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Alma Kathryn Bruce Gordon

Daughter of Charles Brooks Bruce · 1906–1982

Alma Kathryn Bruce Gordon

Probable

Daughter of Charles Brooks Bruce · 1906–1982

Born
at Cuero, DeWitt County, Texas
Parents
Charles Brooks Bruce & Ida Alice Montgomery Bruce
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE as a daughter of Charles Brooks Bruce and Ida Alice Montgomery Bruce. The evidence is strong: the index of her Texas death certificate names her parents as Charles and Ida and gives her birth at Cuero, and the 1910 census page of their household at Cuero lists a daughter Alma S1752S1358. It stays Probable because her own records are indexes, no image of them has been read, and the death index gives her parents’ first names alone.

Evidence: The index of her Texas death certificate gives her birth on 9 October 1906 at Cuero and her death on 25 February 1982 at San Marcos, and names her parents as Charles and Ida; a Texas county marriage index lists Jeff S. Gordon and Alma Bruce (S1752); the 1910 census page of the Bruce household at Cuero lists a daughter Alma (S1358). The evidence is strong. Weak or missing: The death certificate, the marriage and the grave are known from indexes only, and no image of them has been read; the death index gives her parents' first names alone, so that she is the Alma of the 1910 household rests on those names, her age and Cuero. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life in the order the records give it

Death1982
Alma Kathryn Bruce Gordon died on 25 February 1982 at San Marcos, Hays County, Texas. She was born at Cuero, DeWitt County, Texas, on 9 October 1906. The dates and places are from the index of her Texas death certificate S1752.
Death2026
History of this card. 12 Oct 2026
card written when she was added to the family tree as a daughter of Charles Brooks Bruce and Ida Alice Montgomery, from the index of her Texas death certificate, a marriage index and the 1910 census (S1752, S1358).

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Marriage
Wife of Jeff S. Gordon, by the index of a Texas county marriage record; he has no card S1752. Her children are not named here.

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Probable
Probable confirm or correct → Daughter of Charles Brooks Bruce and Ida Alice Montgomery Bruce. Sister of Dora Inez Bruce. Her mother’s 1924 death notices name Miss Alma Bruce of San Antonio among the survivors S1730.
Weak or missing
What is weak or missing: the death certificate, the marriage and the grave are known from indexes only; the death index gives her parents’ first names alone, so that she is the Alma of the 1910 household rests on those names, her age and Cuero. Know more, or think this is wrong? Use “Add to this record”.

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Alma Kathryn Bruce Gordon · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

3 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S13581910 census — Chas. Bruce household, East Main Street, ward 1, Cuero, DeWitt County, Texas, ED 35, sheet 11B, lines 73–80, April 1910. Ancestry, “1910 United States Federal Census”, record 168626225. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 4 October 2026. Confirmed Bruce, Chas., head, 45, first marriage of 18 years, born Texas, rural mail carrier, owns his house free; Ida, wife, 36, married 18 years, 6 children born and 6 living, born Texas; children Mary 17, Inez 15, Orie 13 (a delivery boy for a department store), Millard 11, Lena May 7 and Alma 3. ⚠ This enumerator gives Ida’s parents as born in Mississippi; the 1900 census and her death certificate say Tennessee, which the card keeps. The index misses Alma on line 80 and misreads the surname as “Bence”. Also serves the card of Dora Inez Bruce, the Inez on line 76.
  2. S1730Death and funeral notices — Mrs. Ida Alice Bruce, San Antonio Light, 6 February 1924, p. 19, and 8 February 1924, p. 26. Newspapers.com, images 1258332288 and 1258332486. Machine-read text read on 4 October 2026; the page images have not been opened. Probable She died on Tuesday 5 February 1924 at 4:45 p.m. at 320 Devine Street, aged 49, having come to San Antonio from San Marcos about a month before; the body was sent to Cuero. Survivors: son M. B. Bruce; daughters Misses Alma and Lena May Bruce of San Antonio, Mrs. F. Bernard of Houston and Mrs. F. C. Morris of San Marcos; brothers Harvey Montgomery of Pilgrim and J. L. Montgomery of Austin. ⚠ Machine-read text, not checked on the page image. It agrees with her death certificate and the 1924 city directory (S1401) on the day and the address and adds nothing on her parents. It does not settle which daughters were Mrs. Bernard and Mrs. Morris: the notices give husbands’ initials only. Serves the card of Ida Alice Montgomery Bruce.
  3. S1752Indexes — Alma Kathryn Bruce Gordon, Cuero, Texas, 1906, and San Marcos, Texas, 1982. Ancestry, “Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903–1982”, record 1009718 (index text). FamilySearch: Texas county marriage index (QK8R-7RL4); Find a Grave index (QV2V-JPYD); Social Security Death Index (J1LX-LZR). Index text only; no image read. Probable Death certificate index: Alma Kathryn Gordon, born 9 October 1906 at Cuero, DeWitt County, died 25 February 1982 at San Marcos, Hays County; parents Charles and Ida. Marriage index: Jeff S. Gordon and Alma Bruce. The index gives her parents’ first names alone; they fit the Alma in the Chas. Bruce household at Cuero in 1910 (S1358). Her children are not named here.

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