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Person · Ada May Brock Estes
The record
- HHomethe fan · what changed · open questions
- MMigrationbirths and deaths on a map, by decade
- TTimeline609 entries · 5 eras
- PPeople290 cards, by generationAda May Brock Estes
- LLines13 surname pages
The evidence
- DDocuments896 thumbnails, filterable
- SSourcesS1–S1207, with where each is cited
The findings
- How the wall came downProeger line
- The glass patentsProeger line
- How the Caffey half was closedCaffey line
- What the DNA saysits own page
- Four routesMigration
- The asymmetryLines
- Open questions20 questions
- Add to this recorda form, read by Earl
How to read this record
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Most family trees flatten everything into the same confident typeface. This one does not.
The three research tags below are the whole point of the exercise: they say what a document
proves, what the weight of evidence suggests, and what nobody has found yet. A fourth marks
what the family stated directly, where no document has been retrieved at all — it is kept
separate on purpose and is never quietly promoted to confirmed. A fifth, added on
13 September 2026, marks biological evidence: a DNA result is not a document, and it is not
testimony either. Two further labels mark where this page withholds information
rather than lacking it.
ConfirmedAttested by a document that was actually retrieved and read — a census sheet, a
government index, a grave marker, a family-written obituary.
ProbableStrongly supported but not nailed down: a user-contributed tree, a masked index field,
or a chain of consistent circumstances. Believable, not proven.
Not foundSearched for and not located. This is a statement about the search, not about the
person — the record may well exist somewhere unsearched.
Family testimonySupplied by the family and recorded on their word — no document has been retrieved for
it. Note the diamond rather than the dot: this is provenance, not proof, and it stands
apart from the three record tags above S24.
DNA evidenceBiological evidence consistent with a claim. It corroborates origins; it does
not by itself establish a person or a link. Note the bar rather than a dot or a diamond:
no DNA result on this page is ever counted as confirmed, because no document
was read for it S46.
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shown, and at most a year the family has already published. Full dates of birth, ages,
places of residence and record identifiers are held back.
Research in progressA branch that is actively being worked on. The node exists in the structure so the
shape of the family is honest; the detail is simply not in yet.
- 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.
Life in the order the records give it
Birth1886
Born
8 February 1886; Ada M. in the 1900 household in Callahan County
S138Record1962
🆕 The Texas death index agrees: Ada Estes, Taylor County, 27 May 1962,
file 32742 S734. added 26 September 2026.
Family parents, marriages, children, siblings
Parents—
Daughter of Solomon Alfred Brock and Matilda Pauline Howard; sister of
Iona Belle BrockMarriage1900
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.
In the record
Generation 5 — Earl's great-great-grandparents and their siblings
- S1381900 U.S. Federal Census — the Solomon Alfred Brock household, Justice Precinct No. 5, Callahan County, Texas. Ancestry collection 7602, record 70304882, image
4112117_00044. Supervisor's District 4, Enumeration District 16, sheet 2 B, stamped page 6248, dwelling and family 29, enumerated 6 June 1900. Read from the image at full resolution — 3822 × 3736 px, 21 September 2026; read-only, nothing accepted, attached or edited. Lines 58–62: S. A. Brock, head, April 1838, age 62, Farmer, renting, married 35 years; M. P., wife, Jan 1847, age 53, 10 children born, 7 living; John B., son, Dec 1874, Preacher; M. L., daughter, Jan 1883; Ada M., daughter, Feb 1885. What it settles and what it cannot. Matilda's birth month is confirmed January; the year stays open — the sheet reads Jan 1847 against the tree's 9 January 1848, and the 1900 schedule carries month and year but no day column, so no census can close it. The same wall stands on Solomon's April 1838 against the tree's 8 April 1837 — the next source must carry a day: a Texas death certificate or a gravestone. The surname is written plainly Brock; Ancestry's alternate index reading "S A Breck" is a transcription artefact, not a name variant. Migration window: both parents and all four grandparents are Kentucky, all three resident children are Arkansas, the eldest born December 1874 — which with Iona Belle Brock's December 1865 Kentucky birth brackets the move to between December 1865 and December 1874. ⚠ This is a fact about Solomon's household; it reaches Earl's line only through Iona Belle's Probable FindAGrave parentage [S23]. - S522Texas, U.S., Death Certificates — no. 32742: Ada Estes, 1962. Ancestry record 23234992. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Ada Estes, divorced, died 27 May 1962 at Hendrick Hospital, Abilene; born 8 February 1886, “Missouri”; father Sol Brock; informant her son Jack Estes; buried Elmwood, Abilene. Her censuses give Arkansas as her birthplace; Missouri is recorded as a variant.
- S5231910 U.S. Federal Census — Dr. James Estes household, Ward 3, Abilene, Taylor County, Texas. Ancestry record 123369528. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Dr. James Estes, 36, physician; Ada, 25, music teacher, married 9 years, 4 children born and 3 living, born Arkansas, parents born Kentucky; Robert, 7; John Milton, 5; Fay, 3.
- S5241920 U.S. Federal Census — Adah Estes household, 3635 Noble Ave., Dallas, Texas. Ancestry record 100142441. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Adah Estes, 34, head, married, owns her house; Jack, 14; Fay, 12; James, 6; Jean, 5.
- S5251930 U.S. Federal Census — Ada Estes household, 541 Peach, Abilene, Texas. Ancestry record 60833062. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Ada Estes, 43, divorced; her sons Robert, 26, Jack, 24, James, 17, and Gene, 15; daughter Faye, 23. Robert is indexed as her brother; the word is struck through on the page and he is her son.
- S526The Kenan Family, p. 79: Gene Howard Estes. Ancestry record 4306664597. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Gene Howard Estes, born 31 October 1914 at Abilene, “son of Dr. Jack Milton and Ada (Brock) Estes”, married Elise Brown on 11 November 1937. A compiled book. It calls the father Jack Milton; the 1910 census (S523), taken at the time, names him James and lists a son John Milton.
- S734Texas death index, 1962, p. 385. Ancestry record 5134651. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed “Estes, Ada”, Taylor County, 27 May 1962, file 32742.