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Robert Earl "Earl" Proeger — portrait, c. 2025
Family photograph, c. 2025

Robert Earl "Earl" Proeger

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Born
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Married
Kristin M. Caffey
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Birth
Birthplace not published on this page
the family obituary records the young couple living there when their first son was born S1, and the Texas Marriage Index corroborates the year S2. Year withheld here.

Family

Marriage1994
Married Kristin M. Caffey 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). The Travis County record is the one that establishes Kristin's maiden name.
Children
Three children with Kristin
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.

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Kristin Marie Proeger
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Kristin M. Caffey Proeger

Living

Wife of the subject · the other half of this record

Born in
1975
Parents
Thomas Alan Caffey
Married
Earl Proeger
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Birth1975
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 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.

Family

Siblings1972
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.
Marriage1994
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).
Parents1994
Maiden name Caffey, established from the Travis County marriage record of 1994 S2
the same record that names Earl. Confirmed
Parents1946
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.
Children2026
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.

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Generation 1 — Earl's brothers and sisters

4 people
Damon Lee Proeger
Family photograph, 2020s

Damon Lee Proeger

Living

Brother · twin

Born
1972
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Birth1972
Born 1972, six weeks premature S1. Confirmed
Death
A marriage licence in Pierce County, Washington is on record S2; the family obituary indicates that marriage has since ended S1.
Birth year and place are carried here because they are published in the family's own memorial notice and are inseparable from the twin story that corrects the family record.

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Mark Lynn Proeger
Family photograph, 2020s

Mark Proeger

Living

Brother · twin of Damon

Born
1972
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Birth1972
Born 1972, minutes after Damon S1. Confirmed

Family

Marriage
Wife Cecilia "Ceci"; three children, all living, not named here.
Names
Her maiden name as held in family records is Not found in any index searched S2.

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Tasha Dawn Proeger
Family photograph, 2020s

Tasha Dawn Proeger

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Sister

Born
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Married
Marcel A. Garza
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Birth1903
Birthplace not published on this page
the Texas Birth Index 1903–1997 also supplies her middle name, Dawn S3. Confirmed

Family

Marriage
Married Marcel A. Garza, Galveston County, Texas S2. three children, all living, not named here S1.

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Jacob Proeger

Family testimony

Half-brother · living

Born in
1994
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Birth1994
Full name John Jacob Proeger; he goes by Jacob. Born in 1994, to William Leonard “Bill” Proeger and Briana Castro Proeger, Bill’s second wife S24. Family testimony
the eyewitness account of Earl Proeger, his half-brother, who was present at the birth, given 22 Sep 2026.

Family

Parents1996
He appears as “J J”, age 2 on his grandmother Eileen Roberts’s cousins list, c. 1996 S205, which fits the 1994 birth; identified by Earl Proeger, 22 Sep 2026.

Open questions

Not found
No birth record has been retrieved. The Texas Birth Index 1903–1997 (only three Proeger births statewide, none named Jacob) S3 would not hold him in any case, because he was born outside Texas; FindAGrave, SortedByName’s complete Proeger index S2 and a general web search also have nothing.

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Generation 2 — Earl's parents

5 people
Nancy Coffman Proeger, portrait, c. 1964
Family photograph, 1964

Nancy Martin Coffman Proeger

TexasConfirmed

Mother · 1943–2025

Born
14 March 1943, Houston, Texas
Died
20 February 2025, Austin, Texas
Buried
Youngs Prairie Cemetery, Elgin, Bastrop County, Texas
Married
William Leonard "Bill" Proeger
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Birth1943
Born 14 March 1943, Houston, Texas S1S7S8
Death2025
Died 20 February 2025, Austin, Texas, aged 81, of Parkinson's disease S7S8S9
Burial2025
Buried Youngs Prairie Cemetery, Elgin, Bastrop County, Texas; graveside service 24 February 2025, arrangements by Elgin Funeral Home S8S9
Residence1960
Grew up in Pasadena, Harris County; Pasadena High School class of 1960; teaching degree from Abilene Christian College in three years S1
Census1950
Independently confirmed by census: listed as "Nancy M.", daughter, age 7, in the Robert W. Coffman household, Pasadena, 1950 US Census S10
Note1962
Her uncle James Burton Coffman told the Abilene Reporter-News on 19 April 1962 that two of his nieces were then at ACC
"Virginia (Ginger) … and Nancy Coffman" — a public, contemporaneous source for her college that is independent of the family obituary
Birth
Taught at Hyde Park Baptist for 27 years; a member of Hope Chapel, Austin, for more than forty years S1
Schooling1958
🆕 At Pasadena High she was sophomore class president in 1958–59 S439 and treasurer of the Library Club S440. Her class portrait is in the 1960 yearbook S441. The yearbooks put her a sophomore in 1958–59 and a junior in 1959–60 S254. That fits graduating in 1961, a year later than the obituary's “class of 1960”. The question is left open, because no senior page or diploma has been seen. added 25 September 2026.
Her family-written obituary, read at her memorial and published by the family, is the single richest document in this entire record. Nearly everything known about the twentieth-century family comes from it.

Family

Marriage1964
Married William Leonard "Bill" Proeger in 1964 in Harris County, Texas, licence 0302006, issued the day before S199 Confirmed; 1964 is also the last year the ACC roster carries her as Coffman S45. The marriage ended in 1981 S1 Probable
not in the Texas Divorce Index S6.

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Senior portrait of Bill Proeger, Prickly Pear yearbook, Abilene Christian College, 1965
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William Leonard Proeger

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Father

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Photograph — senior portrait, Prickly Pear, Abilene Christian College, 1965, page 63 S62. The page prints its portraits three to a row and keys three names to each row alphabetically; his is the middle portrait of the row captioned "Powell, Marsha Joy · Proeger, Bill · Propst, Wayne." He appears again, in glasses, in the 1963 Barracks Dorm Council group photograph. Confirmed

Life

Record1905
The California Birth Index 1905–1995 contains exactly one Proeger born in 1941
indexed as "William Lenard Proeger," mother's maiden name Silva S4. He is not in the Texas Birth Index at all S3.
Schooling1956
High school on Guam. Earl Proeger says his father went through high school on Guam while his stepfather, Navy officer Earl Theodore Roberts, was stationed there after the war S300. A family scrapbook page dated “May 1956 Guam” places the Roberts family on the island. Freshman at George Washington High School, Guam, 1954–55, enrolled as B. Roberts under his step-father's surname; identified in the class photo by his son Earl S313. Confirmed His sisters Nancy and Patty are at the same school that year S311.
Schooling1964
Home town: Alameda, California. The 1964 Prickly Pear, the yearbook of Abilene Christian College, lists him on its student roster as "Proeger, Bill — Alameda, Calif." S45. Confirmed
Why Alameda matters. The whole paternal reconstruction turns on the mother's maiden name Silva, an Alameda County family — and on his father having been in Los Angeles County in 1940 S12. A college yearbook printed in Texas in 1964, which knew nothing of any of that, records his home town as Alameda S45. It is a contemporaneous, college-published record arriving at the same place from an unrelated direction. The same roster lists "Coffman, Nancy — Pasadena", which is where Earl's mother grew up S45S1 — the two of them on one student roster, in what is on present evidence the same year they married.
Withheld under the privacy rule: his age at either marriage, the state file numbers of both marriage records, his address, his business, and the people-search profile used only to cross-check a date already held by the family. His date of birth is published here at Earl's express instruction, 13 September 2026, because it is the fact that closes the paternal wall and it comes from a state birth index rather than from the family. That was a deliberate, named exception to the living-adult rule as it then stood. That rule is now gone. On 21 September 2026 Earl replaced it: living adults are published in full, and only minors are held back — named, and nothing else. So this date is no longer an exception to anything; it is simply the first one that was published. What stays off this card stays off for its own reasons, not the old rule's: his address, his business, and the state file numbers S24S43.

Family

Names1941
The exact day is no longer masked. Read in a signed-in FamilySearch session, the same index entry gives 1941 in full S43. This was Probable on this page until 13 September 2026, because the free view masks the day and the entry could only be ranked, not read. It is now Confirmed
the last soft joint in the paternal reconstruction, closed by the record itself rather than by argument.
Marriage1964
Married (1) Nancy Martin Coffman in 1964 in Harris County, Texas, licence 0302006, read from the county register image S199 Confirmed. It was immediately after her college graduation: she is on the Abilene Christian home-town rosters as Coffman through the 1964 Prickly Pear S45 and absent from the 1965 senior index under either surname S62.
Marriage1994
Married (2) Briana, Travis County, Texas S2. Confirmed Their son John Jacob “Jacob” Proeger was born in 1994 to Bill and Briana Castro Proeger; Earl was present at the birth S24. Family testimony
Siblings1937
Two sisters, and he is the youngest of the three. Nancy Aileen Proeger (1937–1973) is the eldest (she died 9 January 1973 in Wallowa County, Oregon S298); Patricia "Patty" Collins
Collins by marriage — is the middle child and is living, so she appears here with Earl's explicit permission Family testimony. The order is Earl's own correction, made within an hour of this page first publishing it the other way round; the paternal wall section keeps both versions visible.
Siblings1967
🆕 His sister Patricia married Albert R. Collins in 1967 in California Confirmed S1207. The state marriage index gives the groom as 48 and the bride as 28, which puts her birth between May 1938 and May 1939. Earl confirmed on 2 October 2026 that Albert is his uncle Family testimony. The index is not the certificate, and its county code is not yet decoded.

Open questions

Not found
Divorced 1981 S1. Probable
Not found in the Texas Divorce Index 1968–2011, whose only exact-surname Proeger entries are an unrelated Tarrant County couple S6.

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Generation 2 — relatives in this generation

Senior portrait of Nancy Aileen Proeger, about eighteen, dark shoulder-length hair and a light collared blouse, from the 1955 George Washington High School yearbook, Guam
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Nancy Aileen Proeger

CaliforniaConfirmed

Aunt · 1937–1973

Born
6 April 1937, Niles, California
Died
9 January 1973, Wallowa County, Oregon
Parents
William Harry Proeger & Aileane Marie Silva
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Nancy A. Proeger, senior portrait, 1955 — George Washington High School yearbook, Guam S311. Photo supplied by Earl Proeger.

Life

Birth1937
Born 6 April 1937, Niles, California S275 Confirmed
her own 1955 Oregon record of marriage gives Niles, California and 6 April 1937; the Social Security Death Index gives the same day S298. An earlier version of this card placed her birth in Texas on family testimony; that was an error. Earl, 23 September 2026: she was never in Texas.
Death1973
Died 9 January 1973, Wallowa County, Oregon, aged 35, as Nancy Wortman, her married name at her death S298 Confirmed
Oregon Death Index, certificate 73-01723; the Social Security Death Index agrees (born 6 April 1937, died January 1973). Earl recalls 1973, and Eileen's c. 1996 list already calls her deceased S205. An earlier version of this card gave a 2025 date in Austin; that was an error, carried over from Earl's mother, Nancy Martin Coffman Proeger.
Cause1973
Took her own life, as reported on the front page of the Wallowa County Chieftain, Thursday 11 January 1973 S343 Confirmed
the paper says she died on Tuesday 9 January of a rifle shot, alone in a pickup parked near the boat ramp at the foot of Wallowa Lake, after a day-long search; she was found about 8:30 that evening. She was living in Enterprise and working at the Wallowa County Nursing Home, having earlier worked at the Fireplace, the Elks Lodge and the Gold Room in Joseph. The paper names her Nancy Belcourt Wortman, 35, twice divorced, and says she was survived by two daughters living with their father, Robert Belcourt, at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, and by a son and a daughter who had been living with her. The full obituary promised for the following week has not yet been found.
Residence1950
Grew up in the household of her stepfather, Earl Theodore Roberts: the 1950 census finds her at 13 at 219C Brush St, Alameda, with her mother, Roberts, Patricia and William, all three children enumerated as Roberts S215
Schooling1955
A senior at George Washington High School, Guam, in 1955, having transferred in 1954 from Astoria High School, Oregon; Junior Class Secretary S311 Confirmed

Family

Parents
Daughter of William Harry Proeger and Aileane Marie Silva S24
Marriage1940
Predated the 1940 marriage; Earl's direct testimony identifies William Harry as her father S24
Children1961
🆕 One of her daughters by Robert Belcourt was Elain Annett Belcourt, born in Texas in 1961. The state birth index names her parents as Robert George Belcourt and Nancy Aileen Proger [Proeger] Confirmed S1125.

Corrections

  • An earlier version of this card placed her birth in Texas on family testimony; that was an error.
  • An earlier version of this card gave a 2025 date in Austin; that was an error, carried over from Earl's mother, Nancy Martin Coffman Proeger.

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Patty Proeger

Family testimony

Aunt · living

Parents
William Harry Proeger & Aileane Marie Silva
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Living
Living — no dates displayed

Family

Parents
Daughter of William Harry Proeger and Aileane Marie Silva S24
Relationship
Earl's aunt S24
Siblings1955
“P. Proeger” appears in a club photograph in the 1955 George Washington High School yearbook, Guam, where her sister Nancy was a senior S311 Probable confirm or correct →: the name comes from the OCR text and has not yet been read from the image

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Kathy Roberts

Family testimony

Half-aunt · living

Parents
Aileane Marie Silva & Earl Theodore Roberts
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Living
Living — no dates displayed

Family

Parents
Daughter of Aileane Marie Silva and Earl Theodore Roberts S24
Relationship
Earl's half-aunt S24

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Generation 3 — Earl's grandparents

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Portrait — Aileane Marie Silva, 1940s
Photograph, 1940s

Aileane Marie Silva

CaliforniaConfirmed

Paternal grandmother · 1918–2001

Born
15 August 1918, Alameda County, California
Died
10 January 2001, National City, San Diego County, California
Parents
Frank T. Silva & Mildred A. Rose
Married
William Harry Proeger
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Birth1918
Born 15 August 1918, Alameda County, California; NUMIDENT gives the birthplace as "Mission San" S12S13
Death2001
Died 10 January 2001, National City, San Diego County, California S12S13
Death1918
🆕 A public-records address index has “Aileane S Roberts”, born 15 August 1918, living at National City and San Diego, California, in 1975, some twenty-six years before her death there Probable confirm or correct → S768. A commercial list, index only, but the birth date matches to the day. added 26 September 2026.
Photograph1937
🆕 Photograph, 10 February 1937 Confirmed (family testimony): she and William Harry Proeger on the grass with a cat, three and a half years before their 1940 marriage. Their daughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins named them on 1 October 2026: “My father William Harry Proeger and my Mother Aileane Da Silva”. In Photos below.
Her own "cousins list", c. 1996. Written by Eileen herself about thirty years ago, for Tasha Proeger, Earl's sister, who later sent it to Earl. Its closing line is addressed to her: "I thought you might like to know how many cousins you have." Each of her four children appears with that child's children and their ages. It is undated, but Bill's 55 and Earl's 29 place it in c. 1996. Ages are hers. Every "b. c." year below is derived from age minus 1996, not taken from a record S205.
  • Nancy — "deceased" at the time of writing. Her children:
    • Sheryl, 40 (b. c.1956, derived): children Bryan, 16 (b. c.1980, derived); Stephanie, 14 (b. c.1982, derived); Amanda, 11 (b. c.1985, derived)
    • Joann, 39 (b. c.1957, derived): children Robert, 22 (b. c.1974, derived); Derek confirmed by Earl Proeger, 22 Sep 2026, 12 (b. c.1984, derived); Rex confirmed by Earl Proeger, 22 Sep 2026, 11 (b. c.1985, derived)
    • Elain (spelled without a final E) confirmed by Earl Proeger, 22 Sep 2026, 35 (b. c.1961, derived): child Tessa confirmed by Earl Proeger, 23 Sep 2026, 11 (b. c.1985, derived)
    • David, 24 (b. c.1972, derived)
  • Patricia, 58 (b. c.1938, derived). Listed under her:
    • Ginger, 40 (b. c.1956, derived): children Edgar, 16 (b. c.1980, derived); India confirmed by Earl Proeger, 23 Sep 2026, 13 (b. c.1983, derived); Carolina, 10 (b. c.1986, derived). After Carolina's name: "(adopted) Same family"
    • Rusty: "deceased", "57yrs". At 57 he cannot be the child of a 58-year-old. He is more likely Patricia's late husband, but the sheet does not say. 🆕 Patricia married Albert R. Collins in 1967, when he was 48 (born c.1918–19) S1207; Earl confirmed him as his uncle on 2 October 2026 Family testimony. If Rusty is Albert, “57yrs” would be his age at death (c.1975–76), not his age on the list. Nothing yet links the two names.
    • Robbie, 36 (b. c.1960, derived): children John Paul, 4 (b. c.1992, derived); Kelsey, 3 (b. c.1993, derived)
    • Carl, 35 (b. c.1961, derived): children Mindy, 10 (b. c.1986, derived); Albert, 7 (b. c.1989, derived)
    • Teal confirmed by Earl Proeger, 23 Sep 2026, 27 (b. c.1969, derived)
  • Bill, 55: children Earl, 29; Mark-Damon, 24, written as one entry with one age (the twins, b. 1972); Tasha, 21 (b. c.1975, derived); J J, 2 (b. 1994 S24) = John Jacob “Jacob” Proeger, Earl’s half-brother, Bill’s son confirmed by Earl Proeger, 22 Sep 2026
  • Kathie (the list's spelling of Kathy Roberts), 40 (b. c.1956, derived). No children are listed.
Nancy's death, settled 23 September 2026: the sheet calls Nancy deceased by c. 1996, and the record agrees. She died on 9 January 1973 in Wallowa County, Oregon, as Nancy Wortman (Oregon Death Index, certificate 73-01723) S298; the Wallowa County Chieftain reported that she took her own life at Wallowa Lake S343. The 2025 date this page once carried for her was an error. Sheryl on this list matches Sheryl Lynn Parsons, Nancy's daughter and the owner of the Parsons/Prejean Ancestry tree.
Census1930
In 1930 she is living with her paternal grandparents, Frank and Anna Silva, at Washington Judicial Township, Alameda County
the census lists her at age 11 with the relationship "Granddaughter", and gives both her parents' birthplace as California S49. Her father had died in December 1924. She was six.
Record
The NUMIDENT birthplace fragment "Mission San" resolves: Mission San Jose is one of the villages of Washington Township
the Portuguese-Azorean district, now part of Fremont, where the whole Silva family lived S47S50
Earl's own given names are "Robert Earl," and his father's stepfather from the age of five was Earl … Roberts. A striking fit — but it is an inference about naming, not a record. A lead for family interviews, nothing more.

Family

Marriage1940
Married (1) William Harry Proeger, 13 August 1940, Heber City, Wasatch County, Utah Confirmed
Wasatch County marriage record, certificate no. 2915, read from the register image 20 September 2026 S125. He was 25, she was 21; both gave residence as "Rockford, Madison County, Illinois." Married by Alfred Sharp, County Clerk and LDS Elder; witnesses Bert M. Lindsay and Marjorie Duke, neither family. Three children: William Leonard Proeger (b. 1941, Los Angeles) S43, Nancy Aileen Proeger (b. 6 April 1937, Niles, California S275; d. 9 January 1973, Wallowa County, Oregon S298), and Patty Proeger. Nancy predated the marriage; Earl's direct testimony identifies William Harry as her father S24.
Marriage1943
Married (2) Clifford Ray Parliman, 31 May 1943, Los Angeles Confirmed
Los Angeles County marriage record; she is indexed as Aileane S Proeger, using her first married name S51. No children recorded.
Marriage1946
Married (3) Earl Theodore Roberts, 8 February 1946, Los Angeles Confirmed
Los Angeles County marriage record, read 16 September 2026; both parties aged 27; she is indexed under her first married name, Proeger S88. He was a naval officer. One child: Kathy Roberts (living). ⚠ He is no kin to the Anna Blanche Roberts in the generation above — two unrelated Roberts families sit on this tree and share nothing but the surname; do not merge them.
Parents1943
Daughter of Frank T. Silva and Mildred A. Rose. Five records agree, none derived from another: the NUMIDENT parent fields S13; the California Birth Index entry for her own birth, whose mother's-maiden-name field reads Rose S56; the 1943 Parliman marriage record, which assigns Frank Silva the role "Father Of Bride" and Mildard [Mildred] A Rose the role of mother S51; the 1946 Roberts marriage record, which names both again
"Lank" [Frank] Silva and Mildred Ross S88; and her grandfather's November 1946 obituary, which calls her his granddaughter S67
Marriage1943
Roberts was her third husband, not her second
the 1943 Parliman marriage S51 came between Proeger and Roberts. The Los Angeles County marriage record, read 16 September 2026, gives both parties aged 27 and names his parents Leon H Roberts and Bessie H Henderson S88. He was a naval officer — the 1958 photograph aboard USS Wexford County shows the officer's cap. ⚠ He is no kin to the Anna Blanche Roberts in the generation above — she was born a Roberts at Bellaire, Ohio in 1892 S17, he to Leon H Roberts and Bessie H Henderson in Massachusetts about 1918 S88. Two unrelated Roberts families sit on this tree and share nothing but the surname; do not merge them.
Names1946
Recorded variously as Aileane Roberts, Aileane Silva Proeger, Aileen Marie Proeger and Aileane Silva Parliman S13; her grandfather's November 1946 obituary names her as "Aileen Roberts of Philadelphia" S67
the only record so far of where the Roberts household was that year, nine months after the Los Angeles wedding.

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Robert William Coffman

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Maternal grandfather · 1906–1990

Born
6 November 1906, Dudley, Callahan County, Texas
Died
17 February 1990, Harris County, Texas
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Birth1906
Born 6 November 1906, Dudley, Callahan County, Texas S15
Death1990
Died 17 February 1990, Harris County, Texas; buried Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery, Houston, Section 27 Lakeview Gardens S15
Schooling1927
🆕 A student at Abilene Christian College in The 1927 Prickly Pear, “Robert Coffman, Potosi”, with his portrait S384; added 24 September 2026.
Burial
Grave marker: 1st Lt, US Army Air Corps, World War II S15
Census1950
1950 US Census: head of household 184, Pasadena, Harris County, ED 101-78, sheet 16, enumerated 5 April 1950; age 43, born Texas, occupation superintendent, school district S10
a census occupation field records a line of work, not a job title
Work1943
The posts themselves, from the Texas press: teacher at Pasadena and Genoa to March 1943 → ward school principal → Army Air Forces personnel officer, Brooks Field → assistant superintendent, elected August 1945 → still assistant superintendent, July 1951 → business manager, 1955–56 → deputy superintendent, August 1961, one of two candidates for acting superintendent → investments, Pasadena, by 1967 S78. No source found places him in the top job, and the 1961 article is the closest he is recorded as getting S78

Family

Marriage1939
Married Louise Martin Timberman on 8 June 1939, Sumner County, Tennessee; they were married fifty years, to his death S28S26
Parents1972
Named as a surviving son in his mother's 1972 obituary S16
the document that welds this generation to the one above it.
Siblings1905
One of six children. His elder brother was Dr. James Burton Coffman (1905–2006), the Church of Christ Bible commentator, who performed his wedding in 1939 S28S16. The others were David Emily (1909–2005), Jesse Jerome (1912–1992) and Horace Glen (1915–2006), with an infant sister Obera (1902–1904) and sisters Lydia Frances Nesmith and Ila Belle Windham S16S30

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Louise Martin Timberman

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Maternal grandmother · 1917–2008

Born
10 April 1917, East Orange / Orange, Essex County, New Jersey
Died
20 January 2008, Deltona, Volusia County, Florida
Parents
James Harris Timberman Jr. & Nancy Louise Martin
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Birth1917
Born 10 April 1917, East Orange / Orange, Essex County, New Jersey
read off the printed Index of Births in New Jersey, 1915–19, Orange: "Timberman, Louise M. — Apr. 10, 1917 — Vol. 59, p. 95" S25. A printed index, not a transcription, and the date is exact.
Schooling1934
🆕 Already at Ward-Belmont School in 1934–35, in the F. F. Club in the 1935 Milestones S395; added 24 September 2026.
Photograph1935
🆕 She is also in the French Club photograph in the same 1935 Milestones, bottom row, eleventh from left S490. added 25 September 2026.
Death2008
Died 20 January 2008, Deltona, Volusia County, Florida S26S30
Census1919
Raised in Gallatin, Tennessee from the age of two
her father died in January 1919, when she was 21 months old, and by 1930 her mother is enumerated as widowed S26S27
Death
Interment at Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery, Houston, is stated in her obituary Probable
but no FindAGrave memorial exists for her Not found. All sixteen Coffman memorials at that cemetery were checked, under both surnames. Her husband is there; she is not. The grave exists; the memorial has simply never been created S26S15
Why this is certainly the right woman. Her 2008 obituary names her surviving children as "Ginger Clayton, Nancy Proeger, David Coffman and James Coffman" — an exact match for the 1950 census household, plus David, who was born after it. It names her late husband as Robert W. Coffman, married fifty years S26S10.
⚠️ One disagreement, recorded rather than hidden. Zoomed to 5× on three separate passes, the bride's surname in the 1939 Sumner County marriage bond reads "Tuckerman" to this researcher — a ck where FamilySearch's indexers read an mb and transcribed "Timberman" S28. Timberman still stands, because it does not rest on that handwriting at all: the printed New Jersey birth index, the family-supplied obituary, the 1930 census and the 1915 marriage record in a different clerk's hand all read Timberman S25S26S27S29. Four sources, three of them not handwriting-dependent, against one 1939 clerk's cursive.
⚠️ A second conflict, also unresolved: the 1930 census gives her birthplace as Tennessee, not New Jersey, as it does for everyone in that household S27. Her mother had been back in Gallatin for a decade by then and the enumerator most likely wrote the family's state. The 1950 census, the New Jersey birth index and the obituary all say New Jersey — three to one.

Family

Parents2026
Maiden name: TIMBERMAN. Full maiden name Louise Martin Timberman. This was the last blank on the maternal side and it closed on 13 September 2026 S25S26S28
Marriage1939
Married Robert William Coffman on 8 June 1939, Sumner County, Tennessee
bond dated the 6th, solemnised on the 8th by the groom's own older brother, James Burton Coffman, M.G. S28
Parents1886
Parents: James Harris Timberman Jr. (1886–1919) and Nancy Louise Martin (1878–1967), married at Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee on 17 June 1915 S29S27
Children
M.A. Library Science, Peabody College; librarian at Milby High School, Houston, then North Shore Junior High; member, Daughters of the American Revolution S26

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William Harry Proeger

PennsylvaniaConfirmed

Paternal grandfather · 1911–1982

Born
26 June 1911, Pennsylvania
Died
7 July 1982, Marin County, California
Married
Dorothy Susan Reid
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7
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Birth1911
Born 26 June 1911, Pennsylvania
Social Security NUMIDENT, California-issued SSN S13. The day, the month and Pa. are corroborated in his own presence on the 1932 Ohio licence application S144. ⚠️ The year digit on that line is smeared and is not legible — the abt 1911 in Ancestry's index is derived from the age column, not read off the page.
Death1982
Died 7 July 1982, Marin County, California S13S12
Residence1932
Living at 4823 Summit Street, Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio in February–March 1932, occupation machinist S144
the first paper behind the family's memory of Ohio. Earl's own account has his grandfather travelling back to California from Ohio around the 1940 Utah wedding; until this pull, Ohio had nothing but the telling behind it.
Record1946
Listed in the 1946 Los Angeles County voter index at 1839½ Lake Shore Avenue, party “Declines to State” Probable confirm or correct → S351
Military1940
Registered for the draft 16 October 1940 at North Hollywood, Los Angeles County S12
which places him in the county in exactly the window a child born there in early 1941 would have been carried and delivered.
Photograph1937
🆕 Photograph, 10 February 1937 Confirmed (family testimony): he and Aileane Da Silva on the grass with a cat, three and a half years before their 1940 marriage. Their daughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins named them on 1 October 2026: “My father William Harry Proeger and my Mother Aileane Da Silva”. In Photos below.

Family

Parents1876
Son of William Leonard Proeger (1876–1955) and Anna Blanche Roberts S12S14
and now in a document he swore to himself: the 1932 Ohio licence application gives his father as Wm. L. Proeger and his mother's maiden name as Anna B. Roberts S144.
Parents1955
🆕 Named as a son, “William H.”, in his father's 1955 death notice S1176.
Marriage1932
Married (1) Dorothy Susan Reid, 4 March 1932, Lucas County, Ohio
the county ledger, licence no. 97864, read at full resolution S144S12. Both are recorded not previously married, so this was his first and Aileane was his second. She was Dorothy Susan Reid, born in Indiana, daughter of Charles Reid and Bessie Craighead; she had turned 18 two days before the wedding S366 and her mother signed the consent line a week earlier. He gave his occupation as machinist and his address as 4823 Summit Street, Toledo — the same address the bride gave.
Marriage1940
Married (2) Aileane Marie Silva, 13 August 1940, Heber City, Wasatch County, Utah S12

Open questions

Open question
⚠️ What became of Dorothy Susan Reid is not known. Between 4 March 1932 and the August 1940 Utah wedding there was a divorce or a death, and no record here says which. Nothing has been looked for yet S144.

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The Coffman household, Pasadena, 5 April 1950

Confirmed

1950 US Census · Harris County, ED 101-78, sheet 16, household 184

  • Robert W. Coffman, head, 43, born Texas — superintendent, school district
  • Louise T. Coffman, wife, 33, born New Jersey — the "T." is Timberman, established 13 September 2026 S25
More · 4 further facts
  • Virginia L., daughter — the "Ginger" of the family obituary, Nancy's older sister. Living; details withheld S1
  • Nancy M., daughter, age 7 — Earl's mother
  • James R., son — Nancy's younger brother. Living; details withheld
  • David — born after the census and therefore absent from it. Living, in Florida; details withheld. Not found in records
The obituary's sibling list — older sister Ginger, younger brothers James and David — matches the census household exactly. That cross-check is what makes this whole line safe S1S10. The same four children are named again in Louise's own 2008 obituary, fifty-eight years later, which is how her identity was pinned beyond argument S26.

Three generations of the name Martin

Confirmed

A naming puzzle this page listed as unanswered — now closed

  • Nancy Louise MARTIN (b. 1878, Gallatin, Tennessee) — the maiden surname, and the given name, of the whole chain S29
  • her daughter Louise MARTIN Timberman (1917–2008) — her mother's maiden name carried as a middle name S26S28
More · 1 further fact
  • her daughter Nancy MARTIN Coffman (1943–2025) — Earl's mother, carrying her grandmother's given name and that same maiden surname S1
What proved it was one census line. The 1930 census for Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee puts four people in one household: Timberman, Nancy, 52, widowed, head, high-school teacher; Timberman, Louise M., 13, daughter; Martin, Emma, 59, sister, public-school teacher; and a boarder, Chenault, Ermin, 28, a saleslady S27. A widow's unmarried sister living under her roof, still using the family surname, proves the widow's maiden name from a record rather than from a tree — and the Chenault boarder independently corroborates the generation above.
The earlier version of this page had it backwards. It reasoned that if Louise's maiden name turned out to be Timberman, then "Martin" could not be her mother's maiden name, and where Martin came from became a new open question. Both halves were right except the conclusion: Martin is the mother's maiden name — one generation further back than anyone was looking. The surname's origin is Confirmed; the intent behind the naming is inference, and is not claimed here.

Generation 3 — relatives in this generation

Clifford Ray Parliman

Confirmed

Grandmother's 2nd husband · dates unknown

Married
Aileane Marie Silva
Sources
1
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Note
Dates unknown

Family

Marriage1943
Married Aileane Marie Silva on 31 May 1943, Los Angeles
her second of three marriages S51
Children
No children recorded S51

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James Burton Coffman, formal portrait, late life
Photograph, c. 1980s–1990s

James Burton Coffman

TexasConfirmed

Maternal great-uncle · 1905–2006 · "Dr." by three honorary doctorates

Born
24 May 1905, Taylor County, Texas
Died
30 June 2006, Houston, Harris County, Texas
Parents
James David "Jim" Coffman & Lydia Mae Bowles
Married
Thelma "Sissy" Bradford
Children
Hayden Ralph Nesmith
Sources
21
Images
24
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Birth1905
Born 24 May 1905, Taylor County, Texas S109S110S111
the family tree says Potosi Probable confirm or correct →; the obituaries say only the county
Death2006
Died 30 June 2006, Houston, Harris County, Texas, aged 101; buried beside his first wife in Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery, Houston, section Lakeview Gardens 27
Find a Grave memorial 14852608 S109S110
Schooling1920
🆕 A sophomore at Abilene High School in 1920–21, on The Sophomore Class roll of The Flashlight as “Coffman, Burton” S383; added 24 September 2026.
Census1910
1910 census: "James B", aged 4, in his father's household, Justice Precinct 3, Taylor County, with "Robt W", 3 S118. 1930: "Burton Coffman", 24, a roomer at Abilene with three of his brothers S119. 1940: head of household, Houston, occupation "Minister, Church", wife Thelma S120. 1950: Houston, "Pastor, Church" S121
Birth1923
Baptised in 1923 during the Abilene Christian College lectureship; Abilene High School; B.A., Abilene Christian College, 1927, history and music S111S112S113
Schooling
Rural school principal in Callahan County for two years, then history and English teacher at Abilene High School S111S112
Work1930
Ministry, 1930 onward: associate minister and song leader, Wichita Falls, 1930 → Lawton, Oklahoma → Sherman, Texas → Central Church of Christ, Houston, 1938–1951 (raised the money for its building at 4100 Montrose Boulevard) → Sixteenth Street Church, Washington, D.C., with ninety days as a guest chaplain to the armed forces in Japan and Korea → one year as vice-president of Harding College, Searcy, Arkansas → Manhattan Church of Christ, 1954–1971 → retired to Houston, 1971 S110S111S112S115
Schooling
The "Dr." is three honorary doctorates
Abilene Christian, Pepperdine University and Magic Valley Christian College (Albion, Idaho). No earned doctorate; the years are not established S110S111S112
Death1971
ACU Outstanding Alumnus (ACU says 1971, the obituary 1972); ACU Christian Service Award, 1987, with Thelma; the Burton Coffman Chair of Biblical Research at ACU is named for him S111S110
Work1992
The Commentaries: a verse-by-verse commentary on every book of the Bible, 37 volumes, written from his retirement into 1992, published by Abilene Christian University Press and hosted online by StudyLight.org. His unpublished memoirs (five parts, 1990) are ACU Center for Restoration Studies MS #44 S111S112S113S114
Death
Survived by three daughters
Cynthia Shry, Mary Glenn Kochendefer and Nancy Willis — eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren S111

Why he matters to this record

Three documents tie him to Earl's line, and none of them is a family story. The 1939 marriage return from Gallatin names the officiant as "James Burton Coffman, M.G." — the man who married Earl's grandparents was the groom's brother S28. The 1972 obituaries of both parents list "James" and "Robert" side by side among the sons S16. And the Dee Coffman family photograph, circa 1924, has both brothers standing in the back row, named by their niece Ginger Probable S108. The 1910 census page adds the earliest witness of all: two small boys, 4 and 3, in the same house S118.

James Burton Coffman was born on 24 May 1905 in Taylor County, Texas, the second child and eldest surviving son of James David Coffman and Lydia Mae Bowles, "so far out in the country," he liked to say, "it took two days to go to town and back." He was baptised in 1923 during the Abilene Christian College lectureship, finished Abilene High School, and took his B.A. in history and music from Abilene Christian College in 1927. After two years as a rural school principal in Callahan County and a spell teaching history and English at Abilene High School, the Wichita Falls church offered him a post in 1930 as associate minister and song leader, and preaching became his life S111S112.

He served congregations in Wichita Falls, Lawton and Sherman before moving to Houston in 1938, where as minister of the Central Church of Christ until 1951 he raised the money for its building at 4100 Montrose Boulevard. From Houston he went to the Sixteenth Street Church in Washington, D.C., spent ninety days as a guest chaplain to the armed forces in Japan and Korea, and served a year as vice-president of Harding College before turning down tenure for the pulpit S110S111. In 1954 he became minister of the Manhattan Church of Christ in New York City. Within a year he had appointed elders and launched a building fund he preached for across the country; on 30 June 1968 the new building at East 80th Street and Madison Avenue was dedicated. "A hundred years is long enough," he said of the converted residences and lodge halls the city's Churches of Christ had worshipped in. He retired in 1971 and went home to Houston S115S111.

Retirement produced the work by which he is known: beginning at sixty-five he wrote a verse-by-verse commentary on every book of the Bible, thirty-seven volumes from Abilene Christian University Press, finished when he was eighty-seven. Abilene Christian named him Outstanding Alumnus, endowed the Burton Coffman Chair of Biblical Research, and gave him an honorary doctorate, as did Pepperdine and Magic Valley Christian College. Thelma died in 1995; he later married June Bristow. Two days before his hundredth birthday he preached, standing, at the West University church in Houston. James Burton Coffman died on 30 June 2006, aged 101, and is buried beside Thelma at Forest Park Lawndale S110S111S114S109.

Family

Children1914
🆕 His daughter Lydia Frances married Hayden Ralph Nesmith, born 15 April 1914 in Taylor County S488. He was a Santa Fe Railway agent, an author and poet, and a Second World War veteran, and died at Lubbock on 18 October 1980; he is buried in Resthaven Memorial Park S487. added 25 September 2026.
Siblings1929
🆕 His brother David followed him to Abilene Christian College: “David Coffman, Abilene” is among the sophomores in the 1929 Prickly Pear Confirmed S1143 and on that year’s roster of the A.C.C. Glee Club, under Miss Myrtle Dunn S1144. The yearbook gives no middle name.
Parents1881
Son of James David "Jim" Coffman (1881–1972) and Lydia Mae Bowles (1883–1972); grandson of David Emily "Dee" Coffman. Named first among the surviving sons in his mother's 1972 obituary, and linked to both parents on his memorial S16S109
Siblings1902
Elder brother of Robert William Coffman, Earl's grandfather. The other siblings: Obera (1902–1904), David Emily (1909–2005), Jesse Jerome (1912–1992), Horace Glen (1915–2006), Lydia Frances Nesmith (1916–1993) and Ila Belle Windham (1922–2011) S16S109
Marriage1906
Married Thelma "Sissy" Bradford of Arlington (31 December 1906 – 30 November 1995), in 1931 Probable
the year is inferred from "wife of 64 plus years"; her dates are on the shared headstone S110S111S116
Marriage1922
Married secondly June Annette Easley Bristow (1922–2010), widow of John Wiley Bristow, after 1995; she survived him. The date of that marriage is not established S110S111S117
Marriage1939
Solemnised his brother Robert's wedding to Louise Martin Timberman at Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee, on 8 June 1939, signing the return "James Burton Coffman, M.G." S28

Open questions

Not found
Manhattan, stated exactly. He did not found the congregation: it began in 1920 and had met since 1941 in a brownstone at 48 East 80th Street. He became its minister in 1954, appointed elders in May 1955 (it had had none since 1935), launched the building fund the same year, saw the mortgage burned in October 1960, and the new building at East 80th and Madison
the first purpose-built Church of Christ in New York County — was first used 19 May 1968 and dedicated 30 June 1968 S115S111

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Dorothy Susan Reid

Confirmed

Paternal grandfather's first wife · m. 1932

Born
in Indiana
Parents
Charles Reid & Bessie Craighead
Married
William Harry Proeger
Sources
5
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Not an ancestor of Earl's: she is the first wife of his grandfather William Harry Proeger. Earl descends from his second marriage, to Aileane Marie Silva.

Life

Birth
Born in Indiana, daughter of Charles Reid and Bessie Craighead; she had turned 18 two days before the wedding S366, and her mother signed the consent line a week earlier S144.
Census1933
🆕 Still married in 1933: the Toledo directory lists “Proeger Wm H (Dorothy S)”, William an apprentice at Toledo Mould Co. S367.
Census1930
🆕 In April 1930 she was 16 and in school, living on Summit Street, Washington Township, Lucas County, with her parents Charles L. Reid, a machinist, and Bessie Confirmed S1038. added 29 September 2026
Census1932
🆕 On 20 December 1932, nine months after the wedding, Dorothy Proeger, 18, tried to cross at Windsor to visit her husband William Proeger at 635 Duke St., Wallaceburg, Ontario, and was turned back Confirmed S1037. added 29 September 2026

Family

Marriage1932
Married William Harry Proeger on 4 March 1932, Lucas County, Ohio
the county ledger, licence and certificate no. 97864 S144. Both recorded not previously married.
Marriage
Gave her address as 4823 Summit Street, Toledo, the same address as the groom S144.
Parents1914
🆕 She was born Dorothy Susan Boost at Indianapolis on 2 March 1914, daughter of Andy Boost, a wagon cleaner of Logansport, and Bessie Craighead of Peru, Indiana S366; added 24 September 2026. How she came to be a Reid is not yet known.

Open questions

Open question
⚠️ Nothing else is known of her. Between the 1932 marriage and William's August 1940 Utah wedding there was a divorce or a death, and no record read so far says which S144.

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Richard Frederick Proeger

Confirmed

Son of William Leonard Proeger (1876–1955) · born 1913

Born
19 July 1913
Parents
William Leonard Proeger & Anna Blanche Roberts
Married
Ovalline Mabel Dubuque
Sources
9

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1913
Born 19 July 1913 at 327 Fifth Street, Beaver, Pennsylvania
his birth certificate no. 105903 S193
Note1920
With the family in Cincinnati in 1920 and crossing into Canada at Windsor S269S239
Census1940
In 1940 Richard, 26, was a mould maker at a glass works in Castro Valley, California, his father's trade, with his wife Mable O. and their son Richard F., 3 S353. By 1950 he was a tool and die maker at an electrical-plug factory in Los Angeles S354. He is the uncle of Earl's father William Leonard Proeger (b. 1941), not his son: an earlier version of the site wrongly put these two censuses on that card (corrected 29 September 2026).
Census1921
🆕 Ovalline Mabel's mother was probably Helen (Hélène) Dubuque, née Labutte Probable confirm or correct →: the 1921 census of Canada for Wallaceburg, Kent County, Ontario, read from the image, lists Mabel, 8, daughter, born Ontario, in the household of the widowed Helen Dubuque, 43, with Harvy, Gertrude, Herbie and William S883. An Ontario marriage register, read from the index, records Helene Labutte's marriage to Jules Dubuc and names her parents as Francois Labutte and Agnes Lanzon S884. What is weak: the census gives only “Mabel”, and the parents on her 1913 birth registration have not been read, so nothing yet ties this Mabel to Ovalline by document; no record read names her father. Accepted by Earl on 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. added 28 September 2026.
Census1937
🆕 The 1937 Oakland directory lists him as R. F. Proger, glass moulder, with his wife Mable, at 1364 82nd Avenue Confirmed S1166. The surname is misspelled.

Family

Parents
Son of William Leonard Proeger and Anna Blanche Roberts; brother of William Harry Proeger
Marriage1913
Married Ovalline Mabel Dubuque (born 24 April 1913, Kent County, Ontario; died 1 October 1956, Los Angeles); father of Richard F. Proeger Jr., born 1936 S11

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Julius Karl Proeger (1917–1972)

Confirmed

Son of William Leonard Proeger (1876–1955) · 1917–1972

Born
1 October 1917
Died
20 October 1972
Parents
William Leonard Proeger & Anna Blanche Roberts
Married
Ann Elizabeth "Betty" Meyers
Sources
2

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1917
Born 1 October 1917, Tarentum, Pennsylvania; died 20 October 1972, Los Angeles
California Death Index (a memorial giving 1974 is not followed)
Military2026
🆕 His World War II draft card gives his home as 436 S. 5th St., Jeannette, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, his employer as the American Glass Co., Greensburg, and his wife as Mrs. Betty Ann Proeger Confirmed S970. The card gives his birthplace as “Campton, Pa.”, which is not a place that can be identified; the site keeps Tarentum. Know which place he meant? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

Family

Parents1936
Son of William Leonard Proeger and Anna Blanche Roberts; his 1936 Indiana marriage record names both parents
Marriage1918
Married Ann Elizabeth “Betty” Meyers (11 November 1918 Bellaire, Ohio – 24 June 2001), 23 August 1936, Indiana
Parents1927
On 2 June 1927 he crossed into Canada at Windsor, Ontario, aged 9, as “Julius Carl”, with his father William L., his mother Anna B., his brothers William L. [Harry], 15, and Richard F., 13, and his sister Queen Ann, 7; the family’s last residence was Lake Worth, Florida, and his father was bound for the Dominion Glass Co. at Wallaceburg Confirmed S239

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Queen Anne “Nancy” Proeger

Confirmed

Daughter of William Leonard Proeger · 1919–1985

Born
30 October 1919
Died
21 January 1985
Parents
William Leonard Proeger & Anna Blanche Roberts
Married
Warren Edgar Debelling
Sources
7

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1919
Born 30 October 1919, Ohio; died 21 January 1985, San Bernardino County, California
California Death Index. With the family in Wallaceburg, Ontario in 1931 S192

Family

Parents1937
Daughter of William Leonard Proeger and Anna Blanche Roberts; her 1937 Indiana marriage record names both parents S12
Marriage1918
Married first Warren Edgar Debelling (1918–1976), 16 October 1937, Valparaiso, Indiana; second Charles Edward Helgedalen (1926–1991)
Marriage1939
🆕 Her second husband's father was probably Hans S. Helgedalen Probable confirm or correct →: Clay County, Minnesota, school census entries of 1939–43 at Ulen, read from the FamilySearch index, name Hans Helgedalen as the parent of Charles Helgedalen, born 5 March 1926 S877. The 1930 census of Goose Prairie Township, Clay County, read from the image, lists Hans S. Helgedalen, 50, a farmer born in Minnesota to a Norwegian-born father S875, and the next sheet lists Charles E., 4, as his son, with Hans's wife Beulah S876. What is weak: the school census has been read only as an index; Hans's middle name, given in family trees as Silas, and his birth and death dates are on no document read. Accepted by Earl on 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. added 28 September 2026.
Marriage1918
🆕 Her first husband, Warren E. Debelling (born 1918), had married Ollie A. Arthur by 1963. The California divorce index records a preliminary decree in their divorce in March 1968 Confirmed S1118.

Open questions

Probable
🆕 Probably her in Oakland, California, about 1943: “DeBelling Warren E (Nancy) mach h9234 Sunnyside”, Warren a machinist, living at 9234 Sunnyside Probable confirm or correct → S1000. Evidence: her husband's name and the name Nancy she went by. Weak: the year is from the index, not the page. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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Sepia photograph of Earl Theodore Roberts, head and shoulders, in a Navy khaki shirt and a Navy officer's peaked cap with its eagle badge, standing on the deck of USS Wexford County beside a ladder and a steel bulkhead, 1958
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Earl Theodore Roberts

Confirmed

Step-grandfather · 1918–2007

Born
7 May 1918, Windsor, Massachusetts
Died
26 February 2007
Parents
Leon Henry Roberts
Married
Aileane Marie Silva
Children
Kathy Roberts
Sources
20
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8
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Earl Theodore Roberts aboard USS Wexford County (LST-1168), Pearl Harbor, 1958, from the hand-written label on the original print. Family photograph supplied by Earl Proeger.

Life

Birth1918
Born 7 May 1918, Windsor, Massachusetts S88 S299
Death2007
Died 26 February 2007 S88
Military1938
Military service — U.S. Navy, 1938 to after 1960.
  • Pay-entry base date 17 August 1938, which dates his first enlistment S266. The 1940 census, taken 15 June 1940 at his parents' farm in Hancock, Massachusetts, gives Earl, 22, as U.S. Navy; his brother Almon was in the U.S. Army S274
  • Enlisted 17 August 1938 at Springfield, Massachusetts, service number 212 50 12 S301
  • Second World War, Pacific. He was a plankowner of the destroyer USS Anderson (DD-411), joining her when she was commissioned in May 1939 and serving in her until August 1942 as ship's cook first class. That took him through the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway S302 Confirmed. Earl Proeger's account is that he fought in the Pacific S300
  • August 1942: sent to the Commissary Steward School, San Diego; re-enlisted 19 September 1942. On USS LST-455 from 27 February 1943 S303, and chief commissary steward on her by June 1944 S312
  • The galley story. In his obituary's words, when enemy dive bombers wrecked his destroyer's galley he fed the crew with the blacksmith's forge and a welder's torch S299. USS Anderson's recorded history for his time aboard shows no such attack, so the ship and the battle of this story are unidentified
  • 1950: Armed Forces, living at 219C Brush St, Alameda, beside the Naval Air Station S215
  • Guam, after the war. A family scrapbook page is captioned “May 1956 Guam Earl & Kathie”. Earl Proeger says he was stationed there as an officer and that Bill went through high school on Guam in those years S300. His stepdaughters Nancy and Patty Proeger were at George Washington High School, Guam, in 1954–55 S311, and his stepson Bill was a freshman there, enrolled as “B. Roberts” S313
  • Chief Warrant Officer W-4 from 1 February 1958 (Navy Register 1960, p. 664) S266. In 1958 he served aboard USS Wexford County (LST-1168) at Pearl Harbor, according to the handwritten caption on a family photograph
  • Served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. Retired as CWO-4 to National City, California, and is honoured by a plaque at the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial, La Jolla S299
  • Not yet found: his ships between mid-1944 and 1958, the Guam unit and its dates, and his retirement date
Residence
One child: Kathy Roberts (living) S24
Census1930
In 1930, aged 11, at Hancock, Massachusetts, with his parents Leon H. and Bessie H. Roberts S214. In 1950 he was in the Armed Forces, at 219C Brush St, Alameda, with Aileane and her three children S215

Family

Marriage1946
Third husband of Aileane Marie Silva, married 8 February 1946, Los Angeles S88
Parents
Stepfather to William Leonard Proeger, not biological father S24
Parents1882
His father, Leon Henry Roberts, was born 14 July 1882 at Lowell, Vermont, and was living at Ryegate in 1900 with his parents Henry and Delina and his brothers Theodore, Homer and Elmer S340. He was farming at Windsor, Mass. in 1918 S337 and on Main Road, Hancock, in 1942 S338, and he died at Hancock on 4 May 1961 S339. Leon's first wife, Grace May Avery, drowned on 5 July 1908, a year after their wedding S341. Earl's sister Bernice Louise Roberts married Charles Jay McDonald at Williamstown on 30 August 1940 S342

Open questions

Open question
⚠ No relation to Anna Blanche Roberts
different Roberts family S88

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Generation 4 — Earl's great-grandparents

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Frank Silva Jr, his mother Anna L. Silva and his father Frank Silva Sr — studio portrait, c. 1908–1912 (Patricia Collins's print)
Photograph, c. 1908-1912

Frank T. Silva

CaliforniaConfirmed

Aileane's father · 1897–1924 · on his marker, "Frank Silva, Jr"

Born
2 December 1897
Died
3 December 1924, Alameda County
Buried
St. Joseph's Cemetery, Fremont / Centerville
Parents
Frank Silva Sr & Anna Silva
Sources
10
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Birth1897
🔑 Born 2 December 1897 — the date is in his own hand. His World War I draft registration card, read off the image at full resolution, writes "4. Date of birth: Dec. 2, 1897" on a form he signed beneath the printed affirmation "I affirm that I have verified above answers and that they are true" S148
Arrival1930
🔑 Box 10, "Native Born", is ticked
boxes 11 (Naturalized) and 12 (citizen by his father's naturalization) are empty, as are both alien boxes. He was a citizen by birth, independently of and consistently with the Na recorded against his parents in 1930 S148S147
Census1920
🔑 The 1920 census tests that self-reported date against an enumerator, and it holds. On the sheet of 17 January 1920, taken against a reference date of 1 January 1920, he is 22
and 2 December 1897 makes him exactly 22 on that day. A birth in December 1898 would have made him 21. The date he wrote in his own hand survives an independent test S150S148
Census1900
🔑 And the 1900 sheet's own age column agrees with him against its own year cell. That page writes "Dec 1898" in the month-and-year columns but age 2 at the 15 June 1900 enumeration. December 1898 would have made him 1; December 1897 makes him 2. Where the two cells of that sheet disagree, the age column is the one that matches the draft card, and the year cell is the erroneous one S141S148
Census1920
🔑 In January 1920 he and Mildred are living in his parents' house. He is entered as Son, a Laborer in general work, born California; Mildred, 21, is entered as Daughter-in-law. It is the only document that places the young couple under Frank Sr's roof, and it is the sheet behind the "Mildresk" index entry carried on her card
now read rather than indexed S150
Work1918
🆕 Laborer for Ritchie Bros Co., Mission San Jose
the first occupation and employer on any document for him; medium height, medium build, gray eyes, brown hair, no disqualifying injury. Registered 12 September 1918 at the Local Board for Division No. 2, Alameda County, Hayward, serial 939, order A 2696 S148
Record2026
🆕 Ran — owned, per family — Coste's saloon, a speakeasy at Mission San José during Prohibition. His granddaughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins named him in a newspaper clipping of the saloon's line-up, third from left: "My Grandfather Frank Da Silva Jr. He was the owner of this speakeasy in Mission San Jose Ca." (via Earl Proeger, 1 October 2026). Prohibition began in January 1920 and he died in December 1924, so the photograph is most likely c. 1920–1924. ⚠️ This is family testimony, not a record — no licence, directory, court or newspaper entry has yet been found; the clipping and the full reasoning are under Photos and Documents below.
Death1924
Died 3 December 1924, Alameda County
one day after his 27th birthday — California Death Index, middle initial T intact S53. No other Frank Silva dying in the county in 1924–25 carries both that initial and that date.
Burial
Buried St. Joseph's Cemetery, Fremont / Centerville, in what is almost certainly the family plot S54

Family

Marriage1918
🆕 The first document in which he himself names Mildred. Nearest relative: "Wife Mildred Silva", at his own address, Mission San Jose
which dates the marriage to before 12 September 1918, consistent with Aileane's 1918 birth S148
Parents1920
Son of Frank Silva Sr and Anna Silva
the 1920 census gives his relationship to head of household as "Son", age 22, married, living in his parents' house with his wife S48
Parents2026
🆕 Two studio portraits Confirmed (family testimony), both identified on 1 October 2026 by his granddaughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins: one of about 1908–1912 with his parents
“Frank Da Silva Jr. My mother’s Dad, his Mother and Father Frank Da Silva Senior” — and one of two couples, about 1915–1920, with his wife Mildred, her sister Helen (Rose) and Helen’s husband Victor Johnson (confirmed by Patti). ⚠️ Helen married Victor only after 1942, and Frank Jr died in 1924, so the man beside Helen may be her first husband William Farrell; not settled. Both are in Photos below.

Open questions

Open question
⚠️ That date is self-reported on a form he signed, not a birth register. It is evidence of a different kind from a baptism or a civil birth entry, and it is not treated here as though it were one S148
Open question
⚠️ The card's own arithmetic agrees with it, which is why it is trusted as far as it goes. Age 20 at 12 September 1918 brackets the birth to 13 September 1897 × 12 September 1898, and 2 December 1897 falls inside that window S148
Open question
⚠️ The card gives no birthplace. The revised Form No. 1 records citizenship status but not the town or state, so Native Born fixes the country and nothing finer
California comes from the 1920 and 1930 censuses, not from this card S48S49
Open question
⚠️ Three documents now point at December 1897 and none of them is a birth register. A self-affirmed draft card, an age column in 1900 and an age column in 1920 are consistent with one another; they are not the same thing as a civil birth entry or a baptism, and no California birth record for him has been found S148S150
Open question
⚠️ Their daughter Aileane, born August 1918, is not on that sheet, though she should be about sixteen months old. The record does not explain it and nothing is invented to fill the gap S150
Open question
⚠️ Frank Sr appears nowhere on the draft card. The father/son link is not evidenced by it and continues to rest on the 1910 and 1920 census sheets S146S48
Open question
⚠️ The middle name "Thomas" is not confirmed and is not promoted. Every record retrieved gives "Frank T." or plain "Frank"
the initial is documented, the name behind it is Probable, from a user tree S12. This page called him "Frank Thomas Silva" until 14 September 2026; that was going further than the evidence.

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Mildred Rose Silva, smiling, with curled dark hair and a dark cardigan over a light blouse; detail from a three-generation family photograph
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Mildred A. Rose

CaliforniaConfirmed

Aileane's mother · 1898–1960

Born
26 July 1898, California
Died
7 October 1960, Alameda County, California
Married
Frank T. Silva (Frank Silva Jr)
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5
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Mildred Rose Silva — detail from the three-generation photograph (FamilySearch Memory 9943586) S323.

Life

Birth1898
Born 26 July 1898, California
the day is from the California Death Index S316; enumerated as a two-year-old daughter in her own father's household in the 1900 census, Washington Township, Alameda County, where she and her twin brother Edward are bracketed "Twins" S55. That is what lifts her from a name in a parent field to a documented person with parents of her own.
Census1920
In 1920 she is in her husband's parents' house, indexed by OCR as "Mildresk" Silva, born 1899 California S48
Photograph
A photograph of Mildred and William Springer by a picket fence, late 1930s or 1940s, from Patricia Collins’s collection, is in Photos below with its AI-assisted enhanced version.
Death1960
Died 7 October 1960, Alameda County, California, as Mildred A Springer Confirmed (index; certificate not seen)
California Death Index 1940–1997: born 26 July 1898, California, mother's maiden name Mendonca S316. The birth date matches the 1900 twins entry and the maiden name matches her mother's, so this is her. The 1960 date is restored. It was withdrawn on 14 September because searches under Silva and Rose found nothing; she had remarried and died as Springer.
Photograph1915
🆕 A studio portrait of two couples, about 1915–1920 Confirmed (family testimony): Mildred and her first husband Frank Da Silva Jr, with her sister Helen (Rose) and Helen’s husband Victor Johnson, as her granddaughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins named them on 1 October 2026 (Helen is Mrs. Victor Johnson in Mildred’s 1960 death notice; Patti confirmed the name). ⚠️ Helen married Victor only after her first husband William Farrell was killed on 10 June 1946 (she was still Mrs. O’Farrell in 1942), and Frank Jr died in 1924, so the man beside Helen in this photograph may be Farrell; not settled. In Photos below.

Family

Children1918
Her daughter's 1918 birth index entry carries Rose in the mother's-maiden-name field
independent corroboration from a vital-records index S56
Marriage1918
Married Frank T. Silva (Frank Silva Jr) before September 1918, when he named "Wife Mildred Silva" on his draft card; in January 1920 the couple were in his father's household S48. Later surname Springer S316.
Children
A three-generation photograph shows her with her daughter Aileane and granddaughter Nancy S323; it is in Photos below and her portrait above is cut from it.

Open questions

Not found
Second marriage, to William Springer, after Frank Silva Jr died in 1924; date and place not yet found. Her granddaughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins named him on 1 October 2026 Confirmed (family testimony): “My Grandmother. Moms Mother. And her second husband William Springer.” She died as Mildred A Springer S316. The 1950 census finds Mildred Springer, 51, born California, with her husband William Springer, 50, born California, an auto parts salesman, in Oakland, Alameda County Probable (name, age, birthplace and husband match; nothing else on the entry ties it to her)
United States Census 1950, ED 67-450B, p. 76, line 7. The marriage record itself is not yet found.

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James David "Jim" Coffman

TexasConfirmed

1881–1972

Born
3 September 1881, Buffalo Gap, Taylor County, Texas
Died
22 December 1972, Callahan County, Texas
Buried
at Dudley Cemetery, 23 December 1972
Parents
Mary Jane "Mollie" Wright
Married
Lydia Mae Bowles
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5
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Birth1881
Born 3 September 1881, Buffalo Gap, Taylor County, Texas S18
Death1972
Died 22 December 1972, Callahan County, Texas, aged 91; buried Dudley Cemetery S18
Death2026
🆕 His death certificate has been read, 21 September 2026. Texas certificate no. 95942, Taylor County: he died 22 December 1972 at the West Texas Medical Center, Abilene, of arteriosclerotic heart disease, his usual residence a farm on Rt. 2 outside Abilene; occupation stock farmer, cattle; buried at Dudley Cemetery, 23 December 1972. Father David E. Coffman; mother Molly Jane Wright. The informant was his own son, Jesse J. Coffman S134
Military1918
🆕 Registered for the draft on 12 September 1918 at Potosi, “Stk. farming”, born 3 September 1881, with his wife Lydia as nearest relative S379; added 24 September 2026.

Family

Marriage1901
Married Lydia Mae Bowles, 1 August 1901, Potosi, Texas S16
Parents2026
🆕 His mother: Mary Jane “Mollie” Wright, named as Molly Jane Wright on his death certificate S134. FamilySearch indexes of his death and of the deaths of his brothers Dee Carl and Joseph Franklin, and his brother Jesse Lee's Social Security record, all give the parents as D. E. Coffman and Mary Jane Wright S831. added 28 September 2026.

Open questions

Open question
⚠️ The certificate gives his birthplace as Dallas, Texas, where this page carries Buffalo Gap, Taylor County S18. His mother's family were Dallas people and she married there in 1878, so Dallas is not implausible
but a certificate written ninety-one years after the fact, from a son's memory, is weak evidence of a birthplace. Recorded, not resolved S134

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Lydia Mae Bowles

ArkansasConfirmed

1883–1972

Born
30 July 1883, Franklin County, Arkansas
Died
29 October 1972, Abilene, Taylor County, Texas
Children
Willie Hollis Windham
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9
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Birth1883
Born 30 July 1883, Franklin County, Arkansas S16
Death1972
Died 29 October 1972, Abilene, Taylor County, Texas, aged 89; buried Dudley Cemetery S16
Military1920
🆕 Her sons-in-law: Willie Hollis Windham, husband of Ila Belle, born 3 March 1920 at Dudley, a veteran living at 408 Peach St., Abilene S541; and Hayden R. Nesmith, husband of Lydia Frances, a telegraph operator in Lubbock in 1955, where she taught at the Senior High School S553. added 25 September 2026.
Census1940
🆕 In 1940 Hayden Nesmith, who later married her daughter Lydia Frances, was 26, single and farming with his parents, I. Shirel Nesmith and Maud, and his brothers Carlton and C. W., in Precinct 1 of Taylor County S565. added 25 September 2026.
Census1920
🆕 Willie Hollis Windham's father was probably Tom J. Windham Probable confirm or correct →: the 1920 census of Justice Precinct 4, Callahan County, Texas, read from the image, lists Willie H., son, under a year old, in the household of Tom J. Windham, 36, a farmer born in Texas, and his wife Mary C., 32, born Mississippi, with Myrtle O., Dorace O., Era C., Ada L. and Cecil C. S878. Dorace is the sister he named on his 1946 draft card S541, and his Social Security record, read from the FamilySearch index, names his parents as Tom Windham and Callie Crenshaw S879. What is weak: the Social Security record has not been read on the image, and Tom's middle name, given in family trees as Jefferson, and his birth day and death date are on no document read. Accepted by Earl on 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. added 28 September 2026.
Death
Her transcribed obituary names surviving sons James, Robert, David, Jesse and Horace Coffman, and daughters Lydia Frances Nesmith and Ila Belle Windham; services at Elliott's Chapel of Memories, officiated by Bill Proctor, minister of the Dudley Church of Christ S16
The named son "Robert Coffman" is Earl's grandfather. This obituary is the document that welds Generation 3 to Generation 4 on the maternal side — and the same list is what exposed the brother-in-law error. James and Robert are consecutive entries on it.

Family

Siblings1920
🆕 Hayden Nesmith's boyhood: in 1920, in Precinct 7 of Taylor County, Haden, 5, was at home with Shirel I. and Maud Nesmith and his brothers Lewey, 7, and Carlton, 4 S746; in 1930 Hayden, 15, was at school, living with Isaac S. and Maude and his brothers Dewey and Carlton on R.F.D. 2 Abilene S747. added 26 September 2026.

Open questions

Open question
⚠️ Her son — not, as this page first said, her brother-in-law
was Dr. James Burton Coffman (1905–2006), the Church of Christ Bible commentator. Her memorial lists her six children in order: Obera (1902–1904), James Burton (1905–2006), Robert William (1906–1990), David Emily (1909–2005), Jesse Jerome (1912–1992), Horace Glen (1915–2006) S16S30

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James Harris Timberman Jr.

PennsylvaniaConfirmed

Louise's father · 1886–1919

Married
Nancy L. Martin
Sources
6
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Military1917
His WWI draft registration card, signed "James Harris Timberman Jr." in his own hand at East Orange, New Jersey in 1917, settles the full given name and the birth date of 23 October 1886; it has him at 30, a deputy real-estate agent for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad at Hoboken S80 Confirmed
Death1886
His Ohio death certificate, read from the image, carries him the rest of the way: Jas. H. Timberman, born 23 October 1886 in Pennsylvania, a B&O Railroad inspector, died 24 January 1919 at 9 p.m. at Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio, of influenza after four days
the 1918–19 pandemic, exactly as the family remembered. The informant was his widow, reporting from Gallatin, Tennessee, where he was buried three days later. It names his parents J. H. Timberman Sr (born New Jersey) and Louise Harbauer (born Pennsylvania) S79 Confirmed
Death1930
His death when Louise was 21 months old is what the obituary describes
"at the age of two her family moved to Gallatin" — and by 1930 Nancy is enumerated as widowed. Two independent sources, one of them family-written, agree S26S27
The gap this note used to describe is closed. The draft card and the Ohio certificate together give the full name, the birth date, the death and both parents, so nothing now waits on the New Jersey birth certificate for Louise, Vol. 59 p. 95 (Orange, 10 April 1917) — only the index was ever retrieved. It would still add his mother's maiden name and both parents' ages as stated in 1917, and it is worth having for that. It is not online; the New Jersey State Archives holds it.

Family

Names1915
On the record he is "J. H. Timberman, Jr." Confirmed
the 1915 Sumner County marriage book gives initials and the suffix, nothing more S29
Marriage1915
Married Nancy L. Martin
licence issued 15 June 1915, solemnised 17 June 1915 at Gallatin, Tennessee; clerk Moon, officiant H. L. Olmstead S29. 🆕 Corrected 26 September 2026: the book was first read as the 10th and the 11th; set beside a second scan of the same page, both read the 15th and the 17th, which agrees with the marriage bond S261.

Open questions

Open question
⚠️ Philadelphia is the one thing still Probable. The draft card names the city; the death certificate says only "Pa." Two cautions on the certificate's own face: its stated age of 31 is an arithmetic error for 32, and the cause of death is a handwritten word on 1919 microfilm, read as Influenza rather than transcribed from type S79

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Nancy Louise Martin

TennesseeConfirmed

Louise's mother · 1878–1967

Born
5 November 1878, Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee
Died
17 May 1967, at 811 Garner, Pasadena, Harris County, Texas
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Census1930
1930 census, Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee
"Timberman, Nancy, 52, widowed, head, high-school teacher," with her daughter Louise M., 13 S27
Birth1878
Born 5 November 1878, Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee Probable
age 52 in the 1930 census is consistent S27S30
Death1967
Died 17 May 1967, at 811 Garner, Pasadena, Harris County, Texas Confirmed
Texas death certificate 31838; she had lived there ten years, and was taken home to Gallatin Cemetery, Tennessee S262. The FamilySearch tree had placed her death in California S30
That 1930 household is the single best document of the run that found it. One page puts Louise, her widowed mother, her mother's unmarried Martin sister and a Chenault relative under one roof — and in doing so it named two generations that had been blank.

Family

Marriage1915
Nancy L. Martin on the 1915 marriage record S29
Names
Her maiden name Martin is proved from that same page rather than from a tree: her own unmarried sister, "Martin, Emma, 59, single, teacher," is enumerated in the household S27
Parents1832
Her parents, Joseph Daniel Martin (1832–1899) and Nannie Chenault (1844–1915), married 10 January 1866 at Castalian Springs, Sumner County, are Probable
but corroborated sideways by the boarder in her 1930 household, "Chenault, Ermin, 28", a woman, a saleslady in dry goods: a Chenault living with the family S27S30
Parents2026
🆕 Her grandparents are now named too, 18 September 2026
and on 22 September Peter Hines Martin's own will names Joseph in the children's division S172, so that link no longer rests on a census household (the will does not write son; the bequest's structure carries it): Joseph Daniel Martin's own parents were Peter Hines Martin (4 Nov 1793 – 4 July 1849, Gallatin, Sumner Co., TN) S105 and Jane Bell, married 2 July 1818 in Davidson County S106. Two pencilled boxes on Robert William Coffman's pedigree chart S103 gave the names; the records confirmed the man, the marriage and the widow's household S98

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William Leonard Proeger

PennsylvaniaConfirmed

The elder · 1876–1955

Born
22 March 1876, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Died
14 December 1955, Los Angeles County, California
Buried
Valhalla Memorial Park, North Hollywood
Sources
10
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Birth1876
Born 22 March 1876, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
NUMIDENT, drawn from his own SSA application filed at Los Angeles on 14 March 1947 S13
Death1955
Died 14 December 1955, Los Angeles County, California S13S14
Burial
Buried Valhalla Memorial Park, North Hollywood, Block D, Section 3357, Lot 5. Unmarked grave. S14
Death1942
🆕 Her 1942 death notice names her “loving wife of William L. Proeger”, of 2123 Lemoyne Avenue, Los Angeles S1175.
Death1955
🆕 His own death notices, December 1955: he died on Wednesday 14 December, aged 79, of 1540 Ewing Street, Los Angeles. Services were held on Friday 16 December at Utter-McKinley's Jewel City chapel, Glendale, and he was buried in Valhalla Cemetery. He left a daughter, Queen Anne Helgedalen; three sons, Richard F., William H. and Julius K.; and two sisters, Carrie Ross and Gertrude Murfin. Neither notice names a wife S1176S1177. See Jane Bell for the unproven later wife.
Residence1880
Residence trail: Pittsburgh 1880 → Rochester, Beaver Co., PA 1910 → Allegheny Co. draft registration 1917–18 → Cincinnati 1920 → Chicago 1935 → Dunkirk, New York 1940 → Los Angeles 1949–1955. Probable confirm or correct →
a FamilySearch event list, individually unverified S12
Military1918
🆕 Registered for the draft on 12 September 1918 at Tarentum, born 22 March 1876 in his own hand, a mechanic at Allegheny Steel Co., Brackenridge, with his wife Anna as nearest relative S381. In 1940 a glass worker at 414 Park Ave., Dunkirk, New York, with Anna, after Chicago in 1935 S382; added 24 September 2026.
Census1895
🆕 On 1 July 1895, aged 19, he enlisted as a private in Co. I, 10th Infantry, Pennsylvania National Guard. His residence was Greensburg and he was a glass worker, the family trade. He was discharged on 10 February 1898 for “Removal from city” and had no federal service S442. added 25 September 2026.

Family

Parents1800
His father is named on that death record: JULIUS PROEGER. California, County Birth and Death Records 1800–1994
death 14 December 1955 at Los Angeles, birth 1876, parents: Julius Proeger S44. Confirmed — a government record, not a user tree. Until 13 September 2026 this page carried the join between him and Julius Karl Proeger as Probable (strong), resting on FindAGrave, FamilySearch and two of his brothers' Social Security entries. The state death record states it outright, and the link is upgraded.
Marriage1908
Married Anna B. Roberts in 1908, Ohio County, West Virginia S13
Children1911
Children: William Harry (1911), Richard Frederick Sr (1913), Julius Karl (1917), Queen Anne (1919) S12S14

Open questions

Open question
⚠️ FindAGrave gives 22 March 1878 S14. Same day and month, conflicting year; the NUMIDENT year is the better source.

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Anna Blanche Roberts

OhioConfirmed

1892–1942

Born
16 September 1892, Bellaire, Belmont County, Ohio
Died
15 August 1942, Los Angeles, California
Buried
Valhalla Memorial Park, North Hollywood
Parents
Henry S. Roberts
Sources
9
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2
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Birth1892
Born 16 September 1892, Bellaire, Belmont County, Ohio S17
Death1942
Died 15 August 1942, Los Angeles, California, aged 49 S17
Death1942
🆕 She died at home, 2123 Lemoyne Avenue, Los Angeles. A Daily News item of 17 August 1942 reported that, after 20 years of migraine headaches and a recent major operation, she took an overdose of headache tablets and was dead when the police ambulance arrived. That is the paper's account, quoted as printed: it does not say whether the overdose was accidental, and no coroner's finding has been read. The item puts her death on Sunday 16 August and her age at 52; the death index gives 15 August, aged 49, and that is kept S1174.
Death1942
🆕 Her paid death notice in the Los Angeles Examiner, 19 August 1942, reads “Anna Blanche of 2123 Lemoyne ave., Los Angeles, loving wife of William L. Proeger” S1175.
Burial
Buried Valhalla Memorial Park, North Hollywood, Block D, Section 3357, Lot 6
beside her husband. Her marker reads "Loving Wife And Mother." S17
Military1918
🆕 Named as his wife on William's 1918 draft card S381; in 1940 with him at 414 Park Ave., Dunkirk, New York, where he was a glass worker, both in Chicago in 1935 S382; added 24 September 2026.
Photograph1932
🆕 Photograph, 12 June 1932, Wallaceburg, Ontario Confirmed (family testimony): a snapshot inscribed “Mother Proeger” shows her, aged 39, on a sidewalk in the town. Her granddaughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins named her on 1 October 2026: “My Grandmother Proeger my Fathers Mother”. Both sides of the snapshot are in Photos below.

Family

Parents
Father: Henry S. Roberts Confirmed
Marriage1908
Bellaire sits directly across the river from Wheeling, in the Ohio County, West Virginia where the 1908 marriage was recorded. Internally consistent.
Parents1854
Parents: Henry S. Roberts (b. Nov 1854, West Virginia, glass blower in Wheeling, WV) and Rose A. Williams (b. ~1855)
confirmed by Ohio birth/christening index, CA Death Index, 1900 census, and FindAGrave S90S91S92. Siblings: Etta (Henrietta, b.~1881), Florence (b.~1883), Sam (b.~1885), Thomas (b.~1887). Henry's parents both born Ohio per 1900 census. ⚠️ Anna NOT in the 1900 household.

Open questions

Open question
⚠️ She is no kin to the other Roberts on this tree. Earl Theodore Roberts, who married her son's widow Aileane in 1946, is son of Leon H Roberts and Bessie H Henderson of Massachusetts S88. Two unrelated Roberts families, one surname — do not merge them.

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The record that made this couple Confirmed

Confirmed

A California county marriage record — not a user tree, not NUMIDENT

  • The index for "California, County Marriages, 1849–1957" assigns roles in its own fields: Frank Silva — "Father Of Bride", Mildard A Rose — mother of the bride, Aileane S Proeger — bride S51. Aileane is using the married surname from William Harry Proeger, which is how the three of them are pinned together.
  • With the birth index S56 and the NUMIDENT parent fields S13, that is three independent sources agreeing on the same two parents. On 13 September 2026 there was one, and this couple sat at Probable confirm or correct →.
  • ⚠️ What did not get upgraded along with them: Frank's middle name, still Probable; and Mildred's death, now Not found. The Azorean island was answered — but separately, by Frank Silva Sr's 1946 obituary S67, not by this marriage record. A record that answers one question does not answer the ones next to it.

Generation 4 — relatives in this generation

Joseph Rose

Confirmed

Son of Antone & Louise Rose · b. Oct 1888

Born
October 1888, California
Sources
1

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — listed as son of Antone Rose in the 1900 census, Washington Twp., Alameda Co., Calif., S55.
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Birth1888
Born October 1888, California S55
Census1900
Listed as Son in the 1900 household of Antone Rose and Louise Rose, Washington Township, Alameda County S55

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Rose Rose

Confirmed

Daughter of Antone Rose · born 1879

Born
November 1879
Parents
Antone Rose & Louise Rose
Sources
1

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1879
Born November 1879, California, the eldest; already married by the 1900 census, which lists her with her parents S55

Family

Parents
Daughter of Antone Rose and Louise Rose; sister of Mildred A. Rose

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Louise Elizabeth Rose

Confirmed

Daughter of Antone Rose · born 1885

Born
June 1885
Parents
Antone Rose & Louise Rose
Sources
1

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1885
Born June 1885, California; Louise in the 1900 household at Washington Township, Alameda County S55

Family

Parents
Daughter of Antone Rose and Louise Rose; sister of Mildred A. Rose

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Antone Rose Jr.

Confirmed

Son of Antone Rose · born 1887

Born
June 1887
Parents
Antone Rose & Louise Rose
Sources
1

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1887
Born June 1887, California; Antone in the 1900 household S55

Family

Parents
Son of Antone Rose and Louise Rose; brother of Mildred A. Rose

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Frank James Rose

Confirmed

Son of Antone Rose · born 1891

Born
6 May 1891
Parents
Antone Rose & Louise Rose
Sources
2

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1891
Born 6 May 1891, Irvington, Alameda County, California S627; Frank in the 1900 household S55
Military1942
🆕 His 1942 draft card gives his birth as 6 May 1891 at Irvington, Alameda County. He was 50, a self-employed contractor and builder at 1647 D Street, Hayward, and his contact was Mrs. Helen O'Farrell of San Leandro, probably his sister Helen Agnes Rose, who had married William Bernard Farrell S627. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Parents
Son of Antone Rose and Louise Rose; brother of Mildred A. Rose

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Edward Rose

Confirmed

Son of Antone Rose · born 1898

Born
July 1898
Died
Not found
Parents
Antone Rose & Louise Rose
Sources
2

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1898
Born July 1898 (26 July, by his draft card S632), California, the twin of Mildred, bracketed with her on the 1900 census S55
Death
His death has not been found
Military1918
🆕 His 1918 draft card has him at Irvington, a farm labourer working for his mother, Louise Rose, who was also his nearest relative. It gives his birthday as 26 July. It writes the year as 1899 but his age as 20, which only fits 1898, so the 1900 census's July 1898 is kept S632. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Parents
Son of Antone Rose and Louise Rose; brother of Mildred A. Rose

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Helen Agnes Rose

Confirmed

Daughter of Antone Rose · 1899–1995

Born
3 October 1899
Parents
Antone Rose & Louise Rose
Married
William Bernard Farrell
Sources
8
Images
2

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1899
Born 3 October 1899, Irvington, California, the youngest; Helen in the 1900 household S55
Death1960
🆕 Helen Agnes (Rose) Farrell Johnson Confirmed (family testimony + 1960 notice). Her sister Mildred’s death notice (Oakland Tribune, 9 October 1960, p. 40) names her as Mrs. Victor Johnson of San Leandro, and Mildred’s granddaughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins confirmed on 1 October 2026 that “Uncle Victor Johnson” sounded right.
Cause1946
🆕 William B. O’Farrell was killed on 10 June 1946 Confirmed (newspaper reports, read 2 October 2026). The Hayward Daily Review of 11 June 1946, page 1, names him as William B. O’Farrell of 1525 170th Avenue, Ashland, “husband of Mrs. Helen O’Farrell”, the same address Helen gave in 1942 S1178S627. Driving home from his job at the Pacific Ice Company at about 6:40 p.m., his car crossed the centre line and hit a 10-ton truck loaded with steel beams head-on, on San Leandro Boulevard at 92nd Avenue, Oakland. The trailer overturned and spilled the steel into the street; he was dead on arrival at Highland Hospital S1178S1180. The family remembered it as a steel-laden truck that dropped its load onto his car (Patricia (Proeger) Collins, 1 October 2026). The papers agree in substance; the difference is that his car struck the truck and the trailer then overturned. He was 46. ⚠️ His birth date is open: the Find a Grave index gives 16 June 1899, a user-made FamilySearch profile gives 16 January 1899 S1182; both fit age 46.
Death1995
🆕 Helen Agnes Rose died 20 November 1995, as Helen A. Johnson Confirmed: the Social Security Death Index entry for Helen A. Johnson gives 3 October 1899 – 20 November 1995, exactly the dates of Helen Agnes Rose’s Social Security record S1181S320.
Photograph1915
🆕 A studio portrait of two couples from Patricia Collins’s collection shows Helen with her sister Mildred and Mildred’s husband Frank Da Silva Jr; Patti names the fourth person as “her husband Victor”. ⚠️ The date and the names conflict, and this record does not settle it: the dress suggests about 1915–1920, Frank Jr died in December 1924, and Helen was still married to Farrell until his death in June 1946. So the man with Helen may be her first husband, William Farrell, named by the family after the husband they knew. In Photos below.

Family

Parents
Daughter of Antone Rose and Louise Rose; sister of Mildred A. Rose
Marriage1918
Married William Bernard Farrell, 30 November 1918, San Francisco; died 20 November 1995
Marriage1918
🆕 First husband: William Bernard Farrell (O’Farrell), married 30 November 1918 in San Francisco; she was still “Mrs. Helen O’Farrell” of San Leandro in 1942.
Children1946
🆕 A daughter, Mrs. Lorraine Peterson Probable confirm or correct →. The Daily Review funeral notice of 12 June 1946 lists his survivors as “Mrs. Helen O’Farrell, widow” and “one daughter, Mrs. Lorraine Peterson” S1179. ⚠️ The notice makes her William’s daughter, not explicitly Helen’s; no birth record naming Helen as her mother has been found. She is not given a card until one is.
Marriage1960
🆕 Second husband: Victor Johnson Confirmed (family testimony; the surname comes from the 1960 notice). They married after June 1946, when her first husband was killed. No marriage record has been found, and which Victor Johnson he was is still open: two Alameda County couples in the 1950 census, Victor E. and Helen A. Johnson (Eden Township) and Victor B. and Helen R. Johnson (Murray Township), are leads only.

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Mary Matilda Bowles Lindley

Confirmed

Daughter of William Anderson Bowles · born 1885

Born
13 January 1885
Parents
William Anderson Bowles & Iona Belle Brock
Married
Chester Major Lindley
Sources
12

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Birth1885
Born 13 January 1885, Boston Mountain, Arkansas; Mary M., Jan 1885, in the 1900 census at Abilene S140
Census1950
🆕 In 1950 she and Chester, then 64 and still a practising veterinarian, lived at 2402 North 1st Street, Abilene S570. added 25 September 2026.
Military1942
🆕 Chester's 1942 draft card gives his birthplace, Brown County, Texas S671. He died at Abilene on 21 January 1961 and was buried at Potosi; his death certificate names his parents as William Thomas Lindley and Mary E. Waggley, and gives 1885 for his birth, against the 1884 of both his draft cards S670. added 26 September 2026.
Census1974
🆕 In 1974, on her own affidavit, the 1921 birth certificate of her daughter was amended to supply the child’s name, Phyllis Marcia Lindley, born 1921, and to correct the parents’ names to Chester Major Lindley and Mary Bowles Confirmed S1141.
Census1933
🆕 The 1933 Abilene directory lists Chester M. Lindley, veterinary surgeon, and his wife Mary at 865 South 4th; a Rice Lindley lived at the same address Confirmed S1165.

Family

Parents
Daughter of William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle Brock; sister of Lydia Mae Bowles
Marriage1884
Married Chester Major Lindley (born 14 April 1884), a veterinarian at Abilene S628; died 3 April 1979
Marriage1920
🆕 She married Chester M. Lindley, a veterinarian in Abilene. The censuses have them there with their children: Farland, Clay and Ries in 1920 S510; a daughter born in February 1921 S511; Ries and Marcia in 1930 and 1940 S512S513. She died a widow in San Antonio on 3 April 1979, and was buried at Potosi; her death certificate names her parents as William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle S509. added 25 September 2026.
Marriage1918
🆕 Her husband's 1918 draft card gives his full name, Chester Major Lindley, and his birth date, 14 April 1884. He was a veterinarian in Abilene and named “Mrs. Mary Lindley (wife)” as his nearest relative S628. added 26 September 2026.

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Solomon Alfred Bowles

Confirmed

Son of William Anderson Bowles · born 1886

Born
11 August 1886
Died
2 June 1964
Parents
William Anderson Bowles & Iona Belle Brock
Married
Jewell Ross
Sources
12

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Birth1886
Born 11 August 1886, St. Paul, Arkansas; Solomon A., Aug 1886, in the 1900 census S140
Death1964
Died 2 June 1964, Abilene, Texas
Work1920
🆕 He farmed in Taylor County with his wife Jewel: in 1920 with Yolanda S515, in 1930 with Yolanda, Dixon and Lorene S516, and in 1940, aged 52, on a farm he owned S517. He died of pneumonia at Abilene on 2 June 1964 and was buried at Potosi; the certificate names his parents as Wm. A. Bowles and Ionabell Brock, and gives his birth as 11 August 1887 S514. added 25 September 2026.
Census1958
🆕 The 1958 Abilene directory lists him with Jewel at 1357 Sycamore S569. added 25 September 2026.
Burial1898
🆕 His widow, Jewel Ross Bowles, born 28 September 1898 in Texas, a daughter of W. D. Ross and Lula Greenway, died at Abilene on 8 June 1974, still at 1357 Sycamore, and was buried at Potosi S658. added 26 September 2026.
Military1917
🆕 His two draft cards give different birthplaces. In 1917, a farmer on Abilene Route 2, he gave St. Paul, Arkansas, and claimed exemption on grounds of conscience S684; in 1942, at Potosi with his wife Jewel, he gave Cass, Arkansas S685. Both give 11 August 1886. added 26 September 2026.
Census1950
🆕 In 1950 Alfred S. Bowles, 65, born in Arkansas, was still farming his own land in Taylor County with Jewel, 52; the index left her out. Next door was John W. Bowles, 47, a farmer, with Ethel and Verna; how he was related is not known S743. added 26 September 2026.
Record1920
🆕 The Texas birth index records a child of Alfred Bowles born in Taylor County on 1 February 1920, certificate 11378, not yet named in the index S744 Probable confirm or correct →. This is probably their son Dixon, who is in the 1930 household but was not yet born when the 1920 census was taken in January. What is weak: the index gives no name, and the certificate has not been read. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Parents
Son of William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle Brock; brother of Lydia Mae Bowles
Marriage1917
🆕 His wife was Jewell Ross, born at Potosi. Their first child, Yolanda, was born there on 29 December 1917; the certificate gives his age as 31, which fits a birth in August 1886 S542. added 25 September 2026.

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L. Jean Bowles Julius

Confirmed

Daughter of William Anderson Bowles · born 1890

Born
4 May 1890
Died
23 June 1951
Parents
William Anderson Bowles & Iona Belle Brock
Married
Harry Julius
Sources
5

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Birth1890
Born 4 May 1890, Arkansas
Death1951
Died 23 June 1951, Los Angeles; the California death record names both parents
Census1929
🆕 In 1929 she and Harry ran the Tenth Avenue Cafe in Amarillo and had rooms at 506½ East 10th Avenue S590. added 25 September 2026.
Census1930
🆕 In 1930 she was the cafe manager and Harry the proprietor, in Amarillo; her sister Lilly, 21, waited tables in the cafe and lived with them, and her brother Tom L. was a cook, three lines up the page S615. added 26 September 2026.
Census1950
🆕 In 1950 Jean Julius, 59, born Arkansas, and her husband Harry Julius, 68, were living at 1906 Pacific Coast Highway, Hermosa Beach, California, in the home of her sister Iona B. Reah, 55, a visiting nurse S637. The index calls Jean never married; the page lists Harry as the head's brother-in-law. added 26 September 2026.
Census1920
🆕 In January 1920 she was Jean Bowles, 29, single, a trained nurse, heading a household at 721 Liberty Street, Dallas, with her sister Iona, 23, also a trained nurse, and a third nurse as lodger Probable confirm or correct → S803. Evidence: her name and age, and a sister Iona who was still nursing in 1950 (S637). What is weak: it is a single census, it gives both sisters as born in Texas rather than Arkansas, and it gives their mother's birthplace as Kentucky; the site keeps Arkansas. added 27 September 2026

Family

Parents
Daughter of William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle Brock; sister of Lydia Mae Bowles
Marriage1940
Wife of Harry Julius; in 1940 at 912 Buchanan, Amarillo, running a cafe, with her widowed mother Iona living with them S185

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Sally Irene Bowles

Confirmed

Daughter of William Anderson Bowles · born 1900

Born
23 November 1900
Died
11 November 1991
Parents
William Anderson Bowles & Iona Belle Brock
Sources
1

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Birth1900
Born 23 November 1900, Abilene, Texas, one of the eighteen children her mother reported in 1910 S186
Death1991
Died 11 November 1991

Family

Parents
Daughter of William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle Brock; sister of Lydia Mae Bowles

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John Wesley Bowles

Probable

Son of William Anderson Bowles · 1902–1960

Born
26 June 1902
Died
6 December 1960
Parents
William Anderson Bowles & Iona Belle Brock
Married
Ethel Maude NeSmith
Sources
6

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Research status: PROBABLE as a son of William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle Brock Probable confirm or correct →, accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. Evidence: the index of his Texas death certificate names his father as W. A. Bowles and his mother as “Belle Broach” S904; his own 1942 draft card, read from the image, gives his birth on 26 June 1902 S934; in 1940 and 1950 he farmed beside his brother Alfred S935S743. What is weak or missing: the death certificate itself has not been read from the image, “Broach” is read as Brock, and the same birth date is given for his brother Thomas L. Bowles. Know more? Use ‘Add to this record’ to confirm or correct it. Card added 1 October 2026
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Evidence: The index of his Texas death certificate names his father as W. A. Bowles and his mother as Belle Broach; his own 1942 draft card, read from the image, gives his birth on 26 June 1902; in 1940 and 1950, read from the images, he farmed next to his brother Alfred. Weak or missing: The death certificate is read from its index only, not the image; Broach is taken to be Brock; the same birth date is given for his brother Thomas L. Bowles and is not yet explained. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

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Birth1902
Born 26 June 1902 at Potosi, Taylor County, by the death certificate index S904; his draft card gives the same date and says Abilene, the county seat beside Potosi S934
Census1940
In 1940 his household, in Precinct 1 of Taylor County, is on the same census sheet as his brother Alfred's family S935; in 1950 he is the John W. Bowles, 47, farming next door to Alfred S743
Death1960
🆕 Died 6 December 1960 at Abilene S904. The typescript state index of 1960 deaths, read from the image, lists “Bowles John Wesley” under Taylor County, 6 December, state file number 75611 Confirmed S1105

Family

Marriage
Married Ethel Maude NeSmith, as a daughter's Texas birth certificate names her S936

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Thomas L. Bowles

Confirmed

Son of William Anderson Bowles · born 1902

Born
26 June 1902
Died
9 August 1969
Parents
William Anderson Bowles & Iona Belle Brock
Married
Delphia Zella Kennedy
Children
Tom Leslie Bowles Jr.
Sources
9

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Birth1902
Born 26 June 1902, Abilene, Texas S186
Death1969
Died 9 August 1969, Amarillo, Texas
Census1950
🆕 In 1950 he was a cleaner in Amarillo, aged 46, with his wife Delphia Z., Tom L. Jr. and two daughters S508. added 25 September 2026.
Military1942
🆕 His full name was Tom Leslie Bowles: his 1942 draft card gives his birth as 26 June 1902 at Abilene, and he worked at Oriental Cleaners, Amarillo S544. added 25 September 2026.
Census1942
🆕 The 1942 Amarillo directory has him with Delphia at 4008 East 11th Avenue, a cleaner at Oriental Cleaners S589. added 25 September 2026.
Census1930
🆕 In 1930, at 26, he was a cook in a cafe in Amarillo, married to Delphia, 19; his sister Jean was the cafe manager in the same building S615. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Parents
Son of William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle Brock; brother of Lydia Mae Bowles
Marriage1910
🆕 His wife was born Delphia Zella Kennedy S669, on 8 August 1910 in Stephens County, Texas, a daughter of W. W. Kennedy and Lula Spencer. She died at Amarillo on 7 September 1954, aged 44 S668. added 26 September 2026.
Children1931
🆕 His son Tom Leslie Bowles Jr. was born on 22 January 1931 at 506½ East 10th Street, Amarillo. On the birth certificate Tom is 28, a cook, born at Abilene, and the mother is Delphia Kennedy, 20, born in Eastland County; it was her first child Confirmed S1115. A daughter, Sandra Lynn Bowles, was born in Potter County on 19 May 1946, to Tom Leslie Bowles and Zella Delphia Kennedy, according to the state birth index S1116.

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Robert Anthony Bowles

Probable

Son of William Anderson Bowles · 1904–1974

Born
3 April 1904
Died
27 February 1974
Parents
William Anderson Bowles & Iona Belle Brock
Married
Geneva Annie Reynolds
Sources
8

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Research status: PROBABLE as a son of William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle Brock Probable confirm or correct →, accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. Evidence: his Find a Grave memorial names his parents as William Anderson and Iona Belle and gives his birth at Potosi, Taylor County S895; the Social Security index gives the same birth date S894. What is weak or missing: Find a Grave is compiled, not a record; his Arizona death certificate has not been read; his draft card gives 4 April, not 3 April. Know more? Use ‘Add to this record’ to confirm or correct it. Card added 1 October 2026
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Evidence: His Find a Grave memorial names his parents as William Anderson and Iona Belle and his birth at Potosi, Taylor County, on 3 April 1904; the Social Security index gives the same birth date; in 1930, read from the image, he was a dry-cleaning presser in Amarillo, and in 1934 the directory lists him as a cleaner with his wife Geneva. Weak or missing: Find a Grave is a compiled memorial, not a record; his Arizona death certificate has not been read; his draft card gives 4 April, a day later. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

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Birth1904
Born 3 April 1904 at Potosi, Taylor County, by his Find a Grave memorial and the Social Security index S894S895; his World War II draft card says 4 April S896
Residence1930
Single in April 1930, a roomer on Pierce Street in Amarillo and a presser in a dry-cleaning plant Confirmed S1027
Census1934
🆕 The 1934 Amarillo directory lists “Bowles Robt A (Geneva) clnr Oriental Clnrs h1304a Lincoln”: a cleaner at Oriental Cleaners, householder at 1304a Lincoln, with his wife Geneva Confirmed S1106
Residence1940
He lived in Amarillo in 1940 and 1950 S897S898
Death1974
Died 27 February 1974 at Phoenix, Arizona S895

Family

Marriage1932
Married Geneva Annie Reynolds, as a daughter's 1932 Texas birth certificate names her S937

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Lily Olene Bowles

Confirmed

Daughter of William Anderson Bowles · born 1907

Born
27 July 1907
Died
18 January 1991
Parents
William Anderson Bowles & Iona Belle Brock
Married
Elmo D. Blackburn
Children
Harald Dean Blackburn
Sources
8

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Birth1907
Born 27 July 1907, Texas S186
Death1991
Died 18 January 1991
Census1930
🆕 In 1930 she was 21, single, a waitress in Amarillo, living with her sister Jean and Harry Julius, the cafe manager and proprietor S615. added 26 September 2026.
Military1942
🆕 Elmo's own 1942 draft card gives his full name as Elmo David Blackburn, born 15 March 1904, of 1601 B Pierce Street, Amarillo, working for Southwestern Public Service Company S717. The card gives Amarillo as his birthplace, but that is self-reported and not yet settled. The 1940 Amarillo directory lists “Blackburn Elmo (Lily)”, a serviceman for the same company, at 1601b Pierce S720. The Texas birth index records their daughter Iona Beth Blackburn, born 26 April 1938 in Potter County, with her mother entered as Lily Olene Bowles and her father as David St. Elmo Blackburn S718. It is the first state record found that names Lily Olene Bowles as Elmo's wife, though no marriage record has yet been read. In 1950 Elmo, 46, married, ran his own electric shop from 2804 Taylor, Amarillo; no wife was listed with him on that sheet S719. added 26 September 2026.
Census1910
🆕 Elmo's parents were probably David J. Blackburn and Ruth E. Blackburn Probable confirm or correct →: the 1910 census of Salem Township, Lewis County, Missouri, read from the image, lists Elmo D., 6, son, in the household of David J. Blackburn, 38, a farmer, and his wife Ruth E., 32, the mother of three children, all living, with Bessie, 14, and Clarence, 11, all born in Missouri S873. His son's 1933 death certificate also gives Elmo's birthplace as Missouri S697. What is weak: nothing read ties the boy of 1910 to Lily's husband beyond his name, middle initial and age, and his 1942 draft card gives Amarillo as his birthplace S717; Ruth's maiden name, given in family trees as Tate, 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.

Family

Parents
Daughter of William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle Brock; sister of Lydia Mae Bowles
Marriage1904
🆕 Married Elmo D. Blackburn (born 15 March 1904, by his own draft card S717) Probable confirm or correct →: the 1940 Amarillo, Texas census has Elmo Blackburn, 36, at 1601 Pierce with his wife Lily and a daughter named Iona B., after Lily's mother Iona Belle, and the 1949 Amarillo directory lists “Blackburn Elmo D (Lily)”. What is weak: the census gives the wife's age as 22, ten years off Lily's 1907 birth, and no marriage record has been found. added 26 September 2026.
Children1933
🆕 Her son Harald Dean Blackburn, a premature twin, died at St Anthony's Hospital in Amarillo on 8 December 1933, one day old. His death certificate names his parents as Elmo D. Blackburn and Lillie Bowles, born in Texas S697. It is the first record found that names her as Elmo's wife. added 26 September 2026.

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Warren Debs Bowles

Confirmed

Son of William Anderson Bowles · born 1910

Born
9 August 1910
Died
31 May 1999
Parents
William Anderson Bowles & Iona Belle Brock
Sources
9

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Birth1910
Born 9 August 1910, Potosi, Texas; the son “Ward D.”, 9, born after the 1910 census, in the 1920 household S188
Death1999
Died 31 May 1999
Military1940
🆕 His 1940 draft card gives his birth as 9 August 1910 at Abilene, and his address as 1606 Johnson, Amarillo, working for the Texas Co. S505. In 1940 he lived there with his wife Opal, next to his brother T. L. S506; in 1950 he was a dry cleaner at 3907 E. 12th, with wife Opal and four sons, two doors from his brother Robert A. S507. added 25 September 2026.
Census1937
🆕 In 1937 he was a counterman for the Texas Co., at 1606 Johnson, Amarillo S556. added 25 September 2026.
Record1910
🆕 The Texas birth index for 1910 lists his birth, on 9 August in Taylor County, as the unnamed infant of W. A. Bowles, certificate 53667 Confirmed S1169. The certificate itself has not been read.

Family

Parents
Son of William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle Brock; brother of Lydia Mae Bowles; the youngest
Marriage1930
🆕 His wife Opal's mother was probably Lena L. Bethany Probable confirm or correct →: the 1930 census of Amarillo, read from the image, lists Opal, 14, daughter, born Texas, at 1648 Johnson Street in the household of William H. Bethany, 38, and his wife Lena L., 39, both born Arkansas S885; the three were together in Amarillo in 1920 S886. The Texas birth index records a son of Warren Debs Bowles, born in Potter County in 1944, with his mother entered as Willie Opal Bethaney S887. What is weak: the census does not say Lena is Opal's mother, and a stepmother would be listed the same way; her maiden name, given in family trees as Stringer, and her dates are on no document read, and the trees' Texas birthplace for her conflicts with the census. Accepted by Earl on 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. added 28 September 2026.

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Louise Bell Martin Harsh

Confirmed

Daughter of Joseph Daniel Martin · born 1866

Born
13 November 1866
Died
13 February 1935
Parents
Joseph Daniel Martin & Nannie Chenault
Married
Nathan James Harsh
Sources
12

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Birth1866
Born 13 November 1866, Tennessee; the Louisa, 3, of the 1870 census and Luisa B., 13, of 1880 S202S207
Death1935
Died 13 February 1935 at 250 College Drive, Abilene, Texas, and buried at Gallatin; her death certificate names both parents S191
Burial1934
🆕 Nathan died on 10 September 1934 at Gaston Hospital, Lebanon, and was buried at Gallatin. His death certificate names his parents as George Harsh and Talitha Newby S503; in 1870 he was 10, in their household in Davidson County, where George was a dry goods merchant born in Pennsylvania S504. added 25 September 2026.
Census1880
🆕 In 1880 Nathan, 19, was at home in the 1st Civil District of Sumner County with his father George Harsh, 53, a farmer born in Pennsylvania to a father from “Offenheim”, Germany; George's wife then was Elizabeth, 30, and a stepson, James Polk, 6, was in the house S588. added 25 September 2026.

Family

Parents
Daughter of Joseph Daniel Martin and Nannie Chenault; sister of Nancy Louise Martin
Marriage1860
Married Nathan James Harsh (born 2 December 1860, died 1934) S204
Marriage1888
🆕 Married 17 October 1888 at Gallatin, as Louisa B. Martin to N. J. Harsh, by R. W. Harsh, minister S401. She and Nathan farmed in the 1st Civil District of Sumner County for forty years: in 1900 with four children, Kenneth, Joe D., Nannie M. and Nathan S402; in 1910 she had borne 8 children, 5 living, now including Louise B. and Richard K. S403; in 1920 on Harsh Road as Louise M. S404; and in 1930, aged 63, with her son Kenneth's family S405. The 1900 census gives her birth as May 1867, against 13 November 1866 on her death certificate; not settled. added 24 September 2026.

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Mary Jane Martin

Confirmed

Daughter of Joseph Daniel Martin · born 1868

Born
8 September 1868
Parents
Joseph Daniel Martin & Nannie Chenault
Married
Philip Harsh Rutherford
Sources
13

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Birth1868
Born 8 September 1868, Sumner County, Tennessee; Mary, 1, in the 1870 census and Mary, 11, in 1880 S202S207
Census1860
🆕 Philip Harsh Rutherford's parents were probably C. C. Rutherford and Lydia Rutherford, probably née Harsh Probable confirm or correct →: the 1860 census of the 5th District, Davidson County, Tennessee (post office Nashville), read from the image, lists P. H. Rutherford, 2, directly after C. C. Rutherford, 27, a farmer, and Lydia Rutherford, 25, with Griffith Rutherford, 1, in the household of Nathan Harsh, which fits a Harsh-born mother and Philip's middle name S880. What is weak: the 1860 census states no relationships; no document read names Philip's parents, gives Lydia's maiden name or spells out C. C. (Cheselton Cathey in family trees), and the birth and death dates offered for both are unsourced. Accepted by Earl on 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. added 28 September 2026.

Family

Parents
Daughter of Joseph Daniel Martin and Nannie Chenault; sister of Nancy Louise Martin
Marriage1858
🆕 Married Philip Harsh Rutherford (1858–1914) about 1890; the family history gives her birth as 8 September 1868 and her father as Joseph Martin of Sumner County, and lists eight children S408. In 1900 they farmed in the 10th Civil District of Sumner County with son Homer S409; the two eldest children were born in Texas. Their daughter Nannie Bell died at Nashville on 20 August 1906, aged 12; her death certificate names her mother as Mary Martin S410. In 1910 they owned a farm on Long Hollow Pike S411. By January 1920 she was a widow running a dairy farm near Cordell, Washita County, Oklahoma S412, and she stayed in Cordell with her youngest children Martin and Mary Bell through 1930, 1940 and 1950 S413S414S415. The records call her husband P. H. or Philip H.; the “Mrs. T. H. Rutherford” on the back of her childhood photograph is taken to be a misread P. The licence was issued on 31 December 1890 S572; her death is not yet sourced. added 24 September 2026.
Marriage1890
🆕 The Sumner County licence for P. H. Rutherford and Mary Martin was issued on 31 December 1890 S572. In 1940 her son Martin Rutherford, born at Gallatin on 2 April 1908, gave her, Mrs. P. H. Rutherford, as his contact on his draft card; they lived at 417 West 11th, Cordell S568. added 25 September 2026.

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Emma Lee Martin

Confirmed

Daughter of Joseph Daniel Martin · born 1870

Born
10 March 1870
Died
11 December 1934
Parents
Joseph Daniel Martin & Nannie Chenault
Sources
2

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Birth1870
Born 10 March 1870, Tennessee; Emma, 10, in the 1880 census S207
Death1934
Died 11 December 1934, Nashville, Tennessee
Record1934
🆕 She left a will. Letters testamentary on the estate of Emma L. Martin, late of Sumner County, were issued on 15 December 1934 by Hub Perdue, clerk, to Nancy M. Timberman as executrix Confirmed S1019. added 29 September 2026

Family

Parents
Daughter of Joseph Daniel Martin and Nannie Chenault; sister of Nancy Louise Martin

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Kate Martin

Confirmed

Daughter of Joseph Daniel Martin · born about 1873

Born
about 1873
Parents
Joseph Daniel Martin & Nannie Chenault
Sources
1

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Birth1873
Born about 1873, Tennessee; Kate, 7, in her parents' household in the 1880 census, which states each child's relationship S207

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Parents
Daughter of Joseph Daniel Martin and Nannie Chenault; sister of Nancy Louise Martin

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Martha “Mattie” Martin McConnell

Confirmed

Daughter of Joseph Daniel Martin · born 1874

Born
26 August 1874
Died
12 July 1957
Parents
Joseph Daniel Martin & Nannie Chenault
Married
Arthur Harris McConnell
Sources
6

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Birth1874
Born 26 August 1874, Sumner County, Tennessee; Mattie, 5, in the 1880 census S207
Death1957
Died 12 July 1957 at 406 South Water Street, Gallatin, his widow, and buried in Gallatin Cemetery; her death certificate names both parents S203

Family

Parents
Daughter of Joseph Daniel Martin and Nannie Chenault; sister of Nancy Louise Martin
Marriage1911
Married Arthur Harris McConnell, 12 April 1911
Marriage1911
🆕 The marriage bond of 12 April 1911 names her Martha Elizabeth Martin, with her brother J. D. Martin as surety S390. In 1920 she and Arthur were farming in Drummond Precinct, Fremont County, Idaho, with William M., John M. and Margaret M. S391; in 1930 they owned 716 Lincoln Place, Spokane, where Arthur was superintendent at a telephone company S392; added 24 September 2026.
Marriage1872
🆕 Her husband Arthur Harris McConnell, born at Iowa City on 25 June 1872, commercial superintendent of the Interstate Telephone Co., died at Spokane on 29 June 1938; she was the informant, “Mrs. Martha M. McConnell” Confirmed S1044. The certificate names his parents as William C. McConnell and Cynthia Kennedy. added 29 September 2026

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Joseph Daniel Martin Jr.

Confirmed

Son of Joseph Daniel Martin · born 1876

Born
21 December 1876
Died
7 May 1959
Parents
Joseph Daniel Martin & Nannie Chenault
Married
Pauline
Sources
6

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1876
Born 21 December 1876, Gallatin, Tennessee; Joe, 3, in the 1880 census S207
Death1959
Died 7 May 1959, Memphis, Tennessee S371
Census1918
🆕 In September 1918 he was manager of the sundry department at Van Vleet-Mansfield Drug Co. in Memphis; nearest relative Olga Norvell Martin S368. In 1940 a manufacturers' agent in drug sundries, owning a farm at Rosemark, Shelby County, with his wife Olga Norvel S369; added 24 September 2026.
Census1950
🆕 By 1950 retired at 1646 Harbert, Memphis, with his wife Pauline E. S370. His 1959 death certificate names his parents, J. D. Martin and Nancy Chenault S371.
Census1930
🆕 In 1930 he owned 1845 Cowden Avenue, Memphis, an agent in druggist sundries, with his wife Olga S376; added 24 September 2026.

Family

Parents
Son of Joseph Daniel Martin and Nannie Chenault; brother of Nancy Louise Martin
Marriage1950
Married Pauline (surname not yet found); living in Memphis in 1950 S370

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Frederick Albert Proeger

Confirmed

Son of Julius Karl Proeger · 1873–1947

Born
24 November 1873
Died
8 October 1947
Parents
Julius Karl Proeger & Minnie Kochendoerfer
Married
Ethel Gregg
Sources
16

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Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1873
Born 24 November 1873, Pittsburgh; died 8 October 1947, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
his Pennsylvania death certificate
Census1927
🆕 The 1927–28 Greensburg directory lists him as a musician, with Ethel G., at 215 West 3rd Street S614. added 26 September 2026.
Military1918
🆕 His 1918 draft card, signed Fred Proeger, gives his birth date as 24 November 1873, his work as musician, and his nearest relative as Ethel Proeger, both at 131 North Maple, Greensburg S631. added 26 September 2026.
Census1950
🆕 In 1950 his widow, Ethel G. Proeger, 74, headed her own household at 109 West Third Street, Greensburg S733. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Parents
Son of Julius Karl Proeger and Minnie Kochendoerfer; the Pennsylvania births and christenings index names his parents as Julius and Mina Prager
Marriage1896
Married Ethel Gregg, 30 September 1896, Washington County, Pennsylvania
Marriage1875
🆕 The marriage licence, no. 6460, reads “Fred Proeger to Ethel Gregg”; the date and county above come from its index S417. Ethel Gregg was born on 27 November 1875 at Carmichaels, Greene County, the daughter of Edward Gregg and Elizabeth Darling S423, and at 4 she was living there with her parents and her sister Mabel S416. Fred was a musician all his working life. In 1900 the couple rented on North Pennsylvania Avenue in Greensburg with their daughter Eleanor, born February 1898 S418. In 1910 he “teaches & plays”, at 131 North Maple Avenue S419. In 1920 he was a piano teacher in the same house, and Eleanor, 21, was a conservatory student S420. In 1930 they rented in Greensburg Ward 4 S421. In 1940 he was a church organist and musician at 533 Fremont Avenue S422. Ethel outlived him by ten years; she died at Greensburg on 19 February 1957 and was buried at St. Clair Cemetery S423. added 25 September 2026.
Children1898
🆕 Their daughter: Eleanor E. (or G.) Proeger, born February 1898 in Pennsylvania Confirmed. She is in her parents' household in all three censuses: in 1900, aged 2 S418; in 1910, aged 12, at school, written “Eleanor E.” S419; and in 1920, aged 21, single, a conservatory student, written “Eleanor G.” S420. The two censuses give her second initial differently, so it is shown as E. (or G.). The 1910 return says Ethel had borne one child, and Eleanor is the only one in any census. Her marriage and later life are not yet found. added 27 September 2026.
Parents1849
🆕 Ethel's parents Confirmed: her father Edward Gregg, born 11 September 1849 in Greene County, Pennsylvania, a planing-mill worker at Carmichaels, Greene County, in 1880; and her mother Elizabeth “Lizzie” Darling, born about 1854 in Virginia. Ethel's 1957 death certificate names Edward Gregg and Elizabeth Darling as her parents S423, and the 1880 census has Edward, 30, wife Lizzie, 26, and daughters Ethel, 4, and Mabel, 1, in one household S416; both read from the images, and FamilySearch indexes the same household (1:1:MWFF-3W2). Her sister Mabel Gregg, born 17 November 1878 at Carmichaels, Confirmed: Mabel's own 1968 death certificate names the same parents S931. Lizzie died at Pittsburgh on 30 May 1891 S925 and Edward there on 19 September 1905 S927; both were buried at Carmichaels. What is weak: Edward's and Lizzie's marriage, about 1875, has not been found. Added as Probable 28 September 2026; relabelled Confirmed for the parents 29 September 2026, and for Mabel the same day.
Marriage1977
🆕 The 1977 Virginia marriage record of their granddaughter Jane Shrum, born 1932, of Greensburg, names her father as Paul Shrum and gives her mother’s maiden name as Eleanore Proeger Confirmed S1136. That puts in writing the Shrum–Proeger marriage proposed above. Eleanor’s place as this couple’s daughter still rests on the census and on Ethel’s death certificate.

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Probable
🆕 Probably their daughter Eleanor married: in 1940 she was Eleanor Shrum, 41, born Pennsylvania, in Greensburg with her husband Paul L. Shrum, 41, attorney at law, and their children William, 10, and Jane, 7 Probable confirm or correct → S999. Evidence: Paul L. Shrum was the informant on Ethel's 1957 death certificate at Greensburg S423, and the age and birthplace fit. Weak: no Shrum–Proeger marriage record has been read. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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Mabel Gregg MacDonald

Confirmed

Daughter of Edward Gregg · 1878–1968

Born
17 November 1878
Died
30 January 1968
Parents
Edward Gregg & Elizabeth Darling
Married
William Spicer MacDonald
Sources
9

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as the daughter of Edward Gregg and Elizabeth Darling and the sister of Ethel Gregg, wife of Frederick Albert Proeger. Her own 1968 death certificate, read from the image, names her father as Edward Gregg and her mother as Elizabeth Darling and gives her birth on 17 November 1878 at Carmichaels S931; her 1906 marriage docket, read from the image, gives the same birth date and place and her middle name, Darling S930; the 1880 census, read from the image, has Mabel, 1, in Edward and Lizzie Gregg's household at Carmichaels S416. Card added 1 October 2026
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Birth1878
Born 17 November 1878 at Carmichaels, Greene County, Pennsylvania S930S931
Arrival1918
🆕 On 12 September 1918 her husband registered for the draft at Greensburg: William Spicer MacDonald, 38, of 550 Harrison Avenue, born 31 October 1879, a naturalized citizen, commercial representative of the C. D. Telephone Co.; nearest relative “Mabel Gregg MacDonald, wife”, of the same address Confirmed S1107. His docket of 1906 gives his birth year as 1876 S930
Residence1920
At 550 Harrison Avenue, Greensburg, in 1920 S1028, and at 224 Underwood Avenue in 1930, 1940 and 1950 S1029S1030S1031
Death1968
Died a widow on 30 January 1968 in Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County S931
Record1913
🆕 The Greensburg birth certificate of her third child, a daughter born in June 1913, gives her as Mabel Gregg, 34, born at Carmichaels, and her husband as William S. McDonald, 35, a salesman born at North Sydney, Nova Scotia. Three children were then living Confirmed S1135.

Family

Marriage1906
Married William Spicer MacDonald, a clerk of New York, in Westmoreland County on 21 November 1906, she then of East Liberty S930

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Luis Walter (Lewis) Proeger

Confirmed

Son of Julius Karl Proeger · 1881–1943

Born
10 January 1881
Died
27 April 1943
Parents
Julius Karl Proeger & Minnie Kochendoerfer
Married
May Shepherd Stark
Sources
2

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Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1881
Born 10 January 1881, Pittsburgh; died 27 April 1943; buried Allegheny Cemetery
Pennsylvania death index
Record1918
🆕 On his 1918 draft card he was a self-employed designer and inventor of machinery, living at 6461½ Aurelia Street, Pittsburgh, with his wife May Stark Proeger S564. added 25 September 2026.

Family

Parents
Son of Julius Karl Proeger and Minnie Kochendoerfer; his Social Security application names both parents
Marriage1883
Married May Shepherd Stark (14 February 1883 Wellsville, Ohio – 13 December 1940 Pittsburgh), November 1916. In 1930 he managed a laundry and owned his house at Swissvale S356

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Gotleib Proeger

Confirmed

Son of Julius Karl Proeger · born 1882

Born
June 1882
Parents
Julius Karl Proeger & Minnie Kochendoerfer
Sources
1

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1882
Born June 1882, Pennsylvania. No death record has been found

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Parents1900
Son of Julius Karl Proeger and Minnie Kochendoerfer, listed as their son in the 1900 census at Greensburg, Westmoreland County S137

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Caroline M. Proeger (Ross)

Confirmed

Daughter of Julius Karl Proeger · 1888–1958

Born
7 April 1888
Died
28 February 1958
Parents
Julius Karl Proeger & Minnie Kochendoerfer
Married
Charles W. Ross
Sources
6

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1888
Born 7 April 1888, Pennsylvania (the death certificate says 1889); died 28 February 1958, Memphis, Tennessee

Family

Parents
Daughter of Julius Karl Proeger and Minnie Kochendoerfer; her Tennessee death certificate (58-08564) names her father Julius Karl S182
Marriage1914
Married Charles W. Ross, about September 1914 (the date still needs a source; certificate 49141 is her daughter's marriage S502); in 1930 they were in Pittsburgh S355
Marriage1939
🆕 Virginia marriage certificate 49141 is her daughter's: Katharine Charlotte Ross, born at Beaver Falls, married Robert Brame Yates at Kernstown, Virginia, on 30 December 1939. It names her parents as Charles W. Ross and “Caroline Progger” of Pittsburgh S502. added 25 September 2026.
Children1915
🆕 Her first child, Karl Proeger Ross, was born on 14 September 1915 at College Hill, Big Beaver Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. His birth certificate gives his father as Charlie Ross, 35, an assistant auditor born in Indiana, and his mother as Caroline Proeger, 27, born in Pittsburgh Confirmed S958. Her age there fits a birth in 1888, not 1889. added 29 September 2026
Marriage1880
🆕 Her husband Charles W. Ross, an accountant born in Indiana on 11 August 1880, died at Latrobe on 16 November 1942, aged 62, and was buried at Woodlawn, Pittsburgh; the certificate names his wife Caroline, 55 Confirmed S1036. added 29 September 2026
Marriage1942
🆕 On 27 April 1942 her husband, signing as Charlie W. Ross, registered for the draft: born 11 August 1880 at Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana, living at the Hotel Loyal, Latrobe, and working for Stupakoff Ceramic and Mfg. Co. Confirmed S1045. Oddly, the card was registered by a Luzerne County board at Wyoming, Pennsylvania, not in Westmoreland County; the card does not say why. added 29 September 2026

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Thomas W. Roberts

Confirmed

Son of Henry S. Roberts · 1887–1905

Born
13 May 1887
Died
25 March 1905
Parents
Henry S. Roberts
Sources
1

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Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1887
Born 13 May 1887, Bellaire, Ohio; died 25 March 1905, Wheeling, West Virginia

Family

Parents
Son of Henry S. Roberts and Rose Alice Williams
his Ohio birth record and West Virginia death record both name them S92

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Harry Harrison Roberts

Confirmed

Son of Henry S. Roberts · 1889–1940

Born
19 May 1889
Died
12 November 1940
Parents
Henry S. Roberts
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1889
Born 19 May 1889, Bellaire, Ohio; died 12 November 1940, Pultney Township, Belmont County
Ohio deaths 1908–53. In 1940 a glass-company laborer at Lansing, Ohio, with his wife Amelia S352
Military1917
🆕 On 5 June 1917 he registered for the World War I draft at Wheeling, West Virginia: 28, single, a roller of zinc for the Hazel-Atlas Glass Co., living at 921 Market Street, with his mother, father and a sister depending on him S769. The card gives his birth, 19 May 1889 at Bellaire, to the day. It writes his middle name as Henry, where the family tree has Harrison; which is right is not settled. If you know, use “Add to this record”. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Parents
Son of Henry S. Roberts and Rose Alice Williams S92

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Christopher Baker Roberts

Confirmed

Son of Henry S. Roberts · born 1892

Born
9 December 1892
Parents
Henry S. Roberts
Sources
1

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1892
Born 9 December 1892, Bellaire, Ohio. Place of death not yet found

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Parents1910
Son of Henry S. Roberts and Rose Alice Williams
his Ohio birth record, the 1910 census and his WWII draft card S92

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Gertrude Proeger Murfin

Confirmed

Daughter of Julius Karl Proeger · died 1956

Born
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Died
18 March 1956
Married
Godfrey Murfin
Sources
11
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Birth
Born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; her death certificate names her father Julius Proeger and her mother's maiden name Wilhelmina Kochendoerfer S332
Julius Karl Proeger and Minnie Kochendoerfer
Census1920
In January 1920 a daughter, 32, in her father's house at 711 N. St. Clair Street, Pittsburgh, with her husband Godfrey Murfin S179
Death1956
Died 18 March 1956, aged 71; spouse Godfrey Murfin S332. Funeral 21 March 1956; buried at Smithfield S181
Census1950
🆕 In 1950 she and Godfrey were still at 711 N. St. Clair Street, Pittsburgh, he 73 and she 65 S372; added 24 September 2026.
Census1940
🆕 In April 1940 she was 56, with Godfrey, 63, and their daughter Marjorie, 22, in the house they owned at 5805 Hayes Street, Pittsburgh Ward 11, where they had also lived in 1935 Confirmed S942. added 29 September 2026
Census1930
🆕 In April 1930 she was at 711 N. St. Clair Street with Godfrey, 53, a linen salesman, and Marjorie, 12, in the house they owned, valued at $16,000 Confirmed S946. added 29 September 2026
Death1957
🆕 Godfrey died a widower at 711 N. St. Clair Street on 17 December 1957, aged 81; his death certificate names his wife as Gertrude Proeger, his parents as Godfrey Murfin and Hanna Kirkland, and the informant as their daughter Marjorie M. Veitch of Fairfield, Connecticut Confirmed S944. H. Samson buried him at Smithfield Cemetery on 20 December 1957, as they had buried Gertrude S945. added 29 September 2026
Census1881
🆕 Godfrey's English family, probably: a Godfrey Murfin, 4, born at Wem, is in the 1881 census at Aston Street, Wem, with his parents Godfrey, a wheelwright, and Hannah, both from Leek; in 1891 he is 14, a draper's apprentice, at 45 New Street Probable confirm or correct → S947S948. Evidence: the parents' names match his 1957 death certificate and the place and year match his 1931 petition. Weak: no record yet names Wem and the Pittsburgh family together. Know more? Add to this record. added 29 September 2026

Family

Marriage1876
🆕 Her husband Godfrey Murfin, born at Wem, England, in 1876, petitioned for citizenship at Pittsburgh on 24 March 1931. The petition says they married at Pittsburgh on 3 April 1915 and had one daughter, Marjone Louise, born 7 June 1917, and it gives Gertrude's birth as 7 May 1883 S365; added 24 September 2026. ⚠️ That date does not fit her age in 1920 or at her death.

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Godfrey Murfin

Confirmed

Husband of Gertrude Proeger Murfin · 1876–1957

Born
20 April 1876
Parents
Hanna Kirkland
Sources
13

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as the husband of Gertrude Proeger Murfin, the daughter of Julius Karl Proeger. His 1957 death certificate, read from the image, names his wife as Gertrude Proeger S944, and his 1931 citizenship petition gives their marriage at Pittsburgh on 3 April 1915 S365. Card added 1 October 2026
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Birth1876
🆕 Born 20 April 1876, by his 1918 draft card S1103, at Wem, Shropshire, England, by his petition S365. The General Register Office index lists his birth in the Wem district in April–June 1876, volume 6a, page 792 Confirmed S1102
Military1918
🆕 On 12 September 1918 he registered for the draft at Pittsburgh: 42, living at 711 N. St. Clair Street, a salesman for William Coulson & Son of 429 Fifth Avenue, New York; still a British subject who had not declared his intention to naturalize; nearest relative his wife Gertrude P. Murfin; tall, of medium build, with gray eyes and dark hair Confirmed S1103
Census1920
In January 1920 he lived at 711 N. St. Clair Street in the house of his father-in-law, Julius Proeger S179; in April 1930 he was 53, a linen salesman, owning the house S946. He petitioned for citizenship on 24 March 1931 S365
Census1932
🆕 The 1932 Pittsburgh directory lists him as a salesman, with his wife Gertrude P., householder at 711 N. St. Clair Confirmed S1104. In 1935 and April 1940 the family owned 5805 Hayes Street, Pittsburgh S942; by 1950 he and Gertrude were back at 711 N. St. Clair, he 73 S372
Death1957
Died a widower at 711 N. St. Clair Street on 17 December 1957, aged 81 S944; buried by H. Samson at Smithfield Cemetery on 20 December 1957, as Gertrude had been S945
Census1901
🆕 In 1901 he was a draper’s assistant in Birmingham, single and 24, living in at 132–133 New Street with ten other assistants and apprentices of a general draper; born at Wem, Shropshire Confirmed S1157.

Family

Parents1881
Son of Godfrey Murfin and Hanna Kirkland, by his death certificate S944. Probably the Godfrey Murfin, 4, born at Wem, in the 1881 census at Aston Street, Wem, with his parents Godfrey, a wheelwright, and Hannah, both from Leek, and the draper's apprentice of 14 at 45 New Street in 1891 Probable confirm or correct → S947S948. Evidence: the parents' names match the death certificate and the place and year match the petition. Weak: no record yet names Wem and the Pittsburgh family together
Marriage1915
Married Gertrude Proeger at Pittsburgh on 3 April 1915; one daughter, Marjone Louise, born 7 June 1917, by the petition S365. She is the Marjorie of the 1930 and 1940 censuses and the Marjorie M. Veitch of Fairfield, Connecticut, who gave the details on his death certificate S946S942S944

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Julius Herman Proeger

Probable

Son of Julius Karl Proeger · 1867–1945

Born
29 July 1867
Died
1945
Sources
5

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — added 24 September 2026 and entered in the family tree the same day, labelled probable there too; his identity is proven — U.S. passport applications of 1917–1921 and a 1917 consular registration give Julius (H.) Proeger, born 29 July 1867, Pittsburgh, wife Ida Waggoner Proeger; the Pennsylvania county marriages have Julius Proeger and Ida Waggoner, 12 June 1889, Pittsburgh; and the Florida death index has Julius H. Proeger, died 1945, Tampa. His parentage is probable: another user's shared tree lists him as a child of Julius and Sybylla Mine Kochendoerfer, and his brothers' and sisters' Social Security records name Julius and Mina Kochendoerfer of Pittsburgh, but no record read so far states his own parents
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Evidence: His identity is proven by passports and his marriage; his siblings' records name Julius and Mina Kochendoerfer. Weak or missing: No record read so far names his own parents; the link comes from another user's tree. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1867
Born 29 July 1867, Pittsburgh; married Ida Elizabeth Waggoner, 12 June 1889, Pittsburgh
Death1945
Died 1945, Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida (year only). Not the same man as Julius Gustav Proeger of Wooster, Ohio (died 1950)
Census1910
🆕 In 1910 he was a clerk at 1836 Lang Avenue, Pittsburgh (Ward 19), aged 42, married 21 years, and gave both parents as born in Germany. The household was Ida W., 39, and their only child, son Edgar W., 19 S456. added 25 September 2026.
Census1922
🆕 In the 1920s he was a salesman at Colón, Panama, and a Freemason of Chagres Lodge in the Canal Zone, raised in 1922 and suspended in August 1928; his lodge card repeats his birth as Pittsburgh, 29 July 1867 S559. A June 1891 parish register baptises his son Edgar Wagner Proeger, born 22 June 1890 S560. added 25 September 2026.

Family

Marriage1889
🆕 His 1889 marriage licence gives his name as “Julius Proeger Jr”, a clerk living at Uniontown; Ida Wagoner was born in Pittsburgh on 3 October 1869 and lived in the 32nd Ward S537. In 1930 he was a real-estate broker in Tampa, with Ida S546. added 25 September 2026.

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Probable
Probable eldest son of Julius Karl Proeger and Minnie Kochendoerfer; brother of William Leonard Proeger, Frederick Albert, Luis Walter, Gotleib and Caroline

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Jane Bell

TexasProbable

Possible wife of William Leonard Proeger Sr · c.1879–1955

Born
c.1879, Texas
Died
1955
Married
William Leonard Proeger Sr
Sources
6
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⚠ Not to be confused with Jane Bell (Martin), c.1794–1798, of Sumner County, Tennessee — Earl's 3rd-great-grandmother and the wife of Peter Hines Martin. Two different women, four generations apart, with the same name. No Sumner County fact belongs on this card.

Evidence: A FamilySearch family tree and family testimony. Weak or missing: No birth, marriage or death record has been read; c.1879 and 1955 are unsourced. William Leonard Proeger's wife until her death in August 1942 was Anna Blanche Roberts, and his own 1955 death notices name no wife, so a marriage to Jane Bell could only fall between August 1942 and December 1955, and none has been found. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1879
Born c.1879, Texas S12
Death1955
Died 1955 S12

Family

Marriage1876
Wife of William Leonard Proeger Sr (1876–1955), as a family tree has it; not proven, see the hold below S12S24

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Open question
⚠️ Not the mother of William Harry Proeger. A family tree and family testimony listed her as his mother S24, but his own sworn 1932 Ohio licence application gives his mother's maiden name as Anna B. Roberts S144, and Anna Blanche was William Leonard's wife until she died in August 1942 S1175. William Harry's mother is Anna Blanche Roberts.
Open question
⚠️ Hold on the marriage. William Leonard's death notices of 15 and 16 December 1955 list his children and sisters and name no wife S1176S1177. She stays on the record only as a possible later wife, until a Los Angeles County marriage record of 1942–1955 turns up.

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Frank Silva Jr, his mother Anna L. Silva and his father Frank Silva Sr — studio portrait, c. 1908–1912 (Patricia Collins's print)
Photograph, c. 1908-1912

Frank Silva Sr

Azores, PortugalConfirmed

The Azorean immigrant, June 1863 – 27 November 1946 · new to this record, 14 Sept 2026

Born
June 1863 in "Azores Port"
Died
27 November 1946
Buried
St. Joseph's Cemetery, Fremont / Centerville
Sources
14
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Death1946
Died 27 November 1946 at San Jose Hospital, aged 83, after more than fifty years at Mission San José; buried beside his wife at St. Joseph's, Fremont S67S54
Birth1863
Born June 1863 in "Azores Port"
his own line in the 1900 census: age 37, Head of household, married 13 years, arrived in the United States in 1888 S47
Census1910
The 1910 census of the same township puts father and son in one household on one line-pair
Frank Jr entered as Son, age 12, born California of two Portuguese parents — and records him a Foreman in a wine cellar, owning his house free of mortgage, married 23 years S146
Census1930
The 1930 census finds him still in Washington Township, in Mission Precinct, enumerated 7 April 1930
age 66, owning his home, valued $1,000, no radio set, occupation beginning "Farm", with Anna beside him at 61 S147
Arrival1930
🔑 He was naturalised — confirmed. Column 23 of the 1930 sheet reads Na for both him and Anna, in a clean cell. The reading was checked against control glyphs in the same hand on the same rows: the enumerator's capital N in "No" matches it exactly; his capital P in "Portugal" does not resemble it. That corroborates the blotted, unassignable superscript on the 1910 page, which on its own could not say S147S146
Death1930
🆕 Aileane Marie Silva is in his household in 1930, at 11, entered as grand daughter. Her father Frank Jr had died in 1924; her grandparents were raising her. This is the first document placing her in that house. ⚠️ The sheet gives only an age, bracketing her birth to 8 April 1918 × 7 April 1919
no day, no month S147
Census1940
The 1940 census, now read off the image rather than taken from an index, finds him at Mission San Jose in Washington Township
E.D. 1-180, sheet 20-B, line 59, household 481, enumerated 1 May 1940: age 76, Head, Widowed, birthplace "Azores", citizenship Na, home owned and valued $1,000 S149. The 1920 and 1930 returns say "Portugal" S48S49 — the same fact at lower resolution; enumerators commonly wrote the sovereign state.
Census1939
🔑 He owned and ran a grocery store. Occupation Owner, industry Grocery Store, 52 weeks worked in 1939, 48 hours in the census week, no wage line but other income of $50 or more
the signature of a self-employed proprietor. He was a farmer in 1930, so this is a documented change of trade at the age of 76, and it is the record behind the "former farmer and grocer" in his own obituary S149S67
Residence1935
🔑 Residence on 1 April 1935: "Same house." It is the one question no other census asks, and it holds him in that Mission San Jose house continuously from at least 1935 to 1940. With 1900, 1910, 1930 and his son's 1918 draft card, the family is documented in Washington Township without a gap S149S148
Census1920
🔑 The 1920 census puts four of them under one roof. At Mission San Jose Town in Washington Township
E.D. 213, sheet 8-B, lines 59–63, dwelling 131, family 132, enumerated 17 January 1920 — the household is Frank (Head), Anna (Wife), Frank (Son), Mildred entered as Daughter-in-law, and a boarder, Frank Vargas, aged 7. He is a Farmer on a general farm he holds owned, free of mortgage, with the farm-schedule mark in the margin S150
Arrival1895
🔑 It is the first document anywhere that DATES the naturalisation. Every other sheet writes only Na; this one writes immigrated 1895 and naturalised 1904 against both him and Anna. The blotted 1910 cell and the clean Na of 1930 and 1940 are finally given a year S150S146S147
Death1946
Island: Faial Confirmed
his own November 1946 obituary says it in plain words: "He was a native of Fayal, the Azores" S67. Before that it was an inference from the 1896 registers of two Portuguese fraternal lodges at Mission San Jose, UPEC Council No. 10 and IDES Council No. 1, which record a Francisco da Silva, 33, married, farm labourer, island Fayal, with Anna da Silva as his heir; and in the same IDES book in 1914 a Frank Silva, 16, born "Mission", names Anna L. Silva as his mother S64S65. The obituary names the same lodges, the same wife and the same son as those books, so it both settles the island and confirms that the lodge rows are this man. Mission San Jose in 1896–1914 is consistent with every census — none names a town before Niles in 1940 — and with Aileane's own "Mission San" birthplace.
Death1946
Died 27 November 1946 at San Jose Hospital, a resident of Mission San José for more than fifty years, a former farmer and grocer, member of IDES Council No. 1, St. Anthony's Sodality and UPEC S67; buried St. Joseph's Cemetery, Fremont / Centerville
the Portuguese Catholic cemetery of the Mission San Jose district S54
Photograph1908
🆕 Studio portrait, about 1908–1912 Confirmed (family testimony): he, his wife Anna and their son Frank Jr, from the print kept by his great-granddaughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins, who named all three on 1 October 2026: “Frank Da Silva Jr. My mother’s Dad, his Mother and Father Frank Da Silva Senior”. In Photos below.

Family

Marriage2026
🔑 Re-read 22 September 2026: the column reads Foreman, Wine Cellar, wage earner — and in 1910 his wife could speak English and he could not. The column asks whether able to speak English, or, if not, give language spoken; Annie's cell reads English, Frank's Portuguese. Ancestry files hers as Native Tongue: English, the reverse of what the column says. By 1930 both are marked as speaking English S146S147
Marriage1887
Married about 1887–1888, from both sides independently. The 1930 sheet records his age at first marriage as 24 and hers as 19, which agrees with the 12 June 1886 Santa Bárbara, Horta record and with 1910's married 23 years S147
Marriage1940
🔑 Widowed in 1940, and naturalised a third time. Column 13 reads Wd
Anna had died before 1 April 1940 — and column 17 reads Na, agreeing with 1930 and with the blotted 1910 cell S149

Open questions

Open question
⚠️ He is indexed in that census under the Anglicised spelling "Frank Silver", which is why earlier searches for Silva in Alameda County never surfaced him.
Open question
🔴 So a naturalisation file exists, and it is the most valuable document still unheld. He was naturalised in California between the 1900 return, which recorded him alien after twelve years, and 1930. A naturalisation packet carries an arrival date and often the vessel
the one thing four censuses have failed to agree on S147
Open question
⚠️ His year of arrival is not settled, and four censuses give four answers. 1900 says 1888, 1910 says 1887 (for his wife too, where 1900 had said 1895), and the 1930 sheet, read off the image, says 1891 for him and 1899 for her
the spread on her is now eleven years. ⚠️ Both 1930 immigration cells are over-inked and are read at high magnification against clean entries elsewhere on the same page. No year on this page is hardened. Only a passenger manifest or the naturalisation paper can close it S141S146S147
Open question
⚠️ The age columns and the gravestone: one disagreement, not three. Age 45 on 19 April 1910 implies a birth in April 1864×April 1865, against the June 1863 on the stone
a discrepancy, not a correction, because an age column is the enumerator's arithmetic. 🔑 But 1930 does not join it. Enumeration there was 7 April 1930, so age 66 means a birth between 8 April 1863 and 7 April 1864, and June 1863 falls inside that window — that sheet supports the stone. Ancestry's abt 1864 index is subtraction, not a reading. ⚠️ An earlier version of this page said three censuses pointed at 1864; that was our arithmetic and it is withdrawn. None of it settles the year: the 1862 Faial baptism outranks every age column, and 1862 is not 1863 S146S147
Open question
🔴 Four children born, one living. In 1910 Annie is recorded with 4 children born and only 1 living; in 1900 she had two born, two living
Mary, b. August 1896, and Frank. Mary and two further children, unnamed on any sheet held here, died between 1900 and 1910. No names, no dates, no places are on the document and none are supplied S146
Open question
⚠️ The 1940 age column does not settle the birth year either. Age 76 at census day 1 April 1940 brackets the birth to 2 April 1863 × 1 April 1864: June 1863 falls inside that window
and so does part of 1864. The sheet is consistent with the stone and is not an independent witness for either year. Ancestry's abt 1864 is subtraction from the census year, not a reading, and the withdrawn "three censuses" framing is not restored by it S149
Open question
⚠️ Correction: the sheet says Mission San Jose, not Niles. This page previously placed the 1940 return at Niles, following the FamilySearch index of E.D. 1-180 S50. The printed header of the sheet itself gives the township as Washington and the unincorporated place as Mission San Jose. Both lie in Washington Township, a few miles apart; where the sheet and the index differ, the sheet is preferred S149
Open question
⚠️ In 1940 he is enumerated alone
household 481 holds one person — so that document evidences no family relationship at all. He is, however, his own informant: the enumerator's circled informant mark stands beside his name S149
Open question
⚠️ A naturalisation year on a census is a pointer, not a certificate. It points at an Alameda County or federal naturalisation file of about 1904. That file has not been found, and until it is, 1904 is the enumerator's answer and not a recorded date S150
Open question
🔴 Correction stated on the page: his age on this sheet is wrong, and it is rejected here. He is entered as 64 in January 1920; June 1863 makes him 56, and Anna is entered as 62 against 1867, which makes her 52. Both are overstated by eight to ten years. The reason for rejecting them rather than reopening the birth year is on the same five lines of the sheet: the two young adults are exact
Frank Jr at 22 and Mildred at 21 are both right. The error is confined to the two people whose ages an informant would have been guessing, and 1910, 1930 and 1940 all agree with June 1863 once their reference dates are applied S150
Open question
⚠️ Aileane Marie Silva, born August 1918, is not on this sheet
she should be about sixteen months old, and the household runs Head, Wife, Son, Daughter-in-law, Boarder and stops. The record does not explain her absence and no explanation is supplied for it here. She appears in her grandparents' house ten years later, in 1930 S150S147
Open question
⚠️ The 1920 schedule records ages only — no months, no days — and writes "Portugal" as the whole birthplace. Azores and Fayal come from other documents S150S67
Open question
⚠️ A California Death Index entry for a Frank Silva, b. 1 June 1863, d. 27 November 1946 at Santa Barbara shares his birth date and his death date and is not him: the obituary puts this man's death at San Jose Hospital in Alameda County, for which that index is simply incomplete. Recorded here, and deliberately not attached, so that nobody buys the wrong certificate.

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Frank Silva Jr, his mother Anna L. Silva and his father Frank Silva Sr — studio portrait, c. 1908–1912 (Patricia Collins's print)
Photograph, c. 1908-1912

Anna "Annie" L. Silva

Azores, PortugalConfirmed

The Azorean immigrant · c.1866–1938

Born
about 1866–68 in "Azores Port"
Died
17 December 1938, Alameda County
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Birth1866
Born about 1866–68 in "Azores Port"
listed as Wife, age 34, on the same 1900 census page as her husband S47
Death1938
Died 17 December 1938, Alameda County; buried beside her husband at St. Joseph's S53S54. The dates interlock without strain: the 1940 census records Frank Sr as Widowed.
Census1930
She is the woman who raised Earl's grandmother. In 1930, six years after her son's death, Aileane is in her house, enumerated as "Granddaughter" S49
Death1905
Her death is carried in the California Death Index, 1905–1939, and the printed page
read from the image, not from a transcription — gives her state file number 71446: SILVA · ANNA · L · age 70 · 12 17 38 · 71446, page 6332 S136. There are eleven Anna Silvas on that page, which is why the line had to be read rather than assumed. Name, age and date all match what is already recorded; the index confirms and overturns nothing.
Photograph1908
🆕 Studio portrait, about 1908–1912 Confirmed (family testimony): she, her husband Frank Silva Sr and their son Frank Jr, from the print kept by her great-granddaughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins, who named all three on 1 October 2026: “Frank Da Silva Jr. My mother’s Dad, his Mother and Father Frank Da Silva Senior”. In Photos below.

Family

Marriage1910
🔑 She had the English in this house first. In 1910 her cell reads English and her husband's Portuguese
Ancestry's Native Tongue: English inverts the column. Frank was Foreman, Wine Cellar on the same sheet S146

Open questions

Open question
🔴 Four children born, one living. Her own columns on the 1910 sheet read four children born, one living
three children of Frank and Anna died before April 1910 and are named nowhere in this research. No names, no dates, no places are on the document and none are supplied S146
Open question
⚠ Her arrival year is an open question, and the 1930 sheet contradicts itself. 1910 gives 1887 for both of them, married 23 years; 1930 gives Frank 1891, Anna 1899
and on the same lines ages at first marriage of 24 and 19 put the marriage at c.1888, before either arrival. Either the 1930 years are wrong, or they married in the Azores and emigrated separately, husband first. Recorded, not resolved; a passenger list or the naturalisation petitions would close it S146S147
Open question
⚠️ Her maiden name is Not found
and that is a real gap, not an oversight. No record retrieved gives it, and the death index cannot: it is a printed list of surname, initial, age, date and file number, and it carries no parents and no birthplace. That is exactly what the file number is for. 71446 is the handle for ordering the actual California death certificate from Sacramento — the document that would name her parents and her birthplace, and so the one record that could speak to the Escobar/Faial question. The number is the next concrete step on this gap, not the answer to it S136.

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Antone Rose

Azores, PortugalProbable

Great-grandfather · b. Feb 1840 · d. 1910–1920

Born
February 1840, Portugal
Died
between April 1910 and January 1920
Married
Louise da G. de Mendonça
Children
Mildred A. Rose
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4
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Evidence: The 1900 and 1910 censuses, the 1879 Alameda marriage index and his son Joseph. Weak or missing: His death is only bracketed, 1910–1920; no death record or burial has been found. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1840
Born February 1840, Portugal
the 1900 census gives Feb 1840, age 60 S55, and the 1910 census age 62 S201 Confirmed. The 1920 census gives his son's father's birthplace as the Azores S314; the island is not recorded. The earlier "c.1864" on this page was our own misreading of the 1900 sheet.
Arrival1870
Immigrated 1870 S55
Death1910
Died between April 1910 and January 1920: alive in the 1910 census S201, absent in January 1920, when Louise is head of the household S314. The date "1932" came from a user tree and has been withdrawn: no Alameda Antone Rose/Rosa death appears in the California Death Index for 1932. A FamilySearch tree gives 1911, which no record read so far confirms.
Residence
Portuguese immigrant in the same township as the Silva family
both of Aileane's parental lines landed in the same few square miles of Alameda County S55

Family

Children1888
Son: Joseph Rose (b. Oct 1888, California) Confirmed S55
Children1900
Father of Mildred A. Rose (Aileane's mother)
listed as Head of household at Washington Township, Alameda County in 1900, with Mildred as Daughter, a twin with her brother Edward S55
Marriage1879
Married Louise da G. de Mendonça Probable confirm or correct → in 1879
the Alameda County marriage index dates it 3 Jan 1879 S315 (a FamilySearch tree gives 26 Jan; the ceremony date is unconfirmed), and the 1900 census says married 21 years S55

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Louise (Mendonça) Rose, from the Azores — outdoors, c. 1925–1936 — from the Patricia Collins collection
Photograph, c. 1925-1936

Louise Rose

Azores, PortugalProbable

Great-grandmother · b. c.1856 · d. probably 5 July 1936

Born
c.1855–56, Portugal
Died
5 July 1936
Parents
Francisco Dutra de Mendonça & Francisca Eugénia
Married
Antone Rose
Children
Mildred A. Rose
Sources
13
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Evidence: The 1900, 1910 and 1920 censuses, five records of her maiden name, and a 1936 California Death Index entry. Weak or missing: Her death rests on one index entry filed under Rosa, not Rose, with no certificate; her baptism is not found, and her parents come from a family tree. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Photograph1925
🆕 Photograph Confirmed: the only known photograph of her, outdoors in a garden, about 1925–1936, from the collection of her great-granddaughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins, who identified it on 1 October 2026: “Great Grandmother Rose. From the Azore island.” Family testimony; the print itself is unlabelled. See Photos below.
Birth1855
Born c.1855–56, Portugal
the Azores, per the 1920 census S314; island not recorded — aged 44 in the 1900 census S55 and 54 in 1910 S201; the 1900 birth-year column contradicts its own age column, and two censuses agree on the age S12
Death1936
🆕 Died, probably, 5 July 1936, California Probable confirm or correct →: the California Death Index has “Rosa, Luiza G. A.”, aged 80, file 40139 S624. The name fits her maiden name, Louise da G. de Mendonça, and the age fits a birth about 1856. It is filed under Rosa, not Rose, and the certificate has not been ordered, so it stays probable. The date “1953” is withdrawn: it came from a user tree S12 with no record behind it. added 26 September 2026. She is alive in January 1920 as head of her own household at Washington Township S314.

Family

Children1888
Son: Joseph Rose (b. Oct 1888, California) Confirmed S55
Children1898
Mother of Mildred A. Rose and her twin brother Edward (both b. July 1898)
listed as Wife, age 44, in the 1900 census household of Antone Rose S55
Marriage1879
Married Antone Rose in 1879
indexed 3 Jan 1879 in Alameda County S315; the ceremony date is unconfirmed S55
Children1900
Nine children born, eight living in 1900: Rose (Nov 1879), Louise (June 1885), Antone Jr (June 1887), Joseph (Oct 1888), Frank (May 1891), the twins Edward and Mildred (July 1898), and Helen (Oct 1899) S55
Parents1879
Maiden name Mendonça Confirmed
five records name her so: the 1879 Alameda marriage index, "L. da G. de Mendonca" S315; Joseph's 1913 marriage, "Louisa Mendosa" S317; Helen's 1918 marriage, "Louise Mendonca" S319, and Helen's NUMIDENT, "Louisa Mendonca" S320; and Mildred's 1960 death index entry S316. Frank's 1914 marriage gives "Louise Silver" S318. The fuller form "Dutra de Mendonça" Probable confirm or correct → comes from a FamilySearch tree S322.
Parents1847
Parents Probable confirm or correct → Francisco Dutra de Mendonça and Francisca Eugénia of Feteira, Faial, the Azores. A FamilySearch tree places her in their family S322, and the baptisms of two of its children, Francisca (1847) and Manoel (1850), are indexed at Horta S321. Her own 1856 baptism has not been found, so the link is not yet proven.

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Portrait of David E. 'Dee' Coffman
Photograph,

David Emily "Dee" Coffman

VirginiaConfirmed

1857–1938

Born
8 August 1857, Page County, Virginia
Died
28 April 1938 at Merkel, Taylor County, Texas
Buried
Dudley Cemetery, Callahan County
Parents
David Carl Coffman & Emily M. Thornhill
Married
Mary Jane "Mollie" Wright
Sources
14
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3
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Birth1857
Born 8 August 1857, Page County, Virginia
the Page County birth register, which indexes the family under KAUFMAN while every census writes Coffman S82
Death1938
Died 28 April 1938 at Merkel, Taylor County, Texas, aged 80, widowed; buried Dudley Cemetery, Callahan County
his Texas death certificate no. 20503, which names his father as David Coffman and leaves his mother's name blank S20. FindAGrave's "Callahan County" is the cemetery's county, not the place he died.
Burial1856
The year 1856, long carried here, came only from an unsourced memorial. The birth register, the death certificate's stated age, and a family record typed by his grandson Robert William Coffman all give 1857 S72. Corrected 16 September 2026.
Photograph2026
🆕 He and Mollie are now placed in their own family photograph, 18 September 2026. Virginia "Ginger" Coffman returned a labelled copy of the group photograph held under their names, captioned in her own hand "Dee Coffman Family / Circa 1924", with fourteen faces named S108: Dee seated at the centre with the white moustache and Mollie seated beside him; standing behind them James Burton Coffman, Robert William Coffman, Sue, Lucy, Lydia Mae and Lee Coffman; seated to the left of centre James David Coffman; and among the children Lydia Francis Coffman, Ila Belle Coffman, Horace Glenn Coffman, David Coffman and Jesse Coffman. Ten of the fourteen are new
four had been picked out on 16 September by Earl's uncle David Coffman. This adds to the record; it corrects nothing: the photograph was always this family's. The names are family testimony Probable confirm or correct →, and her circa 1924 narrows the page's old estimate of 1923–1930 without turning into a document. One small echo: the boy she names Horace Glenn Coffman is almost certainly the "1 Horace Coffman (one and only)" counted in red ink on Robert William Coffman's own notes sheet S103 — two family sources, decades apart, touching the same child.
Census1870
🆕 His census trail, 1870–1930, added 24 September 2026. In 1870 he was 12 and at school in his father's household at Luray S344. In 1880 he was a share tenant farming 60 acres in Precinct 7, Dallas County, four dwellings from his father-in-law Dr James W. Wright S345S346. In 1910 he was renting near Abilene, and Mollie reported 10 children born, 7 living
among them Daisy and Dee Carl, who are not on the 1924 photograph S347. By 1920 he owned a mortgaged farm in Precinct 7, Taylor County S348, and in 1930 his own home on RFD 2 Abilene, with Mollie's widowed brother James B. Wright living with them S349. Their daughter Daisy Holly, born 5 April 1896, died at Abilene on 17 March 1934, nine months before her mother S350.

Family

Parents1883
🆕 His father's will (Page County Will Book P–S, p. 158, proved 28 February 1883) names him as David E. Coffman, one of five children. That makes three documents for his parentage S489S82S20. added 25 September 2026.
Marriage1878
Married Mary Jane "Mollie" Wright on 27 October 1878 at Dallas S72
Parents1812
Parents David Carl Coffman (13 Dec 1812 – 25 Jan 1883, Luray) and Emily M. Thornhill (7 Apr 1820 – 21 Jul 1868, Hawksbill), both of Page County, Virginia
the birth register names David C. and Emily M. S82 and their chalked gravestones supply the dates S83. His middle name is his mother's given name; she died when he was ten.

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Detail of Mary Jane "Mollie" Wright Coffman, seated, from the Dee Coffman family photograph of about 1924
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Mary Jane "Mollie" Wright

TexasConfirmed

1859–1934

Born
23 October 1859, Dallas County, Texas
Died
6 December 1934
Buried
Dudley Cemetery
Parents
James W. Wright & Lucy Brooks
Married
David Emily "Dee" Coffman
Children
James David "Jim" Coffman
Sources
17
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2
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🆕 A face, at last. Added 18 September 2026. This is a detail cut from the Dee Coffman family group photograph, not a portrait sitting of its own: she is seated beside her husband, spectacles, light blouse, a small child at her shoulder. Virginia "Ginger" Coffman, Earl's aunt, returned a copy of that photograph with names typed onto the faces and placed Mollie in it S108. She has had no established photograph anywhere in this record until now. The identification is family testimony — a relative naming relatives she knew — Probable; the photograph itself and its attribution to her family are unchanged and stay Confirmed. The link opens the full labelled frame, because the frame is the evidence and this crop is a derivative of it.

Life

Birth1859
Born 23 October 1859, Dallas County, Texas S21S81
Death1934
Died 6 December 1934 at 7:20 p.m., two miles south of Potosi, Taylor County, aged 75, of cerebral haemorrhage; buried Dudley Cemetery on the 8th
her Texas death certificate no. 56943, read from the image S81
Census1860
🆕 In the 1860 census, read from the image, she is Mary J., 9/12, born Texas, in the Dallas County household of Jas. W. Wright, 35, physician and farmer, with L. C., 28, Sally, 8, and Jas. B., 4 Confirmed S1004. Her parents appear here in a record made in her infancy. Thomas Wright, 67, born North Carolina, and Martha, 65, lived next door; they may be her grandparents, but that rests on adjacency alone. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
Record1935
🆕 She left a will. On 19 June 1935 the Taylor County Court admitted the will of Mary Jane Coffman to probate, case no. 2282, and named David E. Coffman executor, as the will asked; her husband was David Emily “Dee” Coffman, but the page does not say how the executor was related to her Confirmed S1099. Only the first page of the will has been read
Census1870
🆕 In the 1870 census she is Mary J., 10, born in Texas, in Dallas County with her father, Dr James W. Wright, 45, a physician, and her mother Luciana, 38, both born in Tennessee. W. A. Brooks, 35, also born in Tennessee, lived with them Confirmed S1132.

Family

Children1881
🆕 Mother of James David “Jim” Coffman (1881–1972): his Texas death certificate names her as Molly Jane Wright S134, and FamilySearch indexes of his death, of the deaths of his brothers Dee Carl and Joseph Franklin, and of his brother Jesse Lee's Social Security record all give the parents as D. E. Coffman and Mary Jane Wright S831. added 28 September 2026.
Parents1937
🆕 Her parents, James W. Wright and Lucy Brooks, now have cards of their own Confirmed. Her brother J. B. Wright's 1937 Texas death certificate, read from the image, names the same parents, James Wright and Lucie Brooks, both born Tennessee, and its informant was her son J. D. Coffman S1074. added 30 September 2026
Parents1892
Parents Dr. James W. Wright and Lucy C. Brooks, both born Tennessee
named on that certificate S81, and confirmed from the other direction by History of Dallas County (1892), pp. 687–688, which lists "Mary J., wife of David E. Coffman, of Taylor county" among Dr. Wright's six children S85
Marriage1878
Married David Emily "Dee" Coffman on 27 October 1878 at Dallas
three months after her father signed his will, which leaves the estate to his two youngest children, Jessee and Kate S72S84
Children2026
🆕 Her son's death certificate names her Molly Jane Wright, 21 September 2026. James David "Jim" Coffman died at Abilene in December 1972 and the informant was his own son, Jesse J. Coffman
her grandson, writing her name as the family said it S134. This is an addition to her record, not a correction of it. Mollie is what her family called her and what her son's record gives; the formal Mary Jane on her own certificate S81 and in the 1924 photograph's caption S108 is the same woman, written formally. Nothing here demotes either name
Parents2026
🆕 Her parents on a census, added 24 September 2026. In 1880 Dr James W. Wright, 55, physician, and Lucy C., 48, lived with Jesse, 10, and Kate, 7, four dwellings from the newlyweds in Precinct 7, Dallas County S345. Her brother James B. Wright lived with her and Dee in 1920 and 1930 S348S349. In 1910 she was the mother of 10 children, 7 then living S347; her daughter Daisy Holly died at Abilene on 17 March 1934 S350.

Open questions

Open question
⚠️ Her gravestone and her memorial give 1935 S21; the state certificate and the family typescript S72 both say 1934, and the certificate is followed here. The stone's year is most likely the registrar's filing stamp, JAN 10 1935, on the certificate itself.

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William Anderson Bowles

KentuckyConfirmed

1858–1936

Born
9 April 1858, Owsley County, Kentucky
Died
1940
Parents
Jas. Bowles
Married
Iona Belle Brock
Children
Alice Bagby, Ethel Maude NeSmith, Reynolds, William Anderson Bowles Jr., James Daniel Bowles, Robert Anthony Bowles and 1 more
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44
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Birth1858
Born 9 April 1858, Owsley County, Kentucky S160S22
🔑 the date no longer rests on Find a Grave. The Owsley County birth register for 1858 records it on row 5 in a county clerk's hand at the time: "April 9th", child Wm. A. Bowles, Alive, born Owsley Co., Ky S160. S160 is cited ahead of S22.
Census1940
🆕 Dead by 1940: the Amarillo directory for that year lists his wife as “Iona B (wid W A)” S373; added 24 September 2026.
Death1936
🆕 His death is in the Texas death index as certificate 23075, Taylor County, 3 April 1936 S557. A different William Anderson Bowles, of Wood County, died in 1940; he is not this man. added 25 September 2026.
Record1907
🆕 A William A. Bowles was appointed postmaster at Potosi, Taylor County, on 15 May 1907, succeeding William L. Simpson Probable confirm or correct → S988. Evidence: the name and the family's town; his son William Jr. was 14. Weak: the register gives no age or other identifier. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
Census1918
🆕 In 1918 James D. Bowles, 36, born in Arkansas, was a preacher at Rogers, Benton County, Arkansas, when the birth of his second child, Richard William Bowles, born 1918, was registered; the mother is Bessie Bagby, 31, born in Missouri Confirmed S1142.
Death1936
Died 3 April 1936, Abilene, Taylor County, Texas; buried Potosi Cemetery S22

Family

Parents1870
🔑 His parents are named on his own birth row, in words. The same register gives father Jas. Bowles and Maiden name of Mother: Lydia Williams S160
the first documentary statement of the parent–child link anywhere in this research. Before it, the tie to James Daniel Bowles and Lydia Williams ran through Find a Grave S22 and through a son William, 12, of exactly the right age on the 1870 Owsley household S157. ⚠ Ancestry's index of that register carries no date at all; the date exists only on the image.
Children1882
🆕 His son James Daniel Bowles Probable confirm or correct →, born 23 January 1882 at Cass, Arkansas, died 20 November 1941 at Michigan City, LaPorte County, Indiana; his wife was Bessie Alice. He married her as Alice Bagby at Aurora, Lawrence County, Missouri, on 12 June 1912, by the licence, read from the image S938; in 1925 he was a clergyman living in the parsonage at Abilene, Kansas, with his wife Bessie A. and two sons S939. The Indiana death index names his parents as Wm A. Bowles and “Ioma” S890, and his Find a Grave memorial agrees S891; he is in Atwood, Kansas in 1930 S892 and Crown Point, Indiana in 1940 S893. He is the eldest son in the 1900 household S140: re-read at full resolution on 29 September 2026, the line gives James D., born probably January 1882 in Arkansas, where the earlier transcription had James E., June 1882. Research status: PROBABLE, accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. What is weak: the death certificate is read from its index only, not the image, and the link to his parents rests on that index and Find a Grave. added 28 September 2026.
Children1893
🆕 His son William Anderson Bowles Jr. Probable confirm or correct →, born 28 April 1893 at Elmdale, Taylor County, Texas, died 15 September 1957 at Pasadena, California, and buried at Rose Hills, by his Find a Grave memorial S899; the Social Security claims index names his wife as Evelyn J. Smith S900, and he is traced in the 1930, 1940 and 1950 censuses S901S902S903. He fits the William A., born April 1893 in Texas, of the 1900 household S140, and is probably the private William A. Bowles whose mother was “Bell Bowles” of Abilene in 1918 S773. Research status: PROBABLE, accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. What is weak: no California marriage or death certificate has been read; his birth and death dates come from Find a Grave. added 28 September 2026.
Children1895
🆕 His daughter Iona Belle Bowles Noonan Probable confirm or correct →, born 18 January 1895, died 10 September 1986, wife of Charles Francis Noonan; her Find a Grave memorial names the same parents S905. Research status: PROBABLE, accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. The Iona B. Reah, 55, of Hermosa Beach in 1950, living with her sister Jean Julius S637, is this daughter: a 1936 directory lists her at Hermosa Beach as Iona B., wife of Glanton Reah, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce S940. What is weak: her dates and the Noonan marriage rest on Find a Grave alone, and whether Mrs Reah later became Mrs Noonan has not been checked. added 28 September 2026.
Children1902
🆕 His son John Wesley Bowles Probable confirm or correct →, born 26 June 1902 at Potosi, Taylor County, died 6 December 1960 at Abilene; his Texas death certificate names his father as W. A. Bowles and his mother as “Belle Broach” S904. His own 1942 draft card, read from the image, gives the same birth date, 26 June 1902; it says Abilene, the county seat beside Potosi S934. He married Ethel Maude NeSmith, as a daughter's Texas birth certificate names her S936. In 1940 his household is on the same census sheet as his brother Alfred's family S935, and in 1950 he is the John W. Bowles, 47, farming next door to Alfred S743. The same birth date is given for his brother Thomas L. Bowles; John Wesley's is now settled from his own draft card, so whether they were twins turns on Thomas L.'s date, which is not yet checked. Research status: PROBABLE, accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. What is weak: the link to his parents rests on the index of his death certificate, whose image has not been read. added 28 September 2026.
Children1904
🆕 His son Robert Anthony Bowles Probable confirm or correct →, born 3 April 1904 at Potosi, Taylor County, died 27 February 1974 at Phoenix, Arizona; his wife was Geneva Annie Reynolds, as a daughter's 1932 Texas birth certificate names her S937. The Social Security death index gives 3 April 1904 and February 1974 S894; his Find a Grave memorial names his parents as William Anderson and Iona Belle S895. He registered for the draft S896 and lived in Amarillo in 1940 and 1950 S897S898, two doors from his brother Warren Debs S507. Research status: PROBABLE, accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. What is weak: his Arizona death certificate has not been read, and the draft card gives 4 April. added 28 September 2026.
Children1942
🆕 His son William Anderson Bowles Jr. signed his own 1942 draft card at 4706 Klamath Street, Los Angeles, giving his birth as 28 April 1893, Abilene, Texas Confirmed S1022. This puts the birth date on a record in his own hand; Abilene is the Taylor County seat. added 29 September 2026
Children1917
🆕 His son William Anderson Bowles Jr. had registered for the First World War draft on 5 June 1917 in Precinct 9, Taylor County: aged 24, of Route 2, Abilene, born 28 April 1893 at Abilene, a farmer, single Confirmed S1082. The date agrees with his 1942 card. added 30 September 2026
Parents1920
🆕 William Jr. is probably the “Bales, William A”, 26, single, a farmer born in Texas to parents born in Kentucky, in Belvidere Township, Los Angeles County, in 1920 Probable confirm or correct → S1023. Evidence: his age, his birthplace and both parents’ birthplaces fit. Weak: the surname is spelled Bales. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
Children1920
🆕 His son James Daniel Bowles was a merchant with a music store at 302 North 5th Street, Rogers, Arkansas, in 1920, aged 37, with his wife Bessie A. and two sons Confirmed S1026. added 29 September 2026
Children1930
🆕 His son Robert Anthony Bowles was single in April 1930, a roomer on Pierce Street in Amarillo and a presser in a dry-cleaning plant Confirmed S1027, so he married Geneva Reynolds between 1930 and 1932. added 29 September 2026
Children1932
🆕 His son William A. Bowles Jr. and Evelyn J. were living at 4838 South Huntington Drive, Los Angeles, in 1932, where he was a clothes cleaner Confirmed S1119. That address falls between the ones in his 1930 and 1940 censuses.
Marriage1880
Married Iona Belle Brock on 24 December 1880 Confirmed
the date in the family typescript S72; Find a Grave gives 1880; Iona was single in her family's household at Hilburn in the June 1880 census S166, which a December wedding fits S22S23

Open questions

Open question
⚠️ His death certificate says 9 April 1856; the Owsley County birth record says 1858. The memorial flags the discrepancy itself.

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Portrait of Iona Belle Brock (Mrs. William Anderson Bowles)
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Iona Belle Brock

KentuckyConfirmed

1865–1947

Born
31 December 1865, London, Laurel County, Kentucky
Died
4 July 1947, Potosi, Taylor County, Texas
Buried
Potosi, 6 July 1947
Parents
Solomon Alfred Brock
Married
William Anderson Bowles
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17
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Birth1865
Born 31 December 1865, London, Laurel County, Kentucky S170 S23
Death1947
Died 4 July 1947, Potosi, Taylor County, Texas, aged 81 years 6 months 3 days; buried Potosi, 6 July 1947 S170 S23
Cause
Cause of death coronary thrombosis; widowed; occupation housewife S170
Death2026
🔑 Updated 22 September 2026. Her own Texas standard certificate of death, no. 31724, filed at Abilene on 11 July 1947 by the local registrar — seven days after the death — has been read at full resolution S170. Four facts move off Find a Grave onto it: the birth date, the birthplace, the death date and the burial, all of which stood on a memorial alone S23. S170 is cited ahead of S23 for all four. And her parentage is stated in words for the first time — field 10 names her father, field 12 her mother's maiden name — corroborating the 1865 Harlan County marriage register's Matildia Howard S151. ⚠ The caveat travels with it: the informant, Iona Reah of Hermosa Beach, California, named for the deceased and almost certainly a daughter, was reporting her own grandparents. Second-hand, far better than a compiled memorial, and not primary. 🔑 London is the seat of Laurel County — the county the 1860 census puts her father's family in S167. The tree had the place from a memorial; it now has a reason. 🔑 She is on the 1870 and 1880 schedules too: Iona B., 4, in Valley Township, Madison County, Arkansas in July 1870 S153 — a reading her 1880 age of 14 settles against three earlier alternatives — and Iona B., 14, eldest of six in her mother's household at Hilburn Township in June 1880 S166.
Census1910
In 1910 she was the mother of 18 children born, 15 living S186. Widowed, she was living in 1940 with her daughter L. Jean Julius at 912 Buchanan, Amarillo S185.
Census1940
🆕 The 1940 Amarillo directory lists her as “Bowles Iona B (wid W A)” at 912 Buchanan, the address of the 1940 census S373; added 24 September 2026.
Census1950
🆕 The 1950 census of Hermosa Beach lists Iona B. Reah, 55, born Texas, as the head of a household that included her sister Jean Julius S637, so the informant Iona Reah was Iona's daughter. added 26 September 2026.
Military1918
🆕 A World War I transport list for Co. D, 111th Ammunition Train, 36th Division, has Bowles, William A., private first class, no. 1480433, whose person to notify is “Bell Bowles, mother, R.R. #2, Abilene, Texas” S773 Probable confirm or correct →. It puts the family on a rural route out of Abilene in 1918 and points to a son William A. who served in the war. What is weak: no other record read so far names this son. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Parents
Father Solomon Alfred Brock · mother's maiden name Matilda Howard, both born Kentucky S170
Marriage1880
Married William Anderson Bowles on 24 December 1880 Confirmed, the date in the family typescript S72; she was still single at home in the June 1880 census S166, which a December wedding fits. Her brother John B. and her grandparents James and Elizabeth Brock have cards too
Children1882
🆕 Five more of her children Probable confirm or correct →: James Daniel Bowles (1882–1941), whose Indiana death index gives his mother as “Ioma” S890; William Anderson Bowles Jr. (1893–1957) S899; Iona Belle Bowles Noonan (1895–1986) S905; John Wesley Bowles (1902–1960), whose Texas death certificate gives his mother as “Belle Broach” S904; and Robert Anthony Bowles (1904–1974) S895. Details are on William Anderson Bowles's card. Research status: PROBABLE, accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. What is weak: the death certificates are read from their indexes only, and two of the five rest mainly on Find a Grave. added 28 September 2026.

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James Harris Timberman Sr.

New JerseyConfirmed

Louise's grandfather · 1858–1919

Born
June 1858
Buried
at Mt. Greenwood Cemetery on 5 June 1919
Parents
John H. Timberman & Rebecca Anna Harris
Married
Louise Emma Harbauer
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14
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Death1886
He is the father of James Harris Timberman Jr., and the two men are easy to confuse: the son is 1886–1919 and died in Ohio; this man is 1858–1919 and died in Pennsylvania. They died four months apart in the same year. The son's 1919 Ohio death certificate names him as "J. H. Timberman Sr", born New Jersey, which is what ties the two records to each other S79
Birth1858
Born June 1858 Confirmed
and settled across three independent sources. The tree carried 4 January 1858 and was wrong. His 1919 Pennsylvania death certificate writes line 6 out in words — June / Fourth / 1858 — and its age-at-death field, 60 yrs 11 mos 30 ds against a death of 3 June 1919, agrees with itself S93. The 1900 census of Wilkes-Barre, taken nineteen years earlier while he was alive, records him as born June 1858 and gives age 41 at the 1 June 1900 census date — right for the fourth of June, and wrong for the fourth of January S139. The 1860 census has him at 2 years old at Salem, New Jersey, which agrees again S94
Work1900
A Veterinary Surgeon Confirmed
and the trade is recorded twice, nineteen years apart: on the 1900 census as his occupation at 41 S139, and again on line 8a of the 1919 death certificate S93. ⚠️ On both records the occupation exists only in the image — Ancestry's transcription of neither carries it. It is the clearest thing this line has to show for reading pages at full resolution instead of trusting an index
Census1884
🆕 In the 1884 Wilkes-Barre directory, aged about 26, he was a veterinary surgeon with office and home at 96 Public Square, and advertised as “Dr. J. H. Timberman … Member of Penn'a College of Veterinary Surgeons” S375
sixteen years before the 1900 census; added 24 September 2026.
Census1860
The 1860 census puts the whole household at Salem, Salem County, New Jersey: John Timberman 34, Rebecca A. 37, James H. 2, Esther A. 14 and John H. 7/12 S94. ⚠️ That places the family at Salem in 1860; it is not itself a statement of where the two-year-old was born. New Jersey is confirmed by the 1900 census's nativity column and by the son's Ohio certificate; Salem County is the household's place, and the stronger of the two claims
Death1870
Louise first appears at seven in Philadelphia in 1870 S175, and in 1880 at 17 in the house of her widowed mother Eva Harbauer, 149 Noble Street S176. A Jas Timberman, 22, boarded in the next house, 151 Noble Street
his age, and identified by name and age only.
Census1900
In 1900 the directory lists him as a veterinarian, business and house at 8 E. Union, Wilkes-Barre S178; by 1910 the family lived at 293 North Main Street, where the census gives his trade as doctor in general practice S177.
Death1919
He died 3 June 1919 at Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, one day before his sixty-first birthday, of carcinoma of the prostate of a year's duration, at 60 South Washington Street. He was buried at Mt. Greenwood Cemetery on 5 June 1919; the undertaker was W. E. Doran & Sons and the return was filed on the 4th
certificate 69731, registered 642, district 667 S93
Two small things on the certificate are deliberately not turned into facts. The informant is a W. Timberman of West Virginia — the surname is legible at full resolution, the given initials are not, and they have not been expanded into a guess. And Ancestry indexes the entire 1900 household as "Limberman"; the enumerator's looped capital is a T, so that is a transcription artefact and not a name variant to be recorded. What is still open above him is his father: John H. Timberman's own parents are not found, and he is absent from the 1850 New Jersey census index across 194 Timberman results. The New Jersey Births and Christenings Index (1660–1931) is the next place to look, and it would also be the only document that could put a second, independent source behind 4 June.

Family

Parents1858
The day, 4 June, is now settled. The Upper Alloways Creek township return of births, made on 15 July 1858, gives June 4 1858 at Allowaystown and names his parents John Timberman & Rebecca, his father a carpenter S374; added 24 September 2026.
Siblings1864
🆕 His sister Rebecca Timberman Harbauer (1864–1944) married Henry C. Harbauer; her death certificate names the same parents, John Timberman and Rebecca Harris S579. So a Timberman brother and sister both married Harbauers. That Henry C. was Louise Emma's brother is not yet proven. added 25 September 2026.
Parents1826
His parents are confirmed by his own death certificate: father John H. Timberman (b.~1826), mother Rebecca Anna Harris (b.~1823) S93 Confirmed. His middle name Harris is his mother's maiden name, carried forward
and then given to his son as well, which is why three generations answer to the same three words
Marriage1863
He married Louise Emma Harbauer
on the site's older reading of the dates she is simply "1863–1934"; the 1900 census fills her in. She was born June 1863 in Pennsylvania of two German-born parents, and the same sheet records three children born, three living S139
Children1870
At twelve, in 1870, he worked in a cotton mill at Gloucester City, New Jersey S189. By 1914 he practised as Timberman & Church, veterinary surgeons, rear 15 N Main S190; his son Albert N. named him next of kin in 1916 at 60 S. Washington St. S200.
Marriage1886
The marriage is dated to about 1886, and the derivation is worth stating plainly: the 1900 schedule records them as married 14 years, which counts back to 1886 S139. ⚠️ No marriage record has been retrieved, and a years-married column is a round number given to an enumerator, not a register entry. It is corroborated from an unusual direction
their eldest son was born October 1886 — which brackets the wedding tightly but also means the census figure and the son's birth are describing one and the same year with no room to spare
Children1900
The 1900 household is the only place all three sons appear together: James H., Oct 1886, at school at 13; George W., Feb 1892; and Albert, Aug 1893 S139. They are at house 8, dwelling 38, family 44, Ward 5, 2nd Division, enumerated 1 June 1900 by John Shadrach. Only the eldest has a page of his own here; George and Albert are recorded and not yet traced

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Joseph Daniel Martin

TennesseeProbable

Great-grandfather · 1832–1899

Born
1832
Died
1899
Married
Nannie Chenault
Children
Nancy Louise Martin
Sources
6
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Life

Birth1832
Born 1832, Tennessee
the year on his double headstone S86; aged 37 in the 1870 census, District 12, Sumner County, a farmer with Nannie, 26, Louisa, 3, and Mary, 1 S202
Death1899
Died 1899 — the headstone S86. The FamilySearch tree's later dates S12 are withdrawn: the headstone, the 1870 census and his father's 1849 will all place his birth in the early 1830s.

Family

Children
Father of Nancy Louise Martin (Timberman line) S12
Marriage
Married Nannie Chenault S12
Parents1849
🔑 Named in his father's will, 30 June 1849 S172
"To Joseph D Martin I give unto a light bay filly now two years old", inside the passage disposing of Peter H. Martin's estate for the benefit of my children, beside David B. and after Robert B. Martin. His parentage no longer rests on two census households S98 S161. ⚠ The will never writes the word son; the structure of the bequest carries it.

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Nannie Chenault

TennesseeConfirmed

Great-grandmother · 1844–1915

Born
26 January 1844
Died
14 April 1915
Parents
David Chenault & Louisa Quisenberry
Married
Joseph Daniel Martin
Sources
9
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Birth1844
Born 26 January 1844, Tennessee
her own death certificate S208, and the same day is cut on her headstone S86
Death1915
Died 14 April 1915, 10th Civil District, three miles east of Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee; buried Gallatin Cemetery 16 April S208. ⚠️ The headstone reads the day as APR. 4 S86; the certificate, written at the time, is followed. The earlier about 1849 – 1924 on this card came from a user tree and is withdrawn.
Census1930
The Chenault name appears as a boarder in Nancy's 1930 household
"Chenault, Ermin, 28", a woman boarder, a saleslady in dry goods — corroborating the family connection S27
Census1910
🆕 In 1910, aged 66, still on her own farm with her daughter Emma and her sister-in-law Martha Gillispie, 75 S378.

Family

Parents
Father: David Chenault Probable confirm or correct →
Parents
Mother: Louisa Quisenberry Probable confirm or correct → S333S97S206
Marriage
Wife of Joseph Daniel Martin, mother of Nancy Louise Martin S12
Marriage1900
🆕 Widowed by 1900 and farming her own farm in District 10, Sumner County; mother of 8 children, 7 living; her parents both born in Kentucky. At home were her daughters E. L., a school teacher, M. E., a music teacher, and Nanie, and her son John, born August 1880 S377; added 24 September 2026.

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Julius Karl Proeger

WürttembergConfirmed

The immigrant · 1844–1924

Born
15 April 1844
Died
6 January 1924, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Parents
Georg Melchior Julius Prüger
Sources
14
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Birth1844
Born 15 April 1844 at Kirchberg an der Jagst, Oberamt Gerabronn, Württemberg
the register writes the place Gerabronn, Kirchberg u. Oa., and his siblings' entries read Kirchberg (OA. Gerabronn) — and baptised Carl Julius Prüger at that Lutheran parish on 28 April — the Württemberg church book S69, matched to the exact birth date on his Pennsylvania death certificate S68
Death1924
Died 6 January 1924, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, aged 79; buried Smithfield East End Cemetery, Pittsburgh S19
Arrival1874
He was naturalized in 1874, at Pittsburgh
his own 1920 census line reads immigrated 1865, Na 1874, and his son's sworn 1919 passport application gives the same year and says the certificate was presented S179S180. The certificate is still unlocated; the passport file's own pointer is passport no. 50070 of 16 June 1917.
Census1920
In January 1920, widowed, he owned 711 N. St. Clair Street, Pittsburgh, with his daughter Gertrude and her husband Godfrey Murfin S179; Gertrude was still in the house when she died in 1956 and was buried at Smithfield S181. A son, Julius Jr, born Pittsburgh 29 July 1867, married Ida Waggoner S180.
Census1880
In June 1880 he was a machinist on Virginia Street, Pittsburgh Ward 32, with Mena and four children: Julius 12, George 8, Frederick 6 and Mena 2 S183.
Ten Proeger arrivals from Bremen, Hamburg and Rotterdam between 1857 and 1891 are indexed S2. The nearest fit by age is "PROEGER, JULS., from Germany, age 21, laborer, New York, 1 November 1865, ship Saxonia" — a 21-year-old in 1865 was born about 1844. That is arithmetic, not evidence. He has deliberately not been attached to it.
Six United States glass patents, 1876–1919, all his — a pattern maker and molder, never his clerk son (the attribution argument):
  • US D8,942, 1 February 1876 — Design for a bird relish dish
  • US D20,079, 1890 — Design for glass vessels
  • US D21,113, 13 October 1891 — Ornamentation of glassware
  • US D21,181, 24 November 1891 — Design for tableware — "Pioneer's Victoria"
  • US 580,716, 13 April 1897 — Hollow glassware
  • US 1,320,091, 28 October 1919 — Sheet glass

Family

Names
Also recorded as Carl Julius Proeger and Julius Proeger. The middle initial "H" appears on a NUMIDENT but belongs to the father, not the son; it does not distinguish them.
Siblings1838
🔑 Sister: Christiane Juliane Prüger, b. 25 Oct 1838 Kirchberg an der Jagst, m. 28 May 1861 Johann Georg Fux of Schwieberdingen, d. 3 Feb 1911
the first sibling of the immigrant ever documented, named with both of his own parents on a Württemberg family register S159. She stayed in Württemberg.
Parents1844
Parents, both on the baptism register: Georg Melchior Julius Prüger, Bürger und Schuhmachermeister
the death certificate says the father is unknown, so this name exists on the register alone — and Elisabeth Catharina, née Lösch. Her given name is read three ways: Elisabeth Catharina on the 1844 register, Elisabethe Sabina on the FamilySearch index of the 1835 Triensbach marriage, Lossetta on the 1924 death certificate. The register is contemporaneous and is preferred; the surname Lösch is identical on all three S69S68S122
Parents2026
His grandparents, new on 20 September 2026 and Probable
named on three FamilySearch index entries and on no image: Johann Leonhard David Proeger ⚭ Eva Barbara Schmidt, and on his mother's side Joh. Friedrich Melchior Lösch ⚭ Maria Dorothea Wolf of Crailsheim S122S123. ⚠️ Corrected 26 September 2026: Eva Barbara was his father's stepmother; the 1804 birth register names his father's mother as Anna Maria Busch S591
Children1930
🆕 Two of his children in 1930, added 24 September 2026. His daughter Caroline was married to Charles W. Ross, a food-products salesman in Pittsburgh, with their children Karl P. and Katherine S355. His son Lewis W. (Walter) managed a laundry and owned his house at Swissvale, with his wife May and their children May and Walter S356.

Open questions

Not found
This is the immigrant generation of the Proeger line. Parish of origin, port, ship and date of arrival are all on record. Naturalisation is still Not found
and it is not on FamilySearch: a full-text search of Allegheny County naturalisation and citizenship records returned nothing at all on 20 September 2026, the corpus holding no Allegheny images. It is now a NARA Philadelphia or Allegheny County Division of Court Records request. He owned property in Pittsburgh by 1887, so it had already happened.

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Minnie Margaret Kochendoerfer

Confirmed

The immigrant · 1847–1912

Born
3 November 1847, Germany
Died
9 April 1912, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Parents
Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer & Eva Margaretha Renk
Sources
10
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Birth1847
Born 3 November 1847, Germany S137S124
Death1912
Died 9 April 1912, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, aged 63; buried Smithfield East End Cemetery S19
Census1910
In April 1910 — her last census
she is Wilhelmina S. Proeger, 63, married 44 years, at 707 N. St. Clair Street, Pittsburgh, with Walter, Gertrude and Caroline S182. The enumerator wrote her husband as Louis G.; the household is Julius's.
Birth1847
Baptised "Sibÿlla Mina" at Langenburg, born 3 November 1847, daughter of Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer, cooper, and Eva Margaretha Renk S184.
Arrival2026
🆕 Three of Minnie's brothers went to America before her, added 26 September 2026: Johann Carl, born 21 March 1839 at Langenburg, applied to emigrate in October 1858 Probable confirm or correct →; Friedrich, born 25 December 1842, a shoemaker, and Heinrich Hermann, born 14 May 1845, a bookbinder, sailed together on the Humboldt from Hamburg to New York on 23 June 1864 S611. Heinrich Hermann's baptism names Georg Leonhard and Eva Margaretha as his parents and sits on the same family-register folio as Minnie's S612; Johann Carl's baptism, read from the register image, names the same parents: he was born 21 March 1839 and baptised at Langenburg on 27 March 1839 S729. His 1858 emigration application and Friedrich rest on index rows only. Minnie's own crossing has not been found

Family

Parents
Father: Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer Confirmed
Names
Also recorded as Wilamena K., Mina L. and Sibylla Mine.
Parents1847
Her parish is named for the first time: Langenburg. The FamilySearch shared tree christens her there on 21 November 1847, in the Oberamt Gerabronn, Württemberg
eight kilometres from Kirchberg an der Jagst, where her husband was baptised three years earlier S69S124. Two families out of one small district who marry in Pittsburgh is chain migration, not coincidence. Confirmed — the Langenburg register entry itself has now been read S184. An earlier note here rested on an index entry placing a Proeger family at Künzelsau; the Württemberg baptism supersedes that guess.
Parents2026
Her parents, Confirmed on 25 September 2026 from her baptism register and their 1837 marriage register S444: Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer (1811 – 1 October 1859, died at Langenburg) ⚭ Eva Margaretha Renk (b. 1809), married 29 November 1837 at Gerabronn, with six further children S124
Marriage1900
The marriage was made in America. On the 1900 census both spouses report immigration in 1867, 33 years in the United States and 32 years married
so they crossed first and married in 1868, on this side of the ocean. The same row records ten children born, seven living as of 1 June 1900; that column exists only on a wife's line, which is why her husband's record never carried it S137.

Open questions

Open question
⚠️ The year was corrected from 1848 to 1847 on 21 September 2026. This page had kept the 1848 on her cemetery memorial S19 and merely noted the shared tree's 1847. Three things now stand against it: the 1900 census S137 writes Nov 1847 and gives her age as 52 at 1 June 1900, which is consistent only with 1847
a November 1848 birth would read 51; her 1912 Pennsylvania death certificate gives 3 November 1847 independently, twelve years later; and her christening on 21 November 1847 S124 cannot precede her birth. The memorial's 1848 is the outlier.
Not found
Her own crossing is still Not found. Langenburg makes the Württemberg registers, rather than the Hamburg passenger lists, the next place to look.

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Henry S. Roberts

Confirmed

Father of Anna Blanche Roberts · b. Nov 1854

Born
November 1854, West Virginia
Children
Anna Blanche Roberts
Sources
5

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — named as father of Anna Blanche Roberts in sources S90, S91 and S92.
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Birth1854
Born November 1854, West Virginia S90S92
Birth1860
🆕 A likely childhood household: in 1860 H. S. L. Roberts, 5, born Ohio, was in a Roberts household at Martinsville (Martins Ferry), Belmont County, Ohio Probable confirm or correct → S1049. Evidence: the initials and age fit a November 1854 birth, and the family is just across the river from Wheeling. Weak: the census states no relationships and no document names his parents, so none are published here. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

Family

Children
Father of Anna Blanche Roberts, with Rose A. Williams S90S91S92
Marriage2026
🆕 Added 24 September 2026. In 1900 his wife Rose A., born November 1854 in West Virginia, had borne 13 children, 7 then living S92. Their son Harry, born 1889 at Bellaire, was in 1940 a glass-company laborer at Lansing, Belmont County, Ohio, with his wife Amelia and their daughters S352.

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Rose Alice Williams

Confirmed

Wife of Henry S. Roberts · mother of Anna Blanche · 1853–1919

Born
10 November c.1853
Died
2 February 1919
Married
Henry S. Roberts
Children
Anna Blanche Roberts, Samuel R. Roberts
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1853
Born 10 November c.1853, West Virginia; died 2 February 1919, Martins Ferry, Ohio; buried Greenwood Cemetery, Wheeling, 6 February 1919
Census1900
In 1900 she had borne thirteen children, seven then living S92

Family

Children
Mother of Anna Blanche Roberts and wife of Henry S. Roberts; her maiden name, Williams, and her mother, née Gamble, are on her own Ohio death certificate (file 8346)
Children1884
🆕 Her son Samuel R. Roberts, born at Bellaire on 13 March 1884, a car inspector, married Mary Doughty of Martins Ferry on 20 August 1907; the record names his mother as Rose A. Williams Confirmed S1043. added 29 September 2026

Open questions

Probable
🆕 Probably her family in 1870: at Bellaire, Ohio, Rosa A. Williams, 15, was at home with Mary A. Williams, 52, who kept boarders, and Angeline, 23 Probable confirm or correct → S1153. The evidence is her name, her age (15 fits the November 1854 birth in the 1900 census S92) and Bellaire, where her sons were later born S1043. What is weak: the 1870 census states no relationships, it gives her birthplace as Ohio, not West Virginia, and her father, foreign-born, is not in the house. If you know more, use “Add to this record”.

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Why this couple is the anchor of the whole paternal line

Confirmed by government record

Not a user tree — the Social Security NUMIDENT file

  • NUMIDENT names "JULIUS H PROEGER" and "WILAMENA K KOCHENDOERFE" as the parents of Fred Albert Proeger, born 24 November 1873 in Pittsburgh S13
  • NUMIDENT names "JULIUS PROEGER" and "MINA L KOCHENDOERFE" as the parents of Luis Walter Proeger, born 10 January 1881 in Pittsburgh S13
  • Both are brothers of William Leonard Proeger (1876). That William Leonard himself is Julius's son is now Confirmed, and by a government record rather than by the weight of three weaker ones: his own California death record names his father as Julius Proeger S44. It was Probable (strong) confirm or correct → here until 13 September 2026 — FindAGrave and FamilySearch both placed him in the sibling group S14S12, his NUMIDENT record gave his birthplace as Pittsburgh in exactly the right years S13, and FamilySearch recorded the family in Pittsburgh in 1880, but his own SS-5 parent fields were never published in the readable index. The death record supplies what the SS-5 would not.
  • Known siblings, all Probable confirm or correct →: Julius (1867), George (1872), Frederick Albert (1873–1947), Louisa Wilhmina "Mina" (1878–1934), Luis Walter (1881), Gotleib (1882), Gertrude (1884–1956), Caroline Katherine (1888–1958) S12S19

Antone Rose & Louise Rose

Confirmed

Portuguese immigrants · the maternal half of Aileane's grandparents

  • Antone Rose — born February 1840, Portugal; arrived 1870; married 1879 S315; died between April 1910 and January 1920 S314; Head of household at Washington Township, Alameda County in 1900, with his own father and mother both recorded as Portugal-born S55
  • Louise Rose — born about 1856, Portugal; listed as Wife, age 44, on the same page S55. Her maiden name is Mendonça Confirmed, in five records, first indexed as da G. de Mendonça in 1879 S315. Alive in January 1920 as head of her household S314; death not found.
  • Mildred Rose is in that household as "Daughter", born July 1898, bracketed as a twin with her brother Edward — which is what makes these two Aileane's great-grandparents rather than same-surname strangers S55
  • They lived in the same township as the Silvas. Both of Aileane's parental lines are Portuguese immigrants who landed in the same few square miles of Alameda County, a generation apart.
  • ⚠️ Their records say "Portugal", not "Azores" — and they are not upgraded to match the Silvas. "Rose" is the standard Anglicisation of Portuguese Rosa / Roza, so Azorean Roses in Alameda County are numerous; two candidates whose records do say "Azores Islands" were found and deliberately not attached — one is buried at Livermore, the other was born in 1869, thirty years off.

The Azores is Confirmed. So is the island: Faial.

Confirmed

The single most important sentence on this line · answered 15 Sept 2026

  • Confirmed by record: the archipelago. 1900 says "Azores Port", 1940 says "Azores", and the 1900 return adds that Frank Sr's own father and mother were born there too S47S50
  • Confirmed by record: the island — Faial. His November 1946 obituary, datelined Mission San Jose, says it in plain words: "He was a native of Fayal, the Azores" S67. No census or index ever named an island; a newspaper did. The obituary also corroborates every axis the 1896 fraternal-lodge registers rested on — age 83, Mission San José, IDES Council No. 1 and UPEC, wife Anna L., son Frank Jr — so the Francisco da Silva, 33, married, farm labourer, island Fayal, heir Anna da Silva, of UPEC Council No. 10 and IDES Council No. 1 S64S65 is the same man, and the island is no longer an inference.
  • What the DNA carries on its own: Pico and Faial, as a pair, come from Earl's 23andMe regional assignment — they stay DNA evidence S46. The DNA does not choose between the two islands; the obituary does, and the lodge registers agree.
  • And the island cannot be found from the Azorean end. A search of the Azorean Catholic parish registers for a Fran* Silv* born 1862–64 anywhere in the archipelago returns 1,926 results; Silv* born on Pico alone returns 362,786. One of the 1,926 — a Francisco Silveira Marques born June 1863 and christened at Horta, Faial — matches on month, year and one of the two DNA-named islands. It has not been attached, and should not be. It is a coincidence drawn from a pool of two thousand. Matching a birth month inside that much noise is guesswork wearing a citation.
  • What is still open is the parish within Faial. The Horta passport register for 1888 (PASSAPORTES-FAL-1876-1889) is the one route to it: Faial's emigrants left through Horta and the register names age, parish and destination. A lodge beneficiary file — UPEC certificate 2223 or IDES certificate 16362 — is the second-best route. ⚠️ The Santa Barbara death-index entry once listed here as a way of confirming the island is a different Frank Silva and has been withdrawn; the headstone at St. Joseph's was read and carries no island.

Generation 5 — relatives in this generation

Mary E. Brock

Confirmed

Daughter of Solomon Alfred Brock · born 1868

Born
1868
Parents
Iona Belle Brock
Married
Edd Stansbury
Children
Pansy Belle Baldwin
Sources
13

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1868
Born 1868, Kentucky; Mary E., 2, in 1870 at St. Paul, Arkansas, and 11 in 1880 S153S166
Census1941
🆕 The 1941 Austin directory lists “Stansbury Edw D (Mary)” at 703 Patterson Avenue S735. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Parents
Daughter of Solomon Alfred Brock and Matilda Pauline Howard; sister of Iona Belle Brock
Marriage1951
Married a Mr. Stansbury; died 1951; her Texas death record names both parents
Marriage1891
🆕 She married Edd Stansbury (E. D., Edward D.; also spelled Stansberry) about 1891. They had eight children, seven living in 1910: Earl, Mert, Bertha, Lucile, Jennie (Jamie), Edward and Pansy Bell S531S532. They were in Stonewall County in 1900, Jones County in 1910, near Burkburnett in the oil field in 1920 S545, Wichita County in 1930 S530, Austin in 1940 S533 and Houston in 1950 S540. She died at Houston on 29 September 1951 and was buried at South Park Cemetery S529. Her 1920 census gives Arkansas as her birthplace; the rest say Kentucky. added 25 September 2026.
Marriage1868
🆕 Her husband Edd Stansbury was born 15 June 1868 in Harlan County, Kentucky, a son of Sam Stansbury and Elizabeth Howard. Widowed, he died at San Antonio on 29 July 1956 and was taken to Houston for burial S657. Their son Edward A. Stansbury married Selma Klenke at Spokane, Washington, on 29 November 1935; the register names his parents as Ed. Stansbury and Mary Brock S655. added 26 September 2026.
Children1949
🆕 Her daughter Pansy Belle Baldwin, 40, divorced, of San Antonio, married again at Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, on 12 November 1949. The civil register names her parents as Edd Stansbury and Mary Stansbury; the groom was a San Antonio merchant, 46, whose given name reads Weldon B. Overall S707. She is the Pansy Bell of the 1910 household and of her sister Jennie's in 1940 S532S533. added 26 September 2026.

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Lorena Lucille Brock

Confirmed

Daughter of Solomon Alfred Brock · born 1882

Born
1882
Parents
Iona Belle Brock
Sources
4

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1882
Born 1882, Arkansas; M. L., Jan 1883, in the 1900 household in Callahan County, Texas S138
Census1950
🆕 In 1950 she was Lorena Stevenson, 68, widowed, born Missouri, at 3319 N.W. 27th Street, Fort Worth, the same address as in 1940. The head of the house was her daughter Fay Scheymayder, 30, divorced, a relief teletypist, and Fay's young daughter lived with them S641. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Parents
Daughter of Solomon Alfred Brock and Matilda Pauline Howard; sister of Iona Belle Brock
Marriage1973
Married a Mr. Stevenson; died 1973; her Texas death record names both parents
Marriage1940
🆕 She married first a McBurney, then a Miller, then Stevenson. In 1940 she was a widow in Fort Worth with her children Howard D. and Fay I. McBurney and Edyline R. Miller S528. She died at Richland Hills on 21 November 1973 and was placed in Greenwood Mausoleum, Fort Worth. Her death certificate gives Missouri as her birthplace and names her mother Pauline Idris Howard S527. Her sister Mary's certificate names the mother Matilda Howard, and which is right is not settled. added 25 September 2026.

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Ada May Brock Estes

Confirmed

Daughter of Solomon Alfred Brock · born 1886

Born
8 February 1886
Parents
Iona Belle Brock
Married
J. M. Estes
Sources
7

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1886
Born 8 February 1886; Ada M. in the 1900 household in Callahan County S138
Record1962
🆕 The Texas death index agrees: Ada Estes, Taylor County, 27 May 1962, file 32742 S734. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Parents
Daughter of Solomon Alfred Brock and Matilda Pauline Howard; sister of Iona Belle Brock
Marriage1900
Married J. M. Estes, 28 August 1900, Callahan County; died 27 May 1962, Abilene; her death record names her father as Sol Brock
Marriage1910
🆕 Her husband was the Abilene physician Dr. James Estes. In 1910 she was 25, a music teacher, with Robert, John Milton and Fay S523. In 1920 she headed her own household in Dallas with Jack, Fay, James and Jean S524, and by 1930 she was divorced and back in Abilene S525. Her son Gene Howard Estes was born at Abilene on 31 October 1914 S526. She died at Hendrick Hospital, Abilene, on 27 May 1962 and was buried at Elmwood S522. A family book calls her husband Jack Milton Estes; the 1910 census, taken at the time, says James. added 25 September 2026.

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Lucinda Bowles Carpenter

Confirmed

Daughter of James Daniel Bowles · born 1870

Born
27 February 1870
Died
28 September 1920
Parents
William Anderson Bowles
Children
Harry Charles Carpenter
Sources
6

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1870
Born 27 February 1870, Kentucky; married Robert Marion Carpenter, 2 October 1887, Franklin County, Arkansas
Death1920
Died 28 September 1920 at the Deaconess Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona, and buried at Greenwood; her death certificate names her father James Bowles and her mother's maiden name, Williams S158
Census1880
🆕 In 1880 Lucinda, 10, born Kentucky, was at school in Hilburn Township, Madison County, Arkansas, with Martha E., 12, and the Arkansas-born Sarah F., 7, and Lydia J., 5, in a household whose head, James Boles, is on the previous page (not read) Confirmed S983. added 29 September 2026

Family

Parents
Daughter of James Daniel Bowles and Lydia Williams; sister of William Anderson Bowles
Children1888
🆕 Her first child, William Lacy Carpenter, was born on 29 July 1888 near Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, ten months after her marriage. His delayed birth certificate names his parents as Robert M. Carpenter and Lucinda Bowles, both born in Kentucky Confirmed S957. It was sworn in 1942 by his aunt, Nannie E. Evans of Wallowa, Oregon. The ages it gives the parents are recollections, and the site keeps her birth in 1870. added 29 September 2026
Marriage1880
🆕 Her husband's family, probably: in 1880 a Robert, 14, born Kentucky, was a farm laborer in the Hilburn Township, Madison County, Arkansas household of William and Ala Carpenter, both born Kentucky, with eleven brothers and sisters Probable confirm or correct → S964. Evidence: his Kentucky birth, his age, the Arkansas home, and a daughter named Ala. What is weak: no record read yet names Robert Marion Carpenter's parents, and the 1880 age runs a year ahead of his November 1866 birth. added 29 September 2026
Children1921
🆕 Her son Harry Charles Carpenter, 21, a soldier of R.F.D. 1, Phoenix, born at Prescott, Arizona, married Florence Ethel Snyder at Oswego, New York, on 11 January 1921. The record names his parents as Robert M. Carpenter and Lucinda Bowles Confirmed S1140. The couple gave their future address as Madison Barracks, an Army post.

Open questions

Probable
🆕 Probably her son: Harry C. Carpenter, private first class in the 242nd Military Police Company, army no. 2311994, named “Mrs Lucinda Carpenter, mother, Phoenix, Arizona” as the person to notify when his company sailed from Liverpool after the First World War Probable confirm or correct → S984. Evidence: the surname, a mother named Lucinda, and Phoenix, where she died in 1920 S158. Weak: the list gives no age or birthplace, and no other record read names him as her son. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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John B. Brock

Probable

Son of Solomon Alfred Brock · born 1874

Born
December 1874
Parents
Iona Belle Brock & Mary E.
Sources
7

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — added 24 September 2026 and entered in the family tree the same day, labelled probable there too; the 1880 census of Hilburn Township, Madison County, Arkansas, read from the image, lists John B., 6, son, born Arkansas, in Matilda Brock's household S166; the 1900 Callahan County, Texas, census gives him with his parents S. A. and M. P. Brock, born December 1874, Arkansas S138. Death dates offered by other users' trees are not used, and the John B. Brock of Palestine (died 1942, born Texas) is a different man
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Life

Birth1874
Born December 1874, Arkansas
the eldest of the Arkansas-born children, which dates the family's move from Kentucky
Work1910
🆕 He was a minister at Natchitoches, Louisiana, in 1910, married 8 years to Jimmie, with John B. Jr. and Ruth S458. By 1920 he was a minister at Opelousas, owning his home, with a third child, Edwin, and his mother-in-law Amanda Stewart, which makes Jimmie probably a Stewart S459. In 1930, still at Opelousas, he was a contractor hauling dirt S460. added 25 September 2026.
Military1918
🆕 His World War I draft card, filed at Opelousas on 12 September 1918, gives his name as John Berry Brock, a minister on Liberty Street, aged 43, born 5 December 1874, with his wife Mrs. Jimmie Stewart Brock as nearest relative; it describes him as of medium height and stout, with brown eyes and dark hair Confirmed S1170. The card names no parent.

Family

Parents
Son of Solomon Alfred Brock and Matilda Pauline Howard; brother of Iona Belle Brock, Mary E., Lorena Lucille and Ada May
Parents1920
🆕 Jimmie's parents were probably James (J. T.) Stewart and Amanda Stewart Probable confirm or correct →: Amanda Stewart lived with John and Jimmie as his mother-in-law in 1920 and 1930 S459S460. In 1900 in Opelousas the census, read from the image, lists James Stewart, 48, born Alabama, and his wife Amanda, 42, born Alabama, the mother of two children, both living: Mollie J., daughter, born November 1883 in Louisiana, and Willie, a son S874. Mollie J. fits Jimmie, 36 in 1920 and 47 in 1930. What is weak: Mollie J. and Jimmie are matched only by inference; Amanda's ages disagree (42 in 1900, 70 in 1920); no document read names Jimmie with her parents or gives Amanda's maiden name, and James's middle name and dates are unsourced. Accepted by Earl on 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. added 28 September 2026.

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Emily Bowles

Probable

Daughter of James Daniel Bowles · born about 1857

Born
about 1857
Parents
William Anderson Bowles & Lucinda Bowles Carpenter
Married
Edward Hawkins
Children
James Daniel Hawkins
Sources
11

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — added 24 September 2026 and entered in the family tree the same day, labelled probable there too; the 1870 census of Travellers Rest, Owsley County, Kentucky (dwelling 224/220) lists Emily, 13, born Kentucky, third in James Bowles's household after James 39 and Lydia 35 S157; the Bowles family-record typescript S72 lists Emily Bowles, married Ed. Hawkins, with a typed birth of 19 January 1851 and death of 12 March 1881 — the 1851 year cannot be right, because her mother was born about 1835, so neither typed date is used
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Evidence: The 1870 Owsley County census (Emily, 13, in James Bowles's home), the Bowles family typescript, and her son James Daniel Hawkins's 1967 death certificate naming her as Emily Bowles. Weak or missing: The census states no relationships, and the typescript's dates cannot be right. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1857
Born about 1857, Kentucky; Emily, 4, in the 1860 Travellers Rest household S171; married Ed. Hawkins (typescript)
Census1880
🆕 In 1880 she was Emily Hawkins, 24, wife of Edward Hawkins, 40, born Georgia, in Hilburn Township, Madison County, Arkansas, with Ellen 6, Harry 4, Allie 3, Elizabeth 3 months, and a stepson William, 16. She gave her mother's birthplace as Tennessee. Matilda Brock's household was in the same township that year S457S166. added 25 September 2026.
Census1870
🆕 In 1870, before the marriage, Edward Hawkins was 32 and living alone in Valley Township, Madison County, Arkansas. Next door were William, 7, and Eliza, 4, both born in Alabama; William is the stepson of the 1880 household S703S457. added 26 September 2026.
Census1910
🆕 In 1910 Edward Hawkins, 72, widowed, born in Georgia, lived with his son Harvey, 34, a farmer born in Arkansas, and Harvey's sons Edgar, 15, and Evert, 13, in Big Springs Township, Benton County, Arkansas S724. Harvey is the Harry, 4, of the 1880 household S584. added 26 September 2026.
Census1850
🆕 Edward Hawkins's parents were probably Nathaniel Hawkins and Charlotte Hawkins Probable confirm or correct →: the 1850 census of District 10, Campbell County, Georgia, read from the image, lists Edward, 11, after Nathaniel Hawkins, 43, a farmer, Charlotte, 43, and Joseph, Syntha C., Permelia A. and Sarah A. Hawkins S881; his age and Georgia birth fit the Edward, 40, of the 1880 household. A Fayette County, Georgia, marriage index has Charlotte Cox marrying Nathan Hawkins on 23 September 1827 S882. What is weak: the 1850 census states no relationships; nothing read ties the boy to Emily's husband beyond name, age and state; the Cox marriage has not been read on the image; and the birth and death dates offered for both parents are unsourced. Accepted by Earl on 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. added 28 September 2026.

Family

Parents
Daughter of James Daniel Bowles and Lydia Williams; eldest sister of William Anderson Bowles and Lucinda Bowles Carpenter
Children1882
🆕 Her son James Daniel Hawkins was born on 12 March 1882 in Crawford County, Arkansas, and died on 31 August 1967 at Huntsville. His death certificate names his parents as Edward Hawkins and Emily Bowles S584. That is a second record of the marriage, and she was alive at his birth in March 1882, after the typescript's 1881 death date. added 25 September 2026.
Marriage1861
🆕 Edward Hawkins probably had a first wife, Missouri C. Buice: an Edward Hawkins married her in St. Clair County, Alabama, on 5 September 1861 S709 Probable confirm or correct →. It would explain the Alabama-born William, 7, and Eliza, 4, next door to Edward in 1870 S703. What is weak: the licence gives no ages or birthplaces, nothing on it ties this Edward to Arkansas, and the 1880 census calls William a stepson, not a son S457. added 26 September 2026.

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Milton Waller Chenault

Confirmed

Son of David Chenault · born 1849

Born
1 June 1849
Died
27 January 1917
Parents
David Chenault & Louisa Quisenberry
Married
Nannie E. Dunn
Children
Luther Dunn Chenault
Sources
8

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1849
Born 1 June 1849, Tennessee; Milton, 11, in his father's household in 1860 S206
Death1917
Died 27 January 1917, Castalian Springs, Sumner County, Tennessee; buried in the Chenault Graveyard S427
Census1870
🆕 In 1870, aged 21, still farming in his father's household at Castalian Springs; his mother Louisa held $8,200 of real estate in her own name S397. The Sumner County licence to marry Nannie E. Dunn is dated 26 February, but the year's last digit was never written; 1874 fits his being single in July 1870 S399. In 1880 he farmed next door to his parents with Nannie, born Kentucky, and their children Henry and Mary S398; in 1910, aged 60, he was a general merchant, married 36 years, and Nannie had borne 9 children, all living S400. The 1910 sheet gives Tennessee for Nannie's birthplace and 1880 gives Kentucky; not settled. added 24 September 2026.
Death1849
🆕 His death certificate: Milton W. Chenault, farmer, born 1 June 1849 in Tennessee, died 27 January 1917 at Castalian Springs of Bright's disease, and was buried the next day in the Chenault Graveyard. It names his father as D. Chenault of Kentucky and his mother as a Quinsberry of Kentucky. That is a second child's certificate pointing to the Quisenberry family S427. added 25 September 2026.

Family

Parents
Son of David Chenault and Louisa Quisenberry; brother of Nannie
Marriage1874
Married Nannie E. Dunn, 26 February 1874
Marriage1870
🆕 His wife Nannie’s probable parents: in August 1870 a Nancy, 16, born Kentucky, was in the household of Woodruff Dunn, 45, farmer, and Mary, 37, in the 2nd Civil District of Sumner County (P.O. Enon College), with brothers Luther and Leo and sisters Eliza, Artemisia and Alice Probable confirm or correct → S1050. Evidence: name, age, Kentucky birth (as in 1880) and the district, four years before the marriage licence. Weak: one census, no relationships stated, and no record yet names her parents. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
Children1887
🆕 His son Luther Dunn Chenault was born on 10 August 1887 in Tennessee and died in Memphis on 12 July 1950, a retired travelling salesman. His death certificate gives his mother’s maiden name as Nancy Dunn and leaves his father blank Confirmed S1131. He is the Luther D., 24, at home with Milton and Nannie in 1910 S400.

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Maria Louise Chenault

Confirmed

Daughter of David Chenault · born 1851

Born
15 July 1851
Died
13 July 1933
Parents
David Chenault & Nannie
Married
Benjamin C. Barry
Sources
8

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED (index) — added 24 September 2026 from an index record that names her father; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1851
Born 15 July 1851, Tennessee; the Mariah, 8, of her father's household in 1860 S206
Death1933
Died 13 July 1933, Sumner County, Tennessee
Census1910
🆕 In 1910, as Mariah Louise Barry, 58 and widowed, she owned her farm free of mortgage in the 2nd Civil District of Sumner County, with her daughters Mamie, 27, and Jessie May, 24; she had borne 5 children, 2 of them living S586. added 25 September 2026.
Death1933
🆕 Her death certificate, as Mrs Maria Louise Barry, died 13 July 1933 in the 2nd Civil District of Sumner County, gives her birth as 15 July 1851 in Tennessee and names her father David Chenault and her mother, maiden name Quinesberry, both born in Kentucky Confirmed S961. She was buried in the Barry graveyard. added 29 September 2026
Census1920
🆕 In January 1920 she was still head of her own farm, owned free, in the 2nd Civil District of Sumner County: Mariah Barry, 68, widowed, with her daughter Jessie, 33, and her grandchildren Louise Barry Cecil and Roy Barry Cecil Confirmed S1064. added 29 September 2026
Census1880
🆕 In June 1880 Mariah, 28, was keeping house in the Second District of Sumner County with her husband, entered as B. P. Barry, 33, a farmer, and their sons Albert, 4, and Wallace, 1 Confirmed S1163. In June 1900, widowed and 48, she owned her farm free in the 2nd Civil District, born in July 1852 by that census, mother of five children, two living, with her daughters Jessie May and [Hannie?] Confirmed S1164. Her given name is partly illegible on the 1900 page; Albert and Wallace are not in the house by then.

Family

Parents
Daughter of David Chenault; sister of Nannie
Marriage1875
Married Benjamin C. Barry, licence 9 August 1875, Sumner County S554
Parents1850
🆕 Her mother: probably Louisa Quisenberry Chenault Probable confirm or correct →, David's only wife seen from 1850 to 1880. In 1870 “Mima L.”, 18, is in David and Louisa Chenault's household at Castalian Springs S397, as Mariah, 8, was in 1860 S206. Accepted by Earl as probable; what is weak: the censuses state no relationships, “Mima L.” is not plainly “Maria L.”, and her 1933 death certificate gives her mother only by the maiden name “Quinesberry”, from an informant S961. added 28 September 2026.

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Charles Coker Chenault

Confirmed

Son of David Chenault · born 1858

Born
28 December 1858
Died
19 March 1936
Parents
David Chenault & Louisa Quisenberry
Married
Maudante Bradley
Sources
14

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED (index) — added 24 September 2026 from an index record that names both parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1858
Born 28 December 1858, Castalian Springs, Tennessee
Death1936
Died 19 March 1936, Castalian Springs, Sumner County, Tennessee; buried Gallatin Cemetery S425
Census1870
🆕 In 1870, aged 11, at school in the 3rd Civil District of Sumner County (Castalian Springs post office) S385. He farmed his own land in the First Civil District for the rest of his life: in 1900 with his wife Maudante (entered as Mordalite) and their children Neil, Mildred and Marian S386; in 1910 with a fourth, Eugenia, and his brother William next door S387; in 1920 aged 61 S388; and in 1930 aged 71, first married at 34, with his daughter Eugena Kelly and a granddaughter S389. Each census gives his wife as Mordante or Mordalite; added 24 September 2026.
Census1880
🆕 In 1880 he was Charlie Chenault, 21, single, farming in the 1st Civil District of Sumner County S587. added 25 September 2026.
Death1880
🆕 The 1880 agriculture schedule for the First District of Sumner County lists him as owner of his farm S654. His wife, entered on her death record as Mordant Chenault, was born 20 February 1873, a daughter of Thomas Bradley and Eugenia Huddleston. She died at St. Thomas Hospital, Nashville, on 24 June 1935 and was buried at Gallatin S656. added 26 September 2026.
Death1936
🆕 His administrators qualified in the Sumner County Court on 6 April 1936, less than three weeks after his death, and filed the final settlement of his estate that December Confirmed S802. Besides the farm's wheat, the accounts show $863 in the bank, a Fidelity Mutual Life policy worth $2,035.65, rent on a restaurant and upstairs room, and a gasoline rental from Pan American Petroleum. His son Neil appears in several entries. added 27 September 2026
Census1860
🆕 In June 1860, aged 2, Charles was at the head of page 49 with his brother Millard F., 4, the last two of the David Chenault household that begins on the previous page Confirmed S1162S206, P.O. Castalian Springs.

Family

Parents
Son of David Chenault and Louisa Quisenberry; brother of Nannie
Marriage1893
Married Maudante Bradley, 15 November 1893, Wilson County, Tennessee S424
Marriage1893
🆕 The Wilson County return shows he married Mandante (or Maudante) Bradley on 15 November 1893, the day the licence was issued at Lebanon; the minister was T. B. Larimore; the clerk was Wm. Harkreader S424. His death certificate gives him as Charlie Cornelius Chenault, a widowed farmer, born 28 December 1858, son of David Chenault and Louise Quisenberry, both born in Kentucky. He died at Castalian Springs on 19 March 1936 and was buried in Gallatin Cemetery S425. The middle name Cornelius came from an informant in Murfreesboro and the tree has Coker; both are kept until a second record decides. added 25 September 2026.
Names1891
🆕 He is C. C. Chenault, 35, on the 1891 Tennessee list of male voters for Sumner County, District 1 S638. That age points to about 1856, but the 1870 and 1930 censuses support 28 December 1858, which is kept. added 26 September 2026.

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Colby Burris Chenault

Probable

Son of David Chenault · born about 1831

Born
about 1831
Died
4 April 1918
Parents
David Chenault & Louisa Quisenberry
Married
Araminta Harper
Children
Jacob Anderson Chenault, Alice Chenault Bullock
Sources
18

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — added 24 September 2026 and entered in the family tree the same day, labelled probable there too; the 1850 Sumner County, Tennessee, census (District 3, dwelling 336) has “Colly” Chenault, 19, in the household of David, 50, and Louisa, 39 S97; and Quisenberry Memorials p. 67 S333 lists Louisa Quisenberry and David Chenault's children as “1. John. 2. Colby. …”. A death on 4 April 1918, first seen only in other users' tree media, is now given by a 1942 headstone application S561
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Evidence: The 1850 Sumner County census (“Colly”, 19, in David and Louisa's home), the 1900 Quisenberry family book, and a 1942 headstone application giving his death on 4 April 1918 and burial at Gallatin. Weak or missing: The census states no relationships, the book is compiled, and the War Department could not find the Civil War unit given on the headstone application. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1831
Born about 1831; died 4 April 1918; buried Gallatin Cemetery S561
Military1942
🆕 A 1942 veteran's headstone application for Colby Chenault Sr. gives his death as 4 April 1918 and his burial in Gallatin Cemetery, and his service as a private in Co. G, 9th (Ward's) Tennessee Cavalry, from 1 November 1862 S561. The applicant was a Mrs. D. C. Harper of Gallatin; his wife was Araminta Harper, but the page does not say how they were related. The War Department could not find the unit in its own records, so the service is the family's claim. added 25 September 2026.
Census1860
🆕 The 1860 slave schedule for District 2 of Sumner County lists Coleby Chenault as holding one enslaved girl, aged 10. The schedule does not give her name S686. added 26 September 2026.
Census1920
🆕 In January 1920 his widow, entered as “Ira M.”, 83, widowed, lived on Dobbins Road in Civil District 9 of Sumner County with their unmarried children John W., 54, who owned the farm, Jewell, 52, and Sallie, 44, a public school teacher Confirmed S1159.
Census1860
🆕 The 1860 farm schedule for Sumner County lists Colby Chenault with about 100 acres improved and 92 unimproved, the farm valued at $4,000 Confirmed S1161. The film is faint, the livestock columns cannot be read, and the schedule gives no age or family.

Family

Parents
Son of David Chenault and Louisa Quisenberry; elder brother of Nannie Chenault, Milton Waller, Maria Louise and Charles Coker
Marriage1854
🆕 He married Araminta Harper; their bond was entered in Sumner County on 8 May 1854 S445. They farmed in Sumner County for more than fifty years: District 2 in 1860, with $8,000 in land S446; the 3rd Civil District, near Castalian Springs, in 1870 S447; the 1st District in 1880 with ten children, when he gave both his parents as born in Kentucky S448; and Trousdale County in 1900. The 1900 census gives his birth as May 1831 and says Araminta had borne nine children, all living S449. In 1910 they were on the Coles Ferry Pike, married 55 years, and he was marked “Ca”, a Confederate veteran S450. His unit has not been found yet. added 25 September 2026.
Children1870
🆕 His son Jacob Anderson Chenault, a minister, was born in Sumner County on 12 June 1870 and died at Nashville in 1952; the death certificate names his parents as Colby Chenault and Ariminta Harper S549. added 25 September 2026.
Children1862
🆕 A daughter, Alice Chenault Bullock, wife of Nathan Bullock, was born at Gallatin on 24 August 1862 and died at Nashville on 3 April 1943. Her death record names her parents as Colby Chenault and Araminta Harper, both born in Sumner County S672. added 26 September 2026.
Parents1850
🆕 Araminta Harper's parents: probably Benjamin S. Harper and Nancy Tinsley Probable confirm or correct →. In 1850 “Arminta”, 13, was in Benj. S. Harper's household in District 14 of Sumner County, four years before her marriage S866. Benjamin gave bond to marry Nancy Tinsley on 30 November 1825 S867S868 and married Jane Bell on 9 November 1841 S869, so Nancy was his only known wife when Araminta was born, about 1837. Accepted by Earl as probable; what is weak: the census states no relationships, no record names Araminta's parents, and nothing shows Nancy was still living in 1837. The dates and middle name Find a Grave gives Benjamin are not used. added 28 September 2026.

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Robert B. Martin

Probable

Probable son of Peter Hines Martin

Married
Urilda P. Morgan
Sources
7

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — added to this record 24 September 2026; on the family tree, labelled probable there too. He is named in Peter H. Martin's 1849 will S172 in a gift “for the benefit of my children”, but the will does not say “son”; a census household or a guardianship or estate record naming him as a son would confirm it. The will also records his $370 advance and his share in the shoe store
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Evidence: Peter H. Martin's 1849 will, a gift “for the benefit of my children”. The 1870 Shreveport census (S1046) has D. B. Martin, 37, a Tennessee-born merchant, with the same make-up as the 1860 Rusk household (S429). Weak or missing: The will never says “son”; no census or estate record names him as one. The 1870 ages run two to three years young, and nothing on that page names Peter H. Martin, so David B. as Robert's brother is not proven. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Record1848
🆕 A Robt. B. Martin was appointed postmaster at Gallatin on 20 April 1848 and held the office until August 1849. The page does not say he is the Robert B. of the will S432. In 1850 Robert B. Martin, 23, was a merchant in Sumner County with Urilda, 21, and their son Charles H., 4 months S428. Between about 1852 and 1854 the family moved to Rusk, Cherokee County, Texas. In 1860 he farmed there, and a D. B. Martin, 29, merchant, born Tennessee, lived next door S429. In 1870 he was a merchant in Rusk with Urilda P., Charlie H., Jennie B., Clarra B. and Percy S430. By 1880 he was a widower, 53, farming in Rusk with his sons Charles H., a schoolteacher, and Percy. He gave his father's birthplace as Virginia and his mother's as Tennessee, which matches Peter Hines Martin and Jane Bell. He is still Probable, because no record names his parents S431. added 25 September 2026.
Census1870
🆕 By 1870 the D. B. Martin of the 1860 Rusk household was a merchant at Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, 37, with S. N., Ella and Clarance Probable confirm or correct → S1046. Evidence: the same Tennessee-born merchant, North Carolina-born wife and Texas-born Ella as 1860. Weak: the ages run 2–3 years young, and nothing names Peter H. Martin, so David B. as Robert’s brother stays Probable. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

Family

Marriage1849
Married Urilda P. Morgan, 4 September 1849, Sumner County, Tennessee
two months after Peter's death

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Probable
Probable son of Peter Hines Martin and Jane Bell; brother of Joseph Daniel Martin

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Urilda P. Morgan

Confirmed

Wife of Robert B. Martin · married 1849

Married
Robert B. Martin
Sources
0

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026; entered in the family tree the same day. Tennessee State Marriages record Robert B. Martin and Urilda P. Morgan, married 4 September 1849, Sumner County, Tennessee; a second index entry reads “Milda P.”
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Her own dates are not yet documented

Family

Marriage
Wife of Robert B. Martin, and so sister-in-law of Joseph Daniel Martin

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Christiane Juliane Prüger

Confirmed

Daughter of Georg Melchior Julius Prüger · 1838–1911

Born
25 October 1838
Died
3 February 1911
Parents
Georg Melchior Julius Prüger & Elisabethe Sabina Loesch
Married
Johann Georg Fux
Sources
1

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1838
Born 25 October 1838, Kirchberg an der Jagst (baptised 18 November); died 3 February 1911

Family

Parents
Daughter of Georg Melchior Julius Prüger and Elisabethe Sabina Loesch, in the Schwieberdingen family register S159
Marriage1861
Married Johann Georg Fux as his second wife, 28 May 1861, Kirchberg S159

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Henry Roberts

Confirmed

Father of Leon H. Roberts · Roberts step-line

Born
Westford, Vermont
Died
2 November 1924
Married
Delina Deblois
Children
Leon H. Roberts
Sources
6

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — named as father on Leon H. Roberts's 1907 Vermont marriage record, S196.
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Birth
Born Westford, Vermont S196
Census1880
🆕 In June 1880 he was farming at Westfield, 35, with Delina, 27, and three children: Leora, 4, Theodore, 3, and Alice, 7 months. Leon was born two years later Confirmed S955. added 29 September 2026
Death1924
🆕 Died a widower at Newbury, Vermont, on 2 November 1924, aged 80; born 29 October 1844. His father was Henry Roberts, Sr., born at Three Rivers (Trois-Rivières), Canada Confirmed S956. The death card gives his birthplace as "Westboro", which is not a Vermont town, so the site keeps Westford. added 29 September 2026
Census1870
🆕 In June 1870 he was a farm labourer at Westfield, 25, with Delina, 17, and a daughter Emma, 1. Both are recorded as born in Vermont to foreign-born parents Confirmed S1133. His son Elmer E. Roberts, born 5 March 1888, drowned at Bath, New Hampshire, on 5 July 1908, aged 20; the death return names his parents as Henry Roberts Jr., born Westford, and Delina Delois S1134.

Family

Children1907
Father of Leon H. Roberts, with Delina Deblois (born Fairfax, Vt.), named on Leon's 1907 Newbury marriage record S196
Marriage1867
🆕 Married Delina Deblois at Westfield, Vermont, on 12 June 1867, by a Catholic priest. He was 22, a labourer, born at Westford, and the card calls him Henry Roberts Jr., son of Henry Roberts and Laura Confirmed S954. added 29 September 2026

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Open question
⚠️ A different man from Henry S. Roberts of West Virginia

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Henry Henderson

Confirmed

Father of Bessie Hill Henderson · Roberts step-line

Born
12 June 1864
Died
30 March 1949
Married
Artie H. Morrison
Children
James Henderson
Sources
10

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — named as father on Bessie Hill Henderson's 1890 Vermont birth record, S195.
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Birth1864
🆕 Full name Henry William Henderson, born at Ryegate 12 June 1864, son of William J. Henderson and Carrie K. (Gilfillan) S357S361; added 24 September 2026.
Death1949
Died at South Ryegate on 30 March 1949, aged 84, a retired farmer and a widower; informant his daughter Winona M. Sulham S361.
Census1920
🆕 In January 1920, 55, on his own (mortgaged) Ryegate dairy farm in 1920 with Artemiza, 52, their son James, 21, and daughter Winona, 14 Confirmed S950. added 29 September 2026
Census1870
🆕 In July 1870, aged 6, Henry W. was at school and in the Ryegate household of William J. Henderson, 41, a farmer, and Caroline, 32, with Virginia, 14, Capitola, 10, and Sarah, 72, born Maine Confirmed S963. That census states no relationships; his parents are named in S357S361. His age there fits the 1864 birth. added 29 September 2026
Census1910
🆕 In 1910 Henry W. Henderson, 44, was farming his own mortgaged farm at Ryegate with his wife Addie M. (married 23 years, six children, five living) and Marion E., James M. and Winnona M. Confirmed S1039. added 29 September 2026
Census1940
🆕 In April 1940, 75, he was living at South Ryegate as the father-in-law of Perley A. Sulham, in the household of his daughter Winona M. Sulham, the informant; usual occupation farmer, now unable to work Confirmed S1051. The enumerator wrote him “single”, surely a slip, and marked him a veteran of an “other war or expedition”, which is not yet explained. added 29 September 2026
Census1880
🆕 In June 1880, aged 15, he was at school and at home in Ryegate with his parents William J., 51, a farmer, and Caroline K., 43, and his sister Virginia J., 24, all born Vermont. It is the first census read here that enters them as his parents; his 1887 marriage card S357 and his death card S361 name the same William J. and Carrie (Caroline) K. Confirmed S1087

Family

Parents1890
Farmer; father of Bessie Hill Henderson, born 10 December 1890 at Ryegate, Vermont; her mother Artie Morrison of Topsham S195
Marriage1887
Married Artie H. Morrison at Ryegate on 1 January 1887 S357. In 1930 a dairy farmer at Ryegate, aged 65, with his wife and their daughter Winona Sulham's family S358.
Parents1898
🆕 His son James Henderson, born in Vermont on 7 February 1898, died at Woodsville, New Hampshire, on 16 March 1968, married, with a wife Hazel; his death certificate names his father as Henry Henderson and his mother’s maiden name as Morrison Confirmed S1147. The informant was the hospital, not the family.

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Artie Morrison

Confirmed

Mother of Bessie Hill Henderson · Roberts step-line

Born
18 October 1867
Died
7 December 1930
Parents
Orange Morrison
Married
Henry W. Henderson
Children
James Henderson
Sources
11
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Birth1867
🆕 Full name Harriet Artimiza (Artemiza) Morrison, born at Ryegate, Vermont, 18 October 1867, daughter of Orange G. Morrison and Elizabeth J. Miller S359; added 24 September 2026.
Census1870
In 1870, aged 3, in her father's farm household at Ryegate with her sisters Winona, Marion and Margaret S360.
Death1930
Died at Ryegate on 7 December 1930, aged 63, as Harriet Artimiza Henderson, of lobar pneumonia S359.

Family

Parents1890
Named as the mother of Bessie Hill Henderson on Bessie's Vermont birth record, Ryegate, 10 December 1890: father Henry Henderson, farmer; mother Artie Morrison of Topsham S195
Marriage1887
Married Henry W. Henderson at Ryegate on 1 January 1887 S357; in 1930 at Ryegate with Henry and their daughter Winona Sulham's family S358.
Parents1867
🆕 Her Ryegate birth return of 1867 names her as Artemiza, daughter of Orange Morrison, farmer, and Lizzie Miller, both born at Ryegate S832. In 1880 she was 12, at school, in their household at Ryegate S833, and a FamilySearch index of her marriage names her parents as O. G. Morrison and Elisabeth Miller S834. added 28 September 2026.
Marriage1887
🆕 The bride's card for her 1887 marriage gives her age as 19 and her parents as O. G. Morrison and Elizabeth (Miller) Confirmed S949. In January 1920 she was Artemiza, 52, on Henry's dairy farm at Ryegate with their son James and daughter Winona Confirmed S950. added 29 September 2026
Parents1898
🆕 Her son James Henderson, born in Vermont on 7 February 1898, died at Woodsville, New Hampshire, on 16 March 1968; his death certificate gives his mother’s maiden name as Morrison Confirmed S1147.

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Edward Gregg

Confirmed

Father of Ethel Gregg Proeger · 1849–1905

Born
11 September 1849
Died
19 September 1905
Parents
Alfred Gregg & Mary Gregg
Married
Sarah E. Wright
Children
Mabel
Sources
15

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as the father of Ethel Gregg, wife of Frederick Albert Proeger. Ethel’s 1957 Pennsylvania death certificate, read from the image, names her father as Edward Gregg and her mother as Elizabeth Darling S423; the 1880 census, read from the image, has Edward Gregg, 30, working in a planing mill at Carmichaels, Greene County, with his wife Lizzie, 26, and daughters Ethel, 4, and Mabel, 1 S416. FamilySearch indexes the same household as 1:1:MWFF-3W2, with Edward as Ethel’s father. Added to the tree on Earl’s approval of 28 September 2026. Added 29 September 2026; his birth, death and parents added the same day from the Pittsburgh registers, read from the images
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Birth1849
Born 11 September 1849 in Greene County, Pennsylvania, by his own statement on his 1892 marriage docket S926; his age at death, 56 years and 7 days, fits S927, and so does his age of 30 in 1880 S416. He is Edwin, 8 months old, in Alfred and Mary Gregg’s household in Cumberland Township, Greene County, in 1850 S928, and Edwin, 10, in the same household in 1860 S929
Death1905
Died 19 September 1905 at 681 South Lang Avenue, Pittsburgh (22nd Ward), a contractor, aged 56, of heart disease, and buried at Carmichaels on 22 September 1905; the register names him Edwin Alexander Gregg S927. The same undertaker had buried Lizzie in 1891 S925
Census1870
🆕 In June 1870 he was living with his mother, Mary Gregg, 65, in the Borough of Carmichaels, Greene County, as Augustus E., 20, a carpenter born in Pennsylvania; Mary owned real estate worth $7,500 Confirmed S1034. Alfred is not in the household, so Mary was probably a widow by 1870. This fills the gap between the 1860 household and his 1880 work at the planing mill. added 29 September 2026

Family

Children1875
Father of Ethel Gregg (1875–1957), who married Frederick Albert Proeger in 1896 S417S423, and of Mabel Gregg, born 17 November 1878 at Carmichaels, who married William Spicer MacDonald in Westmoreland County on 21 November 1906 and died on 30 January 1968; her own death certificate names her parents as Edward Gregg and Elizabeth Darling S930S931
Marriage
Husband of Elizabeth “Lizzie” Darling S416S423
Parents
Son of Alfred Gregg and Mary Gregg, both born in Greene County, as his death register names them S927 Confirmed
Marriage1892
Married secondly, on 28 September 1892 at Pittsburgh, Sarah E. Wright, born in Washington County on 28 December 1861. The docket calls the groom Augustus E. Gregg, a contractor of the 20th Ward, born in Greene County on 11 September 1849, whose first marriage had been ended by his wife’s death S926 Probable confirm or correct →
Children1920
🆕 His daughter Mabel lived with her husband William S. MacDonald in Greensburg, Westmoreland County: at 550 Harrison Avenue in 1920 S1028, and at 224 Underwood Avenue in 1930, 1940 and 1950 S1029S1030S1031, the address on her death certificate Confirmed. Her 1930 age, 47, is about four years short. added 29 September 2026

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Weak or missing
What is weak or missing: his records use three names. He is Edward in the 1880 census and on both daughters’ death certificates, Augustus E. on the 1892 docket and Edwin Alexander on the death register, and no record explains Augustus. That the Augustus E. Gregg of 1892 is the same man rests on the matching birth date, the ward and his widowhood, not on any record that says so. His first marriage, to Lizzie about 1875, has not been found

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Elizabeth “Lizzie” Darling

Confirmed

Mother of Ethel Gregg Proeger · about 1854–1891

Born
about 1854
Died
30 May 1891
Married
Edward Gregg
Sources
5

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as the mother of Ethel Gregg, wife of Frederick Albert Proeger. Ethel’s 1957 Pennsylvania death certificate, read from the image, names her mother as Elizabeth Darling S423; the 1880 census, read from the image, has Lizzie, 26, as Edward Gregg’s wife at Carmichaels, Greene County, with daughters Ethel, 4, and Mabel, 1 S416. FamilySearch indexes the same household (1:1:MWFF-3W2) with Lizzie as Ethel’s mother. Added to the tree on Earl’s approval of 28 September 2026. Added 29 September 2026
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Birth1854
Born about 1854 in Virginia, by her age of 26 in 1880 S416 and of 36 years 11 months at her death S925
Burial1891
Elizabeth “Lizzie” Darling died 30 May 1891 at Pittsburgh (20th Ward), of pneumonia, aged 36, as Lizzie D. Gregg, formerly of Carmichaels, and buried at Carmichaels on 1 June 1891 S925

Family

Marriage
Wife of Edward Gregg S416
Children1875
Mother of Ethel Gregg (1875–1957), who married Frederick Albert Proeger S423, and of Mabel Gregg, born 17 November 1878 at Carmichaels, whose own death certificate also names her mother as Elizabeth Darling S931

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Weak or missing
What is weak: her maiden name Darling rests on her two daughters’ death certificates S423S931 and on Mabel’s middle name, Darling, in her 1906 marriage docket S930; the 1891 register gives only the initial D. Her parents and her marriage, about 1875, have not been found. The birth date of 21 June 1853 and the middle initial “B” that some trees give her are unsourced, and 1853 is a year earlier than her ages allow

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Generation 6 — Earl's 3rd-great-grandparents

22 people

David C. Coffman

Confirmed

Father of Dee Coffman · 1812–1883

Born
13 December 1812
Died
25 January 1883
Married
Emily M. Thornhill
Children
David Emily "Dee" Coffman, Annie Bettie McKim
Sources
11
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Birth1812
Born 13 December 1812; died 25 January 1883
his gravestone, Page County, Virginia S83
Death1883
The 1883 Page County death register gives his death on 25 January 1883 at Fruitland, of paralysis, and his parents as Saml. & Mary Coffman S364; FamilySearch indexes the entry as 1:1:6ZLN-PCY5. ⚠️ Mary against Susannah is open.
Record1883
🆕 His will, proved in the Page County court on 28 February 1883, a month after his death, names all five children: Susan M. France, Annie B. McKim, Jane C. Chapman, William S. Coffman and David E. Coffman. He left a third of his personal property to his wife Mildred F. Coffman, and made his son-in-law A. W. McKim executor S489. added 25 September 2026.

Family

Children1857
Father of David Emily “Dee” Coffman on Dee's 1857 Page County birth register (as David C. Kaufman) S82 and his 1938 Texas death certificate S20
Marriage1843
Married Emily M. Thornhill on 30 May 1843, Rappahannock County, Virginia S334
Marriage1871
🆕 A second marriage, to M. F. (Mildred F.) Flinn, 40, daughter of Samuel and Judith Flinn, on 17 October 1871 in Page County; he was 58 and widowed, and the register names his parents Saml & Susannah S362. In 1880 the two were farming in Luray Township S363; added 24 September 2026.
Children1848
🆕 His daughter Annie Bettie McKim was born on 12 July 1848 in Page County and died at Luray on 2 December 1937, the widow of Allie W. McKim. Her death certificate names her father as David C. Coffman S617. It calls her mother “Mary” Thornhill; that came from a second-hand informant, and her mother's name stays Emily M. added 26 September 2026.
Children1844
🆕 His eldest daughter, Susan, the first child named in his will, was Sue M. France, widow of Robert Lee France. She was born in Page County on 3 May 1844 and died at Luray on 3 January 1923. Her death certificate names him and Emily Thornhill as her parents Confirmed S959. added 29 September 2026

Open questions

Probable
🆕 Probably his farm in 1870: the agricultural schedule of Luray Township, Page County, read from the image, lists David C. Coffman with 150 acres improved and 150 woodland, worth $8,000, 2 horses, 2 cows, 7 other cattle, 11 sheep and 15 swine; he raised 375 bushels of wheat, 250 of corn and 400 of oats Probable confirm or correct → S1012. Evidence: the name with its middle initial, in Page County, where he lived and is buried S83. Weak: the schedule gives no age or family. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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Emily M. Thornhill

Confirmed

Mother of Dee Coffman · 1820–1868

Born
7 April 1820
Died
21 July 1868
Parents
William Thornhill
Married
David C. Coffman
Children
David Emily "Dee" Coffman, Sue M. France
Sources
7
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Birth1820
Born 7 April 1820; died 21 July 1868
her gravestone, Page County, Virginia S83

Family

Children1857
Mother of David Emily “Dee” Coffman on his 1857 Page County birth register (Emily M.) S82
Names1868
Her maiden name comes from her own 1868 Page County death register, which gives her parents as Wm. and Mary Thornhill and her husband as David C. Coffman S335
Marriage1843
Married David C. Coffman on 30 May 1843, Rappahannock County, Virginia S334
Parents1787
🆕 Her father: William Thornhill, born about 1787, lived in her household in Page County in 1850, aged 63, a farmer S829, and in 1860, aged 73 S830. added 28 September 2026.
Children1844
🆕 Her daughter Sue M. France, born in Page County on 3 May 1844, died a widow at Luray on 3 January 1923. Her death certificate names her parents as David C. Coffman and Emily Thornhill, and gives Emily's birthplace as Rappahannock County, which was part of Culpeper until 1833 Confirmed S959. added 29 September 2026

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James W. Wright

Confirmed

Father of Mary Jane Wright

Died
Not found
Married
Lucy Brooks
Sources
12

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as the father of Mary Jane “Mollie” Wright. Her own 1934 Texas death certificate, no. 56943, read from the image, names her father James W. Wright, born Tennessee S81; her brother J. B. Wright's 1937 Texas death certificate, no. 47820, read from the image, names his father James Wright, born Tennessee, and his mother Lucie Brooks, and its informant was J. D. Coffman of Potosi, Mollie's son S1074. FamilySearch indexes both certificates the same way (1:1:K34G-82Q for hers, 1:1:K3HP-2GG for his); those are indexes of the same two documents, so they confirm the reading but are not further evidence
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Census1860
In the 1860 census, taken 20 August at Palace Hill, Precinct 2, Dallas County, he is Jas. W. Wright, 35, physician and farmer, born Tennessee, with L. C., 28, Sally, 8, Jas. B., 4, and Mary J., 9/12 Confirmed S1004
Census1880
In 1880 Dr James W. Wright, 55, physician, lived in Precinct 7, Dallas County, with Lucy C., 48, Jesse, 10, and Kate, 7, four dwellings from his newly married daughter and David E. Coffman S345
Record1878
His will, signed at Dallas on 9 July 1878, leaves the estate to his children Jessee and Kate Templeton Wright, subject to the homestead and community interest of his wife Louisiana C. Wright, whom he appoints sole executrix S84. It does not name Mollie, who married three months later
Record1892
The History of Dallas County (1892) gives his birth near Nashville, Tennessee, on 4 February 1825, as son of Thomas and Martha A. (Tate) Wright; his marriage to Lucy C. Brooks on 28 October 1848; the move to Texas in 1850; and, among his six children, “Mary J., wife of David E. Coffman, of Taylor county” S85. It is a paid-for family account, not a vital record; his parents rest on this book alone and stay Probable
Death1900
His death is not on any record read here, but Lucy is a widow in the census of June 1900 S1089, so he died before then. The death date that circulates online, and the middle name Wilson, are not used
Census1850
🆕 On 20 September 1850, in Civil District No. 4 of Davidson County, Tennessee, Jas. Wright, 25, physician, born Tennessee, lived in the household of Moses T. Brooks, 56, and Nancy, 51, the couple the county history names as Lucy’s parents Confirmed S1096. With him were “Rosanna” Wright, 18, and Martha Wright, 2 months. Rosanna is probably Lucy under another name or a mishearing: her age fits Lucy’s 28 in 1860 and 48 in 1880, but the census states no relationships and the given name differs, so Rosanna as Lucy, and Martha as their daughter, are Probable Probable confirm or correct →. The date also shows he was still in Tennessee in late September 1850, so the move to Texas “in 1850” came at the end of that year
Census1870
🆕 In the 1870 census of Precinct No. 1, Dallas County, he is James W. Wright, 45, a physician born in Tennessee, with real estate worth $1,800. With him are his wife Luciana, 38, and the children Jones B., 14, Mary J., 10, and Jesse, born that August, with W. A. Brooks, 35, and Gibson, 5 Confirmed S1132.
Record1848
🆕 His marriage licence to Louisiana C. Brooks was issued in Davidson County, Tennessee, on 24 October 1848 Confirmed S1145. His daughter Kate, the “Kate Templeton Wright” of his will, died as Mrs. Kate Temple Britain, a widow, at Hamilton, Texas, on 28 November 1945. Her certificate gives her birth as 21 January 1873 in Dallas County and her parents as James Wright and Lucy Brooks Confirmed S1146.
Record1869
🆕 On 22 November 1869 James W. Wright registered to vote in Dallas County, precinct 1, after nineteen years in Texas, in the county and in the precinct, which dates his arrival to 1850 Confirmed S1171.

Family

Marriage
Husband of Lucy Brooks

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Lucy Brooks

Confirmed

Mother of Mary Jane Wright

Born
about 1832
Married
James W. Wright
Children
Mary Jane "Mollie" Wright
Sources
12

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as the mother of Mary Jane “Mollie” Wright. Mollie's 1934 Texas death certificate, no. 56943, read from the image, gives her mother's maiden name as Lucy Brooks, born Tennessee S81; her brother J. B. Wright's 1937 certificate, no. 47820, read from the image, gives Lucie Brooks, born Tennessee, with Mollie's son J. D. Coffman as informant S1074. FamilySearch indexes both certificates the same way (1:1:K34G-82Q for hers, 1:1:K3HP-2GG for his); those are indexes of the same two documents, so they confirm the reading but are not further evidence
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Birth1832
Born about 1832 in Tennessee: she is L. C., 28, in the 1860 census of Dallas County S1004 and Lucy C., 48, in 1880 S345. The 1900 census gives her birth month and year, May 1832 S1089; no record read here gives her death, except that she was alive in June 1900
Census1900
🆕 In June 1900 she was a widow, 68, born May 1832 in Tennessee, farming her own land at Eagle Ford, Dallas County; she had borne 6 children, 4 of them living. Her son James B. and his three boys lived with her Confirmed S1089
Census1850
🆕 She is probably the “Rosanna Wright”, 18, entered with Dr Jas. Wright, 25, and Martha Wright, 2 months, in the household of Moses T. and Nancy Brooks in Davidson County, Tennessee, on 20 September 1850 S1096. Her age matches, and the household is the one the county history names as her parents’, but the census gives no relationships and calls her Rosanna, not Lucy Probable confirm or correct →

Family

Marriage1892
Wife of James W. Wright. The History of Dallas County (1892) gives their marriage on 28 October 1848 and calls her Lucy C. Brooks of Davidson County, Tennessee, daughter of Moses T. and Nancy (Tate) Brooks S85. That book is a paid-for family account. The 1850 census below, which puts her husband in Moses T. and Nancy Brooks’s household, is the first record to support it S1096, but it states no relationships, so her parents stay Probable
Children1855
Mother of Mary Jane “Mollie” Wright and of James B. (J. B.) Wright, born 18 December 1855 in Texas, who lived with Mollie and Dee in 1920 and 1930 and died at Potosi on 11 September 1937 S348S349S1074
Marriage1848
🆕 The Davidson County register has the licence of James Wright and Louisiana C. Brooks, issued 24 October 1848; the return is blank Confirmed S1145. It is the first original record of the marriage. Her daughter Kate Temple Britain, born in Dallas County on 21 January 1873, died at Hamilton, Texas, on 28 November 1945; her death certificate names her parents as James Wright and Lucy Brooks, both born in Tennessee Confirmed S1146.

Open questions

Open question
⚠️ Her name varies, and is recorded rather than adjudicated. Lucy on Mollie's certificate S81, Lucie on J. B.'s S1074, Lucy C. in the county history and the 1880 census S85S345, and Louisiana C. in her husband's 1878 will, which makes her executrix S84. The “Luciana Catherine” and the dates on her online memorial are not on any record read here and are not used

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Painted portrait said by the uploader to be Jane Bell Martin
Photograph,

Jane Bell (Martin)

TennesseeConfirmed

3rd-great-grandmother · Sumner County, Tennessee

Married
Peter Hines Martin
Sources
9
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⚠ NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH Jane Bell (c.1879–1955, Texas), Earl's great-grandmother and the wife of William Leonard Proeger Sr. Two different women, four generations apart, with the same name. This is the 3rd-great-grandmother, wife of Peter Hines Martin of Sumner County, Tennessee.

Life

Birth1850
🔑 Born TENNESSEE
written on her own line by two enumerators ten years apart S98 S161, and on the 1850 sheet hers is the only birthplace filled on the household's seven lines. The Ancestry tree is now corrected to Tennessee (22 September 2026), on these two schedules S98 S161. Nothing read in this research gives Virginia for her; that was her husband's birthplace S105, copied across to her.
Death1850
🔑 She ran the farm as a widow, in her own name. Farmer stands in her own occupation column on both schedules: $6,000 of real estate in 1850 S98, and $9,240 real with $11,840 personal
better than $21,000 — in 1860 S161, in a household of three.
Census1850
🔑 William Bell, 65, under her roof in 1850 S98 was her BROTHER
her husband's will S172 leaves "Mr. Wm Bell … a house and a support with his Sister as long as he Shall choose to accept it." Born about 1785, nine years older than Jane; the arithmetic had withdrawn the father reading and the will names the relationship. It is also why he is in her house: Peter provided for it.

Family

Marriage1793
Married Peter Hines Martin (1793–1849) on 2 July 1818. 🔑 The county MARRIAGE REGISTER has now been read S162: the licence issued and the rite solemnized the same day, certified by Rev. William Hume, V.D.M.
the officiant named for the first time. It is the record behind the Dodd compiled index S106.
Marriage1849
Widowed 4 July 1849 at Gallatin, Sumner County S105; still heading her own household in District 12, Sumner County at the 16 June 1860 enumeration S161.
Children1850
🔑 Her son Joseph Daniel Martin is named in his father's will S172
"To Joseph D Martin I give unto a light bay filly now two years old", inside the passage disposing of the estate for the benefit of my children. He is in her household in 1850 at 18 S98 and again in 1860 at 27, by then a farmer in his own right S161. A census names a household, not a parentage, and neither sheet says "son" — and neither does the will: the filiation is carried by the structure of the bequest. The Probable comes off on the document; the caveat stays.

Open questions

Open question
⚠ Birth year UNSETTLED — c.1794 or c.1797–98. The 1850 census gives her age as 56 (born 1793–94) S98; the 1860 census gives 62 (born 1797–98) S161. Ten years apart the ages advance only six, and they cannot both be right. The 1818 marriage favours the earlier year — a bride of about 24 rather than 20 S162; the 1820 tally puts her in the 16–25 bracket and leans later S163; the 1840 bracket, 40–49, contains both and is neutral S164. No record read gives a month or a day. A row stands in the research review queue.
Open question
⚠ The family was larger than the record names. The 1820 tally shows a daughter under 10, never named S163; the 1840 sheet shows six sons born roughly 1821–1835, of whom only David and Joseph are named anywhere S164. Tallies, not names.
Open question
⚠ The 1830 census S174 puts one female aged 30–40 in the household and settles nothing about her birth year
the bracket contains both c.1794 and c.1797–98. It is not cited for either.

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Portrait of David Chenault
Photograph,

David Chenault

Probable

Father of Nannie Chenault

Married
Louisa Quishinberry
Children
Nannie Chenault, Maria Louise Barry
Sources
7
Images
3

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — her death certificate names only "D. Chenault" of Kentucky. What would confirm it: a record spelling out David as her father (marriage bond, probate, or an 1850 census naming relationships).
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Evidence: Nannie's 1915 death certificate, which names her father only as “D. Chenault” of Kentucky. Weak or missing: No first name on it; nothing yet spells out David as her father. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1850
Head of a Sumner County, Tennessee household in 1850: David, 50, born Kentucky; Louisa, 39; Nancy, 6 S97
Census1860
In 1860, P.O. Gallatin, a farmer aged 60 with real estate of $52,600; Louisa 48, Nancy 15, and Harvy, Milton, Mariah and William S206
Burial1800
His headstone, an obelisk in an iron-fenced plot, reads “DAVID CHENAULT, BORN Feb. 15, 1800, DIED Dec. … 188[3?]”
the day and last digit of the death year are hidden by grass in the only photograph we have. Photograph shared on Ancestry by SMitchell7866; Probable until a burial record is read.

Family

Marriage1827
Married Louisa Quishinberry, 25 October 1827, Madison County, Kentucky (written Chinault) S96
Children
Father of Nannie Chenault
Marriage1811
🆕 A compiled genealogy, Colonial Families of the United States, says Louisa Quisenberry, born 29 September 1811 in Madison County, Kentucky, married David Chenault “of the same county” on 25 October 1827, and that they settled in Sumner County, Tennessee, and had 14 children S426. Two of his sons' death certificates name him: Milton's (1917) as D. Chenault of Kentucky S427, and Charles's (1936) in full as David Chenault, born Kentucky, with Louise Quisenberry as the mother S425. added 25 September 2026.
Children1851
🆕 His daughter Maria Louise Barry, born 15 July 1851, died in Sumner County on 13 July 1933; her death certificate (no. 15453) names her father David Chenault, born Kentucky Confirmed S961. His 1827 marriage is now read from the register image S96. added 29 September 2026

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Louisa Quisenberry Chenault

Probable

Earl's 2nd great-grandmother · born 1811

Born
29 September 1811
Married
David Chenault
Sources
7
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Evidence: The 1900 Quisenberry family book, her 1827 marriage (read from the register image), the 1850 and 1860 censuses, and her daughter Maria Louise's 1933 death certificate, which gives the mother's maiden name as Quinesberry. Weak or missing: Her birth date and parents come from the compiled book; no record of her birth has been read. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1811
Born 29 September 1811, Madison County, Kentucky, per a published 1900 Quisenberry family history S333
Census1850
In 1850 in David's Sumner County, Tennessee household, aged 39, with Nancy, 6 S97; in 1860, aged 48, with Nancy, 15 S206
Death1915
The family history lists a daughter Nancy, who married a Martin S333
Nannie Chenault. Nannie's 1915 death certificate gives her mother as “Lizzie Eastberry”, probably a misheard Quisenberry S208
Record1827
🆕 Two records read from their images: the Madison County marriage register, “October the 25th day 1827 was David Chinault and Louisa Quishinberry married,” in the return of the minister David Chinault Senr. Confirmed S96; and her daughter Maria Louise Barry's 1933 Tennessee death certificate (no. 15453), which gives the mother's maiden name as “Quinesberry” S961. added 29 September 2026

Family

Marriage1827
Married David Chenault on 25 October 1827, Madison County, Kentucky S96S333

Open questions

Probable
Probable, not Confirmed: the family history is a compiled secondary source
Probable
🆕 Probable mother of Maria Louise Chenault Probable confirm or correct →, born 1851: “Mima L.”, 18, is in David and Louisa's 1870 household S397. Accepted by Earl as probable; what is weak: Maria Louise's 1933 death certificate names her mother only as “Quinesberry”, from an informant S961. added 28 September 2026.

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Eva Harbauer

Confirmed

Earl's 3rd great-grandmother · born 1825

Born
June 1825, Germany
Parents
Jacob Jung (Young) & Eve Jung (Young)
Married
James Harris Timberman Sr.
Children
Louise Emma Harbauer
Sources
8
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Birth1825
Born June 1825, Germany; immigrated 1829; by 1900 she had borne eleven children, five living S330
Census1880
In 1880, widowed, head of the household at 149 Noble Street, Philadelphia, aged 55; her daughter Louise is in the house, and the census states the relationship as mother S176
Census1870
The 1870 census gives her birthplace as France (possibly Alsace); unproven S175
Census1850
🆕 The 1850 census page with her own household has now been read from the image: Lewis Harbour, 27, a cabinet maker born in France; Eve, 24, born in France; and Lewis 5, Harriet 3 and Sarah 4 months, born in Pennsylvania Probable confirm or correct → S969S838. Evidence: her exact age (born June 1825), France as in 1870, the same Northern Liberties neighbourhood as her 1880 home on Noble Street, and a cabinet-maker husband. What is weak: the census states no relationships, and nothing on the page names Louise. Know a record? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
Census1874
🆕 A Philadelphia directory indexed as 1874 lists “Harbauer Eva, wid Lewis, h 152 Pegg”, with Louis Harbauer, finisher, at the same house Probable confirm or correct → S1047. Evidence: the rare surname, the widowhood and the city fit her. Weak: the year is from the index only, and a directory gives no age or birthplace. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

Family

Children
Mother of Louise Emma Harbauer, wife of James Harris Timberman Sr. S176
Marriage1844
🆕 Her marriage to Ludwig, written Ludwig Halbauer with Eva Jung, both of the Northern Liberties, is dated 9 September 1844 in a typed transcript of a Philadelphia church register S582. added 25 September 2026.
Parents1850
🆕 Her parents: Jacob Jung (Young) and Eve Jung (Young) Probable confirm or correct →. In 1850 Jacob Young, 69, tailor, and Eve, 54, both born in France, headed a family in the Northern Liberties that runs onto the next page with Lewis and Eve Harbour and their children S838, and a widows' pension index names her Eva Young Harbauer S839. What is weak: the census has no relationship column, and no document read calls her their daughter. added 28 September 2026.

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Ludwig Harbauer

Probable

Probable father of Louise Emma Harbauer

Sources
4

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — added 24 September 2026 and entered in the family tree the same day, labelled probable there too; Louise Emma's sister Henriette Harbauer's baptism, Salem Zion United Church of Christ, Philadelphia, 29 March 1863 (born 28 May 1848), names her parents as Ludwig Harbauer and Eva Maria Jung; the 1870 Philadelphia census has Eva with the children, among them Louisa, 7, and Henrettia S175
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Evidence: A sister's 1863 baptism naming Ludwig Harbauer and Eva Jung, the 1870 Philadelphia census, and a typed transcript of their 1844 church marriage. Weak or missing: Nothing names Louise Emma herself as his child, and the 1844 marriage is known only from a later typed copy. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Census1863
Philadelphia, Ward 11, aged 43, a cabinet maker, in the 1863 Pennsylvania septennial census. Died before June 1880, when Eva is a widow at 149 Noble Street S176; no death record has been read

Family

Marriage1844
🆕 A typed transcript of a Philadelphia church marriage register records Ludwig Halbauer and Eva Jung, both of the Northern Liberties, married on 9 September 1844 S582. It is a later copy; the original register page has not been seen. added 25 September 2026.

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Probable
Probable father of Louise Emma Harbauer, wife of James Harris Timberman Sr.; husband of Eva Harbauer
Probable
🆕 Probably the Lewis Harbour, 27, cabinet maker, born France heading a household with Eve, 24, and three young children in the Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, in August 1850 Probable confirm or correct → S969. What is weak: the census gives no relationships, and his age there points to about 1823 where the 1863 septennial census points to about 1820. Know a record? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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John H. Timberman

Confirmed

Father of James Harris Timberman Sr. · born about 1825

Parents
Mary Burroughs Timberman
Married
Rebecca Anna Harris
Children
James Harris Timberman Sr., Rebecca Timberman Harbauer
Sources
10

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026; entered in the family tree the same day. His son's 1919 Pennsylvania death certificate names him as father, John H. Timberman, born New Jersey S93, and the 1858 Upper Alloways Creek birth return names the parents John Timberman & Rebecca, the father a carpenter S374
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Death1860
John Timberman, 34, at Salem, New Jersey, in 1860 with Rebecca A., James H., Esther A. and the infant John H. S94; a house carpenter, 40, at Gloucester City in 1870, a widower again, with James H., John H. and a younger Rebecca S189
Census1880
🆕 In 1880, as John Timmerman Sen., 56, a widowed carpenter, he boarded in Clayton Township, Gloucester County, in the house of Alexander Peacock. His son John, 21, was there too, married to Peacock's daughter S619. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Children
Father of James Harris Timberman Sr.; husband of Rebecca Anna Harris
Marriage1857
Married Rebecca A. Harris, 16 August 1857, at Swedesboro, New Jersey, by Geo. Hitchens, minister; the Woolwich Township marriage return, read from the image, gives him as Jno. Timberman, 32, carpenter, of Gloucester, a widower, son of Saml. Timberman
Children1864
🆕 A daughter, Rebecca Timberman Harbauer, was born on 10 August 1864 in New Jersey and died on 23 April 1944 at 4840 Pine Street, Philadelphia. Her death certificate names her parents as John Timberman and Rebecca Harris, both born in New Jersey; she was the widow of Henry C. Harbauer S579. In June 1863 he was enrolled for the Civil War draft at Salem City: John Timberman, 38, carpenter S583. added 25 September 2026.
Parents1858
🆕 His mother: probably Mary Burroughs Timberman Probable confirm or correct →. Mary Timberman, married, 70, daughter of Benjamin Burroughs, died on 6 June 1858 at Upper Alloways Creek S860; a Samuel and Mary Timberman head a Pilesgrove household in 1850 S861 and are named as Harriet Timberman's parents S862. Accepted by Earl as probable; what is weak: no document names Mary as Samuel's wife or as John's mother. added 28 September 2026.

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Probable
Probable son of Samuel Timberman. His own birth and death dates are not yet documented

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Rebecca Anna Harris

Confirmed

Mother of James Harris Timberman Sr. · died 1866

Died
8 July 1866
Married
John H. Timberman
Children
James Harris Timberman Sr.
Sources
2

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026; entered in the family tree the same day. Her son's 1919 Pennsylvania death certificate names her Rebecca Anna Harris, born New Jersey S93, and his middle name is her maiden name
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Life

Death1866
Died 8 July 1866, City of Salem, New Jersey, aged 37, of consumption
the Salem death return, read from the image; the index's 1867 is the year the return was filed. Her birth year conflicts (about 1839 by the marriage age, earlier by the census and death ages), so none is given

Family

Children
Mother of James Harris Timberman Sr.; wife of John H. Timberman; daughter of James and Rachel Harris
Marriage1857
Married John Timberman, 16 August 1857, at Swedesboro, New Jersey; the marriage return gives her as 18, single, of Salem County, daughter of James & Rachel. Rebecca A., 37, at Salem in 1860 S94

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Georg Melchior Julius Prüger

WürttembergProbable

4th great-grandfather · 1804–1870

Born
25 July 1804, Erkenbrechtshausen, Württemberg
Died
4 February 1870, Württemberg
Parents
Johann Leonhard David Prüger & Maler
Children
Julius Karl Proeger
Sources
5
Images
1
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Evidence: His son's 1844 baptism and his own 1870 burial entry, both read from the register. Weak or missing: His 1804 birth register has now been read too; it names his mother as Anna Maria Busch, so the parents on his burial entry are his father and stepmother. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1804
Born 25 July 1804, Erkenbrechtshausen, Württemberg S12
Death1870
Died 4 February 1870, Württemberg S12
Work1844
Bürger und Schuhmachermeister
citizen and master shoemaker — on his son's baptism register, Kirchberg an der Jagst, 28 April 1844 S69
Burial2026
🆕 A shoemaker at the end of his life too — his own burial entry says so, 21 September 2026. Image 639 of the same register has now been read at his own row: burial entry no. 3 of 1870, which names him Schuhmachermeister in Kirchberg a/J. S135. That resolves the conflict this card carried for a day. Three parish entries name his trade: his son's baptism in 1844 S69 and his own burial in 1870 S135 both say shoemaker; only his widow's entry of August 1872 S133 calls him a Schullehrer — a schoolteacher — and that one was written two years after he was dead, in a column describing a late husband. Two contemporaneous readings against one posthumous one. The Schullehrer reading stays on this page as a recorded variant; it is not deleted, and a village schoolteacher really was often a tradesman with letters. But the trade this page carries for him is master shoemaker
Death1870
🆕 The 1870 entry checks its own arithmetic. It gives his age at death as 65 years, 6 months and 10 days
which counts forward from the birth it records, 25 July 1804, to exactly 4 February 1870, the death date it records. Birth and death corroborate each other inside a single record, which no index can do. He was buried on 7 February 1870 at ten in the morning S135

Family

Parents
Father: Johann Leonhard David Prüger Confirmed
Parents1804
Mother: Anna Maria Busch Confirmed
named in his own 1804 birth register S591. His father's second wife, Eva Barbara Schmidt, was his stepmother
Children
Father of Julius Karl Proeger (the immigrant) S12
Parents2026
🆕 His parents are no longer index-only. Until 21 September 2026 their names sat on this card on the strength of a transcription. They have now been read off the register image, and it gives more than the index held: his father Johann Leonhard David Prüger was a Maler
a painter — in Erkenbrechtshausen, the same village recorded as Georg's own birthplace S12; the entry names as his mother Eva Barbara, née Schmid, a maiden name no index carried. Both were marked dead by February 1870. ⚠️ Eva Barbara was his stepmother: his 1804 birth register, read 25 September 2026, names his mother as Anna Maria Busch S591. ⚠️ Her surname may be written Schmid or Schmidt — the last stroke does not decide it, and it is not forced here S135

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Elisabethe Sabina Loesch

WürttembergProbable

4th great-grandmother · 1803–1872

Born
spring 1803, Crailsheim, Württemberg
Died
12 August 1872
Parents
Johann Heinrich Melchior Lösch
Married
Georg Melchior Julius Prüger
Sources
7
Images
1
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Evidence: Her 1872 burial entry, read from the register, and her son's 1924 Pittsburgh death certificate. Weak or missing: Her given name differs between registers (Elisabeth Catharina in 1844), and her birth is from a family tree. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1803
Born spring 1803, Crailsheim, Württemberg S12S133
Burial1872
Elisabethe Sabina Loesch died 12 August 1872 at 5 a.m., a widow of Kirchberg u. Oa.; buried 14 August 1872 at ten in the morning
her own burial entry, burial entry no. 534, read from the register image S133

Family

Parents
Father: Johann Heinrich Melchior Lösch Probable confirm or correct →
Parents1835
🆕 Her mother: Maria Dorothea Wolf Probable confirm or correct →, by the indexes of her baptism S840 and of her 1835 marriage S122. What is weak: both are indexes, and her own 1872 burial entry, read from the register, calls her mother Maria Dorothea geb. Muck S133; the maiden name is unresolved. added 28 September 2026.
Parents2026
🆕 Her parents, named for the first time in this record, 21 September 2026. Father Johann Heinrich Melchior Lösch, Glasermeister
master glazier — of Crailsheim; mother Maria Dorothea geb. Muck. Both are marked deceased in the 1872 entry S133
Names1924
Her surname is Lösch, and it is settled. The Württemberg index reads the Kurrent of this entry as a different surname altogether; the register itself names her father a Lösch of Crailsheim, which is also the birthplace the German deaths index gives her. It is corroborated on another continent: her son Julius Karl's 1924 Pittsburgh death certificate gives his mother's maiden name as "Lossetta Loesch"
the given name garbled by an informant who never saw a Württemberg register, the surname right S68S133
Marriage
Wife of Georg Melchior Julius Prüger, mother of Julius Karl Proeger S12
Names
Name variants: Elisabeth Catharina (parish register), Elisabethe Sabina (FamilySearch index), Lossetta (death certificate) S12

Open questions

Open question
⚠ Her given name is still not settled, and a second ORIGINAL now backs Sabina. The 1844 Kirchberg baptism of her son calls her Elisabeth Catharina geb. Lösch S69; a Schwieberdingen family register, written by a different parish for a different purpose, calls her Elisabeth Sabina geb. Lösch S159. Two contemporaneous registers disagree and neither is overturned here. Her son's 1924 death certificate adds a third form, Lossetta S68. ⚠ That same Schwieberdingen page names a daughter, Christiane Juliane Prüger (1838–1911), and rejects Ancestry's offered residence of Schwieberdingen for her
she is named there as an absent parent, at Kirchberg.
Open question
⚠️ Her date of birth is not settled, and is not going to be forced. The register states her age at death as 69 years, 3 months, 14 days, which counts back to late April 1803
not the 26 May 1803 the index offers. Those digits sit at the edge of legibility even at full resolution. The image establishes spring 1803 at Crailsheim and no more; the record that would settle it is her baptism at Crailsheim, which is not in hand S133

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Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer

Confirmed

Father of Minnie Kochendoerfer · cooper

Children
Minnie Margaret Kochendoerfer
Sources
6

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — named as father on the 1847 Langenburg baptismal register, S184.
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Life

Work
Cooper, of Langenburg, Württemberg S184
Arrival2026
🆕 Three of Minnie's brothers went to America before her, added 26 September 2026: Johann Carl, born 21 March 1839 at Langenburg, applied to emigrate in October 1858 Probable confirm or correct →; Friedrich, born 25 December 1842, a shoemaker, and Heinrich Hermann, born 14 May 1845, a bookbinder, sailed together on the Humboldt from Hamburg to New York on 23 June 1864 S611. Heinrich Hermann's baptism names Georg Leonhard and Eva Margaretha as his parents and sits on the same family-register folio as Minnie's S612; Johann Carl's baptism, read from the register image, names the same parents: he was born 21 March 1839 and baptised at Langenburg on 27 March 1839 S729. His 1858 emigration application and Friedrich rest on index rows only. Minnie's own crossing has not been found

Family

Children1847
Father of Minnie Margaret Kochendoerfer (baptised Sibÿlla Mina, 1847), with Eva Margaretha Renk S184
Marriage1837
🆕 The 1837 Gerabronn marriage register calls him a master cooper (Büttnermeister), born at Gerabronn 1 March 1811, the son of Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer and Eva Barbara. He married Eva Margaretha Renk there on 29 November 1837 S444. added 25 September 2026.
Marriage1837
🆕 The Wallhausen copy of his 1837 marriage, kept in his bride's parish, agrees with Gerabronn: born 1 March 1811 at Gerabronn, a cooper there, son of the late Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer and Eva Barbara geb. Hartweck; married Eva Margaretha Renk at Gerabronn on 29 November 1837 Confirmed S966S444. added 29 September 2026

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Eva Margaretha Renk

Confirmed

Mother of Minnie Kochendoerfer · born 1809

Born
25 January 1809
Died
Not found
Married
Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer
Children
Minnie Kochendoerfer
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — confirmed 25 September 2026 from the register images: Minnie Kochendoerfer's 1847 Langenburg baptism S184 names her mother Eva Margaretha geb. Renk, and the Gerabronn 1837 marriage register S444 gives her as born 25 January 1809 at Wallhausen, daughter of G. A. Renk and the late … geb. Zins. First added 24 September 2026 as probable from index rows: Minnie Kochendoerfer's 1847 Langenburg baptism S184 names her mother “Eva Margaretha geb. Renk”; the 29 November 1837 marriage indexes record Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer marrying Eva Margaretha Renk; and her own baptism index gives born 25 January 1809, Wallhausen, parents Georg Andreas Renk and Maria Margaretha Zins. Her 1837 marriage has now been read on the register image (S444)
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Birth1809
Born 25 January 1809, Wallhausen, Württemberg (baptism index); daughter of Georg Andreas Renk and Maria Margaretha Zins
Death
Death date not yet found

Family

Children1847
Mother of Minnie Kochendoerfer, baptised Sibÿlla Mina at Langenburg in 1847 S184; wife of Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer, cooper, married 29 November 1837, Gerabronn
Marriage1837
🆕 Her marriage on 29 November 1837 has now been read on the Gerabronn register. She was born at Wallhausen on 25 January 1809, the daughter of Georg Andreas Renk, innkeeper and master baker, and his late wife, geb. Zins. Her husband Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer was a master cooper, born at Gerabronn on 1 March 1811 S444. Her mother had died by January 1813, when her father remarried as a widower S443. added 25 September 2026.

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Generation 6 — relatives in this generation

Elizabeth Brock Hoskins

Probable

Daughter of James and Betsy Brock · 1831–1911

Born
26 April 1831
Died
13 May 1911
Parents
James Brock & Elizabeth "Betsy" Brock
Sources
6

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — her 1911 Kentucky death certificate names her parents as James Brock and Betsy Howard, both born in Harlan County S454. It is the only source; its informant, H. D. Peters, was also the undertaker and very probably her son-in-law (see below), and it was written 80 years after her birth
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Evidence: Her 1911 Kentucky death certificate, which names James Brock and Betsy Howard as her parents; an 1852 Laurel County birth register naming Levi Hoskins and Elizabeth Brock as a child's parents; the 1860, 1870 and 1880 censuses, which show Levi and Elizabeth with the same children in the same order. Weak or missing: The death certificate's informant, H. D. Peters, was the undertaker and very probably her son-in-law, writing 80 years after her birth, and the birth register gives no age for Elizabeth, so the Levi Hoskins link is probable. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1831
Born 26 April 1831, Harlan County, Kentucky; died 1911, Island City, Owsley County, Kentucky. Married, probably, Levi Hoskins (see below) S648
Census1860
🆕 Three censuses show Levi and Elizabeth Hoskins with the same children, in the same order. In 1860, at Harlan Courthouse, Harlan County, Levi, 30, and Elizabeth, 30, had Ransom, 9, Jefferson, 7, William, 6, Hiram, 5, Mary, 2, and Solomon, one month old S721. In 1870, in Clay County, Levi, 44, and Elizabeth, 40, had James R., 19, Jefferson C., 18, William, 16, Hiram, 14, Mary J., 11, Solomon L., 9, Caroline, 7, John M., 6, Palistine, 4, and a baby of two months whose name is hard to read S722. In 1880, in Owsley County, Levi, 54, and his wife Elizabeth, 49, had Caroline, 18, John M., 16, Palestine, 14, and Leander, 10 S723. Her ages fit a birth in 1830 or 1831, and the Jefferson C., 18, of 1870 fits the Jefferson C. born in 1852 to Levi Hoskins and Elizabeth Brock S648. None of the censuses gives her maiden name, so the Brock link stays probable. added 26 September 2026.
Census1910
🆕 In 1910, at Sturgeon in Owsley County, Levi Hoskins, 84, and Elizabeth, 80, married 59 years, were living with their daughter Mary J. and her husband Harden D. Peters S748. This fits a marriage about 1851 and the 1852 birth of Jefferson C. Hoskins, and puts her in Owsley County, where she died. added 26 September 2026.
Death1911
🆕 Her death certificate, read again: she died 13 May 1911 at Island City of cerebral apoplexy. The informant who gave her parents' names was H. D. Peters of Island City, who was also the undertaker. In 1910 she and Levi lived with their daughter Mary J. and her husband Harden D. Peters S748, so the informant was very probably her son-in-law, not a stranger S454 Probable confirm or correct →. What is still weak: it is one statement, made 80 years after her birth; a second record naming her parents would settle it. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Parents
Daughter of James Brock and Elizabeth “Betsy” Brock
Parents1852
🆕 A Laurel County birth register, written at the time, records Jefferson C. Hoskins, born 9 June 1852, son of Levi Hoskins and Elizabeth Brock S648. Probable confirm or correct → This is probably her marriage: her married name, the Brock surname and the Harlan and Laurel County area all fit. But the register gives no age or birthplace for Elizabeth, and no marriage record has been read. If you know more, use “Add to this record”. added 26 September 2026.

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Colby B. Quisenberry Jr.

Probable

Brother of Louisa Quisenberry · 1822–1907

Born
31 August 1822
Died
20 March 1907
Parents
Colby Burris Quisenberry & Lucy Bush
Sources
10

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE (as Louisa's brother) — his Lexington death certificate names his parents as Colby B. Quisenberry and Lucy Bush S493. Louisa's own link to those parents is still probable, from a compiled family book, so the sibling tie shares that doubt
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Evidence: His Lexington death certificate, which names Colby B. Quisenberry and Lucy Bush as his parents; the 1900 Quisenberry Memorials, which call him Colby Burris Quisenberry's seventh child. Weak or missing: Louisa's own tie to those parents is still probable, so the sibling link shares that doubt. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1822
Born 31 August 1822, Madison County, Kentucky; died 20 March 1907, Avon, Kentucky
Record1847
🆕 His marriage bond, dated 12 July 1847 in Madison County, Kentucky, is for his marriage to Miss Sarah Tribble of that county. He signed it “C B Quisenberry”, and a John B. Bush also signed S644. added 26 September 2026.
Burial1900
🆕 The 1900 family Memorials lists him as the seventh child of Colby Burris Quisenberry. It says he married Sarah Tribble, daughter of Dudley Tribble, on 15 July 1847 and settled in Fayette County near David's Fork church, and it names four children: Ellen, Lucy Belle, Madison and Dudley Tribble S693. added 26 September 2026.
Death1866
🆕 A later son, Colbey M. Quisenberry, was born at Lexington on 19 July 1866 and died, a retired farmer, at Hendersonville, North Carolina, on 20 December 1936. His certificate calls his mother “Mary” Tribble, but she was Sarah S694S644. added 26 September 2026.
Census1860
🆕 The censuses show him farming near Lexington in Fayette County for twenty years: in 1860, 37, with Sarah and five children and D. M. Thompson, 14 S756; in 1870, 48, with his land worth $20,000 and the youngest, Colby M., 7 S757; and in 1880, 57, at Brier Hill, with “Sallie”, three of their children, and their married daughter Lucy B. Carr and her two small children S758. added 26 September 2026.
Census1900
🆕 In 1900, aged 77, born August 1822 and widowed, he still owned his farm in Fayette County (entered “Colby Quisenburg”). With him were his unmarried sons Maddison, 48, Dudley, 43, and Colby Jr., 36, his widowed daughter Bell Cass, 49, and her children Lizzie and Colby Cass Confirmed S1061. The census gives Colby Jr.’s birth as July 1863; his death certificate says 19 July 1866 S694. added 29 September 2026
Census1870
🆕 The 1870 farm schedule for Fayette County (P.O. Lexington) shows his farm: 145 acres improved and 20 of woodland, valued at $13,000, with 5 horses, 5 milch cows, 25 other cattle and 40 hogs; that year it made 85 bushels of wheat and 1,000 of corn Confirmed S1158. The schedule gives no age or family, so the match rests on name and place.
Birth1863
🆕 In June and July 1863 the provost marshal for Kentucky’s 7th District entered Colby Quisenberry, 39, a farmer of Fayette County born in Kentucky, with no former service, on the Class II draft list Confirmed S1173. His father, born 1788, was over age, so this is Colby Jr.; the age is a year or two low.

Family

Parents
Son of Colby Burris Quisenberry and Lucy Bush; probable brother of Louisa Quisenberry Chenault

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John Martin Quisenberry

Probable

Brother of Louisa Quisenberry · 1833–1914

Born
26 April 1833
Died
10 March 1914
Parents
Colby Burris Quisenberry & Lucy Bush
Married
Sarah Moore
Sources
8

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE (as Louisa's brother) — his 1914 Kentucky death certificate names his parents as Colby B. Quisenberry and Lucy Bush S494. Louisa's own link to those parents is still probable, from a compiled family book, so the sibling tie shares that doubt
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Evidence: His 1914 Kentucky death certificate, which names Colby B. Quisenberry and Lucy Bush as his parents. Weak or missing: Louisa's own tie to those parents is still probable, so the sibling link shares that doubt. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1833
Born 26 April 1833, Clark County, Kentucky; died 10 March 1914, Montgomery County, Kentucky
Burial1900
🆕 The 1900 family Memorials says he lived at Ewington in Montgomery County and was “named for his maternal great-grandfather, John Martin”, and gives the births of Cora (1861), Ivanora (16 September 1863) and Audley (27 January 1865) S752. In 1880 “Mart” Quisenberry, 47, was farming at Howards Mills with Sarah and their children, and with her mother, Emily Moore, 78, born in Virginia S753. In 1900 he and Sarah F. had been married 40 years; she had borne nine children, seven living S754. In 1910, at 76, he lived with Sarah in their son Earl's home, married 50 years; the census wrote him as “James M.” S755. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Parents
Son of Colby Burris Quisenberry and Lucy Bush; probable brother of Louisa Quisenberry Chenault
Marriage1859
🆕 He married Sarah Moore on 25 October 1859 S689. Their daughter Cora was born in Clark County on 6 November 1861; the register names her parents as Martin J. Quisenberry and Sarah F. Moore, born in Montgomery County S695. added 26 September 2026.
Marriage1859
🆕 The Montgomery County marriage list for 1859, copied by the clerk in May 1860, dates the wedding 24 October 1859: John M. Quissenberry, 24, of Clarke County, and Sarah F. Moore, 21, born in Montgomery County, both marrying for the first time S708. The family book says 25 October S689. The list's age of 24 would put his birth about 1835; the card keeps 26 April 1833. added 26 September 2026.

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James Francis Quisenberry

Probable

Brother of Louisa Quisenberry

Parents
Colby Burris Quisenberry & Lucy Bush
Married
Emily Cameron Chenault
Children
Emma Alice Hinkle, Walter (Waller) Quisenberry
Sources
13

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — SAR application 27139 (James Marvin Hinkle, 1914) traces a descent through James Francis Quisenberry, son of Colby Burris Quisenberry and Lucy Bush, and his wife Emily Cameron Chenault S498. A second compiled source, the 1900 family Memorials written by his son, calls him Colby Burris Quisenberry's eighth child S689
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Evidence: SAR application 27139, which traces a descent through him and his wife Emily Cameron Chenault; his own 1847 marriage bond with Emily C. Chenault; the 1900 Quisenberry Memorials, written by his son, which call him Colby Burris Quisenberry's eighth child. Weak or missing: The bond proves the marriage, but his parentage rests on two compiled sources; no record made in his lifetime names his parents. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

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Burial1900
🆕 The 1900 Memorials of the Quisenberry Family, written by his son Anderson Chenault Quisenberry, calls him the eighth child of Colby Burris Quisenberry. It gives his birth in Madison County on 15 October 1824, his death in Clark County on 3 February 1877, and his marriage on 14 October 1847 S689. Colonial Families of the United States gives the same dates S688. Both are compiled books. added 26 September 2026.
Military1863
🆕 A Jas. F. Quisenbury, 38, a white farmer born in Kentucky and living in Clark County, is on the June–July 1863 Civil War draft list for Kentucky's 7th District, just below Thos. J., 40, and Roger T., 37 S725 Probable confirm or correct →. The age fits his 15 October 1824 birth and the county fits his home. What is weak: the list gives only a name, an age and a county. added 26 September 2026.
Census1860
🆕 The censuses show the family in Clark County: in 1860 James, 35, and “Emma”, 28, with Alice, 12, Anderson, 9, Waller, 7, and Francis, 5 S759; in 1870 Jas. F., 45, farming land worth $26,000, with Emma C., Alice, Walter and Francis, three houses from Golding Quisenberry, 52, whose kinship is not known S760. Emily went by Emma in both. added 26 September 2026.
Death1915
🆕 Emily Cameron Chenault's mother: Emily Cameron Probable confirm or correct →. Another page of the 1915 SAR application gives “Anderson Chenault, born 1788, died 1854, and his wife Emily Cameron, born 1796, died 1836, married 1816” S859; the Madison County marriage bond of 1847 names Anderson Chenault as “father of Emily C. Chenault” S870. Accepted by Earl as probable; what is weak: the bond names the father only, and the mother rests on the compiled SAR application; the day and place of birth and death that trees give her are not in any record read. added 28 September 2026.

Family

Parents
Son of Colby Burris Quisenberry and Lucy Bush; probable brother of Louisa Quisenberry Chenault
Marriage1832
Married Emily Cameron Chenault (about 1832–1904); the SAR application says 1846, but their marriage bond is dated 11 October 1847 S643. Her parents were probably Anderson Chenault and Emily Cameron (below)
Marriage1847
🆕 His own marriage bond survives. On 11 October 1847, in Madison County, Kentucky, he gave bond, with David W. Chenault as surety, for his marriage to Miss Emily C. Chenault, and signed it “James F. Quisenberry” S643. The SAR application's 1846 is probably a year early. added 26 September 2026.
Parents1832
🆕 Emily Cameron Chenault was born in February 1832; in 1900 she was living with her son Waller in Clark County, the mother of four children, three then living S690. A 1915 SAR application by her grandson names her parents as Anderson Chenault (1788–1854) and Emily Cameron, and her grandfather as William Chenault, a Revolutionary soldier S691; Colonial Families agrees S688. Probable confirm or correct → Evidence: two compiled sources name her parents. What is weak: no record made in her lifetime names them. If you know more, use “Add to this record”. added 26 September 2026.
Children1848
🆕 Their daughter Emma Alice Hinkle, born 26 October 1848, died in Robertson County, Tennessee, on 4 January 1931. Her death certificate names her parents as James F. Quisenberry and Emmily C. Chenault S692. She had married Joseph (or Josiah) Addison Hinkle in 1870 S689S691. added 26 September 2026.
Children1853
🆕 Their son Walter (Waller) Quisenberry, born in Clark County on 12 January 1853, died at Winchester on 6 November 1914. His death certificate names his parents as Jas. Quisenberry and “Emma” Chenault S698S690. added 26 September 2026.

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Friedrich August Proeger

WürttembergProbable

Uncle of 3rd great-grandfather · 1846–1852

Born
1846, Kirchberg an der Jagst, Württemberg
Died
1852, Württemberg
Sources
1
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Life

Birth1846
Born 1846, Kirchberg an der Jagst, Württemberg S12
Death1852
Died 1852, Württemberg, aged 5 S12

Family

Siblings
Younger brother of Julius Karl Proeger S12

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Elizabeth J. (Lizzie) Miller

Confirmed

Mother of Artie Morrison

Born
at Ryegate, Vermont
Died
Not found
Married
Orange G. Morrison
Children
Artie Morrison, Marion E. Morrison
Sources
9

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as Artie Morrison's mother — Artie's 1867 Ryegate birth return gives her mother's maiden name as Lizzie Miller, born at Ryegate S832, and her 1930 death record gives it as Elizabeth J. Miller, born at Ryegate S359. In the 1880 census she is Orange G. Morrison's wife, with Artemiza, 12, as a daughter in the house S833. A FamilySearch index of Artie's marriage also names Elizabeth Miller as her mother S834
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Birth1833
Born at Ryegate, Vermont S832S359, about 1833–34: she was 37 in 1870 and 46 in 1880 S360S833. The 1880 census gives her father's birthplace as Vermont and her mother's as Scotland S833
Death1911
Her death has not been read from a record. A memorial website gives 5 December 1911 at Groton, Vermont; that is not confirmed here
Census1900
🆕 In 1900 Elizabeth J. Morrison, born in October 1834, her mother born in Scotland, and Orange G., married 45 years, lived with their daughter Maggie J. in Caledonia County Confirmed S975; in April 1910 she was 76, at Groton Village, married 55 years Confirmed S976. added 29 September 2026
Census1860
🆕 In 1860, as Eliza, 24, she was in Orange Morrison's household at Ryegate with “Winny”, 4 Confirmed S982. added 29 September 2026

Family

Children
Mother of Artie Morrison (Harriet Artemiza); wife of Orange G. Morrison
Children1892
🆕 Her daughter Marion E. Morrison died, single, at Littleton, New Hampshire, on 10 February 1892, aged 30 years 10 months, and was buried at Groton, Vermont; the death return names her mother as Elizabeth J. Miller, born Ryegate Confirmed S994. added 29 September 2026

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Orange G. Morrison

Confirmed

Father of Artie Morrison

Born
at Ryegate, Vermont
Died
Not found
Married
Elizabeth J. (Lizzie) Miller
Children
Artie Morrison, Marion E. Morrison
Sources
11

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as Artie Morrison's father — her Ryegate birth return of 1867 names her father as Orange Morrison, farmer, born at Ryegate S832, and her 1930 death record names him as Orange G. Morrison, born at Ryegate, with the same birth date for her, 18 October 1867 S359. A FamilySearch index of her Vermont marriage also names O. G. Morrison as her father S834
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Birth1832
Born at Ryegate, Vermont S832S359, about 1832: he was 38 in 1870 and 48 in 1880 S360S833
Work1870
A farmer at Ryegate. In 1870 he held real estate worth $3,150, with Elizabeth, 37, and their daughters Winona, Marion, Margaret and Artemiza S360. In 1880 he was 48, with Elisabeth J., 46, and the daughters Marion E., 19, Maggie J., 14, and Artemiza, 12 S833
Death1912
His death has not been read from a record. A memorial website gives 1912; that is not confirmed here
Census1900
🆕 In 1900 Orange G. Morrison, born in February 1832, a gardener, and Elizabeth J., married 45 years, lived with their daughter Maggie J. in Caledonia County Confirmed S975. On 16 April 1910 he was still living, 78, at Groton Village with Elizabeth J., 76, married 55 years, in Maggie J.'s house Confirmed S976. added 29 September 2026
Census1860
🆕 In 1860 Orange, 28, farmed at Ryegate (post office South Ryegate) with real estate worth $1,500, with Eliza, 24, and “Winny”, 4; the next house was Bradley Morrison's, 57 Confirmed S982. added 29 September 2026
Census1850
🆕 His probable parents: in 1850 Orange, 17, a laborer at school, was in the Ryegate household of Bradley Morrison, 48, farmer, and Avis, 47, with James, 15, and Harriet J., 11, all born Vermont Probable confirm or correct → S987. Evidence: the same town, name and age, and Bradley next door in 1860 S982. Weak: the 1850 census states no relationships, and no record read names his parents. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
Census1863
🆕 In June 1863 he registered for the Civil War draft at Ryegate as “Morrison Orange, 31”, a married farmer born Vermont, which puts his birth about 1832 Confirmed S1088

Family

Children
Father of Artie Morrison (Harriet Artemiza); husband of Elizabeth J. (Lizzie) Miller S832S359
Children1892
🆕 His daughter Marion E. Morrison died, single, at Littleton, New Hampshire, on 10 February 1892, aged 30 years 10 months, of meningitis, and was buried at Groton, Vermont; the death return names her father as Orange G. Morrison, farmer, born Ryegate Confirmed S994. added 29 September 2026

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Generation 7 — Earl's 4th-great-grandparents

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Samuel Coffman

Confirmed

Father of David C. Coffman

Born
Not found
Died
Not found
Children
David C. Coffman
Sources
5

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as David C. Coffman's father — David C.'s own 1883 Page County death register, read from the image, gives his parents as “Saml. & Mary Coffman” S364 (FamilySearch indexes the same entry as 1:1:6ZLN-PCY5 and 1:1:XRSP-VJR), and his 1871 marriage register, where David C. was 58 and a widower, names his parents “Saml & Susannah” S362
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Birth1779
His birth and death dates are not documented. The 1779 birth year comes from a compiled family chart only, and the death in December 1814 that some trees give him belongs to another man, David Kauffman

Family

Children1883
Father of David C. Coffman, who died at Fruitland, Page County, on 25 January 1883, aged 70 S364
Parents1799
His own parents are not established: the 1799 bond abstract says “son of Geo.” S664, and a family chart says Martin

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Open question
⚠️ His wife is not settled. The 1871 register says Susannah S362; the 1883 register, whose informant was David C.'s widow, says Mary S364. A Saml. Coffman married a Susanna Coffman by a Shenandoah County bond of 12 February 1799; the typed abstract calls her the daughter of David and him the son of Geo. S664S104. A Susan Coffman, 69, lived in David C.'s household in 1850 S829, but that census gives no relationships. The question is left open for Earl

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William Thornhill

Confirmed

Father of Emily M. Thornhill

Born
about 1787
Died
Not found
Children
Emily M. Thornhill
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as Emily M. Thornhill's father — her own 1868 Page County death register gives her parents as Wm. and Mary Thornhill and her husband as David C. Coffman S335, and a William Thornhill of the right age lived in her household in both the 1850 and the 1860 census, both read from the page images S829S830
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Birth1787
Born about 1787, Virginia, by his ages in the two censuses: 63 in 1850 and 73 in 1860 S829S830
Census1850
In 1850, aged 63, a farmer, he lived in the household of his son-in-law David C. Coffman in District 49, Page County, Virginia, with Emily and her four young children (enumerated 6 September 1850) S829
Census1860
In 1860, aged 73 and entered as “Gentleman”, he was still in David C. Coffman's household near Luray, with a Rachael Thornhill, 47 (enumerated 14 August 1860) S830. Neither census has a relationship column, so Rachael's kinship is not known
Death1860
His death date is not found. He was alive on 14 August 1860, so the death in 1860 given in some online trees is not supported, and nor is the middle initial “S” that some trees give him
Record1868
FamilySearch indexes Emily's 1868 death register twice, as 1:1:6ZG8-J469 and 1:1:XRSG-546; both give her parents as Wm. and Mary Thornhill S335

Family

Children
Father of Emily M. Thornhill; his wife is named only as Mary in that register S335. Her maiden name is not known; no record read gives it

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James Brock

Probable

Probable father of Solomon Alfred Brock · born about 1804

Born
about 1804
Married
Elizabeth "Betsy" Brock
Sources
8

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — added 24 September 2026 and entered in the family tree the same day, labelled probable there too; no record states Solomon Alfred Brock's parentage in words. Solomon, 12 then 22, is in James Brock's household in the 1850 Harlan County census (dwelling 381: James 45, farmer, Elizabeth 46) S169 and the 1860 Laurel County census (dwelling 760: James 56, U.B. clergyman, Elizabeth 57) S167, with the same brothers and sisters both times; and his sister Sabra Brock Wilson's Kentucky death record (1930) names her parents as James Brock and Elizabeth Brock
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Evidence: The 1850 and 1860 Kentucky censuses with Solomon in his home, a daughter's 1930 death record, and the 1880 Clay County census (a cooper, next door to William and Sabra Wilson). Weak or missing: No record calls Solomon his son, and his own father is only a same-page 1830 census neighbour. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1804
Born about 1804, Kentucky; a farmer at Harlan County in 1850 and a United Brethren clergyman in Laurel County in 1860 S169S167
Census1830
🆕 In 1830 he is on line 1 of the Harlan County census: a man and a woman aged 20–30 and three boys under five. A James Brock Senr, a couple aged 50–60, is on the same page and is a candidate for his father; that is not proven S462. His probable daughter Elizabeth Hoskins, born 26 April 1831, named him and “Betsy Howard” as her parents on her 1911 death certificate S454. added 25 September 2026.
Census1880
🆕 In 1880 he was 74, a cooper, at Bull Skin, Clay County, Kentucky, with Elizabeth, 76; he gave his parents' birthplace as Virginia. William Wilson and Sabra lived next door S581. Elizabeth was a widow by 1900 S580. added 25 September 2026.
Census1870
🆕 In 1870 he was 66, a minister of the gospel, in Buffalo Precinct, Owsley County, Kentucky, with Elizabeth, 64, and Hiram Hoskins, 13, and Lee Hoskins, 2, whose relationship is not stated. William H. and Sabra Wilson lived two doors away S630. His and Elizabeth's ages advance exactly from 1850 and 1860. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Marriage1880
Husband of Elizabeth “Betsy” Brock; he died between 1880 and 1900 S581S580

Open questions

Probable
Probable father of Solomon Alfred Brock, and so grandfather of Iona Belle Brock
Probable
🆕 Probably his household in 1840: James Brock, head, in Harlan County, Kentucky, with a man and a woman aged 30–40, two boys under five, and five other children Probable confirm or correct → S1160. The evidence is the county, the same as the 1850 household S169, and the ages: he was born about 1804, Elizabeth about 1803, and Solomon Alfred in 1837 or 1838. What is weak: the 1840 census names only the head and gives tallies, not names, so nothing on the page proves this is the same James. Jesse Brock Jr. and Amy Brock lived on the same sheet, with five Howard households close by, which fits “Betsy Howard” as Elizabeth’s maiden name S454 but proves no kinship. If you know more, use “Add to this record”.

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Elizabeth “Betsy” Brock

Probable

Probable mother of Solomon Alfred Brock · born about 1803

Born
about 1803
Sources
7

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — added 24 September 2026 and entered in the family tree the same day, labelled probable there too; no record states Solomon Alfred Brock's parentage in words. Solomon, 12 then 22, is in James Brock's household in the 1850 Harlan County census (dwelling 381: James 45, farmer, Elizabeth 46) S169 and the 1860 Laurel County census (dwelling 760: James 56, U.B. clergyman, Elizabeth 57) S167, with the same brothers and sisters both times; and his sister Sabra Brock Wilson's Kentucky death record (1930) names her parents as James Brock and Elizabeth Brock
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Evidence: The 1850 and 1860 Kentucky censuses with Solomon in James and Elizabeth's home, a daughter's 1930 death record, and the 1880 and 1900 Clay County censuses, the second listing her as William Wilson's mother-in-law. Weak or missing: No record calls Solomon her son; her maiden name Howard rests on one 1911 death certificate; its informant, H. D. Peters, was the undertaker and very probably the deceased's son-in-law. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1803
Born about 1803, Kentucky; called Betsy. Her maiden name was probably Howard (see below)
Census1900
🆕 In 1900 she lived at Cornett, Clay County, Kentucky, in the home of William Wilson and his wife Sabra, listed as William's mother-in-law: born March 1803, 97, widowed, and the mother of 13 children, 3 of them living S580. In 1880 she, 76, and James lived next door to the same Wilsons S581. That makes Sabra her daughter. Neither record names Solomon, so he stays probable. added 25 September 2026.

Family

Names1911
🆕 Her maiden name was probably Howard. The 1911 death certificate of Elizabeth Hoskins, born 26 April 1831, names her parents as James Brock and Betsy Howard, both born in Harlan County. The informant, H. D. Peters, was also the undertaker, but very probably Elizabeth Hoskins's son-in-law Harden D. Peters, in whose home she lived in 1910 S748; it is still one source, so this stays probable until a second agrees S454. In 1830 she and James Brock are on line 1 of the Harlan County census, both aged 20–30, with three boys under five S462. added 25 September 2026.

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Probable
Probable mother of Solomon Alfred Brock, and so grandmother of Iona Belle Brock; wife of James Brock

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Moses Williams

Probable

Probable father of Lydia Williams · born about 1800

Born
about 1800
Married
Nancy Williams
Sources
6

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — added 24 September 2026 and entered in the family tree the same day, labelled probable there too; one 1850 census sheet, Owsley County, Kentucky S173, dwelling 281, lists Moses Williams, 50, farmer, real estate $750, born Tennessee, and Nancy, 48, with Lydia (born about 1835, Tennessee) in the household; relationships are not stated. The 1859 Moses Williams death lead was refuted — that record is a child of James and Lorinda Williams — and the names other users' trees give this couple are not used
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Evidence: The 1850 Owsley County census: Moses, 50, and Nancy, 48, with Lydia; in 1870 Moses, 69, and Nancy, 67, in Jackson County, Kentucky. Weak or missing: Neither census states relationships, and no record yet names Lydia as their daughter. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1800
Born about 1800, Tennessee; husband of Nancy Williams; alive in 1870 S620, probably dead by June 1880 S635; death date not yet found
Census1870
🆕 He was alive in 1870, aged 69, farming in McKee Precinct, Jackson County, Kentucky, with Nancy, 67; Riley Williams, 50, lived next door S620. added 26 September 2026.
Death1880
🆕 He had probably died by June 1880, when a widowed Nanci Williams, 78, was living with Sam and Nancy Evans in Madison County, Arkansas S635. Nancy's card explains why she is probably his wife. added 26 September 2026.
Death1819
🆕 His marriage, probably: W. M. Wilder's typescript says he married Nancy Wilder on 15 February 1819 in Hawkins County, Tennessee, that he served in the War of 1812 and died on 27 July 1874 in Madison County, Arkansas, and that his widow drew a pension Probable confirm or correct → S993S863. Weak: a compiled family history, not a register; his death date there is not on any record read. The widow's pension file would test all of it. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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Probable
Probable father of Lydia Williams, wife of James Daniel Bowles and mother of William Anderson Bowles
Probable
🆕 Probably his household in 1860: Moses Williams, 60, a farmer born in Tennessee, with real estate of $540, in Jackson County, Kentucky (P.O. McKee), with Nancy, 56, and George B., 20, Nancy Ann, 17, and Absalom, 15, all born in Tennessee Probable confirm or correct → S1172. The evidence is the pairing of Moses and Nancy, both born in Tennessee, as in Owsley County in 1850 S173, and the county: Jackson was formed partly from Owsley in 1858, and he is there again in 1870 S620. What is weak: the census states no relationships, Nancy’s age has moved eight years in ten, and Lydia, married by then, is not in the house, so nothing on this page ties him to her. If you know more, use “Add to this record”.

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Nancy Williams

Probable

Probable mother of Lydia Williams · born about 1802

Born
about 1802
Parents
James Wilder & Nancy Hays
Sources
5

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — added 24 September 2026 and entered in the family tree the same day, labelled probable there too; one 1850 census sheet, Owsley County, Kentucky S173, dwelling 281, lists Moses Williams, 50, farmer, real estate $750, born Tennessee, and Nancy, 48, with Lydia (born about 1835, Tennessee) in the household; relationships are not stated. The 1859 Moses Williams death lead was refuted — that record is a child of James and Lorinda Williams — and the names other users' trees give this couple are not used
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Evidence: The 1850 Owsley County census: Moses, 50, and Nancy, 48, with Lydia; in 1870 Nancy, 67, with Moses in Jackson County, Kentucky; in 1880 a widowed Nanci Williams, 78, with Sam and Nancy Evans in Madison County, Arkansas. Weak or missing: No census states her relationship to Lydia, her maiden name Wilder rests on a compiled family history alone, and the 1880 match rests on the Evans family, not on her own details. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1802
Born about 1802, Tennessee. No record read gives her maiden name; a compiled Wilder family history makes her Nancy Wilder (below)
Census1870
🆕 In 1870 she and Moses were in McKee Precinct, Jackson County, Kentucky: Nancy, 67, keeping house, born Tennessee S620. added 26 September 2026.
Census1880
🆕 In June 1880 a Nanci Williams, 78, widowed, born Tennessee, was living in Boston Township, Madison County, Arkansas, as the mother-in-law in the home of Sam Evans, 43, and his wife Nancy, 37, born Tennessee S635. A Samuel and Nancy Ann Evans lived next door to Moses and Nancy in 1870 S620, and the Evanses' two eldest children were born in Kentucky. Probable confirm or correct → This is probably her; if so, Nancy Ann Evans was her daughter and Moses had died by 1880. Sam's age is twelve years on from 1870, not ten, so the match rests mainly on Nancy Ann and the children's birthplaces. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Parents1802
🆕 Her parents: James Wilder and Nancy Hays Probable confirm or correct →. W. M. Wilder's typescript family history, p. 571, lists “Nancy Wilder (dau of James & Nancy Hays Wilder) b in Tenn. abt 1802 d in Madison Co., Ark. after 1878, m Moses Williams” S863, which fits her 1850 and 1880 census entries. Accepted by Earl as probable; what is weak: a compiled history is the only source. added 28 September 2026.
Marriage1819
🆕 Her marriage, probably: the full page of W. M. Wilder's typescript says she and Moses Williams married on 15 February 1819 in Hawkins County, Tennessee, and names a son, Sampson Williams, born in Hawkins County about 1825 Probable confirm or correct → S993. Evidence: the same entry that names her parents S863. Weak: it is a compiled family history by one author, not a marriage register, and no register has been read. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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Probable
Probable mother of Lydia Williams, and so grandmother of William Anderson Bowles; wife of Moses Williams

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William A. Bowles

Probable

Probable father of James Daniel Bowles · born about 1787

Born
about 1787
Married
Lucy Ann
Sources
2

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — added 24 September 2026 and entered in the family tree the same day, labelled probable there too; the 1850 Owsley County, Kentucky, census S155 has Wm A Bowles, 63, born Virginia, and Lucy, 45, born Virginia, with James in the household; three Bowles brothers are listed together on the 1863 draft; nothing states “son”. Her maiden name: the 1821 Madison County marriage bond's consent memo says Lucy Thomas, her father Abraham Thomas; Find a Grave says Alumbaugh, unsourced — so it is held as “Thomas?”
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Evidence: The 1850 Owsley County census (Wm A. Bowles, 63, with James), the 1863 draft list, and the 1840 Estill County census (Wm Boles, 50–59). Weak or missing: Nothing states “son”; census co-residence only; the 1840 census names only the head, so it fits by age alone. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1787
Born about 1787, Virginia; a farmer with $1,200 in real estate at the head of dwelling 367, Owsley County, in 1850 S155; husband of Lucy Ann
Census1840
🆕 In 1840 the census lists the household of Wm Boles in Estill County, Kentucky, with a man of 50–59 at its head and a woman of 30–39, which fits William (born about 1787) and Lucy (born about 1805), and eight children and young people under twenty S766. Only the head is named, so this is probable, not proved; an Abraham Thomas, perhaps Lucy's father, is on the same sheet. added 26 September 2026.

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Probable
Probable father of James Daniel Bowles, and so grandfather of William Anderson Bowles
two men with the same initials, two generations apart

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Lucy Ann Bowles

Probable

Probable mother of James Daniel Bowles · maiden name Thomas?

Born
about 1805
Parents
Abraham Thomas
Sources
5

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — added 24 September 2026 and entered in the family tree the same day, labelled probable there too; the 1850 Owsley County, Kentucky, census S155 has Wm A Bowles, 63, born Virginia, and Lucy, 45, born Virginia, with James in the household; three Bowles brothers are listed together on the 1863 draft; nothing states “son”. Her maiden name: the 1821 Madison County marriage bond's consent memo says Lucy Thomas, her father Abraham Thomas; Find a Grave says Alumbaugh, unsourced — so it is held as “Thomas?”
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Evidence: The 1850 Owsley County census (Lucy, 45, with James), the 1821 marriage bond memo naming Lucy Thomas, and the 1810 and 1840 censuses (Abraham Thomas in Madison County; the Wm Boles household in Estill County). Weak or missing: Nothing says James is her son; her maiden name rests on the consent memo alone; the 1810 and 1840 censuses name only the head of the house. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1805
Born about 1805, Virginia (Lucy, 45, in 1850) S155. The family tree now carries her surname as “Thomas?” in place of the unsourced Alumbaugh
Census1810
🆕 Her probable father: an Abraham Thomas heads a household of nine in Madison County, Kentucky, in 1810, among the Muddy Creek entries, with girls of the right age to include her and one enslaved person S765. Madison County is where Abraham Thomas consented to her marriage in 1821. In 1840 an Abraham Thomas is on the same Estill County census sheet as the household of Wm Boles, whose woman of 30–39 fits her S766. Neither census names her, so both are probable. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Parents1821
🆕 Her father: Abraham Thomas Probable confirm or correct →, by the clerk's memo on Will Bowles's December 1821 Madison County marriage bond, “Abraham Thomas the father of the within Lucy Thomas gave his personal consent” S854S855. Accepted by Earl as probable; what is weak: nothing yet shows that this Lucy Thomas is our Lucy Ann. added 28 September 2026.

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Probable
Probable mother of James Daniel Bowles, and so grandmother of William Anderson Bowles; wife of William A. Bowles

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John Martin

Probable

Father of Peter Hines Martin

Children
Peter Hines Martin
Sources
1

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — the grave record S105 gives his given name only. What would confirm it: a record naming Peter Hines Martin as his son (probate, deed, or a pre-1850 census household).
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Evidence: A grave record that gives his given name only. Weak or missing: Nothing yet names Peter Hines Martin as his son. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

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Children1793
Father of Peter Hines Martin (4 November 1793 – 4 July 1849) S105

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Colby Burris Quisenberry

Probable

Probable father of Louisa Quisenberry · born 1788

Married
Lucy Bush
Sources
14

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — added 24 September 2026 and entered in the family tree the same day, labelled probable there too; Quisenberry Memorials (1900), p. 67 S333, a compiled family book rather than a record, names Louisa as their daughter and gives her 1827 marriage to David Chenault; the couple's own marriage register, 16 December 1810, Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky, has been read from the image
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Evidence: The 1900 Quisenberry family book names Louisa as his daughter; his 1810 marriage register and two sons' death certificates have been read. Weak or missing: No record names Louisa as his child, and his own parents come only from SAR and DAR lineage books. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1788
🆕 Colonial Families of the United States gives his birth as 7 July 1788, Fayette County, Virginia (now Clark County, Kentucky). Kentucky was still part of Virginia then, which is why sources say both. It makes him the sixth of thirteen children of James Quisenberry's first marriage, with eleven half-siblings, and has him dying on 30 December 1870. Quisenberry Memorials says 31 December S451S333. added 25 September 2026.
Census1850
🆕 The census has him and Lucy in Clark County, Kentucky: farming in District 2 in 1850 with Tandy, Elkanah and John M. S495; near Winchester in 1860 with Elkanah, Martin and Sarah S496; and still alive in August 1870, aged 80, a retired farmer marked “Insane” S497. Two sons' death certificates name him and Lucy Bush as parents: Colby B. Jr. (1822–1907) and John Martin (1833–1914) S493S494. An SAR application and two DAR entries give his parents as James Quisenberry and Jane Burris; they are compiled lineages, so this is probable S498S499S500. These records prove other children, not Louisa, so the couple's status stays probable. added 25 September 2026.
Birth1858
🆕 The Clark County register of births for 1858 records Mariah, a Black girl born enslaved on 30 December near Winchester, with “Colby B. Quisenberry” entered as her owner S726 Probable confirm or correct →. He was living near Winchester in 1860 S496. What is weak: his son Colby B. Jr had the same name, and the register does not say which Colby it means. added 26 September 2026.
Census1840
🆕 In 1840 “C B Quisenberry” headed a Clark County household with a man and a woman aged 50–59, which fits Colby, born 1788, and Lucy, four men in their twenties, and eight younger people; Thacker and Jackson Quisenberry headed young families a few lines below S741 Probable confirm or correct →. The head is too old to be his son Colby B. Jr., who signed the same way in 1847. What is weak: the 1840 census names only the head, so the initials, the ages and the county are the only link. added 26 September 2026.
Burial1900
🆕 The family Memorials of 1900, in its “A Constructive Descent” on page 7, gives him born in Clark County, then Fayette County, Virginia, on 7 July 1788, dead there on 30 December 1870, and married to Lucy Bush on 16 December 1810 S761. That agrees with Colonial Families S451, so the 31 December credited to the Memorials is the book disagreeing with itself. A compiled book, not a record. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Marriage1810
Married Lucy Bush, 16 December 1810, Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky; born about 1788 and died about 1870, both years from the family book

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Probable
Probable father of Louisa Quisenberry Chenault, born 29 September 1811, and so grandfather of Nannie Chenault
Probable
🆕 Probably him in 1830: Colby B. Quisenberry headed a Clark County household in 1830 with a man and a woman aged 40–49 and eleven children under 20 Probable confirm or correct → S1060. Evidence: the name and county, and a head aged 40–49 fits a birth in 1788. Weak: only the head is named, and the page with the enslaved and free coloured columns is not on the image. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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Lucy Bush

Probable

Probable mother of Louisa Quisenberry · born about 1790

Born
about 1790
Sources
8

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — added 24 September 2026 and entered in the family tree the same day, labelled probable there too; Quisenberry Memorials (1900), p. 67 S333, a compiled family book rather than a record, names Louisa as their daughter and gives her 1827 marriage to David Chenault; the couple's own marriage register, 16 December 1810, Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky, has been read from the image
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Evidence: The 1900 Quisenberry family book names Louisa as her daughter; two sons' death certificates prove her name Bush. Weak or missing: No record names Louisa as her child; her parents come only from SAR and DAR lineage books. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1790
Born about 1790 and died about 1872, both years from the family book

Family

Names1907
🆕 Her maiden name, Bush, is now on two death certificates, both of her sons: Colby B. Quisenberry Jr. (1907) and John Martin Quisenberry (1914). The second gives her birthplace as Clark County, Kentucky S493S494. She is in the Clark County censuses of 1850, 1860 and 1870 S495S496S497. An SAR application and a DAR entry name her parents as Francis Bush and Rachel Martin, his second wife; they are compiled lineages, so this is probable S498S500. added 25 September 2026.

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Probable
Probable mother of Louisa Quisenberry Chenault; wife of Colby Burris Quisenberry, married 16 December 1810, Winchester, Kentucky

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Samuel Timberman

Probable

Probable father of John H. Timberman

Sources
5

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — added 24 September 2026 and entered in the family tree the same day, labelled probable there too; the marriage of John H. Timberman and Rebecca A. Harris, 16 August 1857, Swedesboro, New Jersey, gives the groom as a carpenter and a widower, son of Samuel Timberman; the county marriage index names “Saml Timberman” in the family field. Index records only; his own dates are not yet documented
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Evidence: John H. Timberman's 1857 Swedesboro marriage record, “son of Samuel Timberman”. Weak or missing: Index records only; Samuel's own dates are not documented. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

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Marriage1850
🆕 His probable wife: Mary Burroughs Timberman Probable confirm or correct →
Samuel Timberman, 71, and a Mary head a Pilesgrove household in 1850 S861, and are named as Harriet Timberman's parents in a marriage index S862; a Mary Timberman, 70, daughter of Benjamin Burroughs, died on 6 June 1858 at Upper Alloways Creek S860. No record names her as Samuel's wife, and a Samuel Timberman–Mary Ann Applegate marriage is also indexed. added 28 September 2026.

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Probable
Probable father of John H. Timberman, and so great-grandfather of James Harris Timberman Jr.
Probable
🆕 Probably him in 1830: Samuel Timberman, 40–49, heading a household of 12 in Upper Alloways Creek Township, Salem County, with two sons 15–20; William and Ann Timberman lived next door (Upper Alloways Creek Township, 1830) Probable confirm or correct → S996. Evidence: the name, and the township where Mary Timberman died in 1858 S860. Weak: 1830 names only the head, and the age bracket is a decade younger than his 71 in 1850 S861. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
Probable
🆕 Probably him in 1840: Samuel Timberman, 60–69, in Upper Alloways Creek Township, Salem County, with a woman 50–59, a boy 10–14 and a girl 5–9. He is listed between Benjn Timberman and Samuel Timberman Jr, both 20–29, who may be older sons Probable confirm or correct → S1017. Evidence: his age fits the 71 of 1850 S861, the woman fits Mary, and the boy fits John H., born about 1830. Weak: 1840 names only the heads, and the 1830 entry gives him an age of 40–49, which does not agree. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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James Harris

Confirmed

Father of Rebecca Anna Harris

Married
Rachel
Children
Rebecca Anna Harris
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026; entered in the family tree the same day. Rebecca Anna Harris's 1857 Woolwich Township marriage return and her 1866 Salem City death return, both read from the images, name her parents as James & Rachel Harris
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Note
Of Salem County, New Jersey. His own dates are not yet documented
Census1870
🆕 In 1870 he was 73, living with Rachel in Gloucester City in the home of Joseph K. and Georgianna Frazer S622. That puts his birth about 1797, in New Jersey. The census does not say how the Frazers were related. added 26 September 2026.
Census1860
🆕 In 1860 he was James Harris, 63, a labourer, living with Rachel in Upper Alloways Creek, Salem County S653. The census leaves birthplaces blank. added 26 September 2026.
Census1850
🆕 In August 1850 he was James Harris, 53, a labourer, in Upper Alloways Creek, Salem County, with Rachel, 39, Benjamin, 16, and Charlotte E., 10, all born in New Jersey Confirmed S1167. The census states no relationships. Rebecca Anna, about 27, was no longer at home.

Family

Children
Father of Rebecca Anna Harris, and so great-grandfather of James Harris Timberman Jr.; husband of Rachel

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Rachel Harris

Confirmed

Mother of Rebecca Anna Harris

Married
James Harris
Children
Rebecca Anna Harris
Sources
1

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026; entered in the family tree the same day. Rebecca Anna Harris's 1857 Woolwich Township marriage return and her 1866 Salem City death return, both read from the images, name her parents as James & Rachel Harris
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Census1850
🆕 In August 1850 she was Rachel Harris, 39, born New Jersey, in James Harris’s household in Upper Alloways Creek, Salem County, with Benjamin, 16, and Charlotte E., 10 Confirmed S1167. That age puts her birth about 1811, which sits awkwardly with Rebecca Anna’s birth about 1823: either Rebecca was born later than her 1860 age says, or Rachel was James’s second wife. Both of Rebecca’s own returns name her mother as Rachel, so the card stands; if you know more, use “Add to this record”.

Family

Children
Mother of Rebecca Anna Harris; wife of James Harris
Names
Her maiden name and dates are not yet documented

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Eve (Eva) Jung (Young)

Probable

Probable mother of Eva Harbauer

Born
about 1796
Died
Not found
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. In the 1850 census of Northern Liberties Ward 3, Philadelphia, Eve Young, 54, born in France, lives with Jacob Young, and the family runs onto the next page with Lewis Harbour, Eve Harbour and three Harbour children S838. Her daughter carries her given name, and the maiden name Young is backed by Eva's 1844 marriage as Eva Jung S582 and a widows' pension index naming her Eva Young Harbauer S839. What is weak: the census has no relationship column, and her own maiden name is unknown
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Evidence: In the 1850 Philadelphia census Eve Young, 54, born France, lives with Jacob Young in a family that includes Lewis and Eve Harbour; Eva's 1844 marriage calls her Eva Jung and a widows' pension index names her Eva Young Harbauer. Weak or missing: The census has no relationship column, no document names Eva as her daughter, and her own maiden name is unknown. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1796
Born about 1796, in France, by her age of 54 in 1850 S838
Death
Her death is not found; no record of it has been read

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Probable
Probable mother of Eva Harbauer; wife of Jacob Jung (Young)

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Jacob Jung (Young)

Probable

Probable father of Eva Harbauer

Born
about 1781
Died
Not found
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. In the 1850 census of Northern Liberties Ward 3, Philadelphia, Jacob Young, 69, tailor, born in France, and Eve, 54, head a family that runs onto the next page with Lewis Harbour, Eve Harbour and three Harbour children S838; Eva's 1844 marriage calls her Eva Jung S582, and a Civil War widows' pension index names her Eva Young Harbauer S839. What is weak: the 1850 census has no relationship column, and no document read names Eva as Jacob's daughter
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Evidence: In the 1850 Philadelphia census Jacob Young, 69, tailor, born France, and Eve, 54, head a family that includes Lewis and Eve Harbour and their children; Eva's 1844 marriage calls her Eva Jung and a widows' pension index names her Eva Young Harbauer. Weak or missing: The census has no relationship column and no document read names Eva as Jacob's daughter; a 1782 New Hanover, Pa., baptism in online trees belongs to another man. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1781
Born about 1781, in France, by his age of 69 in 1850 S838. A Lutheran baptism at New Hanover, Pennsylvania, of 2 August 1782, which some trees give him, belongs to another man: this Jacob was born in France
Work1850
A tailor in the Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, in 1850, with Eve, 54, and Louisa, 17, born in Pennsylvania S838
Death
His death is not found

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Probable
Probable father of Eva Harbauer; husband of Eve (Eva) Jung

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Mary Burroughs Timberman

Probable

Probable mother of John H. Timberman · about 1788–1858

Born
about 1788
Died
6 June 1858
Parents
Benjamin Burroughs
Sources
5

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. The New Jersey return of deaths for Upper Pittsgrove Township, Salem County, records Mary Timberman, married, 70, who died on 6 June 1858 at Upper Alloways Creek, born in Upper Pittsgrove, parent Benjamin Burroughs, of consumption S860. In 1850 Samuel Timberman, 71, a farmer, headed a Pilesgrove household with a Mary Timberman S861, and Harriet Timberman's marriage names her parents as Sam'l and Mary Timberman S862. John H. Timberman's 1857 marriage names his father as Samuel Timberman. What is weak: no document names Mary Burroughs as Samuel's wife or as John H.'s mother; the 1850 Mary is written as 32, not about 62, and John H. is not in that house; and FamilySearch indexes a Samuel Timberman marriage to Mary Ann Applegate in Salem County, a second Samuel or a second wife.
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Evidence: Mary Timberman's 1858 New Jersey death return names her parent as Benjamin Burroughs; a Samuel and Mary Timberman head a Pilesgrove household in 1850 and are named as Harriet Timberman's parents, and John H. Timberman's 1857 marriage names his father Samuel. Weak or missing: No document names Mary Burroughs as Samuel's wife or John H.'s mother; the 1850 Mary is written as 32, John H. is not in the house, and a Samuel Timberman x Mary Ann Applegate marriage is also indexed in Salem County. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1788
Born about 1788 at Upper Pittsgrove, New Jersey, a daughter of Benjamin Burroughs, who now has a card; died 6 June 1858 at Upper Alloways Creek, aged 70 S860. Her probable grandson James Harris Timberman Sr. was born at Allowaystown two days earlier, on 4 June 1858 S374
Census1850
On 5 September 1850, in Pilesgrove Township, Salem County: Samuel Timberman, 71, farmer; Mary Timberman, “32”; Jonathan, 22, farm hand; Judith, 30; Harriet, 20; Charles, 6; all born in New Jersey S861. The census states no relationships
Death1788
🆕 A FamilySearch index of New Jersey church records gives a Mary Burroughs born 8 June 1788 at Salem, daughter of Benjamin Burroughs and Judith; the year agrees with her age of 70 at death. It is an index only, the image being restricted, and it is not yet read S1076. added 30 September 2026

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Probable
Probable mother of John H. Timberman; probable wife of Samuel Timberman

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Johann Heinrich Melchior Lösch

Probable

Father of Elisabethe Sabina Lösch · glazier

Children
Elisabethe Sabina Lösch
Sources
2

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — the S133 image reads Heinrich, but the index says Friedrich. What would confirm it: a second parish entry (her baptism or his marriage or burial).
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Evidence: His daughter's 1872 burial entry, which reads Heinrich. Weak or missing: The index reads Friedrich; no second parish entry has been found. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Work
Glasermeister
master glazier — of Crailsheim S133

Family

Children1835
Father of Elisabethe Sabina Lösch, with Maria Dorothea geb. Muck; the indexes of her baptism and 1835 marriage call his wife Maria Dorothea Wolf Probable confirm or correct → S840; marked deceased in her 1872 burial entry S133

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Johann Leonhard David Prüger

Confirmed

Father of Georg Melchior Julius Prüger · 1772–1806

Born
5 June 1772, Erkenbrechtshausen
Died
December 1806
Married
Eva Barbara Schmidt
Sources
18

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — his own baptism, both marriages and his burial have now been read from the register images S594S595S592S593
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Birth1772
Born 5 June 1772, Erkenbrechtshausen, baptised the next day at Triensbach, Württemberg, the son of Johann Michael Pröger and Anna Margaretha Raisig S594
Work1796
A master weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen in 1796, 1806 and at his father's death; the 1804 birth register calls him Tüncher Mstr., a master whitewasher, and his son's 1870 burial entry a Maler S595S591S12
Death1806
Died of a fever at Erkenbrechtshausen in December 1806, aged 34; buried 21 December. His son Georg Friedrich was born ten weeks later S593. 🆕 Georg Friedrich became a weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen like his father and married Maria Margaretha Stegmaier at Triensbach on 20 September 1836 Confirmed S738. 🆕 He was dead by September 1864, when their son Georg Friedrich (born 25 December 1838) married Margaretha Barbara Bauer of Gröningen at Triensbach; the register calls the father “† Georg Friedrich Pröger, weaver and cottager” S775. 🆕 That couple's daughter Rosine Barbara Pröger was born at Erkenbrechtshausen on 15 September 1865; she married Georg Friedrich Osterlein at Triensbach on 26 March 1889 and died on 26 October 1952 Confirmed S790. added 27 September 2026. Maria Margaretha married again, to Johann Leonhard Frank, a weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen, and died his widow at Triensbach on 16 May 1887; her burial entry names her parents, Georg Simon Stegmaier and Katharina Batz S776. Both entries carry family register II,343. A second Georg Friedrich Pröger, a living master weaver (register II,344), was at Erkenbrechtshausen in 1864, so the register number is what ties these to ours. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Marriage1796
🆕 First married Anna Maria Busch, November 1796 (banns at Ellrichshausen, wedding at Triensbach). Their first son, Johann Michael Pröger, was born at Erkenbrechtshausen on 15 April 1797 and baptised that day at Triensbach, Georg Melchior Julius's full brother Confirmed S623. She is the mother of Georg Melchior Julius Prüger, born 25 July 1804 S595S591. 🆕 Johann Michael, a day labourer at Großaltdorf, married Anna Barbara Hübner of Großaltdorf (born 27 April 1801) there on 17 June 1829 Confirmed S737S779; the Großaltdorf copy of the entry also names the bride's mother, Anna Catharina (surname unclear, perhaps Frinauer); the index’s 17 January is wrong. Their children, all baptised at Großaltdorf: Margaretha Barbara (20 January 1829–23 January 1831), Johann Georg (1830–1904), Johann Simon (1832), Johann Friedrich (1834–1907) and Barbara (1843) Probable — the baptisms of the three sons are index entries only, their images not yet read S739. 🆕 Two of the daughters' entries have now been read. Margaretha Barbara was born on 20 January 1829, five months before her parents married, and died of convulsions on 23 January 1831, aged two; she was buried on 25 January, the date the index and the tree took for her death Confirmed S788. Barbara was born on 8 January 1843 and baptised on 12 January, the daughter of J. M. Pröger, citizen and day labourer, and Anna Barbara geb. Hübner Confirmed S789. added 27 September 2026 Add to this record →. 🆕 Two of the sons' burial entries have now been read. Johann Georg, an unmarried cottager, died at Kleinaltdorf on 28 February 1904 and was buried at Großaltdorf on 2 March Confirmed S778. Johann Friedrich, a weaver, died at Hausen on 31 May 1907 and was buried at Untersontheim on 2 June Confirmed S777; the index had put his death at Merkelbach. His burial entry gives his birth as 30 September 1834, where the tree has 6 October (perhaps the baptism); the 1834 baptism would settle it. added 26 September 2026. No emigration record is found for him.
Marriage1806
🆕 Married second, as a widower, 4 March 1806 at Triensbach, Eva Barbara Schmidt, daughter of Johann Michael Schmidt, master weaver at Brettenfeld. She was Georg Melchior Julius's stepmother. The index's 2 March is the last reading of the banns S592

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Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer

Confirmed

Father of Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer · 1770–1837

Born
Not found
Died
Not found
Married
Eva Barbara Hertweck
Children
Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — confirmed 25 September 2026 from the register images: the 1837 Gerabronn marriage register S444 names Georg Leonhard's parents as J. G. M. H. Kochendörfer and Eva Barbara geb. Hart[weck], and both Gerabronn burial entries S452S453 record the couple, married 15 May 1810. First added 24 September 2026 as probable from index rows: the marriage indexes for Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer and Eva Margaretha Renk, 29 November 1837, name his parents as Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer and Eva Barbara Hertweck, whose own marriage the index put at Gerabronn, 12 May; both burial registers say 15 May 1810
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Birth and death dates not yet found
Record1770
🆕 The Gerabronn burial register gives his birth as 22 March 1770 and his parents as Johann Adam Martin Kochendörfer and Catharina Sophia Barbara. A day labourer, he died of consumption on 4 August 1837 and was buried on 6 August S452. His burial entry and his widow's both give the marriage as 15 May 1810, not the 12 May of the index S452S453. added 25 September 2026.

Family

Children1811
Father of Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer, born 1 March 1811 at Gerabronn, and so great-grandfather of Minnie Kochendoerfer
Marriage1810
Married Eva Barbara Hertweck, 15 May 1810 (the index said 12 May), Gerabronn, Württemberg; his own father is given as Martin Adam Kochendörfer

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Eva Barbara Hertweck

Confirmed

Mother of Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer · 1779–1848

Born
Not found
Died
Not found
Married
Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer
Children
Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer
Sources
4

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — confirmed 25 September 2026 from the register images: the 1837 Gerabronn marriage register S444 names Georg Leonhard's parents as J. G. M. H. Kochendörfer and Eva Barbara geb. Hart[weck], and both Gerabronn burial entries S452S453 record the couple, married 15 May 1810. First added 24 September 2026 as probable from index rows: the marriage indexes for Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer and Eva Margaretha Renk, 29 November 1837, name his parents as Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer and Eva Barbara Hertweck, whose own marriage the index put at Gerabronn, 12 May; both burial registers say 15 May 1810
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Birth
Birth and death dates not yet found
Record1779
🆕 The Gerabronn burial register gives her birth as 3 May 1779, at Oberweiler [?], the daughter of Johann Georg Hartweck, a herdsman, and Maria Margaretha Schnürmann [?]; her mother's own 1766 marriage entry gives the surname as Scheuermann S814. She died a widow on 18 May 1848 and was buried on 20 May. The register spells her surname Hartweck and gives the marriage as 15 May 1810 S453. added 25 September 2026.

Family

Children1810
Mother of Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer; wife of Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer, married 15 May 1810, Gerabronn (the index said 12 May)

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Georg Andreas Renk

Confirmed

Father of Eva Margaretha Renk · born 1776

Married
Maria Margaretha Zins
Children
Eva Margaretha Renk
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — confirmed 25 September 2026 from the register images: the 1837 Gerabronn marriage register S444 names Eva Margaretha's parents as G. A. Renk and the late … geb. Zins, and the 1813 Wallhausen register S443 calls Renk the widower of Maria Margaretha geb. Zins. First added 24 September 2026 as probable from index rows: the Wallhausen marriage index (10 May 1808) and Eva Margaretha's baptism index (born 25 January 1809, Wallhausen) name her parents as Georg Andreas Renk and Maria Margaretha Zins; Minnie's 1847 Langenburg baptism S184 names her mother “Eva Margaretha geb. Renk”. The 1808 marriage date itself is still an index row
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Record1813
🆕 The Wallhausen marriage register for 1813 gives his birth as 27 April 1776 and names his parents as Georg Michael Renk, a mason, and Maria Barbara. On 29 January 1813, as “widower of the late Maria Margaretha geb. Zins”, he married Margaretha Barbara Seibold of Michelbach an der Lücke S443. In 1837 he was an innkeeper and master baker at Wallhausen when his daughter Eva Margaretha married S444. added 25 September 2026.

Family

Children
Father of Eva Margaretha Renk, and so great-grandfather of Minnie Kochendoerfer
Marriage1808
Married Maria Margaretha Zins, 10 May 1808, Wallhausen, Württemberg (index); born 27 April 1776. His second marriage, on 29 January 1813, is on the card below

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Maria Margaretha Zins

Confirmed

Mother of Eva Margaretha Renk

Born
Not found
Died
Not found
Married
Georg Andreas Renk
Children
Eva Margaretha Renk
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — confirmed 25 September 2026 from the register images: the 1837 Gerabronn marriage register S444 names Eva Margaretha's parents as G. A. Renk and the late … geb. Zins, and the 1813 Wallhausen register S443 calls Renk the widower of Maria Margaretha geb. Zins. First added 24 September 2026 as probable from index rows: the Wallhausen marriage index (10 May 1808) and Eva Margaretha's baptism index (born 25 January 1809, Wallhausen) name her parents as Georg Andreas Renk and Maria Margaretha Zins; Minnie's 1847 Langenburg baptism S184 names her mother “Eva Margaretha geb. Renk”. The 1808 marriage date itself is still an index row
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Birth
Birth and death dates not yet found
Death1809
🆕 She died between January 1809 and 29 January 1813. On that day Georg Andreas Renk married again at Wallhausen, entered as “widower of the late Maria Margaretha geb. Zins” S443. added 25 September 2026.

Family

Children1808
Mother of Eva Margaretha Renk; wife of Georg Andreas Renk, married 10 May 1808, Wallhausen

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Anna Maria Busch

Confirmed

Mother of Georg Melchior Julius Prüger · c. 1766–bef. 1806

Parents
Johann Michael Pröger
Married
Johann Leonhard David Prüger
Children
Georg Melchior Julius Prüger
Sources
6

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — named as the mother in her son's 1804 birth register, and as the bride in the 1796 marriage register, both read from the images S591S595. Added 26 September 2026
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Children1804
Mother of Georg Melchior Julius Prüger, born 25 July 1804 at Erkenbrechtshausen; the register calls her Maria geb. Büschin S591
Marriage1796
Married Johann Leonhard David Prüger in November 1796: banns at Ellrichshausen, wedding at Triensbach. She was 30, so born about 1766, the youngest daughter of the late Johann Michael Busch, a Halbbauer (smallholder); his village reads as Beu[e]rlbach, which is Probable confirm or correct → S595
Parents1797
🆕 Mother also of Johann Michael Pröger, her first son, born at Erkenbrechtshausen on 15 April 1797 Confirmed S623. Both registers of his marriage to Anna Barbara Hübner at Großaltdorf on 17 June 1829 name him the son of the late Johann Leonhard David Pröger and “the late Anna Maria geb. Busch”, a second record naming her S737S779.

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Not found
She died between July 1804 and early 1806: her husband married again as a widower on 4 March 1806 S592. Her burial has not been found. Her son was raised by his stepmother, Eva Barbara Schmidt

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Maria Dorothea Wolf

Probable

Probable mother of Elisabethe Sabina Loesch

Born
Not found
Died
Not found
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. Two FamilySearch-derived indexes, of Elisabethe Sabina Lösch's baptism S840 and of her 1835 marriage at Triensbach to Georg Melchior Julius Proeger S122, name her mother as Maria Dorothea Wolf. What is weak: both are indexes, with no register image read. ⚠️ Elisabethe Sabina's own 1872 burial entry, read from the register, gives her mother as Maria Dorothea geb. Muck and her father's middle name as Heinrich, not Friedrich S133. The given name agrees; the maiden name is in conflict and is not resolved here
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Evidence: The FamilySearch-derived indexes of Elisabethe Sabina Lösch's baptism and of her 1835 Triensbach marriage both name her mother as Maria Dorothea Wolf. Weak or missing: Both are indexes with no image read, and Elisabethe Sabina's 1872 burial entry, read from the register, gives her mother as Maria Dorothea geb. Muck; the maiden name is unresolved. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Burial1872
Of Crailsheim, Württemberg S122. She was dead by August 1872: the burial entry marks her deceased S133
Birth1803
Her birth, marriage and death dates are not found. A Crailsheim baptism register for 1803, or the Triensbach marriage register for 1835, would settle her maiden name

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Probable
Probable mother of Elisabethe Sabina Loesch; wife of Johann Heinrich Melchior Lösch, a master glazier of Crailsheim (the indexes call him Joh. Friedrich Melchior Lösch) S133S122

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Generation 7 — relatives in this generation

John Covey Howard

Probable

Probable father of Matilda Pauline Howard · born about 1806

Born
about 1806
Parents
John Howard & Mary Risner
Married
Matilda Brock
Sources
10

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — added 24 September 2026 and entered in the family tree the same day, labelled probable there too; no record states Matilda Pauline Howard's parentage in words. The evidence: the 1850 Harlan County census has “Paulina, 5” in John C. Howard's household (relationships not stated) S967; her 6 March 1865 wedding to Solomon Brock was held “at John C. Howard's” S151; and the Kentucky death records of Hiram B. Howard (1915) S455 and Jacob Howard (1933) name their parents as John Covey Howard and Matilda Brock
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Evidence: Paulina, 5, in his 1850 household; her 1865 wedding at his house; two sons' death records naming him. Weak or missing: No record names Matilda Pauline as his daughter. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1806
Born about 1806; of Pucketts Creek, Harlan County, Kentucky; died 1899
Census1860
🆕 In 1860 he was a farmer in Harlan County, 53, with land worth $2,000, a wife Mary, 35, and Elizabeth, 17. The rest of the household is on the next page, which has not been read. Mary was his second wife, after Matilda's death about 1855; the 1861 birth register below gives her maiden name, Morris S461. added 25 September 2026.
Census1880
🆕 In 1880 he was 72, farming in Harlan County, with his wife Polly, 45, and her father Littleton Morris, 80. He gave his father's birthplace as North Carolina and his mother's as Virginia S548. added 25 September 2026.
Census1870
🆕 In 1870 he was 64, a farmer in Harlan County with land worth $1,500, living with Mary, 37, keeping house; Jacob, 22, the son whose 1933 death record names him; and six others aged 3 to 18, whose relationships are not stated S625. The Harlan County birth register names the mother of his daughter Sarah, born 15 September 1861, as Mary Morris S626. So his second wife, the Mary of 1860 and 1870 and the Polly of 1880 who lived with her father Littleton Morris, was Mary Morris. added 26 September 2026.
Census1840
🆕 In 1840 John C. Howard headed a Harlan County household of eleven: a man of 30 to 40, as he would be if born about 1806, a man of 20 to 30, two women of 20 to 30, and seven children. Jacob, Larkin, Samuel and Wilkerson Howard lived nearby S642. The census names only the head. added 26 September 2026.
Census1850
🆕 The 1850 census page itself has now been read: he was 45, a farmer with $1,200 in land, in Harlan County, dwelling and family 342, with Michael, John, Larkin, Hiram, Nancy, Elizabeth, Mary, Paulina and Jacob, and no adult woman in the house Confirmed S967. The census gives no relationships. added 29 September 2026

Family

Marriage
Husband of Matilda Brock
Parents1850
🆕 His parents: John Howard and Mary Risner Probable confirm or correct →. A query in Howards in Kentucky, p. 127, by his great-granddaughter Sudie F. Spillman of Harlan, names “their second son John Covey”, with brothers Larkin, William, Michael and Robert S864; his 1850 household includes a Larkin and a Michael S865. Accepted by Earl as probable; what is weak: the query is compiled and unsourced. added 28 September 2026.

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Probable
Probable father of Matilda Pauline Howard, who married Solomon Alfred Brock and was the mother of Iona Belle Brock

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Matilda Brock Howard

Probable

Probable mother of Matilda Pauline Howard · born about 1812

Born
about 1812
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — added 24 September 2026 and entered in the family tree the same day, labelled probable there too; no record states Matilda Pauline Howard's parentage in words. The evidence: the 1850 Harlan County census has “Paulina, 5” in John C. Howard's household (relationships not stated) S967; her 6 March 1865 wedding to Solomon Brock was held “at John C. Howard's” S151; and the Kentucky death records of Hiram B. Howard (1915) S455 and Jacob Howard (1933) name their parents as John Covey Howard and Matilda Brock
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Evidence: Paulina in John C. Howard's 1850 home, and two sons' death records naming Matilda Brock as mother. Weak or missing: No record names Matilda Pauline as her daughter. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1812
Born about 1812; died about 1855 and buried at Wallins Creek, Harlan County, Kentucky (Find a Grave only)
Death1915
🆕 The 1915 death certificate of her son Hiram B. Howard, born 23 November 1837, has now been read on the image: it names his parents as John Cony [Covey] Howard and Matilda Brock S455. added 25 September 2026.

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Probable
Probable mother of Matilda Pauline Howard, and so grandmother of Iona Belle Brock; wife of John Covey Howard
Weak or missing
🆕 What is weak, newly: the 1850 census page for John C. Howard's household in Harlan County, now read on the image, has no adult woman in it; the youngest child, Jacob, was 3 S967. That sits awkwardly with the Find a Grave death about 1855. She may have been away, or dead by 1850. Know a record? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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Eva Barbara Schmidt

Confirmed

Stepmother of Georg Melchior Julius Prüger

Born
Not found
Died
Not found
Parents
Johann Michael Schmidt & Brettenfeld
Sources
8

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as the second wife of Johann Leonhard David Prüger — their 1806 marriage register has been read from the image S592
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Birth
Her birth and death dates are not known

Family

Parents1806
Daughter of Johann Michael Schmidt, master weaver at Brettenfeld, near Rot am See. Married 4 March 1806 at Triensbach, Württemberg; the index's 2 March is the last banns S592
Marriage1807
Widowed that December. Her son Georg Friedrich Pröger was born 27 February 1807, ten weeks after his father's death; he is Georg Melchior Julius's half-brother. 🆕 His 1836 marriage entry names her as his mother, “Eva Barbara geb. Schmidt”. A weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen, he married Maria Margaretha Stegmaier (born 10 December 1801 by that entry; her 1887 burial entry says 18 December, and only her 1801 baptism will settle it S776, Erkenbrechtshausen) at Triensbach on 20 September 1836 Confirmed S738. Their children at Triensbach: Maria Margaretha (born and died 1837) and Georg Friedrich the younger (born 25 December 1838), who married Margaretha Barbara Bauer of Gröningen there on 27 September 1864 Confirmed S775 and died there in 1902 Probable — index entries only S739 Add to this record →
Children1864
🆕 Her son Georg Friedrich was dead by September 1864: the register of his son's marriage calls him “† Georg Friedrich Pröger, weaver and cottager” S775. His widow, Maria Margaretha Stegmaier, married again, to Johann Leonhard Frank, a weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen, and died his widow at Triensbach on 16 May 1887 S776. Both entries carry family register II,343, which ties them to this family Confirmed.

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⚠️ Corrected 26 September 2026: she was Georg Melchior Julius's stepmother, not his mother. His own 1804 birth register names his mother as Maria geb. Büschin, Anna Maria Busch S591. Eva Barbara married his widowed father when the boy was a year and a half old and raised him, which is why his 1835 marriage and his 1870 burial entries name her as his mother S122S135

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Generation 8 — Earl's 5th-great-grandparents

20 people

James Brock Senr

Probable

Possible father of James Brock · born 1770–1780

Born
1770
Sources
0

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE, and thin — the only link is that both men are on the same page of the 1830 Harlan County, Kentucky census, p.117: James Brock Senr, aged 50–60, and James Brock, 20–30. No record states the relationship; neighbours sharing a name are not proof of father and son
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Evidence: The 1830 Harlan County, Kentucky census, where he and James Brock are on the same page. Weak or missing: No record states the relationship; neighbours sharing a name are not proof of father and son. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1770
Born between 1770 and 1780 (census age bracket); no wife is named

Family

Parents
Possible father of James Brock

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Abraham Thomas

Probable

Probable father of Lucy Ann Bowles

Born
Not found
Died
Not found
Sources
6

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. On 28 December 1821, in Madison County, Kentucky, the clerk's memo on Will Bowles's marriage bond records that “Abraham Thomas the father of the within Lucy Thomas gave his personal consent to the match” S854. FamilySearch indexes the same bond and consent S855. Lucy Bowles was 45 in 1850, so about 17 in 1821, the age at which a father's consent was needed S155. What is weak: no record gives our Lucy Ann's maiden name or calls her the Lucy Thomas of 1821, so the tie rests on the couple's names and her age; Find a Grave calls her Alumbaugh, without a source.
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Evidence: The 1821 Madison County marriage bond memo names Abraham Thomas as the father of the Lucy Thomas who married Will Bowles, and FamilySearch indexes the same bond; Lucy Bowles's age in 1850 fits a bride of about 17. Weak or missing: No record gives our Lucy Ann's maiden name or calls her the Lucy Thomas of 1821; the tie rests on names and age, and Find a Grave's Alumbaugh is unsourced. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Census1810
An Abraham Thomas headed a household of nine in Madison County in 1810, among the Muddy Creek entries, with one enslaved person S765; in 1840 an Abraham Thomas is on the same Estill County sheet as the household of Wm Boles S766. Both censuses name only the head of the house
Birth
His birth and death dates are not in any record read. The dates online trees give him are unsourced and are not used here

Open questions

Probable
Probable father of Lucy Ann Bowles, wife of William A. Bowles
Probable
🆕 Probably him in 1830: Abraham Thomas, aged 50–60, heads a household in Estill County, Kentucky, three lines above William Boles Probable confirm or correct → S1013. Evidence: the Thomas and Boles names side by side, as on the 1840 Estill sheet S766. Weak: 1830 names only the heads, and Abraham Thomas was a common name. If this is he, his age puts his birth between 1770 and 1780. A Cornealius Thomas, 30–40, on line 16 of the same page may be a son. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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James Wilder

Probable

Probable father of Nancy Williams

Sources
4

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. W. M. Wilder's typescript Wilder and Some Connecting Families, p. 571, “A Tennessee Fragment”: “F-2 James Wilder b in Va. m Nancy Hays, came to Tennessee with his father [David Wilder of Luther, Hancock Co.] and later moved to ‘Old Settlement’ Ky. They had: G-1 Nancy Wilder (dau of James & Nancy Hays Wilder) b in Tenn. abt 1802 d in Madison Co., Ark. after 1878, m Moses Williams (b abt 1799 in Tenn. d 7/27/1874 Madison Co., Ark.)” S863. That Nancy and Moses match the 1850 Owsley County couple, Moses, 50, and Nancy, 48, both born in Tennessee S173, and our Nancy was in Madison County, Arkansas, in 1880 S635. What is weak: a compiled family history is the only source; no record gives Nancy's maiden name; and the entry runs on to p. 572, not yet read. The James Wilder, 60, a tanner born in North Carolina, in Hancock County, Tennessee, in 1850 is a different man S871; online trees give our James his dates and censuses.
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Evidence: W. M. Wilder's typescript family history (p. 571) names Nancy Wilder, born about 1802 in Tennessee and wife of Moses Williams, as the daughter of James Wilder and Nancy Hays; its Nancy and Moses match the 1850 Owsley County couple by ages and birthplaces. Weak or missing: A compiled family history is the only source and no record gives Nancy's maiden name; p. 572 is unread; the Hancock County, Tennessee, James Wilder of the 1850 census is another man. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth
Born in Virginia; went to Tennessee with his father, David Wilder of Luther, Hancock County, and later moved to “Old Settlement”, Kentucky (the family history S863). His dates are not in any record read

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Probable
Probable father of Nancy Williams, wife of Moses Williams, and so great-grandfather of William Anderson Bowles; husband of Nancy Hays

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Nancy Hays Wilder

Probable

Probable mother of Nancy Williams

Born
Not found
Died
Not found
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. W. M. Wilder's typescript Wilder and Some Connecting Families, p. 571, calls Nancy Wilder, born in Tennessee about 1802 and wife of Moses Williams, the “dau of James & Nancy Hays Wilder” S863. That Nancy and Moses match the 1850 Owsley County couple S173. What is weak: the compiled family history is the only source, with no primary record behind it. Online trees merge her with Jane Wilder, 72 in 1850 and 82 in 1860, wife of the Hancock County, Tennessee, tanner James Wilder S871; that family stayed in Tennessee while the book's couple went to Kentucky, so the birth in 1777 and death in 1870 the trees give are that woman's or no record's.
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Evidence: W. M. Wilder's typescript family history (p. 571) calls Nancy Wilder, wife of Moses Williams, the daughter of James and Nancy Hays Wilder. Weak or missing: The compiled history is the only source; online trees merge her with Jane Wilder of Hancock County, Tennessee, whose dates are not hers. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth
Her birth and death dates are not in any record read

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Probable
Probable mother of Nancy Williams; wife of James Wilder, with whom she went from Tennessee to “Old Settlement”, Kentucky S863

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Rev. James Quisenberry

Probable

Father of Colby Burris Quisenberry · 1759–1830

Born
1759
Died
1830
Sources
8

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — from compiled lineage books only: SAR application 27139 S498 and the DAR Lineage Book S499 make him Colby Burris Quisenberry's father. No original record has been read
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Evidence: SAR application 27139 and the DAR Lineage Book, which make him Colby Burris Quisenberry's father; his epitaph, as a Quisenberry family book copies it, which gives his marriage to Jane Burrus and thirteen children by her; Colonial Families and a Burris typescript, which name his parents as Aaron and Joyce Quisenberry. Weak or missing: Compiled lineage books only; no original record has been read; the Memorials calls his descent 'constructive' and gives Joyce's surname, Dudley, only 'as is supposed'. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1759
Born 1759, Spotsylvania County, Virginia; married Jane Burris in 1776; died 1830, Clark County, Kentucky (lineage books)
Burial1759
🆕 A Revolutionary War burial index card gives Rev. James Quisenberry's dates as born 13 June 1759 and died 5 August 1830, aged 71, and says he was buried on his farm in Clark County, Kentucky, and was a “defender of Fort Boonesboro” S728. It is a compiled card, not an original record. added 26 September 2026.
Residence1783
🆕 Colonial Families of the United States calls him the founder of the Kentucky branch: after service in the Orange County militia he settled in 1783 in what is now Clark County, was in the garrison of the fort at Boonesboro under Daniel Boone, and was an ordained Baptist minister. It names his first three children by Jane Burris: Joyce, born 1777, who married James Duncan; Frances, born 1779, who married John Bruner; and Jane, born 1782, who married Ambrose Bush S762. A Burris typescript says his family moved from Spotsylvania to Orange when he was ten, and names his parents as Aaron and Joyce Quisenberry S763; the family Memorials makes him the son of Aaron Quisenberry (about 1715–1795) and of Joyce Dudley, “as is supposed” S761 Probable confirm or correct →. What is weak: all three are compiled books; the Memorials author calls his own descent “constructive” and hedges Joyce's surname; and two of the books give James Jane's 5 July birthday, one also a 24 December wedding, where the stones say 13 June and 4 December. If you know more, use “Add to this record”. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Marriage1811
🆕 A Clark County marriage register records the marriage of a James Quisenberry and Cloey Ship on 24 December 1811, performed by James Haggard S727 Probable confirm or correct →. It may be a second marriage for this James after Jane Burris died; on the next page of the register a James Quisenberry officiates at three marriages, which fits a minister. What is weak: the register gives no ages or parents, so it does not show which James this is; Jane Burris's death, 3 November 1811, comes only from a book's copy of her stone S750; and the original bond has not been read. added 26 September 2026.
Marriage1759
🆕 His epitaph, as copied into a Quisenberry family book, says he was born in Orange County, Virginia, “of English parentage”, on 13 June 1759; married Jane Burrus in his eighteenth year and had seven sons and six daughters by her; married Chloe Shipp of Clark County on 24 December 1811 and had eleven more children; moved to Kentucky in 1783; and died on 5 August 1830 S750 Probable confirm or correct →. This names the 1811 bride of the Clark County register as his second wife. What is weak: it is a book's copy of the stone; and it puts his birth in Orange County, where a family history puts it in Spotsylvania, so the card keeps Spotsylvania. added 26 September 2026.

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Probable
Probable father of Colby Burris Quisenberry, and so great-grandfather of Louisa Quisenberry Chenault

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Jane Burris

Probable

Mother of Colby Burris Quisenberry

Born
5 July 1759
Died
3 November 1811
Parents
Frances Tandy
Sources
6

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — from compiled lineage books only: SAR application 27139 S498 and the DAR Lineage Book S499. The two disagree on her birth: the SAR says 1759, the DAR 1739. Her tombstone, as copied in a family book, and a second DAR entry both give 1759 S750S751
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Evidence: SAR application 27139, the DAR Lineage Book, her father Thomas Burrus's 1788 will, which names 'my daughter Jane Quisenberry', and her tombstone as a Quisenberry family book copies it: born 5 July 1759, died 3 November 1811; a Burris family typescript agrees on her marriage and death. Weak or missing: The will names neither her husband nor her age; her dates come from a book's copy of the stone, not the stone itself, and one DAR entry gives 1739. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1759
Born 5 July 1759, Orange County, Virginia; died 3 November 1811, Clark County, Kentucky (her tombstone, as a family book copies it S750); one DAR entry's 1739 is not supported by anything read
Record1776
🆕 A typescript history of the Burris family lists her as the ninth of Thomas Burris's children, married at seventeen on 4 December 1776 to James Quisenberry, “who was the same age”, and dead on 3 November 1811 S763. It prints her birth year as 1755, a slip, since it makes her James's age and her stone says 1759. Her sister Frances Tandy Burris married William Bush, “Captain Billy Bush” (1746–1815), son of Philip Bush Sr., on 9 December 1778, and her sister Mourning married Thomas Graves Jr. in 1791. A compiled typescript, not a record. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Parents1788
🆕 Her father's will, written 2 October 1788 and proved 23 March 1789 in Orange County, Virginia (Will Book 3), names “my daughter Jane Quisenberry” and “my grand Daughter Frances Quisenberry the Daughter of Jane Quisenberry” S645. It is the first original record for her. It shows that she was Thomas Burrus's daughter and married to a Quisenberry by 1788, but it does not name her husband or give her age, so her birth year is still open. added 26 September 2026.
Marriage1776
🆕 Her tombstone in Clark County, Kentucky, as copied into a Quisenberry family book, calls her the consort of Rev. James Quisenberry, married 4 December 1776, the mother of thirteen children, born in Orange County, Virginia, on 5 July 1759, and dead on 3 November 1811, aged 52 years, 3 months and 27 days S750 Probable confirm or correct →. A second DAR entry, for Lilla May Duncan, also gives her as 1759–1811 S751. What is weak: this is a book's copy of the stone, not the stone itself; but the age at death checks out against both dates. added 26 September 2026.
Parents1788
🆕 Her mother: Frances Tandy Probable confirm or correct →, by DAR Lineage Book no. 112604, “Thomas Burris m. Frances Tandy” S751; her father's 1788 will names his wife Frances S645. Accepted by Earl as probable; what is weak: only compiled books give the name Tandy, and the will does not say Frances was Jane's mother. added 28 September 2026.

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Probable
Probable mother of Colby Burris Quisenberry; wife of Rev. James Quisenberry, married 1776

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Francis Bush

Probable

Father of Lucy Bush · 1750–1836

Born
23 February 1750
Died
1836
Sources
4

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — from compiled lineage books only: SAR application 27139 S498 and DAR Lineage Book no. 141325 S500, which calls Rachel Martin his second wife. No original record has been read, and nothing yet shows whether Lucy was Rachel's child or the first wife's
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Evidence: SAR application 27139, DAR Lineage Book no. 141325, and a Francis Bush on a 1778 roll of the 2nd Virginia Regiment; a compiled chart in Ridge Runners (1978) names his first wife, Lucy Davis, and his parents, Philip Bush and Mary Bryan. Weak or missing: The 1778 roll is a name match only; nothing yet shows Lucy was the child of his second wife, Rachel, rather than his first. The Ridge Runners chart cites no sources and its dates (20 February; died about 1824) disagree with the lineage books (23 February; 1836). Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1750
Born 23 February 1750, Orange County, Virginia; died 1836, Clark County, Kentucky (lineage books). Married Rachel Martin as his second wife; his first wife is not named here
Military1778
🆕 A Francis Bush enlisted on 14 February 1778 for one year in Capt. William Taylor's company of the 2nd Virginia Regiment, and was present in September 1778 S649. Probable confirm or correct → This is the first original record of service behind the lineage books, and he would have been 27. But a roll gives only a name, so the match rests on the name alone. A pension or bounty-land file would settle it. If you know more, use “Add to this record”. added 26 September 2026.
Death1978
🆕 A compiled ancestor chart in Ridge Runners (1978) names his first wife, Lucy Davis, born about 1750, married about 1770 in Orange County, died before 1794, and his parents, Philip Bush and Mary Bryan S772 Probable confirm or correct →. What is weak: the chart cites no sources, and it gives his birth as 20 February and his death as about 1824, where the lineage books say 23 February and 1836. If Lucy Bush was born before 1794, Lucy Davis may be her mother rather than Rachel. added 26 September 2026.

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Probable
Probable father of Lucy Bush, and so great-grandfather of Louisa Quisenberry Chenault

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Rachel Martin Bush

Probable

Mother of Lucy Bush · 1767–1860

Parents
Lieut. John Martin & Rachel Pace
Sources
8

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — from compiled lineage books only: SAR application 27139 S498 and DAR Lineage Book no. 141325 S500. The DAR book makes her Francis Bush's second wife, so she may be Lucy's stepmother rather than her mother. Her parents: John Martin and Rachel Pierce by a supplemental SAR application and the DAR S764S500, the Pace family book says Rachel Pace S749. This record goes with Rachel Pierce as probable and keeps Pace as the alternate reading
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Evidence: SAR application 27139 and DAR Lineage Book no. 141325, which calls her Francis Bush's second wife; a Rachel Bush, 45 or over, heading a Clark County household in 1820; Rachael Bush, 93, blind, with Fielding Bush in Clark County in 1860; a supplemental SAR application naming her parents as John Martin and Rachel Pierce. Weak or missing: She may be Lucy's stepmother, not her mother; the 1820 house has no older man though Francis is said to have lived to 1836; her mother is given here as Rachel Pierce (SAR and DAR), with Rachel Pace (a Pace family book) as the alternate reading. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Note1767
1767–1860 (lineage books)
Census1820
🆕 In 1820 a Rachel Bush, 45 or over, headed a household in Clark County, Kentucky, with two young men and a girl, among the Martin households S650. Her age fits a birth in 1767. The index gives her ten slaves; the image shows none. Probable confirm or correct → What is weak: there is no older man in the house, yet the lineage books have Francis living until 1836. Either he was away or dead by 1820, or this is another Rachel. If you know more, use “Add to this record”. added 26 September 2026.
Death1768
🆕 A Pace family book gives her birth as 22 August 1768 in Fluvanna County, Virginia, her death in 1860, and her parents as John Martin and Rachel Pace, and calls her Francis Bush's second wife S749 Probable confirm or correct →. What is weak: it is a compiled book, not a record; it leaves the marriage year blank; and her age of 93 in 1860 points to 1767, not 1768. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Children1860
🆕 On 26 June 1860 Rachael Bush, 93, blind, born in Virginia, was living in Clark County, Kentucky, with Fielding Bush, 63, a farmer, probably her son S702. It is the first record made in her lifetime that fits the lineage books' 1767 birth and 1860 death. added 26 September 2026.
Parents1915
🆕 Her mother: probably Rachel Pierce; the alternate reading is Rachel Pace. A supplemental SAR application on number 27139, approved in 1915, gives her parents as John Martin (1746–1830), a private in Capt. Samuel Hawes's company of the 2nd Virginia Regiment from 16 September 1775, who settled in Clark County, Kentucky, and was pensioned in 1820, and Rachel Pierce S764. DAR no. 141325 also says Rachel Pierce S500. The Pace family book says Rachel Pace S749. Probable confirm or correct → Why Pierce leads: a lineage application that sets out its evidence for the Revolutionary service, and was checked and approved on it, outweighs a compiled family book that cites nothing for the name, and the DAR entry agrees with it. What is weak: none of the three is a record made in her lifetime, none cites a marriage record for John Martin, and Pierce and Pace could be one name misread. A marriage or probate record naming John Martin's wife would settle it; if you have one, use “Add to this record”. added 26 September 2026; Pierce made the lead reading 27 September 2026.
Parents1768
🆕 Her parents: Lieut. John Martin and Rachel Pace (or Pierce) Probable confirm or correct →. A FamilySearch index of Virginia christenings has a Rachel Martin born 22 August 1768 and christened 15 October 1768 in St James Northam Parish, Goochland County, daughter of John Martin and Rachel Pace S857, and a John Martin married Rachel Peace or Pace in that parish on 3 January 1757 S858. This record, independent of the lineage books, leans to Pace; Earl accepted both parents as probable. What is weak: both are indexes with no image read, and the 1768 child is matched to her by name, parish and date only. added 28 September 2026.

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Probable
Probable mother of Lucy Bush; second wife of Francis Bush

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Benjamin Burroughs

Confirmed

Father of Mary Burroughs Timberman · Salem County, New Jersey

Married
Judith
Children
Mary Burroughs Timberman
Sources
4

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as the father of Mary Burroughs Timberman. The New Jersey return of deaths for Upper Pittsgrove Township, Salem County, read from the image, records the death of Mary Timberman, married, 70, of consumption, at Upper Alloways Creek on 6 June 1858, gives her birthplace as Upper Pittsgrove, and names her parent Benjamin Burroughs S860. A FamilySearch index of New Jersey church records independently gives a Mary Burroughs, daughter of Benjamin Burroughs and Judith, with a Salem birth of 8 June 1788, the year agreeing with her age at death S1076
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Children
Father of Mary Burroughs Timberman. Her wife-of and mother-of links to Samuel Timberman and John H. Timberman are Probable, so his place in Earl’s line rests on hers
Marriage1764
His wife is Judith by the church-record index alone S1076; she has no card. His own birth and death are on no record read. The “K., Jr.”, the birth of 20 July 1764 and the death of 14 March 1826 that online trees give him are not used
Marriage1830
A later Benjamin Burroughs of Salem, father of a Mary born in 1830 to a wife Hannah, is a namesake in the same index and is kept apart

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Probable
🆕 Probably his marriage: a later fair copy of a church marriage register, indexed to Daretown, Pittsgrove, Salem County, has “Benjamin Borans to Judah Lummus” on 30 March 1784 Probable confirm or correct → S1150. The evidence is the year, both names and the place, which fit Benjamin and Judith, parents of Mary born at Salem in 1788 S1076, and a published family history’s Judith Loomis, married 1784. What is weak: the spellings are phonetic, the copy names no church, and the family history is not a primary record. If you know more, use “Add to this record”.
Probable
🆕 Probably his will: on 6 January 1826 Benjamin Burroughs of Pilesgrove Township, Salem County, “weak in body”, left his clothes to his son James, a furnished bed, a looking glass, chairs and silver teaspoons to his daughter Hannah, and the rest to “my children” equally, with his son Cornelius as sole executor Probable confirm or correct → S1168. The evidence is the county and the generation: Upper Pittsgrove, where Mary was born in 1788, was split from Pilesgrove. What is weak: the will does not name Mary or a wife, and its proof, on the next page, has not been read, so it gives no death date. A Salem County record naming Mary among his heirs would settle it. If you know more, use “Add to this record”.

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Georg Michael Renk

Confirmed

Father of Georg Andreas Renk · a mason · died 1814

Died
13 September 1814
Parents
Eva Barbara
Children
Georg Andreas Renk
Sources
2

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — named as the father of Georg Andreas Renk (born 27 April 1776) in his son's 29 January 1813 Wallhausen marriage entry, read from the register image S443. Added to the Ancestry tree 26 September 2026
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Death1814
🆕 Died at Wallhausen on 13 September 1814 at noon, aged 75 years 9 months 23 days, of the weakness of age, and buried there on the 15th Confirmed S921; his birth about November 1738 is computed from that age, not recorded. The burial entry names his parents, Georg Sebastian Renk, a mason at Wallhausen, and Eva Barbara, and calls him the widower of Maria Barbara. added 28 September 2026.

Family

Children
Father of Georg Andreas Renk, and so great-great-grandfather of Minnie Kochendoerfer
Marriage
A mason (Maurer). Married Maria Barbara, whose surname the register does not give
Parents
Son of Georg Sebastian Renk and Eva Barbara. His baptism and marriage have not been found

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Maria Barbara (Renk)

Confirmed

Mother of Georg Andreas Renk

Born
Not found
Died
Not found
Married
Georg Michael Renk
Children
Georg Andreas Renk
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — named as the mother of Georg Andreas Renk in his 29 January 1813 Wallhausen marriage entry, read from the register image S443. The entry gives her given names only; her maiden name is not yet known
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Birth, marriage and death dates not yet found
Burial1814
🆕 She died before her husband: his burial entry of September 1814 calls him her widower S921. The entry writes her maiden name, but it is hard to read; FamilySearch's index reads it as “Trencheim” S922. It is not settled, and no surname is entered for her. added 28 September 2026.

Family

Children
Mother of Georg Andreas Renk; wife of Georg Michael Renk, a mason

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Johann Adam Martin Kochendörfer

Confirmed

Father of Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer

Born
Not found
Died
Not found
Married
Catharina Sophia Barbara
Children
Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer, Catharina Margaretha
Sources
2

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — named as the father of Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer (born 22 March 1770) in his son's Gerabronn burial entry, 1837 no. 29, read from the register image S452. The 1837 marriage index calls him Martin Adam Kochendörfer. Added to the Ancestry tree 26 September 2026
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Birth, marriage and death dates not yet found

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Children
Father of Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer, and so great-great-grandfather of Minnie Kochendoerfer
Marriage
Married Catharina Sophia Barbara
Children1773
🆕 A daughter: Catharina Margaretha, born 12 January 1773, widow of Johann Georg Burkhardt of Michelbach an der Lücke, was buried there on 24 February 1854, aged 81. Her burial entry names her parents as Johann Adam Martin Kochendörfer and Cath. So[phia?] Confirmed S1152. Her birthplace, probably Gerabronn, and her mother’s second name are hard to read on the faded page.

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Catharina Sophia Barbara (Kochendörfer)

Confirmed

Mother of Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer

Born
Not found
Died
Not found
Married
Johann Adam Martin Kochendörfer
Children
Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer
Sources
1

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — named as the mother of Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer in his Gerabronn burial entry, 1837 no. 29, read from the register image S452. Given names only; her maiden name is not yet known
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Children
Mother of Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer; wife of Johann Adam Martin Kochendörfer

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Johann Georg Hartweck

Confirmed

Father of Eva Barbara Hertweck · a herdsman

Born
Not found
Died
Not found
Children
Eva Barbara Hertweck
Sources
2

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — named as the father of Eva Barbara Hertweck (born 3 May 1779) in her Gerabronn burial entry, 1848 no. 9, read from the register image S453. The register spells the surname Hartweck. Added to the Ancestry tree 26 September 2026
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Birth and death dates not yet found

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Children
Father of Eva Barbara Hertweck, and so great-great-grandfather of Minnie Kochendoerfer
Marriage1766
A herdsman (Hirt). Married Maria Margaretha Scheuermann, daughter of Johann Adam Scheuermann of Gerabronn, on 8 April 1766 at Michelbach an der Lücke; the register names him Johann Georg Hartweck of Oberweiler, the surname read with some doubt S814. Added 28 September 2026

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Maria Margaretha (Scheuermann) Hartweck

Confirmed

Mother of Eva Barbara Hertweck

Died
Not found
Parents
Johann Adam Scheuermann & Eva Margaretha Stapf
Married
Johann Georg Hartweck
Children
Eva Barbara Hertweck
Sources
4

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as Eva Barbara's mother — named in her daughter's Gerabronn burial entry, 1848 no. 9, read from the register image S453. That entry's spelling of her maiden name is hard to read (we read it Schnürmann [?])
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Death
Her death date is not yet found

Family

Names1766
🆕 Her maiden name is Scheuermann. The Gerabronn marriage register for 1766 (p. 53, no. 6) records her marriage on 8 April 1766 at Michelbach an der Lücke to Johann Georg Hartweck of Oberweiler, and calls her Maria Margaretha Scheuermännin, the daughter of Johann Adam Scheuermann of Gerabronn S814. Added 28 September 2026.
Parents1742
🆕 Daughter of Johann Adam Scheuermann, a Brandenburg subject, smallholder (Köbler) and the common herdsman at Gerabronn, and his wife Margaretha (the clerk wrote Maria, struck it out and wrote Eva above): 🆕 her mother is probably Eva Margaretha Stapf Probable confirm or correct →, whom Johann Adam, a widower, married on 16 January 1742 S835. Because he had been married before, an elder daughter of the same name by his first wife is not ruled out. Her baptism is in the Gerabronn register for 1743 (p. 110, no. 6), just after an entry dated 30 January; the day of the baptism runs onto the next leaf, which has not been read S815. A bride of 23 in 1766 fits. Both entries are in the old German hand. Added 28 September 2026.
Children
Mother of Eva Barbara Hertweck; wife of Johann Georg Hartweck, a herdsman

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Johann Michael Pröger

Confirmed

Father of Johann Leonhard David Prüger · 1740–1795

Born
28 April 1740
Died
20 April 1795
Parents
Johann Caspar Pröger
Married
Anna Margaretha Raisig
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — his baptism, both marriages and his burial read from the register images S596S597. Added 26 September 2026
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Birth1740
Born 28 April 1740 at Triensbach, Württemberg, the son of Johann Caspar Pröger, a farmer there, and Margaretha Bullinger S596
Work
A master weaver at Erkenbrechtshausen S596
Death1795
Died 20 April 1795, aged 55 years less 8 days; buried at Triensbach on 23 April S596

Family

Marriage1772
Married first, 22 January 1772, Anna Margaretha Raisig; both were servants at the manor farm of Erkenbrechtshausen. Their son Johann Leonhard David Prüger was born that June; she died in 1776 S597S594
Marriage1777
Married second, as a widower, 18 February 1777 at Triensbach, Eva Barbara Aufläder, daughter of the smith at Mistlau S597

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Anna Margaretha Raisig

Confirmed

Mother of Johann Leonhard David Prüger · 1745–1776

Born
21 May 1745
Died
15 July 1776
Married
Johann Michael Pröger
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — her baptism and burial read from the register images; the pastor's own margin note links the two S598. Added 26 September 2026
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Birth1745
Born in the night of 21 May 1745 at Triensbach, Württemberg, and baptised the next day. Her father, Georg Michael Raisig, a farmer, had died seven months before; her mother was Anna Barbara Groß S598
Death1776
Died of a fever at Erkenbrechtshausen on 15 July 1776, aged 31 years and 8 weeks S598

Family

Marriage1772
Married Johann Michael Pröger, 22 January 1772; the register spells her Rasigin, other entries Rasig or Rösig. Mother of Johann Leonhard David Prüger, born 5 June 1772 S597S594

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Generation 8 — relatives in this generation

John Howard

Probable

Probable father of John Covey Howard

Born
about 1774
Died
1822
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. Howards in Kentucky, p. 127, a query column, not a sourced genealogy: “Sudie F. Spillman, Harlan, Kentucky, is a Howard descendant and is trying to trace her line from John Howard of Virginia, born about 1774, d. 1822. Married Mary Risner, Scott County, Virginia. Their first child ‘Larkin’ was born in Tennessee about 1802. Their daughter Sarah married Rice Johnston. Their second son John Covey is Sudie's great-grandfather. The other sons were William, Michael, and Robert. Robert was born after his father's death. The other daughters were Elizabeth, Phoebe, and Catherine.” S864. Our John Covey Howard of Harlan County fits: his 1850 household includes a Larkin and a Michael, the names of brothers in the query S865, and his sons' death records name him S455. What is weak: a descendant's query, compiled and unsourced; no primary record names John Covey's father. Online trees give this John Howard births from 1763 to 1779, a middle name Warjack and Georgia parents, none from a record read, and the Magoffin County marriage of James C. Howard and Mary Risner that they attach to him belongs to a later couple.
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Evidence: A descendant's query in Howards in Kentucky (p. 127) names John Covey as the second son of John Howard (born about 1774, Virginia; died 1822) and Mary Risner; John Covey Howard's 1850 Harlan household includes a Larkin and a Michael, as in the query. Weak or missing: The query is compiled and unsourced, and no primary record names John Covey's father; online trees' dates and the Magoffin County Risner marriage belong to other people. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1774
Born about 1774 in Virginia; died 1822, by the query only S864; his son Robert was born after his death

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Probable
Probable father of John Covey Howard; husband of Mary Risner, married in Scott County, Virginia (the query S864)

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Mary Risner Howard

Probable

Probable mother of John Covey Howard

Born
Not found
Died
Not found
Sources
2

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. The same query column in Howards in Kentucky, p. 127, says John Howard of Virginia “Married Mary Risner, Scott County, Virginia”, and names “their second son John Covey” S864. Our John Covey Howard's 1850 Harlan household includes a Larkin and a Michael, brothers named in the query S865. What is weak: it is a compiled, unsourced query with nothing primary behind it; the middle name Ann and every date that online trees give her are not in any record read; and the Magoffin County marriage of James C. Howard and Mary Risner belongs to a later couple. An unread index of an 1827 Harlan County marriage of a Mary Howard to Gabriel Jackson may be her remarriage, or another woman.
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Evidence: The query column in Howards in Kentucky (p. 127) names Mary Risner, married in Scott County, Virginia, as the wife of John Howard and mother of his second son John Covey. Weak or missing: A compiled, unsourced query with nothing primary behind it; her middle name and dates are tree-only, and the Magoffin County Risner marriage is a later couple. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth
Her birth and death dates are not in any record read

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Probable
Probable mother of John Covey Howard; wife of John Howard; their first child, Larkin, was born in Tennessee about 1802 S864

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Eva Barbara Aufläder

Confirmed

Second wife of Johann Michael Pröger · 1737–after 1797

Born
28 April 1737
Parents
Johann Georg Aufläder
Married
Johann Michael Pröger
Sources
2

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — her baptism and both marriages read from the register images S606S597. Added 26 September 2026
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Birth1737
Born 28 April 1737 at Gaggstatt, Württemberg, the daughter of Johann Georg Aufläder, the Comburg smith at Mistlau (died 1768, aged 74), and Maria Ursula née Probst S606

Family

Marriage1777
Married Johann Michael Pröger as his second wife, 18 February 1777 at Triensbach. She was stepmother to Johann Leonhard David Prüger, then four, and not an ancestor of Earl's S597
Marriage1795
Widowed in 1795; married Johann Jacob Bachmeier, a widowed master weaver, 2 August 1797 at Triensbach S606

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Generation 9 — Earl's 6th-great-grandparents

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Frances Tandy

Probable

Probable mother of Jane Burris · wife of Thomas Burris

Died
Not found
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. The DAR Lineage Book entry for Miss Lilla May Duncan (no. 112604) gives the line “James Quisenberry m. 1776 Jane Burris (1759–1811). Thomas Burris m. Frances Tandy”, Thomas a sergeant in the 3rd Virginia regiment who died in Virginia in 1789 S751. Thomas Burrus's own will of 1788 names his wife Frances, a son William Tandy and a daughter Frances Tandy Bush, besides “my daughter Jane Quisenberry” S645. A 1940 SAR application by another Burrus descendant, Ollie Ezekiel Reed, was read too, but the image is only its cover and references sheet S856. What is weak: only compiled lineage books give her maiden name as Tandy; the will names Thomas's wife Frances without a surname and does not say she was Jane's mother; FamilySearch has no independent record.
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Evidence: DAR Lineage Book no. 112604 names Frances Tandy as Thomas Burris's wife in Jane Burris's numbered line, and Thomas Burrus's 1788 will names his wife Frances, a son William Tandy and a daughter Frances Tandy Bush. Weak or missing: Only compiled lineage books give her maiden name; the will gives no surname and does not say Frances was Jane's mother, and no original record has been found. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth
Her birth and death dates, and the middle name some online trees give her, are not in any record read and are not used here

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Probable
Probable mother of Jane Burris, and so grandmother of Colby Burris Quisenberry; wife of Thomas Burris (Burrus) of Orange County, Virginia, whose will was written on 2 October 1788 and proved on 23 March 1789 S645

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Lieut. John Martin

Probable

Probable father of Rachel Martin Bush

Sources
4

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. DAR Lineage Book no. 141325 (Mrs. Electra Helm Withers) descends from “Lieut. John Martin”: “Francis Bush m. 2d Rachel Martin (1767–1860) … John Martin m. Rachel Pierce”, and says he “served as 2d lieutenant in the Fluvanna County, Virginia militia. He was born in Fluvanna County, Va.; died in Clark County, Ky.” S500. The 1915 SAR supplemental on no. 27139 names Rachel's parents as John Martin (1746–1830) and Rachel Pierce S764. A FamilySearch index of Virginia christenings has a Rachel Martin born 22 August 1768 and christened 15 October 1768 in St James Northam Parish, Goochland County, daughter of John Martin and Rachel Pace S857. What is weak: the books are compiled and the christening is an index with no image; no will, deed or register names our Rachel as John's daughter; the 1768 child matches her only by name, parish and date; and the books call the mother Pierce where the christening says Pace.
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Evidence: DAR Lineage Book no. 141325 and the 1915 SAR supplemental on no. 27139 name John Martin as Rachel Martin Bush's father, and a FamilySearch christening index has a Rachel Martin born 1768 in St James Northam, Goochland, to John Martin and Rachel Pace. Weak or missing: All compiled or index-only; no will, deed or register names Rachel as his daughter, the 1768 christening matches her only by name, place and date, and the mother is Pierce in the books but Pace in the index. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Record1746
The SAR supplemental gives him as born in Virginia in 1746, a private in Capt. Samuel Hawes's company of the 2nd Virginia Regiment from 16 September 1775, settled in Clark County, Kentucky, and pensioned in 1820 S764; the DAR book makes him a 2nd lieutenant of the Fluvanna County militia S500. Both are compiled sources
Death
Not shown to be the same man as John Martin, father of Peter Hines Martin. The birth date and place, middle name and death date that online trees give him are not in any record read

Open questions

Probable
Probable father of Rachel Martin Bush, and so grandfather of Lucy Bush; probable husband of Rachel Pace (or Pierce). A John Martin married Rachel Peace or Pace in St James Northam Parish, Goochland, on 3 January 1757, by an index of a printed register S858

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Rachel Pace Martin

Probable

Probable mother of Rachel Martin Bush · Pace or Pierce

Sources
5

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. A FamilySearch index of Virginia births and christenings has Rachel Martin, born 22 August 1768 and christened 15 October 1768 in St James Northam Parish, Goochland County, daughter of John Martin and Rachel Pace S857. A John Martin married Rachel Peace or Pace in the same parish on 3 January 1757, by an index of a printed register S858. The Pace family book also names her Rachel Pace and gives the same 22 August 1768 birth S749. What is weak: both records are indexes with no image read; the 1768 child is matched to our Rachel only by name, parish and date (her age of 93 in 1860 points to 1767); and the SAR supplemental and DAR no. 141325 call the mother Rachel Pierce S764S500. The christening leans to Pace, but it does not settle the name.
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Evidence: A FamilySearch christening index names Rachel Martin (born 22 August 1768, St James Northam, Goochland) as the daughter of John Martin and Rachel Pace; an index of a printed register has a John Martin marrying Rachel Peace or Pace there in 1757; the Pace family book agrees. Weak or missing: Both are indexes with no image; the 1768 child matches our Rachel only by name, parish and date; the SAR supplemental and DAR no. 141325 call the mother Rachel Pierce. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Death1750
The DAR entry prints “(1750–1821)” after Rachel Pierce's name, and it is not clear whose dates they are S500. The birth in Middlesex County and the death date that online trees give her are not in any record read

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Probable
Probable mother of Rachel Martin Bush; probable wife of Lieut. John Martin, married 3 January 1757 by the index S858

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Johann Caspar Pröger

Confirmed

Grandfather of Johann Leonhard David Prüger · 1714–1777

Born
21 March 1714
Parents
Hans (Johann) Pröger
Married
Margaretha Bullinger
Children
Johann Michael Pröger
Sources
5

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — his baptism, marriage, his children's baptisms and his burial read from the register images; the burial age counts back to the baptism day S599S600S602. Added 26 September 2026
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Birth1714
Baptised 21 March 1714 at Triensbach, Württemberg, the son of Hans (Johann) Pröger, a farmer there, and Elisabetha Schuster S599
Work
A farmer at Triensbach and a subject of the Castenamt Crailsheim (Brandenburg-Ansbach) S599S602
Residence1767
Moved from Triensbach about 1767 and gave up his farm for a retirement settlement. Died a widower of a fever on 21 July 1777, aged 63 years 4 months, and was buried at Rot am See on 23 July S600

Family

Marriage1737
Married Margaretha Bullinger of Eichenau, 12 March 1737 at Triensbach, after banns at Lendsiedel. She died in 1762 S599S601
Children1740
Father of Johann Michael Pröger (born 1740) and of Johann Caspar (1746), Johann Melchior (1748)
the "Melchior" of Georg Melchior Julius — and Johann Georg (1751); three more children died as infants: Anna Ursula (1755, baptised 4 August, buried nine days later), Johann Michael (baptised 20 April 1754, buried two days later) and Anna Maria (1762, aged five weeks) Probable confirm or correct → — the 1754 burial page is bled through and the 1762 entry's "daughter" is a probable reading S596S602
Siblings1734
His brothers: Johann Michael, married 1734 Probable confirm or correct →, and Georg Michael, married 1746, both sons of Hans Pröger of Triensbach

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Margaretha Bullinger

Confirmed

Wife of Johann Caspar Pröger · d. 1762

Born
Not found
Died
7 September 1762
Children
Johann Michael Pröger
Sources
4

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED for her marriage, read from the register image S599. Added 26 September 2026
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Residence1737
Of Eichenau, in Lendsiedel parish near Kirchberg an der Jagst. Married Johann Caspar Pröger, 12 March 1737 at Triensbach, Württemberg; her parents are not named S599
Death1762
Died 7 September 1762 at Triensbach in childbed, a week after burying her five-week-old daughter Anna Maria Probable confirm or correct →
the burial gives her maiden name only as Bül[l…]in and the village is hard to read; her age cannot be read S601
Birth1712
Her birth is not known. A 1712 baptism at Lendsiedel is a candidate but is not accepted here

Family

Children1740
Mother of Johann Michael Pröger, born 28 April 1740, and of Johann Melchior (1748) and Johann Georg (1751); three of her children died as infants S596S602

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Georg Michael Raisig

Confirmed

Father of Anna Margaretha Raisig · 1712–1744

Born
26 September 1712
Buried
28 October 1744
Parents
Hans Raisig
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — his baptism, marriage and burial read from the register images S603S604. Added 26 September 2026
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Birth1712
Baptised 26 September 1712 at Triensbach, Württemberg, the son of Hans Raisig, a farmer, and Anna Maria S603
Work1740
A farmer at Triensbach. Married Anna Barbara Groß, daughter of the Ruppertshofen butcher Georg Caspar Groß, 26 July 1740 S604
Burial1744
Buried 28 October 1744 at Triensbach, aged 32 years, 1 month and 1 day. His daughter Anna Margaretha Raisig was born seven months later S603S598

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Anna Barbara Groß

Confirmed

Mother of Anna Margaretha Raisig

Born
Not found
Died
Not found
Parents
Georg Caspar Groß
Married
Georg Michael Raisig
Sources
2

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — both her marriages read from the register images S604. Added 26 September 2026
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Birth
Her birth and death dates are not known

Family

Parents2026
Daughter of Georg Caspar Groß (🆕 his first name from the Gerabronn copy of the marriage, added 27 September 2026), a butcher at Ruppertshofen and a Hohenlohe-Kirchberg subject. The register writes her Großin; the surname reading is Probable confirm or correct → (strong) S604
Marriage1740
Married first Georg Michael Raisig, 26 July 1740 at Triensbach, Württemberg. Widowed in October 1744, she gave birth to Anna Margaretha Raisig in May 1745 S604S598
Marriage1745
Married second Johann Melchior Frütz of Ilshofen, 13 July 1745; he took over the Raisig farm S604

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Eva Margaretha Stapf

Probable

Probable mother of Maria Margaretha (Scheuermann) Hartweck

Born
Not found
Died
Not found
Parents
Andreas Stapf & Wollmershausen
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. The Gerabronn baptism register for 1743 names the mother of Maria Margaretha, daughter of Johann Adam Scheuermann, as his wife Margaretha, the clerk striking out “Maria” and writing “Eva” S815; the 1742 marriage entry, with the same correction, makes Eva Margaretha the daughter of the late Andreas Stapf S835. What is weak: Johann Adam was a widower when he married her in January 1742, and the 1766 marriage names only the bride's father S814, so an elder Maria Margaretha by his first wife cannot be ruled out, though a bride of 23 in 1766 fits the child of 1743
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Evidence: The 1743 Gerabronn baptism of Maria Margaretha names her mother as Johann Adam Scheuermann's wife Eva Margaretha (the clerk corrected Maria to Eva), and the 1742 marriage register, with the same correction, makes Eva Margaretha the daughter of the late Andreas Stapf of Wollmershausen; both read from the register images. Weak or missing: Johann Adam was a widower in January 1742 and the 1766 marriage names only the bride's father, so an elder Maria Margaretha by his first wife is not ruled out; the day of the 1743 baptism is on an unread leaf. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Record1742
FamilySearch indexes the same 1742 marriage as 1:1:QPP2-DKBY, and a baptism of a son, Johann Georg, to Johann Adam Schuermann and Eva Margareta as 1:1:QPP2-7PK4 S835
Birth
Her birth and death dates are not found

Family

Parents
Daughter of the late Andreas Stapf (written Stapfens, the genitive form), a subject of the Prince of Comburg and a farmer at Wollmershausen S835

Open questions

Probable
Probable mother of Maria Margaretha (Scheuermann) Hartweck; wife of Johann Adam Scheuermann, married 16 January 1742, by the Gerabronn marriage register S835

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Johann Adam Scheuermann

Confirmed

Father of Maria Margaretha (Scheuermann) Hartweck

Born
Not found
Died
Not found
Children
Maria Margaretha (Scheuermann) Hartweck
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as Maria Margaretha's father — her own marriage entry in the Gerabronn register, 8 April 1766, calls her Maria Margaretha Scheuermännin, the daughter of Johann Adam Scheuermann of Gerabronn S814, and the Gerabronn baptism register for 1743 records a Maria Margaretha born to him S815. Both read from the register images
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Note
A Brandenburg subject, a Köbler (smallholder) and the common herdsman (Gemeiner Hirt) of Gerabronn S815S835
Birth1692
His birth and death are not documented. The years 1692 and 1744 in some trees are not supported by any record read

Family

Children
Father of Maria Margaretha (Scheuermann) Hartweck
Marriage1742
A widower when he married Eva Margaretha Stapf, daughter of the late Andreas Stapf of Wollmershausen, on 16 January 1742, by the Gerabronn marriage register S835. His first wife is not yet named

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Eva Barbara (Renk)

Confirmed

Mother of Georg Michael Renk

Married
Georg Sebastian Renk
Children
Georg Michael Renk
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as Georg Michael Renk's mother — his burial entry in the Wallhausen register for 1814, no. 8, read from the image, names his parents as Georg Sebastian Renk, a mason at Wallhausen, and Eva Barbara, both Lutheran S921. It is our Georg Michael: a mason at Wallhausen and the widower of Maria Barbara, as in his son Georg Andreas's 1813 marriage entry S443. Confirmed 28 September 2026
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Record1703
The register gives her given names only. The family tree's surname Kochendörfer, and a birth on 10 July 1703 and death on 24 November 1790, are on no record read and are not published here as fact. FamilySearch indexes the same 1814 burial entry; it is not a second record S922

Family

Children
Mother of Georg Michael Renk, and so a 5th-great-grandmother of Minnie Kochendoerfer's children. Wife of Georg Sebastian Renk, a mason at Wallhausen, named in the same entry

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Generation 10 — Earl's 7th-great-grandparents

3 people

Hans Raisig

Confirmed

Grandfather of Anna Margaretha Raisig · c. 1683–1740

Buried
2 June 1740
Children
Georg Michael Raisig
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — his burial and his son's baptism and marriage read from the register images S605S603S604. Added 26 September 2026
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Work
A farmer and churchwarden (Heiligenpfleger) at Triensbach, Württemberg, and a juror at Rot am See. His wife was Anna Maria S605S603
Burial1740
Buried 2 June 1740 at Triensbach, aged 57 years less 12 days, so born about June 1683 S605. His parents are not yet settled

Family

Children1712
Father of Georg Michael Raisig, baptised 26 September 1712 S603

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Hans (Johann) Pröger

Confirmed

Great-grandfather of Johann Leonhard David Prüger · c. 1673–1737

Buried
17 January 1737
Parents
Hanß Pröger
Married
Elisabetha Schuster
Children
Johann Caspar Pröger, Maria Margaretha
Sources
6

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as the Triensbach farmer who married in 1704 and fathered Johann Caspar in 1714 and two more sons, read from the register images S607S599. Added 26 September 2026
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Burial1737
Buried 17 January 1737 at Triensbach as "Johann Pröger, der alte Bauer", aged 63 years 8 months, so born about May 1673 Probable confirm or correct →
the burial is not indexed and is matched by his description S608

Family

Parents
Son of Hanß Pröger, a farmer at Seibotenberg in Michelbach an der Heide parish; he came to Triensbach, Württemberg, to take up a farm S607S610
Marriage1704
Married Elisabetha Schuster, the widow of Hans Kochendörffer, 20 May 1704 at Triensbach S607. She was not born a Kochendörffer, and no kinship with Minnie Kochendoerfer's family is implied. 🆕 Her parents were Hans Schuster of Unter-Schmerach and Anna Maria Gronbach, married at Lendsiedel in 1676 Probable confirm or correct → S805
Children1714
Father of Johann Caspar Pröger (baptised 21 March 1714), of Johann Michael (married 1734) Probable confirm or correct →
his 1734 marriage names his father only, and no baptism is found — and of Georg Michael (married 1746), all described as sons of the Castenamt Crailsheim farmer at Triensbach S599
Children1709
🆕 Children who died young, buried at Triensbach as children of “Hanß Preger, Bauer allhie” Confirmed: a son buried 30 July 1709, aged 1 year 4 months; a son buried 7 April 1713, aged 3 years 4 months; a son buried 20 October 1716, 12 days old; and “his youngest little daughter Maria Margaretha”, buried 18 June 1720, 4 days old S740. Only Maria Margaretha is named. Two more 1709 burials under his name are not counted as his children: a boy buried 15 August, aged 2 or 7 (the digit is unclear, and 2 would put his birth only seven months from the July boy’s), and a girl aged 6, buried 15 September, born before the 1704 marriage. Both were probably Elisabetha’s children by her first husband, Hans Kochendörffer Probable Add to this record → added 26 September 2026.

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Generation 10 — relatives in this generation

Elisabetha Schuster

Probable

Wife of Hans Pröger · 1678–1736

Born
18 November 1678
Buried
17 April 1736
Parents
Hans Schuster & Anna Maria Gronbach
Married
Hans Kochendörffer
Sources
8
Images
2

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE (strong) — her baptism, first marriage and burial read from the register images, tied together by her burial's "born Schuster of Unter-Schmerach" and its age S609S608. Added 26 September 2026
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Evidence: Her 1678 Lendsiedel baptism, her 1701 first marriage and her 1736 Triensbach burial (“born Schuster of Unter-Schmerach”), all read from the register. Weak or missing: The burial age matches the baptism only to within three weeks, and the 1704 Triensbach marriage copy has lost her surname in the binding. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1678
Baptised 18 November 1678 at Lendsiedel, Württemberg, daughter of Hans Schuster of Nieder-Schmerach and Maria S609. 🆕 Her mother's full name was Anna Maria Gronbach, by her parents' 1676 marriage Probable confirm or correct → S805
Burial1736
Buried 17 April 1736 at Triensbach, aged 57, as "Elisabetha Prögerin, gebohrne Schusterin" S608. ⚠️ Some trees call her Elisabetha Kochendörffer: that was her first married name, not her birth name

Family

Parents
Daughter of Hans Schuster and Anna Maria Gronbach Probable confirm or correct → S609S805
Marriage1701
Married first, 31 May 1701 at Triensbach, Hans Kochendörffer, son of the late Andreas; he was buried 10 February 1704, aged 32 S609
Marriage1704
Married second, 20 May 1704 at Triensbach, Hans (Johann) Pröger. Mother of Johann Caspar Pröger S607S599
Parents1676
🆕 Her parents, Hans Schuster of Unter-Schmerach and Anna Maria Gronbach, daughter of Hans Gronbach the younger, a farmer at Groß-Allmerspann, married at Lendsiedel on 29 February 1676 Probable confirm or correct → S805. Her father, as “Johannes Schuster, widower of Unter-Schmerach”, married second Anna Barbara Schuhmann, daughter of Jörg Schuhmann, at Ilshofen on 22 August 1699 Probable confirm or correct → S806, so her mother Anna Maria died before August 1699. Evidence: the same name, hamlet (Unter-Schmerach) and parish (Lendsiedel) as her baptism and her 1736 burial. What is weak: each is a single register entry; one cannot rule out a second Hans Schuster in the hamlet, and Anna Maria's burial has not been found. A margin note probably names Hans's late father as Michel Schuster (see below). added 27 September 2026
Parents1676
🆕 Her grandfather: her father Hans Schuster was probably the son of Michel Schuster (Schüster), who was dead by February 1676 (his card) Probable confirm or correct → S805. Evidence: a margin insertion beside Hans's 1676 marriage entry reads roughly “u. Michel Schüsters deß gewesenen …bauern zu Kl…”, making the groom the son of a late Michel Schüster. What is weak: the words after “gewesenen” and the place name are not legible, and no baptism of Hans has been found. Online trees that give Michel a birth in 1600 and a death in 1675 merge more than one man and are not followed here. added 28 September 2026
Parents1649
🆕 Her grandmother: her mother Anna Maria Gronbach was probably the daughter of Eva Kreber (or Kerber) (her card) Probable confirm or correct →. Evidence: Hans Gronbach, son of Hans Gronbach of Groß-Allmerspann, married Eva, the surviving daughter of the late Jörg Kreber of Groß-Allmerspann, on 27 November 1649 S836, and in December 1652 an Anna Maria was baptised at Langenburg to Johannes Gronbach of Groß-Allmerspann and Eva S837. What is weak: the 1676 marriage names only Anna Maria's father S805, so the link rests on the 1652 child being the 1676 bride (same father, hamlet and given name). The registers call her only Eva; the “Elisabetha” and the dates 1631–1712 in some trees are not supported. added 28 September 2026

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Generation 11 — Earl's 8th-great-grandparents

3 people

Hanß Pröger

Probable

Father of Hans Pröger · farmer at Seibotenberg

Died
Not found
Children
Hans (Johann) Pröger
Sources
6
Images
1

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — named only once, as the father of the groom in the 1704 marriage register, read from the image S607. Added 26 September 2026
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Evidence: The 1704 Michelbach marriage register, which names him as the groom's father, a farmer at Seibotenberg; his own second marriage, as a widower, in the Michelbach register of 7 November 1699. Weak or missing: Two entries only; his dates, his first wife, his other children and his own parents have not been found. The two candidates for his father come from a later copy of the baptism register, not the original, and no record yet links either one to him. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Work1709
A farmer at Seibotenberg, a hamlet of Michelbach an der Heide parish, now part of Gerabronn; Pröger households are recorded there from 1709 to 1726 S610
Burial1705
🆕 Second candidate: Philipp Pröger, a farmer at Seibotenberg Probable, weak Evidence: buried at Michelbach in March 1705 aged “77 less a quarter year”, so born about 1628, old enough to be Hanß’s father; he married Apollonia Sch[..]lerin at Michelbach on 1 August 1676, probably as a widower S673. Weak or missing: no record names any child of his; he could as well be Hanß’s elder brother or uncle; nothing links him to Hanß. Know more? Add to this record → added 26 September 2026.

Family

Children1704
Father of Hans (Johann) Pröger, who married at Triensbach in 1704 S607
Marriage1699
🆕 A widower by 1699: on 7 November 1699 at Michelbach an der Heide, “Hannß Pröger, Bauer zu Seibothenberg … ein Wittiber” married Regina, widow of the late Jörg W[einmann?] S666. So Hans’s mother had died before then, and Regina was his stepmother. added 26 September 2026.
Marriage1651
🆕 Leading candidate for his father: Hans Pröger and his wife Anna, of Seibotenberg Probable, weak Evidence: a later-hand copy of the Seibotenberg baptisms, which begins in 1651, lists their sons Leonhard, baptised 21 August 1652, and Melchior, 15 June 1655, probably the Leonhard and Melchior Pröger who married at Michelbach in 1681 and 1677; a Johannes Pröger stands godfather there in March 1651; and Anna was a widow by October 1665 S674. On that reading Hanß would be an elder son, born before the copy starts. Weak or missing: Hanß’s baptism would predate the register; the copy is not the original; and no record names his father or links him to this household. Know more? Add to this record → added 26 September 2026.

Open questions

Not found
🆕 Who his father was is not known. Two Seibotenberg farmers are candidates, below. His own baptism, which would settle it, has not been found. added 26 September 2026.
Not found
🆕 Where he died is not known. He was not buried at Michelbach in 1704 or 1705 (both years read in full), and the Michelbach burials for January 1706 to 1721 are missing from the film S673. He was not buried at Triensbach, where his son farmed, between 1705 and 1721 either S675. added 26 September 2026.
Not found
His dates and his first wife’s name are not known

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Anna Maria Gronbach

Probable

Mother of Elisabetha Schuster · 1652–before 1699

Born
December 1652
Parents
Hans (Johannes) Gronbach & Eva Kreber
Married
Hans Schuster
Children
Elisabetha Schuster
Sources
4

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE as the mother of Elisabetha Schuster. Elisabetha’s 1678 baptism names her parents as Hans Schuster of Nieder-Schmerach and Maria S609, and Hans Schuster of Unter-Schmerach married Anna Maria Gronbach at Lendsiedel in 1676 S805. Both read from the register images. What is weak: each is a single register entry, and a second Hans Schuster in the hamlet cannot be ruled out. Her own father is confirmed by the 1676 entry. Added 29 September 2026
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Evidence: The 1676 Lendsiedel marriage names her as the daughter of Hans Gronbach the younger of Groß-Allmerspann, and Elisabetha's 1678 baptism names her parents Hans Schuster and Maria; a Langenburg baptism of December 1652 records Anna Maria, child of Johannes Gronbach and Eva; all read from the register images. Weak or missing: Her place as Elisabetha's mother rests on single entries; the 1652 child is taken to be the 1676 bride only because the father, hamlet and name match; her burial is not found. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1652
Baptised at Langenburg in December 1652, the daughter of Johannes Gronbach of Groß-Allmerspann and Eva S837. This is taken to be the same Anna Maria because the father, the hamlet and the given name all match; she would have been 23 at her marriage

Family

Parents1676
Daughter of Hans (Johannes) Gronbach the younger, a farmer at Groß-Allmerspann, as the 1676 marriage states S805; her mother was probably Eva Kreber Probable confirm or correct → S837
Marriage1676
Married Hans Schuster of Unter-Schmerach at Lendsiedel on 29 February 1676 S805
Children
Mother of Elisabetha Schuster S609

Open questions

Not found
She died before 22 August 1699, when Hans remarried as a widower S806. Her burial has not been found. Some trees call her only “Maria”, as the 1678 baptism does

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Hans Schuster

Probable

Father of Elisabetha Schuster · of Unter-Schmerach

Born
Not found
Parents
Michel Schuster
Married
Anna Maria Gronbach
Children
Elisabetha Schuster
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE. Elisabetha Schuster’s 1678 Lendsiedel baptism names her father as Hans Schuster of Nieder-Schmerach and her mother Maria S609; the 1676 Lendsiedel marriage of Hans Schuster of Unter-Schmerach and Anna Maria Gronbach, and his 1699 second marriage as a widower of Unter-Schmerach, fit the same man S805S806. All read from the register images. What is weak: each is a single register entry, and a second Hans Schuster in the hamlet cannot be ruled out. Added 29 September 2026
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Evidence: Elisabetha Schuster's 1678 Lendsiedel baptism names her father Hans Schuster of Nieder-Schmerach; the 1676 Lendsiedel marriage and the 1699 Ilshofen remarriage, as a widower of Unter-Schmerach, fit the same man; all read from the register images. Weak or missing: Each is a single register entry, a second Hans Schuster in the hamlet is not ruled out, and his baptism and burial are not found. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Death1699
As “Johannes Schuster, widower of Unter-Schmerach”, he married second Anna Barbara Schuhmann, daughter of Jörg Schuhmann, at Ilshofen on 22 August 1699 S806
Birth
His baptism and his burial are not found

Family

Parents1676
Son of Michel Schuster, by a partly legible margin note on his 1676 marriage Probable confirm or correct → S805
Marriage1676
Married Anna Maria Gronbach at Lendsiedel on 29 February 1676 S805
Children1678
Father of Elisabetha Schuster, baptised at Lendsiedel on 18 November 1678 S609

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Generation 12 — Earl's 9th-great-grandparents

3 people

Generation 12 — relatives in this generation

Eva Kreber

Probable

Probable mother of Anna Maria Gronbach

Born
22 November 1631
Parents
Georg Kreber of Groß-Allmerspach & Maria
Married
Hans (Johannes) Gronbach
Sources
4

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE. Eva, the surviving daughter of the late Jörg Kreber (or Kerber) of Groß-Allmerspann, married Hans Gronbach, son of Hans Gronbach of the same place, on 27 November 1649 S836; and in December 1652 an Anna Maria was baptised at Langenburg to Johannes Gronbach of Groß-Allmerspann and Eva S837. Both read from the register images. What is weak: the 1676 marriage of Anna Maria names only her father S805, so the link rests on the 1652 child being the 1676 bride (the same father, hamlet and given name). Added 29 September 2026
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Evidence: Her 1649 marriage to Hans Gronbach of Groß-Allmerspann, as the surviving daughter of the late Jörg Kreber, and the December 1652 Langenburg baptism of Anna Maria to Johannes Gronbach and Eva; both read from the register images. Weak or missing: The 1676 marriage names only Anna Maria's father, so the link rests on the 1652 child being the 1676 bride; her death is not found; her 1631 baptism, which names her father Georg Kreber, is now read (S1077). Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1631
🆕 Baptised 22 November 1631 at Langenburg, the child of Georg Kreber of Groß-Allmerspach and Maria, by the Langenburg baptism register, read from the image Confirmed S1077. Daughter of the late Jörg Kreber of Groß-Allmerspann by the 1649 marriage entry, the same man; her father now has a card: Georg Kreber S836. added 30 September 2026
Record1712
The registers call her only Eva. The name “Elisabetha” and the death in 1712 that some online trees give her are not supported by any record read here; her 1631 baptism now is. Her death is not found

Family

Marriage1649
Married Hans (Johannes) Gronbach on 27 November 1649 S836

Open questions

Probable
Probable mother of Anna Maria Gronbach S837

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Hans (Johannes) Gronbach

Confirmed

Father of Anna Maria Gronbach · farmer at Groß-Allmerspann

Married
Eva Kreber
Children
Anna Maria Gronbach
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as the father of Anna Maria Gronbach. The Lendsiedel marriage register of 29 February 1676 names the bride as “Anna Maria, Hannß Gronbachs deß jüngern, [Bauers] zu großen Allmerspann, ehelich ledige Tochter”, the legitimate daughter of Hans Gronbach the younger, farmer at Groß-Allmerspann S805; and the Langenburg baptism register for December 1652 records Anna Maria, child of Johannes Gronbach of Groß-Allmerspann and Eva S837. Both were read from the register images. Added 29 September 2026
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Birth
His baptism and burial appear in card indexes, but those register images have not been read, so no dates are given here

Family

Children1652
Father of Anna Maria Gronbach, baptised at Langenburg in December 1652, who married Hans Schuster at Lendsiedel in 1676 S805S837
Marriage1649
Married Eva Kreber (Kerber), surviving daughter of the late Jörg Kreber of Groß-Allmerspann, on 27 November 1649, by the Langenburg marriage register S836
Marriage1649
Called “the younger” because his father was also a Hans Gronbach of Groß-Allmerspann: the 1649 marriage calls him the legitimate son of Hans Gronbach S836

Open questions

Open question
⚠️ Not the Hans Gronbach who was a baker at Untermünkheim. That man’s daughter Anna Maria, christened 28 December 1653, had a mother named Margaretha, and FamilySearch indexes an Anna Maria Gronbach, born 1653, daughter of Johann, who died at Hall on 20 November 1669 (1:1:QP5Q-VYQK), years before the 1676 marriage

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Michel Schuster

Probable

Probable father of Hans Schuster · dead by 1676

Sources
1

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE. A margin insertion beside Hans Schuster’s 1676 marriage entry reads roughly “u. Michel Schüsters deß gewesenen …bauern zu Kl…”, making the groom the son of a late Michel Schüster S805. What is weak: the words after “gewesenen” and the place name are not legible, and no baptism of Hans has been found. Added 29 September 2026
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Evidence: A margin insertion beside Hans Schuster's 1676 Lendsiedel marriage makes the groom the son of a late Michel Schüster. Weak or missing: The rest of the margin note and its place name are not legible, no baptism of Hans has been found, and Michel's own dates are unknown. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Record1600
Online trees that give him a birth in 1600 and a death in 1675 merge more than one man and are not followed here. His wife, his birth and his burial are not found

Family

Marriage1676
He was dead by 29 February 1676, when the marriage entry calls him “gewesen” (the late)

Open questions

Probable
Probable father of Hans Schuster of Unter-Schmerach S805

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Generation 13 — Earl's 10th-great-grandparents

1 person

Generation 13 — relatives in this generation

Georg Kreber

Confirmed

Father of Eva Kreber · of Groß-Allmerspann, died before 1649

Died
before 27 November 1649
Married
Maria
Sources
2

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as the father of Eva Kreber. Two Langenburg register entries, both read from the image, name him: the baptism of Eva on 22 November 1631, child of Georg Kreber of Groß-Allmerspach and Maria S1077, and Eva’s marriage to Hans Gronbach on 27 November 1649, as the daughter of the late Jörg Kreber of Groß-Allmerspann S836. Georg and Jörg are one name, the hamlet is the same, and the bride was eighteen
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Death1649
Died before 27 November 1649, when the marriage entry calls him the late Jörg Kreber S836. His birth is not on any record read

Family

Marriage
Husband of Maria, who has no card. Father of Eva Kreber. His place in Earl’s line runs through Eva, whose own link to Anna Maria Gronbach is Probable; that is the earliest generation the record reaches
Children1605
The middle name Peter and the birth in January 1605 that online trees give him are on neither entry; they belong to a Georg Peter Kreber and Maria Susanna Woeller whose daughter Eva Elisabetha was christened at Hall in 1756, an unrelated family 125 years later

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Generation 1 — Kristin's brother

1 person
Caffey family portrait, 2015 — Bradley Neal Caffey and Erin Helm Caffey with their two children
Family photograph, 25 April 2015

Bradley Neal Caffey

LivingConfirmed

Kristin's brother · b. 1972

Born in
1972
Children
Preston Caffey, Scarlett Caffey
Sources
4
Images
1
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Life

Birth1972
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.
Death2022
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
Schooling1990
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.
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.

Family

Marriage2003
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.
Children2026
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.
Siblings
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.

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Portrait of Thomas Alan Caffey, Cactus yearbook, University of Texas, 1966
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Thomas Alan Caffey

TexasConfirmed

Kristin's father · 1946–2016

Born
7 March 1946, Austin, Travis County, Texas
Died
30 December 2016, Austin
Parents
Thomas Walton Caffey Jr. & Lucille Lorine Kretschmar
Children
Bradley Neal Caffey, Kristin
Sources
15
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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

Life

Birth1946
Born 7 March 1946, Austin, Travis County, Texas; died 30 December 2016, Austin, aged 70. A lifelong Austin resident S31S34
Schooling1969
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
Schooling1961
🆕 A sophomore at McCallum High School in 1961–62, “Tommy Caffey” in the 1962 yearbook S396; added 24 September 2026.
Census1962
🆕 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.
Schooling1964
🆕 As a sophomore he was in the McCallum Football Club S534, and the 1964 yearbook has his senior portrait S535. added 25 September 2026.
Death
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.
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.

Family

Parents1946
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.
Parents1950
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
Marriage1969
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
Children1972
Two children: Bradley Neal Caffey (b. 1972) and Kristin (b. 1975), both named to this couple by the Texas Birth Index S126
Siblings1948
His sisters: Sandra Caffey Falkenberg (28 July 1948 – 4 April 2025) and Donna Caffey Rinn, who is living and whose details are withheld S31S35

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LaVonne Danielson — studio portrait as a young woman
Family photograph, c. 1970s

Clare La Vonne Walker

LivingConfirmed

Kristin's mother · known as LaVonne Danielson

Born in
1947
Parents
Clarence Melvin "Melvin" Walker & Dorothy La Vonne Peters
Children
Bradley Neal Caffey, Kristin
Sources
8
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Birth1947
Born in 1947 S39. Walker is her maiden name, not a married surname S24.
Why this card now carries dates. On 21 September 2026 Earl set the rule this page runs on today: living adults are published in full, and only minors are held back — named, and nothing else. She is a living adult, so her record is given like anyone else's, each line cited. What this card said before: until 13 September 2026 her living status was unrecorded and her half of Pedigree Chart II was four empty boxes; on 17 September the family named the second marriage but supplied no date, place or husband's name, and none was published. Records have now supplied all three.
Her second husband was the University of Texas dean. Wayne Allen Danielson (b. 6 December 1929, Burlington, Iowa; d. 31 October 2017, aged 87) was professor of journalism and the second dean of the UT College (then School) of Communication, 1969–1979, now the Moody College; earlier dean of the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina S297. Earl confirmed on 23 September 2026 that he is the same man S24, and his obituary settles it independently: it says he "courted and married LaVonne Walker Caffey", is survived by "his wife LaVonne," and lists as stepchildren "Brad (Erin) Caffey and Kristin (Earl) Proeger […]" S297.

Family

Names1969
Two names, two marriages — and they are not an index variant. She married Thomas Alan Caffey in 1969 at Tarrant County S127; that marriage was dissolved in 1980 in Travis County S128, when Kristin was five. She married Wayne Allen Danielson in 1993, Travis County S129, and was widowed on 31 October 2017 S297. Every Danielson record postdates July 1993 and every Caffey or Walker record precedes it — which is what settles it. Danielson — the name on the photographs below — is her present surname, carried from that second marriage. The heading and the captions are the same woman.
Parents
"Clare" and "La Vonne" are both hers, and the middle name is the one the family uses. Her mother was Dorothy La Vonne Peters, who passed that middle name down S39
which is why Texas indexes file her under a first name nobody calls her. That finding stands independently of the remarriage above; both are true at once S129.
Parents
Her parents were Clarence Melvin "Melvin" Walker and Dorothy La Vonne Peters. Both are deceased and both appear in full below S36S39
Children
Her children are Bradley Neal Caffey and Kristin, both by Thomas Alan Caffey and both named as such by the state birth index S126
Parents2022
Her mother's 2022 obituary names her among the surviving daughters as "LaVonne Danielson […]" S36
the published family record using the same two names this card does.

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Generation 2 — relatives in this generation

Wayne Allen Danielson

Confirmed

Kristin's stepfather · 1929–2017

Born
6 December 1929, Burlington, Iowa
Died
31 October 2017
Married
Beverly Kinsell
Sources
3
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Life

Birth1929
Born 6 December 1929, Burlington, Iowa, to Arthur Leroy and Bessie Danielson S297
Schooling1952
B.A. in journalism, University of Iowa, 1952; M.A. 1953 and Ph.D. 1957, Stanford S297
Work1969
Dean of journalism at the University of North Carolina, then dean of the University of Texas College of Communication, 1969–1979 S297
Death2017
Died 31 October 2017, aged 87 S297. Earl confirmed he is the same man S24.

Family

Marriage1988
First wife Beverly Kinsell (d. 1988); his children Matt, Ben, Grace and Paul S297
Marriage1993
Married LaVonne Walker (Caffey) in 1993, Travis County, Texas S129; stepfather of Brad Caffey and Kristin S297

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Generation 3 — Kristin's grandparents

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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
Died
14 March 2002, Hays County, Texas
Buried
Austin Memorial Park Cemetery
Parents
Thomas W. Caffey & Medie
Sources
4
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4
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Birth1924
Born 21 February 1924, Salado, Bell County, Texas S33S34
Death2002
Died 14 March 2002, Hays County, Texas; buried Austin Memorial Park Cemetery, plot 1-566-7 S34
Military1941
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
Census1950
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
Census1950
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.

Family

Marriage1945
Married Lucille Lorine Kretschmar in 1945, the year he was released S34
Parents
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

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Lucille Lorine Kretschmar

TexasConfirmed

Kristin's paternal grandmother · 1925–2001

Born
25 August 1925, Austin, Travis County, Texas
Died
14 April 2001, Hays County, Texas
Parents
Will Kretschmar & Liessi Ladusch
Sources
8
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Birth1925
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.
Death2001
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
Schooling1942
🆕 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.
Birth1942
🆕 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

Family

Names
Recorded variously as Lucille Lorine Caffey and Lucille Lorene Kretschmar
the spelling of the middle name is unstable across records S33S34
Parents
Daughter of Will Kretschmar and Liessi Ladusch
NUMIDENT parent fields S33
Parents
Grandfather on her father's side Julius Franz Kretschmar S34; grandparents on her mother's side Otto Paul Ladusch and Emma Stein Ladusch S327S328
Names1941
🆕 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.

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Thomas Walton Caffey Jr

TexasConfirmed

Kristin's grandfather · 1910–1994

Born
2 January 1910
Died
30 December 1994, Austin, Travis County, Texas
Married
Lucille Lorine Kretschmar
Children
Thomas Alan Caffey
Sources
2
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Birth1910
Born 2 January 1910 S12
Death1994
Died 30 December 1994, Austin, Travis County, Texas S12

Family

Children
Father of Thomas Alan Caffey (Kristin's father) S24
Marriage
Married Lucille Lorine Kretschmar S12

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Clarence Melvin "Melvin" Walker

TexasConfirmed

Kristin's maternal grandfather · 1920–1991

Born
5 November 1920, Lolita, Jackson County, Texas
Died
23 July 1991
Buried
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
Parents
Daniel Jonah Walker & Nettie Ellen Cleveland
Sources
8
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Birth1920
Born 5 November 1920, Lolita, Jackson County, Texas; died 23 July 1991, aged 70 S37S38
Burial
Buried Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
the same cemetery as his wife, thirty-one years later S37
Death2026
🆕 His obituary, indexed under his own name, gives his death at Fort Worth, Tarrant County, and his last home at Richland Hills Probable confirm or correct → S767. Only the index has been read, not the clipping; its years are “about”, worked out from his age, and it is the same obituary as S295. added 26 September 2026.
Birth1920
🆕 His birth was registered with the state as the unnamed infant of Jonah Walker, Jackson County, 5 November 1920, Texas birth certificate 61632 Confirmed S943. added 29 September 2026
Military
US Army Air Corps, Second World War. Dorothy's obituary: "After her graduation from high school, she met Melvin Walker and shortly after they were married. Upon his discharge from the Army Air Corp, they moved to Ft. Worth" S36
⚠️ A same-name grave that is not his child. An infant "Clarence M Walker, 6 January 1944 – 2 December 1944" is also buried at Mount Olivet, Fort Worth. The name fits, the cemetery fits and the date would fit a first child born before the move. No record connects him to this couple, and he is not attached here — recorded so the next reader does not adopt him on the strength of a name Not found.

Family

Names
He went by his middle name. "Walker, Clarence" in the indexes and "Melvin Walker" in the family's own obituary text are one man
which is the whole reason this identification took a record rather than a search S36S37
Parents1930
Son of Daniel Jonah Walker and Nettie Ellen Cleveland
from his Social Security NUMIDENT entry, a government record whose parent fields come from his own SS-5 application S38, and from the 1930 census of Precinct 2, Jackson County, which enumerates the whole household S87
Children
Father of three daughters, all born in Tarrant County and all named in Dorothy's obituary sixty years later S39S36

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Dorothy La Vonne Peters

IllinoisConfirmed

Kristin's maternal grandmother · 1926–2022

Born
12 February 1926, Chicago, Illinois
Died
13 August 2022
Buried
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth
Parents
Benjamin LaRoy "Pete" Peters Sr. & Gertie Selma Selland
Sources
5
Images
1

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Research status: parents CONFIRMED — Benjamin LaRoy Peters and Gertie Selma Selland Confirmed S36S40S41
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Birth1926
Born 12 February 1926, Chicago, Illinois; raised in Sioux Falls, South Dakota for her first eighteen years S36
Death2022
Died 13 August 2022, aged 96, at Round Rock, Williamson County, Texas
the funeral home's own dateline, which is a statement of residence at death, not of burial city S36
Burial2022
Buried Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, beside her husband; graveside service 22 August 2022 S36
Residence
A longtime resident of Fort Worth
"they moved to Ft. Worth where she lived for over 70 years" S36
Arrival
She and her sister Shirley made several trips to Norway, "homeland of their maternal grandparents"
the obituary predicting the Selland surname before it was found S36. Family testimony Graded as what it is. This is a sentence a family wrote for a funeral programme, not a record. It is a lead on the Selland line — it points at a Norwegian parish and a generation, and it has already been half-borne-out by the Røldal out-migration entry S75 — but no document has yet been read that says which grandparents, or from where. It is not Confirmed and is not written here as though it were.
Death
Five siblings of her own, named in the same obituary: LaRoy Peters, Betty Sanders, Shirley Peltier, Marlene Jacobs and Eileen Blacketer S36. Their own lines are not worked here.
There was never a collision risk here, and that is unusual. "Dorothy Walker" is a common name, and the research brief warned against attaching one on name alone. No inference was needed: her obituary names the client household outright — her granddaughter Kristin and Earl […], and their three children by name S36. The subject was identified by her own family, in print.
⚠️ The "died in Austin" discrepancy, resolved. The family's account was that she died in Austin; FindAGrave's copy of the obituary gives no place at all. The original publisher's copy carries the dateline "ROUND ROCK" — twenty miles north of downtown Austin, in the same metro. The family's account is right; "Austin" is Round Rock S36. The memory-care facility itself is Not found in any document and was not searched for — private medical detail about a recently deceased person, adding nothing to the genealogy.
Who her obituary names as surviving her. It is a family-written survivor list and it is the reason several people on this page can be tied to each other at all. Her three daughters, in its own words: "LaVonne Danielson […], Marilyn (Phillip) McGovern of Nashville, TN, and C.J. (Ed) Farris of Arlington, TX" — and her sisters Shirley Peltier, Marlene Jacobs and Eileen Blacketer, with a brother-in-law, Romie Sanders. Her four grandchildren, in the obituary's own sentence: "Brad Caffey (Erin) of Round Rock, TX, Jessica (Martin) Carrier of McKinney, TX, Kristin (Earl) Proeger […] and David (Marci) Peters of Nashville, TN." That sentence is what welds this record's two halves together from the published side — Brad and Kristin as grandchildren of one woman, in print, not inferred from a surname S36.
The obituary is published here in full, as a page image, and unredacted. It names seven of the next generation — Ava and Grant Peters; Preston and Scarlett Caffey; and Earl's own Maia, Evelyn and Axel — alongside the family's towns. Some of them are minors. This record's rule publishes a minor's name and nothing else; this page image is Earl's explicit per-item exception to that rule, made on 25 September 2026, and it covers this one document only S36.

Family

Names1947
Her maiden name is PETERS. Walker was her married name. The Texas Birth Index names her as "Dorothy La Vonne Peters" on her own daughter's 1947 birth record
a state vital record, not an obituary S39
Parents
Daughter of Benjamin LaRoy "Pete" Peters Sr. and Gertie Selma Selland S36S40S41

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Kristin's aunts

Confirmed

Her father's sisters · one deceased, one living

  • Sandra Caffey Falkenberg, 28 July 1948 – 4 April 2025, died at San Antonio, aged 76. Her obituary calls her "the daughter of T.W. and Lucille Caffey" and names her late brother "Tommy" S35. She is the "Sandra M, age 1" on the 1950 census sheet — her stated birth date matches the enumerated age exactly S32
  • Donna Caffey Rinn — living. Named as a surviving sister in both her siblings' obituaries; nothing further is published here S31S35
Sandra's obituary matters out of proportion to its length. Written nine years after her brother's, by a different funeral home in a different city, it names the same parents and the same three siblings — an independent document arriving at the identical family.

Kristin's mother's sisters, and how the household was proved

Confirmed

Texas Birth Index, Tarrant County · and the 1950 US Census

  • All three daughters of Clarence Melvin Walker and Dorothy La Vonne Peters appear in the Tarrant County birth index to the same couple, and all three match the survivors named in Dorothy's 2022 obituary S39S36
  • Clare La Vonne Walker — Kristin's mother. Living; name and relationship only, and no date
More · 3 further facts
  • Marilyn Dorothy Walker — the "Marilyn (Phillip) McGovern of Nashville, TN" of the obituary. Living; details withheld
  • Carolyn Jane Walker — the "C.J. (Ed) Farris of Arlington, TX" of the obituary. Living; details withheld
  • 1950 US Census, White Settlement, Tarrant County — Clarence M. Walker and Dorothy L. Walker in one household with daughters Clare and Marilyn. Carolyn Jane was not yet born. A federal enumerator, on one line S39
One index row carries the whole finding. The Tarrant County birth entry for Clare La Vonne Walker gives both parents — Clarence Melvin Walker and Dorothy La Vonne Peters — in a single line. It supplies the husband's full name, the wife's maiden name, and the Fort Worth birth the family had always described, all from a state vital record rather than from a headstone S39. The date on that row is not reproduced here: she is living.
⚠️ Neither Dorothy's memorial nor Melvin's carries FindAGrave family links — both were checked, and neither has parents, spouse or children attached. The shared cemetery is corroboration only. The obituary and the state vital records carry this finding on their own S36S37.

Generation 3 — relatives in this generation

Thomas Osborn Caffey

Confirmed

Son of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. · born 1910

Born
9 February 1910
Died
16 March 1987
Parents
Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. & Medie Owens
Married
Alice Piland
Children
Kenneth Walton Caffey
Sources
20

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1910
Born 9 February 1910 near Elgin, Williamson County, Texas; Osburn, 10, in 1920 and Osborn T., 20, at Salado in 1930 S232S221
Death1987
Died 16 March 1987, Austin, Texas
Census1950
🆕 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.
Record1940
🆕 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.
Census1932
🆕 The 1932–33 Austin directory lists him as Osborn Caffey, living at 2702 East 1st Street S636. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Parents
Son of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. and Medie Owens; brother of Thomas Walton Caffey Jr.
Children1944
🆕 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.
Marriage1935
🆕 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.
Marriage1893
🆕 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.
Parents1950
🆕 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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Howard Lee Caffey

Confirmed

Son of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. · born 1917

Born
28 September 1917
Died
9 July 1988
Parents
Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. & Medie Owens
Married
Marian Zelphia Clawson
Sources
11

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1917
Born 28 September 1917, Salado, Bell County, Texas; his delayed birth certificate of 1944 names both parents S233
Census1940
In 1940 at 84 East Avenue, Austin, working for the Owl Taxi Co. S234
Death1988
Died 9 July 1988, Travis County, Texas
Census1940
🆕 In 1940 he and Marian lodged at 2115 Willow St., Austin; he drove an ice-cream route S547. added 25 September 2026.
Record1939
🆕 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.

Family

Parents
Son of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. and Medie Owens; brother of Thomas Walton Caffey Jr.
Marriage1937
🆕 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.
Marriage1946
🆕 On 5 October 1946 in Travis County he married Mrs. Dorothy Piland, the Dorothy M. of the 1950 household S681. added 26 September 2026.
Parents1921
🆕 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.
Marriage1940
🆕 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.

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Mattie Lee Caffey

Confirmed

Daughter of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. · born 1898

Born
30 October 1898
Parents
Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. & Emma Rachel Ault
Married
Thomas Guy Collins
Children
Lucy Lee Collins
Sources
8

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Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1898
Born 30 October 1898, Texas; the 1900 Bastrop County census names her parents Thomas W. and Emma R.
Census1940
🆕 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.
Census1910
🆕 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.

Family

Parents
Daughter of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. and his first wife Emma Rachel Ault; half-sister of Thomas Walton Caffey Jr.
Parents1920
Mattie, 21, in her father's household in 1920 S232
Marriage1922
Married Thomas Guy Collins, 25 December 1922, Bell County; died 9 October 1988
Children1923
🆕 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.
Marriage1898
🆕 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.
Children1932
🆕 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.
Marriage1900
🆕 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.

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William Olan Walker

Confirmed

Son of Daniel Jonah Walker · born 1915

Born
8 April 1915
Died
18 February 2002
Parents
Daniel Jonah Walker & Nettie Ellen Cleveland
Children
Thomas William Walker
Sources
7

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1915
Born 8 April 1915, Lolita, Jackson County, Texas; Olan, 15, the eldest, in the 1930 household S209S87
Death2002
Died 18 February 2002; his Social Security record names both parents
Military1940
🆕 His 1940 draft card: of Edna, Jackson County, born 8 April 1915 at Lolita; his wife was Mrs. Erma Lee Walker S539. added 25 September 2026.
Census1940
🆕 In the 1940 census he was an auto-repair mechanic in Edna, 24, with his wife Erma Lee, 19, a cafe waitress whose mother was born in Germany S567. added 25 September 2026.
Census1950
🆕 In 1950 he was an electrician at Hobbs, Lea County, New Mexico, 35, with Erma Lee, 29, and two young children; the family had been in Jackson County, Texas, in 1949 S585. added 25 September 2026.
Census1951
🆕 The 1951 Hobbs directory lists him with Erma L. at 508 West Lea, a groundman for New Mexico Electric Service S745. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Parents
Son of Daniel Jonah Walker and Nettie Ellen Cleveland; brother of Clarence Melvin Walker
Children1947
🆕 His son Thomas William Walker was born in Jackson County, Texas, on 11 September 1947. The birth index gives the mother's maiden name as Irma Lee Norcross, which is Erma Lee's maiden name S705. added 26 September 2026.

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Catherine Mary Walker Bradley

Confirmed

Daughter of Daniel Jonah Walker · born 1923

Born
10 March 1923
Died
23 June 1998
Parents
Daniel Jonah Walker & Nettie Ellen Cleveland
Married
Robert Sidney Bradley
Sources
2

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1923
Born 10 March 1923, Jackson County, Texas; Mary, 7, in the 1930 household S209
Death1998
Died 23 June 1998; her Social Security record names both parents

Family

Parents
Daughter of Daniel Jonah Walker and Nettie Ellen Cleveland; sister of Clarence Melvin Walker
Marriage1953
🆕 She married Robert Sidney Bradley. The state birth index names them as the parents of Dorothy Jean Bradley, born in Tarrant County in 1953 Confirmed S1124.

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Dorothy Freda Kretschmar

Confirmed

Daughter of Hattie Elizabeth Ladusch · stepdaughter of Willie Frank Kretschmar · born 1920

Born
30 December 1920
Died
15 August 2003
Parents
Hattie Elizabeth Ladusch & Willie Frank Kretschmar
Sources
3
Images
1

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026; corrected 26 September 2026 from her own birth certificate S665.
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Birth1920
Born 30 December 1920 at 1617 Willow Street, Austin, Texas, as Dorothy Wolter S665; Dorothy, 9, at 1911 East First Street in 1930 S251
Death2003
Died 15 August 2003. Her 1937 Social Security application names Willie Kretschmar as her father: she filled it in at 16 and named the stepfather who raised her

Family

Parents
Daughter of William P. Wolter and Hattie Elizabeth Ladusch; stepdaughter of Willie Frank Kretschmar; half-sister of Lucille Lorine Kretschmar

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Open question
⚠️ Correction, 26 September 2026: this card used to call her Willie Kretschmar’s daughter. Her birth certificate, made at the time, names her father as William P. Wolter, 25, a farmer born in Travis County, and her mother as Liessi Ladusch; she was her mother’s first child S665. Willie Kretschmar married “Mrs. Liessi Wolter” in October 1923 S225 and raised her from the age of two.

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Generation 4 — Kristin's great-grandparents

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Two very different bodies of evidence sit side by side here. The Walker pair rests on Melvin's NUMIDENT line and on the 1930 Jackson County census that put the family under one roof. The Peters pair is documented four ways — a Social Security record, two adjacent headstones and three published obituaries from two states.

⚠️ These four rest on Social Security NUMIDENT parent fields and FindAGrave, not on census images, and they are carried at exactly the confidence the research assigned them — no higher. Everything above them is FindAGrave contributor data and is Probable throughout.

Thomas Walton Caffey Sr.

TexasConfirmed

1873–1930

Born
13 October 1873, Texas
Sources
6
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Birth1873
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
Census1910
🆕 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.
Military1918
🆕 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
Burial1832
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.

Family

Parents
Named as T.W. Jr's father in the NUMIDENT record S33
Marriage1904
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
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10
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Birth1887
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
Census1900
🆕 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.
Census1940
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
Census1944
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
Death1954
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.
Burial1863
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.

Open questions

Open question
⚠️ 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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Nettie Ellen Cleveland

ArkansasProbable

Kristin's great-grandmother · 1897–1971

Born
27 November 1897
Died
25 November 1971
Buried
at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, on 27 November 1971
Parents
Melton Cleaveland & Maude Melville Warner
Married
Daniel Jonah Walker
Children
Clarence Melvin "Melvin" Walker
Sources
11
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Evidence: Her 1971 death certificate names her parents Melton Cleaveland and Maude Warner. Weak or missing: Her birth date is disputed (1897 vs 1896), and no Nebraska birth record has been found. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1897
Born 27 November 1897 in Nebraska
as given on her death certificate S145
Death1971
Died 25 November 1971 at 6:00 a.m. in White Settlement Hospital, White Settlement, Tarrant County, Texas, after a stay of one month S145. The certificate is indexed in the Texas death index as Nettie E Walker; the family tree carries this death from that index. The married name is from her second husband, Eddie Guy Walker (23 September 1898 – 1 May 1976; “Eddie G.” in the 1950 Sansom Park census S226), who is not Daniel Jonah Walker
Burial1971
Buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, on 27 November 1971
the same cemetery as her son S145
Work
Last lived at 5717 Terrace Trail, Sansom Park, Tarrant County; occupation housewife S145
Cause
Cause of death uremia, from renal shutdown, from post-traumatic shock three weeks earlier; an autopsy was performed S145
Census1900
In 1900, aged 3, she was entered as a granddaughter in Charles E. Smith's household at Fullerton, Nance County, Nebraska S213
Census1910
In 1910, aged 13, in Brazoria County, Texas, with her father Milton Cleveland and brother Edgar; Milton's wife Desa, 22, married one year with no children, was her stepmother S224. In 1932 she and Daniel J. kept house at 3005 E 4th, Fort Worth S227
Census1940
🆕 In 1940 at 2605 Hale Street, Fort Worth, aged 42, the wife of E. G. Walker, with her daughter Mary Elen, 14; she was a seamstress on the WPA sewing project S394; added 24 September 2026.
Census1923
🆕 On her daughter's birth certificate of 10 March 1923 she is 26, born Nance Co., Nebraska, the mother of five children, four living S407. Age 26 fits the 1896 birth year of the 1930 census, not the 1897 of her death certificate; the date stays open. added 24 September 2026.
Military1942
🆕 E. G. Walker is very probably Eddie Guy Walker Probable confirm or correct →. The 1942 draft card of Eddie G. Walker gives his birth as 23 September 1898 at San Marcos, Texas, his home as 1310 College, Fort Worth, his work at Bewley Mills, and his contact as “Mrs. E. G. Walker” S710. His age fits E. G., 41, of the 1940 census S394. What is weak: the card does not give his wife's name, and 1310 College is not the 2605 Hale Street of April 1940, so the match rests on the initials, the city and the age. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Parents
Father: Melton Cleaveland Confirmed
Parents
Daughter of Melton Cleaveland and Maude Melville Warner
named on a primary record for the first time; the sheet spells the surname Cleaveland, with the a S145
Marriage
Wife of Daniel Jonah Walker S12
Children
Mother of Clarence Melvin "Melvin" Walker S12
Marriage1940
🆕 She married E. G. Walker at Denton on 14 March 1940, under the name “Mrs. Nettie E. Jerkins” S558. That name shows a marriage to a Mr. Jerkins, after Daniel Jonah Walker and before E. G. Walker, which was not known before; his given name is not yet found. added 25 September 2026.

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Open question
⚠️ Her birth date is not settled. The certificate says 27 November 1897; the 1930 census reading already on this site says 29 November 1896 S87. Two days and one year apart. Item 8 of a death certificate is informant-supplied, seventy-four years after the fact, so neither date is settled and both stay here until a Nebraska birth record decides. The bare 1889 formerly shown on this card came from a user-contributed FamilySearch tree S12 and is superseded.
Open question
⚠️ What the trauma was is not recorded. The certificate names post-traumatic shock as the underlying cause, yet every injury field is blank
accident, suicide, homicide, the time, the manner and the place of injury are all left empty. The certificate contradicts itself by omission.
Open question
⚠️ The certificate is filed under her married name, Nettie E. Walker, and names no husband
the form has no spouse field. She is identified as this Nettie on the Cleaveland maiden surname, the initial E. for Ellen, the Nebraska birthplace and the shared Mount Olivet burial, not on a statement in the document.

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Daniel Jonah Walker & Nettie Ellen "Annie" Cleveland

Confirmed

Melvin's parents · 1890–1964 · she 1896–1971

Born
10 March 1890 at China Spring, McLennan County
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Census1920
The same entry gives his birth at Lolita, Texas on 5 November 1920 and his death on 23 July 1991
both matching the gravestone exactly and independently, which is what makes the parent fields worth trusting S37S38
Note
His SSN was issued in Texas S38
Military1942
His 1942 draft card gives his birth as 10 March 1890, McLennan County, Texas S211. In 1950 at Lolita his wife was Ida, 57, and his mother Nancy Walker, 85, widowed, born Alabama, lived with them S210
Record1930
The NUMIDENT's "NETTIE CLEVLAND" is Cleveland. The 1930 census of Precinct 2, Jackson County, Texas enumerates Daniel J. and Nettie E. Walker with their children Mary, Olan, Clarence Melvin and Robert J
the household Melvin was born into at Lolita S87. ⚠️ The index spelling is still what it is, and should not be silently normalised when searching S38
Death1890
He was born 10 March 1890 at China Spring, McLennan County and died 30 July 1964 at Ganado; she was born 29 November 1896 in Nebraska and died 25 November 1971 at White Settlement.
Military1917
🆕 His 1917 draft card, as Daniel Jones Walker of Lolita, gives the same birth, 10 March 1890 at China Springs; he was a general laborer for Milton Cleavland, Nettie's father, and supported a wife and two children S393; added 24 September 2026.
Census1910
🆕 In 1910, aged 20 and entered as “John”, a farm laborer in his parents' house on Perryman Avenue, Palacios, with his brother Robert T. S406. A 1923 Jackson County birth certificate for a daughter names the father as D. Jona Walker, 33, born McLennan County, and Nettie E., 26, born Nebraska S407; added 24 September 2026.
Record1920
🆕 The Texas birth index files Melvin's birth (5 November 1920, Jackson County, certificate 61632) as the infant of Jonah Walker, the name he went by Confirmed S943. added 29 September 2026

Family

Parents
Named as the parents of Clarence Melvin Walker in his Social Security NUMIDENT entry
a government record, whose parent fields come from his own SS-5 application rather than from any tree S38
Parents1910
Daniel's mother is now found: Nancy Jane Higginbotham Walker Confirmed S331S210. His father is probably William B. “Willie B.” Walker Probable confirm or correct →: in 1910 Daniel, entered as “John”, 20, lived in the Palacios household headed by Willie B. Walker S406. That is a name on a census page, not a birth or death record; William B.'s own 1914 death certificate is now read: born 11 April 1857, died 27 June 1914 at Lolita, son of Daniel Walker and Mary J. Brass or Bross S787; the link to Daniel Jonah still rests on the 1910 census alone (added 27 September 2026). 🆕 The 1900 census of Jackson County has a son Jackson J., 10, born March 1890, in Willie B. Walker's household, Daniel Jonah's birth month and year, but the given name does not match, so it supports the link without settling it S808. Willie's own parents were probably Daniel Green Walker and Mary Jane Bross. Nettie's are now named on a primary record: her death certificate gives her father as Melton Cleaveland and her mother as Maude Melville Warner S145
neither has a card here yet, and neither is confirmed by a second source. The tree's "Desa Hodges, b. 1888" for Nettie's mother would make the mother eight years old, and is rejected rather than corrected.

Open questions

Open question
⚠️ Her birth date is not settled. The 29 November 1896 above is the 1930 census reading S87; her 1971 Texas death certificate says 27 November 1897 S145. Two days and one year apart. Item 8 of a death certificate is informant-supplied, seventy-four years after the fact, so neither date is settled and both stay up until a Nebraska birth record decides. Her own card carries the same hedge.

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Benjamin LaRoy "Pete" Peters Sr.

IowaConfirmed

Dorothy's father · 1905–1993

Born
12 October 1905, Franklin County, Iowa
Died
9 April 1993, Schertz, Guadalupe County, Texas
Buried
Lakeview Cemetery, Clear Lake, Deuel County, South Dakota
Parents
Benjamin L. A. & Benjamine Peters
Sources
12
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1

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — named as father of Dorothy LaVonne Peters in her obituary S36; also S40S41
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Birth1905
Born 12 October 1905, Franklin County, Iowa; died 9 April 1993, Schertz, Guadalupe County, Texas S38S41S42
Record
His Social Security NUMIDENT entry gives the birth date, the death date and a death ZIP of 78154 — Schertz, Texas, near San Antonio, where his daughter Shirley lived. His SSN was issued in South Dakota S38
Burial
Buried Lakeview Cemetery, Clear Lake, Deuel County, South Dakota, plot Block C Lot 16 Grave E2
returned to his wife's birthplace for burial S41
Record
The SSA death date and the headstone agree exactly S38S41
Work
He worked in a railway yard. His son's obituary: "As a teenager he would visit the train yard where his dad worked and even operate one of the engines sometimes" S40
Birth
His fuller given name "Benjamin La Roy B Peters" and a birthplace of Scott, Franklin County, Iowa rest on an online tree alone Probable S42
Census1950
🆕 In 1950 he was 44, a stationary fireman at the railway roundhouse, living at 1032 Duluth, Sioux Falls, with Selma and their children LeRoy, Marlene, Betty and Eileen Confirmed S953. added 29 September 2026
Military1940
🆕 His own 1940 draft card gives his birthplace as Alexander, Iowa, in Franklin County, and his employer as John Morrell & Co., the Sioux Falls meatpackers; he was 35, at 1810 E. 5th Street, and named his wife, Mrs. Selma Gertrude Peters Confirmed S962. added 29 September 2026
Record1952
🆕 In his own hand, on his 1952 Railroad Retirement Board card, he named his father Ben Peters, still living, and his mother, by her name before marriage, Edna Osborn, who had died. He was 46, at 1032 No. Duluth Ave., Sioux Falls, and had just become a carman for the Omaha Road Confirmed S965. His parents' card links stay Probable for now; this is a second original naming them, beside the 1910 census. added 29 September 2026
Census1920
🆕 In January 1920, 14 and entered as La Roy B., he was the son in his mother Edna B.’s household in Florida Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, with his sisters Eva M., 16, and Hazel F., 9 (born Oklahoma), and his brothers Clifford L., 12, and Russell R., 3 months (born South Dakota) Confirmed S1052. His father heads the household on the previous sheet, which has not been read. added 29 September 2026

Family

Parents1910
🆕 His parents are now on records. In 1910, aged 4 and entered as Benjamin L. A., he was the son in the household of Benjamine Peters, 28, a farmer born in Iowa of German-born parents, and Edna B., 26, born Indiana, married seven years, at Vernon township, Kay County, Oklahoma, with his sister Eva M. and brother Clifford L. S659. With the 1903 Franklin County marriage of Benjamin Peters and Edna B. Orsborn, that confirms both. added 26 September 2026.
Parents1903
🆕 His grandparents now have their own cards. His father Benjamin's parents were John Peters and Sophia Hermann, and his mother Edna's were John W. Orsborn and Armenia Howard, all four named on his parents' 1903 Franklin County marriage return S791; his father's 1957 death certificate names John Peters and Sophia Herman again S785. added 28 September 2026.

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Gertie Selma Selland

South DakotaConfirmed

Dorothy's mother · 1903–1991 · the Norwegian line

Born
1 October 1903, Clear Lake, Deuel County, South Dakota
Died
8 December 1991, Schertz, Texas
Buried
Lakeview Cemetery, Clear Lake
Parents
Mons Selland & Julia (Lone) Selland
Married
Benjamin LaRoy Peters
Sources
15

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — named as mother of Dorothy LaVonne Peters in her obituary S36; also S40S41
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Death
SELLAND is the maiden name, and it is Norwegian. Two independently published obituaries, eight years apart, from funeral homes in two different states, both spell it Selland S40
Census1910
🆕 The 1910 census image, read in full, shows the whole family at Brandt Township: Mons, 41, who came from Norway in 1889 and owned his farm free; Julia, 39, mother of five children, all living; and Ida, 10, Andrew, 8, Selma, 6, Tilla, 4, and Oscar, 1 Confirmed S951. In January 1920 she was Selma G., 16, working on the home farm, with Andrew, Tilda, Oscar and two younger siblings, George, 7, and Myrtle, 2 Confirmed S952. added 29 September 2026
Census1950
🆕 In 1950 she was at 1032 Duluth, Sioux Falls, keeping house, with Benjamin, a stationary fireman at the railway roundhouse, and their children LeRoy, Marlene, Betty and Eileen Confirmed S953. added 29 September 2026
Birth1903
Born 1 October 1903, Clear Lake, Deuel County, South Dakota; died 8 December 1991, Schertz, Texas S41S42
Burial
Buried Lakeview Cemetery, Clear Lake, plot Block C Lot 16 Grave E1
the grave adjacent to her husband's S41
Death
The obituary of her son LaRoy names "Benjamin and Selma (Selland) Peters"; the obituary of her daughter Betty names "Benjamin, Sr. and Selma (Selland) Peters" and lists "Dorothy Walker of Fort Worth, TX" among the siblings
which is what proves this is the same family and not a same-name collision S40
The Norway trips in Dorothy's obituary are the tell. She and her sister Shirley visited the "homeland of their maternal grandparents" — a sentence written before anyone knew the maternal grandparents were called Selland, and which turned out to name the right branch S36.

Family

Parents1868
Her father Mons came from Røldal, Hordaland, on the parish's own record
baptised there 21 June 1868, entered in the out-migration register for "Dakota, Amerika" in 1889 S74S75. See the Selland chain in the deep lines.
Marriage1925
🆕 The church's own marriage register for her wedding on 16 November 1925 names her parents as M. T. Selland & Julia, and the groom's as Benj. Peters & Edna; Tillie Selland and Hazel and Mildred Peters stood witness S774. It is the first record written at the time that ties her to Mons Thorson Selland and Julia Lone; until now that link rested on family testimony and the Røldal registers. added 26 September 2026.
Parents1918
🆕 A second record written at the time: her confirmation on 21 July 1918, entry 9 on p. 112 of a Lutheran confirmation register, gives her birth as 1 October 1903 and her parents as “Mons og Julia Selland”; her brother Andreas, entry 6 on the same page, has the same parents S813. The page does not name the congregation. Added 28 September 2026.
Parents1903
🆕 Her parents now have their own cards: Mons Selland and Julia (Lone) Selland. FamilySearch's South Dakota birth index gives her birth as 1 October 1903 in Deuel County, parents Mons Selland and Julia Lone S819, the first entry found that gives her mother's maiden name (an index row, so Probable confirm or correct →); a Lutheran baptism index has her baptised on 15 November 1903 in Deuel County S820, and in 1910 she was in her parents' household at Brandt, Deuel County S821. added 28 September 2026.
Marriage1925
Married Benjamin LaRoy Peters on 16 November 1925 at Brandt, Deuel County, South Dakota
state marriage record, certificate 109784 S71
Marriage1925
Her fuller given name "Gertie" is written on both 1925 marriage records, the state return and the church register S71S774; it was first taken from an online tree S42

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Willie Frank "Will" Kretschmar

Confirmed

1890–1973

Born
18 October 1890
Died
20 November 1973
Married
Hattie Ladusch
Children
Lucille Lorine Kretschmar
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10
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Birth1890
Born 18 October 1890; died 20 November 1973; buried Austin Memorial Park, plot 1-566-10
two plots from his daughter S34
Burial
Named as Lucille's father in the NUMIDENT record, independently of the grave S33
Burial1851
His memorial records him as "s/o Franz and Lena Landrock Kretschmar"
Julius Franz Kretschmar (1851–1946) and Johanna Lina Landrock Kretschmar (1855–1902) Probable S34
Military1917
He served in the First World War
Private, Battery A, 345th Field Artillery, credited to Texas, Army serial number 2231722, enlisted 21 September 1917 and discharged 14 March 1918 S142
Burial1890
The two dates above now have a second independent source: the federal headstone application filed after his death carries 10/18/1890 and 11/20/73, beside the cemetery memorial S142 S34
Birth1917
🆕 He registered for the draft on 5 June 1917 as Will Kretchmar, signing Willie Kretschmar. The card says he was born 18 October 1890 in Travis County, lived at Del Valle, and was a labourer for H. Meyer at Elroy. He was single and claimed exemption for “Heart Trouble”, but he was in uniform by September S435. His son Raymond Willie Kretschmar was born in Travis County on 7 October 1929. The state birth index names Willie F. Kretschmar as the father and Liessi Ladusch as the mother S436. In 1954 he was a carpenter in the house at 1911 East First Street, Austin, with Liessi; his brother Max was at Del Valle S437. added 25 September 2026.
Death1973
🆕 His death notice, Austin American-Statesman, 21 November 1973: “Will F. Kretschmar, 83, of 4913 Ave. H died in a local hospital Tuesday”; survivors include his brother Max Kretschmar of Elroy and his sister Minnie Reininger of Austin S1196

Family

Marriage1923
Married Hattie Ladusch in 1923 S34
Children1925
Father of Lucille Lorine Kretschmar: her 1925 Texas birth certificate names Willie F. Kretschmar, 34, born Travis County S264, and the 1930 Austin census has Willie 39, Liessi and Lucille 4 S251
Marriage1974
The application was made by Mrs. Liessi Kretschmar, relationship Wife, of 4913 Avenue H, Austin
Hattie Elizabeth "Liessi" Ladusch signing her own name, which corroborates the marriage independently of the grave. Ordered 15 March 1974; a flat granite marker with a Latin cross, consigned to Cook-Walden Funeral Home S142
Children1980
🆕 His son Raymond Will Kretschmar died on 9 July 1980 at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Beaumont, aged 50, a veteran and a Western Electric installer living at Nederland. The death certificate names the father as Will Kretschmar Confirmed S968. added 29 September 2026

Open questions

Open question
⚠️ The service is under six months, and the form does not say why. His headstone application records an enlistment date and a discharge date with nothing between them
no decorations, no overseas service, no discharge type. The 345th Field Artillery belonged to the 90th Division, organised at Camp Travis in Texas, which would suit a Travis County man; that is context, not on the document, and is not claimed here S142

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Hattie Elizabeth "Liessi" Ladusch

TexasConfirmed

1898–1990 · the German-Texan line

Born
28 March 1898, New Ulm, Austin County, Texas
Died
3 March 1990, Hays County, Texas
Children
Raymond Will Kretschmar
Sources
7
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Birth1898
Born 28 March 1898, New Ulm, Austin County, Texas
a German settlement in the Texas-German belt S34
Death1990
Died 3 March 1990, Hays County, Texas; buried Austin Memorial Park, plot 1-566-9 S34
Record
The NUMIDENT's "Liessi Ladusch" and the memorial's "Hattie Elizabeth 'Liessi' Ladusch" are the same woman
the nickname is recorded on both, which is what ties the government record to the grave S33S34
Kretschmar, Ladusch, Landrock, Stein — four German surnames in one grandparent's ancestry, out of New Ulm in Austin County. This is the real Texas-German line in the family, and it is on Kristin's side.

Family

Children1929
🆕 Her son Raymond Will Kretschmar, born 7 October 1929, died on 9 July 1980 at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Beaumont, Texas, aged 50. He lived at Nederland, was a veteran and an installer for Western Electric, and his death certificate (Texas state file no. 55851) names his parents as Will Kretschmar and “Leissi Ladusch” Confirmed S968S436. It records his removal to Oak Bluff Memorial Park, Port Neches. added 29 September 2026
Parents1873
Parents Otto Paul Ladusch (1873–1958) and Emma Stein Ladusch (1875–1952) Confirmed
the 1900 census (Elizabeth, 2) and 1910 census (“Liccie”, 11) in their household S34S326S327S328

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Charles Owens

ArkansasConfirmed

Kristin's great-grandfather · 1863–1939

Born
March 1863, Arkansas
Died
6 July 1939
Parents
Joseph Owens & China Pardon
Married
Alice Rachell Waldon
Sources
13
Images
1

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as Medie Owens's father. Her 1954 Texas death certificate names her father Charles Owens S70, and the 1900 census of Manor, Travis County, has Charles W. Owens and his wife Alice R. with a daughter born September 1887, the month and year of Medie's birth S661. Confirmed 26 September 2026.
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Birth1863
Born March 1863, Arkansas, by the 1900 census, which also gives both his parents as born in Arkansas S661. ⚠️ Medie's death certificate says born Texas, but its informant was the hospital, not the family, so the census is preferred S70. 🆕 His own 1939 death certificate, informed by his wife, also says Arkansas, and gives his birth as 9 March 1863 S780; so does the 1910 census S783. added 26 September 2026.
Death1939
Died 6 July 1939 at Austin, a produce salesman of 808 Clermont; buried at Youngs Prairie, Elgin Confirmed S780. On his FindAGrave memorial as Charles W. Owens (1863–1939) S34
Death1968
🆕 A second daughter's 1968 Texas death certificate also names her parents as Charles Owens and Alice Walden S811. added 27 September 2026
Census1880
🆕 In 1880, aged 17, he was in Williamson County, Texas, with his mother China Owen, 41, a widow born in Kentucky, and his brothers and sisters Wm. A. J., Joseph C., Alice, Levi A. and Edgar Confirmed S798. The census gives his father's birthplace as Tennessee. added 27 September 2026
Census1929
🆕 In the Austin city directory for 1929 he is Chas W. Owens, with Alice, a huckster at 1912 E. 2nd; in 1930–31 a peddler at 808 Clermont, the house he died in, with Wm (Katie) and Edw Owens at the same address Confirmed S807. added 27 September 2026

Family

Parents1880
🆕 His parents, as his death certificate gives them: Joseph Owens and China Pardon, both born in Arkansas Probable confirm or correct → S780. The evidence is that one certificate; what is weak is that its informant was his widow, not a parent, and the spellings may be Chaney or Chana, Pardue or Purdon. 🆕 The 1880 census names China as his mother, a widow born in Kentucky, and gives his father's birthplace as Tennessee S798; it was taken with her in the house, so on the birthplaces it outweighs the certificate. Joseph is still named only by the certificate; an Arkansas marriage of about 1855–62 would settle it. added 26 September 2026 🆕 Their marriage is found: Chiney Parton, 16, of Whitley County, Kentucky, married Joseph Owens there on 30 January 1852 (the register's year is only a ditto mark; a Tennessee index says 1853) S810 See Joseph Owens & China Parton. added 27 September 2026
Marriage1883
Married Alice Rachell Waldon on 7 October 1883 in Travis County; the licence was issued on 22 September Confirmed S782. In 1910 they were farming in Lampasas County, married 26 years, with ten children born and seven living S783. added 26 September 2026
Marriage1900
A farm labourer at Manor in 1900, married 16 years, with seven children living: William W., Medie (written “Rachel A”), Epper L., Charles E., Mary P., Annie H. and Robert G. S661
Marriage1845
Husband of Alice Walden. The FamilySearch tree's dates for him, c.1845–1909, are wrong for this man and are no longer used S12

Open questions

Probable
🆕 Probably him in 1870: C. W., 8, born Arkansas, in the household of the widow(?) E. Owens, 43, a farmer born Mississippi, in Bayou Mason Township, Chicot County, Arkansas, with W. F., M. J., M. J. and S. A. Probable confirm or correct → S1065. Evidence: his initials, age and Arkansas birth. Weak: initials only, no relationships stated, and his mother in 1880 was China, 41, born Kentucky S798. Probably him too in 1920: Richard(?) W. Owens, 56, born Arkansas, owning his home at Elgin, Bastrop County, with his wife Alice R., 53, born Texas to a Missouri-born father Probable confirm or correct → S1066. Evidence: Alice’s name, age and parentage, and his age and birthplace. Weak: the enumerator wrote Richard, not Charles. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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Alice Walden

Confirmed

Kristin's great-grandmother · 1867–1958

Born
14 September 1867
Parents
Wm. Mathis Waldon
Married
C. W. Owens
Sources
11

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as Medie Owens's mother. Medie's 1954 Texas death certificate gives her mother's maiden name as Alice Walden S70, and in 1900 Alice R. Owens, wife of Charles W. Owens, had a daughter born September 1887 S661. Confirmed 26 September 2026.
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Birth1867
Born 14 September 1867 at Waco, Texas, by her own death certificate Confirmed S781; the 1900 census gave September 1866, and the 1870 census has her aged 3; she had borne nine children, seven living S661. The death certificate says Tennessee, from hospital paperwork, and is the weaker of the two S70
Census1950
In 1950, as Allice Owens, 83, she lived with Medie at 2117 Clifton, Austin S231. FindAGrave gives her as Alice Rachael Waldon, 1867–1958 S34; Walden or Waldon is still unsettled
Census1912
🆕 The Austin city directories list her with Charles W. Owens at 1912 E. 2nd in 1929 and at 808 Clermont in 1930–31, where Wm (Katie) and Edw Owens also lived Confirmed S807. added 27 September 2026
Census1880
🆕 The 1880 census of Travis County, read from the image, lists Alice, 13, at school, as the daughter of William Waldrin, 37, a farmer born Missouri, with his second wife P. P., 23, and three young children S916. With her death certificate, that confirms Wm. Mathis Waldon as her father Confirmed. added 28 September 2026.

Family

Parents1870
🆕 Her father was Wm. Mathis Waldon, by her death certificate, informed by her daughter Medie S781. In 1870 Alice R., 3, was in the Dallas County household of William Waldon, 28, born Missouri, and Susan, 24, born Texas, with Joana Walden, 67, born Kentucky S801; Susan is her probable mother, Susan (Voshery) Waldon Probable confirm or correct →, but the census states no relationships and the certificate gives the mother as unknown. She died on 8 August 1958 at 804 South 1st, Austin, and was buried at Youngs Prairie S781. added 26 September 2026
Marriage1866
🆕 A Texas marriage index has Susan Voshery marrying William M. Walden on 23 December 1866 in San Augustine County, nine months before Alice was born S852 Probable confirm or correct →. It is an index only, and it supports Susan as her mother without naming Alice. added 28 September 2026.
Marriage1883
Married C. W. Owens on 7 October 1883 in Travis County, as Alice Rachell Waldon Confirmed S782; by 1910 she had borne ten children, seven living, and the family was in Lampasas County S783. added 26 September 2026

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The Peters family, Chicago to Sioux Falls

Confirmed

Six children, reconstructed from three obituaries that agree

  • Six children — LaRoy's obituary says he grew up "with his five sisters." All six are named consistently across three separately published obituaries: Dorothy (1926), Shirley (1927), LaRoy Jr. (1930), Betty (1937), Marlene and Eileen S40
  • The birthplaces trace the move: Dorothy and Shirley born at Chicago (1926, 1927), LaRoy at Marathon, Iowa (1930), Betty at Sioux Falls, South Dakota (1937) S40
More · 3 further facts
  • So the family went Chicago → Iowa → Sioux Falls about 1932 — "after moving there with his parents when he was two" — which is exactly the "first eighteen years in Sioux Falls" of Dorothy's own obituary S36S40
  • The parents retired to Schertz, Texas, died there in 1991 and 1993, and were returned to Clear Lake, South Dakota — Selma's birthplace — for burial S38S41
  • Dorothy's brother LaRoy J. "Pete" Peters died 25 January 2021 and her sister Betty Jane Sanders on 10 September 2013; both death dates appear independently on the parents' memorials and in their own published obituaries S40S41
⚠️ The generation above this couple is uneven. Benjamin Peters and Edna Blanche Orsborn (his parents) are the bride and groom on the 1 April 1903 Franklin County, Iowa marriage return, now read from the image S791, and since 26 September 2026 their link down to Pete Sr is on a record too: the 1910 census of Kay County, Oklahoma lists him, aged 4, as their son S659 — so they are now Confirmed. On the Selland side, Mons and Julia Selland are now named as Gertie's parents in two church registers written at the time, her 1918 confirmation S813 and her 1925 marriage S774. The Røldal parish registers, read by eye on 16 September 2026, give his baptism on 9 May 1868 to Thore Thoresen Selland and Ingeborg Ivarsdatter S74 and his departure for "Dakota, Amerika" in 1889 S75. His wife Julia’s maiden name, Lone, and her dates remain Probable: a Lone woman born 1870 left Røldal in the same 1889 party, and has not been shown to be her. A South Dakota birth index row for Gertie names her mother Julia Lone S819, but the register image behind it has not been read.
The Deuel County marriage of 16 November 1925 is now a state record, certificate 109784, solemnised at Brandt, both parties of Clear Lake, the groom 20 and the bride 22 S71 Confirmed. It was expected to name both sets of parents and close the generation above in one stroke. It does not: the South Dakota form of that year has no parentage field at all. It settles the date and the maiden name, and nothing more — which is worth saying plainly, because the prediction printed here was wrong.

Generation 4 — relatives in this generation

Emma Rachel Ault

Confirmed

First wife of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr.

Died
Not found
Married
Thomas Walton Caffey Sr.
Children
Mattie Lee Caffey
Sources
0

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a Texas marriage record and the 1900 census; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Death
Her death has not been found

Family

Marriage1895
First wife of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr.; married 22 December 1895, Caldwell County, Texas
Children1898
Mother of Mattie Lee Caffey, born 1898; Emma R. in the 1900 Bastrop County census

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Anna Bell Caffey Gold

Probable

Daughter of Hooper Van Caffey · 1871–1949

Born
5 January 1871
Died
5 May 1949
Parents
Hooper Van Caffey & Amanda Melvina Griffin
Married
Henry L. (Henry Lewis) Gold
Children
Vernon Clyde Gold
Sources
8

Research status

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
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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 →

Life

Birth1871
Born 5 January 1871, Alabama; died 5 May 1949, Austin, Texas; buried Kyle Cemetery
Census1930
🆕 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.
Census1900
🆕 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.
Census1910
🆕 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

Family

Parents
Daughter of Hooper Van Caffey and Amanda Melvina Griffin; sister of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr.
Marriage1930
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
Children1908
🆕 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.

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Charles B. (C. B.) Caffey

Probable

Son of Hooper Van Caffey · 1865–1948

Born
7 October 1865
Died
15 February 1948
Parents
Hooper Van Caffey & Amy Richardson
Sources
9

Research status

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
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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 →

Life

Birth1865
Born 7 October 1865, Mobile, Alabama; died 15 February 1948 at the Texas Confederate Home for Men, Austin; buried at Elgin
Census1940
🆕 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.
Census1900
🆕 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

Family

Parents
Son of Hooper Van Caffey and his first wife, Amy Richardson of Alabama; half-brother of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr.
Children1907
🆕 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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Orbin Oliver Piland

Confirmed

Father of Alice Lorene Piland Caffey · 1893–1929

Born
22 March 1893
Died
30 September 1929
Parents
Edward Raymond Piland & Virginia Francis "Jennie" Montgomery
Married
Mabel Logue Piland
Sources
9

Research status

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
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Birth1893
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
Census1922
In 1922 he was a truck driver for the Texas Company, living at 104 Chicon, Austin, with Mabel S941
Death1929
Died 30 September 1929, aged 36, by the index of his Texas death certificate S911S914. Mabel is a widow by the 1930 census S924
Census1910
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 →

Family

Marriage1895
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)
Parents
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 →

Open questions

Weak or missing
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.”

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Mabel Logue Piland

Probable

Mother of Alice Lorene Piland Caffey · 1895–1961

Born
31 October 1895
Died
13 April 1961
Parents
Dan Crutcher Logue & Virginia Alice Hamby
Married
Orbin Oliver Piland
Children
Alice Lorene Piland
Sources
13

Research status

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
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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 →

Life

Birth1895
Born 31 October 1895 at Galveston, Texas, by the index of her death certificate S907; the 1900 census gives October 1895 in Texas S906
Death1961
Died 13 April 1961 at Austin, Travis County, by the index of her Texas death certificate S907
Census1932
🆕 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

Family

Marriage1920
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
Children1914
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
Parents1900
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 →
Marriage1930
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
Siblings1892
🆕 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
Siblings1902
🆕 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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Weak or missing
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

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Leola Logue Piland

Probable

Sister of Mabel Logue Piland · 1892–1938

Born
28 November 1892
Parents
Dan Crutcher Logue & Virginia Alice Hamby
Married
Ruben Piland
Sources
7

Research status

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
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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 →

Life

Birth1892
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
Residence1938
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

Family

Marriage
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
Siblings1902
🆕 Sister of Victor Quillen Logue, born 1902, whose marriage records name the same father, D. C. Logue S1191 S1192

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Weak or missing
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

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Victor Quillen Logue

Confirmed

Brother of Mabel Logue Piland · 1902–1978

Born
26 September 1902
Died
27 August 1978
Buried
at Concord, Cleburne County, Arkansas
Parents
Dan Crutcher Logue & Virginia Alice Hamby
Married
Mildred Warner Pool
Sources
6

Research status

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
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Birth1902
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
Census1940
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
Death1978
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

Family

Marriage1926
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
Siblings
Brother of Mabel Logue Piland and Leola Logue Piland

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Weak or missing
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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Lizzie Kretschmar Rojas

Confirmed

Daughter of Julius Franz Kretschmar · born 1878

Born
20 August 1878
Parents
Julius Franz Kretschmar & Lena Kretschmar
Married
Estanislao Rojas
Sources
6

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED (index) — added 24 September 2026 from an index record that names her father; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1878
Born 20 August 1878, Leipzig, Germany; Lizzie, the eldest, in the 1900 household S228
Death1951
Named as Lizzie Rojas in her father's obituary index S296; died 11 February 1951, Bishop, Nueces County, Texas S634
Death1951
🆕 Her death certificate, no. 9437, gives her death on 11 February 1951 at Route 2, Bishop, where she had lived 31 years, of heart disease. It names her father as “Frank Kretczehmas”, born Germany, that is Julius Franz Kretschmar. Her husband, Estanislao Rojas, was the informant, and the Cage-Piper Funeral Home took her to Kingsville S634. added 26 September 2026.
Census1930
🆕 In 1930 she and Estanislao V. Rojas, 35, born Mexico, lived near Bishop in the Driscoll Ranch subdivision, Nueces County, with a daughter aged 15. Lizzie was 52, born Germany, German her mother tongue S639. The census's immigration year, 1909, cannot be right, since she was in her father's Texas household in 1900. In 1950 the couple were still in Nueces County, Estanislao 54 and Lizzie 72, with a boy of 9 listed as their son whose parents are both given as born in Mexico, so probably a grandson or foster son; that census's “born Mexico” for Lizzie is an error S640. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Parents
Daughter of Julius Franz Kretschmar; probably of Lena Kretschmar Probable confirm or correct → (see below); sister of Willie Frank Kretschmar
Marriage1912
🆕 Her husband was Estanislao Rojas, born in Monterrey, Mexico; they married at Austin on 21 September 1912 and had one child. She petitioned for naturalization at Corpus Christi on 17 June 1941, swearing that she had come to Baltimore on the SS America in October 1883 as “Lizze Kraetzschmar” S577. The petition's 1896 birth year for Estanislao is doubtful. added 25 September 2026.
Parents1900
🆕 Her mother: probably Lena Kretschmar Probable confirm or correct →. In 1900, read from the image, Lizzie is “dau.” of the head, Fritz, and Lena is his wife, married 21 years, with eight children born and eight living S228. What is weak: the census relationship is to the head only; her naturalization gives her birth as August 1878 S577, a little before a marriage of about 1879, so she could be Lena's stepdaughter, and no record names her mother. added 28 September 2026.

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Clara Frances Kretschmar Semff

Confirmed

Daughter of Julius Franz Kretschmar · born 1881

Born
5 August 1881
Died
17 June 1967
Parents
Julius Franz Kretschmar & Lena
Sources
6

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1881
Born 5 August 1881, Germany; Clara in the 1900 household S228
Death1881
🆕 Her death certificate, as Clara Frances Semff, gives her birth as 5 August 1881 in Germany and her mother as Lena Landrock. She died at Cleburne on 17 June 1967 and was buried in Rio Vista Cemetery S473. added 25 September 2026.
Census1920
🆕 In 1920 she and Bernhard Semff were farming in Beaver Township, Saline County, Arkansas, with their son Richard, 13, born in Texas S562. By 1930 they were farming in Johnson County, Texas; she gave her age at marriage as 24, which puts the wedding about 1905–06 S563. added 25 September 2026.
Residence1950
🆕 She was living alone at Rio Vista, Johnson County, in 1950: widowed, 68, naturalized, working as a janitor S618. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Parents
Daughter of Julius Franz Kretschmar and Lena; sister of Willie Frank Kretschmar
Marriage1967
Wife of Ben Semff S296; died 17 June 1967, Cleburne, Texas; her death certificate names both parents

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Elsie Lena Kretschmar Peterson

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Daughter of Julius Franz Kretschmar · born 1883

Born
18 January 1883
Parents
Julius Franz Kretschmar & Lena
Married
Christian F. Peterson
Sources
7

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1883
Born 18 January 1883, Germany; Elsie in the 1900 household, the census entry now attached to her in the tree S228
Death1953
Named as Elsie Peterson in her father's obituary index S296; died 11 November 1953
Census1940
🆕 In 1940 she and Christian F. Peterson, 62, rented a place on Fincher Lane, Precinct 6, Travis County; she was 57 S716. This census, like the 1950 one, gives her birthplace as Texas; the card keeps Germany, from her 1900 household. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Parents
Daughter of Julius Franz Kretschmar and Lena; sister of Willie Frank Kretschmar
Marriage1902
🆕 She married Christian F. Peterson, a farmer born in Louisiana of Danish parents, about 1902–03. In 1910 they farmed near Creedmoor, Travis County, and she had borne five children, all living: Ruth, Arthur, Lawrence, Annie and Julius S573; in 1920 the family also had Willie, probably the same son as Julius, and Nannie S574; in 1930 Nannie and Edna were at home S575; and by 1950 she and Christian lived in Austin S576. The 1950 census says she was born in Texas, against Germany in the three earlier censuses. added 25 September 2026.

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Minnie Johanna Kretschmar Reininger

Confirmed

Daughter of Julius Franz Kretschmar · born 1888

Born
11 March 1888
Parents
Julius Franz Kretschmar & Lena
Married
Albert C. Reininger
Children
Harry Max Reininger
Sources
12

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Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1888
Born 11 March 1888, Travis County, Texas; Minnie in the 1900 household S228
Burial1978
🆕 As Minnie Johanna Reininger she died at Austin on 18 January 1978, born 11 March 1888 in Travis County; her son Frank was the informant and she is buried in Capital Memorial Gardens S474. With Albert Reininger she had a son born 10 July 1911 near Lytton Springs, Caldwell County S475; the family was Willie and Frank in 1920 S476 and Frank and Harry in 1940, in rural Travis County S477. added 25 September 2026.
Census1957
🆕 The 1957 Austin directory lists her as Albert C. Reininger's widow at 1711 South First Street, with her sons Frank and Harry nearby S704. added 26 September 2026.
Census1950
🆕 In 1950 Albert, 65, and Minnie, 55, lived at 1711 South First Street, Austin, where she worked as a housekeeper for a private family; their son Harry, 26, a cabinet maker, his wife Evelyn and their three young children lived next door Probable confirm or correct → S799. Evidence: the names, the street and Harry's trade. What is weak: it gives Minnie's age as 55, ten years under her 1888 birth. added 27 September 2026

Family

Parents
Daughter of Julius Franz Kretschmar and Lena; sister of Willie Frank Kretschmar
Marriage1978
Wife of Albert C. Reininger S296; died 18 January 1978, Austin; her death certificate names both parents
Children1943
🆕 Her son Harry Max Reininger, born at Mendoza, Texas, married on 11 September 1943 in Henrico County, Virginia, while serving in the Army at Richmond Air Base. His bride was Evelyn Genevieve Pehl of Creedmoor. The certificate names his parents as Albert Reininger and Minnie Kretchmar S566. added 25 September 2026.
Marriage1955
🆕 Her husband, Albert C. Reininger, a farmer, died at Austin on 19 June 1955 and was buried in Capitol Memorial; their son Frank was the informant, and the certificate names his father as John Reininger, born in Germany S677. It gives his birth as 17 August 1882, but in 1900 he is Albert, 16, born May 1884, in John Reininger's household in Caldwell County, with a brother born in January 1882 S678, so 1884 is the better year. added 26 September 2026.
Parents1900
🆕 Albert C. Reininger's mother was probably Helene (Helen) Seidemann Probable confirm or correct →. Evidence: in 1900, read from the image, Helen, born May 1855 in Texas, mother of twelve children, nine living, is the wife of the head, John Reininger, and Albert, 16, is his son S678; Texas county marriage indexes record Johann Reininger marrying Helene Seidemann S853. What is weak: the census relationship is to the head only, Albert's death certificate gives his mother as unknown S677, and the marriage is an index entry whose date has not been read. added 28 September 2026.

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Max W. Kretschmar

Confirmed

Son of Julius Franz Kretschmar · 1894–1981

Born
12 January 1894
Died
3 December 1981
Parents
Julius Franz Kretschmar & Lena
Married
Olga Jenke
Sources
10

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED son of Julius Franz Kretschmar and Lena, and added to the tree on Earl’s approval of 2 October 2026. In 1900 Max is among the children of Fritz and Lena Kretschmar S228; in 1910 he is in his father Frank’s household S433; in June 1919 the Army transport list names “Mr. Frank Kretschmar, father” as his next of kin S434; and in 1940 his widowed father lives with him S230. All four are read from the images. Added 2 October 2026
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Birth1894
Born 12 January 1894 in Travis County; died 3 December 1981 at home on Rt. 1, Del Valle, Travis County, a farmer and a veteran. His death certificate, read from the image, names him Max William Kretschmar, Sr., his father Frantz Kretschmar and his mother “Lena Landrum”, and gives his burial at Salem Lutheran Cemetery S1204 S1197
Military1919
A private first class in the 250th Company Military Police, he sailed home from Bordeaux on the Santa Rosa on 16 June 1919 S434
Census1940
In 1940 he farmed in Justice Precinct 6, Travis County, with his wife Olga, their children and his father S230; in 1950 he and Olga are still farming in Travis County with their children S1205; in 1954 the Austin directory lists him at Del Valle, next to his brother Will S437

Family

Marriage1930
Married Olga Jenke in Travis County on 8 June 1930, by Rev. A. F. Michalk of Lee County; the licence, read from the image, was issued on 5 June S1203
Children1940
Three children are in the 1940 and 1950 censuses; they are not named here, because they may be living S230 S1205
Siblings1973
Brother of Willie Frank “Will” Kretschmar, whose 1973 death notice names “a brother, Max Kretschmar of Elroy” and a sister, Minnie Reininger S1196

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Weak or missing
What is weak or missing: his obituary and First World War draft card have not been read; his death certificate spells his mother’s maiden name Landrum, not Landrock

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Frieda Ladusch

Confirmed

Daughter of Otto Paul Ladusch · born 1896

Born
August 1896
Parents
Otto Paul Ladusch & Emma Stein
Sources
13

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1896
Born August 1896, Texas; Frieda, 3, in 1900 and Freda, 13, at 1617 Willow Street, Austin, in 1910 S327S328
Record1896
🆕 The Frelsburg baptism register gives her full name, Frieda Bertha Caroline, and her birth at New Ulm on 3 August 1896 S551. added 25 September 2026.
Census1932
🆕 The 1932–33 Austin directory has Otto C. and Frieda Herber at 201 West 39th, the home of Ernst and Mary Herber, farmer S578. added 25 September 2026.
Death1892
🆕 Otto Carl Herber was born at Creedmoor, Texas, on 22 November 1892 or 1893. In 1917 he lived at 1904 Canterbury Street, Austin, in the piano business S680. He died at Austin on 23 October 1935 and was buried at Oakwood; the certificate names his parents as E. W. Herber, born in Germany, and Marie Ceska, and gives 1893, while the draft card's year is overwritten and its age points to 1892 S679. added 26 September 2026.
Census1900
🆕 In 1900 Otto, born November 1892, was one of six sons of Ernst Herber, a German-born farmer in Travis County, and his wife Mattie S687. This supports 1892 over the death certificate's 1893. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Parents
Daughter of Otto Paul Ladusch and Emma Stein; elder sister of Hattie Elizabeth Ladusch
Marriage1916
🆕 Her full name was Freda Bertha Ladusch. She married Otto C. Herber, a piano tuner, at Austin on 26 August 1916, by Pastor Gideon Olson of Gethsemane Lutheran S470S471. Their son was Roy Otto Herber S469, and in 1930 they owned 907 W. 29th Street, Austin S472. She later married a Mr. Wesson, and died as Freda Herber Wesson on 18 July 1973 at Comfort, Kendall County; she is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Austin S468. Her own 1942 statement gives her birthplace as New Ulm, Austin County (probable); her death certificate says Austin S469S468. added 25 September 2026.
Parents1918
🆕 The 1918 Texas birth index lists an unnamed “infant of Otto Herber”, born in Travis County on 17 April 1918, certificate 21667 Probable confirm or correct → S800. Evidence: the father's name, the county, and a date twenty months after the 1916 marriage. What is weak: the index names neither the child nor the mother; it is probably Roy Otto Herber, and the certificate would settle it. added 27 September 2026

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Generation 5 — Kristin's 2nd-great-grandparents

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Hooper Van Caffey

Confirmed

Father of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. · born 1832

Born
October 1832
Died
on 30 November 1901
Parents
Charles Caffey
Married
Amanda Melvina Griffin
Children
Thomas Walton Caffey Sr.
Sources
11

Research status

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.
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Birth1832
Born October 1832, Alabama
Census1850
🆕 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.
Census1880
🆕 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.
Record1857
🆕 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.
Census1860
🆕 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”.

Family

Children
Father of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr.
Marriage1870
Married Amanda Melvina Griffin, 1 May 1870, Pike County, Alabama
Parents1868
🆕 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.

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Probable
🆕 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.

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Amanda Melvina Griffin

Confirmed

Mother of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr. · born 1850

Born
1 April 1850
Married
Hooper Van Caffey
Children
Thomas Walton Caffey Sr.
Sources
12
Images
1

Research status

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.
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Birth1850
Born 1 April 1850, Georgia
Death1914
🆕 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.
Census1920
🆕 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.
Census1870
🆕 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.
Census1860
🆕 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.
Census1880
🆕 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
Death1850
🆕 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
Record1867
🆕 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

Family

Children1870
Mother of Thomas Walton Caffey Sr.; wife of Hooper Van Caffey, married 1 May 1870, Pike County, Alabama

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Probable
🆕 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”.

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Melton Cleaveland

Confirmed

Father of Nettie Ellen Cleveland

Sources
8

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — confirmed 25 September 2026: his 1896 Nance County, Nebraska, marriage register S463 names Milton Cleavland, born at Rocklin, California, son of C. E. Cleavland and V. J. Smith, marrying Maud Warner, and Nettie's 1971 Texas death certificate S145 names Melton Cleaveland and Maude Melville Warner as her parents; the 1880 Cass County, Michigan, census S465 and his 1939 Wyoming death certificate S464 follow him. (Probable from 22 September until the marriage register was read.)
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Death1971
Named as father of Nettie Ellen Cleveland on her 1971 Texas death certificate, spelled Cleaveland; her mother Maude Melville Warner S145
Census1920
🆕 In 1920 he owned a farm in Jackson County, Texas, with his wife Alice L. and her son William Kelley S552. added 25 September 2026.
Census1930
🆕 The 1930 Sheridan, Wyoming, directory lists Milton Cleveland, carpenter, and his wife Alice at 725 Canby Confirmed S1156.

Family

Marriage1896
🆕 He married Maud Warner on 4 February 1896 at Belgrade, Nance County, Nebraska; the register gives him as 23, born at Rocklin, California, son of C. E. Cleavland and V. J. Smith S463. A printed Cleveland genealogy names them Charles Edgar Cleveland and Victoria Janette Smith, married at Rives, Michigan, in 1866 S467; in 1880 the family, with his sister Anna J., was in Penn Township, Cass County, Michigan S465. In 1930 he was a park caretaker in Fullerton Township, Nance County, with a wife Alice S466. He died on 2 June 1939 at Sheridan, Wyoming, a carpenter, and was buried in Sheridan Municipal Cemetery. His birth was 15 July, in 1872 by his death certificate and 1873 by the book and the 1880 census S464. added 25 September 2026.

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Nancy Jane Higginbotham Walker

Confirmed

Kristin's 2nd great-grandmother · 1864–1953

Born
19 October 1864, Alabama
Died
3 January 1953 at Lolita, Jackson County, Texas
Buried
at Lolita Cemetery
Parents
L. Higginbotham
Children
Daniel Jonah Walker
Sources
9
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Birth1864
Born 19 October 1864, Alabama; her father Robert Higginbotham (written “Higginbothan”), her mother's maiden name Avery S331
Death1953
Died 3 January 1953 at Lolita, Jackson County, Texas, widowed, as Nancy Jane Walker S331
Cause1952
Cause of death, as the certificate states it: carcinoma of the jaw, of one year's duration. She was attended from June 1952 by a doctor at Edna, died at home, and was buried at Lolita Cemetery the next day S331
Census1870
🆕 The 1870 census image, read in full: in Township 19 (Rockdale Beat), Randolph County, Alabama, on 10 June 1870, Nancy, 6, born Alabama, was in the household of Lucinda Higginbotham, 40, born South Carolina, with Alexander, 13, and Benjamin, 12 Confirmed S960. That census states no relationships. Her mother is named by the 1880 census S812. added 29 September 2026

Family

Parents1880
🆕 Her mother: in the 1880 census of Rockdale Beat, Randolph County, Alabama, “N. J.”, 15, born in Alabama, is listed as the daughter of the widowed head, L. Higginbotham, about 50, born in South Carolina S812. With the certificate's maiden name Avery, that makes her mother L. (Avery) Higginbotham. Her given name, Lucinda C., comes from FamilySearch indexes of the 1870 and 1860 Randolph County censuses, which are independent of the 1880 page and the certificate S841S842: her mother is Lucinda C. (Avery) Higginbotham Confirmed. The 1860 and 1870 entries are index rows whose images have not been read, and the 1860 index gives Lucinda's husband as Wm H. Higginbotham, while Nancy Jane's certificate names her father Robert, so her father is not settled. Added 28 September 2026.
Children1950
Mother of Daniel Jonah Walker: in 1950 at Lolita, Jackson County, Texas, she lived in D. J. Walker's household as his mother, 85, widowed, born Alabama S210
Marriage1857
🆕 Her husband was probably William B. “Willie B.” Walker (1857–1914) Probable confirm or correct →. Evidence: in 1900 “Nancy J.”, 35, born Alabama, was his wife in Jackson County S808, and his 1914 death certificate was informed by Mrs. W. B. Walker S787. What is weak: no marriage record has been found. His parents were probably Daniel Green Walker and Mary Jane Bross. Added 27 September 2026

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Probable
🆕 Probably her in 1930: Nancy J. “Waeker”, 65, a widow living alone in her own home ($1,250) in Justice Precinct 2, Jackson County, Texas Probable confirm or correct → S1011. Evidence: her age, her Alabama birthplace and her mother's South Carolina birthplace agree with the 1880 household S812, and Jackson County is where she lived in 1950 and her last years S331. Weak: the enumerator wrote the surname Waeker or Wacker, not Walker; her father's Georgia birthplace is new and is a clue only. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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Maude Melville Warner

Confirmed

Mother of Nettie Ellen Cleveland

Parents
Ella (Shreckengost) Warner
Married
Melton Cleaveland
Children
Nettie Ellen Cleveland
Sources
5

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from her daughter's death certificate and a Nebraska marriage index; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Marriage1896
First wife of Melton Cleaveland; married 4 February 1896, Belgrade, Nance County, Nebraska
Children1971
Mother of Nettie Ellen Cleveland, whose 1971 death certificate names her S145; she is the Nebraska-born first wife implied by the 1910 census, where Milton has remarried S224
Marriage1896
🆕 The Nance County marriage register names her father as Clifford Warner. She was 18 and born in Nebraska when she married Milton Cleavland at Belgrade on 4 February 1896 S463. added 25 September 2026.
Parents1880
🆕 Her mother: Ella (Shreckengost) Warner Probable confirm or correct →. The 1880 census of Cedar Precinct, Boone County, Nebraska, has Maud, born in Nebraska, as the daughter of Clifford Warner, 28, whose wife is Ella, 22, born in Illinois S824; her sister Dessa's 1908 marriage gives their parents as Clifford Warner and Ella Shreckengost S682. What is weak: the census gives Ella's relationship to Clifford, not to Maud, and Maud's own marriage entry leaves her mother blank S463. added 28 September 2026.

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Not found
Also named as mother on her son Edgar's 1929 marriage record; her dates have not been found

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Julia (Lone) Selland

Confirmed

Mother of Gertie Selma Selland

Born
Not found
Died
Not found
Married
Mons Selland
Children
Gertie Selma Selland
Sources
10

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as Gertie Selma Selland's mother — her confirmation entry of 21 July 1918, read from the image, gives her parents as “Mons og Julia Selland” S813, and the church register of her 1925 marriage names them “M. T. Selland & Julia” S774
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Birth1870
Born and died: not on any record read. The family tree's “Gjori Olsdatter Lono”, born 22 January 1870, died 27 November 1955, has no source and is not published here as fact
Census1903
FamilySearch also has Gertie's 1903 baptism in Deuel County with her mother as “Julie” S820, and the 1910 census index for Brandt, Deuel County, with Julia and Mons Selland and their daughter Selma S821
Census1920
🆕 The censuses of 1920 and 1930 give her arrival as 1889, the year Mons left Røldal, and in 1920 her naturalization as 1914 Confirmed S989S990. In 1930 she was 60 and had first married at 30 S990; in 1940 she was 70 S991; and she was living in April 1950, 80, on the Brandt Township farm with Mons and their son Oscar S992. Her ages across the censuses point to a birth about 1870. The children now known from the censuses are Ida C., Andrew, Selma (Gertie), Tilda, Oscar, George and Myrtle S989S952. added 29 September 2026

Family

Children
Mother of Gertie Selma Selland and of her brother Andreas Selland S813. Wife of Mons Selland
Names1870
Her maiden name, Lone Probable confirm or correct →: the South Dakota birth index on FamilySearch names Gertie's mother Julia Lone S819. What is weak: that is an index row; no register image read gives the name. A “Gyri …sdatter Lone”, born 1870, left Røldal in the same 1889 party as Mons, and has not been shown to be her

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Mons Selland

Confirmed

Father of Gertie Selma Selland · born 1868, Røldal, Norway

Born
9 May 1868
Died
Not found
Married
Julia (Lone) Selland
Children
Gertie Selma Selland
Sources
15

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as Gertie Selma Selland's father — her confirmation entry of 21 July 1918, read from the image, gives her parents as “Mons og Julia Selland” S813, and the church register of her 1925 marriage names them “M. T. Selland & Julia” S774
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Birth1868
Born 9 May 1868 and baptised 21 June 1868 at Røldal, Hordaland, Norway, son of Thore Thoresen (Tore Toreson) Selland and Ingeborg Ivarsdatter, who now have cards of their own S74; entered in the Røldal out-migration register in 1889 as “Mons Thorsen Selland, 1868”, bound for “Dakota, Amerika” S75
Death1964
Died: not on any record read. The family tree's 10 November 1964 has no source and is not published here as fact
Record1903
FamilySearch agrees: the South Dakota birth index gives Gertie Selland, born 1 October 1903 in Deuel County, parents Mons Selland and Julia Lone S819; a Lutheran baptism index has Gerty Selma baptised 15 November 1903 in Deuel County, parents Mons and Julie Selland S820; and the 1910 census index for Brandt, Deuel County, has Selma in the household of Mons and Julia Selland S821
Census1910
🆕 The 1910 census at Brandt Township gives his immigration year 1889, the year of his Røldal out-migration entry, and shows him married 11 years, farming land he owned free of mortgage, with Julia and five children Confirmed S951. By 1920 there were two more children, George and Myrtle S952. added 29 September 2026
Census1920
🆕 The later censuses at Brandt Township: in 1920, 51, owning his farm with a mortgage, immigrated 1889, naturalized 1914, with Julia and their daughter Ida C., 19 Confirmed S989; in 1930, 61, first married at 32, with Julia, Oscar, George, Myrtle and the widowed Ida Gustavson and her three small daughters S990; in 1940, as Monse, 71, on a farm worth $800 with Oscar and George S991; and in April 1950, as Mons T., 82, still farming with Julia, 80, and Oscar, 41 S992. added 29 September 2026
Census1875
🆕 In the 1875 Norwegian census he is Mons Thorsen, born 1868, at home in Røldal with his parents Thore Thorsen and Engeborg Iversdatter, a brother Anders and two sisters named Engeborg Confirmed S1100
Census1900
🆕 In the 1900 census at Brandt Township he is 32, born May 1868 in Norway, married one year, immigrated 1889 and already naturalized, farming his own mortgaged farm, with Julia, 30, and their daughter Ida C., born April 1900 Confirmed S1128. The 1920 census’s naturalization year of 1914 does not fit this.

Family

Children
Father of Gertie Selma Selland and of her brother Andreas Selland, confirmed on the same register page S813. Husband of Julia (Lone) Selland

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Julius Franz Kretschmar

TexasConfirmed

Kristin's 2nd great-grandfather · 1851–1946

Born
21 June 1851
Died
27 July 1946
Children
Willie Frank "Will" Kretschmar, Max W. Kretschmar
Sources
6
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Birth1851
Born 21 June 1851, Germany (Texas death certificate no. 34138)
Death1946
Died 27 July 1946, Brackenridge Hospital, Austin (Texas death certificate no. 34138; informant his son Will). An earlier version of this card said 1868–1940, from a user tree; the certificate and his ages in 1900 (48) and 1940 (88) rule that out
Note
German-Texan line, Del Valle, Travis County, Texas S12
Census1900
In 1900, as Fritz, 48, immigrated 1883, with Lena and eight children including Willie S228; in 1940, aged 88 and widowed, in his son Max's household S230
Arrival1883
🆕 Arrived at Baltimore on 10 October 1883 on the steamship America from Bremen, as Franz Kretschman, 32, farmer, bound for Texas, with Lina and their three daughters S380; added 24 September 2026.
Census1910
🆕 In 1910 he was enumerated as Frank Kredeschmar, 58, naturalized, farming his own land free of debt in Justice Precinct 6, Travis County, with his children Thera(?), Charlie, Minnie and Max. His wife was not in the house that day S433. In June 1919 his son Max W. Kretschmar, a private first class in the 250th Company Military Police, sailed home from Bordeaux on the Santa Rosa. The list named “Mr. Frank Kretschmar, father, R.F.D. #2, Delvale, Texas” as next of kin S434. added 25 September 2026.

Family

Children
Father of Willie Frank "Will" Kretschmar, grandfather of Lucille Lorine Kretschmar S12
Children1894
🆕 Father of Max W. Kretschmar (1894–1981), who named him as next of kin in 1919 S434 and in whose household he lived in 1940 S230

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  • An earlier version of this card said 1868–1940, from a user tree; the certificate and his ages in 1900 (48) and 1940 (88) rule that out Father of Willie Frank "Will" Kretschmar, grandfather of Lucille Lorine Kretschmar S12 German-Texan line, Del Valle, Travis County, Texas S12 In 1900, as Fritz, 48, immigrated 1883, with Lena and eight children including Willie S228; in 1940, aged 88 and widowed, in his son Max's household S230 🆕 Arrived at Baltimore on 10 October 1883 on the steamship America from Bremen, as Franz Kretschman, 32, farmer, bound for Texas, with Lina and their three daughters S380; added 24 September 2026.

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Otto Paul Ladusch

Confirmed

Kristin's 2nd great-grandfather · 1873–1958

Born
30 March 1873, Germany
Died
26 December 1958
Buried
Oakwood Cemetery
Parents
Traugott Ladusch & Johanna Sille (Selle)
Married
Emma Stein
Children
Hattie Elizabeth "Liessi" Ladusch
Sources
9
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Birth1873
Born 30 March 1873, Germany; came to the United States in 1883, aged about ten S325S327
Census1900
In 1900, Austin Ward 10: Otto 26, married five years, with Emma and daughters Frieda, 3 and Elizabeth, 2 S327; in 1910 at 1617 Willow Street, Austin, with Freda 13 and “Liccie” 11 S328
Death1958
Died 26 December 1958 at Seton Hospital, Austin, Travis County, Texas; buried Oakwood Cemetery, Austin S325
Death
His death certificate gives his parents as “no record” S325, and he is not listed among Traugott Ladusch's children on Find a Grave S336
Record1958
🆕 The Texas death index for 1958 lists him as Otto Ladusch, Travis County, 26 December, state file 72008 Confirmed S1005. added 29 September 2026

Family

Marriage1895
Married Emma Stein on 5 November 1895, Austin S329; see Emma Stein Ladusch
Children
Father of Hattie Elizabeth “Liessi” Ladusch, mother of Lucille Lorine Kretschmar S327S328S264
Parents1873
🆕 His father: probably Traugott Ladusch Probable confirm or correct →. His own Social Security application, as indexed twice, names his father as Traugott Ladusch and gives his birth as 30 March 1873, the same day as his death certificate S851S325. What is weak: it is an index of one document, with no image read, and it conflicts with the certificate's “no record” and the Find a Grave child list above. added 28 September 2026.
Parents1945
🆕 His mother: probably Johanna Sille (Selle) Probable confirm or correct →, named as Traugott Ladusek's wife on the 1945 death certificate of Pauline Wenzel, born in Germany in 1866 S850. What is weak: no document names Otto's mother; the Social Security index leaves her as “?” S851. added 28 September 2026.

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Emma Stein Ladusch

Confirmed

Kristin's 2nd great-grandmother · 1875–1952

Born
21 March 1875, Texas
Died
30 March 1952, Austin
Buried
Oakwood Cemetery
Married
Otto Paul Ladusch
Children
Hattie Elizabeth "Liessi" Ladusch
Sources
5
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Birth1875
Born 21 March 1875, Texas; her father Henry Stein S326
Census1900
In 1900 she had borne two children, both living: Frieda, 3 and Elizabeth, 2 S327; in 1910 at 1617 Willow Street, Austin, with Freda 13 and “Liccie” 11 S328
Death1952
Died 30 March 1952, Austin; buried Oakwood Cemetery. Her husband Otto was the informant S326
Census1880
🆕 In June 1880, aged 5, she was at home in Austin County as the daughter of Henry Stein, with her grandfather Dietrick Stein, 68, born Saxe-Weimar Confirmed S919. added 28 September 2026.

Family

Marriage1895
Married Otto Paul Ladusch on 5 November 1895, Austin S329
Children
Mother of Hattie Elizabeth “Liessi” Ladusch S327S328

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Susan (Voshery) Waldon

Probable

Probable mother of Alice Walden · born about 1846

Born
about 1846
Sources
6

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. In the 1870 census of Dallas County, Texas, read from the image, Susan, 24, keeping house, born Texas, is in William Waldon's household with Alice R., 3 S801, and a Texas marriage index has Susan Voshery marrying William M. Walden on 23 December 1866 in San Augustine County, nine months before Alice was born S852. What is weak: the census states no relationships, Alice's own death certificate gives her mother as “Unknown” S781, and the marriage and the maiden name rest on an index only Probable confirm or correct →
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Evidence: In the 1870 Dallas County census, read from the image, Susan, 24, is in William Waldon's household with Alice R., 3; a Texas marriage index has Susan Voshery marrying William M. Walden on 23 December 1866, nine months before Alice's birth. Weak or missing: The census states no relationships, Alice's own death certificate gives her mother as 'Unknown', and the marriage and maiden name rest on an index only. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1846
Born about 1846, Texas, by her 1870 age S801. Indexes of the 1850 and 1860 San Augustine County censuses list a Susan Voshury or Voschery, aged 5 and 14; they have not been read. An online tree's spelling “Voshay” and its death in 1870 are unsupported: she was alive on 28 September 1870

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Probable
Probable mother of Alice Walden; probable wife of William Mathis Waldon, Alice's father by her death certificate and the 1880 census S916 S781
Probable
🆕 Probably her in 1850: Susan, 5, born Texas, in the San Augustine County household of John Voshary, 40, with Mary, 26, born Tennessee, Nancy, 12, Anthony, 8, Greenbury, 3, and John, 2 months Probable confirm or correct → S1002. Evidence: the surname, her age, and the county of her 1866 marriage S852. Weak: 1850 states no relationships, and Mary is too young to be Nancy's mother, so John is her probable father but her mother is not known. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
Probable
🆕 Probably her in 1860: Susan, 14, born Texas, in the San Augustine household of John Voshery, 50, a farmer born Mississippi, and Mary, 35, born Tennessee, with Nancy, 22, Mary, 19, Anthony, 16, Greenberry, 11, John, 10, and Margaret, 6 Probable confirm or correct → S1070. Evidence: the rare surname, her age, and the same household as 1850 S1002, ten years on. Weak: the census states no relationships, and Mary, 35, is too young to be Nancy’s mother, so John is her probable father but her mother is not known. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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Wm. Mathis Waldon

Confirmed

Father of Alice Walden · born about 1842, Missouri

Born
about 1842
Married
Susan (Voshery) Waldon
Children
Alice Walden
Sources
12

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as Alice Walden's father — her own 1958 Texas death certificate, read from the image, names her father as Wm. Mathis Waldon S781, and the 1880 census of Travis County, Texas, which states relationships and was read from the image, lists Alice, 13, at school, born Texas, her father born Missouri, as the daughter of William Waldrin, 37, a farmer born Missouri S916. Confirmed 28 September 2026
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Census1870
In 1870 William Waldon, 28, a farmer born Missouri, was in Precinct 1, Dallas County, with Susan, 24, and Alice R., 3 S801; FamilySearch's index of the same census agrees S918. That census states no relationships
Census1880
In 1880 his wife was P. P., 23, born Arkansas, and the household had John, 5, Edward M., 2, and Sarah, 4 months S916. Palistine Waldon, widow of Wm. Waldon, born 17 May 1857 in Arkansas, died at De Leon, Comanche County, on 23 April 1934; the informant was Mrs. S. A. Murdock of De Leon S917. Her age and birthplace fit the 1880 wife. This certificate is about his widow, not about Alice, and only supports the rest
Birth1842
Born about 1842 in Missouri, by his 1870 age; his 1880 age gives about 1843. The certificate spells the middle name Mathis; the family tree's “Mathias” and its birth on 22 February 1844 at Sarcoxie, Missouri, come from Find a Grave alone and are not published here as fact. He died 2 February 1920 in Fisher County, Texas, by his widow's sworn pension application S979; the town, Roby, is on his death certificate S1001
Census1900
🆕 In 1900 W. M. Waldon, 57, born in February 1843 in Missouri, farmed his own land at Johnson City, Blanco County, Texas, with his wife P. P., 43, born in Arkansas; they had been married 26 years, which points to a marriage about 1874 (worked out from the census, not a recorded date) Confirmed S972. added 29 September 2026
Death1920
🆕 His widow, Prissila Waldon, 63, born in Polk County, Arkansas, applied for a Texas Confederate widow's pension at Girard, Kent County, on 31 March 1920. She swore that William Mathewis Waldon died 2 February 1920 in Fisher County, Texas, and that he had drawn Texas Confederate pension no. 9421 Confirmed S979. She also swore that they married on 18 July 1894 in Scott County, Arkansas Probable confirm or correct →. Evidence: her sworn statement. Weak: P. P. was already his wife in 1880 S916 and the 1900 census says married 26 years S972, and no record read names Prissila as P. P. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
Death1920
🆕 His Texas death certificate, read from the image, names him W. M. Walton: he died at Roby, Fisher County, on 2 February 1920, aged 77 years 11 months, born 22 February 1842 in Missouri, married, farming, his father born in Tennessee, and was buried at Roby the same day Confirmed S1001. The certificate's 1842 agrees with his 1870 age; Find a Grave's 1844 does not. added 29 September 2026
Census1920
🆕 In January 1920 he was at Roby, Fisher County, aged 78, with his wife Paleshine, 65, and a granddaughter, Estelle Wells Confirmed S1040. added 29 September 2026
Census1850
🆕 In September 1850 he was William M., 8, at school, in the household of James Waldon, 48, a farmer born in South Carolina, and Joanna, 36, born in Kentucky, in Jackson Township, Jasper County, Missouri. He had sisters Susan C., Nancy A. and Rachel T. and a baby brother, John L. Confirmed S1120. This is the first record that names a father. Joanna’s age does not fit the 67 given in 1870, and his own later censuses give his father’s birthplace as Tennessee.
Census1910
🆕 In 1910 he was William Waldon, 67, a teamster in Mason County, Texas, in his second marriage, which had lasted 36 years. With him were his wife Phisilla, 53, born in Arkansas, mother of nine children with eight living, their sons Robert S. and Charles G., and Tempie P., 5 Confirmed S1121. Phisilla’s age and birthplace fit Palistine Waldon (born 1857, Arkansas). A marriage of about 1874 means Susan Voshery had died or left by then.

Family

Children1866
Father of Alice Walden. Probable husband of Susan (Voshery) Waldon Probable confirm or correct →: a Texas marriage index has William M. Walden marrying Susan Voshery on 23 December 1866 in San Augustine County S852. See the Owens & Walden line

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Generation 5 — relatives in this generation

Edward Raymond Piland

Probable

Probable father of Orbin Oliver Piland · married 1883

Born
12 January 1859
Died
2 July 1932
Married
Virginia Francis "Jennie" Montgomery
Children
Orbin Oliver Piland
Sources
8

Research status

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
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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 →

Life

Census1880
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 →
Death1932
🆕 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
Census1910
🆕 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
Record1932
🆕 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
Census1930
🆕 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

Family

Children1893
Father of Orbin Oliver Piland (1893–1929), whose daughter Alice Lorene married Thomas Osborn Caffey S911
Marriage1883
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

Open questions

Weak or missing
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

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Virginia Francis “Jennie” Montgomery

Probable

Probable mother of Orbin Oliver Piland · 1858–1927

Born
August 1858
Died
on 25 September 1927 near Buda, Hays County
Married
Edward Raymond Piland
Children
Orbin Oliver Piland
Sources
7

Research status

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
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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 →

Life

Birth1858
Born August 1858; died 1927, by the index of her death certificate S915
Census1858
🆕 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
Death1927
🆕 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

Family

Children1893
Mother of Orbin Oliver Piland (1893–1929), whose daughter Alice Lorene married Thomas Osborn Caffey S911
Marriage1883
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

Open questions

Weak or missing
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

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Dan Crutcher Logue

Probable

Probable father of Mabel Logue Piland · 1858–1939

Born
24 November 1858
Died
11 April 1939
Married
Virginia Alice Hamby
Children
Mabel Logue Piland, Leola Logue Piland, Victor Quillen Logue
Sources
13

Research status

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
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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 →

Life

Birth1858
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
Census1900
🆕 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
Census1880
🆕 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 →

Family

Children1895
Father of Mabel Logue Piland (1895–1961), wife of Orbin Oliver Piland and mother of Alice Lorene, who married Thomas Osborn Caffey S907S906
Marriage1890
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
Children1892
🆕 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 →
Children1902
🆕 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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Weak or missing
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
Probable
🆕 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

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Virginia Alice Hamby

Probable

Probable mother of Mabel Logue Piland · born 1867

Born
July 1867
Married
Dan Crutcher Logue
Children
Mabel Logue Piland, Leola Logue Piland, Victor Quillen Logue
Sources
9

Research status

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
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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 →

Life

Birth1867
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
Census1910
🆕 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
Death1950
🆕 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

Family

Children1895
Mother of Mabel Logue Piland (1895–1961), whose daughter Alice Lorene married Thomas Osborn Caffey S924S906
Marriage1890
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
Children1892
🆕 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 →
Children1902
🆕 Mother of Victor Quillen Logue (born 1902): his 1926 Los Angeles marriage record names his mother as Alice Hanby S1191

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Weak or missing
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

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James L. Montgomery

Confirmed

Brother of Virginia Francis Montgomery · 1866–1932

Born
28 December 1866
Died
at Victoria, Texas, on 8 February 1932
Parents
James P. Montgomery
Sources
4

Research status

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
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Birth1866
Born 28 December 1866 in Texas S1199
Death1932
Died at Victoria, Texas, on 8 February 1932 S1199

Family

Siblings
Brother of Virginia Francis “Jennie” Montgomery

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Weak or missing
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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Lula Gay Montgomery Piland

Confirmed

Sister of Virginia Francis Montgomery · 1871–1949

Born
15 August 1871
Died
in 1949 at Buda, Hays County, Texas
Parents
James P. Montgomery & Elenor Frances Bradford
Sources
3

Research status

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
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Birth1871
Born 15 August 1871 in DeWitt County, Texas S1198
Death1949
Died in 1949 at Buda, Hays County, Texas, as Lula Gay Piland S1198

Family

Siblings1880
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

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Weak or missing
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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Lena Kretschmar

Confirmed

Wife of Julius Franz Kretschmar · born 1855

Born
February 1855
Married
Julius Franz Kretschmar
Children
Max W. Kretschmar
Sources
6

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from the 1900 census, read from the image; entered in the family tree the same day.
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Birth1855
Born February 1855, Germany; in 1900, mother of eight children, all eight living S228
Arrival1883
🆕 Arrived at Baltimore on 10 October 1883 on the steamship America from Bremen, as Lina, 28, with her husband Franz and their daughters Elisabeth, Clara and Eliza S380; added 24 September 2026.
Death1967
🆕 Two of her daughters' death certificates give her maiden name: Lena Landrock (Clara, 1967) and “Lantrop” (Minnie, 1978) S473S474. added 25 September 2026.
Death1981
A third spelling, “Lena Landrum”, is on her son Max’s 1981 death certificate S1204

Family

Marriage1879
Wife of Julius Franz Kretschmar (“Fritz”), married about 1879; mother of Willie Frank Kretschmar
Names
Her maiden name was Landrock: two daughters' death certificates give it (see below)
Children1894
🆕 Mother of Max W. Kretschmar (1894–1981), one of her children in the 1900 household S228

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Probable
🆕 Probable mother of Lizzie Kretschmar Rojas Probable confirm or correct →. In 1900 Lizzie, born August 1879 in Germany, is “dau.” of the head, Fritz, and Lena is his wife, married 21 years, mother of eight children, all living S228. What is weak: the census relationship is to the head, not to Lena; Lizzie's naturalization puts her birth in August 1878, a little before the marriage of about 1879 S577, so she could be a stepdaughter, and no record names her mother. added 28 September 2026.

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Generation 6 — Kristin's 3rd-great-grandparents

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Charles Caffey

Confirmed

Father of Hooper Van Caffey · about 1789–1860

Born
about 1789
Died
in 1860
Parents
Mary Buchanan
Married
Nancy (Lewis) Caffey
Children
Hooper Van Caffey
Sources
9
Images
2

Research status

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
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Birth1789
Born about 1789, North Carolina; died in 1860, before 21 November, when his estate was appraised in Montgomery County, Alabama S663
Record1811
🆕 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.
Census1830
🆕 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.
Census1860
🆕 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.
Census1840
🆕 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.

Family

Children
Father of Hooper Van Caffey; husband of Nancy (Lewis) Caffey
Children1868
🆕 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.
Parents1923
🆕 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.
Marriage1868
🆕 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.

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Probable
🆕 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.

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Nancy (Lewis) Caffey

Probable

Mother of Hooper Van Caffey · born about 1791

Born
about 1791
Sources
4

Research status

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
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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 →

Life

Birth1791
Born about 1791, North Carolina; death not yet found
Census1866
🆕 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.
Census1840
🆕 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.

Family

Marriage1811
🆕 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.

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Probable
Probable mother of Hooper Van Caffey; wife of Charles Caffey

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Charles Edgar Cleveland

Confirmed

Father of Melton Cleaveland · born about 1846

Born
about 1846
Died
Not found
Parents
Solomon Cleveland & Mary Malinda (Thompson) Elliott
Children
Melton Cleaveland, Anna J.
Sources
9

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as Melton's father — Melton's 1896 Nance County, Nebraska marriage register, read from the image, names his parents as C. E. Cleavland and V. J. Smith S463; the 1880 census of Penn Township, Cass County, Michigan has Chas., 34, and Janette, 36, with Milton, 6, born in California S465; and Melton's 1939 death certificate names his father as Charles E., born in Michigan S464. The full given names come from the printed Descendants of Moses Cleveland, p.1939 S467
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Birth1846
Born about 1846, Michigan. Married Victoria Janette Smith; the printed genealogy gives the wedding as 11 April 1866 at Rives, Michigan, a date no record has yet confirmed
Death
Death not yet found
Census1860
🆕 In July 1860 Chas. Cleveland, 15, born in Michigan, was at school and living in the household of Horace Hastings, a farmer, in Newberg Township, Cass County, Michigan (P.O. Vandalia) Confirmed S1155. His father had died in 1845. The census states no relationship.

Family

Children
Father of Melton Cleaveland, and so great-grandfather of Nettie Ellen Cleveland
Children1894
🆕 His daughter Anna J., 25, born in Michigan and entered as “Mrs Anna J. Hoit” (the surname is hard to read), married Frank Hodges, 54, born in New York, at Belgrade, Nance County, Nebraska, on 18 April 1894. The register names her father as Charles Cleavland, and the witnesses were her brother Milton Cleavland and Lottie Cleavland S706. She is the Anna J., 11, of the 1880 household S465, and the record puts the family in Nance County two years before Milton's own wedding there S463. added 26 September 2026.
Parents1845
🆕 His parents: Solomon Cleveland, who died in California township, Branch County, Michigan, on 22 October 1845, and Mary Malinda (Thompson) Elliott, a widow when she married him in New York in 1834 Probable confirm or correct →. The printed Cleveland genealogy enters Solomon on p. 1438 S822 and numbers Charles Edgar as his son on p. 1939 S467, and a FamilySearch index of a Nebraska marriage of Charles E. Cleveland, born 1846, names his parents Solomen Cleveland and Mary Thompson S823. What is weak: a compiled book and an index with no image; no original record naming his parents has been read. added 28 September 2026.
Children1869
🆕 The Cass County birth register enters his daughter Anna J. Cleveland, born at Marcellus on 22 March 1869, to Charles Cleveland, born in Michigan, and Jennet, born in Ohio, farmer, of Marcellus Confirmed S1129. The printed genealogy gives 21 March; the register is followed.

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Victoria Janette Smith

Confirmed

Mother of Melton Cleaveland · born about 1844

Born
about 1844
Died
Not found
Married
Charles Edgar Cleveland
Children
Melton Cleaveland
Sources
5

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as Melton's mother — his 1896 marriage register names her V. J. Smith S463, and she is Janette, 36, in the family's 1880 Cass County, Michigan census S465. Her full name and 19 March 1844 birth come from the printed Descendants of Moses Cleveland S467
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Birth1844
Born about 1844, Ohio (Wood County, per Melton's death certificate S464). Her parents, from the printed genealogy only: Jeremiah Smith and Patience Kittle Probable confirm or correct →
Death
Death not yet found
Census1860
🆕 In 1860 a V., 16, born in Ohio, was in J. Smith's household at Leroy, Ingham County, Michigan; he was 54 and born in New York S713. It is the first record made in her lifetime that puts a girl of her age in Jeremiah Smith's home Probable confirm or correct →, but it gives initials only and states no relationships. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Children
Mother of Melton Cleaveland; wife of Charles Edgar Cleveland

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Clifford Warner

Confirmed

Father of Maude Melville Warner

Born
Not found
Died
Not found
Parents
John Warner & Marancy Warner
Children
Maude Melville Warner
Sources
10

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — named as Maud Warner's father in her 4 February 1896 marriage entry in the Nance County, Nebraska register, read from the image S463. Her mother's name is left blank on the page
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Birth
Birth, marriage and death dates not yet found; his wife was probably Ella Shreckengost (below)
Record1908
🆕 Two records of his children name Clifford Warner's wife as Ella Shreckengost: the 22 April 1908 Butler County marriage of his daughter Dessa Warner, born in Greeley County, Nebraska S682, and the 1956 Spokane death certificate of his son Claude Dee Warner, born in Nebraska on 24 May 1884 S683. Probable confirm or correct → Evidence: both records name Clifford Warner and Ella Shreckengost, and Greeley County borders Nance County, where Maud married in 1896. What is weak: Maud's own marriage entry leaves her mother blank, so that this Clifford is Maud's father rests on the name and the neighbouring county, not on a record naming them together. If you know more, use “Add to this record”. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Children
Father of Maude Melville Warner, and so great-grandfather of Nettie Ellen Cleveland
Parents1858
🆕 His parents: John Warner, a miller at Winslow, Stephenson County, Illinois, who died in 1858, and Marancy Warner Probable confirm or correct →. In 1870 Clifford, 19, born in Illinois, lived at Winslow with the widow Marancy Warner, 46 S828; she had married John Warner in Stephenson County in 1841 S825, and John was at Winslow with her in 1850 S826. In 1880, at Cedar Precinct, Boone County, Nebraska, Clifford, 28, farmer, gives his father's birthplace as New York S824. What is weak: no record names Clifford's parents; the 1870 census has no relationship column, and in 1880 he gives his mother's birthplace as Massachusetts, where Marancy said New York. added 28 September 2026.
Marriage1900
🆕 His wife Ella was married, not widowed, in the 1900 census of Rising City, Butler County, Nebraska Confirmed S977, and a widow in the 1910 census there Confirmed S978, so Clifford probably died before April 1910. No death record for him has been read. added 29 September 2026

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Probable
🆕 Probably him in 1900: Cliff Warner, 48, an Illinois native of April 1852 whose father was from Pennsylvania and mother from New York, a railroad labourer, married 23 years but with no wife in the household, was in Brayton Township, Greeley County, Nebraska, with his son Claude, 16, born May 1884 in Nebraska Probable confirm or correct → S1062. Evidence: Claude’s birth month and state match Claude Dee Warner’s S683, and Dessa was born in Greeley County S682. Weak: Ella is not named, and the 1880 census gave his mother’s birthplace as Massachusetts. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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Daniel Green Walker & Mary Jane Bross

Probable

Willie B. Walker's parents · he c. 1815–1873 · she 1830 – after 1900

Parents
John Bross & Jarrett Walker
Sources
10

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE as the parents of William B. “Willie B.” Walker (1857–1914), husband of Nancy Jane Higginbotham Probable confirm or correct →. Evidence: Willie's own 1914 death certificate names his parents as Daniel Walker and Mary J. Brass (or Bross) S787; in 1900 his mother Mary J. Daniels, 69, lived with him in Jackson County, Texas S808; and his brother Edgar's 1941 certificate names Daniel Green Walker and Mary Jane Bross and gives Edgar's birth in California in 1861 S809. What is weak: Willie's certificate was informed by his widow and gives only “Daniel Walker”, without the Green; the 1900 link rests on the mother's remarried surname and a California birth; and the records disagree on birthplaces (Alabama for both parents on Willie's certificate and 1900 census, California on Edgar's, Louisiana for Mary in 1880). Approved by Earl 27 September 2026.
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Evidence: Willie B. Walker's own 1914 death certificate names his parents as Daniel Walker and Mary J. Brass or Bross; in 1900 his mother, Mary J. Daniels, 69, lived in his household; his brother Edgar's 1941 certificate names Daniel Green Walker and Mary Jane Bross. Weak or missing: Willie's certificate was informed by his widow and omits "Green"; the 1900 link rests on the mother's remarried surname and a California birth; the records disagree on birthplaces; Daniel Green's dates come from an online tree, and by July 1870 Mary Jane was already in David Dannel's household in Louisiana, which does not fit a remarriage after a death in 1873. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Census1870
🆕 Mary Jane married again, and earlier than the family tree allows: on 25 July 1870 M. J., 40, born Alabama, keeping house, was in the household of David Dannel, 70, a farmer born Louisiana, at Ward 6, Bossier Parish, Louisiana (P.O. Cotton Valley), with Andrew Dannel, 24, and three Walker boys: Tom, 20, born Mississippi, and Wallice, 14, and Edgar, 10, both born California Probable confirm or correct → S1079. Evidence: her age and Alabama birth, Edgar’s California birth, and the Dannels and Daniels surname she carries in 1880 and 1900. Weak: the census states no relationships, so David is only probably her second husband. Since she was in Louisiana by 1870, the family tree’s death of Daniel Green in California on 14 July 1873 cannot have come before her remarriage: either the couple had parted before 1870, or that death belongs to another Daniel Walker. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 30 September 2026
Census1880
In 1880 she was Mary Dannels, 50, a widow in Angelina County, Texas, with her son Edgar, 18 S809, and in 1900 Mary J. Daniels, “Mother”, born June 1830 in Alabama, a widow and the mother of three children, in Willie B. Walker's household S808.
Death1815
Daniel Green's birth about 1815 in South Carolina and his death on 14 July 1873 at Columbia, Tuolumne County, California, come from an online family tree, not a record. Willie's certificate gives Willie's own birth at Columbia, California, in April 1857 S787, which fits.
Census1850
🆕 In 1850 the couple, Daniel Walker, 35, born South Carolina, and Mary, 19, born Alabama, with sons John, 2½, and an infant, lived in the Noxubee County, Mississippi, household of the postmaster John Bross S845; a Mississippi marriage index has Daniel Walker marrying Mary Bross S846. added 28 September 2026.

Family

Parents1850
🆕 Her father: probably John Bross Probable confirm or correct →, 49, born South Carolina, whose household she and Daniel shared in 1850 with Matilda Bross, 43 S845. What is weak: the census states no relationships. added 28 September 2026.
Parents1824
🆕 His father: probably Jarrett Walker Probable confirm or correct →, of Union District, South Carolina, whose will of 13 September 1824 names a son Daniel Walker among his children still under age S847. What is weak: nothing yet ties this Daniel to Union District
no middle name, deed or estate division — and Daniel Walker is a common name in South Carolina. The online tree's further step to Thomas Walker of Lunenburg County, Virginia, is still unsupported. See the Walker line. added 28 September 2026.

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Probable
🆕 Probably Daniel Green in California: in July 1860 Danl Walker, 45, a miner born South Carolina, was at Columbia, Tuolumne County Probable confirm or correct → S1067, and in July 1870 Daniel Walker, 56, a miner born South Carolina, was still at Columbia S1068. Evidence: age and birthplace agree with 1850 S845, and Columbia is where the family tree puts his death in 1873. Weak: he is alone with other miners in both years, and nothing on either page names his wife or children. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
Probable
🆕 Probably Mary Jane in 1860, with the boys, while Daniel was in California: M. J. Walker, 30, a farmer born Mississippi, headed her own household at Ward 3, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana (P.O. Wiseville), with J. T., 12, D. G., 10, W. B., 6, and E. G., 1, next door to John Bross, 35, born South Carolina, and M. R. Bross, 65 Probable confirm or correct → S1071. Evidence: her age, the sons J. T. and the infant of 1850 S845, and the Bross family next door. Weak: initials only, no relationships stated, and Mississippi rather than the Alabama of 1850 S845. W. B., 6, born Mississippi about 1854, does not agree with the 11 April 1857 California birth on Willie’s death certificate S787, so that date is left as it is. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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Ella (Shreckengost) Warner

Probable

Probable mother of Maude Melville Warner

Born
about 1858
Sources
8

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. The 1880 census of Cedar Precinct, Boone County, Nebraska, read from the image, lists Clifford Warner, 28, his wife Ella, 22, born in Illinois, and their daughter Maud, born in Nebraska, whose parents are both entered as born in Illinois S824; the 1908 marriage of Clifford's daughter Dessa S682 and the 1956 death certificate of his son Claude Dee S683 give his wife as Ella Shreckengost. What is weak: the census gives Ella's relationship to Clifford, not to Maud; Maud's own 1896 marriage entry leaves her mother blank S463; and the maiden name rests on the records of Maud's brother and sister
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Evidence: The 1880 census of Boone County, Nebraska lists Clifford Warner's wife Ella, 22, born Illinois, with their daughter Maud, whose parents are both entered as Illinois-born; Clifford's children Dessa (1908 marriage) and Claude Dee (1956 death certificate) give his wife as Ella Shreckengost. Weak or missing: The census gives Ella's relationship to Clifford, not to Maud; Maud's own 1896 marriage entry leaves her mother blank; the middle name Andora and her birth and death dates are unsourced. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1858
Born about 1858 in Illinois (22 in June 1880), to parents both born in Pennsylvania S824
Record1857
The family tree's middle name “Andora”, birth on 12 October 1857 at Winslow, Stephenson County, Illinois, and death on 20 March 1940 at Schuyler, Colfax County, Nebraska, are not on any record read and are not published here as fact
Census1900
🆕 In 1900 Ella A. Warner, born in October 1858 in Illinois, married 24 years, mother of seven children, five living, rented at Rising City, Butler County, Nebraska, with Elsie B., Marion H. and Martha A. Confirmed S977. By April 1910 she was a widow, 52, still at Rising City with Marion and Martha; four of her seven children were living Confirmed S978. added 29 September 2026
Census1920
🆕 In January 1920 Ella A. Warner, 62, widowed, was living in Alexis Township, Butler County, Nebraska, with her daughter Martha M. and son-in-law Alden R. Moural Confirmed S1042. added 29 September 2026
Census1930
🆕 In April 1930, a widow of 72, she lived with her daughter Martha and son-in-law Alden R. Moural in Rogers precinct, Colfax County, Nebraska Confirmed S1090

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Probable
Probable mother of Maude Melville Warner. Wife of Clifford Warner. Named as mother of Dessa Warner, born in Greeley County, Nebraska S682, and of Claude Dee Warner, born in Nebraska on 24 May 1884 S683

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Lucinda C. (Avery) Higginbotham

Confirmed

Mother of Nancy Jane Higginbotham Walker · born about 1830

Born
about 1830
Children
Nancy Jane Higginbotham Walker
Sources
6

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as Nancy Jane Higginbotham Walker's mother — in the 1880 census of Rockdale Beat, Randolph County, Alabama, read from the image, “N. J.” Higginbotham, 15, born Alabama, is the daughter of the widowed head, L. Higginbotham, born South Carolina S812, and Nancy Jane's 1953 death certificate gives her mother's maiden name as Avery S331. Her given name, Lucinda, comes from FamilySearch indexes of the 1870 and 1860 Randolph County censuses, which are independent of both the 1880 page and the certificate S841S842. Confirmed 28 September 2026.
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Birth1830
Born about 1830, South Carolina: 50 or 51 in 1880, born South Carolina to parents born there S812; the 1860 and 1870 indexes also give about 1830, South Carolina S841S842. An online tree's birth in 1827 at Anderson, South Carolina, and its death in 1890 “probably Alabama” are on no record read, and its spelling “Avary” is not the certificate's “Avery”
Census1870
🆕 In 1870, as Lucinda Higgenbotham, born about 1830 in South Carolina, she headed a household in Randolph County, Alabama, with Alexander, Benjamin and Nancy, by a FamilySearch index of that census S841. added 28 September 2026.
Census1860
🆕 In 1860 Lucinda C. Higinbothen, born about 1830 in South Carolina, was in the household of Wm H. Higginbothum, Northern Division, Randolph County, by a FamilySearch index of that census S842. Her husband is not settled: Nancy Jane's certificate names her father as Robert Higginbotham S331, and by 1880 Lucinda was a widow S812. Both census pages have since been read from the images S842S960. added 28 September 2026.
Census1870
🆕 The 1870 census image confirms the index: Lucinda Higginbotham, 40, keeping house, with a personal estate of $300, born South Carolina, with Alexander, Benjamin and Nancy, 6, at Township 19, Randolph County (post office Wedowee), on 10 June 1870 Confirmed S960. added 29 September 2026
Census1860
🆕 The 1860 census image confirms the index: Lucinda C., 30, a seamstress, born South Carolina, at Rockdale, Randolph County, with Wm H. Higginbotham, 35, farmer, born Georgia, and six boys, J. F. M., 12, born South Carolina, and C. C., R. L., Alexr, B. D. and E. H., born Alabama Confirmed S842. Wm H. as her husband Probable confirm or correct →: Evidence: she is listed in the wife's place after him. Weak: the 1860 census states no relationships, and Nancy Jane's certificate names her father Robert S331. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
Census1850
🆕 In 1850, as Lucinda C. Higginbotham, 21, she was in the Beat 7, Randolph County, household of Wm Higginbotham, 25, farmer, born Georgia, with John, 2, and C. C., 1 Confirmed S995. Wm as her husband is now in two censuses, 1850 and 1860 Probable confirm or correct → S995S842. Weak: neither census states relationships, and Nancy Jane's certificate names her father Robert S331. The 1850 page gives her birthplace as Georgia only by a ditto mark; South Carolina, from three later censuses, is kept. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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Children1864
Mother of Nancy Jane Higginbotham Walker (1864–1953)

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Armenia Howard

Confirmed

Grandmother of Benjamin LaRoy “Pete” Peters Sr · mother of Edna B. Orsborn

Born
about 1848
Married
John W. Orsborn
Children
Edna B. Orsborn, Minnie
Sources
9

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as Edna B. Orsborn's mother — her daughter's 1903 Franklin County, Iowa return of marriages, read from the image, gives the bride's mother's maiden name as Armenia Howard S791
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Birth1848
Born about 1848, probably in Indiana, if she is the “Minnie” of the 1870, 1880 and 1900 censuses (below). Her death has not been read from a record. The family tree's middle initial “J.” comes only from an Illinois marriage index that has not been read
Record1870
FamilySearch agrees: Edna's Iowa county marriage index entry names her mother Armenia Howard S817, and so does the marriage of her son Stephen Wood Orsborn, born 1870 in Hamilton County, Ohio S818
Census1880
🆕 In 1880 Jno. W. Osborn's wife at Greendale, Dearborn County, Indiana, was Minnie, 32, born Indiana, with their son Stephen, 9, born Ohio Probable confirm or correct → S980; in 1870 John Osborn, 22, and Minnie, 22, born Indiana, were in Miller Township, Dearborn County, with Charles, five months old, born in January 1870, who is not in the 1880 household and probably died young Probable confirm or correct → S981. Evidence: John W., the son Stephen and Lawrenceburg, Edna's birthplace, tie the 1880 household to her. Weak: no record read names her both Minnie and Armenia. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
Death1910
🆕 She had probably died by 1910: that April a John Osborn, 61, born Ohio, at Lawrenceburg Township, Dearborn County, had a second wife, Margaret, 56, who had borne no children, and a son Charles, 15, born Illinois to an Indiana-born mother Probable confirm or correct → S1054. Evidence: John’s name, age and birthplace and the Lawrenceburg address. Weak: nothing names Armenia or gives a death date or place, so her death stays unrecorded. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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Children1903
Mother of Edna B. Orsborn, born at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, who married Benjamin Peters at Alexander, Iowa, on 1 April 1903 S791; and so grandmother of Benjamin LaRoy “Pete” Peters Sr.. Wife of John W. Orsborn. See the Peters–Hermann line
Children1871
🆕 Her son Stephen Wood Orsborne, born 16 February 1871 in Ohio, died at Hampton, Iowa, on 9 January 1925; his death certificate names his parents as John Wood Orsborne and Armenia Howard Confirmed S973. It gives her birthplace as Ohio; the census below says Indiana. In 1900 John Orsborn's wife in Yates Township, McLean County, Illinois, was Minnie, born in April 1848 in Indiana, married 30 years, mother of eight children, six living Probable confirm or correct → S974. Evidence: her husband's name, the 1848 ages, the 1870 marriage and the Orsborn spelling fit. Weak: the census never gives her full name, and no record read names her both Minnie and Armenia. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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Probable
🆕 Probably her in 1860: Arimena Howard, 12, born Indiana, in the household of J.(?) W. Howard, 38, a boatman, and Margaret, 39, at Randolph Township, Ohio County, Indiana (P.O. Rising Sun), with seven brothers and sisters Probable confirm or correct → S1069. Evidence: the rare name, an age that fits her birth about 1848, and Ohio County next to Dearborn County, where Edna was born. Weak: the census states no relationships, and nothing on the page links her to John W. Orsborn, so J. W. and Margaret are only probably her parents. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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John Peters

Confirmed

Grandfather of Benjamin LaRoy “Pete” Peters Sr · father of Benjamin Peters (1881–1957)

Born
Not found
Died
Not found
Married
Sophia Hermann
Children
Benjamin Peters, Louis Peters, Frank Peters
Sources
8

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as Benjamin Peters's father — Benjamin's 1903 Franklin County, Iowa return of marriages, read from the image, names the groom's parents as John Peters and Sophia Hermann S791, and Benjamin's 1957 Iowa death certificate, also read from the image, names his father John Peters and his mother Sophia Herman S785
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Birth1834
Born and died: not on any record read. The fuller name “John Charles (Schumacher) Peters”, a birth on 26 October 1834 in Mecklenburg and a death on 30 January 1902 come from the family tree. The 1834 date belongs to a Mecklenburg baptism of Karl Johann Joachim Christian Friedrich Peters that no record read ties to this man, and the death date has no source. None of them is published here as fact
Record1834
FamilySearch agrees: its index of the same county marriage register, and a birth index entry for one of Benjamin's brothers or sisters, name the father John Peters S816. FamilySearch has nothing tying him to the 1834 Mecklenburg baptism
Census1884
🆕 In March 1884 he was farming in Fairfield Township, Grundy County, Iowa, where his wife Sophia, née Herman(n), 41, had their fifth child, an unnamed son born on 12 March; both parents were born in Germany Confirmed S998. added 29 September 2026
Census1885
🆕 In the 1885 Iowa census of Grundy County, read from the image, John Peters, 50, and Sophia, 41, both natives of Germany, head a household with eight children: William, 20, and Frank, 19, natives of New York; Charlie, 16, of Black Hawk County; Fred, 12; Louie, 10; Sarah, 8; John, 6; and Ben, 3, of Grundy County Confirmed S1010. Two New York-born sons put the family in America by 1865.

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Children1881
Father of Benjamin Peters (born at Cedar Falls, Iowa, on 12 December 1881; he died at Sioux Rapids on 19 January 1957), who married Edna B. Orsborn at Alexander, Franklin County, Iowa, on 1 April 1903 S791; and so grandfather of Benjamin LaRoy “Pete” Peters Sr.. Husband of Sophia Hermann. See the Peters–Hermann line
Children1896
🆕 Father of Louis Peters: Louis's 1896 Franklin County marriage return, read from the image, gives him as 23, a farmer of Alexander, a native of Cedar Falls, Iowa, and names his parents as John Peters and Sophie Herman. He married Carrie Augusta Latham at Alexander on 22 October 1896 Confirmed S1008.
Children1866
🆕 Father of Frank Peters (12 October 1866, New York – 2 September 1931, Alexander), husband of Addie and a farmer at Alexander for 25 years: Frank's death certificate, read from the image, names his father John Peters, a native of Germany Confirmed S1009. added 29 September 2026

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Probable
🆕 Probably him: in 1900 Johan Peters, 65, born in Germany in October 1834, owned his house in Scott Township, Franklin County, Iowa, with his wife Sophia, 56; both came in 1861 and had been married 38 years. John, 22, Saraha, 23, and a grandson, Wesley, 2, were with them Probable confirm or correct → S985. Evidence: the name pair, the German births and Franklin County, where Benjamin married in 1903 S791. Weak: Benjamin is not in this household, and the census does not name him. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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John W. Orsborn

Confirmed

Grandfather of Benjamin LaRoy “Pete” Peters Sr · father of Edna B. Orsborn

Born
June 1848
Parents
Stephen Osborn & Martha J. Heron
Married
Armenia Howard
Children
Edna B. Orsborn
Sources
11

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as Edna B. Orsborn's father — her own 1903 Franklin County, Iowa return of marriages, read from the image, names the bride's father as John W. Orsborn and her mother's maiden name as Armenia Howard S791
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Census
The return spells the surname Orsborn; the family tree spells it Osborn
Birth1848
Born in June 1848 in Ohio, by the 1900 census S974. His death has not been read from a record; the tree's death in 1938 has no source and is not published here as fact
Record1884
FamilySearch agrees: its Iowa county marriages index gives Edna B. Orsborn, born 1884 at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, with parents John W. Orsborn and Armenia Howard S817, and the marriage of Stephen Wood Orsborn, born 1870 in Hamilton County, Ohio, names his parents as John Orsborn and Armenia Howard S818
Census1900
🆕 In 1900 John Orsborn, born in June 1848 in Ohio, lived in Yates Township, McLean County, Illinois, with his wife Minnie, born April 1848 in Indiana; they had been married 30 years Confirmed S974. His son Stephen Wood Orsborne's 1925 Iowa death certificate names his parents as John Wood Orsborne, born Ohio, and Armenia Howard; the middle name Wood is on that certificate alone, given by Stephen's wife Confirmed S973. added 29 September 2026
Census1880
🆕 In 1880 Jno. W. Osborn, 32, a laborer born in Ohio, lived at Greendale, Dearborn County, Indiana, with his wife Minnie, 32, born Indiana, and their son Stephen, 9, born Ohio Confirmed S980. In 1870 a John Osborn, 22, laborer, born Ohio, was in Miller Township, Dearborn County, with Minnie, 22, and Charles, five months old, born in January 1870 Probable confirm or correct → S981. Evidence: the names, ages, birthplaces and county fit 1880. Weak: the 1870 census states no relationships. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
Census1860
🆕 The same family in 1860, probably: a John, 12, born Ohio, was in the household of Stephen Osborn, 38, farmer, and Jane, 31, in Whitewater Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, with a brother Stephen A., 1 Probable confirm or correct → S1048. Evidence: name, age, birthplace, and a township next to Dearborn County, Indiana. Weak: one census, no relationships stated, and the wife is Jane, not Martha. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
Census1850
🆕 Earlier still: in August 1850 a John, 2, was in the Miami Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, household of Stephen Osborn, 27, and Martha, 20, with a sister Mary, 4 months; an older John and Eliza Osborn, both 58, lived next door Confirmed S1053. That household is his parents’: the 1921 application names them S1075. added 29 September 2026

Family

Children1903
Father of Edna B. Orsborn, 19, born at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, who married Benjamin Peters at Alexander, Franklin County, Iowa, on 1 April 1903 S791; and so grandfather of Benjamin LaRoy “Pete” Peters Sr.. Husband of Armenia Howard. See the Peters–Hermann line
Parents1921
🆕 His parents are Confirmed: his own marriage-licence application, sworn at Dearborn County, Indiana, on 9 August 1921 for his third marriage, to Nannie Johnson, and read from the image, gives his birth as 1 June 1848 at Cleves, Ohio, and names his father Stephen Osborn, born Ohio, and his mother’s maiden name as Martha J. Heron Confirmed S1075. Both now have cards: Stephen Osborn and Martha J. Heron. added 30 September 2026

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Probable
🆕 Probably remarried: in April 1910 a John Osborn, 61, born Ohio, was at Lawrenceburg Township, Dearborn County, with a wife Margaret, 56, who had borne no children, and a son Charles, 15, born Illinois to an Indiana-born mother Probable confirm or correct → S1054. Evidence: name, age, Ohio birth and Lawrenceburg, Edna’s birthplace. Weak: the faint marital column is the only sign of a second marriage, and no record gives Armenia’s death. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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Sophia Herman

Confirmed

Grandmother of Benjamin LaRoy “Pete” Peters Sr · mother of Benjamin Peters (1881–1957)

Born
about 1843
Married
John Peters
Children
Benjamin Peters, Louis Peters, Frank Peters, Sarah Peters
Sources
10

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as Benjamin Peters's mother — Benjamin's 1957 Iowa death certificate, read from the image, gives his mother's maiden name as Sophia Herman S785, and his 1903 Franklin County, Iowa return of marriages, also read from the image, names the groom's parents as John Peters and Sophia Hermann S791. Confirmed 28 September 2026
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Death1843
The death certificate spells her surname Herman, the marriage return Hermann. Born about 1843, in Germany, by her age, 41, on the 1884 birth return S998; her death is not on any record read. The family tree's birth in July 1843 and death about 1900 have no source, and neither is published here as fact
Record1884
FamilySearch agrees: its index of the Franklin County marriage register names Benjamin's parents as John Peters and Sophia Hermann, and a birth index entry for one of Benjamin's brothers or sisters, born 1884, names the parents John Peters and Sophia Herman Peters S816. These are index entries, not images
Census1885
🆕 In the 1885 Iowa census of Grundy County, read from the image, John Peters, 50, and Sophia, 41, both natives of Germany, head a household with eight children, among them Frank, 19, Louie, 10, and Ben, 3 Confirmed S1010. Her age of 41 agrees with the 1900 census's July 1843 S985.
Census1880
🆕 In 1880 the family was at Cedar Falls, Black Hawk County: Sophia, 36, born Prussia, with William, 16, Frank, 14, Mary, 12, Charles, 11, Fredrick, 6, Louis, 5, Sarah, 4, John, 2, and a baby girl born in May Confirmed S1130. The census writes her husband as Charles Peters, 40, a farmer born in Prussia, not John.

Family

Children1881
Mother of Benjamin Peters (born at Cedar Falls, Iowa, on 12 December 1881; he died at Sioux Rapids on 19 January 1957), who married Edna B. Orsborn at Alexander on 1 April 1903 S791; and so grandmother of Benjamin LaRoy “Pete” Peters Sr.. Wife of John Peters. See the Peters–Hermann line
Parents1884
🆕 The Grundy County, Iowa, return of births for 1884 records the birth of an unnamed son, her fifth child, on 12 March 1884 in Fairfield Township; the mother is Sophia Peters, née Herman(n), 41, born Germany, and the father John Peters, farmer, born Germany Confirmed S998. added 29 September 2026
Children1896
🆕 Mother of Louis Peters: his 1896 Franklin County marriage return, read from the image, names his parents as John Peters and Sophie Herman; he married Carrie Augusta Latham at Alexander on 22 October 1896 Confirmed S1008.
Children1866
🆕 Mother of Frank Peters (1866–1931): he is Frank, 19, a native of New York, in her 1885 household S1010. His death certificate gives his mother's maiden name only as “Not Known”, a native of Germany S1009. added 29 September 2026
Children1902
🆕 Her daughter Sarah Peters, 28, born at Cedar Falls, married Albert L. Ward at Hampton, Franklin County, on 15 October 1902; the return names her parents John Peters and Sophia Hermann Confirmed S1041. added 29 September 2026

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Probable
🆕 Probably her: in 1900 Sophia Peters, 56, born July 1843 in Germany, was the wife of Johan Peters in Scott Township, Franklin County, Iowa. Both came to the United States in 1861, they had been married 38 years, and she was the mother of 14 children, 7 living Probable confirm or correct → S985. Evidence: the name pair, the German births and Franklin County, where her son Benjamin married in 1903 S791. Weak: Benjamin is not in this household, and the census does not name him. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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Ingebjørg Ivarsdatter Selland

Confirmed

Mother of Mons Selland · 1831–1912, Røldal, Norway

Born
in 1831
Died
9 May 1912
Married
Tore Toreson Selland
Sources
8

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as the mother of Mons Selland. The Røldal baptism register for 1868, read from the image, names his parents as the farmer Thore Thoresen Selland and his wife Ingeborg Ivarsdatter S74; the emigrant Mons is tied to that entry by his exact birth date in the FamilySearch naturalization and death indexes S1078
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Birth1831
Born in 1831 at Sauda, by the Røldal burial register S77. The 1910 census gives her birth as 15 March 1831 S1111 and the 1847 banns her farm name as Hagerland S1112; the day 29 March and the farm name Aartun that online trees give her are not on any record read here
Death1912
Died 9 May 1912 at Selland and was buried on 18 May, four weeks before her husband, as Ingebjørg Ivarsdatter Selland S77
Census1875
🆕 In the census of 31 December 1875 she is Engeborg Iversdtr, 44 by her birth year of 1831, wife of Thore Thorsen in Røldal, with their son Mons, born 1868, and three more children: Anders, 1857, and two daughters both named Engeborg, born 1865 and 1873. The census gives her birthplace as Søvde, in Sands parish; her burial entry says Sauda Confirmed S1100
Census1847
🆕 The banns for her marriage to Thor Thorsen Selland were read in May 1847, when she was Ingeborg Ivarsdatter Hagerland, 16 Confirmed S1112. In the census of 1 December 1910 she is Ingeborg Selland, wife of Tore T. Selland, born 15 March 1831 Confirmed S1111
Census1865
🆕 In the census of 31 December 1865 she is Ingeborg Iversdatter, 35, born at Søvde in Sand parish, wife of Thore Thorsen in Røldal, with their sons Thore, 14, and Iver, 11 Confirmed S1126. In 1900 she is Ingeborg I. Selland, “the elder”, born 1831 at Søvde, living in Suldal with her husband Tore S1127. Both censuses give Søvde; her burial register gives Sauda.

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Marriage
Wife of Tore Toreson Selland. Mother of Mons Selland

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Tore Toreson Selland

Confirmed

Father of Mons Selland · 1820–1912, Røldal, Norway

Born
3 June 1820
Died
5 June 1912
Married
Ingebjørg Ivarsdatter Selland
Sources
11
Images
2

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as the father of Mons Selland. The Røldal baptism register for 1868, read from the image, enters Mons, born 9 May and baptised 21 June 1868, in wedlock, as the son of the farmer Thore Thoresen Selland and Ingeborg Ivarsdatter S74. FamilySearch’s South Dakota naturalization and Minnesota death indexes give the American Mons Selland the same exact birth date, 9 May 1868, with the patronymic Thorsen or Torson, so the Røldal child is Kristin’s ancestor S1078
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Birth1820
Born 3 June 1820 at Bakkene, a holding under the Selland farm in Røldal, Hordaland, and baptised 1 July 1820, son of the farmer Tore Monsen and Ingebor Ormsdatter, by the Røldal register of births S76. A second Thore born at Røldal in 1820, to Helje Hellegsen of Suve, is a different child. His parents have no card yet; they are named on the Selland line page
Death1912
Died 5 June 1912 at Selland and was buried on 12 June, aged 91, by the Røldal burial register S77. The clerk wrote his patronymic there as Ivarsson, his wife’s; the 1820 and 1868 baptisms make him Toreson, and the slip is recorded as a slip
Record1868
The registers spell him Thore Thoresen in 1868 and Tore in 1912; the farm name Selland travels with the address. The 4 June birth that circulates online is not on any record read; the register gives 3 June
Census1875
🆕 In the census of 31 December 1875 he is Thore Thorsen, born 1820, a farmer who owned his land and also worked as a building carpenter and smith, with his wife Engeborg, their son Mons and three other children Confirmed S1100
Census1910
🆕 In the census of 1 December 1910 he is Tore T. Selland, 90, a retired farmer living on his annuity at Selland, born 3 June 1820
the date of the 1820 baptism register — with his wife Ingeborg Confirmed S1111
Census1891
🆕 In the census of 1 January 1891 he is Tor Torsen, born 1820 at Røldal, married, the head of his household and a farmer who owned his land, enumerated in Suldal district with his wife Ingeborg Confirmed S1117
Census1865
🆕 In the census of 31 December 1865 he is Thore Thorsen, 46, a farmer and freeholder in Røldal, with his wife Ingeborg, 35, and their sons Thore, 14, and Iver, 11 Confirmed S1126. In the census of 3 December 1900 he is Tore T. Selland, born 1820 at Røldal, a farmer living on a farm annuity, in Suldal with his wife Ingeborg S1127.

Family

Marriage1889
Husband of Ingebjørg Ivarsdatter Selland. Father of Mons Selland, who left Røldal for Dakota in 1889 S75
Marriage1847
🆕 Banns were read on 16, 24 and 30 May 1847 for the bachelor Thor Thorsen Selland, 27, and the maid Ingeborg Ivarsdatter Hagerland, 16, with Osmund Selland among the sponsors Confirmed S1112. The wedding-date column is blank, so the marriage itself is not dated on the page

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Henry Stein

Confirmed

Father of Emma Stein Ladusch · born Saxe-Weimar

Parents
Dietrich Stein & Emma Stein Ladusch
Married
Amanda
Sources
5

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as Emma Stein Ladusch's father — confirmed 28 September 2026. The 1880 census of Austin County, which states relationships and was read from the image, lists Emma, 5, as the daughter of Henry Stein, 32, a farmer born Saxe-Weimar S919, and her own death certificate names her father Henry Stein. Added 24 September 2026 as Probable; Emma Stein Ladusch's Texas death certificate no. 20521 (30 March 1952, Austin) S326, read from the image, her husband Otto Ladusch informant, names her father as Henry Stein, born Germany, and her mother as Amanda “Emmerd” (the reading is uncertain), born England. The 1900 census gives both her parents' birthplace as Germany, so the mother's birthplace is unsettled and no surname is entered for her
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Birth1846
Born in Germany. The family account on the Ladusch–Stein line gives 23 March 1846, Saxe-Weimar – 13 November 1909, Austin County. The death date and county are now confirmed by a county report of death S613; the birth date is not yet confirmed
Death1909
🆕 The Austin County report of death records a Henry Stein, German-born, 62, who died near New Ulm on 13 November 1909 S613. The date and county match the family account. The report names no wife or children, so it confirms the death and does not prove that he was Emma's father. added 26 September 2026.
Record1871
🆕 A Lutheran baptism register at New Ulm records a son, Johann Wilhelm Dietrich, born 8 October 1871, to Heinrich Stein, from the district of Eisenach, and Maria geb. Emmert, of New Ulm S633. Eisenach lay in Saxe-Weimar, where the family account says Henry was born, and Emmert is the name behind the family account's “Emmett” and the 1952 certificate's “Emmerd”. The register was written at the time. It is about a different child, though, so it still does not prove that he was Emma's father. added 26 September 2026.
Census1900
🆕 A candidate household: the 1900 census of Austin County, Precinct 5, has a Henry Stein, born March 1848, a farmer, with a second wife, Pauline, married 8 years, and Adolf, Bertha, Hedwig, Nora and Ottilie S771 Probable confirm or correct →. A Bertha and a Heinrich Stein stood sponsor together at Frieda Ladusch's 1896 baptism. What is weak: this census gives his birthplace as Texas, not Germany, and does not name Emma, who had married by then. The 1880 Austin County census has now been read: it confirms him as Emma's father, and its Adolph, 2, and Bertha, 7 months, fit the Adolf and Bertha of this 1900 household S919; the Texas birthplace is still the weak point. added 26 September 2026.
Census1880
🆕 On 23 June 1880 the census found him in Justice Precinct 5, Austin County: Henry Stein, 32, farmer, born Saxe-Weimar; Mary, his wife, 35, born Texas; William, 8; Anna, 6; Emma, 5; Adolph, 2; Bertha, 7 months; and his widowed father Dietrick Stein, 68, born Saxe-Weimar Confirmed S919. William, 8, is the Johann Wilhelm Dietrich baptised in 1871 S633. This is the test his card was waiting for, and it confirms him as Emma's father. His wife here, Mary, born Texas, fits the register's Maria geb. Emmert of New Ulm better than the certificate's Amanda, born England. added 28 September 2026.

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Parents1875
Son of Dietrich Stein. Father of Emma Stein Ladusch, born 21 March 1875, Texas; husband of Amanda

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Amanda Stein

Probable

Probable mother of Emma Stein Ladusch · born England

Born
Texas
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — added 24 September 2026 and entered in the family tree the same day, labelled probable there too; Emma Stein Ladusch's Texas death certificate no. 20521 (30 March 1952, Austin) S326, read from the image, her husband Otto Ladusch informant, names her father as Henry Stein, born Germany, and her mother as Amanda “Emmerd” (the reading is uncertain), born England. The 1900 census gives both her parents' birthplace as Germany, so the mother's birthplace is unsettled and no surname is entered for her
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Evidence: Emma Stein Ladusch's 1952 Texas death certificate, her husband the informant; an 1871 New Ulm baptism register names Henry Stein's wife as Maria née Emmert. Weak or missing: The register calls her Maria, not Amanda, and no record yet joins the two names; the 1952 certificate says she was born in England, the 1900 census Germany, and the 1880 census has Henry's wife as Mary, born Texas, without saying she was Emma's mother. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth1871
Born in England, by her daughter's death certificate. Her maiden name is uncertain: the certificate's “Emmerd” may be the Emmett that the family account on the Ladusch–Stein line gives for Henry Stein's wife. An 1871 New Ulm baptism register names Henry Stein's wife as Maria née Emmert S633, so the surname is probably Emmert; that Maria and Amanda were the same woman is not yet proven
Census1871
🆕 In 1871 the New Ulm Lutheran baptism register calls Henry Stein's wife Maria geb. Emmert (“born Emmert”), at the baptism of their son Johann Wilhelm Dietrich, born 8 October 1871 S633. It was written at the time, and the surname is clear. Probable confirm or correct → The register calls her Maria, not Amanda. She is probably the same woman, but no record yet joins the two names, and her birthplace, England or Germany, is still open. added 26 September 2026.
Census1880
🆕 In the 1880 census, read from the image, Henry Stein's wife is Mary, 35, keeping house, born Texas, with Emma, 5, among the children S919. That is a third birthplace for Emma's mother, after England on the 1952 certificate and Germany in 1900, and it fits the register's Maria geb. Emmert, of New Ulm. The census does not say that Mary was Emma's mother. added 28 September 2026.

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Probable
Probable mother of Emma Stein Ladusch; wife of Henry Stein

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Traugott Ladusch

Probable

Probable father of Otto Paul Ladusch

Sources
8

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. Otto's own Social Security application, as indexed by both the Social Security Applications and Claims Index and the Numident, names his father as Traugott Ladusch, and its birth date, 30 March 1873, matches Otto's death certificate exactly S851S325. The 1945 death certificate of Pauline Wenzel, born in Germany in 1866, names her father as Traugott Ladusek and her mother as Johanna Sille S850, which fits a Ladusch family with children in Germany from 1866. What is weak: the application has been seen only as an index, with no image read; Otto's death certificate gives his parents as “no record” S325; and his Find a Grave memorial lists his children as Pauline Alise Wenzel, Annamarie Ehmling, Bertha Nonnenmacher and Reinhold Gustav Ladusch, without Otto S336 Probable confirm or correct →
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Evidence: Otto's own Social Security application, indexed by both the SSACI and the Numident, names his father as Traugott Ladusch and gives the same birth date as Otto's death certificate. Weak or missing: It is an index only, with no image read; Otto's death certificate says 'no record' for his parents, and Traugott's Find a Grave child list omits Otto. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Burial1831
Dates differ between sources: 1831–1899 on FamilySearch S12, 1835–1906 in a member tree S57. His birth on 7 June 1835 in Brandenburg comes from Find a Grave only, and no record read gives his death; a 1900 census entry for an “Aaugot Ladusek”, born January 1846, may be another man
Arrival
Brandenburg → New Ulm, Austin County, Texas S12
Record1906
🆕 The Texas death index gives his death as 7 July 1906 in Fayette County, certificate 29481 Confirmed S1035. added 29 September 2026

Family

Parents
He is not the father of Hattie “Liessi” Ladusch; her father is Otto S327

Open questions

Probable
Probable father of Otto Paul Ladusch; husband of Johanna Sille (Selle) S850. A member tree also places him as Otto's father S57

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Johanna Sille (Selle)

Probable

Probable mother of Otto Paul Ladusch

Sources
4

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. The 1945 death certificate of Pauline Wenzel, born in Germany in 1866, read from the image, names her father as Traugott Ladusek and her mother's maiden name as Johanna Sille, born Germany S850. If Traugott Ladusch is Otto's father, as his Social Security application says S851, Johanna is his likely mother. What is weak: no document names Otto's mother — his Social Security application leaves her as “?” S851 and his death certificate says “no record” S325 — and a second wife cannot be ruled out Probable confirm or correct →
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Evidence: Pauline Wenzel's 1945 death certificate, read from the image, names her parents as Traugott Ladusek and Johanna Sille; Traugott is Otto's probable father by his Social Security application. Weak or missing: No document names Otto's mother: his Social Security index leaves her '?' and his death certificate says 'no record'; a second wife cannot be ruled out. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Burial1835
Find a Grave gives her as Johanna Selle, 1835–1899 S336; no record read gives her dates, and the one document read spells her name Sille S850

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Probable
Probable mother of Otto Paul Ladusch; wife of Traugott Ladusch, and mother of Pauline Wenzel S850

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Joseph Owens & China Parton

Probable

Charles W. Owens's parents · married 1852 · she c. 1836 – after 1880

Parents
Jackson Parton & Catharine Parton
Sources
5

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE as the parents of Charles W. Owens Probable confirm or correct →. Evidence: Charles's 1939 death certificate names his parents as Joseph Owens and China Pardon S780; in 1880, aged 17, he lived with his mother China Owen, 41, a widow born in Kentucky S798; and Chiney Parton, 16, of Whitley County, Kentucky, married Joseph Owens there on 30 January 1852 S810. What is weak: no one record names Charles with both parents but his death certificate, whose informant was his widow; the register's year is only a ditto mark from the page's one dated row, and a Tennessee compiled index gives the marriage as 30 January 1853 in Claiborne County, Tennessee S810; and the certificate has both parents born in Arkansas, where the marriage register has Kentucky and the 1880 census Tennessee for Joseph and Kentucky for China S798. Approved by Earl 27 September 2026.
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Evidence: Charles W. Owens's 1939 death certificate names Joseph Owens and China Pardon; in 1880 he lived with his widowed mother China Owen; the Kentucky register records Chiney Parton, 16, marrying Joseph Owens in Whitley County on 30 January 1852 (year by ditto mark). Weak or missing: Only the widow-informed certificate names Charles with both parents; a Tennessee index dates the marriage 1853 in Claiborne County; the certificate's Arkansas birthplaces conflict with the 1880 census. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Death1880
Joseph had died by June 1880, when China was a widow in Williamson County, Texas, with Charles and his brothers and sisters Wm. A. J., Joseph C., Alice, Levi A. and Edgar S798. Charles was born in Arkansas in March 1863 S780, so the family moved from Kentucky to Arkansas and then to Texas. Joseph's own birth and death are not yet found.

Family

Marriage1852
Married 30 January 1852 (or 1853), Whitley County, Kentucky; she was 16 and he 19, both living in and born in Whitley County, so she was born about 1836 and he about 1833 S810.
Parents1850
🆕 His father: probably C. J. Owens Probable confirm or correct →. In 1850 Joseph, 16, a laborer born in Tennessee, was in the Claiborne County, Tennessee, household of C. J. Owens, 40, a wagonmaker, and Nancy, 33, with Isaiah V., Gilbert B. and Boston W. S843. What is weak: the census states no relationships, and no record names C. J. as his father. added 28 September 2026.
Parents1850
🆕 Her parents: probably Jackson Parton and Catharine Parton Probable confirm or correct →. In 1850 China, 14, born Kentucky, was in their Whitley County, Kentucky, household with America, Rachael, Manuel, Nancy and William S844. What is weak: the census states no relationships, and no record names her parents or Catharine's maiden name. added 28 September 2026.

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Generation 6 — relatives in this generation

Elenor Frances Bradford

Probable

Probable mother of Virginia Francis Montgomery · born 1836

Born
March 1836 in Tennessee
Buried
at Sample, Gonzales County
Married
James P. Montgomery
Sources
13

Research status

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
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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 →

Life

Death1931
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
Birth1836
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
Burial1837
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

Family

Marriage1855
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

Open questions

Probable
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
Weak or missing
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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James P. Montgomery

Confirmed

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

Born
about 1833–35 in Tennessee
Died
before June 1900
Married
Elenor Frances Bradford
Children
Harvey (Harry) Alex, Virginia, Lula Gay
Sources
13

Research status

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
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Life

Birth1833
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
Work1860
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
Death1900
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

Family

Marriage1855
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
Children1949
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
Children1860
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

Open questions

Open question
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 →
Weak or missing
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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Generation 7 — Kristin's 4th-great-grandparents

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John Caffey Sr.

Probable

Probable father of Charles Caffey · 1751–1826

Born
1751
Died
19 August 1826
Sources
6

Research status

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 →
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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 →

Life

Record1821
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
Birth1751
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
Burial1752
🆕 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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Probable
Probable father of Charles Caffey

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Mary Buchanan

Probable

Probable mother of Charles Caffey · married about 1780

Sources
3

Research status

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 →
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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 →

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Probable
Probable mother of Charles Caffey; wife of John Caffey Sr. by the SAR application S849
Not found
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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Jeremiah Smith

Probable

Father of Victoria Janette Smith

Born
Not found
Died
Not found
Married
Patience Kittle
Children
Victoria Janette Smith, Lucien B. Smith
Sources
8

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — the printed Descendants of Moses Cleveland, p.1939, no. 11632, names Victoria Janette Smith (born 19 March 1844, Ohio) as the daughter of Jeremiah Smith and Patience Kittle S467. A compiled genealogy; the 1860 Leroy census has a V., 16, born in Ohio, in his home (below), but it gives initials only and states no relationships
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Evidence: The printed Descendants of Moses Cleveland (p.1939), which names Victoria Janette Smith as his daughter; a Jeremiah Smith in Perry Township, Wood County, Ohio, in the 1840 census and the 1850 agriculture schedule; his son Lucien B. Smith's 1913 marriage return and 1922 death certificate (Jeremiah born New York); the 1860 Leroy, Michigan census with a V., 16, born Ohio, in his home, and the 1870 census with Lucien. Weak or missing: Only the compiled genealogy names Victoria as his daughter; the 1860 census gives initials only and states no relationships, and the Ohio records are a common name. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth
Birth, marriage and death dates not yet found
Census1840
🆕 In 1840 a Jeremiah Smith, 30 to 39, with a woman in her twenties and a girl under 5, lived in Perry Township, Wood County, Ohio S651. In 1850 he farmed there, 55 acres improved and 25 unimproved, beside the same neighbours S652. Victoria was born in Wood County about 1844, so this fits. Probable confirm or correct → What is weak: Jeremiah Smith is a common name and neither record names a wife or child. If you know more, use “Add to this record”. added 26 September 2026.
Census1860
🆕 In 1860 J. Smith, 54, born in New York, lived at Leroy, Ingham County, Michigan, with V., 16, a girl born in Ohio, and L., 18, L., 13, and E., 4; no wife was in the house S713. In 1870 Jeremiah, 64, born in New York and blind, was still at Leroy, with Lucien B., 24, a farmer born in Ohio, Nancy M., 20, the baby Della A., and Edmund D., 15 S714. V. fits Victoria, born in Ohio in March 1844, and L., 13, fits Lucien Probable confirm or correct →. The 1860 census gives initials only and states no relationships. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Children
Father of Victoria Janette Smith; husband of Patience Kittle
Children1846
🆕 His son Lucien B. Smith was born in Ohio on 30 September 1846 and died in Leroy Township, Ingham County, Michigan, on 2 April 1922. The death certificate says Jeremiah was born in New York S700. Lucien's 1913 marriage return names his parents as Jeremiah Smith and Patience Kettle S699, and a daughter, Louisa Hiscock, died in 1883 with the same parents named S701. added 26 September 2026.

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Patience Kittle

Probable

Mother of Victoria Janette Smith

Born
Not found
Died
Not found
Married
Jeremiah Smith
Children
Victoria Janette Smith
Sources
4

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — the printed Descendants of Moses Cleveland, p.1939, no. 11632, names Victoria Janette Smith as the daughter of Jeremiah Smith and Patience Kittle S467. A compiled genealogy; two later records name her as the mother of other children (below), but none names Victoria
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Evidence: The printed Descendants of Moses Cleveland (p.1939), which names Victoria Janette Smith as her daughter; her son Lucien B. Smith's 1913 Michigan marriage return (Jeremiah Smith and Patience Kettle) and her daughter Louisa Hiscock's 1883 death return (Jeremiah and Patience Smith). Weak or missing: Only the compiled genealogy ties her to Victoria; Lucien's 1922 death certificate calls her Mary Kettel. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Birth
Birth, marriage and death dates not yet found
Death1913
🆕 Two Michigan records made after her death name her as a mother. In 1913 her son Lucien B. Smith, 66, born in Ohio, married at Webberville; the return names his parents as Jeremiah Smith and Patience Kettle S699. His 1922 death certificate calls her “Mary Kettel” S700. In 1883 her daughter Louisa Hiscock, born in Ohio, died at Rose, Genesee County; her parents are given as Jeremiah and Patience Smith, both dead S701. added 26 September 2026.

Family

Children
Mother of Victoria Janette Smith; wife of Jeremiah Smith

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Jarrett Walker

Probable

Probable father of Daniel Green Walker · died 1824 or 1825

Died
after 13 September 1824
Sources
2

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. Jarrett Walker's will, signed in Union District, South Carolina, on 13 September 1824 and read from the image, names a son Daniel Walker among the children still under age S847. Daniel Green Walker was born about 1815 in South Carolina: he was 35, born South Carolina, in 1850 S845. What is weak: nothing yet ties the Mississippi and California Daniel to Union District — no middle name, deed or estate division — and Daniel Walker is a common name in South Carolina Probable confirm or correct →
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Evidence: Jarrett Walker's will, signed in Union District, South Carolina, on 13 September 1824 and read from the image, names a son Daniel among his children still under age; Daniel Green Walker was 35, born South Carolina, in 1850. Weak or missing: Nothing yet ties the Mississippi and California Daniel to Union District: no middle name, deed or estate division, and Daniel Walker is a common name. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Record
His will leaves his estate to “my dear beloved wife Sarah Walker” for her lifetime, “to support and to school the under named children … until they become of age or get married (Viz) Thomas Walker, Mary Walker, Elizabeth H. Walker, Robert Y. Walker, Martha D. Walker, Daniel Walker, Henry C. Walker, Sarah Walker, Juliet A. T. Walker”; his son William Walker gets a colt; his executors are his wife Sarah and his son Thomas S847
Death1824
Died after 13 September 1824, when he signed his will, and before about 7 March 1825, when it was proven, in Union District, South Carolina S847. An online tree's birth on 25 May 1773 in Lunenburg County, Virginia, is on no record read, and the will does not give Sarah's maiden name

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Probable
Probable father of Daniel Green Walker, of Daniel Green Walker & Mary Jane Bross

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John Bross

Probable

Probable father of Mary Jane Bross · born about 1801

Born
about 1801
Sources
7

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. In the 1850 census of Noxubee County, Mississippi, read from the image, Daniel Walker, 35, born South Carolina, and Mary Walker, 19, born Alabama, with two small sons, live in the household of John Bross, the postmaster S845; a Mississippi marriage index has Daniel Walker marrying Mary Bross S846, and a son was named Edgar Bross Walker S809. What is weak: the census states no relationships, and the marriage index and the son's name support her maiden name, not her father Probable confirm or correct →
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Evidence: In the 1850 Noxubee County, Mississippi, census, read from the image, Daniel Walker, 35, and Mary, 19, with two small sons, live in postmaster John Bross's household; a Mississippi marriage index has Daniel Walker marrying Mary Bross. Weak or missing: The census states no relationships; the marriage index and the son Edgar Bross Walker support her maiden name, not her father; his 1801 Charleston birth is on no record read. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Census1850
In 1850 at Noxubee County, Mississippi (enumerated 28 August): John Bross, 49, post master, real estate $800, born South Carolina; Matilda, 43, born South Carolina; John W., 23; Lavenia, 16, born Alabama; then Daniel Walker, 35; Mary Walker, 19; John Walker, 2½, and an infant Walker, one month, both born Mississippi S845
Birth1801
Born about 1801, South Carolina, by his 1850 age S845. An online tree's birth on 4 July 1801 at Charleston and its death before 1860 are on no record read
Census1849
🆕 Appointed postmaster at Macon, Noxubee County, on 2 October 1849 Confirmed S1014. The 1850 census there calls him “post master” S845. added 29 September 2026

Open questions

Probable
Probable father of Mary Jane Bross, of Daniel Green Walker & Mary Jane Bross
Probable
🆕 Probably him in 1840: John Bross, 30–39, heads a Noxubee County household with a woman 30–39, a young man 15–19 and girls 5–9 and 10–14 Probable confirm or correct → S1015. Evidence: he is the only Bross on the page, and the ages of the head, the woman 30–39 and the girl 5–9 fit John (49 in 1850), Matilda (43) and Mary (19) S845. Weak: 1840 names only the head, so the others are age marks, not names. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
Probable
🆕 Probably him in the 1845 Mississippi state census of Noxubee County, as John Bross, head Probable confirm or correct → S1020. Evidence: he is the only Bross on the page, in the county where he is in 1840 S1015 and 1850 S845. Weak: the household figures are illegible, so nothing but the name can be compared. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
Probable
🆕 Probably him in 1830 in Alabama (Tuscaloosa County by the index): Jno Bross, 20–29, with a woman 20–29, a boy 5–9 and a girl under 5 Probable confirm or correct → S1021. Evidence: the man and woman fit John, born about 1801, and Matilda, born about 1807 S845, and an Alabama home fits Mary’s birth in Alabama about 1831. Weak: 1830 names only the head, and the county header is not on the page. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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John Warner

Probable

Probable father of Clifford Warner · about 1815–1858

Born
about 1815
Children
Charles Warner
Sources
6

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. Clifford, born about 1851 in Illinois, is with the widow Marancy Warner at Winslow, Stephenson County, Illinois, in 1870 S828; an Illinois marriage index has John Warner marrying “Muraney Elexander” in Stephenson County on 17 May 1841 S825; in 1850 John Warner, 35, a miller born in New York, was at Winslow with Marany and their children S826; and Clifford's 1880 census entry gives his father's birthplace as New York S824. What is weak: no record names Clifford's father. Clifford was born after the 1850 census, the Find a Grave memorial's list of John's children leaves him out S827, and FamilySearch has no record naming his parents
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Evidence: Clifford Warner, born about 1851 in Illinois, lived with the widow Marancy Warner at Winslow in 1870; an index has John Warner marrying Muraney Elexander in Stephenson County in 1841; John, a New York-born miller, was at Winslow with Marany in 1850; Clifford's 1880 entry gives his father's birthplace as New York. Weak or missing: No record names Clifford's father: he was born after the 1850 census, John's Find a Grave list of children omits him, and FamilySearch has nothing naming his parents; the birth date and death date come only from Find a Grave. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life

Census1850
In the 1850 census of the Town of Winslow, Stephenson County, Illinois, enumerated 2 October 1850: John Warner, 35, miller, real estate $500, born New York; Marany; Araminta, 7, born Illinois; John, 5; Frederick, 3; Lois, 61, born New York; and Olive Alexander, 62, born Massachusetts S826
Birth1815
Born about 1815 in New York (35 in 1850) S826. His Find a Grave memorial gives 13 November 1816 – 5 January 1858, buried at Rock Lily Cemetery, Winslow, with his wife Marancy and children Araminta Ladd, John and Charles A. S827; a memorial, supporting only. The family tree's birthplace, Worcester, Otsego County, New York, has no source

Family

Parents1853
🆕 His son Charles Warner, born in Illinois about 1853, married Mary E. Maurer at Fremont, Nebraska, on 26 November 1878; the record names his parents as John and Marency Alexander Confirmed S1138.

Open questions

Probable
Probable father of Clifford Warner. Husband of Marancy Warner

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Marancy Warner

Probable

Probable mother of Clifford Warner · born about 1824

Born
about 1824
Children
Charles Warner
Sources
8

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. The 1870 census of Winslow, Stephenson County, Illinois, read from the image, has a two-person household: Marancy Warner, 46, keeping house, born New York, and Clifford, 19, farm labourer, born Illinois S828. What is weak: the 1870 census has no relationship column, and Clifford's own 1880 entry gives his mother's birthplace as Massachusetts, not New York S824. Her maiden name “Alexander” rests on an Illinois marriage index reading “Muraney Elexander” S825, which has not been read, and on her son Charles’s 1878 marriage record S1138, where it is his statement, not hers
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Evidence: The 1870 census of Winslow, Illinois has a two-person household of Marancy Warner, 46, born New York, and Clifford, 19, born Illinois; she was in John Warner's household at Winslow in 1850. Weak or missing: The 1870 census has no relationship column; Clifford's 1880 entry gives his mother's birthplace as Massachusetts, not New York; the maiden name Alexander rests on an unread index ('Muraney Elexander') and on her son Charles's statement in his 1878 marriage record, and her birth and death dates are unsourced; the 1900 Knox County 'Marancy Ballet(?)', mother-in-law of the widow Mary Warner, has a hard-to-read surname and 'mother of 1 child'. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

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Census1850
In 1850 “Marany” is in John Warner's household at Winslow with Araminta, 7, John, 5, and Frederick, 3 S826; John's Find a Grave memorial names his wife as Marancy S827
Birth1824
Born about 1824 in New York (46 in July 1870) S828. The family tree's birth on 27 February 1824 at Henderson, Jefferson County, New York, and death on 11 June 1901 at Creighton, Knox County, Nebraska, are not on any record read; a 1900 “Marancy Ballet” may be another woman
Death1900
🆕 Perhaps her in 1900: Marancy Ballet(?), 76, born February 1824 in New York, father born New York, mother born Connecticut, widowed, was the mother-in-law of the widow Mary Warner, 49, on Mary’s farm in Miller Township, Knox County, Nebraska, with Mary’s four daughters, whose father was born in Illinois Probable confirm or correct → S1063. Evidence: the rare name, a birth in February 1824 that fits the family tree’s 27 February 1824 and her age of 46 in 1870, and Knox County, where the tree puts her death in 1901. Weak: the surname is hard to read, which of her sons was Mary’s husband is not stated, and “mother of 1 child” does not fit four children in 1850 and 1870. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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Children1878
🆕 Her son Charles Warner, 25, born in Illinois, married Mary E. Maurer at Fremont, Dodge County, Nebraska, on 26 November 1878; the marriage record gives his parents as John Warner and Marency Alexander Confirmed S1138. It is the first record read from the image that gives her maiden name.

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Probable
Probable mother of Clifford Warner. Wife, then widow, of John Warner
Probable
🆕 Probably her in 1880: Marancy Warner, “Mother”, 57, a widow born New York, in the household of John Ladd and his wife Mintie, 35, born Illinois, in Sheridan Precinct, Washington County, Nebraska Probable confirm or correct → S1018. Evidence: her rare name, an age that fits 46 in 1870 S828, and a daughter of the right age: Araminta was 7 in the 1850 Winslow household S826. Weak: the census gives Mintie no maiden name. It puts her mother's birth in Massachusetts and her own in New York. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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Mary Malinda Thompson

Probable

Probable mother of Charles Edgar Cleveland

Born
Not found
Died
Not found
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. The printed Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families (1899) gives Solomon Cleveland's wife as “Mrs. Mary Malinda (Thompson) Elliott” S822 and numbers Charles Edgar as Solomon's son S467; a FamilySearch index of a Nebraska marriage names Charles E. Cleveland's mother as Mary Thompson S823. What is weak: the book is derivative, and the page with her birth and the list of her children continues overleaf and has not been read; the Nebraska entry is an index with no image
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Evidence: The printed Cleveland genealogy (1899) gives Solomon Cleveland's wife as Mrs. Mary Malinda (Thompson) Elliott and numbers Charles Edgar as Solomon's son; a FamilySearch index of Charles E. Cleveland's Nebraska marriage names his mother Mary Thompson. Weak or missing: The book is derivative, the page with her birth and her children continues overleaf and has not been read, and the Nebraska entry is an index with no image; her birth and death dates are unsourced. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

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Work1834
She was a widow, Mrs. Elliott, when she married Solomon Cleveland at Lowville, New York, on 11 February 1834, or at Fowler, New York, on 14 April 1834 S822. The book's entry begins her birthplace (“b. Wightford, …”) and runs onto the next page
Birth1809
Born and died: not on the page read. The family tree's 19 March 1809 and 15 May 1870 have no source here and are not published as fact

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Probable
Probable mother of Charles Edgar Cleveland. Wife of Solomon Cleveland

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Solomon Cleveland

Probable

Probable father of Charles Edgar Cleveland · died 1845

Born
in St. Lawrence County, New York
Died
22 October 1845
Married
Mrs. Mary Malinda (Thompson) Elliott
Sources
5

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. The printed Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families (1899) enters him as Solomon7 Cleveland (Enoch, Solomon, Enoch, Deliverance, Edward, Moses) S822 and on p. 1939 numbers “Charles Edgar8 Cleveland (Solomon7)” as his son S467; a FamilySearch index of a Nebraska marriage names Charles E. Cleveland's parents as Solomen Cleveland and Mary Thompson S823. What is weak: the book is a compiled, derivative source, and no original record (the 1850 Michigan census with the widow and children, a probate of his 1845 estate, a guardianship) has been read; the Nebraska entry is an index with no image. Charles, born about 1846, fits a father who died in October 1845 only if he was born in 1845 or after his father's death
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Evidence: The printed Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families (1899) enters him as Solomon Cleveland, died 22 October 1845 in Branch County, Michigan, husband of Mrs. Mary Malinda (Thompson) Elliott, and numbers Charles Edgar as his son; a FamilySearch index of Charles E. Cleveland's Nebraska marriage names his parents Solomen Cleveland and Mary Thompson. Weak or missing: The book is compiled and derivative and the Nebraska entry is an index with no image; no original record (1850 census, probate, guardianship) has been read, and Charles, born about 1846, fits a father who died in October 1845 only if born in 1845 or after his death. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

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Death1845
Died 22 October 1845 in California township, Branch County, Michigan, aged 39 S822, so born about 1806. The family tree's birth date of 1 September 1806 is not on the page read
Death1895
🆕 Another son: Albert E. Cleveland, 58, born in St. Lawrence County, New York, of Greeley County, Nebraska, married the widow Anna C. Shaffer in Hamilton County, Nebraska, on 13 November 1895. The record gives his father as Solomon Cleveland and his mother’s maiden name as Mary Thompson Confirmed S1139.

Family

Marriage1834
Married Mrs. Mary Malinda (Thompson) Elliott at Lowville, New York, on 11 February 1834, or at Fowler, New York, on 14 April 1834; the book gives both S822

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Probable
Probable father of Charles Edgar Cleveland. Husband of Mary Malinda (Thompson) Elliott
Probable
🆕 Probably him in 1840: Solomon Cleveland, 30–39, heading a household of six in Diana, Lewis County, New York, with Enoch Cleveland, 50–59, on the line above Probable confirm or correct → S1003. Evidence: his age, a Lewis County home near Lowville, where he married in 1834, and an Enoch next door, the name the book gives his father S822. Weak: 1840 names only the heads and states no relationships. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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Martha J. Heron

Confirmed

Mother of John W. Orsborn · born about 1830, Ohio

Born
about 1830
Died
Not found
Married
Stephen Osborn
Sources
8

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as the mother of John W. Orsborn. His 1921 Dearborn County, Indiana marriage-licence application, read from the image, gives the full maiden name of his mother as Martha J. Heron, deceased S1075. She is the Martha, 20, in the 1850 household of Stephen Osborn, 27, at Miami Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, with John, 2 S1053
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Birth1830
Born about 1830 in Ohio, by her age in the 1850 census S1053. The 1860 household names a Jane, 31, in her place S1048; one woman or two is not settled
Death1913
Her death is not on any record read for this page. An Ohio death index entry for a Martha J. Osborn of Hamilton County, dated 3 July 1913, is a lead that has not been read from the image, and the English death at Reading that some online trees attach to her belongs to another Jane Hearn
Census1907
🆕 She outlived Stephen: the Hamilton County directories list her as a widow at Elizabethtown, Whitewater Township, in 1907, beside John W. S1085, and as “Orsborn Martha J wid Stephen W” in 1909–10 S1086

Family

Marriage
Wife of Stephen Osborn. Mother of John W. Orsborn
Marriage1847
🆕 She married Stephen W. Osborn as Martha Jane Hearn in Hamilton County on 31 March 1847. Her father, James H. Hearn, gave his written consent at Cincinnati on 26 March, and the affidavit gives her age as over seventeen Confirmed S1137. Her middle name makes it likely that the Jane, 31, of 1860 is the same woman.
Marriage1870
🆕 Stephen’s wife is Jane, 40, in 1870 Confirmed S1148 and Jane, 50, his wife, in 1880 S1149. Her ages run cleanly from the 1847 marriage (over seventeen) and 20 in 1850, which strengthens the case that Martha Jane and Jane are one woman. The 1880 census gives her father’s birthplace as North Carolina and her mother’s as Ohio, a lead on James H. Hearn’s origin.

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Stephen Osborn

Confirmed

Father of John W. Orsborn · born about 1822, Ohio

Born
about 1822
Died
Not found
Married
Martha J. Heron
Sources
10

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as the father of John W. Orsborn. John’s own marriage-licence application, sworn at Dearborn County, Indiana, on 9 August 1921 and read from the image, gives his birth as 1 June 1848 at Cleves, Ohio, the full name of his father as Stephen Osborn, born Ohio, deceased, and the full maiden name of his mother as Martha J. Heron S1075. In August 1850 Stephen, 27, and Martha, 20, had John, 2, and Mary, 4 months, with them in Miami Township, Hamilton County, Ohio S1053
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Birth1822
Born about 1822 in Ohio, by his age of 27 in the 1850 census S1053. In 1860 a Stephen Osborn, 38, farmer, with Jane, 31, and John, 12, was in Whitewater Township, Hamilton County; whether Jane is Martha under another name, or a second wife, is not settled S1048
Death1921
His death is not on any record read for this page; the 1921 application says he was dead by then, and the county directories list Martha as his widow by 1907 S1085S1086. The birth of 19 October 1822 and death of 26 June 1886 that circulate online rest on Find a Grave and are not used
Work1863
🆕 He was alive and at Elizabethtown in June 1863, when S. W. Osborn, 42, a farmer born Ohio, registered there for the Civil War draft S1083. In 1860 he farmed 90 acres in Whitewater Township, 80 of them improved, worth $7,200, with 277 bushels of wheat and 3,000 of corn S1084. His widow is listed at Elizabethtown in 1907 and, as “Martha J wid Stephen W”, in 1909–10, so he died before 1907 S1085S1086
Census1870
🆕 In July 1870 Stephen, 48, was farming in Whitewater Township with Jane, 40, and Emma, Josephine, Douglass and Laura Confirmed S1148. In June 1880 Stephen W. Osborn, 58, was a justice of the peace there, with his wife Jane, 50, and their daughter Laura, 18; his father was born in New York and his mother in New Jersey Confirmed S1149.

Family

Marriage
Husband of Martha J. Heron. Father of John W. Orsborn, and so a great-great-grandfather of Benjamin LaRoy “Pete” Peters Sr.
Marriage1847
🆕 He married Martha Jane Hearn in Hamilton County on 31 March 1847, with the consent of her father, James H. Hearn, given at Cincinnati Confirmed S1137.

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Dietrich Stein

Confirmed

Father of Henry Stein · born about 1812–1820, Saxe-Weimar

Born
about 1812–1820
Children
Henry Stein
Sources
5

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as Henry Stein's father — the 1880 census of Justice Precinct 5, Austin County, Texas, which states relationships and was read from the image, lists Dietrick Stein, 68, widowed, born Saxe-Weimar, as the father of the head, Henry Stein, 32, a farmer born Saxe-Weimar S919. The household is the family's Henry: it includes Emma, 5, and William, 8, the Johann Wilhelm Dietrich baptised at New Ulm in 1871 to Heinrich Stein and Maria geb. Emmert, with a Dietrich Stein among the sponsors S633. Confirmed 28 September 2026
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Census1870
In 1870 FamilySearch's census index has a Dietrich Stein, about 50, born Saxe-Weimar, in Justice Precinct 5, Austin County, with Justin, Bertha, Henry and Caroline Stein, and a Texas voter register has Dedrick Stein, born Germany, registering at New Ulm on 7 August 1867 S920. These are index entries; the 1870 census states no relationships
Birth1812
Born about 1812–1820 in Saxe-Weimar: the censuses disagree, 68 in 1880 and about 50 in 1870. He was a widower by June 1880 and alive then. The family account's birth on 23 November 1820, his death about 1885 at New Ulm and a wife named Anna Barbara are on no record read, and none of them is published here as fact
Census1870
🆕 The 1870 census has now been read from the image. On 17 September 1870, in Precinct 5 of Austin County (P.O. Industry), Dietrich Stein, 50, a farmer born Saxe-Weimar, headed a household of Justin, 25, Bertha, 19, Henry, 22, all born Saxe-Weimar, and Caroline, 13, born Texas. There was no wife in the household Confirmed S1059. The enumerator, Max Meissner, is the one who in 1880 listed him as Henry’s father. His age could also be read as 51. added 29 September 2026

Family

Children
Father of Henry Stein, and so grandfather of Emma Stein Ladusch. See the Ladusch & Stein line

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Probable
🆕 Probably him in 1860: D Stein, 45, a farmer born Germany, in the Cat Spring, New Ulm and Industry precinct of Austin County, with Anna, his wife, 50, born Germany, and children Willie 18, Houston 15, Henry 13 and Phil 11, born Germany, and a girl Paul[ine], 3, born Texas Probable confirm or correct → S1016. Evidence: Henry, 13, fits Henry Stein, 32 in 1880, whose father Dietrick lived with him in Austin County S919, and an age of 45 falls inside his 1812–1820 birth range. Weak: the census gives only the initial D, and names his wife only as Anna. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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C. J. Owens

Probable

Probable father of Joseph Owens · born about 1810

Born
about 1810
Sources
2

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. In the 1850 census of Claiborne County, Tennessee, read from the image, Joseph Owens, 16, a laborer born in Tennessee, is in the household of C. J. Owens, 40, a wagonmaker born in Tennessee S843. Joseph's age fits the 19-year-old Joseph Owens who married Chiney Parton in neighbouring Whitley County, Kentucky, in January 1852, a marriage also indexed in Claiborne County S810. What is weak: the 1850 census states no relationships, and no document names C. J. as Joseph's father Probable confirm or correct →
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Evidence: In the 1850 Claiborne County, Tennessee, census, read from the image, Joseph Owens, 16, is in the household of C. J. Owens, 40, a wagonmaker; Joseph's age fits the groom of the 1852 Whitley County marriage to Chiney Parton, which is also indexed in Claiborne County. Weak or missing: The 1850 census states no relationships and no document names C. J. as Joseph's father; the tree's 'Charles Joseph', Virginia birth and 1862 death are on no record read. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

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Census1850
In 1850, at Claiborne County, Tennessee (enumerated 25 October): C. J. Owens, 40, wagonmaker; Nancy Owens, 33, born North Carolina; Joseph, 16; Isaiah V., 11; Gilbert B., 9; and Boston W., 7, all born Tennessee S843
Birth1810
Born about 1810, Tennessee, by his 1850 age S843. An online tree's given names “Charles Joseph”, its Virginia birthplace and its death on 9 July 1862 in Dickson County, Tennessee, are on no record read; the page gives only the initials C. J.

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Probable
Probable father of Joseph Owens, of Joseph Owens & China Parton; grandfather of Charles W. Owens

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Catharine Parton

Probable

Probable mother of China Parton · born about 1813

Born
about 1813
Sources
2

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. In the 1850 census of Whitley County, Kentucky, read from the image, Catharine, 37, born Kentucky, is listed second in Jackson Parton's household, with China, 14 S844; she was about 23 when China was born. What is weak: the census states no relationships, and no record names her as China's mother Probable confirm or correct →
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Evidence: In the 1850 Whitley County, Kentucky, census, read from the image, Catharine, 37, is listed second in Jackson Parton's household with China, 14. Weak or missing: The census states no relationships; her maiden name Sowder rests only on Sowder neighbours, and the tree's 1818 birth and 1896 death are on no record read. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

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Birth1813
Born about 1813, Kentucky, by her 1850 age S844. An online tree makes her Catherine “Snuffer Sowder”, born 28 March 1818 in Whitley County, died 1896 at Glen Rose, Texas: none of that is on a record read. Sowder households, among them Polly Sowder, 66, lived next door in 1850 S844, which makes Sowder plausible but does not prove it
Census1860
🆕 In 1860, probably as Catherine, 43, born Kentucky, she was in A. J. Pardon's household near Sherman, Grayson County, Texas, with M., 18, John, 12, Sarah E., 9, W. J., 6, and Silvester, 2, and with America A., 21, and David A. Seaton Probable confirm or correct → S986. Evidence: M. and America A. fit Manuel and America of 1850 S844. Weak: her age rose only six years in ten, so her birth stays about 1813 by 1850. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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Probable
Probable mother of China Parton, of Joseph Owens & China Parton; probable wife of Jackson Parton

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Jackson Parton

Probable

Probable father of China Parton · born about 1813

Born
about 1813
Sources
6

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. In the 1850 census of Whitley County, Kentucky, read from the image, China, 14, born Kentucky, is in the household of Jackson Parton, 37, a farmer born in Kentucky S844. She fits the Chiney Parton, 16, who married Joseph Owens in Whitley County on 30 January 1852 S810, and China is a rare given name. What is weak: the 1850 census states no relationships, and no document names Jackson as China's father Probable confirm or correct →
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Evidence: In the 1850 Whitley County, Kentucky, census, read from the image, China, 14, is in the household of Jackson Parton, 37; she fits the Chiney Parton who married Joseph Owens there in January 1852, and China is a rare name. Weak or missing: The 1850 census states no relationships and no record names China's father; the tree's 'Andrew', birthplace and 1898 Texas death are on no record read. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

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Census1850
In 1850, District No. 2, Whitley County, Kentucky (enumerated 12 September): Jackson Parton, 37, farmer, real estate $300; Catharine, 37; China, 14; America, 12; Rachael, 10; Manuel, 8; Nancy, 6; and William, 4, all born Kentucky S844
Birth1813
Born about 1813, Kentucky, by his 1850 age S844. An online tree's “Andrew” Jackson, its birthplace “Knox, Pike” (two different counties) and its death in 1898 at Glen Rose, Somervell County, Texas, are on no record read
Census1860
🆕 By 1860 the family had probably moved to Texas: A. J. Pardon, 43, farmer, born Kentucky, and Catherine, 43, lived near Sherman, Grayson County, with M., 18, John, 12, Sarah E., 9, and the Texas-born W. J., 6, and Silvester, 2; America A., 21, and her husband David A. Seaton shared the dwelling Probable confirm or correct → S986. Evidence: M. and America A. fit Manuel and America of 1850 S844, and Pardon is the spelling on China's grandson's 1939 certificate S780. Weak: the ages rose only six years in ten, and no record read expands “A. J.”. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
Census1850
🆕 The 1850 agricultural schedule of the same Whitley County district, read from the image, lists his farm: 60 acres improved and 500 unimproved, worth $500, with 2 horses, 4 milch cows, 2 oxen, 10 other cattle and 60 swine; it made 500 bushels of corn and 60 of oats Confirmed S1007. Same name, county, district and month as the population census S844. added 29 September 2026

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Probable
Probable father of China Parton, of Joseph Owens & China Parton; probable husband of Catharine Parton
Probable
🆕 Probably him in 1840: Jackson Parton, 20–29, in Knox County, Kentucky, with a woman of 20–29 and three girls under 5 Probable confirm or correct → S1006. Evidence: the ages fit him and Catharine, and the three girls fit China, America and Rachael of the 1850 household S844; Whitley County was formed from Knox. Weak: 1840 names only the heads. Elizabeth Parton, 40–49, and Johnathan and William Parton lived nearby and may be his mother and brothers. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026

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