillen Logue and Ethel P. Williams, 26 August 1933, Los Angeles. FamilySearch record K8J8-X5H, checked 1 October 2026. Probable Groom’s father D. C. Logue; mother entered as “Alice West”. An index only; the image has not been read, and the name West is not explained.
152. S1193FamilySearch index, United States, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 — Victor Quillen Logue, Los Angeles, 14 February 1942. FamilySearch record QGFS-SMCZ, checked 1 October 2026. Probable Born 26 September 1902, Atlanta, Georgia; contact D. C. Logue. An index only; the card image has not been read.
153. S1194FamilySearch index, World War II draft registration — Victor Quillen Logue, El Monte, California, 2 July 1945. FamilySearch record QGF9-G96Y, checked 1 October 2026. Probable Born 26 September 1902, Atlanta, Georgia. An index only; the card image has not been read.
154. S1195FamilySearch index, United States Census, 1940 — Victor Q. Logue, El Monte Judicial Township, Los Angeles County, California. FamilySearch record K97F-56P, checked 1 October 2026. Probable Victor Q. Logue, born about 1903, Texas, with his wife Ethel P. An index only; the image has not been read. The birthplace disagrees with his draft cards (Atlanta, Georgia).
155. S1198Texas death certificate, state file no. 12496 — Lula Gay Piland, died 1949 at Buda, Hays County. Ancestry, “Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903–1982”, record 773172566. Image examined, read 2 October 2026. Confirmed Born 15 August 1871, DeWitt County; father James P. Montgomery, born Tennessee; mother’s maiden name Elenore Frances Bradford, born Tennessee; informant M. Z. Piland. The image read of the index entry S1188.
156. S1199Texas death certificate no. 9072 — James L. Montgomery, died 8 February 1932 at Victoria. Ancestry, “Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903–1982”, record 81651405. Image examined, read 2 October 2026. Confirmed Born 28 December 1866, Texas; father James P. Montgomery. The image read of the index entry S1190; the father’s birthplace line is partly cut off.
157. S1200Coffee County, Tennessee, marriage register, page 25 — James Montgomery and Ellen Bradford, 4 April 1855. Ancestry, “Tennessee, U.S., Marriage Records, 1780–2002”, record 1400556. Image examined, read 2 October 2026. Confirmed “April 4 — James Montgomery Licence to Marry Ellen Bradford”; the return says they were married the same day by James Stevens(?), J.P. for Coffee County. The register image behind the index entry S1185. It does not name Ellen’s parents.
158. S1201Find a Grave memorials 28905334 (James P. Montgomery) and 28905333 (Ellen Frances Montgomery), Sample Cemetery, Gonzales County, Texas. Seen as Ancestry hints, 2 October 2026. Probable Both buried at Sample, Gonzales County. James: born 23 April 1836, died 7 May 1887; Ellen: born 28 March 1837, died 23 January 1905. ⚠ Memorials, not records. A member tree gives James’s death as 17 May 1887, and Ellen’s 1900 census age points to 1836, so only the burial place is used on the cards.
159. S12021850 United States Federal Census — District 31, Forsyth County, Georgia, dwelling 1141. Ancestry record 15936456. Read 2 October 2026 from the index and record detail. Probable John Montgomery, 38; Sarah, 36; Mary, 17; Cyntha L., 15; James P., 13, born Georgia; Wm F., 11; Henry Clay, 6; Thomas C., 4. ⚠ HELD, not adopted. A possible family for James P. Montgomery, but every later record gives his birthplace as Tennessee. An 1855 Army enlistment of a Forsyth-born James P. Montgomery is a different man.
160. S1206Find a Grave memorial 46208782 — Victor Q. Logue; and U.S. Social Security Death Index — Victor Logue. Seen as an Ancestry hint 2 October 2026; SSDI searched 1 October 2026. Probable Find a Grave: born 26 September 1902; died 27 August 1978, Arkansas; buried at Concord, Cleburne County, Arkansas. SSDI: born 26 September 1902, died August 1978, last residence Arkansas. ⚠ A memorial and an index. The link is the exact birth date on a rare name; no Arkansas death record or obituary has been read.